NPR provides community and emergency information to Rural Americans?

Have you got a transistor radio so you can listen to
NPR in emergencies?

Yesterday, Ace's post on removing federal funding from NPR and PBS actually cited NPR, perhaps for one last time.

"Public funding has enabled the flourishing of a uniquely American system of unparalleled cultural, informational, and educational programming, and ensured access to vital emergency alerting and reporting in times of crisis -- all for about $1.60 per American, every year. Parents and children, senior citizens and students, tribal and rural communities -- all will bear the harm of this vote," Maher said.
North Carolina Rep. Alma Adams was among the Democrats who rose to defend public broadcasting. "When Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina last year, public broadcasting was there when traditional communications failed," she said. "Widespread power, cellular and internet outages meant that for thousands of North Carolinians, public radio was how they received their news."

The House vote on Thursday means CPB will lose $1.1 billion meant to fund it through the next two years, while the bill also cuts $7.9 billion in other programs. CPB acts as a conduit for federal money to NPR, PBS and their member stations. Although NPR, which produces news programs such as Morning Edition and All Things Considered, relies on direct federal funds for only a small portion of its budget, its approximately 1,000 member stations get a heftier portion of their operating revenue through CPB.
The network has warned that many of those stations -- especially those broadcasting to rural areas or to underserved audiences, such as Native Americans -- could be forced to shut down as a result of the funding rollback.

Read Ace's entire piece (don't comment on old threads) and prepare for more from him in the future. The video at the end of the post, where the head of NPR has to comment on her own words, is a switch from a couple of years ago, when the management was facing DEI-type unrest from some of its own staff.

Over the past few years, I have reported on some of my brief NPR-listening experiences (so you didn't have to listen). Credit where credit is due: I DID appreciate being able to find transcripts of some programs of which I had heard brief snippets. Not sure if transcripts are available for local stories, or for how long. Would a local newspaper be more valuable?

I also became interested in the story of Uri Berliner's challenge from within to the leftist news coverage at NPR (April 2024), which led to scrutiny of the new CEO (take a deeper look at Wikipedia, too?), as well as scrutiny of the entire organization.

Adam Schiff is not a reliable muse for news.

Today, I wanted to go a little deeper on the "rural station" thing and touch on other forms of communication available to citizens, including those in rural areas.

I hear a lot of acknowledgments of donors now when I hear NPR. Maybe there could be a few more. I don't recall much local sports coverage, but I have heard that the Fresno PBS (not NPR) affiliate is not too leftist and does a worthwhile story now and then.

NPR CEO Katherine Maher is now begging for donations after Congress voted to defund NPR which is basically just a propaganda mouthpiece for the DNC pic.twitter.com/hI4qQzYozq
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 18, 2025

The intense concern for "rural America" suddenly and devoutly expressed by NPR in its Save the Children way is almost as convincing as Tim Walz's pheasant hunting video where he braced his shotgun against his crotch while attempting to load a shell.
— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) July 18, 2025

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I live rural. FYI if a weather emergency or natural disaster is headed our way the weather app on our phones tells us but NPR does not. Regional or local issues get out on Nextdoor but not NPR. The only time NPR will touch it is if they can blame it on climate change.

They mean it in the sense that they want to culturally dominate rural America whilst at the same time thumbing their nose at rural America. They may lose some of their influence

What does this mean for Native Americans with NPR stations?

My family's rural homestead is 1 hour from a grocery store - but we have 1 gig fiber.

I grew up on a farm in a rural area and we listened to the weather and commodities report ( aka " pig report") on the radio every morning at breakfast. Public broadcasting didn't exist yet and that station still does.

Taking a cue from the last comment above, do you understand the Emergency Alert System? I heard a discussion on AM talk radio about emergency alerts, and the historic involvement of "clear channel" stations in those alerts. Apparently, there is some agitation to remove this role from AM radio, along with consolidation of programming to remove local talk and even music programming. Is this a good thing?

In past disasters, old systems (like land line telephones in hurricanes) have sometimes held up better than newer systems. Should we think about keeping some old infrastructure in place?

What communication systems will be trustworthy in the future? NPR? PBS?

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You find yourself in a museum. pic.twitter.com/4LaWX1uLPj
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1 NPR, we want your money, NOW!

Posted by: Case at July 19, 2025 11:22 AM (ilX37)

2 Is there an AM radio in new cars?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 19, 2025 11:23 AM (63Dwl)

3 NPR and PBS should rebrand themselves and delve into producing and distributing low end gay pron.

Fags pay a lotta money to get their kink on.

Posted by: Barney Frank, Disordered Homosexual at July 19, 2025 11:24 AM (R/m4+)

4 "PowerBear" radio sounds like Chinese made. It is Hi-Fi though.

Posted by: fd at July 19, 2025 11:25 AM (vFG9F)

5 In a pinch I can make a radio with stone knives and bearskins.

Posted by: Spock at July 19, 2025 11:26 AM (vFG9F)

6 Great tune, commererating train from NYC to Miami, which ran thru my soon to be new hometown

Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at July 19, 2025 11:28 AM (3hf1b)

7 I don't understand the Left's concern for rural Americans having access to weather alerts. The Left cheers when deplorables die in floods and fires.

Posted by: fly gal at July 19, 2025 11:29 AM (kbbUi)

8 I don't get the Elmo thing. What did I miss?

Posted by: BurtTC at July 19, 2025 11:31 AM (B1UW2)

9 5 In a pinch I can make a radio with stone knives and bearskins.
Posted by: Spock at July 19, 2025 11:26 AM (vFG9F)
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I...am...K-ROCK!!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 19, 2025 11:32 AM (kpS4V)

10 If I went to a museum of art, I might see myself if they had a portrait of one infamous Tsar pretender, False Dmitry I. Though my hair is arranged a little differently, I'm not as sour-looking, and I have a mustache and beard, the face is rather eerily similar to my own phiz:

https://tinyurl.com/mvf88c3r

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2025 11:33 AM (omVj0)

11 I really think NPR and PBS should go back to begging for money on the radio and TV respectively. Like they used to in the old days when government cheese only covered (barely) operating expenses.

The CEO's of those two entities make big time six figure salaries. And now, are back to begging for money.

Wankers.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 19, 2025 11:34 AM (Q4IgG)

12 In a pinch ... Posted by: Spock

Not today pointy ears I've got my shoulder pads on.

Posted by: davea at July 19, 2025 11:34 AM (PMJuY)

13 Make CONELRAD great again!

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at July 19, 2025 11:34 AM (NQ9KZ)

14 2 Is there an AM radio in new cars?

The "clear channel" AM station in Fresno reaches a wide audience, up and down the coast even. They also broadcast on FM, but sometimes the FM signal is interrupted by fires or weather near the mountain transmitter, etc.

Why the push to eliminate AM?

Posted by: KT at July 19, 2025 11:34 AM (xekrU)

15 Is there an AM radio in new cars?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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Yes. Except when Jeep sends an upgrade and deletes it. Still waiting on the fix.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 19, 2025 11:36 AM (q//dC)

16 10 If I went to a museum of art, I might see myself if they had a portrait of one infamous Tsar pretender, False Dmitry I. Though my hair is arranged a little differently, I'm not as sour-looking, and I have a mustache and beard, the face is rather eerily similar to my own phiz:

https://tinyurl.com/mvf88c3r
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2025 11:33 AM (omVj0)

I hope you mean the first picture, and not the 2nd!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 19, 2025 11:37 AM (uWKK8)

17 Why the push to eliminate AM?
Posted by: KT at July 19, 2025 11:34
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Because it's nothing but rightwing talk and religion programming. /

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 19, 2025 11:37 AM (q//dC)

18 During our last hurricane strike and power outage, I did not listen to NPR but to a local FM station that has been around for decades. It never occurred to me to check NPR.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2025 11:38 AM (omVj0)

19 Why the push to eliminate AM?

I suspect its because all that spectrum is valuable

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at July 19, 2025 11:38 AM (/FzcW)

20 If I went to a museum of art, I might see myself if they had a portrait of one infamous Tsar pretender, False Dmitry I. Though my hair is arranged a little differently, I'm not as sour-looking, and I have a mustache and beard, the face is rather eerily similar to my own phiz:

https://tinyurl.com/mvf88c3r
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2025
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I hope you mean the first picture, and not the 2nd!
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 19, 2025

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Oh, God, yes, the first pic. The second guy looks like George Costanza with a broken nose and hair.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2025 11:40 AM (omVj0)

21 Wait the HR lady was married as well?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 19, 2025 11:41 AM (bss/y)

22 During our last hurricane strike and power outage, I did not listen to NPR but to a local FM station that has been around for decades. It never occurred to me to check NPR.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2025

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The FM station, now that I think about it, is the FM counterpart to our local CBS AM radio outlet, clear channel WWL-AM. The FM signal came in more clearly, and I got the same updates about road openings and power outages as on the AM.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2025 11:42 AM (omVj0)

23 ATC (air traffic control) is still in the AM band. I think, maybe, trains, especially freight and HAZMAT also use AM for comms and data. River traffic too... barges and such.

Cellular is filling in gaps, but around here there's plenty of non-commercial AM traffic.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 19, 2025 11:43 AM (Q4IgG)

24 I remember way back just a few short years ago when defunding cbp/mpr was mere peyote dream because of the reoukes.

Then Donald happened. Sure glad he didn't pack up his shine box and go home.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 19, 2025 11:44 AM (89Sog)

25 In a pinch I can make a radio with stone knives and bearskins.
Posted by: Spock at July 19, 2025 11:26 AM (vFG9F)
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Try it with coconuts and seashells!

