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Diana Duncan <art2mis AT nc.rr.com> wrote:

>I would have to agree.  That man's voice drives me out of my mind!  
>About 1/2 a second is all it takes for me to turn the radio OFF!  So 
>how come he gets two hours to spout banal crud and play bad folk music?

His audience is huge, believe it or not. We got more calls complaining about 
pre-empting his show with war coverage last weekend than about any other show.

The Prairie Home Companion demographic is primarily middle-age and older, 
white, middle- to upper-class, middle-of-the-road democrat, christians (or so 
"studies" show). I can't prove this, but I firmly believe they also have no 
taste in music and mediocre senses of humor. Keillor gets good musical guests 
often (today's guests are really good), but he can't sing a whit. Yet, he 
always seems to get plenty of solos, or duets with people who are really good 
and shouldn't have to suffer through such. I really don't get it.

And he always breathes into the microphone really heavily. That's irritating. 
I do this shift every Sunday and I usually bring a book, turn down the volume 
in the control room, and just watch the meters to make sure the show is still 
playing. If I had to work during Car Talk, I'd do the same thing. Those two 
yahoos drive me nuts.

Just out of curiosity, what does anyone think about the non-stop war coverage 
WUNC launched for a few days last week and their coverage since?

Beth

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> Just out of curiosity, what does anyone think about the non-stop war
> coverage WUNC launched for a few days last week and their coverage
> since?

Anything that keeps "The People's Pharmacy" off the air is fine by me.

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> on Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 02:46:43PM -0500, Beth wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, what does anyone think about the non-stop war
>> coverage WUNC launched for a few days last week and their coverage
>> since?
>
> Anything that keeps "The People's Pharmacy" off the air is fine by me.

I've found that a homeopathic method works well.

This method involves natural cotton balls dipped lightly in olive oil
placed gently into each ear for the duration of the show.

-Jay

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