Last night I did all the NPR nerds in my family proud and was interviewed for an upcoming Marketplace story about the business of hula hooping. It was pretty exciting to get to sit in the little studio at KUOW wearing big headphones and talking into an enormous fuzzy orange microphone as I was interviewed, via ISDN, by the journalist in Los Angeles. Supposedly the piece will run next Wednesday. I’ll keep you posted. After the interview, my friend Phyllis gave me a tour of the studio, and I got to talk hoops with Amanda Wilde, who used to be my favorite DJ on KEXP. All in all, it was an exciting afternoon, especially when you factor in my humor/nostalgia trip through an old U-district head shop before the interview. Nothing there has changed (nsfw)!