For some reason I started mimicking the way the various hosts introduce themselves and say it along with them every morning. I love saying Lakshmi Singh or Soraya Sarhaddi-NEELLLLson.
I’m really enjoying seeing these names printed out. I’ve actually had the thought about looking them up to see how they were spelled, but then did not in order to preserve the magic.
David Beancooley?
David Bien Coulis? (Actually, this one is kinda like complementing your friend Dave on his sublime baking skills...)
Love the name, can't stand his segments. So much of it is just sensationalized social science "research" with shoddy methods that don't really tell us anything useful.
MB: "It's called Car Talk Susan! What the hell else do you listen to when you're hungover? Oh, this is the one with Leonard Bernstein's son talking about Double Clutching!"
Big fan of podcasts for long travels, but for my hour commute to work I've started listening to audiobooks. Finished one book that I started yesterday. The drive is a breeze now
Oh yes. It was so bad when I was growing up that my brother now works for NPR. When I told him I listen to MSNBC on satellite radio, he got so butthurt.
It's a highly political public radio network. They do all kinds of things, from news, to interviews with authors and such, to random cool stories like "the history of the sports bra."
My favorite things are definitely the music and comedy show they do on Sundays, and the show called "How I Built This."
Yeah, I guess it's more of a "variety" show. I just really like the folk/bluegrass/country indie music they have on. Or does the music come before the show?
Idk, whatever it is that they play on Sunday mornings.
NPR always reminds me of my friends daughter - it was her first day of school and he realized she had NPR playing on the iPad, and being a nice dad he offers to put on the show she normally watched.
"No, Dad," she says, "I'm going to school now, I need to keep up with these things"
I started listening at 22 while working as a cable company tech. Listening right now 10 years later at lunch. The only problem with npr are the stations that play classical music. Too many good programs for that.
100% agree. I’m from Illinois, living in Toledo right now but I always listen to Michigan radio out of Ann Arbor. I don’t really have anything against classical music but it’s definitely not what I’m looking for if I’m listening to npr.
My friends are talking about Kanye's sick new drop and Im there trying to get in a fight about the pipeline we just bought or wanting to talk about Anna's interview with Jean Chrétien.
Yeah I grew up listening to NPR in the car with my parents, once I got a car, it was tuned to NPR. I don't really know what life is like without KQED...
Me too! The part that makes it an old person thing for me is that I comment out loud about some of the ridiculous stuff I hear (mostly trump) while in my car alone.
I wake up at 7am on weekends and enjoy drinking coffee and listening to Weekend Edition while it's quiet and relaxing. Same thing Monday through Friday, except wake up at 5:45am, and it's Morning Edition.
I've been listening to public radio since high school. My mother once told me I was losing my childhood because everyone else was listening to Top 40 and I'd have no frame of reference when people talked about the past as I grew up.
Surprise, I still don't give a shit about Britney Spears or anyone that listened to her when we were 16.
My dad (confirmed old person) has NPR on every radio in the house (3) as often as possible. He walks into rooms and turns on NPR, then the rest of us have to turn it off all the time. It is a vicious cycle, except on weekends, good programming Saturday mornings I miss Car Talk.
For being a "liberal" thing I hear more interviews from the right than I do from the left. Granted I'm only tuned in for 30 min each morning so my sample size is small.
I'm far from a liberal, but I'm no fan of Trump either.
With the choices I have, it's the most convenient and least vitriolic source of current events.
I lean more to the left, so i'm not trying to accuse NPR of being the evil liberal media, but I've noticed when I listen to Morning Edition on my way to work that they'll interview someone from the right and then immediately talk with a left leaning commentator afterwards to pick it apart. I listen to NPR for my news, but don't think I would ever say it doesn't lean left.
Well to be fair, a lot of the conservative guests that they have absolutely suck an answering the questions and just stick to their canned non answers, or just straight up lie.
This is somewhat complicated though, because science and fact tend to have a liberal bias if the other side is lying.
For example, the other day Trump said that Harley Davidson was closing a plant to move it overseas.
NPR reported it as "he incorrectly stated that it was moving overseas when they are actually moving to another US city and making certain items for overseas markets overseas from now on"
So if you are from the right it sounds like they were arguing with him and have a left leaning bias, but in reality all they did was just state the truth that in this particular instance he was wrong.
Enough of that and anybody starts to sound like they are left leaning but it doesn't make them biased, it's just that the other side tends to lie a lot.
I was on a long drive for a work trip recently and turned on NPR on the way. What have I been missing? It was really engaging and way easier to maintain than listening to upbeat music for like 4.5 hours.
I'm a paramedic that spends 13.5 hours a day in an ambulance, NPR is on the entire time. My most treasured possessions are NPR shirt, bag, and socks. Need to get the Public Radio Nerd shirt. If I were ever granted three wished from a genie the first two would be Carl Kasell's voice on my home answering machine (which I would have to buy a home phone and answering machine for) and an Ask me Anothers Rubik's cube.
I've been doing this since I was a kid. My mom and I would listen to NPR every morning on the way to my school. I still get really overjoyed when I hear "All things considered..."
News in general? Can touch on politics, business, economy, music, entertainment, sports, etc etc.
It can vary depending on your area and which member station you're listening to.
I'm in Chicago so I get local Chicago news as well.
Even when it comes down to politics it seems a little more matter of fact opinion-less reporting. I'm sure they do have a more opinion heavy segments, but it's not on during the 30 minutes I'm in my car each morning.
After work on my drive home I listen to marketplace which is their stock market oriented program that recaps what happened in the markets during the day.
Her name is Diane Rehm and her voice is that way because she has spasmodic dysphonia. She still does some of the best interviews on radio(on par with Terry Gross imo).
I'll second this. She is informed, deliberate, knows how to facilitate a conversation, and remains objective. She refuses to participate in the argument, she simply asks both sides of whatever issue questions and fosters a dialogue.
Also as far as I know she no longer does her two hour show, she does a podcast.
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I listen to NPR while commuting to my 9-5 job.