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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: Fedor on October 27, 2014, 03:32:47 PM
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It has been a long time coming folks, but here it is. Time to chime in on your tax dollars at work. Love it? Hate it? Love to hate it? Hate to love it?
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i love it.
listen to it every drive to and from work. and listen as much as possible when driving long road trips. its like a champion podcast that never ends (except when hearts of space starts, thats pretty much the end)
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Love it sometimes and love to hate it sometimes. I do enjoy listening, I just don't agree with everything. But they that's life right folks! No reason to let it put a hitch in my giddy up!
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what dont you agree with?
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I love The Writers Almanac, really makes me ponder some stuff while I head into work. Wait Wait Don't Tell Me is a real hoot as well.
However, I have a problem with how they seem to love hiring people with speech impediments to work on the radio. GTFO Diane Rheem or should I say Di..i...i...i...a...a...a...ne Rhe...e...e...e...e...e...m! Thining off, Thith ith Tham Thtevethon.
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I am completely indifferent toward it.
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my grandparents listen to NPR all day long
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i said it in another thread, but Nina Totenberg's readings of supreme court transcripts are pure joy
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I like some and dislike some. I listen to the KCMO one and the Lawrence one. I dislike the stupid stories where they have ppl call in and talk about their fav sound or something dumb like that.
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I think I would enjoy the crap out of NPR if I was REALLY stoned.
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I think I would enjoy the crap out of NPR if I was REALLY stoned.
some of it, probably. Some of it is super interesting where they present in depth info on a wide variety of subjects. I could see how that would turn some off, though.
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I think I would enjoy the crap out of NPR if I was REALLY stoned.
some of it, probably. Some of it is super interesting where they present in depth info on a wide variety of subjects. I could see how that would turn some off, though.
Every time I turn it on, I just hear those soothing voices and mellow jazz.
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I use to hook up with a pig aggie that worked as the NPR voice in the mornings in Garden City. She was extremely boring and uninteresting. That job was perfect for her.
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I use to hook up with a pig aggie that worked as the NPR voice in the mornings in Garden City. She was extremely boring and uninteresting. That job was perfect for her.
Did she ever mention whether or not people got HAF while listening to her?
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what dont you agree with?
Some of their takes and stuff they present as facts. Years ago I remember a take on the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone. They misrepresented some stuff and got other facts flat out wrong.
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I use to hook up with a pig aggie that worked as the NPR voice in the mornings in Garden City. She was extremely boring and uninteresting. That job was perfect for her.
Did she ever mention whether or not people got HAF while listening to her?
No, but she did toke up, so maybe she just thought I already assumed it went with the territory.
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Also, she hated foreplay. There's something there.
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It's usually pretty good, not nearly as left leaning as they used to be. I guess that's what happens when you're caught red handed leaning heavily in one direction in the arena of partisan politics and you're a taxpayer funded entity.
i dont know. i would agree that the content choices are more "left"-focused, but as a person born with the rare gift of pure objective though, I have evaluated their actual reporting for objectivity and rated it A+.
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You guys are so lucky I gave you the inside track of what these monsters do/think 24/7!
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Also, she hated foreplay. There's something there.
No foreplay is a pretty good description of NPR.
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I have only been listening for a few years off and on, and haven't really felt the lean that they always get mentioned for having. I don't really pick up a position that they are trying to sell. I guess I have the gift of really good objectivity, too.
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Lean is one thing, getting things flat out wrong is another.
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Lean is one thing, getting things flat out wrong is another.
What sort of things were they getting flat out wrong?
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I listen to the podcasts mostly. I really enjoy "Pop Culture Happy Hour." Linda Holmes and Glen Weldon are delightful. Steven Thompson is great, too.
I highly recommend it.
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It's usually pretty good, not nearly as left leaning as they used to be. I guess that's what happens when you're caught red handed leaning heavily in one direction in the arena of partisan politics and you're a taxpayer funded entity.
i dont know. i would agree that the content choices are more "left"-focused, but as a person born with the rare gift of pure objective though, I have evaluated their actual reporting for objectivity and rated it A+.
Left bias, Right bias, who gives a crap! They are paying people to communicate over the airwaves who cannot speak.
