Your Afternoon Cry: Scott Simon Live-Tweets From His Mom's Deathbed
LatestPeople who grew up listening to public radio are a rare breed, in that they’re obsessed with “their” radio hosts. Ask anyone in radio about the responses they get when people figure out who they are in public and they’ll tell you stories of people freaking out upon meeting them –which is especially funny, given that most of the people coming up to them have only heard their voice before. So given what we know about radio listeners, the emotional response that NPR Weekend Edition host Scott Simon has gotten over the past couple weeks as he’s been live-tweeting his mother’s hospital stay is less than surprising.
Simon’s mother Pat Simon Newman Gilband went into a Chicago hospital on July 16; he says she told him “I can’t talk. I’m surrounded by handsome men”: