r.i.p., bruds.
For years I would welcome the chance to drive at night because I can pick up WBZ in my car here in upstate New York. Why is this important? Because BZ was David Brudnoy's station.
I am saddened that he has been taken from us. Those who listened knew of his calm delivery, gentle sense of humor, and awesome intelligence and breadth of knowledge. On rare occaisions he would encounter a combative or aggressive caller, and, when he did, he could put them into an intellectual head-lock so quickly, so totally, that it was like the famous scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indiana Jones dispatches the assassin with a single shot.
Many were the times that I found myself thinking "how incredible it is to live in a country where the thoughts of such brilliant people are available on the radio, free of charge, for the enlightenment of countless millions of people."
G-d's Speed Dr. Brudnoy,
(steely)