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#21,722
nicole0612 said:
You and me both, sister!!
I can tell what time of day it is by what is on NPR, I do the podcasts and the phone app too (3 local NPR channels yahoo!).
We don't get the Alec Baldwin show! I love previews I've heard though.
My favorites:
Fresh Air, I listen to it every day while running after work.
All things considered
Says you
Wait wait don't tell me
Science Friday
Freakonomics
Radiolab
Selected shorts
Snap judgment
This American life
TED radio hour
Really, all Sunday is the best shows all day!

I really miss: the show with the "History Guys!!" and the Canadian show with "Dave and Morley" where the host just passed away a few months ago (I listed to that show since I was a little child with my mom in the car).

I can't stand: A Prairie Home Companion. Though it is so much better with the new host, he makes it more lighthearted at least, though it's still not for me. The original version was truly unbearable in my opinion! When I was younger I applied to adopt 2 cats from the humane society (who are sadly no longer with us). In Seattle many cats and dogs live in foster homes instead of at the shelter while waiting to be adopted. I went to the cat foster mom's house and there were 27492938733 cats in a one-story house, it smelled like cats, it was absolutely freezing cold because it was winter and 1/4 of people in Seattle are too environmentally conscious to use any significant amount of power, and while I played with the cats for an hour or two (in the freezing cold and smelly house) to get to know them, A Prairie Home Companion played from the woman's radio, and that is really the only person who I can imagine enjoying that show!
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My NPR sister! :heart: "Here's the Thing" has a podcast, so you can listen that way! I love his interviews, he's such a genuine soul.

Any "Car Talk" fans? I remember being in the car with my sister in the 80s, and her saying, "you have to listen to this radio show about car repair"! And I was saying, "really"? We loved those two, so funny and smart, and I think only they could make a show about car repairs so entertaining!
 
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momasaurus said:
ROFL!!!!! For sure. That story is hilarious. I can't stand that show, even though friends have been on it and say it's all lovely. Ugh. My ex was from Minnesota and he would listen to it in the car. He would be weeping and laughing and I would be barfing.
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LOLOL!!!
That story about you and your ex in the car is so funny! I would be puking also!
 
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etoile de mer said:
My NPR sister! :heart: "Here's the Thing" has a podcast, so you can listen that way! I love his interviews, he's such a genuine soul.

Any "Car Talk" fans? I remember being in the car with my sister in the 80s, and her saying, "you have to listen to this radio show about car repair"! And I was saying, "really"? We loved those two, so funny and smart, and I think only they could make a show about car repairs so entertaining!
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Mindi B said:
Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers! Loved "Car Talk."
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I will check out the podcast!! Thanks! I listen to the podcasts while doing my bedtime routine :)

I also looooovvvveeeddd car talk. Their laughter was so infectious!

I think the sincerity (whether a serious or comedy program) is one of the things that appeals to me the most about programs on NPR.
 
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I miss Car Talk. Love those guys. Very funny. I think you have to be a church-going Lutheran, maybe Norwegian, and possibly from a small town in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North or South Dakota or Northern Michigan to get Garrison Keillor's jokes. Lol! If you're all three it's uproariously funny. "There's no first class on Lutheran Air. Meals are potluck and the plane will not land until the budget is met." And, "If God had meant you to use a cell phone, he would have put your mouth on the side of your head."
 
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prepster said:
I miss Car Talk. Love those guys. Very funny. I think you have to be a church-going Lutheran, maybe Norwegian, and possibly from a small town in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North or South Dakota or Northern Michigan to get Garrison Keillor's jokes. Lol! If you're all three it's uproariously funny. "There's no first class on Lutheran Air. Meals are potluck and the plane will not land until the budget is met." And, "If God had meant you to use a cell phone, he would have put your mouth on the side of your head."
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GAH! I had forgotten about Prairie Home Companion.
 
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prepster said:
I miss Car Talk. Love those guys. Very funny. I think you have to be a church-going Lutheran, maybe Norwegian, and possibly from a small town in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North or South Dakota or Northern Michigan to get Garrison Keillor's jokes. Lol! If you're all three it's uproariously funny. "There's no first class on Lutheran Air. Meals are potluck and the plane will not land until the budget is met." And, "If God had meant you to use a cell phone, he would have put your mouth on the side of your head."
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Years ago, I visited an older woman once per week, to chat and provide some company. She had a Norwegian background, and from all she shared of her childhood and parents, I found some of the skits to be very funny. I also enjoyed some of the political humor, and the sound effects guy was amazing. Garrison Keillor has a very droll sense of humor, and I enjoy dry wit. Parts of the show just weren't my cup of tea, but some of it was fun.
 
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etoile de mer said:
I'm afraid some of our friends across the pond and elsewhere may not know of any of the NPR (National Public Radio) shows we're all chatting about! Curious to know if any of them are broadcast elsewhere.

Posting these cartoons that I snapped pics of, while waiting at my chiropractor's office a few weeks ago! :smile:
Both from The New Yorker.

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That last cartoon feels like me, right now. I have to get up early so I should go to bed. But ... I'm still sitting on the couch.
 
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