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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:Wait Wait Don't Tell Me is painfully unfunny--the Borowitz Report of NPR At least The Borowitz Report has a chuckle-worthy headline now and again.
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:Wait Wait Don't Tell Me is painfully unfunny--the Borowitz Report of NPR Yeah that stuff is unfunny at best and painfully uncomfortable at worst. They used canned laughter on that show right? Or do people think lame puns and a high screechy voice/funny sounding voices are the height of comedy?
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Hipster's thinking they know folk music is not good. Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves here; bluegrass and old time are tolerable in very limited doses.
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NPR is for those to soft to listen to their political opposites for the schadenfreude. The bay area radio market is awful. There's quite a bit of right wing AM stations, and all the local moderate/liberal shows get shut down and replaced with nationally syndicated shows. There used to be a pretty good progressive station called Green 960, but it was turned into patriot radio, and then again into bloomberg business. The local moderate channel just switched its morning show to Armstrong and Getty, who are loving horrible people. Ron Owens is the local moderate with a huge following, but even he is getting pushed out by idiots. He's better than most, but every truth is in the middle. Not that left wing radio is any better. I heard a program called the Stephanie Miller show, and a half an hour of it made me want to kill all self labeled progressives. The only left wing radio i heard that was good was by Thom Hartmann, but he's been off the air for over 4 years. Basically The radio is terrible. Podcasts are where its at. Heck Yes! Loam! fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Sep 1, 2016 |
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted::arzy: isn't an emoticon  is though!
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No one cares about radio. Just listen to Hello From The Magic Tavern or My Brother, My Brother, and Me via bluetooth. Or a cassette adapter for you poors out there. Can we get on with watching the South get wiped out by a <s>hurricane</s> hurriCAN'TEVENDODAMAGE?
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FactsAreUseless posted:I have never heard of this. Like at all. Is it a widely-distributed show? Yeap--just Austin. It used to be on during the morning for my commute when KUT was one station. I hated the show but would stick with it because he'd: 1. Sometimes play interesting stuff 2. gently caress up spectacularly 3. Engage me in yelling at the radio in an apolitical way ("Yes! We know about your loving roses! Yes! Your neighbor makes good kale! gently caress!") 4. Go completely nuts (see #2) Some personally-memorable highlights include: 1. One time he gave the weather forecast and said that the historic high for that day was 212F. After the next break and some music, he clarified that he had made a mistake and the historic high was just something completely different like 106F in 1992 or whatever. I latched on to that and created a theory that the reason you don't meet anybody from Austin from before the 90s is because there was a day when a sunspot blasted the city and killed everybody that was outside, so the high really was 212F. The rest of the people were deep in buildings or one of the seven basements in this city, and they all decided to never speak of it again. 2. He put on some Mumford and Sons and didn't realize he wasn't playing the censored version, so we all got to hear "gently caress" across the airwaves multiple times in four minutes. He eventually figured it out and played it again with the curse words all faded out. He then rambled on why everybody feels like they have to use the f-word. 3. He put on the hip indie song of preference at some point and then just starts mixing it with the theme to A Fistful of Dollars. The music didn't even really match up. He reminded me of something like a dad that never heard any music in his life getting let loose in a huge vault of music and a paycheck to just do whatever the hell. The whole was just magical to him so that was all kind of sweet, but it was mostly just annoying. You'd be listening to Godspeed You Black Emperor one minute and then a brazilian spoon band or some poo poo the next, then top it off with the Pico de Gallo song, completely with random commentary and oblivious weather reports.
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Solvency posted:Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and This American Life are the only weekend NPR programming worth listening to. This American Life's refusal to admit when they're wrong and spouting bullshit isn't exactly a good look for them fits my needs posted:Yeah that stuff is unfunny at best and painfully uncomfortable at worst. They used canned laughter on that show right? Or do people think lame puns and a high screechy voice/funny sounding voices are the height of comedy? Recorded live in front of a studio audience in Chicago.
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted::arzy: isn't an emoticon Maybe it should be. Hell we got things like  so I don't see why not
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Trabisnikof posted:This American Life's refusal to admit when they're wrong and spouting bullshit isn't exactly a good look for them Are there high profile examples other than their Apple factory one? (Which they ultimately followed up on an apologized for, iirc). The other one that pops to mind is their coverage of the Michael Lacour research on the effects of gay canvassers on the people they interacted with. The entire study ended up being fabricated. That wasn't really their fault though, since Lacour managed to hoodwink a number of researchers and institutions, including Science with his impressive set of lies.