Posted by: Professor on Gilligan's Island at July 19, 2025 11:44 AM (IBQGV)

26 In places where weather matters it was handled by non public CW music radio. In sedgwick co it was KFDI and they had all the storm trackers and whatnot. Nothing to do with NPR and I've never heard of anyone who'd try to get current weather news from NPR. But on KFDI there'd be some guy racing down 54, basically under the tornado, giving you current info.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 19, 2025 11:45 AM (cduTK)

27 So if a Non-Government Organization folds when government funding is cut off, was it really a NGO?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2025 11:46 AM (W/lyH)

28 The network has warned that many of those stations -- especially those broadcasting to rural areas or to underserved audiences, such as Native Americans

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Dude, they have smoke signals.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 19, 2025 11:47 AM (Xkhr8)

29 I guess it's not too surprising that combos of facial features recur throughout history. I reflect (the artist's portrait of) False Dmitry I. According to sculptures, Julius Caesar looked much like Patrick Stewart; Julian the Apostate resembled Richard Dreyfuss; and Lucius Cornelius Sulla looked eerily like LBJ.

The young FDR looked amazingly like the young Robert Vaughn (who, sad to say, admired FDR and played him to perfection in a one-man show many years later).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2025 11:48 AM (omVj0)

30
https://tinyurl.com/mvf88c3r
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I hope you mean the first picture, and not the 2nd!
Posted by: Tom Servo

Looks like Liberace.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 19, 2025 11:48 AM (63Dwl)

31 Wait the HR lady was married as well?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 19, 2025 11:41
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Best meme I saw:

Coldplay hasn't had a hit single years. Tonight they made 2.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 19, 2025 11:48 AM (q//dC)

32 I don't get the Elmo thing. What did I miss?

Elmo’s Twitter was hacked and posted stuff about how we must kill all the Jooos in order to get the Epstein list and free Palestine.

Could just be PBS being PBS with views like that.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2025 11:48 AM (QZThv)

33 My doppelganger is in a museum in Oslo. The oft-stolen "The Scream" by Munch.

Posted by: Nordisk Tidende at July 19, 2025 11:49 AM (G5+As)

34 I'm all-in with my quatloos on this being the first time in its history NPR claims it is a critical news and weather alert resource for rural areas.

I also doubt many if any NPR stations have generators for their broadcast offices/studios and antennas, plus on-hand diesel to run them for days in case utility power goes out.

Posted by: Gref at July 19, 2025 11:49 AM (aBgBM)

35 I still have my five foot high Panasonic stereo system from the 70's. Turntable and all. The receiver puts out some great sound on AM and FM.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2025 11:50 AM (W/lyH)

36 Two nights ago, I got an urgent Silver Alert near midnight. Some 85 year old lady with dementia had gotten her car keys back and was driving around Norfolk 50 miles away. Thanks for that!

Posted by: Silver Sneakers Guy at July 19, 2025 11:52 AM (G5+As)

37 Philly Mag, News
What Philly Makes: The Great Philadelphia Salary Report of 2024
From drag queens to politicians to sports stars to your Wawa cashier, here's what locals are earning.

Bill Marrazzo, CEO, WHYY: $806,188
WHYY has long been criticized for Marrazzo’s salary, which is beyond huge in the public radio industry. If you’re wondering how Marrazzo’s salary has grown over time, he made $430,786 in 2007. We definitely think about what Marrazzo makes every single time Ed Cunningham interrupts our favorite WHYY shows to plead for more money for the station. (And then we still make a donation, because we love the station so much. But still …

And,

Terry Gross, Fresh Air host: $402,415
Nationally syndicated Gross is, by far, the highest-paid on-air talent at WHYY. The second-highest paid, prior to her giving up her longtime WHYY show Radio Times in 2023 and switching to a weekly show with a new format, was Marty Moss-Coane, whose most recently reported salary was $158,075

ProPublica, Non-Profit Explorer, Philadelphia
Whyy Inc,Philadelphia, PA
Tax-exempt since Feb. 1959
EIN: 23-1438083

Inquirer, 'WHYY workers get better wages and protections against AI in new contract, 10/22/24

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 19, 2025 11:52 AM (NFX2v)

38 Just ask the Annenberg, Rockefeller and Ford Foundations for more $.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 19, 2025 11:53 AM (egMwa)

39 My local "classical"/NPR station is wholly owned by the state university at the lakefront, so I expect that they are fine with PBS's and NPR's leftist bent.

It's true that the local FM station carried weather and evacuation information during and after Katrina . . . but not because it was NPR, but because it was local.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 19, 2025 11:54 AM (omVj0)

40 My doppelganger is in a museum in Oslo. The oft-stolen "The Scream" by Munch.
Posted by: Nordisk Tidende at July 19, 2025 11:49 AM (G5+As)

Sadly mine involves a dude sitting on an ottoman.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2025 11:55 AM (W/lyH)

41 35 I still have my five foot high Panasonic stereo system from the 70's. Turntable and all. The receiver puts out some great sound on AM and FM.
Posted by: Diogenes

Luxury! I'm saving up for a new needle for my Victrola.

Posted by: His Master's Voice at July 19, 2025 11:56 AM (G5+As)

42 Great to see you again MisHum!

There was some blurb this week about a North Texas U music professor getting a payout and reinstatement. MusHum referenced the North Texas U chamber orchestra for their baroque work a while ago. Wonderful stuff. Good to see and hear.

Dogsitting for next two weeks for Granddog. Since New Old Dog and Old Dog died, Old Cat and I are getting a little crusty, so we are still enjoying having the youngster around. No doubt by the end we will be dancing that he's gone, but for now we are all good.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 19, 2025 11:57 AM (WvpwN)

43 They had Ken Burns on, who explained that PBS wasn't biased, since they gave William F. Buckley a TV show that ended twenty-five years ago.

They've since resurrected "Firing Line", but of course gave the show to a Never Trumper.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 19, 2025 11:57 AM (xTIDn)

44 They've since resurrected "Firing Line", but of course gave the show to a Never Trumper.

The Establishment Media has a considerable demand for "true conservatives", which means hiring a "conservative" who hates Trump.

Hiring an actual Trump supporter would be beyond the pale, of course.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 19, 2025 12:00 PM (xTIDn)

45 You find yourself in a museum: pity the guy who's a dead ringer for Carlos II.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 19, 2025 12:00 PM (XZ5S6)

46 I should probably not wear a white t shirt while eating my wife's brown stew chicken.

Posted by: Accomack at July 19, 2025 12:01 PM (1pQBc)

47 The network has warned that many of those stations -- especially those broadcasting to rural areas or to underserved audiences, such as Native Americans

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Dude, they have smoke signals.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 19, 2025 11:47 AM (Xkhr

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And internet.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2025 12:02 PM (W/lyH)

48 All Communist Things Considered has been my favorite radio entertainment for decades.

Posted by: Avid Listener at July 19, 2025 12:03 PM (G5+As)

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Doesn't the "Classical" music played on NPR come from white composers?

Doesn't the "rural" people dependent on NPR constitute an overwhelmingly white audience?

Doesn't the Black Congressional Caucus have questions here?

Posted by: Auspex at July 19, 2025 12:04 PM (Y8DZL)

50 Orange Blossom Special as it should be played by Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEXH5i-5BTM

Posted by: huerfano at July 19, 2025 12:04 PM (n2swS)

51 Of course it's not about rural people or native Americans. It's about money. Liberals want to spread their propaganda by any means necessary. Tax money is one way to spread their agenda. And of course we are too stupid to see what they are doing. Let them spend their own money, not ours.

Posted by: Case at July 19, 2025 12:05 PM (ilX37)

52 I live in a semi rural area and my only option for internet is my landline which is totally useless. I had to buy a phone to use as a hot spot to get internet on my desktop.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 12:06 PM (HFcKg)

53 The only thing I ever listened to on NPR was The Car Guys.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 19, 2025 12:06 PM (U5d8P)

54 The CEO's of those two entities make big time six figure salaries.

I remember when Prairie Home Companion was at its peak, Minnesota Public Radio put out an annual report saying that its CEO was paid $110,000 or something similar.

Not mentioned in the annual report was that all the Prairie Home Companion tchotchkes (calendars and the like) were marketed through MPR's for-profit subsidiary, which was paying the CEO multiples of her official salary.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 19, 2025 12:06 PM (xTIDn)

55 If NPR is so important for rural people, why don't they have any programming to appeal to rural people?

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 19, 2025 12:08 PM (cuCUO)

56 They had Ken Burns on, who explained that PBS wasn't biased, since they gave William F. Buckley a TV show that ended twenty-five years ago.

They've since resurrected "Firing Line", but of course gave the show to a Never Trumper.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 19, 2025 11:57 AM (xTIDn)

I’ve tried to watch Firing Line with Margaret Hoover a few times in the last 6 months. It’s unwatchable… she’s a low IQ idiot who constantly says “um”… Buckley is rolling over in his grave.

Yesterday she interviews Slotkin senator from MI and her first question is: well prices and inflation are rising and experts say it’s due to Trump’s tariffs. What do you think?

Brilliant question Margaret!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 19, 2025 12:09 PM (lepZb)

57 I listen to am radio everyday. The morning show could come right off of AoS.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 12:09 PM (HFcKg)

58 I used to listen to the NPR line up on.Saturday mornings, Car Talk and game shows like Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Then, in 2016, they became so infected with TDS it became unlistenable. So I stopped listening.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 19, 2025 12:10 PM (Xkhr8)

59 Posted by: banana Dream at July 19, 2025 11:45 AM (cduTK)

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During my later years in Wichita, KFDI was the only station I ever listened to, not for the music, but for the storm coverage. There was nothing comparable.

Posted by: Don at July 19, 2025 12:10 PM (/kMaS)

60
Doesn't the "Classical" music played on NPR come from white composers?

Mostly, but they also proudly play stuff by composers of color like Florence Price and William Grant Still.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 19, 2025 12:10 PM (63Dwl)

61 I used to watch the local PBS station only for Monty Python back in the 70s. Side note: Python is a great example to show for Overton Window shift. In their day, they were the young and hip of the young and hip. Hung with Beatles and Zep and the coolest of the cool. Half of them still think they are cutting edge. You watch it now and it seems like bannable right wing humor. Same stuff today and they would have to be on the Babylon Bee channel

Posted by: azjaeger at July 19, 2025 12:10 PM (3/XaG)

62 >>I live in a semi rural area and my only option for internet is my landline which is totally useless. I had to buy a phone to use as a hot spot to get internet on my desktop.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 12:06 PM

My brother was in sort of the same situation. He bought a Starlink. He loves it.

