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Person Dyslexic posted:Wait what? I thought it was entirely related to her age. Like, she needs constant surgery or treatment for her voice due to her being older than the mountains. Rehm has this disorder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasmodic_dysphonia she is also 79 years old, but those things are not particularly related
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More evidence that even other NPR employees don't like Prairie Home Companion:quote:SAGAL: Al Bayan is an Islamic State radio network, and according to AP, they imitate the smooth, calm style of NPR as they try to recruit people to their cause. So it's like, so that's another victory for the Caliphate against the unbeliever. Death to America. And now it's time for Jazz Jihad Cafe.  http://www.npr.org/2015/06/06/412448275/panel-round-one
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Radish posted:What's so bad about Prairie Home Companion? It's boring and unfunny and killed Robert Altman.
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Sep 1, 2016 20:42
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What does Prarie Home Companion talk about exactly? I just listen for Keillor's voice.
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Sep 1, 2016 20:43
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Kro-Bar posted:It's boring and unfunny and killed Robert Altman. Remember when Lindsay Lohan ended up outing herself as illiterate when he died?
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Sep 1, 2016 20:44
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amuayse posted:What does Prarie Home Companion talk about exactly? I just listen for Keillor's voice. The incredibly boring goings-on of a fake town called Lake Wobegon.
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Sep 1, 2016 20:44
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Listening to Prairie Home Companion during a hungover overcast Sunday drive home from visiting friends who live a few hours away is the most normal poo poo ever and half of you people have done it.
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Sep 1, 2016 20:46
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i super don't understand hating it, it's just folksy and charming it's like being against whittling - you don't have to like it or do it yourself, but if you go online and badmouth whittling, the problem is with YOU
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Sep 1, 2016 20:47
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Keiler's old-man whistling noise absolutely loving kills me, it is just terrible. But I could probably listen to APHC hosted by that Punch Brothers guy, he's probably the most talented bluegrass musician in existence so that can't hurt
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Sep 1, 2016 20:47
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Radish posted:Remember police unions aren't a problem. Who gives a poo poo what the union thinks? The real question is what the department thinks (though we can probably guess given that he's been employed there for more than a decade), and what action you would expect them to take.
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Sep 1, 2016 20:48
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Radish posted:lol Hint: if police unions were the problem the all across the anti-union south we would have better policing than in pro-union blue states.
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Sep 1, 2016 20:49
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TheScott2K posted:Listening to Prairie Home Companion during a hungover overcast Sunday drive home from visiting friends who live a few hours away is the most normal poo poo ever and half of you people have done it. I don't even know what the show is about.  This must be the D&D equivalent of "I don't even own a TV."
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Person Dyslexic posted:Also I was excited when our local npr station finally dropped PHC but then they just replaced it with a 3 loving hour long program of nothing but bluegrass and bad folk music. Oh lord is it Back Porch Music? That show's Exhibit B in the case for white genocide.
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Sep 1, 2016 20:50
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Dr Cheeto posted:Florida Man pushes general election to August 31st, consummates marriage with alligator I wish the election was yesterday. I just want this crazy ride to end so that the GOP can move on and start freaking out about President Hilary and maybe the loss of the Senate and how they need to confirm Garland so she doesn't pick someone 20-30 years younger and far more liberal. Kro-Bar posted:Did cars stop having tape/cd players or MP3 inputs or something? Who listens to the loving radio? People who don't listen to the radio when driving and only use cds/mp3s/podcasts/etc are in the (small) minority. hiddenriverninja posted:I'm assuming that someone leaking his tax returns would be illegal and off the table. Unless Russia decides to go gently caress Trump nobody's stealing and releasing his tax returns. Main Paineframe posted:Who gives a poo poo what the union thinks? He'll get a raise and/or promotion as soon as the media stops caring tomorrow.
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TheScott2K posted:Listening to Prairie Home Companion during a hungover overcast Sunday drive home from visiting friends who live a few hours away is the most normal poo poo ever and half of you people have done it. Holy poo poo I just had a flashback to 2003 from reading this. Oh college
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Sep 1, 2016 20:50
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I don't want this election season to end as I am a raving junkie for this poo poo.
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Sep 1, 2016 20:51
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emdash posted:Rehm has this disorder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasmodic_dysphonia Well poo poo, I had no idea. I guess i was projecting my own fear of death onto her.
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Sep 1, 2016 20:51
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theflyingorc posted:i super don't understand hating it, it's just folksy and charming Some stations seem to run it a lot more often than others. I can totally see how it'd get on your nerves if you're constantly hearing it.
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Sep 1, 2016 20:52
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VanSandman posted:I don't want this election season to end as I am a raving junkie for this poo poo. The election may die but the GOP hold on the House is good for another four years or so. This thread ain't going no where.
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Sep 1, 2016 20:53
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amuayse posted:What does Prarie Home Companion talk about exactly? I just listen for Keillor's voice. mostly a dude writes a bunch of things he thinks are funny or poignant and throws half of them away so he can sing about rhubarb pie
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Sep 1, 2016 20:53
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theflyingorc posted:i super don't understand hating it, it's just folksy and charming It's neither.