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APHC exists to cater to people who have a compulsive desire to be soothed and it fills this niche masterfully. It doesn't do a whole lot else. I think it's dull as poo poo and can't stand it but I can see how someone could enjoy it I guess
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Epic High Five posted:APHC exists to cater to people who have a compulsive desire to be soothed and it fills this niche masterfully. It doesn't do a whole lot else. Weirdly, I find it makes it a lot easier to concentrate on a commute.
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I guess I have a whole nother level of Dead Inside to reach where I can't even enjoy WWDTM? Oh good, I was worried I hit the cap already.
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The only truly awful, garbage-tier poo poo NPR has is their election coverage and this one time I tuned in and it was some show that was literally just wall to wall rich people chatting about their favorite places to vacation. It was the worst thing I've ever heard in my entire life and to this day I can't imagine a more terrible premise for a show, which may be why I've never heard it again
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It's basically the radio version of The Andy Griffith Show.
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BROCK LESBIAN posted:It's basically the radio version of The Andy Griffith Show. The Andy Griffith Show had jokes though.
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Hipster's thinking they know folk music is not good. it's you, you're the folk hipster
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Epic High Five posted:The only truly awful, garbage-tier poo poo NPR has is their election coverage and this one time I tuned in and it was some show that was literally just wall to wall rich people chatting about their favorite places to vacation. It was the worst thing I've ever heard in my entire life and to this day I can't imagine a more terrible premise for a show, which may be why I've never heard it again Is that "Travel with Rick Steves?" I find it alright to listen to.
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Seeing people say hipster in 2016 is jarring as gently caress
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nerve posted:Seeing people say hipster in 2016 is jarring as gently caress Hipster. Did I jar you?
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Trump has a new deputy campaign manager: David Bossie Someone tell me bout this guy, I'm phone posting
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Kro-Bar posted:Hipster. so jar
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emdash posted:Trump has a new deputy campaign manager: David Bossie This might or might not be related: https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/771474585636245504
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emdash posted:Trump has a new deputy campaign manager: David Bossie He's the president of Citizens United.
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:Yeap--just Austin. You forgot to mention his vocal pacing which makes Garrison K seem like a speed demon in comparison. It isn't even consistent. He (Aeilli) will just stop in the middle of an already slow sentence for five+ seconds before continuing as though nothing happened. When he forgets to queue the background music it is really easy to get confused about whether the station went out. And every time the station managers try to get his massive black hole of entertainment off the air the donors flip out. Aeilli is a great example of people fighting for "thing that has been around for a long time" as local color worth preserving because dealing with the actual things which are changing the city and neighborhoods is really hard and makes people uncomfortable.
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canepazzo posted:This might or might not be related: The tweets are coming from inside the house! https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/771476642858463232
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canepazzo posted:This might or might not be related: So, basically dodge everything controversial and repeat ad nauseum his standard "ideas."
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Kro-Bar posted:He's the president of Citizens United. That Citizens United?
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The very same. His campaign is the Serpentor of political dickbags. Hopefully they won't try to clone Atwater.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:That Citizens United? Do you know of another one?
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SoSimpleABeginning posted:Are there high profile examples other than their Apple factory one? (Which they ultimately followed up on an apologized for, iirc). They've had a number of other pieces they've had to retract because it was completely made up. But for me it was when they pushed some complete BS economic theories from the right (like that people getting social security are moochers) without any competing voices then basically defended it by saying "we don't have to and even if something was wrong we stand by our stories" http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/disability_social_security_and.php
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FuzzySlippers posted:Several Hispanic Trump surrogates reconsider support: "I am so sorry but I believe Mr. Trump lost the election tonight," said Pena, a pastor at Waco's Christ the King Church. "The 'National Hispanic Advisory Council' seems to be simply for optics and I do not have the time or energy for a scam." Deluded enough to think Trump was doing something other than scamming rubes.
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emdash posted:Trump has a new deputy campaign manager: David Bossie Wait sooooo the alt. right POS is already replaced or is this something else.
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emdash posted:Trump has a new deputy campaign manager: David Bossie He's a drifter who Don Drapered his way into working as a GOP hatchetman who was so terrible Newt Gingrich of all people forced him to resign. All in all good people.
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Kro-Bar posted:He's the president of Citizens United. It's like he's trying to find new ways to make Hilary want to destroy him completely and utterly.
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emdash posted:Trump has a new deputy campaign manager: David Bossie https://twitter.com/costareports/status/771483770096590848 PhazonLink posted:Wait sooooo the alt. right POS is already replaced or is this something else. He's a deputy.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Deluded enough to think Trump was doing something other than scamming rubes.
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