Night of the Podwits!That’s “rapping” as in “conversing”—about rapping! Dion and Brian hit quite a few of the big names from the history of hip-hop as they each discuss their personal experience with rap. Along the way, they hit digressions about “Weird Al” Yankovic, George R.R. Martin, and a one of Brian’s favorite (but long out-of-print) novels. Catch some rhymes with the Podwits! #Rapwits

CORRECTIONS
David R. Palmer was not a teacher (as Brian asserts in the podcast) but worked as a court reporter, and so it’s not surprising that the protagonist of his novel Emergence kept her journal in shorthand, but it was Pitman shorthand, not Gregg shorthand (as Brian asserts in the podcast). The memory’s the first to go…