Radiolab is fantastic
The best part about Wait Wait is the guests, who frequently turn out to be much funnier than you would have ever expected.
I unapologetically listen to All Songs Considered, and Live Concerts from All Songs Considered, just because you never know. The Leonard Cohen concert I listened to last night was very enjoyable, and I am looking forward to the Antony concert I will hear later today.
I say this all the time, but I once asked an online acquaintance named Gilmore a question, and his answer has stuck with me like glue now for over 15 years. (For Internet old-timers, Gilmore was responsible for one of the earliest "viral" websites. the Exploding Heads page, on which luminaries such as Rush Limbaugh and Ted Hanks talked and talked in cartoon panels, until their heads exploded a-la Scanners. It earned him a visit from the Secret Service, who, shockingly, turned out to be be friendly and even entertained by his page after they assessed that he was not a threat to anyone in the government.)
Anyway, Gilmore was a musician, and I once asked him "What do you hope for in music?" His response was "To be surprised by beauty." That resonated with me so strongly (and I will probably be thrown under the smug bus for using the word "resonated") that it's a big part of my personal music philosophy.
You can't be surprised by beauty if you don't occasionally listen to something you don't already know.
What was the topic? Will Tom PRETTY-PLEASE review Harry Shearer's music CD "Songs of the Bushmen"? That brings it back to topic, doesn't it? You know, the key to story-telling is the level of detail.
