Every weekday morning Josh and I wake up to Vermont Public Radio. He gets up instantly. I tend to hit the snooze a few more times before slowly lying in bed, waking up to the news or weather forecast. It's a routine I really enjoy. Sometimes we'll turn it off and move out to the rest of the house continuing our morning routine with music off his iPod, or decide that we want to continue to listen to the broadcast and then I'll plug my iPod in and stream VPR through our stereo system.
NPR stations have always been part of my life. Everywhere I've lived I've sought out the local station and been sure to at least tune my clock radio in. I've always enjoyed the programing brought to the local stations from NPR. Like Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me or This American Life hosted by Ira Glass. But mostly I had just happened upon them when they were being broadcast.
A few years ago Josh and I had a short stint of hosting a music radio show through out local community radio station (not Public Radio). It was really the remainders of a show Josh had started with a good friend of his (and mine), Carson, that I started helping him with after Carson had stopped co-hosting, for reasons I have never known or understood. It had been a really great show when the two of them had hosted it together. Afterword, I think Josh just felt like he had to carry the torch, and I was game to accompany him, although very hesitant to speak on air.
Soon, Josh's lust in introducing new music started to falter. I was inspired to pick up some of the slack. I started to do online searches for anything that seemed interesting and would make playlists for Josh to include in the show. Somehow my sister started listening and would email me or call me from time to time to let me know that she had heard the last episode online. At one point I expressed to her that I was having difficulty finding new music. Well, like any great "big" sis would do, she gave me a few new resources to find more new music. Amongst them was a Kansas City radio station that I have since forgotten the name of and NPR's All Song Considered hosted by Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton.
Well, it's been a long time since Josh and I hosted that show... maybe 4 years. And it didn't last long. I had since stopped listening to the podcast of All Songs Considered, but recently, in a very uncharacteristic way, I opened my iTunes and perused through my old podcasts that haven't been updated in over a year and decided to start listening to all those shows again: All Songs Considered, This American Life, as well as other shows such as the NPR Pop Culture podcast.
I really love listening to these shows. I love being able to select the episodes I want to listen to and then, as if an addiction, I have to listen to the next and then the next until I run out of unheard episodes and move on to the next show.
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