In a solo, deeply personal episode, the host reflects on the power of great teachers, using his own sixth-grade teacher, George M. Miser the ninth ('Mr. Miser'), as the centerpiece — a man whose passion for language and history shaped the host's writing, and whose decades-long email silen
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