Sewell Chan of The City Room (cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com) listened to the Brian Lehrer podcast. I was on for a few seconds intending to say that Gowanus Lounge is pretty darn journalistic but I never got to say that. Robert Guskind worked at the National Journal before starting GL.

I don’t pretend to be a journalist but I see a value in the on the street, fly on the wall, slice of life variety of reporting that helps create a realistic portrait of New York City.

The geeks here — O.K., that would be me — are finally catching up on a week of podcast listening. A comment from Pete Hamill, the newspaperman and novelist, caught our attention in this June 15 episode of “The Brian Lehrer Show” on WNYC.