NPR - stuffy or sexy?

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the NYT doesn't play Medeski Martin and Wood in its bumpers, though
-- gabbneb (gabbne...), May 6th, 2005 4:52 AM.

that was pretty funny

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

Edward's right. She definitely has her limitations but she's occasionally quite good. When she's bad, I can't even listen to her, though.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

oh, and i stand by my love for american routes and nancy wilson's jazz show. both great. nancy wilson's voice = very sexy npr.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone else listen to Radio Open Source? This show is often wonderful Christopher Lydon is a gem.

― holojames (holojames), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

She definitely has her limitations but she's occasionally quite good.

But is she sexy?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Answer: If you like older lesbians.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

"Does anyone else listen to Radio Open Source?"

i do all the time. great show. except i call it Open Sores, cuz that's how Lydon pronounces it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'll give a shout out to "To the Point" from KCRW. Warren Olney is my man. I'm warming up to Radio Open Source, but I find the topics hit or miss and don't really see how the blog element of the show is relevant. Seems kind of contrived to me.

― tobo (tobo), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

I listen to NPR every morning and hate almost all the female hosts. I want to shoot Diane Reim and put her out of her croaking taking-fucking-forever-to-spit-the-question-out misery.
And the news-wimmin! Meeechelle Norris! ACK!!!!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to go for a brisk walk now. I think I've made a death threat on every thread.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

I admire Diane Rehm, a lot.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

spasmodic dysphonia is no joking matter.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

sometimes i tire of DR's voice, which isn't fair. but she gets great guests, esp on inside-the-beltway topics. DC media bigwigs seem to love her.

― tobo (tobo), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

i dig her. i don't dig her conservative pals like tony though.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 20 January 2007 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

today I listened to some music show with derogatis that runs in the slot that used to belong to Whaddya Know; switched it off around the time that Tokyo Police Club was brought up (during a discussion of "buried treasures", no less)

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Saturday, 20 January 2007 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

I blame this thread for 9/11.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 20 January 2007 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

is there anything worse than when the freelance contributors read their 'slice of life' pieces themselves? Complete with cutesy, smarmy inflections under~~scoring~~cutting the universality of their parochial/upper-yuppie twit concerns. think Sandra Tsing Loh if you must.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 21 January 2007 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

left, right & center is an abomination

― timmy tannin (pompous), Sunday, 21 January 2007 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

is there anything worse than when the freelance contributors read their 'slice of life' pieces themselves?

No.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 21 January 2007 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, what's the beef with Michelle Norris?

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 21 January 2007 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

I wake up to her voice nearly every morning. She's background. She reads the news. Yeah, what's the big deal?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Sunday, 21 January 2007 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

Where I grew up, the local NPR affiliate had the most intelligent radio programming by a long shot. It's nice to listen to a radio show and hear calm voices talking about important issues instead of some right-wing nut bloviating about how disagreeing with the President is treason.

2 motherfucking times

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 21 January 2007 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

"is there anything worse than when the freelance contributors read their 'slice of life' pieces themselves?"

"No."

see this is rilly mean, but i can't stand the cutesy local color old-tymer snippets they play here of salty cape cod folks remembering their favorite fish chowder recipes. they all have that dry as sand yankee voice and they drive me mad for some reason. the guy who runs our local station is the dude who did that THIS I BELIEVE essay series and he's really into oral. his catch-phrase is LISTEN and then he will play audio of seagulls fighting over a clam neck or something. in theory i should be all for this yokelism but it just makes me grit my teeth. same with the soothing tones of the cape cod naturalist who reads his essays about frolicing in the bramble bushes in purple poesy. i'm so jaded and mean...

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 21 January 2007 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

so gene simmons WAS proven correct re terry gross!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

is there anything worse than when the freelance contributors read their 'slice of life' pieces themselves? Complete with cutesy, smarmy inflections underscoringcutting the universality of their parochial/upper-yuppie twit concerns. think Sandra Tsing Loh if you must.

