NPR/PBS addicts unite!

“Okay, on the last Michigan/Ohio hike, a bunch of us lapsed into conversation about things we heard on NPR.

It turns out that a bunch of us are addicts.

The best show in any medium is "This American Life" with Ira Glass.

So, out with it. Who else out there has the life goal of playing the "Whaddya Know" quiz?”

“I've heard promos for This American Life, and the topics are often on the dark, morbid side of life. So I've made it a point to steer clear of that show. I much prefer the Prairie Home Companion.”

“Whadya know is a kewl show. My favorite NPR show was the connection with Crhis Lydon, but they are now doing the show without him. It was the most intelligent and educational talk show that still managed to be fun and exciting.

Ira Glass is OK. Prairie Home Companion reveals a wicked sense of humour and a very subtle appreciation for the dark side of life.”

“The car talk guys are local, I know people (including my ex) who send theirs to these guys. I think the show has gone pretty national at this point. They are hysterical sometimes.”

“I dig the music from all over the world and "Wait, wait don't tell me"”

“My top 10

1) Rewind (a humorous look at the news)
2) Talk of The Nation
3) This American Life
4) Splendid Table
5) Arkansas Traveler Program
6) On The Media
7) Wait Wait Dont Tell Me
8) Todd Mundt Show
9) Car Talk
10) Prairie Home Companion”

“yes, the "Car Talk" guys are too much! I think I first heard them in Utah! They're on the local station, too, although I've forgotten to tune them in at 4 p.m. Sunday (think that's when it was)

Man, they'd have a great time with me -- vehicles and other!! LOL”

“I pick it up from WYSO Yellow Springs O. ever been there? Strange, strange little town. It's like walking into a time warp. There are hippies and tree huggers everywhere. That is where a great hiking place is Glen Helen and John Bryant State Park that's wher e the town gets it's name from a small waterfall/spring colored yellow by iron.
They also have a raptor rehab place where they nurse injured hawks and falcons and the like, you can peek through the cages,lots of different kinds of owls too. I go there often, nice area!”

“wolfsister, we live very close to yellow springs and often go over there to use the wonderful bike path, hike in clifton gorge, and to just "check out the scene"....you are absolutely right, it is like someone froze berkeley in the late 60's and transported it into ohio farm country....very, very unique place....”

“Gonzo,
I taught fish camp at Glen Helen Outdoor Education Center one year in exchange for my daughter's camp fee,that was fun, we drove the campers all over the area fishing ponds and streams. Do you take the kids to Youngs Jersey Dairy to feed the goats and get that good ice cream after your hike?”

“wolfsister....
we are one of the few families in this area who don't like to go to young's dairy farm....too crowded and too many flies....but it sounds like you might have the line on the hot farmpond bass action....do you still get out and fish them?”

“Yea, I took some kids from church out a few weeks ago on the Buckeye trail through Ceaser Creek there are some ponds right along the trail. One of the kids caught a little blue gill and tossed it back in to torment it some more (KIDS!) leaving it hooked and bam a bass busted it! You would have thought he was "the most excellent fisherman" in the whole dang world. I can't dog him though, he did better than me!”

“we were at a family reunion down at shawnee state park and they were having a fishing contest for the kids....i know that those two lakes there by the campground and lodge must be overfished....when i was there backpacking last year, we found a great pond over by the riffe ccc camp....we went over just at sundown and started pulling hula-poppers across the surface and BAM!! my seven year old caught a huge (19") bass....that night she was "the most excellent fisherman" of our family at least....”

“She IS "the most high
excellent fisherPERSON"
My daughter is 16 and no longer interested in going fishing with ole Mom .that is unless I've got a cute teenage boy going too, then she there for me buddy!”

“thank you....i stand corrected....”

“I, too, love Car Talk. I've had many misadventures with old cars and wished those two were my mechanics...by the way, the number of months an old bug is going to last is directly proportional to the number of hundred-dollars you pay for it ($200, 2 months).

I also liked a British show called "My Word". The best part was when one of the panelists would make up a story to explain a common phrase. It was hilarious!”

“All Things Considered is the best national media news program that I know of. A thirty second story on network TV's news would be a five(+) minute story. You actually learn a few of the whys not just the whats.

Plus you can listen while doin' the kitchen chores.”

“When I lived in Rochester NY I used to love What do you know.
Since I moved to Oregon (Florence), I can't find it. Now I just go to notmuch.com and lister to the web cast when I can.
The PBS station in Rochester (WXXI)has a show on saturdays called "Sound Bytes" about computor problems. That was pretty neat. I used to listen to them when I was working.”

“I'm with Walkincrow - All things considered is my favorite.

