{"id":31483,"date":"2006-04-18T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/04\/18\/maybe-you-dont-sound-like-carl-kasell-but-you-can-have-his-job\/"},"modified":"2006-04-18T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T10:00:18","slug":"maybe-you-dont-sound-like-carl-kasell-but-you-can-have-his-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060418-18\/?p=31483","title":{"rendered":"Maybe you don&#039;t sound like Carl Kasell, but you can have his job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> According to the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5251026\"> Mixed Signals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5323281\"> the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is searching for radio hosts<\/a>. They&#8217;re calling it &#8220;American Idol for public radio&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p> I recently stumbled across Mixed Signals and was instantly hooked. Some of my recent favorites: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5294997\"> Mike Pesca reports from South Dakota<\/a> on the simple frugality of the state capitol building. <\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5295188\"> An executive order establishing the order of succession<\/a> in the case the Archivist of the United States and the Deputy Archivist of the United States are both unable to perform the functions and duties of the office of Archivist. <\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5298435\"> Mike Pesca runs afoul of some park rangers at Mount Rushmore<\/a>. For some reason, Mike Pesca has the perfect voice for this type of stuff. He always sounds slightly annoyed and a bit condescending. <\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5303729\"> An insurance company withdraws coverage from an animal charity<\/a> because their building is too close to a luxury apartment building whose only famous residents are &#8220;a couple of lingerie models&#8221;. (There is even a response from the insurance company that didn&#8217;t really seem to explain much.) <\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5312224\"> Riding elevators in order to secure press credentials<\/a> because security regulations prohibit forming a line. <\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5316792\"> Mike Pesca again (sense a pattern?) sets the record straight on GMU&#8217;s surprise performance in the NCAA men&#8217;s basketball tournament<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li> One last Mike Pesca story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5228264\"> This (somewhat misguided) essay on Iceland&#8217;s lack of success at&#8230; um&#8230; ice sports<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/07\/01\/170857.aspx\"> Icelandic sits at the bottom of my list of Germanic languages to learn<\/a> (but at least it&#8217;s doing better than Danish, which doesn&#8217;t make the list at all). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> The curatorship of Mixed Signals appears to change hands rather frequently. The last few entries I linked above were from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=2101217\"> Robert Smith<\/a>, whom I had the pleasure to meet at KUOW studios when he was stationed in Seattle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the wonderful Mixed Signals, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is searching for radio hosts. They&#8217;re calling it &#8220;American Idol for public radio&#8221;. I recently stumbled across Mixed Signals and was instantly hooked. Some of my recent favorites: Mike Pesca reports from South Dakota on the simple frugality of the state capitol building. 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