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and I never said I was a big GK fan ... I said I like a lot of aspects of the SHOW

but anyway you do have to give GK props at least for his "impeach Bush" editorial

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah but any dribbling dickbag can know that gw sucks, you don't get a high five for that anymore

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

LAK SHMEE SINGH BITCHES

― killy ii (baby lenin pin), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i want to be nina totenberg when i grow up

you want to be an inside-the-beltway kool kids poster girl?

robert si3gel and his daughter, who i was friendly with in college, are both very nice

but anyway you do have to give GK props at least for his "impeach Bush" editorial

i refrained from posting his anti-drug-war editorial in deference to stence

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

nina would be better than cokie, tho

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

KORVA COLEMAN

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't reeeeally want to be nina totenberg, i guess

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

SILVIA PUJOLI, ROME

― killy ii (baby lenin pin), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

DANIEL SHORE

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

DANIEL SCHORR

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

(excuse me)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 2 June 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah caitlin, i figured he is wamc only.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 2 June 2006 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link

WTF KIND OF NAME IS SATIRIUS JOHNSON?????

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 2 June 2006 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link

the name of a band (but not a radio personality)?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 3 June 2006 00:39 (seventeen years ago) link

"Before you ask... it's Greek"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 3 June 2006 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link

my favorite show now is Open Source, cuz whenever the dude sez the name of the show it sounds like he is saying Open Sores!! hahaha.

my least favorite show was called Odyssey. the host of that had the most annoying voice i've ever heard in my life. gretchen something. and not only was her voice annoying, she was just horrible all-around.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 June 2006 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link

DIANE REHM IS NOIZE!! SHE SUFFERS FROM SPASMODIC DYSPHONIA!!! HOW NOIZE IS THAT?????

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 June 2006 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link

She is great. We don't get her here.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 3 June 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't like Diane Rehm.. she never asks any interesting questions.. my favorite show is Kojo Nnamdi, he is a treat. also "On the media" but we don't get it in DC.

when I'm in my hometown I can catch some really cool stuff on west virginia npr. appalachian stories, bluegrass music, a neat world music show on sunday evening, and the announcer is like 95 years old and takes forever to read the weather bulletins

― dar1a g (daria g), Saturday, 3 June 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I like KOJO NNAMDI (and the way he deals with crazy uncle Mark Plotkin) too. On the Media sort of annoys me in similar fashion to Brian Lehrer, but I see even less of a point to the show.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 3 June 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

WNYC-produced shows always seem so self-congratulatory

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 3 June 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

well, yeah, they are pretty pleased with themselves. that's the thing, I guess politically I am on the same page as them, but they are the kind of liberals who remind me why the right is always bitching about how we think we're smarter than everyone else. also see guys like atrios and david sirota calling everyone who disagrees with them an idiot/wanker/moron/etc.

― dar1a g (daria g), Saturday, 3 June 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

honestly i dont think you've lived till you've smoked weed played literati while listening to wait wait dont tell me

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 3 June 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

http://clamnuts.com/rants/uploaded_images/peppers%20turtle-730293.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 3 June 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

peppers

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 3 June 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate WNYC, mostly because of the dude that hosts The Overnight Show, who often plays (really shitty) avant shyt, and who happened to play some really evil shit when I was tripping shrooms once

― Egyptian Genie (blastocyst), Saturday, 3 June 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

(101 new answers)

wtf fagz

― me and deluca (account), Saturday, 3 June 2006 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha

i skipped down cause i am too tired to read them all but i wanna say wait wait don't tell me is awesome and also, best npr voice ever was linda wertheimer.

i don't think i've ever seen a gk pic before but now i'm immensely creeped out by him

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 3 June 2006 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

the quiz show i like on npr is not WAIT WAIT DONT TELL ME it's WHAD'YA KNOW. WAIT WAIT... is not very good. Mo rocka is on it alot.

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 3 June 2006 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

i really like wait wait but i fuckin hate mo rocca

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 3 June 2006 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Who's the woman on NPR mid-morning who sounds like she's about 105? Her voice is all shaky and there are minutes-long pauses between words. I can't believe she's on radio, I get bored just waiting for her to finish a sentence.

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 4 June 2006 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i only like car talk

― INSANE CLOWN FOSSE (Adrian Langston), Sunday, 4 June 2006 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link

"Who's the woman on NPR mid-morning who sounds like she's about 105? Her voice is all shaky and there are minutes-long pauses between words. I can't believe she's on radio, I get bored just waiting for her to finish a sentence."

