Letters: Food Stamp Chefs
JUNE 16, 2007 Listen to this Story
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This week listeners remind us that most people on food stamps aren't professional chefs; we learn that Brad Pitt wasn't in the movie Gladiator; and we hear from Canadian poet Richard Harrison about the "liquid poetry" of hockey.
Notes from Producer Brendan Newnam
In Philadelphia were I grew up there aren't any hockey fans there are just Flyers fans - as in the Philadelphia Flyers the local team. Flyers fans are nuts, but then again so were the Flyers. Back in the day they were known as the Broad Street Bullies for their bruising style of play. One of those bullies was Bobby Clarke. He was the captain of the team and he looked the part with with his tousled blonde mane of hair (suprisingly more of a mod cut than a hockey haircut). Although I didn't like hockey I liked Bobby ever since my mother told me that he was an asthmatic like I was. While other kids marveled at the Bullies goon tactics, I was stunned by simply watching Bobby skate around for three periods without getting winded. Richard Harrison too is taken back by the athletes ability but he also enjoys the fights, which he describes exquisitely at times.
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- Music Bridge:
- The Devil in Us (DUB)
- Artist: Black Devil Disco Club
- CD: Black Devil in Dub (Lo)
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