Posted by: huerfano at July 19, 2025 12:10 PM (n2swS)

63 If NPR is so important for rural people, why don't they have any programming to appeal to rural people?[/i[

Hey, we did a story on the plight of transgender Amish just last month!

Posted by: NPR! at July 19, 2025 12:11 PM (xTIDn)

64 The NPR building in DC is 330,000 sq. ft., and boasts kitchens and a fitness center. Sell it or rent it out if $$$ is a problem going forward.

Posted by: Your Shell Answer Man at July 19, 2025 12:11 PM (G5+As)

Posted by: NPR! at July 19, 2025 12:11 PM (xTIDn)

66 huerfano, starlink has made it to parts of the county but not my part yet. Maybe soon.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 12:13 PM (HFcKg)

67 63 If NPR is so important for rural people, why don't they have any programming to appeal to rural people?

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NPRs big mistake was not featuring a rotating schedule of Green Acres reruns.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 19, 2025 12:13 PM (dDmld)

68 Prairie Home Companion

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Garrison Kieller is coming to Happy Valley. Mrs. Wrecks wants to see him. I'd rather bang Whoppi.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 19, 2025 12:13 PM (Xkhr8)

69 I spent about a year listening to NPR on the car radio about twenty years ago while commuting. It became clear that the news people were almost choking on saying anything pro America Much of it was news of foreign lands who were so much more sophisticated than the US. The button music was kind of fun, but this ended my foray into NPR.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 19, 2025 12:13 PM (dKHjc)

70 Doesn’t NPR stand for No Public Response?

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 19, 2025 12:14 PM (ZKAfl)

71 They pulled funding for NPR and I've been killed yet again.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 19, 2025 12:15 PM (2UnvF)

72 Doesn't the "Classical" music played on NPR come from white composers?

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Depends. Do you consider a tribal shaman banging rhythmically on a tree trunk with a stick to be "classical music"?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 19, 2025 12:15 PM (dDmld)

73 What CPB needs to do is get Stephen Colbert to do a show on PBS TV. They'd be #1 in the world, obviously, and I hear he'll soon be available. If they add Kimmel, the sky is the limit.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 19, 2025 12:15 PM (od0dV)

74 tbf, outside of siriusxm, I cannot think of too many ota classical stations. It has to be like 10-20 years since I was able to pull one in on the radio.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 19, 2025 12:16 PM (bss/y)

75 NPRs big mistake was not featuring a rotating schedule of Green Acres reruns.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

A hearty Amen! to that!

Posted by: Newt Kiley and the Ziffels at July 19, 2025 12:16 PM (G5+As)

76 73 What CPB needs to do is get Stephen Colbert to do a show on PBS TV. They'd be #1 in the world, obviously, and I hear he'll soon be available. If they add Kimmel, the sky is the limit.
Posted by: Eeyore at July 19, 2025 12:15 PM (od0dV)

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Hey, I'm right here!

Posted by: Jim Acosta at July 19, 2025 12:16 PM (dDmld)

77 The NPR building in DC is 330,000 sq. ft., and boasts kitchens and a fitness center. Sell it or rent it out if $$$ is a problem going forward.
Posted by: Your Shell Answer Man at July 19, 2025 12:11 PM (G5+As)

Maybe make it into a museum dedicated to free speech, Rush Limbaugh and EIB with a Trump Hotel, a casino, a cigar bar and a strip club inside too.

Posted by: Bo Snerdley at July 19, 2025 12:16 PM (R/m4+)

78 I'm sure the supporters of NPR/PBS won't mind forking over extra to cover the loss. Show us your commitment.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 12:20 PM (HFcKg)

79 No, AM radio is needed. Many of the political talk shows, college sports, some Oldies stations I listen to are on AM radio. Also, I still find it invaluable while driving through Shenandoah Valley & other locations along I-81 to & from Georgia.

All of the fancy communications systems installed in the Philly region seems to be jamming a lot of AM service, especially on vehicular radios.

Locally, Ham radios seems to be gaining some popularity again.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 19, 2025 12:21 PM (NFX2v)

80 78 I'm sure the supporters of NPR/PBS won't mind forking over extra to cover the loss. Show us your commitment.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 12:20 PM (HFcKg)

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Yep. You can never have enough tote bags.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 19, 2025 12:22 PM (dDmld)

81 Rumors are swirling that the deaths from the NPR cuts have already started.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 19, 2025 12:23 PM (dDmld)

82 All of the fancy communications systems installed in the Philly region seems to be jamming a lot of AM service, especially on vehicular radios.

Sounds like the DNC's anti-Rush Limbaugh plan is finally working 15 years too late.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2025 12:24 PM (QZThv)

83 "When Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina last year, public broadcasting was there when traditional communications failed,"
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Utter bullshit. Here in Asheville we were reliant upon local AM station, WWNC, 5Kw. And, the people at that station did a superlative job, devoted themselves to emergency services 24 hrs./day.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 19, 2025 12:24 PM (XeU6L)

84 yeah jimbo, tumbleweeds when it came to you,

i mean don lemon's screeds pop up occassionally on gutfeld or some newsmax wrap but this happens less often,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at July 19, 2025 12:24 PM (bXbFr)

85 TV's "Green Acres" was inspired by "Granby's Green Acres" a summer replacement radio show from 1950, starring Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet. Similar plot of a city-slicker trying to run a farm. Howard McNear, later Floyd the Barber in Mayberry, was also a member of the cast.

Posted by: Sweet Rural Shade at July 19, 2025 12:24 PM (G5+As)

86 Rumors are swirling that the deaths from the NPR cuts have already started.

DataRepublican pulled up that some of the CPB grants went to regular TV networks like CBS/NBC/ABC, and that Colbert was told his show was cancelled hours after that cut passed.

Not proof, but suggestive.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2025 12:25 PM (QZThv)

87 Yeah I want to listen to NPR blame Trump for the disaster while the lights are out, water up to the knees, and there is a hole in the roof.

Not.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 19, 2025 12:25 PM (cZ8IN)

88 I listen to am radio everyday. The morning show could come right off of AoS.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 12:09 PM

They talk about movies, boobs, sous-vide, and trebuchets?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 19, 2025 12:25 PM (0sNs1)

89 I never thought donation swag was a good use of contributions.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 12:25 PM (HFcKg)

90 To be fair, back in the day NPR was about the only place you could hear classical music on the radio.

Jazz. too, though a lot less of that.

Of course that was before smartphones.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 19, 2025 12:26 PM (CHHv1)

91 The state's colleges are upping tuition - what's new? - for 2025-2026 so any lost public tv/radio support might be included therein.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 19, 2025 12:26 PM (NFX2v)

92 Really foolish idea to drag NC into the value of NPR. We're from the government and we're here to help! Lose your house and all your belongings? FEMA will be there next year with a $700 check, so long as you don't fly an American flag!

Fully funded NPR!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 19, 2025 12:26 PM (wBaIH)

93 Duncanthrax, they do and they also have Horde level snark. A couple of the hosts also have copies of The Deplorable Gourmet.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 12:27 PM (HFcKg)

94 The state's colleges are upping tuition - what's new? - for 2025-2026 so any lost public tv/radio support might be included therein.

Trump needs to get the federal government back out of the student loan business. A lot of colleges wouldn't survive an actual free market, which is entirely acceptable.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2025 12:28 PM (QZThv)

95 Just heard a NY Republican Congress idiot pushing the Amnesty bill. The even dumber anchor curiously never asked about chain migration if we allowed the illegals to stay. “Pay a fine and get in the back of the line”, he said.
Hopefully, no one falls for this bs anymore. I guess I deserve the high blood pressure because I was watching Fukd News.

Posted by: Unkaren at July 19, 2025 12:28 PM (J4BK5)

96 Locally, Ham radios seems to be gaining some popularity again.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day

Best thing is that there are no Muslims on Ham Radio.

Posted by: Haram-be at July 19, 2025 12:28 PM (G5+As)

97 In other news: MN Sen. Nicole Mitchell, D, has been convicted on two felony charges after police responded to a call from her step-mother on an intruder in the house. Police found Ms. Mitchell hiding in the basement dressed like a ninja.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 19, 2025 12:30 PM (cZ8IN)

98 And, how long is the Coldplay CheatCam story going to be in the news. Silly Season has arrived early this year!

Posted by: Unkaren at July 19, 2025 12:30 PM (J4BK5)

99 In other news: MN Sen. Nicole Mitchell, D, has been convicted on two felony charges after police responded to a call from her step-mother on an intruder in the house. Police found Ms. Mitchell hiding in the basement dressed like a ninja.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 19, 2025 12:30 PM (cZ8IN)

The back story might be interesting. Definitely an episode of 48 Hours in a few years

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 19, 2025 12:32 PM (lepZb)

100 I’ll bet James Last doesn’t have a CheatCam!

Posted by: Unkaren at July 19, 2025 12:32 PM (J4BK5)

101 96 Locally, Ham radios seems to be gaining some popularity again.

I have a friend who got a personal presidential award (with a handshake with the president at an airport) for teaching Ham radio operators and helping them set up years ago.

Posted by: KT at July 19, 2025 12:32 PM (xekrU)

102 What is this snark of which you speak?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 19, 2025 12:32 PM (CWHjW)

103 82. Sounds like the DNC's anti-Rush Limbaugh plan is finally working 15 years too late.
Posted by: Ian S.

Reminder of recent, major radio station purchase:

Press Release: Kennedy calls for FCC to review partisan decision to approve Soros-backed takeover of 200 radio stations, Jan 27 2025

In part, “Mr. George Soros is buying WWL AM radio in New Orleans. WWL AM radio is practically an institution in my state.”

“Any time a broadcast license—as is the case with Audacy—is transferred, the FCC has to approve it. So, Mr. Soros’s purchase of WWL Radio and the 219 other radio stations had to go before the FCC, and it did. And it went—the approval for Mr. Soros—went through the FCC like green grass through a goose. It was a party-line vote. It was last September. All three Democrats—there are five people on the FCC—all three Democrats said let it go, and [it has been alleged that] they short-circuited the normal process. . . . What happened was what some members of the media have called the ‘Soros shortcut.’ They just got together and rammed it through.”