Skippyhauk - I'm in Coos Bay and I tune in to fm 88.5 to Jefferson Public Radio in Ashland (Great state of Jefferson). I'm not sure if you can reach it from Florence. Wonder if Eugene has a NPR station? Also, how long have you lived in Florence? I like some day hikes close by you... Tahkenitch trail is a nice one as it goes thru the dunes, on the beach and thru the forest. Was kayaking at Siltcoos Lake this last Saturday.”

“The NPR station in San Bernardino has classical music in the middle of the day instead of NPR programs, and I can't pick up the Pasadena or Santa Monica stations at home. I used to listen to NPR almost all day long until I moved here.”

“You can probably pick it up on the internet.”

“Once, when I was coming home from a 3 day hike, the NPR station played 2 hours of "A Tribute to Baseball", my favorite pasttime. It was one of the best weekends I've had in a long time, thanks to the good weather and the quality programming that NPR has!”

“NPR makes being a custodian bearable.”

“I'm lucky enough to be within reach of four public radio stations, two in the Wisconsin Public Radio family, with Wausau playing classical music and news, and Park Falls carrying the "talk" shows, like Science Friday and To the Best of Our Knowledge, as well as WPR's own talk hosts such as Jeanne Ferraca (sp?); also can pick up, many times, WNMU from Marquette in the U.P., hooking into the Michigan PR network; and best of all, we have our own independent public station here in Rhinelander, WXPR, which does its own programming in addition to NPR shows and PRI programs it selects.

I really like This American Life, Rewind, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, and many other entertainment shows, but I also appreciate Hearts of Space, especially if I catch the rerun show at 6 a.m. Sundays -- very mellow to drift awake to.”

“NPR is one of the few things that I actually enjoy out of the $ I pay toward taxes. It's a true national treasure!”

“oh yeah; (Music from the)Hearts of Space. good un' too!”

“good call pekka”

“Carl Castle needs to get his dentures fixed.”

“I totally enjoy NPR at times and at other times I hate it with a passion.Some of the interviewers on these programs try so hard to be refined and proper that it makes me sick.On the other hand some of the music spacials on jazz, blues and bluegrass music are the bomb.”

“Spam, that's why we like our local independent. Only a few paid staffers; most of the show hosts are local volunteers. We have a 6-hour blues show on Friday nights with 3 hosts taking 2-hour turns -- they really stoke it up with a variety of styles. The station also does its own version of HOS, which runs first here on Wednesday evening, on Mon. Tues. Thur., called Solitudes.

My wife and I usually end up being "Day Sponsors." We always try to have the message recognize somebody or something special, since it runs 7 or 8 times during the day. Last fall we did my folks' anniversary, even though they don't live here; we taped it and played it over the phone for them. That was a kick.”

“Grateful Dead Hour. Whoo hoo!
Penn = eclectic mix of folky rock, new age
Temple = Classical during the day, jazz pm and jazz/raggae on weekends
Drexel = Headbanging new stuff, perhaps alittle too "progressive" for me but I tune in to feel old.
WHYY radio, affiliate of PBS TV with the "all things considered" literate crap, blah, blah, blah.
There are some benefits to urban living.”

“I love alot of different shows on PBS, but I am especially greatful for the children's programming. It is the kind of stuff I feel good letting my daughter watch.”

“NPR Given Record Donation
McDonald's Heiress Leaves $200 Million

By Paul Farhi and Reilly Capps
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, November 6, 2003; Page A01

National Public Radio will announce today the largest donation in its history, a cash bequest from the will of the late philanthropist Joan Kroc of about $200 million.

The bequest from the widow of the founder of the McDonald's fast-food chain both shocked and delighted people at NPR's headquarters in Washington yesterday. It amounts to almost twice NPR's annual operating budget. "No one saw this coming," said one person.

The nonprofit organization, which will disclose details of the bequest at a news conference this afternoon, called the donation the "largest monetary gift ever received by an American cultural institution" in a brief announcement to its staff yesterday.

more...”

“HooRAY!”

“Who sez nothing positive can come from a negitive. Very impressive and great news!

Sesame Street for ALL!!!!”

“Very good news - does this mean they'll get rid of all their "membership drives" that annoy the crap out of me.”

“awesome!!”

“I need get myself an Heiress.”

“I second that - awesome! PBS is all I watch, except for the Simpsons.”

“Its good news, but I'm not sure how y'all are linking NPR and PBS. They aren't the same thing, are they?”

“That is very cool.


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“Two hundred McMeeeellion dollars! Whoa, that's a bunch of Kroc! Gives a new meaning to the term "McNuggets". Lettuce pray this doesn't catch the attention of the Hamburglar.”

“*GROAN*”

“I wonder if she could super size it.”

“SHE DID!”

“Beauty!”

“yeah, but did she give any money to the Ronald McDonald House? (that's my pet charity)”

“Imagine that, a Capitalist giving money to the Socialists. Amazing!”

“The surprisingly effate savage strikes again...”

“dammit, try effete ;o)”