Love public radio? Get your “official” public radio name here.
Have you ever noticed that public radio hosts, personalities, and reporters have compelling names. Sylvia Poggioli, Ofebea Quist-Arcton…Radio Bob Sauter.
Well now you too can have a public radio name by going to the unofficial Public Radio Name Generator. (Hat tip to Jason Brill in Saranac Lake who found this thing.)
Those of us with dull, WASPy, Midwestern names can type in our own name and come up with something, well, NPR-like.
It doesn’t appear to be very scientific. The creators note that their website “is related in no way, shape, or form to National Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, or really, to anything.”
But it is thought-provoking. I typed in “Brian Mann” and came up with “Dharma Segel-Davies.”
Wow. What would my life have been like with a name like that?
Who knows? I might be the host of my own show. Something like “The Muddle” or “Been there, done that” or maybe a new religion show called “What the hell?”
How about you? What’s your pub radio name, and what show would you host?
I’m Moshe Cruz-Obeidat, which is surprisingly accurate as I’m a Jewish Hispanic African Arab.
Arjunan Akbari-Shuster – not accurate at all, but I’m ok with it.
Adebayo Sato-Sullivan
I will be hosting Koto-Kora-Fiddle fever, a musical exploration of celtic afrojapanese music. Can’t get any more public radio than that!
Ravi Michaels-Eichberg
Just call me Mike for short!
“This is Ivan Azizi-Biko reporting from the Russian conclave in the Arabic-speaking region of Soweto.”
Those of us with dull, WASPy, Midwestern names can type in our own name and come up with something, well, NPR-like.
This says it all. Pre-judging a race, assigning it a stereotype, and holding up public radio as the standard to attain.
You guys outed that racist fund-raising leader of NPR and claimed that he was not indicative of the whole.
This exercise in assigning politically-correct names serves what purpose?
“Those of us with dull, WASPy, Midwestern names”
Brian, to say that it is “ok” to pick on certain races is in itself, racist.
Don’t pick on those “inferior” races. Just the Anglo-Saxons.
Just holding up the mirror.
I suppose if I wanted to be snotty, I could go with the German spelling and pronounciation for Peter but why bother since I’ve always been Peter or Pete.
I take it JDM isn’t going to try the name generator.
But he will take offense. To almost anything.
Ahh we can always count on our dear friend JDM to take something light-hearted and contrive to find offense in it. Maybe we can all chip in so he can get a life.
Eskander Mustafa-Matsumoto
If you go back a 2nd time you get a differentname. The first time mine ended in Dubois which I thought was nice, I like the French, 2nd time around ende din Levi….