hiking,while listening to the "O'Riely factor".

[kyhipo]

Boy! I just love to listen to those talk shows in the morning while I am hiking and when I am chillen around the camp.ky

[Gray Blazer]

If you're listening to O'Rielly, you need to be wearing a pithy hat.

[Lone Wolf]

I learned my pithiness from Bill O. I prefer to listen to Mike Savage or G. Gordon.

[kyhipo]

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[Ewker]

I prefer to leave that at home. Let me listen to some good blues or jazz in the evening

[Dances with Mice]

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Don't athk.

Just a few years ago part of the fun of going into the mountains was listening to some of the local small town AM radio stations. You had to hold the radio just so to get reception, but these stations would be sponsored by Myrtle's Fruit and Avon Products Stand and Jim's Feed & Seed Store and would have local news about how the volunteer fire department caught a loose horse running through town and have a Swap Shop hour where people would call in with things to trade or advertise upcoming yard sales. It was fun to listen to, almost like eavesdropping.

I'm not sure if many small radio stations are still around.

[max patch]

I'm not a fan of G Gordon Lidddy, but I read his autobiography which was surprisingly good. He conquered his fear of rats by catching one, cooking it, and then eating it. More good stuff like that in his book.

[DawnTreader]

I agree completely... I love talk radio on the trail..

[Newb]

I like O'Reilly, he gives hell to wackos on both sides of the aisle.

[Alligator]

Don't athk.

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Sat's funny .

[Ender]

The O'Reilly factor? Good grief why would I do that to myself.

I have listened to Car Talk in the past, and found it's great talk radio. Those two guys are wonderfully nutty.

[RITBlake]

The O'Reilly factor? Good grief why would I do that to myself.

I have listened to Car Talk in the past, and found it's great talk radio. Those two guys are wonderfully nutty.

When I was hiking I used to get excited on Sat mornings if I could find a good NPR feed. That meant car talk was coming up! My favorite.

[Mother Nature]

I miss the old time radio shows that read stories on the air. A few years ago Smokestack and I pulled in early to a campsite in a blistering rain storm and spent the afternoon in the tent. I had a small radio and found this delightful station where someone was reading a story complete with all the dramatic background sound effects and music. We laid there side-by-side sharing an earphone from the radio headset. Just as the story was getting good we lost reception.

I, too, really like to catch some of the public radio shows especially Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and Car Talk.

MN

[Rain Man]

The O'Reilly factor? Good grief why would I do that to myself.....

I'm with you, but just think... wouldn't listening to that demagogue make you hike faster?!!! It would me! LOL

RainMan

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[Programbo]

Homer: And now to absorb some local color through the magic of AM radio.

(Turns on radio)

DJ 1: -- The book of Revelations tells us to watch for the seven signs of
evil --

(Changes station)

DJ 2: -- sign of evil number four --

(Changes station again)

DJ 3: -- Continuing our "Sign of Evil" countdown. Here's Vanessa Williams...

[Tha Wookie]

I miss the old time radio shows that read stories on the air. A few years ago Smokestack and I pulled in early to a campsite in a blistering rain storm and spent the afternoon in the tent. I had a small radio and found this delightful station where someone was reading a story complete with all the dramatic background sound effects and music. We laid there side-by-side sharing an earphone from the radio headset. Just as the story was getting good we lost reception.

MN

Haha... Although I would far rather listen to the rain, the birds, the wind, my breath, my footfalls, the faint female voice singing under her breath, the landing of a cricket on a leaf, the crackle of the fire warming dinner, a fellow thru-hiker playing his ragged guitar, someone snoring, a good fart in the privy, there go the birds again (someone must be coming), distant thunder, an A-10 warthog flying, a snorting wild hog running, a skunk dragging ass through the leaves, a bear dancing in the huckleberries, a squirrel giving some hell for his territorial plantings, a buck hopping away in sharp angles, an unseen spring singing beyond the slope, a weekender's bear bell (as if bears couldn't already hear him a decade away), the incescent tikk tikk tikking of Leki spears.... well... ok other than the Lekis, I have been known to listen to the radio on a hike.

However, I can only remember listening to it once (excluding a weather radio), and that was a nearly identical story to yours, Mother Nature.

It was August in Maine and me and 204 were sitting on the edge of the shelter watching a brooding storm while each sharing one earplug. We were listening to the Prarie Home Companion radio show. It was funny as hell. Then the storm got closer and reception faded. Then the real show began as we moved for cover.....

[Blissful]

Honestly, I'm looking forward to getting away from news for a while. Is it depressing. Maybe I'll get an update while I'm in town, but that's it. Give me my music when I'm not listening to the birds or the water or the wind. I'll never forget hearing a hawk's wings one time right over my head while hiking SNP. Wow what a sound of power.

[T-Dubs]

I like O'Reilly, he gives hell to wackos on both sides of the aisle.

I used to listen to his program and even read a couple of Bill-O's books but lately I don't have much use for his views. Must be that whole 'Falafel-bomb-San-Fran-Fox-security-will-come-to-your-house' mindset that makes me think he's overdue for a long vacation from the airwaves.

Tom

[soad]

I prefer to get comedy from Jeff Foxworthy or Ralph Harris but BillO' will do most times.

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