Airplanes!
b'People often ask me where I come up with ideas for this program\\u2026my answer is always the same\\u2026 you know that feeling when it\\u2019s Sunday night and you promise yourself you\\u2019ll start on that assignment that\\u2019s due the next morning as soon as \\u201cthe Simpsons\\u201d is over?...\\n\\nYeah, that\\u2019s me\\u2026every week\\u2026and after more than 700 of these one-hour assignments stretching back to 1993, I hit a wall\\u2026total writer\\u2019s block\\u2026\\n\\nI started to panic\\u2026there are hard deadlines\\u2026I have a contract\\u2026I\\u2019m expected to deliver another new show\\u2026there are radio stations all over the place that need new programming from me\\u2026what the hell am I gonna talk about this time when I got nothin\\u2019?...\\n\\nI mean, this is the seven hundredth and forty-sev\\u2014\\n\\nWait\\u2026show number 747?...that\\u2019s the same as the airliner\\u2026what about stories of alt-rock and airplanes?...\\n\\nAnd so I started go back through all my files\\u2014and sure enough, there\\u2019s tons of stuff on the subject\\u2026plane crashes, near-misses, air rage, terrorist bombings\\u2026\\n\\nWell, that settles it\\u2026show number 747 will be able civil aviation and alt-rock\\u2026there\\u2026that wasn\\u2019t so hard, was it?...\\n\\nDodged that bullet for another week\\u2026.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'