Revenge of the Donut Boys
Original airdate: January 4, 2008
The paste below is from Mike Sager’s bio. I also read it just about verbatim as the opening of this show.
He truly is amazing although a bit all over the place and a tough edit. We talked on mic for at least an hour. I cut it down significantly and made myself appear the devil’s advocate in this one… Who wouldn’t love living with deviant characters for a few months? And yes, I know better than to judge anyone for the predicament life has brought them… but to get the answers, I am the martyr for radio. 
Husband, baby and I also drove to DC to meet him at the studio offices of 60 Minutes. It was Mike’s suggestion, he has cool friends. The door to the suite was the most remarkable detail about the event. In a building with sweeping, prestigious windows holding corporate lobbies landscaped with potted plants, the door to the studio was just plain wood. There was merely a number marking the hub of current events in our culture, no glamour, no drama, no spectacle of television.
Mike ushered me around to look at various rooms, finally settling on a small conference room in the front. No Morley Safer, no swapping child rearing tips with Leslie Stahl, no weeping in the arms of Anderson Cooper over the death of Ed Bradley. Despite the fantasies on the long drive up, I remain another undiscovered Richmonder.
Thanks for tuning in.
Liz Humes
Next week: A conversation with Mike Gilbert author of “The Switch Effect: A Real-Life Example of How to Become and Entrepreneur.”
About the author: Mike Sager is a former Contributing Editor of Rolling Stone and Writer-at-Large for GQ, Sager has also written for Vibe, Spy, Interview, Playboy, Washingtonian and Regardies. For his stories, he has lived with a crack gang in Los Angeles; ex-pat Vietnam veterans in Thailand; a 625 pound man in El Monte,CA; teenage pitbull fighters in the Philadelphia barrio; Palestinians in the Gaza Strip; heroin addicts on the Lower East Side; Aryan Nations troopers in Idaho; U.S. Marines at Camp Pendleton; Tupperware saleswomen in suburban Maryland; high school boys in Orange County. Eight of his articles have been optioned for or have inspired Hollywood films. Sager has read and lectured at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, the Medill School of Journalism, the Yale Law School, and various other forums; his work is included in three textbooks presently in use in college classrooms. Each spring, he leads a popular writing workshop for Literary Journalism majors at the University of California-Irvine, where he is a Pereira Visiting Writer. Fifty years old, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Emory University, he lives with his wife and son in La Jolla, California. www.mikesager.com
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