-- tremendoid (kemeti...), January 20th, 2007. (tremendoid)

I remember we had a lot of fun mocking these on another thread - can't remember where.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Found it:

Why is NPR so effing bad sometimes?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

sexy to stuffy people?

― youn (youn), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

I wish This American Life would quit running repeats all the time.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Y'know what else I hate? The callers who fall all over themselves praising D. R's show and thanking her for taking their call before GETTING TO THE POINT.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 21 January 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and yeah—"This I Believe." FFS. What's wrong with "I Believe This?"
What do the call that switching around of subject and...uh? predicate? in order to get a more fart-bloated result?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 21 January 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

What do THEY call.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 21 January 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

on the lehrer/lopate vs. classixal muzik thing, it seems to me there's a zillion more places to find music of any kind these days than to find intelligent people talking about interesting stuff. lehrer's national politics bits are maybe redundant, but he does some of the best local-issues discussions in nyc, and lopate's range of guests and topics goes beyond terry gross, diane rehm, amy goodman or anyone else i know of. you could argue they should drop fresh air, since half of those people have already been on lehrer or lopate by the time they get there, but i would really miss lehrer or lopate if they went away.

(also, ever watch lehrer's tv show on cuny tv? he's a funny-lookin guy, and he cuts loose with more opinionating there. he told saddam hussein to "burn in hell" after the execution.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 21 January 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and yeah—"This I Believe." FFS. What's wrong with "I Believe This?"

I would totally listen to a personal essay feature called "BELIE' DAT!"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 21 January 2007 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

haha just tune in at one of my family gatherings.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 21 January 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

I agree w/Gypsy Mothra. Leonard Lopate on WNYC gets a much wider range of guests and if he shows off his erudition that also means he asks better questions than Terry Gross. Is it just me or is Fresh Air more starstruck than it used to be even a few years ago?

― lovebug 2.0 (lovebug starski), Sunday, 21 January 2007 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Terry Gross's interview with Iggy Pop was one of my favorite things on the radio this year.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 21 January 2007 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

I could listen to the part where he makes fun of 60s psych chart-pop over and over again.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 21 January 2007 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

that was a good one but Iggy basically interviews himself

― lovebug 2.0 (lovebug starski), Sunday, 21 January 2007 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Jo3l Rose is ruling today

― gabbneb, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

i was on this huge bpp kick lately, but it's starting to get a little to much like "the view."

― tehresa, Friday, 28 March 2008 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

listening to NPR like two minutes ago and there's this kind of inane cell-phone technology puff piece on, and they get a caller. daniel, a contractor of some kind, is telling the anchor dude (neil?) in a weird broken-dieter accent that this new technology saves him from hours of driving a day, since he gets in touch with all of his sites via those walky-talky jobbies.
--- So, sir, you're in construction?
--- Ja, and the improved vibration settings are amaaazing, so you can always tell, you just drive around and it just fits so perfectly in your scheißer hole and (thanks for the feedback! cut to 'commercial')

someone tell me that i am not the only person who heard this

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:46 (seventeen years ago)

anyone??

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:48 (seventeen years ago)

o_O

― Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl (HI DERE), Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:49 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/talk/2009/05/may_28th_show.html#commentBlock

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:50 (seventeen years ago)

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― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:50 (seventeen years ago)

L~O~L

they publish transcripts, right?

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:51 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=EGLC%2CEGLC%3A2007-20%2CEGLC%3Aen&q=daniel+vibration+schei%C3%9Fer+&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:51 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.npr.org/transcripts/

― Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl (HI DERE), Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:53 (seventeen years ago)

Is this neil conan (sp?) talk of the nation?
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=5

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:53 (seventeen years ago)

Ja, and the improved vibration settings are amaaazing, so you can always tell, you just drive around and it just fits so perfectly in your scheißer hole and

if this quote is real, and was on npr, i guess keeping the thread title in mind, the answer would be. . . stuffy??

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

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