All of the local talk shows are understandably centering in on the unprovoked murder of a 16-year-old boy at Keele subway station on the weekend. But when Arlene Bynon, in for the next two weeks for John Oakley on AM 640, played a lengthy Catherine McDonald Global News interview with the teen's mother, it was too much for her. 

The mom was of course crying and wailing about the loss of her inocent son in such a horrible fashion and was recounting how police came to her door in the middle of the night to tell her the terrible news, after she'd been unsuccessful reaching him on his cell phone. 

When the interview ended, they came back to Bynon, who was clearly emotional, crying on air and finding it difficult to speak. She quickly threw to a spot break to regain her composure. It was the kind of raw emotion you rarely hear on well prepped talk shows and it was hard not to be moved by it. 

I know Arlene from our time at CFTR, and she's as tough a cookie as they come in most instances. So to hear her express such honest and raw emotion was both moving and an unusual instance of real humanity from a Toronto radio personality. A rare on-air moment you don't often hear on what is usually a well-rehearsed media outlet.