HER NAME IS DIANE REHM AND SHE SUFFERS FROM SPASMODIC DYSPHONIA AND THAT IS WHY HER VOICE SOUNDS LIKE THAT AND THAT IS WHY SHE IS NOIZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZE.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 4 June 2006 02:26 (seventeen years ago) link

dont front. none of you are from MN. we invented professional wrestling and talk radio.

― artdamages (artdamages), Sunday, 4 June 2006 02:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i read about npr in the new york times too!

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/06/04/arts/04brenn_CA0.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 4 June 2006 03:13 (seventeen years ago) link

(npr people do kinda look how they sound, don't they?)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 4 June 2006 03:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Brian Lehrer = classic
Leonard Lopate = sometimes classic
Diane Rehm's voice = classic
Wait Wait Don't Tell Me = has its moments
Terry Gross = classic
Soundcheck = meh
Keillor = DUD

(When you actually have to drive a lot work, you come to appreciate NPR)

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 4 June 2006 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link

some of the soundcheck shows lately on the evolution of "the american voice" have been kinda good. i like when he does that stuff. but then there's always some jewel wannabe (this week's was from norway) who shows up and takes over.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 4 June 2006 03:31 (seventeen years ago) link

anyway this is only the 75th npr-bashing thread on ilx. PICK LESS EASY TARGET!

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 4 June 2006 03:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I heard that Norwegian Jewel. He was all "blah blah quite a unique voice" and then it sounded somewhere between Norah Jones and some boring short girl with an Irish name I can't think of -- oh yeah Erin McKeown.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 4 June 2006 04:19 (seventeen years ago) link

terry gross = classic?!?!??!? are you NUTS?!?!? ugh.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 4 June 2006 04:37 (seventeen years ago) link

TERRY GROSS VS> GENE SIMMONS == TOTAL ULTIMATE WOW

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Sunday, 4 June 2006 06:01 (seventeen years ago) link

terry gross is fucking horrible UGH. what is the difference between wait wait don't tell me and whatd'ya know? i always don't know what i'm listening to. i really only like the news on npr and even that i don't always like because i think melissa block should be fired for sounding so happy about palestinians dying and stuff. i wish we had a bbc.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 4 June 2006 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

WNYC carries BBC in the morning but the reporters are just as annoying as the ones on ATC, especially this one female reporter that always sounds like she's trying to be "provocative."

Terry Gross has great interviews on her show, hence I like her show. Anything that gives Iggy Pop, Rodney Dangerfield, and Kool Herc room to talk at great length (and Gene Simmons to be a complete asshole at great length) is most worthy.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 4 June 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

i love terry gross(but not her nervous laugh). her shows with Stephen Colbert(both of them), Jon Stewart, Chris Rock, etc were great. I still need to listen to the Al Gore one. She can be outclassed when she tries to do the really heavy political topics with conservatives, tho, like when she had on Richard Perle.

Also, i don't really like WWDTM(tho i likes the carl castle), which has too much PJ Orouke-style smarm/smirk. I will submit to you that the group is the Ira Glass crowd will be in 20 years. But at least that group has the sense not to inhale into the fucking mic.

whadyaknow has a different vibe to me. it seems like the closest thing NPR's ever gunna get to jewish humor, with the show & the host deliberately doing Groucho's bit(s).

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 4 June 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

marty moss-coane, on philly's Radio Times -- SO CLASSIC. does anyone else know her? (am i still the only philly bitch here? lame.) whenever i hear her voice come over the radio, i feel like cuddling into a little ball. she is so smart and quick-witted and has a great comeback to any stupid call-in asshole.

― killy ii (baby lenin pin), Sunday, 4 June 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

terry gross is a fucking idiot with the most marginal interviewing skills.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 4 June 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Once when I was 8 or 9, my moms took me to see him read. We both fell asleep, and never listened to his shite radio program ever again.

― trees (treesessplode), Sunday, 4 June 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a306/paddyface/Rseagull.jpg
Robert Seagull

― is PJ (MILFcGee), Monday, 5 June 2006 00:10 (seventeen years ago) link

She can be outclassed when she tries to do the really heavy political topics with conservatives, tho, like when she had on Richard Perle.

I totally agree with this - she gets all flustered and it's kind of pathetic.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 5 June 2006 05:40 (seventeen years ago) link

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