Discreetly Packaged Ironwood Meds

For once I agree with Andrew. I listen to Serial and am entertained, but it hasn’t grabbed me more than an average Forensic Files episode. I’m very happy that it exists, though, if only as a gateway podcast for hundreds of thousands of people just now dipping their toes in the medium. As most Tens are “early adopters” of podcast listening we want to get everyone hooked on this fantastic on-demand content drug.

I was in the (now defunct) school of broadcasting at the University of Washington about ten years before Luke and had some of the same jobs. I worked at KUOW and also had a late night master control job at a campus public access TV station called Cablearn. The job was simple. Just follow the schedule, play the educational tapes in order and keep an eye on the air check monitor. But I was not a good person or stellar employee at the time, so I invited my friend Dave down to get high and cook some smelly food in the employee lunch room.

After popping in an ESL show we took off and did our thing. I came back about five minutes before it was time to change the tape to find a test pattern and every phone line flashing. The good news is that even though people weren’t getting their English lesson they were very proficient at using el teléfono to get ol’ Clip Clop in agua caliente. I survived this incident by telling my boss I fell asleep. UW Employee of the Year!

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