The NPRiest

Will Shortz is like, look, the name of this podcast is “Short Wave” and you’re talking about “brain workouts” and you can’t mention me or the Sunday Puzzle ONE TIME in it?

Look, we commit to a bit here.

Mamdani: “We also agreed that it is critical in these trying times to return The Bryant Park Project to the airwaves, or at least in the form of a daily podcast”

BRB, writing a short series based on her meeting Ace Frehley at the pearly gates

(Of course: RIP, legend.)

Still seems intentional!

WAMC contour map does not reach anywhere near NYC

WNYC’s 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.)

It’s too pure for this world

Nobody at NPR got raptured except, unexpectedly, Susan Stamberg's cranberry relish and the concept of The Bryant Park Project

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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.

Nothing funny to say about this, I don’t think.

So many great things ended with the tag line “…with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting” throughout yr. NPRiest’s life—from 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

Report: Trump trying to amend the budget bill to preclude any farm bill funding from going towards any pie offered to NPR hosts doing RAGBRAI

NPR launches an All Things Considered branded version of this

<resets the “__ days since Peter Sagal asserted a particular city is ‘one of his favorite cities in the world’s counter to zero>

That’s my radio station and it makes us all so gourd

Breaking news from a correspondent in upstate New York: @wamcradio.bsky.social fund drive guy referred to delicata as an “under-sung hype squash”

New pope hoping his new email address will make it so he stops getting WBEZ membership reminders

We’re getting a report that the new pope is the Bryant Park Project (it’s a rotating thing)

“We could put a Shure 57 or maybe a pressure zone microphone right up next to his head and see if it’d pick up the breeze? Or maybe we put a bell around his neck and record the jingling?”

Marketplace producers frantically figuring out if Kai Ryssdal shaking his head emphatically for the entire episode can play on the radio

(In seriousness: what a remarkable thing to do.)

Cory Booker, Hour 25: “I 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 about—hear me out—Susan Stamberg’s cranberry relish”

I bet they could hear each other, since they are sitting four feet apart

Peter Sagal and Carl Kassel (RIP) communicating in a public park via tin can telephone

The national security group chat

REPORT: Pete Hegseth submitted the names and identities of deep undercover CIA operatives to NPR’s College Podcasts March Bracket competition

Gotta says: a bit disappointed that the vasectomy doctor on this week’s Wait Wait was, we are almost certain, named Dr. Cancel and @petersagal.bsky.social just left it hanging over the plate.

Goose meme asking what Peter wrote

NPR Laugh Power Rankings, definitive:

1. Steve Inskeep
2. Dulcé Sloan
3. Terry Gross
4. Eleanor Beardsley (we’ve never heard her laugh but feel good about this ranking)
5. Hari Kondabolu

Find A Geographic Location Peter Sagal Won’t Claim To Love Challenge