Radio Sweethearts

I need to apologize to Brooke Gladstone for just one moment. It’s a little more than a week late, but if you’ll excuse me:

Brooke,

I’m sorry about that gushy voicemail I sent. Sort of. The sentiment behind it was sincere, if strong enough to be a little embarassing.

Anyway, Kerry and I are both extremely grateful to you and everyone at WNYC for scoring us the tickets. We didn’t expect it at all.

I’d love to tell you all about the show, but it’s been posted already.

I’d love to show you pictures, but I didn’t want to be the guy taking pictures of the show instead of watching it. The only one I even tried was extremely blurry, and I didn’t want to try again.

Thankfully, This American Life posted some photos of their own.

Like this one, where, if you click through to Flickr and view it big, and then probably squint some, you can see us slightly to the left of the center of the 8th row back:

The whole thing was really great. Ira Glass was predictably charming. Mike Birbiglia was predictably hilarious. Dan Savage unexpectedly made us all cry. (Except for the part where I had a terrible coughing fit right when he got to the REALLY serious part.)

Starlee Kine was charming too. I was expecting that. I wasn’t expecting her to be actually kinda cute. I had kind of a big crush on her before, but her piece about family aggression therapy (it’s hard to figure out exactly how to explain) sealed it for me.

Between my thing for Starlee Kine and Kerry’s thing for Dan Pashman, I’m sure I speak for both of us when I say I’m a little relieved we decided to just exclude public radio personalities from our lists of free-pass-affair famous people.

But I digress.

It was completely unnecessary – but completely awesome – for you to go out of your way to find those tickets for us.

Our minds will never cease to be blown that you even know about us two kids fawning from Tennessee.

Thanks again. We’ll never be able to top that vacation. I just probably should have stuck with Kerry’s choice of words and said “I heart you” instead.

- matthew