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 19, 2025 12:34 PM (NFX2v)

104 And, how long is the Coldplay CheatCam story going to be in the news. Silly Season has arrived early this year!

Right on time, if you remember the Summer of Shark Attacks in 2001 that got buried by 9/11.

That story is irresistible to the media because they can give it the Marxist framing that the CEO was the evil responsible party and the married HR woman was an innocent victim.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2025 12:35 PM (QZThv)

105 I periodically fiddle around with a low end SDR (software defined radio) which is sort of like a scanner but controlled via software on my PC. There's a lot of traffic on the AM/FM bands, HAM and some other bands I'm not that familiar with. Air traffic is pretty cool to listen to, especially if there's weather in the area. On the FM side of things the adjoining county's Sherriff's dispatch is not encrypted and I can listen to that. Which is occasionally pretty amusing.

But I'd need a pretty sophisticated antenna setup to listen to stuff far away or low power.

There's a lot of traffic in the airwaves.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 19, 2025 12:35 PM (Q4IgG)

106 Has the Gabbard document release become a big topic on X?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 12:35 PM (HFcKg)

107 Sorry about not adhering to the 100 comment rule before commenting O/T, KT. I’m trying my best not to watch television, but I had it on while making lunch.

Posted by: Unkaren at July 19, 2025 12:36 PM (J4BK5)

108 Sorry about not adhering to the 100 comment rule before commenting O/T, KT.

There is only a 100 comment rule on CBD's weekday art threads. I don't understand how people keep being confused about that.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2025 12:39 PM (QZThv)

109 Nicole Mitchell and her step-mom were in a squabble about things after the passing of Nicole's father. So Nicole decided to steal them from her step-mom. Then it went sideways.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 19, 2025 12:39 PM (cZ8IN)

110 >>2 Is there an AM radio in new cars?

In our 2024 Chevy truck there is still AM radio as well as the annoying Sirius bitch who constantly nags you to sign up. So frustrating.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 19, 2025 12:39 PM (/U5Yz)

111 I never thought donation swag was a good use of contributions.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 12:25 PM (HFcKg)

The only really neat NPR fund raising item that I have seen was the Fargo snow globe that featured a chipper, and a few flecks of red snow to add into the white.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 19, 2025 12:39 PM (D7oie)

112 That story is irresistible to the media because they can give it the Marxist framing that the CEO was the evil responsible party and the married HR woman was an innocent victim.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2025 12:35 PM (QZThv)

I liked that she had an odd title like 'Head People Person' or some shit like that.

I also pointed out for every poor bastard who has had to sit through a harassment seminar, it is sweet revenge. 'Was THAT appropriate, Karen? How do you think you banging your boss in public made your HUSBAND at home feel? Huh?'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 19, 2025 12:40 PM (bss/y)

113 57 I listen to am radio everyday. The morning show could come right off of AoS.
Posted by: Ben Had

So, mandatory Prometheus discussions?

Posted by: Auspex at July 19, 2025 12:41 PM (Y8DZL)

114 Rumors are swirling that the deaths from the NPR cuts have already started.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Thirty injured by evil car in LA. I'm sure it's related.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 19, 2025 12:41 PM (L/fGl)

115
Just heard a NY Republican Congress idiot pushing the Amnesty bill. The even dumber anchor curiously never asked about chain migration if we allowed the illegals to stay. “Pay a fine and get in the back of the line”, he said.
Hopefully, no one falls for this bs anymore. I guess I deserve the high blood pressure because I was watching Fukd News.
Posted by: Unkaren

"Conservative/Libertarian" Chris Markowski, The Watchdog on Wall Street, has been pusing the "Dignity Act" for years and still is doing so.

https://t.ly/rfJFt

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 19, 2025 12:41 PM (63Dwl)

116 Any man gets confused by CBD's 100 comment rule spends a night in the box.

Posted by: Carr, The Floor Walker at July 19, 2025 12:42 PM (R/m4+)

117 I liked that she had an odd title like 'Head People Person' or some shit like that.

The new thing in HR is to call themselves the "people team".

Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2025 12:42 PM (QZThv)

118 AM radio has greater range for the ground wave than FM, and it will bend around obstructions, like mountains, to some extent. FM is strictly line of sight. It's not a function of the modulation method; it's a function of the frequency band being used.

Here in Alberta, we have an Emergency Public Broadcast system. In the event of sever weather, o other potential disaster scenario, the Provincial government's Emergency Coordinator can push alert messages on all AM and FM stations in the province. They run periodic tests of it, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 19, 2025 12:42 PM (g0oAz)

119
There is only a 100 comment rule on CBD's weekday art threads. I don't understand how people keep being confused about that.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2025 12:39 PM (QZThv)

As have always understood it:

ace posts- no comment rule. He lets you free fire.

Any cob post - by default 100 comment rule, unless the poster specifies in the post other wise 'Open Thread!' for example.

Any guest post- definite 100 comment rule.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 19, 2025 12:42 PM (bss/y)

120 101. I have a friend who got a personal presidential award (with a handshake with the president at an airport) for teaching Ham radio operators and helping them set up years ago.
Posted by: KT

Excellent! That's the reliable communication during emergencies or disasters when other communication systems fail.

There's a radio merit badge that can be obtained through the Eagle Scouts program. It's a useful skill for scouting, service projects, etc.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 19, 2025 12:43 PM (NFX2v)

121 >>What is this snark of which you speak?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 19, 2025 12:32 PM

I use one to tune my guitar. Hank Johnson should look into that.

Posted by: huerfano at July 19, 2025 12:43 PM (n2swS)

122 When the weather looks bad I listen to NOAA weather on 162.425mhz in our area. I should get a wx radio that has an alarm in it though.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 19, 2025 12:43 PM (/U5Yz)

123 Used to laugh/hate/listen to NPR in the car on the way home from late night hockey games in NoVa. Easy all-time winner there. They were usually just playing BBC's morning "news" show.

This was back in one of the idiotic "intifadas", so lots of mayhem and woe and global drama centered on it, of course. The anchor had an IDF spokesman on the phone. Guy was clearly not a native English speaker.

Spokesman said IDF was withdrawing from Jenin. Anchor: is that because you've killed enough people?

Dead air. Spokesman surely was stunned by the unbelievably tendentious question, and wasn't quite sure given his language limitations that he'd heard correctly. After the pause, he sort of rambled through a "well, no, we achieved our objectives, so we're pulling out" kind of response.

One of the two all-time dead air incidents on radio. Other was on the only slightly more ridiculous (back then) Pacifica station - which had fantastic 3rd World music and blues shows, at least.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2025 12:43 PM (1m82a)

124 So, mandatory Prometheus discussions?
Posted by: Auspex at July 19, 2025 12:41 PM

Point of order! Prometheus discussions are not *mandatory*.

There are, occasionally, Threads that are entirely Prometheus-free.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 19, 2025 12:44 PM (0sNs1)

125 @35 Diogenes

I still have my Teac speakers I bought back in 1976. They are about three feet tall. They have been moved across creation and back. Still have great sound. They built things to last back then. They are hooked up to a Marantz system. It was a great purchase.

Posted by: Case at July 19, 2025 12:45 PM (ilX37)

126 Any cob post - by default 100 comment rule, unless the poster specifies in the post other wise 'Open Thread!' for example.

Any guest post- definite 100 comment rule.

My understanding was always that cob posts on specific topics (the Gardening Thread, the Book Thread, and many of the other regular weekend threads) are no-off-topic-at-all unless specified otherwise. Non-specific posts like this one are fair game, and KT always marks this as an open thread anyway.

And if there's ever a guest post by VDH, cruelty is required.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2025 12:45 PM (QZThv)

127 101. I have a friend who got a personal presidential award (with a handshake with the president at an airport) for teaching Ham radio operators and helping them set up years ago.
Posted by: KT

Mmmm. Ham.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 19, 2025 12:46 PM (L/fGl)

128 There's a radio merit badge that can be obtained through the Eagle Scouts program. It's a useful skill for scouting, service projects, etc.

The way Scouting has gone, it's probably been replaced by a merit badge in beejers.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2025 12:47 PM (QZThv)

129 I love Prometheus. Slap it in DVD player and I am asleep before the opening credits are done.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 12:48 PM (HFcKg)

130 96. Best thing is that there are no Muslims on Ham Radio.
Posted by: Haram-be

😉 Until a great renaming in this country.

Call signs in the Middle East

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 19, 2025 12:49 PM (NFX2v)

131 Best meme I saw:

Coldplay hasn't had a hit single years. Tonight they made 2.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 19, 2025 11:48 AM

Four. CEO, CEO's wife, HR woman, HR woman's husband.

X: https://bit.ly/4lBzlqL

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 19, 2025 12:50 PM (P5BPp)

132 Here in Alberta, we have an Emergency Public Broadcast system. In the event of sever weather, o other potential disaster scenario, the Provincial government's Emergency Coordinator can push alert messages on all AM and FM stations in the province. They run periodic tests of it, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Does Sgt. Preston still have to hand-crank the transmitter?

Posted by: Yukon King at July 19, 2025 12:50 PM (G5+As)

133 Back in the 80s my home town in Ohio had some yutes on the move with a pirate AM station. Kept things pretty clean, actually did some good music programming, and stayed a few steps ahead of the FCC. I don't think they got caught. Word had it they were operating out of a van, moving every hour or so.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 19, 2025 12:50 PM (gm9Sb)

134 Was interviewed twice by NPR. First was straightforward, an obscure topic, not much politix to it. Second was a local talk show on the affiliate, big city. Host gave the "cut" sign to his producer for call-in questions. He didn't explain why, but I know why. Previous guest had been a moonbat talking about the same topic more/less, I'd heard some of the call-ins in the "green room" equivalent - whoa, just the idiocy you'd expect.

