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Julius CSAR posted:All right, best NPR I’ve ever heard was way out in Western Kansas near Scott City (basically where the aliens land in Footfall) and it was an extremely country guy and this a direct quote I will never forget, spelling out phonetically so you get a bit of his twang “Yur lissnin to Cuntry Swing and other thangs, starrrrin In spotlight today Miss Patsy Cliiiinne” and it was like four hours of Patsy Cline and Hank Williams. Good stuff. Eastern Kansas NPR has (or maybe had) a show on Sunday evenings called The Retro Cocktail Hour that would play cabana club music from the 50s. It was a delight. Washington DC's station, meanwhile, fills its Sunday evenings with lovely public domain detective serials from like the 1930s and they all suck balls.
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I still listen to their archived stuff pretty regularly. Any time someone called and said, 'I drive a Peugeot" and Tommy would just start laughing... If you didn't laugh when Tommy laughed, something inside you was broken 
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Can we change this to favorite car talk moments thread? I have two. The first is a caller asking if they can tow a boat with their Ford Tempo. Tom and Ray pause for a moment say "no" and then take the next call. Second-best was a lady calling about getting her 16 year old daughter a BMW Z3 and when Tom and Ray were concerned with how much trouble she could get in with it the woman's response was that the speed limit around them is only 55. Proceed to Tom and Ray laughing for what seemed like forever and saying something along the lines of "lady, you need parenting talk, we just know cars." stealie72 fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Jul 6, 2019 |
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Even when it was still airing, they would still run old reruns all of the time. It took me years to realize they were reruns, and for the longest time I just thought that NPR listeners all just drove ancient cars.
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Jul 6, 2019 18:41
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The NPR sustaining member gift is a 1987 Saab
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I used to play a game where I'd try to guess if the caller had a Saab or a Volvo.
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It normally sounds like “Rerrrrrr-AH!” but lately it’s been more like “Row-row-row—rooooo!”
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Bonzo posted:
I recall an episode of This American Life where that literally occurred....
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Adnan did it. He 100% did it Now, I don't think he got a fair trial, on account of his lawyer being a moron, the cops having a lot of circumstantial evidence, and the overt racism of the case But, yeah, he for sure murdered that girl
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The best thing about Car Talk is that both those dudes actually hated cars, lmao
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This just in, I came home and my dog was acting weird so I took it to the vet. It turns out the dog was high as poo poo and the bill was $300. But its totally not my fault he must have found a joint on the ground at the park. We totally don't smoke weed at NPR.
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ElGroucho posted:He 100% did it Same way I feel about Mumia Abu-Jamal. Almost certainly did it; but he was illegally railroaded anyway.
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Didn't Serial try to follow one of Adnan's appeals (maybe the last one?) and it immediately got shot down? Serial made the right choice IMO to focus on (basically) poor people going through the justice system in season 3. Not only is it more interesting and shorter in form, the handwringing is more over what a lovely time they have of it whether they're obviously guilty or not, and opens the question about whether some larger sense of justice is being served. But of course they can only publish it for a month and then they're gone for a year. I'm sure they individually have other projects they're working on. Feels like a long time since I've been subjected to a MailChimp ad.
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Communist Walrus posted:Eastern Kansas NPR has (or maybe had) a show on Sunday evenings called The Retro Cocktail Hour that would play cabana club music from the 50s. It was a delight. Retro Cocktail Hour is still on and it’s still fantastic. He’s very fond of dipping into the (many) soundtracks from Cowboy Bebop In fact everyone in this thread should listen to RCH right drat now https://exchange.prx.org/series/7960-the-retro-cocktail-hour
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Julius CSAR posted:Retro Cocktail Hour is still on and it’s still fantastic. He’s very fond of dipping into the (many) soundtracks from Cowboy Bebop Goddamn, I love this poo poo. There was a similar show on WRAS (I think) in Atlanta called Martinis Con Queso. When my wife and I would be driving to her lovely job as a manager at a Hancock Fabrics (where I was the only male employee...I came in on Saturdays to help out...long story) we would listen to it and loved it. PS: Retro Cocktail Hour show archive available here.
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When I try to remember car talk, all I can dig up are the words “dimly lit quonset hut”. Memory is fickle.
