It might not come as a shock to anyone who knows me that I am a This American Life addict. Since I'm hardly ever in my car on the weekends, I download the podcast and listen to it when I walk Turkey after work. This week I actually caught a smidgen of the broadcast on my way home from Hampden, so I knew ahead of time a little of what the show was about.
If anyone hasn't heard this week's episode, (#258 "Leaving the Fold") I would like to say that the first piece of the show, on Jerry Springer, is absolutely terrific. I grew up in Cincinnati and most of my memories are of him and Norma Rashid (she had hair like my mom!) anchoring the channel 5 news. Everyone knows about the hooker and the check, but nobody knows that incident happened before he was Mayor, while he was a councilman.
It's an awesome episode and anyone from the 'Nati will recognize the names of the Springer friends interviewed in the piece.
