S7E8: Heart & Solo
Love Letters
The Boston Globe
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Pebbles is a well-known morning radio show host in the Boston area. Being happily single has long been part of her brand. But her story – how she came to understand her priorities and know her own heart – is far richer than most people realize. Email us at [email protected].
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| 0:00.0 | I remember when I was in Barcelona, I was riding on one of the double-decker buses and |
| 0:13.1 | just going through the city and I was just thinking about a lot of things and I remember |
| 0:17.9 | having a conversation with Vermeer when we were talking about what you think you're |
| 0:21.8 | naturally good at and as I was going around I'm like, you know what, I'm naturally good |
| 0:29.4 | at being single. |
| 0:33.5 | From the Boston Globe and PRX, this is Love Letters, I'm Meredith Goldstein. |
| 0:58.8 | So if you live near me, in Massachusetts, the voice of the woman at the start of this |
| 1:03.6 | episode might be familiar to you. |
| 1:06.9 | It's the voice of Pebbles, a morning radio show host whom Boston has woken up to for |
| 1:12.0 | many years. |
| 1:14.0 | You know the kind of morning show I'm talking about, right? |
| 1:17.0 | That team of personalities telling jokes, playing songs, reading pop culture news, doing |
| 1:22.8 | bits. |
| 1:24.6 | Pebbles and her co-host Romero were the voices I heard after I moved to Boston two decades |
| 1:30.3 | ago and started commuting to work every day. |
| 1:34.1 | This was long before smartphones or streaming content of course. |
| 1:38.1 | Back then, radio was the thing, unless you popped your in sync CD into the CD player. |
| 1:45.3 | Anyway, my commutes were how I got introduced to Pebbles and her crew. |
| 1:51.1 | Romero was the wild one. |
| 1:53.9 | Romero's was the voice of reason. |
| 1:56.0 | I loved her attitude. |
| 1:58.3 | I thought we should know each other in real life. |
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