"Here is Tony Notongue with the traffic report - Mnmennn Mnemhenemn Mnnnhnh, aahhahah nnmennemnnn." "Isn't that great folks he doesn't have a tongue but we aren't going to let that stop him."
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Lean is one thing, getting things flat out wrong is another.
Sure. That seems to happen everywhere. I heard that wolf piece and a subsequent one recently about the lawsuit regarding the recent legislation not being adequate. What was incorrect?
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If they are playing music, turn it off like right now.
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Lean is one thing, getting things flat out wrong is another.
What sort of things were they getting flat out wrong?
Facts.
I've heard them get things wrong on both sides of an issue before. I'm not implying it was on purpose, that crap just happens and I understand that. It was just ignorance in this specific instance I'm recalling.
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KPR is good for music if you like classical. :dunno:
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Lean is one thing, getting things flat out wrong is another.
What sort of things were they getting flat out wrong?
Facts.
I've heard them get things wrong on both sides of an issue before. I'm not implying it was on purpose, that crap just happens and I understand that. It was just ignorance in this specific instance I'm recalling.
Do they site sources when they get the facts wrong or do they just shoot from the hip?
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KPR is good for music if you like classical. :dunno:
I have rarely heard classical. I do hear a lot of people with "unconventional" singing voices. "Unconventional" is NPR code for sucky.
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KPR is good for music if you like classical. :dunno:
I have rarely heard classical. I do hear a lot of people with "unconventional" singing voices. "Unconventional" is NPR code for sucky.
You probably just need more :bigtoke: before you tune in. :dunno:
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Car Talk, Wait Wait, and This American Life are all good. I usually listen to them as podcasts on longer drives. The only station I'll listen to music on. Every other radio station is pretty much Top 40/Christian/Country or occasionally Spanish nowadays.
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KPR is good for music if you like classical. :dunno:
I have rarely heard classical. I do hear a lot of people with "unconventional" singing voices. "Unconventional" is NPR code for sucky.
You probably just need more :bigtoke: before you tune in. :dunno:
The fact that I listen almost exclusively to and from work makes this solution problematic.
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i've been searching the main stream google for any takedown of npr's false wolf reporting and can't find anything. they actually do alot of stories on wolves so maybe the one you are referencing has been buried.
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I would say that AT LEAST 10% of story corps stories in the mornings make my eyes drippy on my drive to work. My heartstrings are pretty sensitive in the mornings.
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i've been searching the main stream google for any takedown of npr's false wolf reporting and can't find anything. they actually do alot of stories on wolves so maybe the one you are referencing has been buried.
I remember it was in fall of 2007, I believe the weekend of the Okie St game. A game I listened to us give away in my truck pounding beers (while parked). :cry:
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i've been searching the main stream google for any takedown of npr's false wolf reporting and can't find anything. they actually do alot of stories on wolves so maybe the one you are referencing has been buried.
I remember it was in fall of 2007, I believe the weekend of the Okie St game. A game I listened to us give away in my truck pounding beers (while parked). :cry:
was their reporting flawed, or did they report on science that later turned out to be flawed?
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i've been searching the main stream google for any takedown of npr's false wolf reporting and can't find anything. they actually do alot of stories on wolves so maybe the one you are referencing has been buried.
I remember it was in fall of 2007, I believe the weekend of the Okie St game. A game I listened to us give away in my truck pounding beers (while parked). :cry:
was their reporting flawed, or did they report on science that later turned out to be flawed?
The reporting was flawed. One point was on the origination of the wolves that were re-introduced. One point was that the following decline in elk populations was not attributable to the wolves. Both points were made by some interview with like a conservation group or something. Basically someone they hosted spoke out of their ass and NPR put it on air. Not really that big of a deal, happens all the time in all sorts of media avenues. Like I said I love NPR and sometimes I love to hate them. :D
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i love that i get two stations with asychronous pledge drives so when the start beggin for money on one station i can switch to the other station and back again when necessary
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Car Talk, Wait Wait, and This American Life are all good. I usually listen to them as podcasts on longer drives. The only station I'll listen to music on. Every other radio station is pretty much Top 40/Christian/Country or occasionally Spanish nowadays.
podcasts don't count.
one thing about npr, why do they only hire reporters with fake british accent? makes it sound more official, i guess that's prob why.
