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About me: Where other news sources offer sound bytes and sensationalism, Irrational Public Radio informs, challenges, soothes and/or berates, and does so with a pleasing vocal cadence and unmatched enunciation. When you listen to IPR, integrity washes over you like lava, with the pleasing familiarity of a medium-roast coffee and a sensible muffin.website, for more info and to check out our PODCAST.
Again, all our episodes are avaliable for listening or download here :)
Our premiere CD "Good Morning, You Smell Nice." is now on sale.
Who I'd like to meet: Fans of public radio (we count ourselves among those ranks). We love public radio. We love NPR, PRI, & MPR. We are fans of All Things Considered, Morning Edition, This American Life, and Prarie Home Companion. We like the commentaries, the features, the independent member station programs. We love them all dearly. But we also think they're begging to be made fun of. So here we are.
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Brazen self-promotion: We are happy to announce that some of our music will be on the television version of This American Life, Sunday May 4th and May 11th, Showtime Cable Network
heyy, how's it going out there? Thanks for stopping through and reaching out with some kind words. Keep up the quality out there. Spread smiles... Peace
Just got your larval stage CD in the mail today, along with a box of Ghiardelli chocolates. I'll be at home tonight listening to the CD and feeding chocolate to my family. Huzzah! And thanks for the disc.
Listen up, folks! As an arbiter of all that is intellectually and culturally valuable, I can assure you of this:
In the days and years to come, ownership of IPR's new CD -- "Good Morning. You Smell Nice" -- will be the hallmark of a person whose presence in the world is not a waste of precious space.
One caveat: After hearing the CD, you may not be able to listen to NPR without a snicker or, at the very least, a smirk. Sort of the way Monty Python made it impossible for me to take the BBC seriously.
Congrats IPR, I heard you've hatched a new CD. Maybe I can have the yolk? Thank you for letting the little monkey continue to have such a grand hairstyle, it's similiar to mine.
Fran and her minions always gave me the willies. I was a Sherry Lewis and Lambchop man (though in Cincinnati we also had Larry Smith and Batty Hattie, from Cincinnati)...
Greetings IPR! I like your monkey! When you have a chance, check out the "life's a joke" trailer. I think you'll get a kick out of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHQtENNNPAw All the best, Chris Mitchell "life's a joke"
Seriously, you guys make me laugh so hard, I soil myself everytime I listen to IPR... which would be quite an accomplishment if it weren't for my incontinent bladder. So as a result, a lawsuit has been filed against you in Seward County Municipal Court for $54 million under the Americans with Disabilities Act for the cost of replacement underwear and shoes... and oh yeah, emotional damages. See you in court, suckers.
And to think, I was going to send you that digital audio longframe patchbay that has been gathering dust in my attic plus five cans of Dinty Moore beefy-like substance smothered in gravy for your canned food drive... but then you had to go and pull a train on my beloved Joan... I hope you're happy...
Spending most of your time in a bathtub filled with Ranch dressing while eating bacon sounds like a fun filled day for me... party party. Nutritious and delicious! Yeah ya right! Cheers mandi
I guess freezing dildos makes sense in terms of battery life but wouldn't they then be too cold for use? I wonder if there's some sort of sexual equivalent to the Polar Bears Club... and if so, is freezing dildos part of their club policy. hmm... (p.s. read TRAMPS LIKE US... or at least order a copy off amazon... because nothing gives me more pleasure than watching my Amazon ranking plunge into four digit territory.... nothing that is... except frozen dildos!)
sure, why not? I just need the length of the monkey's torso, from the underarm to the hip and the measurement of the waist. What color and theme do you want?
haha, this rational girl would love some irrationality in her life. I'm glad that IPR finally has a new episode and that it completely met if not exceeded my expectations! What took you guys so long? :)
Hi, folks! Your stuff is a real hoot, and one thing I love about it is the genuine affection for public radio that underlies the humor. It brings to mind this passage from Garrison Keillor's book, Wobegon Boy (I hope the quote constitutes fair use):
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"Jonah Hadley's Journal" runs every week on All Things Considered, an audio essay, a liberal sermon with sound effects. Hadley is a good writer in the worst sense of the word: humorless, tone-deaf, smug, predictable, all gesture, no smarts. He'll talk about sugar mapling in Vermont, and you hear the crunch-crunch-crunch of footsteps in the snow and the drip of the sap in the bucket and some extremely laconic Vermonters muttering something about syrup -- they talk at a rate of twelve words per minute, which gives their mutterance an air of vast profundity -- and then Jonah Hadley ties it all up with a whispery voice-over, something solemn and flabby about tradition as a force for sanity in our lives, a few sentences that manage to bring in de Tocqueville, Bob Dylan, the quest for the Holy Grail, the African-American heritage, a quote from an obscure Sufi poet, the crisis of male identity in the nineties, the myth of Sisyphus, and the Easter bunny.
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Keep up the good work. Those who bring laughter into this world have a special place in the World to Come.
I'm your 46th commenter! Ya know what that means? Me either, but I love to be something no one else can be. Take that, number 47 commenter, I beat you!
Yezzz, we're a little spaced-out ...could have something to do with all the cheese the monkey's been cuttin' lately. Thanks.
"We right the songs that make the whole world singe."
You're aMAZEingly amusing and irrational!
I'll be watching with my "shifty eyes"..
..er,uh..hmm, now THAT"S irrational;}
Make that, listening with my inner ear, because it sees all..
..hmm, again.."you know!"
"Never mind";o..she said, irrationally!
