...and says, give me a wine glass full of water. Budump bum!

Prairie Home Companion joke show, this evening on NPR.

Yes, I am a dork with no TV.

That's a once a year deal right? I try to catch it when I'm on the road. Some of the cheesiest and corniest jokes but are still some how LOL jokes.

whitey wrote:That's a once a year deal right? I try to catch it when I'm on the road. Some of the cheesiest and corniest jokes but are still some how LOL jokes.

My unhealthy relationship with NPR began behind the wheel of a Freightliner Condo, on I-12 at four in the afternoon, sometime during the summer of 1997. Even if nobody else understands, you will, I think.

Once a year and yeah, they are bad but garrison Keeler is just so good!

I can understand completely. NPR is the best thing to happen to my weekend driving.

I listened to that regularly until I saw a live broadcast. That man is scary looking. I can't stay focused on the radio because that face, that face....

Garrison is from here in Minnesota (St. Paul actually.)

He's actually kind of an asshole.

The show was beyond belief the first year when a couple of good friends of my wifes and I where the heart and soul of the powder milk bisquit band, Bill Hinckley and Judy Larson, Bill died a year ago.

I think I developed a taste for NPR while riding in my Dad's semi when I was a kid.

He generally listened to NPR whenever he could since local NPR stations would give the weather to where he was ect.

I thought all card carrying liberals listened to NPR. I've been listening since 1968 when it was the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I watch 30 minutes of TV a day, either the weather channel or some documentary, and I quit listening to radio in the car also, preferring podcasts. BUT - NPR has a huge number of podcasts - ok time to do a listing....


http://www.cartalk.com/
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/
http://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/
http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/
http://thedianerehmshow.org/
http://www.npr.org/programs/talk-of-the-nation/
http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/
http://www.thistleradio.com/ - one for irishman, it's a great show
http://sciencefriday.com/

So even if I never tune in, I still listen to NPR.

Edit - ah one more very important. http://www.bobedwardsradio.com/bob-edwards-weekend/ after 40 years Bob retired BUT is now on XM radio with a weekend show.

You forgot Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me.

NPR is the only radio I listen to, unless there is some sort of a local emergency. The local radio reception is bad in my area, so I connect to NPR over the internet while at home. In my car I have most of the NPR stations programmed because coverage varies as I drive to and from work (all are FM stations). I convinced two coworkers to start listening, they're young and I'm trying to get them to expand their knowledge of world events. I still remember when 9/11 hit, the only news outlet that had correspondents around the world was NPR, commercial TV and radio had long ago abandoned most of their foreign bureaus, a rather provincial view of the world. NPR is thinking peoples radio. It's also very funny, the Magliazzi brothers Car Talk; Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me; Sez You; and many more.

I learn a lot from The People's Pharmacy. This American Life has some of the most intriguing/tragic/comic/ stories I have ever heard.

And it's funny how the women in my office always come talk to me when their cars have some kind of malfunction or issue. I can usually diagnose the problem after they describe the symptoms. Mostly because I remember hearing something similar on Car Talk.

TxChinaman wrote:I learn a lot from The People's Pharmacy. This American Life has some of the most intriguing/tragic/comic/ stories I have ever heard.

And it's funny how the women in my office always come talk to me when their cars have some kind of malfunction or issue. I can usually diagnose the problem after they describe the symptoms. Mostly because I remember hearing something similar on Car Talk.

So have you ever told them to throw 2 aspirins in the gas tank and call you in the morning? The one I liked best though is "that year had a very good radio in it turn the volume up till it drowns out the noise" giggle giggle ssnorrrrrt.

Sleeping in the garage makes you a car just like going to church makes you a christian.

I discovered NPR on the first day of Desert Storm. I was trying to find some real news about it beyond what the top 40 was dishing out but haven't listened much since I bought a house closer to my job.

Is Michael Feldman still on? I just don't understand why that show was ever on.

+1 for This American Life.

I can usually diagnose the problem after they describe the symptoms. Mostly because I remember hearing something similar on Car Talk.

Hey, don't let my secret out! My wife thinks I'm a genius.