Every chance we get, we effort to include listeners into our program in ways beyond taking their calls or reading their emails while breaking down a topic or when a guest is on with me. Sometimes we’ll invite a listener to do a movie review. Other times we’ll make one of them our Elite Basketball Mind.

And then, there are those moments when they don’t necessarily intend to become a part of the program. An email will arrive that screams “READ ME!” It’s an email that centers on a topic, a guest, or… me. And it will arrive after the program.

More often than not, it’s an email we call Radio Gold. Here is one such email.

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