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Welcome to the “highest echelons” of “hipster nerdom” as the image’s creator jokingly/affectionately/scathingly calls it.
We’re all alone with Bob Garfield and his sweater this week. Brooke Gladstone is off writing her book, or at least she’s supposed to be. Bob seems to have his doubts.
This week is all about the sickness. The show opens with a story on health segments on news shows, specifically the ones that talk about [...]
Hi everybody,
Matthew and I just wanted to let you know that we’re going to be taking this week off from posting here. Things are a little crazy right now with our jobs, our house, and my practice schedule and we need a week to get some things taken care of.
Regular posting will resume next Sunday [...]
Erstwhile Pop Jesus Bob Dylan made a move I’ve been expecting him to make ever since he started producing himself under the name “Jack Frost.” He’s celebrating the birth of actual* Jesus with a record. It’s called “Christmas in the Heart.”
And while “Ring Them Bells” has been showing up on my Christmas mix tapes for [...]
I almost had to pull over to the side of the road after the line, “Don’t worry — McTool survives this heart attack, but he’ll probably have a few hundred more in the next year,” but I was losing it well before this point.
It’s just that, in his story about an Arizona training hospital using [...]
Confession time: despite watching a freakish amount of Nick at Nite during my childhood, I’ve never seen the “Twilight Zone” (for what it’s worth, I think I’ve seen every episode of the “Andy Griffith Show”, “Leave it to Beaver” and “F-Troop” in existence). The “Twilight Zone” isn’t the kind of thing I’m usually into, but [...]
I was a timid kid. Everything scared me. I couldn’t watch “Ghostbusters” until I was 12 without having nightmares. One of the worst nightmares I’ve ever had was about a Big Bird Halloween costume I had when I was four.
Remembering that nightmare still creeps me out.
Halloween has never been my favorite holiday. Still, however, I’ve [...]
Brooke was in town last weekend to speak at the University of Memphis Law School for Journalists. She was on a panel discussing the handgun carry permits database that the Commercial Appeal published earlier this year.
She let us show her around Memphis a bit, and it was awesome. She was even kind enough to pose [...]
Um, so.
Earlier tonight, I uttered the words, “In the spirit of this audio clip, here is another clip ready for discussion.”
Those words were so soulless as to make Kerry throw up in her mouth (just a little bit, there), and would have made me die a little inside, if they hadn’t revealed to me exactly [...]
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A rope might be quicker.
How long has it taken me to do one load of laundry tonight?
Longer than it’s taken to listen to three episodes of “The Savage Love Podcast,” three “Planet Money” episodes, and two episodes of “This American Life.”
That’s ONE load of laundry. Six hours. Yes, it was huge. And yes, I split it up for the [...]