{"id":28562,"date":"2010-08-18T08:11:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T08:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/i-have-it-on-good-authority-my-voice-makes-its-cable-tv-premiere-tonight-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2010-08-18T08:11:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T08:11:39","slug":"i-have-it-on-good-authority-my-voice-makes-its-cable-tv-premiere-tonight-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/i-have-it-on-good-authority-my-voice-makes-its-cable-tv-premiere-tonight-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"I have it on good authority my voice makes its cable TV premiere tonight | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"weeds440\"I have a strange job. A few weeks back I was wandering through the aisles of the local Walmart, searching for bug spray, when my phone rang. A very excited Robert Krulwich<\/a> was calling. As I drifted past the potato chips and plasma-screen TVs, he declared to me with great excitement that I was going to be on the cable series Weeds<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>

Now, I’m pretty sure that if I had actually auditioned for the show, I would remember it. Or at least I could find some trace of the experience over on IMDB, searching for my name in the role of Pothead #8. So there I was at the store, getting totally lost trying to figure out what Krulwich was saying.<\/p>

Gradually, the story emerged: a few months ago, I joined Krulwich and his partner in radio crime, Jad Abumrad to tape a couple segments for their fine show, RadioLab. In one of those segments<\/a>, I describe the glories of parasites<\/a>, focusing on one surgically fiendish wasp<\/a>. Apparently the people at Weeds<\/em> are RadioLab fans and sometimes work bits of it into their own show. And apparently, they are using my ramblings–at great length, I’m reliably informed<\/a>–in the season premiere. What deeper meaning that Jad, Robert, and I could bring to their show, I can’t say–in part because I don’t have cable TV, so I’m not a regular viewer.<\/p>

Suffice to say, it was a very long bug spray run. The new season airs tonight. If anyone sees it, fill me in! And if I can get my mitts on the clip, I’ll post it.<\/p>

[Update: We've got it<\/a>]<\/p>

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