Host didn't want to have his audience smacked around by someone who actually had been involved in the story directly, so he just did his own fairly tepid and careful questions. I laughed inside. Redundant reminder of just how wildly misinformed and uninformed so many people are on the world they actually live in.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2025 12:51 PM (1m82a)

135 >When the weather looks bad I listen to NOAA weather on 162.425mhz in our area. I should get a wx radio that has an alarm in it though.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 19, 2025 12:43 PM (/U5Yz)
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On the plus side, it will alert you to weather related events.

On the negative side, it alerts you very loudly.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 19, 2025 12:51 PM (Q4IgG)

136 I still have my Teac speakers I bought back in 1976. They are about three feet tall. They have been moved across creation and back. Still have great sound. They built things to last back then. They are hooked up to a Marantz system. It was a great purchase.
Posted by: Case at July 19, 2025 12:45 PM (ilX37)

I have a JVC surround system I have had since... mid 90s? Great system, subwoofer is nice.

But seems to be tripping a breaker/fuse/something within the system for whatever reason. I need to get a new system, but a lot of the new stuff just looks like crap.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 19, 2025 12:51 PM (bss/y)

137 I liked that she had an odd title like 'Head People Person' or some shit like that.

The new thing in HR is to call themselves the "people team".
Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2025 12:42 PM (QZThv)

It sounds so much better than slave acquisition.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 19, 2025 12:52 PM (S/Y4j)

138 >>96. Best thing is that there are no Muslims on Ham Radio.
Posted by: Haram-be
LOL

King Hussein of Jordan was callsign JY1 on ham radio. He was very active.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 19, 2025 12:52 PM (/U5Yz)

139 On the negative side, it alerts you very loudly.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Oh. I pass then. I dislike loud things. They set off MY PTSD DAMNIT !!!

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 19, 2025 12:54 PM (/U5Yz)

140 Police found Ms. Mitchell hiding in the basement dressed like a ninja.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 19, 2025 12:30 PM (cZ8IN)

And here I thought I just had to worry about recluse spiders down there.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 19, 2025 12:54 PM (gKWVE)

141 'Tater 'splains it all.

Brian Stelter@brianstelter
Stephen Colbert has been a masterful host of "The Late Show" – but the broadcast TV world has been crumbling beneath his feet.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 19, 2025 12:56 PM (L/fGl)

142 I have a vision of Meeee Shell Norris reciting the specials at a TGI Fridays in the 90210.

Buck up kiddo, No tax on tips !

Posted by: Going deep. Out at July 19, 2025 12:56 PM (23/y9)

143 What I like about the am hosts is they will have some leftist on and then ask them a question that leaves the lefty sputtering. They then proceed to rip the fool apart after the segment with verifiable facts.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 12:56 PM (HFcKg)

144 Pump Up The Volume still holds up as a preInternet pirate-station movie. 1991 was maybe the last year such a movie could happen.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 19, 2025 12:56 PM (gKWVE)

145 141 'Tater 'splains it all.

Brian Stelter@brianstelter
Stephen Colbert has been a masterful host of "The Late Show" – but the broadcast TV world has been crumbling beneath his feet.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 19, 2025 12:56 PM (L/fGl)

Someone has a man crush.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 19, 2025 12:56 PM (bss/y)

146 I bought a C Crane CC pocket radio, that has weather alerts. Locally, they send alerts by email.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 19, 2025 12:58 PM (cuCUO)

147 There's gonna be a hamburger desert!

In-N-Out president gives details on leaving California: "Doing business is not easy here"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 19, 2025 12:59 PM (L/fGl)

148 >> On the negative side, it alerts you very loudly.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Oh. I pass then. I dislike loud things. They set off MY PTSD DAMNIT !!!
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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Yea, it's pretty jarring. It's loud for a reason... to wake you up if it's in another room, like ours is. You can turn off the warbling alarm and just have it repeat the oral warning you might get on the TV or other radio.

But, if you're like us, in a tornado prone area, you want to be jarred out of bed if there's one heading your way.

All the other alerts are "off" but it will still display a weather related watch or warning. It's fairly easy to program it too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 19, 2025 01:00 PM (Q4IgG)

149 Has the Gabbard document release become a big topic on X?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 12:35 PM

X Trending List: https://bit.ly/4m4rli6

4 - Politics - Trending: Tulsi
Trending with Pompeo, Arrest Obama
477K posts

11 - Politics - Trending: Treason
367K posts

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 19, 2025 01:00 PM (P5BPp)

150 Clyde Shelton, thank you.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 01:01 PM (HFcKg)

151 NPR stories and news must contain some combination of:
1. Climate change
2. Illegals good
3. Sexual perversions
4. TDS
5. Whites bad minorities good
6. Taxes good
7. Muzzies good just misunderstood.
8. Jews and Christians bad
9. Firearms bad
10. Borders bad
11. There are 12654.4 genders
12. Women undefinable
13. Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Food bad
14. Dope good,

Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 19, 2025 01:02 PM (3YGdZ)

152 'Tater 'splains it all.

Brian Stelter@brianstelter
Stephen Colbert has been a masterful host of "The Late Show" – but the broadcast TV world has been crumbling beneath his feet.

Tater also was swooning over how stunning and brave WSJ was to publish made up bullshit under threat of lawsuits. As Kurt Schlichter said, "I'd sooner take advice from Tater on how to hook up with chicks than on legal matters".

Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2025 01:02 PM (QZThv)

153 In a landmark nomination that reshapes nearly two centuries of tradition, Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael J. Borgschulte has been tapped to serve as the next superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
If confirmed by the Senate, he will become the first Marine to hold the top post in the Academy’s 180-year history.

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I'll bet he's not even queer!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 19, 2025 01:03 PM (L/fGl)

154 36 Two nights ago, I got an urgent Silver Alert near midnight. Some 85 year old lady with dementia had gotten her car keys back and was driving around Norfolk 50 miles away. Thanks for that!

Posted by: Silver Sneakers Guy at July 19, 2025 11:52 AM (G5+As)

I remember the first time an Amber Alert was sent to my cell phone. Holy shit it was loud and woke me from a deep sleep at around 2:30 AM. I was very confused and thought I was about to have a heart attack. Thankfully they've turned down the volume on those alerts. Sheesh.

Posted by: Farquad at July 19, 2025 01:04 PM (yqgaV)

155 Have you got a crystal radio set you can use to listen to government radio in emergencies like Sgt Baker used in Stalag 13?

Posted by: torabora at July 19, 2025 01:05 PM (KtOUo)

156 In a landmark nomination that reshapes nearly two centuries of tradition, Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael J. Borgschulte has been tapped to serve as the next superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
If confirmed by the Senate, he will become the first Marine to hold the top post in the Academy’s 180-year history.

-
I'll bet he's not even queer!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 19, 2025 01:03 PM

The bad news is that the crayons used for Midshipman art projects will be requisitioned for the Superintendent's snack bowl.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 19, 2025 01:06 PM (0sNs1)

157 NPR for emergency broadcasts is like Planned Parenthood for adoption services.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 19, 2025 01:06 PM (O7YUW)

158 52 I live in a semi rural area and my only option for internet is my landline which is totally useless. I had to buy a phone to use as a hot spot to get internet on my desktop.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 12:06 PM (HFcKg)

Never looked into Starlink?

Posted by: Farquad at July 19, 2025 01:08 PM (yqgaV)

159 And Planned Parenthood delivers "health care"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 19, 2025 01:08 PM (JvZF+)

160 Farquad, not available in my area yet.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 01:09 PM (HFcKg)

161 And here I thought I just had to worry about recluse spiders down there.
Posted by: gKWVE

Don't forget us!!

Posted by: The Mole Crickets at July 19, 2025 01:09 PM (G5+As)

162 Everyone at NPR would be dancing if they heard every rural American were dead.

They can fuck right off with their “concern”.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 19, 2025 01:10 PM (Vvm2m)

163 Know nothing about him but assuming the USMC superintendent candidate for USNA is "clean" as possible when it comes to the rot that has afflicted the military for years now. It's a tricky process for the new management to find the least corrupted people, more often those who were least compliant or supportive of the idiocy yet somehow were not purged.

The academies are as much in need of stable-cleaning as the services themselves, perhaps even more so.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2025 01:11 PM (1m82a)

164 147 There's gonna be a hamburger desert!

In-N-Out president gives details on leaving California: "Doing business is not easy here"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 19, 2025 12:59 PM (L/fGl)

Holy shit, didn't they start out in California? That's wild.

160 Farquad, not available in my area yet.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 01:09 PM (HFcKg)

Well, bleh.

Posted by: Farquad at July 19, 2025 01:11 PM (yqgaV)

165 Next midshipman that uses the word “jarhead” will be flogged.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 19, 2025 01:11 PM (RJSYQ)

166 There's nothing new under the sun.

David And Bathsheba Caught On Kiss Cam At Concert

From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 19, 2025 01:11 PM (L/fGl)

167 I live in a semi rural area and my only option for internet is my landline which is totally useless. I had to buy a phone to use as a hot spot to get internet on my desktop.

If you have cell coverage most of the carriers offer dedicated cell routers that you can use for home internet without having to tie up a phone. But if the phone works, might as well.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2025 01:12 PM (QZThv)

168 Alexa gives me every National Weather Service notification, as does my iPhone. By

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 19, 2025 01:12 PM (sZyeE)

169 36 Two nights ago, I got an urgent Silver Alert near midnight. Some 85 year old lady with dementia had gotten her car keys back and was driving around Norfolk 50 miles away. Thanks for that!

Posted by: Silver Sneakers Guy at July 19, 2025 11:52 AM (G5+As)

I got an amber alert from 200 miles away last week. And it said something like the car involved was a gray sedan. No plate given.

Gee thanks, I’ll be sure to keep an eye out for that.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 19, 2025 01:13 PM (Vvm2m)

170 Ad up tp: Why are they trying to sell a walk-in shower to that lady in the wheelchair?

Posted by: muldoon at July 19, 2025 01:13 PM (poXs5)

171
"The Deepest Thoughts of Garrison Keillor and Ken Burns" BluRay Disc can be yours for a mere $50 donation to Public Bores Syndicate (PBS).

