View Full Version : hiking,while listening to the "O'Riely factor".
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
08-22-2006, 12:30
If you're listening to O'Rielly, you need to be wearing a pithy hat.
Lone Wolf
08-22-2006, 12:34
I learned my pithiness from Bill O. I prefer to listen to Mike Savage or G. Gordon.
I prefer to leave that at home. Let me listen to some good blues or jazz in the evening
Dances with Mice
08-22-2006, 13:08
whats a pithy hat:-? kyDon'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
08-22-2006, 13:12
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
08-22-2006, 13:21
I agree completely... I love talk radio on the trail..
I like O'Reilly, he gives hell to wackos on both sides of the aisle.
Alligator
08-22-2006, 13:53
Don't athk.
...Sat's funny:) .
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
08-22-2006, 14:36
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
08-22-2006, 15:54
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
08-22-2006, 17:50
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
Rain:sunMan
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Programbo
08-22-2006, 19:00
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
08-22-2006, 19:11
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.....:D
Blissful
08-22-2006, 19:46
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.
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
I prefer to get comedy from Jeff Foxworthy or Ralph Harris but BillO' will do most times.
whats a pithy hat:-? ky
Here's some pithy hats.
http://www.villagehatshop.com/pith_helmet.html
Gray Blazer
08-22-2006, 22:33
Here's some pithy hats.
http://www.villagehatshop.com/pith_helmet.html
The british foriegn service-zulu wars hat is rather nice.
Well, I prefer a little Iron Maiden and coffee, but if it's got to be talk radio I prefer G. Liddy or NPR.
Frolicking Dinosaurs
08-23-2006, 07:08
I'm an NPR fan for both news and music. Talk radio is amusing sometimes if I'm stuck in traffic, but it tends to be too full of wackos to take seriously. I share Mother Nature's love of the old radio shows that read stories and DWM's love of local AM radio from rural America.
TJ aka Teej
08-23-2006, 07:33
http://www.sweetjesusihatebilloreilly.com/
If you really like the talk radio, you can usually get a premium subscription for a few dollars a month and download mp3's of shows. I did it for Glenn Beck. Although Wookie's perspective is certainly a very attractive description.
Mother's Finest
08-23-2006, 18:07
once when driving thru the southwest portion of VA, i picked up an old time bluegrass show. sounded like they were spinning records from a shack....but one of the best hours of music I heard the whole trip.
that said, NPR is hands down the best programming on the radio dial today.
peace
mf
RockyTrail
08-23-2006, 18:31
Country rocks...but BLUEGRASS RULES!:sun
(...mandolin kicks off to Bill Monroe's "Get Up John"! )
hear it on track 24:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/samples/B00008NRKJ/ref=dp_tracks_all_1/002-9967199-5780840?ie=UTF8#disc_1
Hammerhead
08-24-2006, 12:10
My portable XM radio and Opie and Anthony. Period.
blindeye
08-24-2006, 20:46
i would rather watch paint dry than listen to anything O'Reilly has to say!!
NICKTHEGREEK
08-25-2006, 15:06
If you're listening to O'Rielly, you need to be wearing a pithy hat.
Are pithy hats made in size 3- 7/8 ????
Tha Wookie
08-26-2006, 03:24
I retract this.... I thought at first it was another radio show host. I can't keep up with all these TV/Am radio people.
SGT Rock
08-26-2006, 03:41
The only good talk radio for hiking: Car Talk.
'Nuff said.
hopefulhiker
08-26-2006, 04:27
I guess listening to O'Reily's radio show is better than listening to his soft porn novels.....
NICKTHEGREEK
08-26-2006, 08:45
The only good talk radio for hiking: Car Talk.
'Nuff said.
Our AT hiking consultant is Sora Instep
RockyTrail
08-26-2006, 10:18
And our Director of Laziness is Awana Takazero
SGT Rock
08-26-2006, 10:22
And the adviser for yogi techniques is Anetta Burger
My radio story: After years, and years, and then more years ;) I decided to get a radio. First day! I meet a woman, out for the day, and she stares down her nose and ask, How can I possibly have one of those things out here?
I ask if she has radios at home?
Yes.
TVs?
Of course.
Mutiple....
What is your point, she demands.
Well, I say, that's your home :) .............this is mine.:welcome
I proceed to show her the little switch on the radio, marked ON/OFF. :eek: Its amazing I tell her. I only listen to it- when I want to! And then I jam on down the trail.
The point is, you can still listen to all those wonderful things in nature and have a radio too. Maybe if your earphones have grown into your dreadlocks, you have a problem. Some don't walk a step w/o and enjoy it. Thats not my style but hey,.... HYOH
Tha Wookie
08-26-2006, 14:14
:) Good post Nean.... well put!
What, no over-the-shoulder boom box for ya?
Tha Wookie
08-26-2006, 14:22
...and our international factory hiking pole auditory technition is Squeakeleki Needalube
My favorite AT motivational speaker is that rather odd person Nasnive Ling.
ex-tennesseean
08-30-2006, 22:45
I thought one of the best reasons to hike was to leave talk radio range, clearing your head for more fresher thoughts. Or, at least, to forget O'Rielly's shopworn, secondhand stock of vicarious resentments. You conservatives ought to listen to the other side sometimes; this liberal does.
Mice's comment, though. Those little local radio stations are a delight when I travel. They're quirky and unpredictable, and offer glimpses of a different world. Sometimes they can follow you home. Last summer I camped at Cumberland Falls State Park to see the moonbow (a fantastic, underrated natural wonder, indeed). If I'd been plugged into an iPod, I wouldn't have discovered WHAY, an all-Americana outlet out of Whitley City, Ky. Other streams don't flow uphill from Kentucky to Colorado, but now this does. I love the deep/alt country sounds, colored with Appalachian grievances instead of Nashville's sunny anthems. And I dig the local touches, too: the stop & swap show every morning, and ads for, no lie, "The Mini-Mart." If you live in the hills too, perhaps this is no special treat. From out here, as the Great Suburbs sprout where the Great Plains meet the mountains, it's like a fresh breath of muggy, buggy, hyperpollenated air --without the unpleasant side effects.