Radio Sweethearts

Happy Independence day, media fans. I hope you all had a good time barbecuing, swimming, being off work and blowing things up. We had an excellent weekend full of all of those things. Sadly, the party’s over now, and it’s back to work. Recap time!

This week, Brooke and Bob pull an Adam and Jamie and turn into cultural myth busters. I wonder who’s who – Matthew and I can’t quite figure it out. On the one hand, Brooke is a task master (like Jamie), but she also seems like she’d be a fan of blowing things up for radio (like Adam). Bob seems like he can be a little difficult (and possible mustachioed, like Jamie), but he also seems like he would be the one trying to make lab skeletons act out silly sketch comedy shows (like Adam). Thoughts? Who would look better in a beret?

Anyway – the episode was about common myths and the debunking thereof. I like it when they center the show around a central theme – it makes my (now medicated) ADD-addled brain pay closer attention.

I think most of the segments on this week’s show are re-runs, but I can’t tell because they’re packaged in a themed episode. I definitely feel like I’ve heard this story about the bystander effect and the Kitty Genovese murder before. Same goes for this one on the Bradley effect.

Also this week, the re-airing of a story by Fred Kaplan (Brooke’s real life sweetheart) about the Cuban Missile Crisis, the truth about Rosa Parks, and why some people refuse to believe that Barack Obama isn’t a Muslim.

This (rather short) recap was written by Kerry, who is sitting on her desk rather than at it, and challenged by Matthew, who’s holding an old school Nintendo.