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Kamala Harris walks the beautiful line between having safe palatable policies while having a black female identity that is more important than policies
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Kazak posted:Kamala Harris walks the beautiful line between having safe palatable policies while having a black female identity that is more important than policies same
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*Bernie takes lead in polls, leftists online going crazy, demonstrations and rallies planned across US, fundraising goes bonkers, topic is utterly unavoidable* Today on All Things Considered, Mayor Pete Buttigieg stops by to give us his recipe for killer nachos, and we discuss the growing extreme-left movement inside the democratic party by analyzing the rise of Elizabeth Warren, its most prominent figure e. and this is Kai Ryssdal, today on Marketplace: Is homeless death... good for local economies? Meet the bipartisan group out of Detroit... whose recent findings might just surprise you. Code Jockey fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Jul 8, 2019 |
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I'm Zoe Chace, a political reporter, and this week I'm going to bring you a story about Dave Weigel, a political reporter! You may not know this, but political reporters are the most interesting and important people.
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Today on NPR a retarded sjw gets pissed off about the word crazy, and it turns out that if you are a criminal the police might be able to tell by looking at your drivers license. Im Nadthaniel Normandy-StinkFlea for Narcissistic Panhandler Radio.
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dpush posted:Today on NPR a retarded sjw gets pissed off about the word crazy, and it turns out that if you are a criminal the police might be able to tell by looking at your drivers license.
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doctorfrog posted:Didn't Serial try to follow one of Adnan's appeals (maybe the last one?) and it immediately got shot down? "S Town" is a great listen and also focuses on poor people in the justice system. I can't really describe the rest of the podcast without spoiling it. I will say that they were correct in releasing all the episodes at once because if they didn't social media would have hosed up the lives of a few people for no reason.
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dpush posted:Today on NPR a retarded sjw gets pissed off about the word crazy, and it turns out that if you are a criminal the police might be able to tell by looking at your drivers license. and im Jaames Trenton-Fritz, what will your order be sir?
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Bonzo posted:"S Town" is a great listen and also focuses on poor people in the justice system. I can't really describe the rest of the podcast without spoiling it. I will say that they were correct in releasing all the episodes at once because if they didn't social media would have hosed up the lives of a few people for no reason. ah yes, s town. 8 hours of a new york journalist gawking at the spectacle of "a quirky intelligent person....in the south?!?!?  "
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Breakfast All Day posted:24 hours of a new york journalist gawking at the spectacle of "a quirky intelligent person....in the south?!?!? This........is NPR.
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The Serial Podcast always seemed like some deeply obnoxious white savior poo poo to me. Then I saw a picture of the lady who does it and I realized that I almost certainly right. She looks like the professor who got MeToo'd for forcing herself on that grad student. Which speaking of while trying to remember that woman's name I googled her and saw this gem on Wikipedia quote:Ronell is slated to return to teaching at NYU in the fall of 2019. Her course, "Unsettled Scores: Theories of Grievance, Stuckness, & Boundary Troubles" was advertised on campus with a flyer asking: "How have we secretly internalized penitentiary structures?" These loving people never learn ANYTHING.
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FactsAreUseless posted:This post says a lot more about you than you think. Sorry i should have said "the C word".
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Today on NPR we will mention that Bill Clinton flew on Epstein's plane but not any of the Trump allegations wrt Epstein. And now back to you.
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I'm proudly advertising that we're going to dedicate a whole hour to "civility in politics" featuring do nothing now ex rep Bob corker. 
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dpush posted:Today on NPR a retarded sjw gets pissed off about the word crazy, and it turns out that if you are a criminal the police might be able to tell by looking at your drivers license. there's a line, and you crossed it mr limbaugh
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Bonzo posted:"S Town" is a great listen and also focuses on poor people in the justice system. I can't really describe the rest of the podcast without spoiling it. I will say that they were correct in releasing all the episodes at once because if they didn't social media would have hosed up the lives of a few people for no reason. I stopped listening to S Town after four episodes. Did anything happen after that?
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I listened to 2 episodes of season 3 and didn't get poo poo out of it. It's basically a white lady being like, "Wow, did you guys know that the poor are getting hosed by the system??" No poo poo, lady, welcome to America.
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ElGroucho posted:I listened to 2 episodes of season 3 and didn't get poo poo out of it. It's basically a white lady being like, "Wow, did you guys know that the poor are getting hosed by the system??" Hey, it's a potentially useful primer for downwardly mobile citizens. Also give some listeners that good ol' "there but for the grace of God" feeling to get them through their commutes.
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What's rarely talked about are all the upsides to facial recognition software
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Sweet. I know all about losing funding.
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Code Jockey posted:*Bernie takes lead in polls, leftists online going crazy, demonstrations and rallies planned across US, fundraising goes bonkers, topic is utterly unavoidable* gently caress. 
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Les Os posted:What's rarely talked about are all the upsides to facial recognition software And after that, a story on China's citizen score. Could a similar system work in America? Our consultant says yes, definitely, for many good reasons which he will share with you
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Les Os posted:What's rarely talked about are all the upsides to facial recognition software More juggalos? https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/07/juggalo-makeup-facial-recognition/
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