Uh uh just using this "my" space to brainstorm on this idea while listening to sports talk radio and thinking of Air America Randi Rhodes Ed Scultz Al Franken (in terms of sheer personality Franken's the stiffest of the three)---a love hate thing, Fox Sports Radio itself (humourously?) claims "the following programme is close captioned for the thinking impaired"---Then there's the serious political talk of NPR or KPFA Pacifica, both of which are more 'old school' serious. When books come up, more often than not, if serious books in serious but also superficial discussion, and when poets come on more often than not it's worse in sanctimoniousness--it's cooler on KPO0, yes---but it could be cool experiment to take the intelligence of drunken party late night discussions about poetry or even about Shakespeare and emphasize some of the theatrical shout-down aspects of the right wing talk stations which have been appropriated by Schultz et al over at Air America, or the stuff of sports talk, and put a call out for 3 or 4 local people to do a podcast (also a call for someone to be the technical person) that is entertaining as hell even to those who don't like books---it's a really simple idea, but why ain't it done? Oh, maybe because it's done in college insofar as cool freaky personality teachers are still hired? Yes, and who are/were, your favorite, aside from Chris Stroffolino? But if there' s less of that these days, the podcast can bring it out in the public sphere? And even if that's still there in teaching, one could tape the class discussions of Chekhov'e "Story Of A Nobody" for instance, on a good day, like the Grateful Dead or Lenny Bruce as 20 people......