At work a while back I overheard someone talking about how he listens to NPR like every day, and he's a really cool guy, so I figured maybe it wasn't as bad as I thought. (My only exposure was that "SNL" skit with the two really boring women talking about Schweaty Balls.) I looked it up online and found the station, and I've been hooked since. I listen to it on my way to work so I don't just sit at the morning budget meetings with a vacant look on my face, and I also like the "Fresh Air" program, on which the host interviews random people from society. "All Things Considered" is good too, along with anything with David Sedaris. Highly recommended.
The other day I was listening, and the host announced she would be speaking with Kevin Sites, reporter and author of "Hot Zone." It's not often you hear on the radio someone with whom you've had dinner, so I kept driving just to listen. (Granted, the dinner thing was kind of a fluke. He and I lived in Avila at the same time - he was a journalism professor at Cal Poly - and I was friends with a supertalented guy named Ryan who actually was friends with Kevin, so it was just a lucky coincidence.) Kevin is the guy who was at the center of the controversy of photos of the marine shooting an insurgent in Iraq a while ago. And since then, he's been reporting from the war zone for Yahoo, and pretty much risking his life every day. Amazing stuff. But it turns out he's still alive and rockin' the long hair (I googled him ... I didn't just sense that through the speakers). So anyway, you never know what you'll hear when you turn off screamo rock.
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