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The Best Show on WFMU => Dear Tom => Topic started by: ArchieFromPGH on July 12, 2012, 07:18:59 PM
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I was sitting in traffic today when I heard this. It's a shame the King of Free Entertainment doesn't get the same forum and bandwidth that NPR squanders on tracking down pickle recipes.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/07/12/156619002/three-secrets-to-crispy-pickles-and-a-lost-recipe-found (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/07/12/156619002/three-secrets-to-crispy-pickles-and-a-lost-recipe-found)
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Wait a minute!
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I was sitting in traffic today when I heard this. It's a shame the King of Free Entertainment doesn't get the same forum and bandwidth that NPR squanders on tracking down pickle recipes.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/07/12/156619002/three-secrets-to-crispy-pickles-and-a-lost-recipe-found (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/07/12/156619002/three-secrets-to-crispy-pickles-and-a-lost-recipe-found)
It's tough when a radio network bristles at a Saturday Night Live parody and then seeks to recreate it over and over and over again.
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i want to know the secrets of a soggy pickle.
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Pickles. And pearl before swine: http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/07/13/156327372/youve-never-heard-public-enemys-it-takes-a-nation-of-millions-to-hold-us-back (http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/07/13/156327372/youve-never-heard-public-enemys-it-takes-a-nation-of-millions-to-hold-us-back)
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Oh NPR, how I wish I could quit you.
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I was listening to "On Point with Tom Ashbrook" this morning when guess who called out of the blue? None other than Michael K.
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I was listening to "On Point with Tom Ashbrook" this morning when guess who called out of the blue? None other than Michael K.
Haven't heard of Ashbrook before ... I found an archive at http://onpoint.wbur.org/section/radio (http://onpoint.wbur.org/section/radio)
Do you know what episode Michael K called into? I'd be curious how other hosts deal with Motormouth Michael.
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Pickles. And pearl before swine: http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/07/13/156327372/youve-never-heard-public-enemys-it-takes-a-nation-of-millions-to-hold-us-back (http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/07/13/156327372/youve-never-heard-public-enemys-it-takes-a-nation-of-millions-to-hold-us-back)
I'd consider donating to NPR if they offered up a totebag that somehow merged the NPR logo with the classic militant-crosshairs symbology of classic PE albums.
You know how Tom does that thing where he'll rant about something that annoys him, and then he'll conclude the rant with a single, disgusted utterance of the word which is the main subject of the rant? I can hear that word in my mind, after Tom complains about dumb NPR premiums: "Totebags ... >:("
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I was listening to "On Point with Tom Ashbrook" this morning when guess who called out of the blue? None other than Michael K.
Haven't heard of Ashbrook before ... I found an archive at http://onpoint.wbur.org/section/radio (http://onpoint.wbur.org/section/radio)
Do you know what episode Michael K called into? I'd be curious how other hosts deal with Motormouth Michael.
On Point is is quite interesting on a fairly consistent basis.
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They let Michael K onto a show called On Point ? ?
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http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/07/17/jill-stein (http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/07/17/jill-stein)
You know, I listened to that particular call again (at approximately 25:00), and I don't think it's Michael K after all. Apologies for the false alarm.
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Whenever I hear Tom Ashbrook's voice on the radio I imagine it is actually my orange Maine Coon cat sitting behind a mic conducting the intellectual yackfest.
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It was a quiet week on Lake Wobegon....
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(http://images.publicradio.org/content/2009/09/17/20090917_garrison_keillor_33.jpg)
That's some outfit.
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looks like Keillor and Shandling both left their respective Keillor and Shandling masks out in the sun.
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His voice came over the radio the other night (I was driving and listening to BBC World Service) and I immediately switched stations. I never could stand his voice, now I can't stand to hear it for even a second.
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His voice came over the radio the other night (I was driving and listening to BBC World Service) and I immediately switched stations. I never could stand his voice, now I can't stand to hear it for even a second.
BBC World Service is some quality radio. Keillor, on the other hand...not so much.
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His voice came over the radio the other night (I was driving and listening to BBC World Service) and I immediately switched stations. I never could stand his voice, now I can't stand to hear it for even a second.
BBC World Service is some quality radio. Keillor, on the other hand...not so much.
Agreed. I don't have this feeling often, but I really do want to strike him to stop that sound coming out of his mouth. That horrible, windy sound.
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My parents were listening to him back in the 70s... Believe me, I know how prolonged exposure to Keillor can age a man.
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His voice came over the radio the other night (I was driving and listening to BBC World Service) and I immediately switched stations. I never could stand his voice, now I can't stand to hear it for even a second.
BBC World Service is some quality radio. Keillor, on the other hand...not so much.
Agreed. I don't have this feeling often, but I really do want to strike him to stop that sound coming out of his mouth. That horrible, windy sound.
That's just the sound of a Lake Wobegone zephyr. Not sure why it doesn't soothe you.
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My parents were listening to him back in the 70s... Believe me, I know how prolonged exposure to Keillor can age a man.
It certainly has aged HIM.
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(http://images.publicradio.org/content/2009/09/17/20090917_garrison_keillor_33.jpg)
That's some outfit.
You all just shut your pie holes. A man who wears denim pedal pushers with no socks has to have nuts of steel.
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A man who wears denim pedal pushers with no socks has to have nuts of steel.
Say it, Auntie. Obviously, comfortable with where he's at.
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He should just walk around naked. I hear that's really comfortable.
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He should just walk around naked. I hear that's really comfortable.
Truth!
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He should just walk around naked. I hear that's really comfortable.
Truth!
As soon as I read that I had an aural hallucination: Tom's "d'uggh" sound of puritanical disgust.
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/11/27/165175532/running-a-comedy-machine-how-chuck-lorre-makes-hits (http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/11/27/165175532/running-a-comedy-machine-how-chuck-lorre-makes-hits)
Lorre discusses the creative process of bringing his toilet jokes to the small screen with a seriousness and self-satisfaction that is troubling. Though they report it with a straight face, the soundbites they choose for the piece seem to have an air of mockery about them.