Hurry, this boffo gift fly out our doors like "hotscakes", as you rubes call them!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 19, 2025 01:13 PM (Tv15w)

172 It's good to have weather alerts come over the phone. Especially at night. Severe weather is a need to know.
Could save your life. I live in a rural area and get those warnings.

Posted by: Case at July 19, 2025 01:15 PM (ilX37)

173 Steve Bannon's daughter Maureen is now on the Board at West Point. She is a West point grad and served active-duty in Iraq. Also played on the Volleyball team at the Academy.

Posted by: No Fighting In The War Room! at July 19, 2025 01:16 PM (G5+As)

174 Capitalism rules!

NPR: Will suck dick for cash.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 19, 2025 01:16 PM (4Thmn)

175 Do people even have radios anymore? Other than in the car, I don’t have one. And in the car I can’t remember the last time I used it.

We’re approaching fax territory with radio.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 19, 2025 01:16 PM (Vvm2m)

176 Regarding public radio, I worked as a student assistant at the public radio station in the library in which Perfesser Squirrel works-but-does-not-work-for, which is in a rural area. They disbanded quite awhile ago and consolidated into the major metropolitan public radio station in the city up the highway that historically provided most of the university's students (Yours Truly included). I suspect that probably was not the only public radio station that did that.

Posted by: SPinRH_F16 at July 19, 2025 01:17 PM (FDHJL)

177 Not really any weather here to worry about.

Earthquakes sorta don't have warnings or things you can do (apart from general prep) anyway.

Wildfires are different. Your nose and your eyes often provide plenty of info, depending. Heightened awareness during high-risk periods (dry weather, high winds, low brush moisture content). Once a blaze is going, lots of different info sources. Some good apps for the phone directly linked to emergency services. Reverse 911 very well developed as far as evacuation alerts and such.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2025 01:17 PM (1m82a)

178 167 I live in a semi rural area and my only option for internet is my landline which is totally useless. I had to buy a phone to use as a hot spot to get internet on my desktop.

If you have cell coverage most of the carriers offer dedicated cell routers that you can use for home internet without having to tie up a phone. But if the phone works, might as well.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2025 01:12 PM (QZThv)

I have a friend that ended up having to get one of those after the hurricane last year brought down internet service in his area. It took several months for AT&T to get things back up and running. My AT&T fiber service was back up the next morning. Just didn't have power.

Posted by: Farquad at July 19, 2025 01:18 PM (yqgaV)

179 *waves to SPinRH_F16*

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 01:19 PM (HFcKg)

180 Do people even have radios anymore? Other than in the car, I don’t have one. And in the car I can’t remember the last time I used it.

We’re approaching fax territory with radio.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

F*ck that macaroni Marconi!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 19, 2025 01:19 PM (L/fGl)

181 They will have to pry my am radio and landline from my cold dead hands!

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 01:22 PM (HFcKg)

182 Maybe make it into a museum dedicated to free speech, Rush Limbaugh and EIB with a Trump Hotel, a casino, a cigar bar and a strip club inside too.
Posted by: Bo Snerdley at July 19, 2025 12:16 PM (R/m4+)

Whoa!!!!
Where do I get my ticket???

Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2025 01:22 PM (W/lyH)

183 NPR and PBS are both part of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Corporations are evil.

Ending the government subsidies for the CPB is evil.

Posted by: davidt at July 19, 2025 01:22 PM (i0F8b)

184 177 Not really any weather here to worry about.

That's what Noah's neighbors thought. And they probably made fun of the old coot building the big boat, until...

Posted by: ..God Closed The Door! at July 19, 2025 01:22 PM (G5+As)

185 I remember the first time an Amber Alert was sent to my cell phone. Holy shit it was loud and woke me from a deep sleep at around 2:30 AM. I was very confused and thought I was about to have a heart attack. Thankfully they've turned down the volume on those alerts. Sheesh.
Posted by: Farquad at July 19, 2025 01:04 PM (yqgaV)

I have Amber alerts turned off. I just don't interact with or "notice" children all that much, despite having once been one. If I see a child and adult together, my default assumption is that the adult is a parent, or some other person acting in loco parentis.

I'm not an ogre. If I ever saw what I thought might be an actual instance of child abuse or kidnapping, I would call 911. And If I met a lone child that seemed lost, I would offer to help.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 19, 2025 01:23 PM (48oK1)

186 @86

>>Not proof, but suggestive.

Democrats and the left have pretty much rigged the government to fund their entire program.

Trump is pretty much upending their entire racket.

Under Trump the long desired goals of conservatives have been to end RvW and end funding for NPR and CPB and he's accomplished that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 19, 2025 01:23 PM (7tt6P)

187 I have two nice radios that can take a mini SD card. I have Hadrian's classical feeds on the radios. They do shortwave too. One stays in the trailer.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 19, 2025 01:23 PM (cuCUO)

188 This made me laugh. (NSFW)

https://is.gd/t1aTCx

Posted by: Archimedes at July 19, 2025 01:23 PM (Riz8t)

189 NPR did NOT issue the tsunami alert this week up here. Commercial radio did. QED.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 19, 2025 01:25 PM (1Gsou)

190 I culd relay emergency messages by semaphore, as long as the message only contains the letters A thru F, and U. I've forgotten the rest.

Posted by: muldoon at July 19, 2025 01:26 PM (poXs5)

191 AOP. I once took an in distress, crying child out of a car in the grocery parking lot. Took him inside and had the store page his parents.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 01:26 PM (HFcKg)

192 In-N-Out president gives details on leaving California: "Doing business is not easy here"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 19, 2025 12:59 PM (L/fGl)

Holy shit, didn't they start out in California? That's wild.

160 Farquad, not available in my area yet.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 01:09 PM (HFcKg)

Well, bleh.
Posted by: Farquad at July 19, 2025 01:11 PM (yqgaV)
***

One going in in SW Washington State. Just down from a big indian...errr...native American casino. I'm guessing they have radios, internet, intercoms, newspapers. Well, maybe not newspapers.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2025 01:26 PM (W/lyH)

193 According to Maher: "It means losing access to trusted local news".

Yeah, I think there are some rather large assumptions in that sentence.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 19, 2025 01:27 PM (Riz8t)

194 Great deflection!

Any news of our President's behavior was owner of the Miss Teenage International beauty pageant??
He was forced to sell it after pageant sponsors demanded be ownership after repeatedly being told by the pageant chaperones. about Trump wandering around the dressing rooms while the minors were dressing

The cult of personality runs deep

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at July 19, 2025 01:27 PM (NJOvV)

195 I listen to the radio in my car. And I will listen to the radio at the house sometimes. Mainly during football season when a game is going on that is not on tv. Sometimes I will take a radio out and listen to it when I sit on the deck.

Posted by: Case at July 19, 2025 01:28 PM (ilX37)

196 I also doubt many if any NPR stations have generators for their broadcast offices/studios and antennas, plus on-hand diesel to run them for days in case utility power goes out.
Posted by: Gref at July 19, 2025 11:49 AM (aBgBM)

Most are required by federal rules and regulations to have backup generators. These are tested once a week automatically via a computer in master control. The results are printed out as a log with time and date stamps. Any issues are relayed to the Chief Engineer via email and texts, and/or automated phone call.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 19, 2025 01:28 PM (5xuJ/)

197 Just once, I'd like these spoiled trustfunders to say "Okay, there's truth in your claims that we're biased. We will make it our mission to do better".

Not. Gonna. Happen.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 19, 2025 01:28 PM (Riz8t)

198 I still have my Teac speakers I bought back in 1976. They are about three feet tall. They have been moved across creation and back. Still have great sound. They built things to last back then. They are hooked up to a Marantz system. It was a great purchase.
Posted by: Case
-------

Original Advents, though I have had to replace woofer surrounds. Marantz 7T , Marantz Model 32 amp, AR TT w Audio Technica arm.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 19, 2025 01:29 PM (XeU6L)

199 190 I culd relay emergency messages by semaphore, as long as the message only contains the letters A thru F, and U. I've forgotten the rest.
Posted by: muldoon

Cool kids use an Aldis lamp.

Posted by: Blinky at July 19, 2025 01:29 PM (G5+As)

200 Ah, the shit against the wall representative has checked in

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 01:29 PM (HFcKg)

201 YouTube was advertizing a radio that was supposed to reach across the country in a handheld with no significant antenna.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 19, 2025 01:29 PM (EQg1P)

202 I saw a firing line episode with Peggy Noonan. First question from Hoover

Posted by: Vivi at July 19, 2025 01:29 PM (cpunl)

203 Character is what you show when you don't know the Jumbotron is on you.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 19, 2025 01:30 PM (L/fGl)

204 **Waves back at Ben Had**

Posted by: SPinRH_F16 at July 19, 2025 01:30 PM (FDHJL)

205 Ah, the shit against the wall representative has checked in

Is that what that was? I thought somebody had thrown a book into a woodchipper and posted the result.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 19, 2025 01:31 PM (lUFok)

206 They will have to pry my am radio and landline from my cold dead hands!
Posted by: Ben Had
-----
*fistbump*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 19, 2025 01:32 PM (XeU6L)

207 I saw a firing line episode with Peggy Noonan. First question from Hoover was why all the divisiveness in public life. Noonan said it was because folks didn't accept election results. No follow up question. No mention of public violence based on party. No mention that Democrats have a sustained scorched earth policy.nope nothing to see here.

Posted by: Vivi at July 19, 2025 01:33 PM (cpunl)

208
So herself has had Siri play "Piano Man, By Bye Miss American Pie, and Ventura Highway" in succession, loudly.

This aggression will not stand, man.

Posted by: Auspex at July 19, 2025 01:33 PM (Y8DZL)

209 190 I culd relay emergency messages by semaphore, as long as the message only contains the letters A thru F, and U. I've forgotten the rest.
Posted by: muldoon

Just the F and the U can convey lots of messages.

