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Fletcher

Trad climber

not very much, recently.

May 25, 2010 - 02:19am PT

I don't hate PHC, I just find it very difficult to get engaged by it the way I do with other NPR programs. The storytelling is engaging, as I mentioned before. Just not my cup o' tea.

For fun, when there's nothing interesting to me on NPR I will, on occasion, switch over to AM Talk Radio for some entertaining histrionics (kind of like watching Cliffhanger or Vertical Limit!). Traffic on the 11!

Eric

tuolumne_tradster

Trad climber

Leading Edge of North American Plate

May 25, 2010 - 02:30am PT

I don't listen to much else on the radio but NPR. I like Science Friday with Ira Plato and Fresh Air with Terry Gross.

Loomis

climber

*_*

May 25, 2010 - 02:55am PT

zeta

Trad climber

Berkeley

May 25, 2010 - 11:27am PT

So here's something I always wondered: when do you actually get to call in to Car Talk? I noticed that the new show is on at 10am EST and 10am PST and those are obviously not the same 10am...

I think you call and leave a message and they call you back. Then it is all assembled into a show. What I don't know is how callers can know the context of previous calls.

I left a funny message on their answering machine, imitating the sound that my clutch made. The station manager called me back a week later--she was all ready to put me on the air right then--but then there was another caller just then who talked about their clutch. The manager told me she couldn't use me that day but that she might call me back, which she did 2 weeks later. They told me the date it would be on the air--which was 3 weeks later. Most calls are recorded well in advance but I guess they manage to squeeze in some live ones too!

it was a lot of fun and I highly recommend you call in sometime, if you enjoy the show!

ExtraBlue

Ice climber

the ford VT

May 25, 2010 - 12:04pm PT

Bump for Writer's Almanac, hear it every morning on the way to work (if I'm late). And just about everything else they have. Driving west through SD and MT is always super depressing because you hit the NPR dead zone out. Luckily I have at 3 stations of VPR and North Country Public Radio. Living abroad my training runs were always On Point out This American Life back.

Lissiehoya

climber

Saint Louis, MO

May 25, 2010 - 12:25pm PT

it was a lot of fun and I highly recommend you call in sometime, if you enjoy the show!

I've been thinking about it because my car has been doing this funny thing where it squeals when you have the AC on and press the gas. I was talking about this problem one day in class and my professor suggested that I call in to Car Talk.

GOclimb

Trad climber

Boston, MA

May 25, 2010 - 02:37pm PT

Another NPR lover here. Turned my wife onto them too. So much so that she bought us tickets for my birthday to go see Wait Wait Don't Tell Me when they were in town.

I think Marketplace has got to be the most smartly written and produced show on the radio. I like almost every NPR shows, most of the time. Appreciate the music, too - classical and jazz. Only show I really don't dig is Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know? I just don't find him funny.

GO

Norwegian

Trad climber

Placerville, California

May 25, 2010 - 02:52pm PT

my coin rolls their way at least 3 times a year.
times have me stretched right now, so my donation amounts have decreased, but i still send what i can.

edit...
plus i buy pabst blue ribbon, which is a proud supporter of npr.

Fletcher

Trad climber

not very much, recently.

May 25, 2010 - 03:35pm PT

I've donated consistently for many years now.

When Ira Glass calls up serial non-givers, it's very funny.

Eric

apogee

climber

May 25, 2010 - 03:41pm PT

"How many of you guys donate to NPR during the fund raising drives?"

Once a year, every year. If you're gonna use, you oughta pay!

Lissiehoya

climber

Saint Louis, MO

May 25, 2010 - 03:59pm PT

How many of you guys donate to NPR during the fund raising drives?

Oh I will... once I'm no longer on a graduate student stipend that just barely covers my living expenses.

Spider Savage

Mountain climber

SoCal

May 25, 2010 - 04:20pm PT

Not so much Socialist Propaganda. A slight socialist lean. You should have heard them shred John Kerry in 2004. Not that is was hard to do.

AM talk tends to be pandering and contrived right wing. NPR is based through university stations to a large degree so you get that left lean from the support of higher educations.

I get rabid when they do the reports that are actually virtual infomercials for the psycho-pharma industrial complex. Those creeps want all of us on their dope now.

NPR is the closest thing to what I really want to hear, which would be so boring that no listener or advertiser would ever support it.

Gary

climber

Desolation Basin, Calif.

May 25, 2010 - 05:01pm PT

I miss the old KPFK, before the nutjobs took over and got rid of all the cool programming. It was real community radio.

KPCC is OK, but I contribute to KUSC nowadays. I should deflect some money Ira Glass's way.

Norwegian

Trad climber

Placerville, California

May 25, 2010 - 05:36pm PT

i was wondering how long it would take
the selfish populace whom subscribe to american entitlement of GROSS excess and beligerance to chime in.

fatrad your peep about socialism is nothing but a local cliche, borne once obama took office. you're echoing the ignorant's song.

concern beyond your immediate self, regarding the environment and social ethics is nothing but responsible.
you dub it socialism, weakly implying that the governed people want something for nothing.
our's government is not encouraging this ideal.
nor does socialism.

you would really step on yours and mine children in order to inflate your present wallet.

-drill for oil so i can buy gas cheap to drive my huge murican car.
-de-forest like f*#k-all so's i can build my god-entitled 4000 sf house (cragman, etc)
-keep regulation out of the air-pollution business so i can buy my shite cheaper
-shove god down everyone's throat even though we're puking up blood.
-outlaw the bliss of those of unique distinction (gay marriage) because the f*#kin bible says so.

on, and on.

npr is a check on your ignorance fatrad. its of a tribe of socially and environmentally conscious citizens. i am one of them. and im not immediately going away.

and i'm teaching my children about respect, responsibility, hard work, conciousness and SUSTAINABILITY.

Ricky D

Trad climber

Sierra Westside

May 25, 2010 - 06:15pm PT

Socialist?

Gawd - Fattrad would really pass a brick if he knew I got my national news from BBC America.

What does GOP stand for anyway - Gouty Old Pooftahs?

Elcapinyoazz

Social climber

Joshua Tree

May 25, 2010 - 06:24pm PT

Terry Gross is an American treasure, maybe the most gifted natural interviewer of her generation. And I love Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz show.

Strider

Trad climber

one of god's mountain temples.... ಠ_ಠ

May 25, 2010 - 06:40pm PT

I'll chime in and say I love NPR and most of the shows. Was just listening to Terry on Fresh Air talking about net neutrality today on the drive home.

I guess my 15 seconds of fame was used up when I was on Wait, Wait about a year ago. It was worth it...

BTW they pre-record everything and heavily edit the live callers. I was an absolute idiot on the phone but when it came out on air it wasn't as bad as it could have been. I even had the pitcher of the Red Sox make fun of me on air (it didn't make it to broadcast). Ugghhhhhhh.....

PHC sucks. Can't stand warbly voiced Diane Rehm. I know she has medical issues but it still is hard for me to listen to her...

-n

Carolyn C

Trad climber

the long, long trailer

May 25, 2010 - 06:54pm PT

I don't know, maybe you just have to have been born and/or raised in the
"great northern" to appreciate the humor of PHC. Don'tcha know, by golly, they really think and talk like that back in old Wisconsin, (where I grew up), and New Ulm, Minnesota, and Fargo, North Dakota, other places I've been. (Or at least they used to be like that when I was just a kid, many decades ago.)

But, definitely, the Writer's Almanac, also a Garrison Keillor thing, rocks. A few minutes of poetry and literary trivia every morning, to start my day.