NPR has never sounded more like NPR

[ArchieFromPGH]

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

[fonpr]

Wait  a minute!

[buffcoat]

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

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.

[Gerry]

i want to know the secrets of a soggy pickle.

[JonFromMaplewood]

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

[nec13]

Oh NPR, how I wish I could quit you.

[nec13]

I was listening to "On Point with Tom Ashbrook" this morning when guess who called out of the blue? None other than Michael K.

[daveB from Oakland]

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

Do you know what episode Michael K called into? I'd be curious how other hosts deal with Motormouth Michael.

[daveB from Oakland]

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

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 ...  "

[fonpr]

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

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.

[daveB from Oakland]

They let Michael K onto a show called On Point ? ?

[nec13]

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.

[TrapNeuterReturn]

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.

[chetfarnsworth]

It was a quiet week on Lake Wobegon....

[Kormod]

That's some outfit.