Posted by: The FU Kid at July 19, 2025 01:33 PM (G5+As)

210 If the chair is against the wall, and the walls are closing in, what does that mean for John's mustache?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 19, 2025 01:33 PM (0sNs1)

211 >>>This made me laugh. (NSFW)

https://is.gd/t1aTCx
Posted by: Archimedes at July 19, 2025 01:23 PM (R
*******
That made me laugh too! Was going to send it to my wife as a joke, but then thought "nah, things are pretty quiet here so no".

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at July 19, 2025 01:33 PM (s/GLD)

212 YouTube was advertizing a radio that was supposed to reach across the country in a handheld with no significant antenna.

If that's a two way radio it uses the cell network. Which would be down in the type of emergency they're talking about in their ads.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 19, 2025 01:33 PM (lUFok)

213 We need an Amber Heard Alert to protect our beds when she's around.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 19, 2025 01:33 PM (L/fGl)

214 Here in Alberta, we have an Emergency Public Broadcast system. In the event of sever weather, o other potential disaster scenario, the Provincial government's Emergency Coordinator can push alert messages on all AM and FM stations in the province. They run periodic tests of it, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Does Sgt. Preston still have to hand-crank the transmitter?
Posted by: Yukon King at July 19, 2025 12:50 PM (G5+As)

That was changed here in the US from EBS to the EAS, Emergency Alert System. We had to run weekly tests (still do) and that test is entered into the daily log. THAT is one big item on the FCC check list when they come in to check logs. If we miss one, there had better be a damn good excuse. A fine usually follows.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 19, 2025 01:34 PM (5xuJ/)

215 Unbelievable.

ICE CAUGHT Illegal Chinese Illegal Immigrants Doing Some VERY Bad Things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk0uiW85eCY

Posted by: Archimedes at July 19, 2025 01:34 PM (Riz8t)

216 AOP. I once took an in distress, crying child out of a car in the grocery parking lot. Took him inside and had the store page his parents.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 01:26 PM (HFcKg)

Yeah. If it were a child, or pet, locked in a hot car in the Sun, and in distress, I would call 911, and tell them that unless emergency responders could be on the scene in 5 minutes or less, I'd be breaking windows.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 19, 2025 01:35 PM (48oK1)

217 Cool kids use an Aldis lamp.

*********

I'm guessing that's some kind of Navy thing.

Posted by: muldoon at July 19, 2025 01:35 PM (poXs5)

218 Catherine Mahr caree as much about rural America as LBJ did.

Posted by: Eromero at July 19, 2025 01:35 PM (LHPAg)

219 OT- Just saw a sign on the road ( and no, I am not driving ) "95 is the name of the highway, not the speed limit."

I laughed . They do have some clever electronic signs of the road.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 19, 2025 01:35 PM (lwYU6)

220 Cool kids use an Aldis lamp.
Posted by: Blinky
-------

Since a kid I have known what an Aldis lamp is...but now you have prompted me find out who Aldis was...

Arthur Cyril Webb Aldis

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 19, 2025 01:36 PM (XeU6L)

221 relay emergency messages by megaphone loudhailer.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 19, 2025 01:36 PM (C5dlJ)

222 There's gonna be a hamburger desert!

In-N-Out president gives details on leaving California: "Doing business is not easy here"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 19, 2025 12:59 PM

Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen

In-n-Out President Lynsi Snyder reveals for the first time that she and her family are LEAVING California for Tennessee. “Raising a family is not easy here,” she told me. “Doing business is not easy here.”

After 77 years, In-n-Out HQ will say goodbye to its home state and set up shop in Franklin. The granddaughter of the fast food chain’s founders, Snyder is staying true to the company’s Christian foundation while expanding its reach.

Our conversation was fascinating. Lynsi shares the untold story of In-n-Out’s early years and the hardship she went through before becoming the successful business leader she is. Her journey to Jesus is raw and redemptive. You will be so encouraged.

X video: https://bit.ly/4kOzN3M

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 19, 2025 01:36 PM (P5BPp)

223 We need an Amber Heard Alert to protect our beds when she's around.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 19, 2025 01:33 PM

Pfffft, I say. Pfffft!

Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA & Cuck-CCP) at July 19, 2025 01:38 PM (0sNs1)

224 Aldis and more!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 19, 2025 01:38 PM (C5dlJ)

225 >>> NPR provides community and emergency information to Rural Americans?

Yes, but you need a special radio - it gets only one channel.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 19, 2025 01:38 PM (/lPRQ)

226
Good morning, all!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 19, 2025 01:39 PM (HL/Ld)

227 Cool kids use an Aldis lamp.

*********

I'm guessing that's some kind of Navy thing.
Posted by: muldoon at July 19, 2025 01:35 PM

Like semaphore, all the cool things are Navy things.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 19, 2025 01:39 PM (0sNs1)

228 Botswain.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 19, 2025 01:40 PM (EQg1P)

229 The Amber Heard twins.

https://is.gd/gxzh1o

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 19, 2025 01:40 PM (L/fGl)

230
I have Amber alerts turned off

Are those the ones that shit the bed?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 19, 2025 01:40 PM (Tv15w)

231 Do you need a carrier to use a two way radio?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 19, 2025 01:41 PM (EQg1P)

232 This Thread is devolving when quantified in terms of seriousity.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 19, 2025 01:41 PM (0sNs1)

233 205 "Ah, the shit against the wall representative has checked in

Now you did it. 😉All I can think is that he should change his name to AliasS**t S**t .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 19, 2025 01:42 PM (EoCRO)

234 When Rick Steves went all in on Trump Hitler and did a video on the Reichstag and talking about how Hitler sent his Opponent's to the Concentration camps I loved watching his shows no more,
Samantha Brown at least begged to save NPR and PBS but I haven't seen her do the Trump Hitler yet. Since she has kids she's doing more what to do with the family type travel now.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 19, 2025 01:42 PM (FCrpy)

235 Do you need a carrier to use a two way radio?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 19, 2025 01:41 PM

No, cruisers, destroyers, and oilers have them, too.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 19, 2025 01:42 PM (0sNs1)

236 OT- Just saw a sign on the road ( and no, I am not driving ) "95 is the name of the highway, not the speed limit."

I laughed . They do have some clever electronic signs of the road.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Maybe on a good day 95 might be the speed limit.

Now I-5, that might be the best you can do at your average.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 19, 2025 01:42 PM (/lPRQ)

237 192 In-N-Out president gives details on leaving California: "Doing business is not easy here"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 19, 2025 12:59 PM (L/fGl)

A friend's daughter worked at one here. They consistently paid above minimum wage, and is the only fast food place that offers health benefits and a 401k. I'll be trading In-N-Out for Waffle House in a few weeks. Fair trade, IMO...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 19, 2025 01:43 PM (bA75n)

238
Like semaphore, all the cool things are Navy things.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

It is worth noting here that the sole "military" member of the Village People was dressed as a sailor.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 19, 2025 01:43 PM (Tv15w)

239 231 Do you need a carrier to use a two way radio?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 19, 2025 01:41 PM (EQg1P)

No, a Captain's gig will be way big enough, if no aircraft are needed for the mission.

Posted by: Eromero at July 19, 2025 01:46 PM (LHPAg)

240 " Have you got a crystal radio set you can use to listen to government radio in emergencies like Sgt Baker used in Stalag 13?
Posted by: torabora"

I've got one made out of a razor blade, a diode, a safety pin, a toilet paper tube, a coil of wire, some thumbtacks, and ear phone, and a board to mount it on. It really works and picks up two local stations.

Posted by: Spock at July 19, 2025 01:46 PM (vFG9F)

241 Now you did it. 😉All I can think is that he should change his name to AliasS**t S**t .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 19, 2025 01:42 PM (EoCRO)

I call him the ASS troll. After all, his "initials" spell "ass". Self-awareness is not his long suit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 19, 2025 01:46 PM (48oK1)

242 It is worth noting here that the sole "military" member of the Village People was dressed as a sailor.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 19, 2025 01:43 PM

Let's not forget to note the fact that it was the Navy that invented sex.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 19, 2025 01:46 PM (0sNs1)

243 For them as haven't seen it, Morse vs. Texting, on the Tonight show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRuRE-Bwk1U

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 19, 2025 01:46 PM (XeU6L)

244 Dark new chapter in Trump’s authoritarian slide alert!

Mother Jones@MotherJones
"If this can happen to Colbert and a storied franchise, it can happen to anyone."
Why the end of the "Late Show" signals a dark new chapter in Trump’s authoritarian slide—and our culture at large.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 19, 2025 01:47 PM (L/fGl)

245 Didn't they have a codetalker as well?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 19, 2025 01:47 PM (EQg1P)

246 Maybe on a good day 95 might be the speed limit.

I’ve done triple digits on I-95, but that’s highly dependent on what stretch of I-95 you’re on.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2025 01:47 PM (QZThv)

247 It is worth noting here that the sole "military" member of the Village People was dressed as a sailor.

"In the Navy" was one of their big hits!

Posted by: From Their Album "Go West" at July 19, 2025 01:48 PM (G5+As)

248 How will Leftist Propaganda reach the unwashed rural flyover people without NPR???

Posted by: Hal Dall at July 19, 2025 01:48 PM (kTQ0x)

249 Watched the CEO vid. Sha ain't bad looking. Should be able to get plenty of money at the truck stops.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 19, 2025 01:48 PM (z2xIs)

250 Mother in law Jones

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 19, 2025 01:49 PM (63Dwl)

251 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 19, 2025 01:46 PM (48oK1)

LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 19, 2025 01:51 PM (UHzX2)

252 I trust there is never a "Kiss Cam" at MoMes?

Posted by: David Cop-a-feel at July 19, 2025 01:52 PM (G5+As)

253 More than 30 killed after Israeli forces open fire on people seeking food in Gaza, health ministry says

-
I note they didn't say which health ministry.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 19, 2025 01:52 PM (L/fGl)

254 X video: https://bit.ly/4kOzN3M

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 19, 2025 01:36 PM (P5BPp)

Whoa, moving their HQ to Tennessee? Maybe we'll finally get some In-N-Out stores down here in Georgia. Last time I was able to go to one was in Vegas which was 12 years ago.

