Thursday, May 24, 2012

Basically famous.

This is NOT the kind of dinosaur pajamas I was wearing.
Mine were just regular pajamas with dinosaurs on them.
Unfortunately.
I subscribe to a handful of podcasts, though I don't usually listen to them right away. A queue of them builds up until I have a good chunk of data entry to do at work, or some particularly tedious chore around the house. So it wasn't until a couple of weeks after it aired that I found out I had been quoted on CBC's WireTap.

Every few weeks, WireTap asks a question of its listeners on Facebook. Ironically enough, I'd forgotten that I'd answered, "What's your earliest memory?" until I heard a guy reading MY earliest memory aloud.

Which means I've been quoted on a Canadian comedy-ish podcast.

Which gets rebroadcast on NPR.

Which means I've been quoted on NPR.

Which makes me a famous expert* of some kind. 

You can hear the podcast here, at least for another week or so. My quote is at 8 minutes.

(The episode on memory is a little more serious than the usual ones. Do yourself the favor of listening to WireTap's 7-minute interview with Margaret Atwood. She is more than a person. She is an idea. And her robotic arm will punch you in the face.)


What is YOUR first memory?


*I am an expert at wearing dinosaur pajamas and pestering my newborn brother.

3 comments:

  1. I remember that, too! I wonder if this is also your baby brothers first memory?

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  2. My first memory is of learning to ride my bike in the trailer park where we lived and falling over whenever I went over one of the speed bumps.

    If you're a famous NPR expert now, I want you to introduce me to Carl Castle.

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  3. If I had an answering machine, I'd want Carl Castle's voice on it.

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