Let’s step back through some NARN history:<\/p>\n
2004 State Fair Broadcast<\/strong><\/p>\n Guest<\/strong>: The Funky Chickens.\u00a0 A man and woman dressed as chickens, performing primarily for kids.\u00a0 They sang chicken songs.\u00a0 They made “cluck” puns as they spoke.\u00a0 I’m sure their intended audience – 3-7 year old kids – love ’em.\u00a0 They were, shall we say, misplaced <\/em>as guests on a conservative talk show.<\/p>\n Highlight of Gig<\/strong>: Me, laying an egg.<\/p>\n Booked by<\/strong>:\u00a0 Chad the Elder<\/p>\n Chad’s Status<\/strong>:\u00a0 Absent from the broadcast that day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n 2005 NARN Broadcast<\/strong><\/p>\n Guest<\/strong>: Joe Schlabotnik (name changed Highlight of Gig<\/strong>: Brian Ward and I, laying a metaphorical egg, trying to squeeze blood from a turnip.<\/p>\n Booked by<\/strong>:\u00a0 Chad the Elder<\/p>\n Chad’s Status<\/strong>:\u00a0 Absent from the broadcast that hour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n 2007 State Fair Broadcast<\/strong><\/p>\n Guest<\/strong>: Sewer Man.\u00a0 A guy who talked for fifteen minutes on the NARN I State Fair broadcast last Saturday about sewage, as he mixed some sort of sewage-like concoction.\u00a0 Brian, trooper that he is, plugged away at it, and did his best, but…ugh.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Highlight of Gig<\/strong>: The guy (putatively) drinking his sewage-like concoction on the air.\u00a0 I didn’t say it was a good <\/em>highlight…<\/p>\n Booked by<\/strong>:\u00a0 Chad the Elder<\/p>\n Chad’s Status<\/strong>:\u00a0 Absent from the broadcast that day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n 2008 State Fair Broadcast<\/strong><\/p>\n Guest<\/strong>: Transgender Mimes for Kucinich.\u00a0 A group of Transgender (and transgender -sympathizing)\u00a0mimes who do silent performance art elucidating man’s inhumanity to woman, and why a Kucinich presidency\u00a0and a Democrat\/Green alliance in Congress would be best for the womynandchildren.\u00a0<\/p>\n Interview to be conducted by Chad the Elder.\u00a0<\/p>\n Highlight of Gig<\/strong>: Brian, John, Ed, King, Michael and I, sitting in the burger joint in the Horticulture building, watching the fun.<\/p>\n Booked by<\/strong>:\u00a0 Brian, John, Ed, King, Michael and I.<\/p>\n Brian, John, Ed, King, Michael and My<\/strong> Status<\/strong>:\u00a0 Absent from the broadcast that segment.\u00a0 Or three.\u00a0 Or maybe a whole hour of Transgender Mimes for Kucinich.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I think you should book your tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let’s step back through some NARN history: 2004 State Fair Broadcast Guest: The Funky Chickens.\u00a0 A man and woman dressed as chickens, performing primarily for kids.\u00a0 They sang chicken songs.\u00a0 They made “cluck” puns as they spoke.\u00a0 I’m sure their intended audience – 3-7 year old kids – love ’em.\u00a0 They were, shall we say, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-narn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}to protect the innocent<\/strike> because I can’t remember it) the Conservative Comic.\u00a0 A standup comic.\u00a0 Who was conservative.\u00a0 To be fair, he gave evidence of his conservatism.\u00a0 But in a half-hour interview, he gave no evidence whatsoever that he was a comic.\u00a0<\/p>\n