WBWR's last scene is back with surprising news stories about people, places, and things

that have gone missing, all told by tenacious public radio storytellers who refuse to let

mysteries go unsolved.

Don't miss season 3, out now.

The other one, the rival is definitely still with us, and he won't shut up.

I was told as a kid that I had the gift of the gab in verbal diarrhea.

I think verbal diarrhea was when people didn't like what I had to say, and the gift of the

gab was when I was saying something that people actually thought was somewhat worth listening

to.

We'll say Anthony Sullivan has the gift of gab.

Formerly you're welcome to call me Mr Sullivan, most people end up being Sully or Anthony.

In the early 90s, when Sully was 20 years old, he was trying to figure out how to move

from his salad days to adulthood.

He just landed home in the rainy UK after spending a few years in Hawaii.

I was just dossing, he's an English word, with no, I was just, you know, flailing in the

wind rudderless at the 20 years old, like really actually think I'm going to do it myself.

A friend of mine got a speeding ticket, and he asked me to take care of his market stall.

This is a stall in an outdoor market where all kinds of people sell all kinds of stuff,

but that hugely interesting to Sully.

But I went to this market to help him out, and opposite my friend's stand was this guy selling

this car wash called the Amazing Wash Matic, and he's doing this speech, which I later found

out was a pitch.

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