A little bit ago ago, I wrote about Jonathan Goldstein’s CBC show “Wiretap.” I mentioned his friend Howard and how he reminds me of a friend I had in high school.
I even dug up a “This American Life” episode that served as a great example of the similarities between Howard and my friend.
But I was wrong.
The episode I wanted, it’s not here, it must be in La Jolla. Reader Jack Busch – who is something of a kindred spirit of ours, with his Wiretap fan blog – dropped a comment on that earlier post to remind me about the TAL episode “Recordings for Someone.”
It’s Josh Karpati who reminds me of my friend, with his insistence that every new idea is “pure gold.” And with his habit of leveling insults at Goldstein that may be more appropriately leveled at himself.
I’m not going to say much about the episode – if you’re a TAL fan, you’ve already listened to it more than once. And if you haven’t heard it, I diggy-don’t want to spoil the beauty of Jonathan Goldstein’s stentorian tones about a particular inadvertent piece of comedy.
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