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I have satellite radio so I can hear dick jokes every morning instead of serious (<~~~ spracne!) stuff.
I can't stand npr's delivery either
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I'm going to try NPR tomorrow morning, because 101.5 KRock is awful and I haven't bought the replacement part I need to connect my ipod to my head unit yet.
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I can't stand Ira Flatow. He just comes off as a fuckface jerk and I just want to reach through my radio and choke him sometimes. He hosts Science Fridays and has some really great guests but he cuts them off while they are trying to explain really cool crap and he's just an bad person ya know?
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Prairie Home Companion is the tits.
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Much better than K Rock this morning, but small sample size and such.
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love NPR, informative and interesting. haven't really heard a political bias, and since they have a large variety of topics from ag news to ballet stories to hip hop features, i can't really say the lean left in topics either.
i like jazz in the night and the retro cocktail hour-my kid likes both to fall asleep to. he's not a fan of the classical tho (which is on until 9pm).
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Prairie Home Companion is the tits.
Yep.
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I listen to NPR at least twice a day, if im in a good mood I like to play the radio and read to unwind sometimes, too.
There's still some bias of omission in their programming, I find. They definitely chose to cover things that are important to a more left-leaning listener base which can come across as a liberal bias but its not all of their programming and that's why your radio comes with a dial (or equivalent)
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Prairie Home Companion is the tits.
Prairie Home Companion is the tits.
Yep.
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.timeinc.net%2Ftime%2F2011%2Fcivility_forum%2Fkeilor.jpg&hash=62ae26aa5e1b889673d6012d6d17ed786f87ebca)
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LUTHERANS! :ROFL:
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Just made a pledge today. Getting a complimenatry mug!
So why is it that programming filled with researchers, scientists, doctors, historians, and medical experts is considered left leaning?
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Prairie Home Companion is the tits.
Prairie Home Companion is the tits.
Yep.
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.timeinc.net%2Ftime%2F2011%2Fcivility_forum%2Fkeilor.jpg&hash=62ae26aa5e1b889673d6012d6d17ed786f87ebca)
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Have only listened to a couple, but seems like sitting in on a conversation btwn old ppl, in a rest home, in the late fifties. :dunno:
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Prairie Home Companion is the tits.
Prairie Home Companion is the tits.
Yep.
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.timeinc.net%2Ftime%2F2011%2Fcivility_forum%2Fkeilor.jpg&hash=62ae26aa5e1b889673d6012d6d17ed786f87ebca)
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Have only listened to a couple, but seems like sitting in on a conversation btwn old ppl, in a rest home, in the late fifties. :dunno:
Nope, you are wrong. It is great. There may be something wrong with you.
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I listened to NPR this morning and I'm already tired of all their reporters telling me what the eff their names are all the time. That's like 50% of what they say on air. I know you are a reporter for NPR and I don't rough ridin' care what your stupid rough ridin' name is. Just say the news, then go to the next thing. Geez.
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Prairie Home Companion is the worst. Un-listenable trash. Once I accidentally changed to NPR and ole Garrison Keeler and Randy Newman were doing some awful shtick... I almost pulled the car into the ditch. PHC might be one of the few things that will drive me into a rage.
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I like bias, especially when one side is being a complete idiot. Like with creationism - creationists don't deserve equal time or equal voice because they're idiots.
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I listened to NPR this morning and learned about Moroccan Hair Oil. What an informative morning commute!
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I heard about a mud slide in Sri Lanka and disenfranchisement of convicted felons in Illinois. It was incredibly boring.
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I listened to NPR this morning and learned about Moroccan Hair Oil. What an informative morning commute!
If you read the growing your hair out thread we covered that.
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Prairie Home Companion is the tits.
Prairie Home Companion is the tits.
Yep.