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Sep 1, 2016 20:54
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William F Cuckley posted:Oh lord is it Back Porch Music? That show's Exhibit B in the case for white genocide. No, just looked it up and turns out there are actually two programs: Mountain Stage and the Folk Show. Both are great for falling asleep behind the wheel.
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Sep 1, 2016 20:55
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William F Cuckley posted:It's neither. If it isn't folsky and charming, then what is? I would say it's folksy and charming but those aren't virtues, haha
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Sep 1, 2016 20:56
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Crabtree posted:I still can't believe I live in a world where there can be classic rap and hip-hop, but here we are. According to the hip-hop classics station here the only thing that counts is Nelly and anything featuring Nelly, as far as I can tell from listening sporadically.
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Sep 1, 2016 20:57
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Best commentary on Prairie Home Companion was done over twenty years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmkq7yylRkU
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Sep 1, 2016 20:59
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Crabtree posted:I still can't believe I live in a world where there can be classic rap and hip-hop, but here we are. Rap's been around for almost 40 years. When classic rock became a thing the oldest material was at most 15-20 years old.
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Sep 1, 2016 21:00
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Trabisnikof posted:Hint: if police unions were the problem the all across the anti-union south we would have better policing than in pro-union blue states. Police and the US justice system have a ton of problems depending on the area so distilling it into something that simple is ridiculous.
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Sep 1, 2016 21:01
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Trabisnikof posted:Hint: if police unions were the problem the all across the anti-union south we would have better policing than in pro-union blue states. Police unions are virtually immune to the generalized right-wing hatred for unions, they're still very much A Thing here. Also what that guy said ^^
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Sep 1, 2016 21:02
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Harik posted:Not very well, as you can imagine. Fail the paper bag test, get shipped off to a foreign country and it's up to you to prove your way back. It's happened Thanks. Thought this question would have been lost in the last thread.
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Sep 1, 2016 21:03
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Crabtree posted:I still can't believe I live in a world where there can be classic rap and hip-hop, but here we are. I can't believe you've never heard of jazz or the blues. 
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Sep 1, 2016 21:04
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Let's get down to the real issues: what background music will Fox News pick for Hillary's inauguration? If I recall Obama got an ominous choir of evil
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Sep 1, 2016 21:04
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Crabtree posted:I still can't believe I live in a world where there can be classic rap and hip-hop, but here we are. just gonna back up a sec and say what the hell is this post
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Sep 1, 2016 21:05
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Yinlock posted:Let's get down to the real issues: what background music will Fox News pick for Hillary's inauguration? If I recall Obama got an ominous choir of evil Mars, the Bringer of War
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Sep 1, 2016 21:06
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Prairie Home Companion was at least better than Vinyl Cafe, the twisted monkey paw wish Canadian version of PHC.
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Sep 1, 2016 21:08
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Why isn't Guccifer being given a Medal of Honor for releasing Hillary Clintons emails? He's like Snowden or something right the guy they are making a movie about with that guy from inception?
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Sep 1, 2016 21:08
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Cheesus posted:Best commentary on Prairie Home Companion was done over twenty years ago: Now I miss Phil Hartman. Thanks jerk.
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Sep 1, 2016 21:09
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FactsAreUseless posted:Prairie Home Companion was at least better than Vinyl Cafe, the twisted monkey paw wish Canadian version of PHC. I don't really understand what PHC is supposed to be? Is it supposed to simulate hanging out with an old white grandpa living in the Midwest? What if I don't have these shared memories? The only thing worth listening to on the weekends is the BBC programming they have sometimes.
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Sep 1, 2016 21:10
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emdash posted:just gonna back up a sec and say what the hell is this post He's saying he's old, and he remembers when it was impossible for classic rap to exist because rap had just been invented and gone national. fits my needs posted:I don't really understand what PHC is supposed to be? Is it supposed to simulate hanging out with an old white grandpa living in the Midwest? What if I don't have these shared memories? The only thing worth listening to on the weekends is the BBC programming they have sometimes. Yeah it's supposed to be a generic Minnesotan older guy telling tales about his small town. That's it. The books are generally better if you didn't grow up there, because they don't repeat themselves so often.
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i wasn't allowed to listen to pop radio growing up, so i fed on a steady diet of prairie home companion. my favorite bit was the swedish-american lutheran couple who hated each other but didn't know how to express it. i remember once listening to an extended bit about garrison keillor taking a magical blue pill that made him more confident and made the neighbor ladies very happy. lake wobegon had an underground seedy side if you knew how to listen/were so loving bored listening to loving prairie home companion that you grabbed onto anything, anything at all, that could be construed as interesting. like i know the baseball team is called the whippets but i assumed that referred to whip-it parties and not dogs
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Dr Cheeto posted:Police unions are virtually immune to the generalized right-wing hatred for unions, they're still very much A Thing here. Just because they exist doesn't mean they have power. A union that can't strike or do collective barginning isn't a real Union. The problem is that police unions are filled with police.
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