Posted by: Farquad at July 19, 2025 01:52 PM (yqgaV)

255 Here in Alberta, we have an Emergency Public Broadcast system. In the event of sever weather, o other potential disaster scenario, the Provincial government's Emergency Coordinator can push alert messages on all AM and FM stations in the province. They run periodic tests of it, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Here in the Puyallup River Valley they installed a volcano warning system in case Mt.Rainier ever foes full St Helens. They test it from time to time. It seldom works.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2025 01:55 PM (W/lyH)

256 More than 30 killed after Israeli forces open fire on people seeking food in Gaza, health ministry says

Everyone in Gaza is seeking food, including the terrorists.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2025 01:57 PM (W/lyH)

257 Ben Had I sent you email.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 19, 2025 02:11 PM (JvZF+)

258 SanFranpsycho , may I text you back?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 02:16 PM (HFcKg)

259 >> NPR CEO Katherine Maher is now begging for donations

She is so awful. She should not be the face of anything.

Posted by: m at July 19, 2025 02:16 PM (aURVT)

260 Sure, you have my number.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 19, 2025 02:28 PM (JvZF+)

261 Let's not forget to note the fact that it was the Navy that invented sex.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

*********

Well sure, but the Army refined it to be between a man and a woman.

Posted by: muldoon at July 19, 2025 02:36 PM (poXs5)

262 I mess with my grandkids by sending them an e-mail that says, "I sent you a text" while simultaneously sending them a text that says, "check your e-mail"

Keeps 'em busy all day.

Posted by: muldoon at July 19, 2025 02:38 PM (poXs5)

263 The Left are all Chicken Little Dicks.

Posted by: polynikes at July 19, 2025 02:42 PM (VofaG)

264 Keeps 'em busy all day.
Posted by: muldoon at July 19, 2025 02:38 PM (poXs5)

Lol

Posted by: polynikes at July 19, 2025 02:42 PM (VofaG)

265 Mother Jones@MotherJones
"If this can happen to Colbert and a storied franchise, it can happen to anyone."
Why the end of the "Late Show" signals a dark new chapter in Trump’s authoritarian slide—and our culture at large.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 19, 2025 01:47 PM (L/fGl)

Nevermind the 40 million dollar loss the show makes.

The Left didn't complain when Tim Allen's top rated show was cancelled no doubt because it was perceived as conservative.

Posted by: polynikes at July 19, 2025 02:45 PM (VofaG)

266 polynikes your comments are so insightful. Keep them coming.

Posted by: Not a polynikes sock at July 19, 2025 02:50 PM (VofaG)

267 polynikes your comments are so insightful. Keep them coming.
Posted by: Not a polynikes sock at July 19, 2025 02:50 PM (VofaG)

Get a room, guy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 19, 2025 02:57 PM (zZu0s)

268 The Gaza story is false. IDF fired on a group after repeated warnings not to advance. This occurred at night when the aid station was closed.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 19, 2025 03:11 PM (HFcKg)

269 A couple days old and I might have seen this here already, but still interesting. (rtwt)

"The Network" in the Worlds of the Elites
Baffled by President Trump's Response to the Epstein "Client List"? I Think I Get It.
Dr Naomi Wolf
Jul 17, 2025
https://shorturl.at/4kaVC

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 19, 2025 03:12 PM (ULPxl)

270 Let's not forget to note the fact that it was the Navy that invented sex.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

*********

Well sure, but the Army refined it to be between a man and a woman.
Posted by: muldoon at July 19, 2025 02:36

***

This.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2025 03:13 PM (W/lyH)

271 What amazes me is how badly the left fought against this. Their arguments were incredibly bad. Nobody was buying into "those loser hick Trump voters will all die if you don't fund NPR" and they didn't offer much else. They tried the Sesame Street thing but everyone kept pointing out that PBS doesn't even own or run SS any longer.

That's it, that was their entire push. Its like they don't even remember how to do this any more. Whatever company they are hiring to come up with their ideas needs to be fired, but I fear that its even worse. I think that they aren't even using publicists or marketing experts. I think that they are brainstorming this in DMs and on places like Democrat Underground.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 19, 2025 03:23 PM (dfIr7)

272 NPR is as useful to provide information as a fax machine is today. Yeah very few people still find it useful.

Posted by: Not a polynikes sock at July 19, 2025 03:25 PM (VofaG)

273 Off my sock .

Posted by: polynikes at July 19, 2025 03:26 PM (VofaG)

274 The Gaza story is false. IDF fired on a group after repeated warnings not to advance. This occurred at night when the aid station was closed.

Almost every story out of Gaza is false, and ridiculous. The only one that is valid is that some idiot in a tank shelled a Roman Catholic Church and damaged it heavily, killing a few people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 19, 2025 03:26 PM (dfIr7)

275 I think that they are brainstorming this in DMs and on places like Democrat Underground.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 19, 2025 03:23 PM (dfIr7)

Something that has been kicking around in my head the past month or so: 'lack of common cultural ground.' This came up iirc in relation to movies or storytelling in general as a reason why Hollywood could not make a successful film. But I think the idea expands outward to other things like rhetoric and just simple worldview.

Another thing is how much of the lefts ideology seems not to be about reasoned out positions but tenets of faith. It is hard to argue something that is a tenet of faith. Example for something on our side:

Why is abortion wrong but capital punishment ok?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 19, 2025 03:29 PM (zZu0s)

276 Why is abortion wrong but capital punishment ok?

But that one is so easy to argue and its so obvious. Abortion destroys a helpless innocent life, it is unjust and violates the 6th commandment. Capital punishment is the just killing of someone who is so heinous and evil that they must be removed from society permanently for their actions. They earned that reaction, and it is the very sacred value of life that justifies it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 19, 2025 03:33 PM (dfIr7)

277 I mess with my grandkids by sending them an e-mail that says, "I sent you a text" while simultaneously sending them a text that says, "check your e-mail"

Keeps 'em busy all day.
Posted by: muldoon

The modern version of the note card that says

How do you keep a Polack in suspense?
Turn over ->

on both sides.

Posted by: mikeski at July 19, 2025 03:35 PM (DgGvY)

278 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 19, 2025 03:33 PM (dfIr7)

Of course, but it is an example of something that seems so obvious that many do not think about it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 19, 2025 03:37 PM (zZu0s)

279 And also I used that example advised because to us it is obvious but to our opponents it is not.

Was that Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 19, 2025 03:39 PM (zZu0s)

280 Advisedly. Huh, not in brave.

Illiterate Phillistine*

*which ALSO had to be added.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 19, 2025 03:44 PM (zZu0s)

281 DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican

Ever wonder why European cities accepted so many refugees?

Today, I'm over my jet lag and processing the documents I scanned this week. Already it's pretty shocking.

The refugee influx into Europe began as a U.S. taxpayer-funded subsidy. The U.S. government literally paid European cities to take them in, using Soros-backed operations like ARC (American Refugee Committee) as the middlemen.

Yes, ARC, co-founded with money from the Soros Humanitarian Fund, was running programs directly for the U.S. government.

It goes even deeper and darker than that. Stay tuned.

X: https://bit.ly/4eVtQRf

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 19, 2025 04:53 PM (P5BPp)

282 I mess with my grandkids by sending them an e-mail that says, "I sent you a text" while simultaneously sending them a text that says, "check your e-mail"

Keeps 'em busy all day.

My favorite is a GIF that is an image of an empty but lit bathroom that appears to be that for a young woman. Along the top it says "Live Video Feed" and the GIF simply has a red dot blinking in the corner of the image.

Guess it keeps perverts busy all day.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 19, 2025 04:58 PM (a4flb)

283 Have any of these concern trolls in Congress seen the communications suites in today's tractors? AM, FM, cellular, internet, probably ham radio. I'm pretty sure NPR does NOT do the farm report or long range weather forecasting. Sometimes when I can't sleep, I'll watch RFD TV for the Ag Report. Always interesting

Posted by: Stacy0311 at July 19, 2025 05:02 PM (gwujb)

284 So I assume there's a good reason why no one ever asks "why dont we just fix whatever is banning accounts that comment on old threads". It might be That Thing We Don't Talk About and look at me i need to stop before I do The Unforgivable . Ok just stop talking.

Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 19, 2025 05:14 PM (ciYHQ)

285 The Left's talking points are out.

NYT: "Gabbard Claims Obama Administration Tried to Undermine Trump in 2016"

Citizen Caller @CitizenCaller

The NY Times: nothing to see here. Gabbard's report is "baseless" and "politically motivated", "error-ridden."

The Washington Post hasn't covered it at all.

X: https://bit.ly/44GAA29

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 19, 2025 05:19 PM (P5BPp)

286 Woof. Close one. I remember NPR. I was a vet tech working for 2 female vets. NPR was the office background. It was pleasant, that was part of it's charm.

Unfortunately this was during the Clinton impeachment and the soothing tone couldn't make up for their lack of integrity. All these "enlightened sophisticates" couldn't wrap their heads around the fact that Paula Jones had a right to discovery to determine if Bill had a pattern of predatory behavior in the work place.

I still remember how furious I was. People forget this was when yiu couldn't attend a school musical without being lectured about sexual harassment in the workplace. That's what I got Fen's Law: the Left doesn't really believe in the things they lecture the rest of us about. We were never going to shame them over their hypocrisy re sexual discrimination/harassment in the workplace because they never cared about it to begin with.

Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 19, 2025 05:27 PM (ciYHQ)

287 When all else fails, Ham Radio!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 19, 2025 07:00 PM (dKEEs)

288 For many years NPR's business report discussed "the dollar and other foreign currencies."

I think that's what you call a clue.

Posted by: Peter B at July 20, 2025 02:06 AM (+8Dg7)

289 We live in a semi-rural community 40 miles from the Twin Shitties(MN) and haven't watched TV news of any sort since Trump descended. Never trusted NPR or any three letter 'news' since the Clinton era.

When you live in a farm community you learn to trust word-of-mouth backed up by the right internet sources like Alpha News here. X is also working quite nicely.

Posted by: Danimal28 at July 20, 2025 09:50 AM (mNOhh)

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