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.timeinc.net%2Ftime%2F2011%2Fcivility_forum%2Fkeilor.jpg&hash=62ae26aa5e1b889673d6012d6d17ed786f87ebca)
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Have only listened to a couple, but seems like sitting in on a conversation btwn old ppl, in a rest home, in the late fifties. :dunno:
Maybe if those old people happen to be world-class storytellers. I don't know about you, but when I hear Garrison wax poetic about the everyday goings-on of the people of Lake Woebegone, I can feel all my woe be gone too.
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Maybe if those old people happen to be world-class storytellers. I don't know about you, but when I hear Garrison wax poetic about the everyday goings-on of the people of Lake Woebegone, I can feel all my woe be gone too.
Yes!
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Who knew small town nostalgia was such a popular thing? Basically every small town has a cafe where you can get this all day long....and its boring there too.
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Who knew small town nostalgia was such a popular thing? Basically every small town has a cafe where you can get this all day long....and its boring there too.
Most people suck at telling stories, though.
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I would listen to any cultural storytelling that was as perfectly on point as GK's is. The fact that it's humorous and edifying is a bonus.
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Garrison Keeler sucks at it too.
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Fact: Listening to GK's voice has been shown to lower blood pressure by 76% in trials vs. a placebo. @WackyCat08 get in here!
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Garrison Keeler sucks at it too.
You have a rotten heart. I will pray for you.
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GK might be the worst person in the world.
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:curse: <- Chingon's immediate reaction to hearing GK's goddamn voice.
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One of the many remarkable humans parodied by The Simpsons. He's a giant of Americana.
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GK might be the worst person in the world.
Actually, I can sort of remember not liking GK and PHC back in my teens. It was too wholesome and folksy for my angst-ridden state. Maybe you are very young or emotionally immature?
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I am only 15 you bad person, so yeah maybe?!
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ok now i feel bad.
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ok now i feel bad.
nothing a heaping slice of your aunt's fresh, homemade, blue ribbon winning rhubarb pie can't fix, bub.
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I listened to npr today and they had some lib on there talking about oil production and wind energy, he kept referring to himself in the third person...Boone Pickens or something. Totally lamenting wind energy, very lib, so boring and uninformative.
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I think I would enjoy the crap out of NPR if I was REALLY stoned.
Are you listening to 90.1 or 89.1? Big difference bruh, like Miley Cyrus vs. Taylor Swift type diff.
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:love:
http://www.npr.org/event/music/359661053/t-pain-tiny-desk-concert (http://www.npr.org/event/music/359661053/t-pain-tiny-desk-concert)
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http://www.npr.org/2014/11/03/357428287/tom-magliozzi-popular-co-host-of-nprs-car-talk-dies-at-77?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=202503
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http://www.npr.org/2014/11/03/357428287/tom-magliozzi-popular-co-host-of-nprs-car-talk-dies-at-77?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=202503
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Both went to MIT. Amazing.
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Yeah. Those guys were so funny.
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I listen to the show and they remind me of driving places with my dad. Honestly, I've been listening to podcasts and didn't realize they were all reruns though some sounded very familiar.
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I listen to the show and they remind me of driving places with my dad. Honestly, I've been listening to podcasts and didn't realize they were all reruns though some sounded very familiar.
well because it's all people in college towns driving a volvo with a funny story to tell.
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I listen to the show and they remind me of driving places with my dad. Honestly, I've been listening to podcasts and didn't realize they were all reruns though some sounded very familiar.
Yep. Saturday mornings in my house as a kid were chores, pancakes, and car talk (sometimes What Do You Know? also). My Dad loved calling my Grandpa to talk about the puzzler each week.
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Forgot about "What do you know?" - I kept trying to talk myself into "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" being what I was thinking of but it never felt right
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Forgot about "What do you know?" - I kept trying to talk myself into "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" being what I was thinking of but it never felt right
I don't like wait wait don't tell me. It comes off as pretentious. "What do you know?" comes off as smart.
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Today they said that talking to strangers makes you happier. Pffftttt.... @libliblibliblibliblib
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Neda Ulaby is so great you guys. i wish she could just read me everything
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alright alright calm down everybody, here's a link to all her interesting pop culture stories. sheesh
http://www.npr.org/people/3850482/neda-ulaby (http://www.npr.org/people/3850482/neda-ulaby)
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oh, i'm a fan. it's just not my very favorite part of npr.