Surprised that more truckers haven't discovered podcasts.
Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
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#32I love NPR. My wife makes fun of me because sometimes I sit in the car with the battery / radio on after I park just to hear a story finish. New Hampshire Public radio has a lot of local news and features too, which I can't hear anywhere else. I'm sure other markets are the same. You can get it on Alexa too because most of the shows are also podcasts which is also great. I've also heard a lot from my conservative fri…
Hey hey, another New Hampshire native!
It also helps that, depending on where you live, NHPR is the most entertaining programming available. The Exchange is a very high quality current events show, and the host is incredibly good at her job. I would listen to that when traveling up to PSU for school during my senior year.
If you find yourself north of Tilton, NH, you're not going to have much choice in radio programming. Unless, that is, you enjoy country or Christian radio.
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#33I love NPR. My wife makes fun of me because sometimes I sit in the car with the battery / radio on after I park just to hear a story finish. New Hampshire Public radio has a lot of local news and features too, which I can't hear anywhere else. I'm sure other markets are the same. You can get it on Alexa too because most of the shows are also podcasts which is also great. I've also heard a lot from my conservative fri…
> You can get it on Alexa too because most of the shows are also podcasts which is also great.
"Alexa, play NPR" also works. It will use the ZIP code from your Amazon account and play the local NPR affiliate from either TuneIn or iHeartRadio.
This is how I listen to it at home - one Echo Dot (connected to a Tivoli Audio Model One) in the "office", and another using its built-in speaker, in the bedroom.
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#34Looking for a "bubble-free" media venue? Not a bad place to start.
Your politics clearly lean left. I emphatically disagree with your assessment. Not surprisingly, I am center right/libertarian.
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#35Surprised that more truckers haven't discovered podcasts.
Where on earth did that comment come from? How stupid do you think truckers are? The article didn't mention podcasts.
News flash: Truckers also enjoy 21st century technology.
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#36I listen to a number of NPR podcasts and perhaps I'm misremembering but it seems there's an uptick in the past few years of interviewing and discussing the lives of just "regular folks", people who work blue-collar jobs, people with conservative religious backgrounds, etc., ... and not in a disparaging way. But ... Fresh Air with Terry Gross still largely wanders the fields of the cultural left with nary a nod to alt…
Ugh. I can't stand Terry Gross. They should call it "Terry Gross Talks About Her Feelings While Interesting Guests Listen And Wonder What They're Doing There."
Yeah, Fresh Air/Terry Gross is pretty caught up in her own bubble, if you ask me. She gets pretty feisty when guests challenge her from time to time, which I enjoy. (Good listening when that happens!)
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I'm a Libertarian As a libertarian, don't you find the economic news reports from NPS cringeworthy though?
Economics is such a small portion of what NPR covers. And most of the time it is things like what the market did today which are fact based. Do I disagree with stuff they say sometimes? Absolutely. But not enough to change the station. Then again, I am more tolerant or opposing views than most, unfortunately.
> I am more tolerant or opposing views than most, unfortunately.
Why do you say "unfortunately"? I would say it is a strength if you can tolerate opposing views without necessarily accepting them.
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#38There are many areas where instead, you only find stations of the conservative media. IMO the article doesn't tell the whole story.
Conservative media doesn't have a monopoly on criticizing scientists since the Damore incident.
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#39I listen to a number of NPR podcasts and perhaps I'm misremembering but it seems there's an uptick in the past few years of interviewing and discussing the lives of just "regular folks", people who work blue-collar jobs, people with conservative religious backgrounds, etc., ... and not in a disparaging way. But ... Fresh Air with Terry Gross still largely wanders the fields of the cultural left with nary a nod to alt…
Ugh. I can't stand Terry Gross. They should call it "Terry Gross Talks About Her Feelings While Interesting Guests Listen And Wonder What They're Doing There."
People have different tastes, and that's okay. Not all shows are for everyone. There's no need for gratuitous negativity. It adds nothing to the conversation and can easily derail it.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Economics is such a small portion of what NPR covers. And most of the time it is things like what the market did today which are fact based. Do I disagree with stuff they say sometimes? Absolutely. But not enough to change the station. Then again, I am more tolerant or opposing views than most, unfortunately.
> I am more tolerant or opposing views than most, unfortunately. Why do you say "unfortunately"? I would say it is a strength if you can tolerate opposing views without necessarily accepting them.
There are two ways that he could be just as tolerant...