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Comment by akira2501 | Hacker News Reader

I'm looking forward to their NPR call-in show.

I know thats a joke but oh my god would that be amazing.

A computer help call in radio show as funny and warmhearted as Car Talk? Comp Talk? With crazy weird issues? Like email doesn't work over 400 miles? lol.

Esp. if the dudes seemed to know everything and had lots of old-timer computer stories from their old CP/M desktops and whathaveyou.

I'm bored with my lack of decent radio and podcasts. Feel free to recommend me stuff, readers.

For new readers: previously on hn

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9338708

http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

FLOSS has a warm-hearted host with some good computer stories but it's not really a call-in show. They do answer some chatroom questions.

I recommend Welcome to Nightvale (Which is amazing, and you should be listening to it: http://www.welcometonightvale.com/), The Technical Difficulties (A trivia show starring Tom Scott (of emoji keyboard fame) and friends http://www.techdif.co.uk/, Radiolab (it's fricking Radiolab: what else do you want?), 99% invisible (loved Radiolab? you'll love this, too), Ask Me Another (trivia, and music by Jonathan Coulton: any questions?), and finally the recently ended YouTube series Let's Drown Out (Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw and Gabriel Morton play videogames of varying quality, and snark over them).

Every now and then, Reply All https://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/ has a segment that is Tech Support. Some of the items on there are down right bizarre but very plausible. Great listening.

You can make that happen.

Get a channel going on YouTube, get a following. Pitch it to NPR. Watch it get picked up by a cable network after a few seasons, perhaps.

Sort of "Wayne's World meets Top Gear for computer geeks". I'd watch it. I might even pay to watch it.

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