The Microphone Never Blinks

April 17, 2018 6:14 PM

The Microphone Never Blinks
Metafilter elder statesman griphus and I discuss beloved 1990s sitcom Newsradio.

We do so despite the fact that at least one of us cannot remember anything else besides this TV show that happened in the 1990s. Complaints about the podcast go in the Complaint Box. (Yes, we know we're not the first to make a Newsradio podcast, but as griph put it, "Have you ever searched Westworld on any podcast app?")

Role: Co-host

posted by superfluousm (7 comments total)

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oooh
posted by cortex at 6:15 PM on April 17, 2018

I endorse this podcast to the fullest amount allowable by metafilter
posted by griphus at 6:19 PM on April 17, 2018 [1 favorite]

I wouldn't say it was a "mega-hit sitcom", but it had a truly all-star cast (Dave Foley, Phil Hartman, Maura Tierney, Stephen Root, and, okay, Andy Dick) and was the best show about Radio to come after WKRP (and, in retrospect, the last).
posted by oneswellfoop at 6:58 PM on April 17, 2018

Sounds like this podcast will be a cipher wrapped in an enigma, smothered in secret sauce.
posted by Chrysostom at 7:24 PM on April 17, 2018 [1 favorite]

Yesterday's post about the death of Harry Anderson led me down a YouTube rabbit hole of beloved sitcoms of yore...including Newsradio! I love it and I am looking forward to listening to this!
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 10:36 PM on April 17, 2018

You should never doubt yourself for a minute, for I know that your monkey-strong bowels are girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo … dung.
posted by cardioid at 5:22 AM on April 18, 2018 [1 favorite]

superfluousm, maybe you could also put up FanFare posts as you do each episode?
posted by Chrysostom at 12:47 PM on April 19, 2018