This is quite funny. NPR seems to be fielding lots of calls from people whose FM modulators are wired incorrectly and turning every car passing by into a roving radio tower for Sirius and XM.

That isn’t even necessarily the funniest part of the story, though. I mean, what’s funny about an FM Modulator?

No, what’s funny are the letters that stations like WYPR are receiving, and they’re an utter classic. My particular favorite?

This one:

“It is so upsetting to drive along listening to an important news story or heart-felt humanitarian piece only to be interrupted by someone shouting out of my speaker: ‘…and her p***y smelled like diarrhea. Hahahaha.’ I have included this quote to offer ONE example of the type of grotesque dialogue I hear bursting in on what I have chosen to tune in to. … I no longer tune into WYPR when my children are in the car out of concern that they would witness the interruptions that occur at a daily minimum of six times during a 25-mile commute.”

Everyone knows the NPR type. The boring, uptight, pseudo-intellectual that looks down his or her nose at you because you don’t listen to stimulating (sleep-stimulating, that is) programming like “All Things Considered.” Imagine one of these uptight asses getting an earful of Howard Stern talking about lesbians, strippers, and porn stars (in other words any of his unoriginal crap on any day he’s laying it down).

I also noticed that despite the outrage over these horrible words that children should never be exposed to, none of the letter-writers had the slightest bit of hesitation in using those same words in their letters.

Quite amusing.

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