NPR Master Thread

[steve dave]

LUTHERANS! 

[Headinjun]

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?

[CNS]

Prairie Home Companion is the tits.

Prairie Home Companion is the tits.

Yep.

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.     

[Fedor]

Prairie Home Companion is the tits.

Prairie Home Companion is the tits.

Yep.

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.     

Nope, you are wrong.  It is great.  There may be something wrong with you.

[Mr Bread]

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. 

[CHONGS]

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.

[michigancat]

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.

[Asteriskhead]

I listened to NPR this morning and learned about Moroccan Hair Oil. What an informative morning commute!

[Mr Bread]

I heard about a mud slide in Sri Lanka and disenfranchisement of convicted felons in Illinois.  It was incredibly boring. 

[Emo EMAW]

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.

[Spracne]

Prairie Home Companion is the tits.

Prairie Home Companion is the tits.

Yep.

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.     

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.

[kso_FAN]

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!

[CNS]

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.

[Spracne]

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.

[bubbles4ksu]

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.

[CHONGS]

Garrison Keeler sucks at it too.

[Spracne]

Fact: Listening to GK's voice has been shown to lower blood pressure by 76% in trials vs. a placebo.  @WackyCat08 get in here!

[bubbles4ksu]

Garrison Keeler sucks at it too.

You have a rotten heart. I will pray for you.

[CHONGS]

GK might be the worst person in the world.

[CHONGS]

<- Chingon's immediate reaction to hearing GK's goddamn voice.

[bubbles4ksu]

One of the many remarkable humans parodied by The Simpsons. He's a giant of Americana.

[bubbles4ksu]

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?

[CHONGS]

I am only 15 you bad person, so yeah maybe?!

[bubbles4ksu]

ok now i feel bad.

[Spracne]

ok now i feel bad.

nothing a heaping slice of your aunt's fresh, homemade, blue ribbon winning rhubarb pie can't fix, bub.