> In a town where you haven't made your bones until a regular WIP listener calls in during afternoon drive and says you suck, Dan would have taken such an epithet and said without a moment's bother, "Of course I do. We all do. That's why we've stayed." It's how Dan could find the truth behind the love-to-hate/hate relationship with his teams, and simultaneously have a deep emotional relationship with its broader band of weirdos, ne'er-do-wells and folks who say you suck without provocation and whose right to do so you fight to protect. He left us all in a better place for having known him with the things he said, wrote, did, and was. If that means, as an act of McQuadian solidarity, we must all admit that we suck too, it's only because he would have pulled us aside to show us the compliment lurking behind the words, like the true son of Billy Penn he was.
(If anyone wants to kick a couple of bucks to Dan's wife and kid, there's a link at the top of the Defector piece, while the Inky suggests https://www.everywhereproject.org/ for donations in his honor.)
> In a town where you haven't made your bones until a regular WIP listener calls in during afternoon drive and says you suck, Dan would have taken such an epithet and said without a moment's bother, "Of course I do. We all do. That's why we've stayed." It's how Dan could find the truth behind the love-to-hate/hate relationship with his teams, and simultaneously have a deep emotional relationship with its broader band of weirdos, ne'er-do-wells and folks who say you suck without provocation and whose right to do so you fight to protect. He left us all in a better place for having known him with the things he said, wrote, did, and was. If that means, as an act of McQuadian solidarity, we must all admit that we suck too, it's only because he would have pulled us aside to show us the compliment lurking behind the words, like the true son of Billy Penn he was.