I grew up listening to it, and mostly by my own choice. I had a small toy radio I used to listen to while I was going to sleep, probably when I was around 6 or 7. I really did like listening to the interviews of Terry Gross and Marty Moss-Coaine, and loved the comedy of *A Prairie Home Companion*, as well as the excitement of the *Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!* I actually think that early episodes of *This American Life* were brilliant, but I haven't listened to that program in so long, I wonder if I would now hear it differently than I did before. Sometimes I wonder if listening to too much NPR at such a young age turned my brain soft, and gave me oddly liberal habits, like writing poetry.