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Ricardo Cabeza
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All Over.
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 24, 2010 - 08:44am PT
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I hereby commence the NPR appreciation thread.
Morning Addition greets me every day.
Terry Gross makes me laugh with her candid and disarming interview style.
Diane Rehm talks funny and I do a good imitation, but she is spot on with her questions, not letting an interviewee snake his way out of the question.
TOTN is great, but TOTN Science Friday with Ira Flato (SP?) is awesome.
Obviously, we all like click and clack.
Wait Wait is what I center my Saturday morning breakfast cooking session around.
This American Life has made me laugh and cry, it's that good sometimes.
Here's to NPR.
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Tobia
Social climber
GA
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May 24, 2010 - 09:04am PT
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I will second your tip of the hat...
I always enjoy the talk shows beginning with Click and Clack through Prairie Home Companion on Saturdays. I can't think of the name of the talk shows in between but I enjoy Michael Feldman (?) as well the "play on words" shows also.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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May 24, 2010 - 09:04am PT
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i keep the classical station on about 24 hours a day.
npr is a crucial resource for my family.
intelligent presentation of media.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 24, 2010 - 09:45am PT
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NPR was my only solace during the Bush years.
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Ricardo Cabeza
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All Over.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 24, 2010 - 09:48am PT
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Donini, I've still got a blue camalot on the Sox, don't forget.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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May 24, 2010 - 09:55am PT
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I'm depraved on account of I'm deprived.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
SoCal
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May 24, 2010 - 10:21am PT
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I confess, ...NPR head. Can't listen to commercial radio.
All news sources are colored by their source of income. TV tries to keep you horrified on a second-to-second basis. NPR knows it has to keep you intrigued over long periods. Still, they really contrive some weird stuff times. Along the lines of, "This American Freak Show."
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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May 24, 2010 - 10:32am PT
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only radio we have listened to for the last thirty years.
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LB4USC
Trad climber
Long Beach
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May 24, 2010 - 10:37am PT
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Saturday morning drives to the Valley begin with Scott Simon who takes us past Bakersfield. Car Talk to the gas station in Fresno and then Wait, Wait. Don't Tell Me all the way to Oakhurst.
Mexican food at El Cid, then the Valley.
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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May 24, 2010 - 11:12am PT
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One vote for Bob Edwards' Weekend - the man knows how to interview!
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pc
climber
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May 24, 2010 - 11:35am PT
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3 Cheers for NPR!
KPLU Jazz and thoughtful news. Doesn't get much better...
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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May 24, 2010 - 12:44pm PT
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can't stand Prairie Home Companion most Sundays, but Car Talk rocks.
also Marketw#tch is really good.
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mrtropy
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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May 24, 2010 - 12:45pm PT
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Also have a bad addiction
I love Prairie Home Companion. Laughing with it and at it at the same time.
Edit, car talk can get on my nerves after a while.
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Ricardo Cabeza
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All Over.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 24, 2010 - 12:48pm PT
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I agree Munge, Prarie Home Companion is when I shut off the radio.
Also, It's Marketplace, 6:00 (I think, I'm in NH now) on KXJZ. Kai has a great radio personality.
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apogee
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May 24, 2010 - 01:21pm PT
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NPR is my primary source of news and information, as well- KCRW has a great program, with NPR's (PRI) syndicated programs: Morning Edition, All Things Considered, This American Life, and others; as well as programs that are produced in their own station: Warren Olney (To the Point, Which Way LA?), Left, Right & Center.
LR&C is one of my regular faves, and I have great respect for Warren Olney's ability to remain objective and impartial in his interviewing of anyone.
NPR is commonly held up as being the left-wing media equivalent of FauxNews on the right, but honestly, it just doesn't seem to hold anywhere close to the same agenda and bias. As a matter of fact, I find myself sometimes frustrated at how NPR will actually lean rightwards on a number of issues and pieces. I'm sure other conservatives would strongly disagree and laugh robustly at such an observation.
Yes, three cheers for NPR.
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gonzo chemist
climber
Crane Jackson's Fountain St. Theater
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May 24, 2010 - 01:24pm PT
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FINALLY an NPR thread. Although it probably means we'll all be branded as COMMIES!
89.3 KPCC
I love "The Story" with Dick Gordon. Interviews and life stories of people from all walks of life. It gives me a real appreciation of just how diverse the good old US of A is, and how every person has a tale to tell...
Car Talk is STILL entertaining even 10 years after I first started listening to it...
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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May 24, 2010 - 01:24pm PT
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gracias for the correction
it's perfect for succintly calling out the problems of the day in the business space and how it affects the average person and providing solid advice.
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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May 24, 2010 - 01:35pm PT
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props out to tom ashbrook, onpoint radio. i guess not every npr station carries him, but he's good!
i usually download six hours of npr stream at a time. can't do without pause and rewind when i'm scalping the market or at the gym.
there's something soothing about familiar voices when they've become the same as friends. as the voice of tanana weather, i provided airport advisories to the bush pilots who flew west out of fairbanks, we all knew each others voice starting with the first syllable. when i went into town for flight training, it felt like being fledged amongst friends as a good portion of the traffic on the tower frequency were the same old crowd.
we lacked for npr out in the bush. i worked for a family that had cobbled together a power company for the village, and since the poles were theirs, they bought a switch and became the phone company and brought down a couple of satellite feeds and drummed up some cable subscribers too.
the state channel, ARCS, had a mono audio signal, leaving the one side of the stereo feed unused. when i learned this, i persuaded them to pipe NPR down a duplicate broadcast of ARCS on an unpublished channel way up the dial. so you had to watch native dancing, with the left speaker disconnected to hear npr because i found that without the video, my tv would timeout on bluescreen.
pretty sure i was an audience of one. it's who you know eh?
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couchmaster
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pdx
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May 24, 2010 - 01:35pm PT
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I believe that NPR is a tool of the tools. Don't buy in to the faux "loyal opposition" spin.
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