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captainsblogBack in our Rochester days, having carried over a Car Talk obsession from post-college days, I became quite the fan of WXXI-AM's Saturday live broadcasts of Michael Feldman's Whad'ya Know?, which followed it on Saturday mornings. I even traveled to one of their live shows at the State Theatre in Cleveland to see them shooting the show to air.
The love ended after we moved here. Briefly, UB's public radio station WBFO carried the show, but tape-delayed, and soon it petered out locally. Meanwhile, Public Radio International's competitor NPR started up its own weekly quiz show, called Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, which Michael kinda mocked early on (and which, to this day, Wait Wait mocks back by having all of Charlie Pierce's fake Bluff The Listener pieces set in Whadya Know's home state of Wisconsin). Once working weekends and a return to church intervened, the Internet availability of shows became important to me, and I've been a regular podcast listener of Wait Wait with only the slightest pangs of guilt about passing-by its earlier and arguably better cheesy predecessor.
But no longer. A random iPhone error got me to the Podcasts list, and Whadya Know, finally!, has a weekly free iTunes subscription, which I just signed up for. Two hours a week, to add to my 45 minutes of Peter and Friends and my hour-or-so of This American Life. I may actually spend more time in the gym as a result of this.
What does this have to do with Inspector Morse in my icon? No. Freakin'. Idea.
The love ended after we moved here. Briefly, UB's public radio station WBFO carried the show, but tape-delayed, and soon it petered out locally. Meanwhile, Public Radio International's competitor NPR started up its own weekly quiz show, called Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, which Michael kinda mocked early on (and which, to this day, Wait Wait mocks back by having all of Charlie Pierce's fake Bluff The Listener pieces set in Whadya Know's home state of Wisconsin). Once working weekends and a return to church intervened, the Internet availability of shows became important to me, and I've been a regular podcast listener of Wait Wait with only the slightest pangs of guilt about passing-by its earlier and arguably better cheesy predecessor.
But no longer. A random iPhone error got me to the Podcasts list, and Whadya Know, finally!, has a weekly free iTunes subscription, which I just signed up for. Two hours a week, to add to my 45 minutes of Peter and Friends and my hour-or-so of This American Life. I may actually spend more time in the gym as a result of this.
What does this have to do with Inspector Morse in my icon? No. Freakin'. Idea.
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