It’s a Bob-only recap with a bullet, because bullet points make things easier to read. At least, that’s what upper management says. So, here goes:
- The president makes speeches and hardly anyone listens, save for the media, proving that whole Fireside Chat thing wrong. According to the awesomely named political scientist George Edwards III, these speeches rarely result in any action by the American people. That begs the question, are Americans lazy, or are the speeches just that uninspired?
- Bob interviews Slate’s war reporter, Fred Kaplan, who also happens to be married to Brooke. Needless to say, both Bob and Kaplan sound less than thrilled with the interview. Where’s Brooke in all of this? Maintaining her journalistic integrity, for sure.
- Incidentally, the song played immediately after the Kaplan interview is Dan Auerbach’s “Heartbroken, In Disrepair”. I think they’re trying to tell us something.
- L.A. Times sportswriter Mike Penner died this past week of an apparent suicide. He came out as transgendered a few years ago and wrote for a while as Christine Daniels. Eventually, he returned to writing under his male name. Listen to the story for the recordings of Christine reading her column about trasnforming. It’s a total heartbreaker.
- Finally, this week sees an OTM journalist sneak into one of Japan’s elite Kisha Clubs. And no, before you get all excited like I did, a Kisha club is a corrupt little press club, not a gathering of girls named Keisha. The story sounds like it belongs on “This American Life” – I wish OTM would use this kind of storytelling more often.
This recap was written by Kerry, who was all alone, much like Bob in this episode. Only, I didn’t have to interview the spouse of my secret beloved or anything uncomfortable like that.
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