Six Degrees of Separation

last night my good friend called me and said, "oh my god, i have to tell you," which is generally how our conversations begin.
she was listening to the tom joyner show and his guest yesterday morning was anderson cooper. "do you know him?" yes, she asked me if i knew coop. moving on..

turns out coop was sharing his love of the continent of africa with tom joyner. and not only that, apparently coop dropped some serious knowledge on that show. so she has now joined the anderson cooper fan club. conversation:

"did you know that when he started out, he didn't want to be an intern so he got a friend to make a fake press card for him, took his camcorder and went to africa?"

- yes, he went to niger and was covering people who were affected by a famine there. there was a kid he filmed who died a few days later.

"well, when he was talking to tom, they were acting like africa was so far away and anderson said well do you have cellphone? and everyone was like year. and anderson was all - well you know the material for the chips is found in the congo."

- remember i told you anderson was in the congo last week and his friend was in sudan.

"in the congo! can you believe it and everyone on the show was all - oh. i'm so impressed; listen, we have to find him a good girlfriend."

yes, people, this is how the passionate and informed are rewarded. for there is no greater reward than a good woman.