The Blue Plate Special

The Blue Plate Special is served every Tuesday and Thursday at 12:15 p.m.—a quick, lively show where Andy Andrews dishes out stories, laughs, and perspective on all kinds of topics. Sometimes he’s flying solo, sometimes a guest pulls up a chair, but every episode is a fresh helping of fun you’ll want to come back for again and again.

May 4, 2023

May 4, 2023

Andy covers some of the best first sentences to a number of published books—plus you’ll hear some of the best first sentences to books that haven’t been written…yet!

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April 11, 2023

April 11, 2023

Unintended consequences can be grouped into three types: a positive unexpected benefit, a negative unexpected drawback, a perverse result: when an intended solution makes a problem worse. Here’s a few dealing with the latter…

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