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The BPP Is Doing An Hour Show! That's Swell!

After weeks of planning, lots of late nights (on Matt's part), and 3,487 angry outbursts from Luke during editorial meetings (my bad), it's finally here! A real one hour show! Which you may or may not ever hear!

Here's the scoop--Today we're going to do our first hour-long programming module. (We're still a little gunshy about calling it a show.) It might be a total train wreck, or it might be the best hour of radio in world history. If we think it sounds okay, we'll put it up on the blog and in iTunes for your listening pleasure. If it's lame, we'll never speak of it again (sort of like your Uncle Ricky, who wouldn't come out of the basement for 14 years).

All joking aside, this is a really big day for us. Even if the show is a disaster it will be a very educational disaster. Wish us luck.

Luke Burbank

10:04 AM ET | 06-28-2007 | permalink

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I am given the tradition for new NPR shows is to break a bottle of champagne over the head of one of the Car Talk guys. Can we get video of that?

Sent by Drew | 11:25 AM ET | 06-28-2007

Good Luck!

Sent by Shereen Meraji | 2:49 PM ET | 06-28-2007

You can't tease us and not give us a listen. If you're unwilling to have us help celebrate a success or critique a failure, then why are you doing this blog anyways?

Sent by Steve Petersen | 3:52 PM ET | 06-28-2007

Steve! Steve! Patience my friend. We are going to post the entire hour. It is coming very soon -- like in the next couple of hours. Stay tuned....

Sent by Matt Martinez | 5:42 PM ET | 06-28-2007

Matt,

I was responding to:

"If we think it sounds okay, we'll put it up on the blog and in iTunes for your listening pleasure."

Thanks for posting it. I understand and understood that it takes some time to get it into a neat little file.

Sent by Steve Petersen | 9:53 PM ET | 06-28-2007

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