worst show on public radio?

[fflo]

I usually think it's "Talk of the Nation," which is maybe a dark horse candidate in any broad survey of most-despised public radio offering, but it can annoy the bejeebus out of me. But the "What Do You Know?" guy has to be the worst. Those are two shows I happen into and particularly want to make stop. I also turn off the Thistle & Shamrock pretty quick. Generally I can't take much of that music at all.

Lotsa people hate Garrison Keillor, but he's not in my bottom 3.

Gonna go for a walk in a bit. Record high temps for these parts today---it may reach 60 F. And it's thick with fog, even as afternoon is underway. With the foot of snow on the ground, seeping water until it freezes up again tonight, and the white and grays and blacks all diffused by the fuzzy air, it could make for a surreal stroll. Later the wind is expected to whip up, and there could be thunderstorms, at an unlikely time of year for them.

All of Oahu was without electricity last night because of an unseasonable storm; it took a while for them to power back up. The President-Elect, as you may know, is down there being shirtless and eating shaved ice.

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[peteralway.livejournal.com]

"Talk of the Nation" has one saving grace, which is Science Friday. But I have to say that the point of the newsal side of NPR has always been listening to competent people who know stuff, and not random guys who call in to spout off.

Yeah, I can see how "What do you know" might rank as the bottom of the heap. It seems to come on just when I'm driving to rocket contests on Spring Saturdays, so I hear it fairly often, but I think of it as filler before (or is it between) "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" and that gen-X-o-riffic "This American Life."

I confess that I tend to rather like the music on "Thistle and Shamrock," though. But I'm more of an instrumental music person, and the Celtic stuff appeals to that side of my brain.

So what are your three faves? C'n I Guess? "Fresh Air," "This American Life," and something else?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I like On the Media and Wait Wait, most of the time. Terry Gross is a-ok with me but I don't catch her interviews very often. This American Life can be pretty rockin'.

Random guys who spout off is a good way of saying it.

[nobleds.livejournal.com]

Science Friday makes all the rest of Talk of the Nation worth it!

[paperkingdoms]

I tend to not object to Talk of the Nation, and actively like Science Fridays. The callers can be annoying, but I like the host.

*And* I tend to like Thisle and Shamrock; though am glad that it's only an hour, and not at times that I tend to be stuck with the entire thing.

I'm with you on What Do you Know, though. And *it* is on when I want to have the radio on and be doing things. It's *way* up on my list of annoying NPR content.

[nobleds.livejournal.com]

When I met you you seemed so nice, and now all this hate for NPR! :)

But I agree with you to some degree. While I have been a fan of Whaddaya Know in the past but here in town it is up against This American Life and Wait Wait so I opt for substance over sillyness.

If you don't like Celtic music (Thistle and Shamrock) you may want to check out Afro-Pop Worldwide. Great show.

[infinitepresent.livejournal.com]

Two words. Splendid Table.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's one that I just have to turn off. But I'm sort of an antifoodie. The novelty of listening to whatzername wax rhapsodic about thing that sound utterly inedible to me wears thin after about five minutes, and I have to go. Another element is that the language of gourmet food and wine means as little to me as the language of cricket on the late night BBC reports, and I have limited patience for what is, to me, gibberish.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

What about that show about money, in which it's assumed everyone listening has at least some tiny, say, thousands invested & needing tending to? That show makes me crazy sometimes. When I'm already in the process of something like cleaning up the kitchen.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

You mean the one where they give financial advice with the disclaimer "don't actually act on our financial advice--only take advice from someone you pay for it?"

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

i remember the one time the host of 'splendid table' was pissed off at some people in italy who were messing with the 'authenticity' of their house/restaurant by buying an electric wheat mill (so women wouldn't have to spend half a day and most of their wrist on it).