Perfect. You guys are getting some good recognition on what is quite possibly the best and funniest NPR show since Car Talk

Considering my long-standing crush on Mo Rocca, this is a strange moment for me.

Noooo!
No spoiler alert?! (yup, one of my fav podcasts I download for later listening)

Here's hoping with Peter Sagal's recognition of Consumerist, Carl Kassel will soon be providing Consumerist's answering machine greeting.
(No word on the staff's feelings on scratchy homemade sweaters. Yet.)

@mussorgsky112: That and a 'Prairie Home Companion'. I was turned on to NPR by my high school history teacher and have been listening to NPR for close to 15 years now. It's cool hearing that you made WWDTM. Well done.

@Laura Northrup: So what you're saying is that you're part of the Furious Knitting Brigade?
And, more importantly, do you have to use extra-small knitting needles for making hamster-haired sweaters or do you simply raise the hamsters with Alpaca mothers?

@Trai_Dep: Luckily I can get the podcast from Norway! It's usually what I listen to at the gym on Sunday.

@mussorgsky112: The sooner those cackling ninnies on Car Talk drop dead, the better off (and quieter) the world will be.

I heard that question on this weekend's quiz. Seems like there are some Consumerist readers on the Wait, Wait staff!!!!

@biggeek3: Hey, those guys are where I learned to understand "Bostonese" after I moved here. That's a useful public service.

Wait Wait was new this week? I tuned in and heard a rerun of Neko Case's episode. I guess it's because of my local station being in fund drive mode.

@☠Grяrяrяrяrя, portrait of a chickenwolfmoosepig.: Would be cool if one of them posted as well.

@Trai_Dep: It's ok. There's still plenty of the show left intact for our later podcasting joy. Yay Consumerist!

Ben, you seem to forget when YOU were on Wait...Wait...Don't Tell Me as the answer for the Bluff The Listener Challenge.

@Trai_Dep: And you don't remember when Ben was on Wait...Wait...? I know I do. It's weird when two of my favorite things collide.

@GitEmSteveDave_ItCOULDLift #BalloonBoi: I must have missed that week.

Why does NPR need to store four cookies on my hard drive? Don't they believe in digital privacy?

@Aresef: Same here! Plus, with the two clip shows in August and the lack of Carl for a few weeks I was begining to wonder. Then again, all the weeks have been running into each other lately.

@UGAdawg: They probably do, you just don't know who they are.

@Laura Northrup: It was a story about someone being denied service by banking over phone because their voice was too high and girl like. Don't remember the exact week, sorry.

@Trai_Dep: Even if nobody else here has a clue what you're talking about, I do. Your post has not fallen on deaf, um, eyes.

@Trai_Dep: Yup, I podcast it too. Used to have to silence the household when it was on, which was no small feat especially with a little kid, but once I could podcast it, life got easier by far.

Radio Lab also rocks for geeky NPR podcast goodness.

Narr, I was driving into the mountains on Saturday, and lost signal just as Wait Wait came on. Oh well, the podcast will probably produce the same laughs.

@Trai_Dep:

It takes a brave soul to be able to sit through such cold, emotionless personalities that the LA hosts give off. They can tell you about death and you'd have no idea death is as heavy as death is.

@UGAdawg: You're wayyyy over my head; I love Wait Wait and I love Car Talk, but PHC i just dont get. Nothing on that show makes me laugh.

^5 Consumerist!! It would be the one weekend I dont listen to NPR mornings.

@Laura Northrup: OMG!

*right-click, Save*

@ngallion: For the rest of us Google is of no help. Searching for "Furious Knitting Brigade literally turns up just Trai_Dep's comment.

@leastcmplicated: There's a lot on NPR I don't get. I remember sitting somewhere and there was a comedian on...and he goes, "With all this scandal going on, Bill Clinton should be Clinton Bill..." and the crowd erupted in laughter. I still don't get it.

@Rectilinear Propagation: Search on "mo rocca sweater" instead.

Mo Rocca got on the wrong side of some knitting community (I feel a little bad for forgetting which one, but then I'm too high-strung to knit) for an offhand remark about hating itchy homemade sweaters. After the show received a ton of angry (furious!) emails, Mo made a coerced apology on the next ep. Some time later, a cadre of (furious!) knitters gave him a non-itchy wool sweater on the show.

@kexline: IIRC, Roy Blunt Jr. then complained about itchy luxury cars and gold bars.

@Smashville_now with Monster Energy: well you, Clinton Bill...oh wait I don't get it either.

@Laura Northrup: Oh my GAWD!
I tried getting my kittehz to knit for weeks to no avail. You're my new hero.

@Rectilinear Propagation: It's scarily neat that Teh Google captures a unique phrase made anywhere in the world, the next day.
OK, scarily alarming.
(gulp) I hope Mom lacks Google-fu, else I'm in for some awkward moments during my "Bring date to meet Mom" night.

@kexline: Probably Ravelry.