OK, this was too good to pass up – I had to track it down. The piece Poe mentioned was one of the 1998 Bonus Pledge Breaks: Corey Flintoff, Carl Kassell and Terry Gross stage a newscast as a medieval joust. When first played during Morning Edition on WBEZ in Chicago, it brought in $12,000 in a half hour. (Requires RealAudio to play, segment begins at 42:38) It’s a hoot! (“For my masters, Noah, Robert, and Linda!” “For my liege, Bob Edwards!”)
The host of This American Life put it well in an interview with the always entertaining Onion;
“Okay, cue the [horse noise!]”
*trumpet blast*
Carl: “TAKE THAT!”
Carl is da man
Carl is definitely the coolest. UNC-CH grad from way back when, too. If you look on the “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me…” site (one of my favorite NPR shows; I listen to it every Saturday on the way back from Alexander lessons), you can hear the messages he does for people on their answering machines as the prize for the show. Carl doing Oklahoma is something to behold, definitely…
Re: Carl is da man
Did Carl suffer some medical problem in the last few years? His voice used to be very nice, but now it sounds like he’s talking with a mouth full of wet marbles. It’s almost painful to listen to it.
I miss Wait! Wait! Don’t Tell Me!
My local station plays in on Saturday mornings, too early for me to remember to turn on the radio. They used to play it Monday evenings, so that it would start when I was about eight blocks from home one my walk from work…
Re: Wait, Wait…
OK, straying a bit from the subject, but I couldn’t pass it up: if you subscribe to audible.com, you can get a monthly subscription to “Wait, Wait…” and a bunch of other NPR shows (we have one for “This American Life”). You can download each show as an MP3 file and keep it as long as you like (no DRM), which is pretty nice, and they work with any player. The subscription we have includes a free book-on-MP3 each month of your choice, and a free radio program subscription each month. Worth checking out…
Mirko a happy birthday, but first…news.”
So who else heard the episode of This American Life when he jousted with the guy from All Things Considered?
OK, this was too good to pass up – I had to track it down. The piece Poe mentioned was one of the 1998 Bonus Pledge Breaks:
Corey Flintoff, Carl Kassell and Terry Gross stage a newscast as a medieval joust. When first played during Morning Edition on WBEZ in Chicago, it brought in $12,000 in a half hour. (Requires RealAudio to play, segment begins at 42:38) It’s a hoot! (“For my masters, Noah, Robert, and Linda!” “For my liege, Bob Edwards!”)
The host of This American Life put it well in an interview with the always entertaining Onion;
“Okay, cue the [horse noise!]”
*trumpet blast*
Carl: “TAKE THAT!”
Carl is da man
Carl is definitely the coolest. UNC-CH grad from way back when, too. If you look on the “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me…” site (one of my favorite NPR shows; I listen to it every Saturday on the way back from Alexander lessons), you can hear the messages he does for people on their answering machines as the prize for the show. Carl doing Oklahoma is something to behold, definitely…
Re: Carl is da man
Did Carl suffer some medical problem in the last few years? His voice used to be very nice, but now it sounds like he’s talking with a mouth full of wet marbles. It’s almost painful to listen to it.
I miss Wait! Wait! Don’t Tell Me!
My local station plays in on Saturday mornings, too early for me to remember to turn on the radio. They used to play it Monday evenings, so that it would start when I was about eight blocks from home one my walk from work…
Re: Wait, Wait…
OK, straying a bit from the subject, but I couldn’t pass it up: if you subscribe to audible.com, you can get a monthly subscription to “Wait, Wait…” and a bunch of other NPR shows (we have one for “This American Life”). You can download each show as an MP3 file and keep it as long as you like (no DRM), which is pretty nice, and they work with any player. The subscription we have includes a free book-on-MP3 each month of your choice, and a free radio program subscription each month. Worth checking out…