BRB, writing a short series based on her meeting Ace Frehley at the pearly gates
(Of course: RIP, legend.)
@thenpriest.bsky.social
The NPRiest of all. We do know that not all public radio is NPR, but ThePRiest is probably taken and reads weird. Not NPR.
BRB, writing a short series based on her meeting Ace Frehley at the pearly gates
(Of course: RIP, legend.)
Still seems intentional!
28.09.2025 15:03 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0WAMC contour map does not reach anywhere near NYC
WNYCโs folks must be mad: Weekend Edition Puzzle contestant lives in NYC, says he listens on WAMC.
(No, none of its translators get to NYC either.)
Itโs too pure for this world
23.09.2025 17:15 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Nobody at NPR got raptured except, unexpectedly, Susan Stamberg's cranberry relish and the concept of The Bryant Park Project
23.09.2025 15:48 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0So: donate to your station, but if youโre able to do so, also donate to a station that previously depended on CPB funding for an outsize part of their budget. This site makes it easy:
adoptastation.org
Yr. NPRiest happens to live in a major metro area with robust support for public media; our stations (radio and TV) will probably be okay. Not so for a lot of rural stations, where their presence is arguably *more* important.
01.08.2025 19:14 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Nothing funny to say about this, I donโt think.
So many great things ended with the tag line โโฆwith support from the Corporation for Public Broadcastingโ throughout yr. NPRiestโs lifeโfrom well before I had any sense what that meant.
Indiana Jones And The Suddenly Unfortunate Aspects Of Having Your Public Radio Station Be Part Of A State University System, When That Has Mostly Been A Positive, If Administratively Complicated, In Prior Years
02.07.2025 22:51 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Report: Trump trying to amend the budget bill to preclude any farm bill funding from going towards any pie offered to NPR hosts doing RAGBRAI
25.06.2025 02:42 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0NPR launches an All Things Considered branded version of this
20.06.2025 19:22 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0<resets the โ__ days since Peter Sagal asserted a particular city is โone of his favorite cities in the worldโs counter to zero>
07.06.2025 12:37 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Thatโs my radio station and it makes us all so gourd
03.06.2025 19:46 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Breaking news from a correspondent in upstate New York: @wamcradio.bsky.social fund drive guy referred to delicata as an โunder-sung hype squashโ
03.06.2025 19:43 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0New pope hoping his new email address will make it so he stops getting WBEZ membership reminders
08.05.2025 21:08 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Weโre getting a report that the new pope is the Bryant Park Project (itโs a rotating thing)
08.05.2025 16:37 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โWe could put a Shure 57 or maybe a pressure zone microphone right up next to his head and see if itโd pick up the breeze? Or maybe we put a bell around his neck and record the jingling?โ
03.04.2025 02:01 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Marketplace producers frantically figuring out if Kai Ryssdal shaking his head emphatically for the entire episode can play on the radio
03.04.2025 01:58 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0(In seriousness: what a remarkable thing to do.)
02.04.2025 00:09 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Cory Booker, Hour 25: โI will next speak about the atrocity that was the cancellation of The Bryant Park Project; following that, I have some words you may not like to hear aboutโhear me outโSusan Stambergโs cranberry relishโ
02.04.2025 00:06 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I bet they could hear each other, since they are sitting four feet apart
24.03.2025 22:33 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Peter Sagal and Carl Kassel (RIP) communicating in a public park via tin can telephone
The national security group chat
24.03.2025 22:13 โ ๐ 411 ๐ 58 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 3REPORT: Pete Hegseth submitted the names and identities of deep undercover CIA operatives to NPRโs College Podcasts March Bracket competition
24.03.2025 21:24 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Gotta says: a bit disappointed that the vasectomy doctor on this weekโs Wait Wait was, we are almost certain, named Dr. Cancel and @petersagal.bsky.social just left it hanging over the plate.
26.01.2025 14:07 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Goose meme asking what Peter wrote
23.12.2024 13:57 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0NPR Laugh Power Rankings, definitive:
1. Steve Inskeep
2. Dulcรฉ Sloan
3. Terry Gross
4. Eleanor Beardsley (weโve never heard her laugh but feel good about this ranking)
5. Hari Kondabolu
Find A Geographic Location Peter Sagal Wonโt Claim To Love Challenge
15.12.2024 21:07 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0(And they can be convinced by promos filled with dad jokes)
10.12.2024 17:43 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0There apparently exist a lot of people with extra cars to donate
10.12.2024 17:09 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Very excited for the underwriting messages
02.12.2024 15:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0