From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

I'm Bob Carfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

What tops the list of what Facebook's 1.2 billion users are talking about?

Who, in a summer survey by Tuplomacy, was deemed the most influential man on Twitter?

Who, according to Global Language Monitor, was the most talked about man on the Internet?

Who gets coverage and Gawker and GQ?

Still don't know?

Well, who was just named Time Magazine's Person of the Year? Come on! Who loves Tango?

And sinners? No, the real question is what religion has the stone-cold coolest leader?

Wait, wait, don't tell me is Peter Sagle is making it too easy. It was a thrill for the crowds.

Pope Francis walking out on the street to press the flesh.

The embrace that has gone viral, Pope Francis laying his hands on a disfigured man.

Pope Francis blasted church hardliners for focusing on small-minded rules that are divisive, like abortion,

gay marriage, and contraception.

I am not exactly sure what this pope wants, but I'm starting to fear it's my time slot.

He has garnered larger crowds in eight months as Pope than Benedict theVIth had his entire seven years as Pope.

That's gobsmacking.

Rocco Palmo writes the influential blog, Whispers in the Loggia.

You know, someone who is very serious, very dour as Archbishop Buenos Aires has suddenly become this wildly charismatic figure.

The Argentinians who have spoken to him since his election said, basically, what's gotten into you?

He said, at the moment of the election, something just came over me and it hasn't left.

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