All right, fess up. Who do you listen to on the radio in the morning? Be careful! Your answer will be very revealing and tell the world a lot about the real you.

Are you a Howard Stern buff? Do you tune in to the famous 'shock-jock' and listen to his puerile sexual fantasies laid out before millions of listeners. Do you titter and guffaw at his slightly embarrassing discussions of female breast size and his teenaged obsessions? He occasionally states thoughts that most normal people suppress.

Or, are you a Don Imus fan? His group of sycophants laugh uproariously at inside jokes that listeners (and viewers) are not privy to and I personally have no desire to understand. His pose as a curmudgeon is wearing rather thin after all these years. He should disinherit his brother Fred who is not informed about anything substantial. He usually telephones inane remarks from a ranch in New Mexico. Imus can either sometimes say obviously bigoted things and yet he can conduct brilliant political discussions with senators and interview authors with great dexterity.

How about a bit of news in the a.m.? CBS radio supplies the news with no obvious slant. Straight news does get boring after you have heard it for the sixth time while shaving and getting dressed. They have CBS helicopter pilots who can give great traffic insights, at eight minute intervals. Sports are broadcast on the 15- and 45-minute mark every hour. Finance and stock-market business comes to you at the 25 minutes and 55 minutes point.

Weather reports follow the traffic and Wall Street announcements.

And now for Curtis and Kuby. They are philosophically and politically diametrically opposed to one another. Ron Kuby has self-avowed Communist and anarchistic leanings while being a lawyer. Formerly in William Kunstler's law office, he now defends the Mafia chieftains and other assorted alleged criminals. However, he does explain legal issues in great detail and can make even complicated things understandable to the lay public.

Curtis Sliwa, the publicity seeking chief of the red-bereted Guardian Angels, is a strict law and order advocate. At present he is in hiding from alleged criminals whom he said tried to kill and/or main him 12 years ago. He is a master of the malaprop but very informed on issues for a person with little or no formal education.

Their Kerry versus Bush discussions are both enlightening and humorous. They take phone calls from listeners and then banter back and forth about the substance.

In the grogginess of just getting up and out of bed, we are possibly truer to the real person that we are. After our coffee and cereal we assume our every day pose in the world we live in. Only on just arising do we have no artifice or cover-mask. The program that you listen to in the morning says a lot about the "real you."

Post script - National Public Radio, WOR, WEVD (sports) are not mentioned here but also have their loyal followers.