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Patrick Murray

@nprpatrick.bsky.social
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Audio Engineer & Production Support for NPR since 1997. TD Emeritus of WATC, News Ops, WESAT, & WESUN. Proud member of NABET 31. Somewhat reformed Mass-Hole.

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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 19h
I feel vindicated. When asked for recs for pretty mics to use in video podcasts, my advice is avoid the Shure SM-7. I don’t like how they look or sound. I do recommend the AKG 414. Today, Conan O’Brien dropped a vid where his audio engineer replaced his SM-7B with an AKG 414. youtu.be/o84uiRaAjAA
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Conan's Audio Engineer Surprises Him With A New Microphone | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend
YouTube video by Team Coco
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The @amtrak.com #PacificSurfliner is SRO to SLO.
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just a reminder in this overconnected data mining world we live in, radio respects your privacy. www.radioworld.com/columns-and-...
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Notes from behind the glass: When a newscaster plays audio of a UN interpreter, it will be a series of short phrases each followed by enough silence to drive a truck through. Resist the urge to switch to the emergency backup newscast at that moment. #NPRLife
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You know you been doing this a long time when the company's Slack app reminds you it's your 29th Anniversary
My profile card from the Slack app on the left is a small picture of me in a control room taken by someone in the studio through the glass.  Also my profile text is, Patrick Murray (you) • 
Audio Engineer & Production Support for NPR since 1997. TD Emeritus of WATC, News Ops, WESAT/WESUN. Proud member of NABET 31. Somewhat reformed Mass-Hole.
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wishing y’all a fabulous “Ba-Dee-Ya” on this 21st night of September. www.npr.org/2014/09/19/3...
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Do you remember? Why 'September' Sustains
It begins, "Do you remember?" — and we supply the memories. Dan Charnas tells the origin story of the Earth, Wind & Fire hit that still unites generations on the dance floor.
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Expo/Western 311 @expo-western-311.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm guessing Forest Lawn Memorial Park and Mount Sinai Memorial Park fear they will lose a stream of new clients at their doorstep if they make Forest Lawn Drive safer.
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Every once in a while, I come across a well produced video about how ludicrous it is that people are against cycling infrastructure which makes me happy. This is one of those videos.
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America Hates Bikes
YouTube video by Climate Town
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This needs to be a thing.
It’s a poster, which says if 5/4 is Star Wars day with the Star Wars logo below those words. On the bottom half of the image is a picture from the movie 9 to 5 with Dolly Parton at a typewriter with the label can 9/25 be Dolly Parton Day?
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A first for me, seeing the inner Pool Circle at the Hollywood Bowl turned into a Mosh Pit. Also a first, Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters playing the Bowl.
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Rarely do I feel the tug of FOMO working at NPR West rather than the Mothership but today’s #TinyDesk drop was 1 of those times, If only to ask #WeirdAl why this shirt became unobtanium after Its release. I’ve worked hard to keep it in good condition. I’d love a backup. youtu.be/o4I-Y8XiBIs?...
A picture of me at a “Weird Al” Yankovic concert at the Hollywood Bowl wearing a stylized White & Nerdy T-shirt done in the design of Wonder Bread logo.
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
For National Radio Day, Oh the places I have worked, since 1985: WGAO WMLN WERS WEEI WBUR WBZ Kid Company Radio NPR East NPR SF KQED NPR West ......& this doesn't even include all of the TV I did. #NPRLife #NationalRadioDay
A woman sitting in front of a console with quite a few knobs and is talking into a microphone on a shock mount hanging from a spring balanced arm
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
PSA for #InternationalLeft-HandersDay, use a square knot right over left, then left over right to tie your shoes. It feels backwards to Lefties & to right handed parents tying shoes for kids. They tie granny knots which come undone. I was 47 before I figured it out. news.berkeley.edu/2017/04/11/s...
Demonstration of a Square knot for tying shoes A red shoe with white laces loosely tied in a square knot A red shoe with white laces fully tied with bows and the square knot visible in the center.
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
TIL about Taiwan’s Uniform Invoice Lottery. It blew my mind. It reminds me of the line from The Hunt for Red October “How do you get a crew to want to get off a Nuclear powered Submarine?” How to get businesses to want to report all of their earning to the government? H\T @evanedinger.bsky.social
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Why Every Receipt in Taiwan Is a Lottery Ticket
YouTube video by Evan Edinger
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I I I wanna be a Lifeguard. I I I want to guard your life. www.kvpr.org/2026-08-03/r...
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Rural California school district creates space where kids can learn to swim
Not everyone has access to a public pool. But a rural school district in California just pulled together funding for a new aquatic center so kids can learn to swim.
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I’m infuriated that @espnlosangeles.bsky.social has decided to air a Rams Training Camp Special on the #radio rather than #DaveDenholm calling the #2 @lafcmirror.bsky.social vs #1 @whitecapsfc.com in one of the most exciting matches I’ve ever heard. They did air the LAFC Pre-Pre-game show #SMH
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START       FINISH       SHOW
12:00 a.m. 4:00 a.m.   SportsCenter AllNight
4:00 a.m.   7:30 a.m.   Marty and McGee
7:00 a.m.   8:00 a.m.Weekend Warrior with Dr. Robert Klapper
8:00 a.m.  3:30 p.m.  ESPN Radio
3:30 p.m.  4:00 p.m.  BMO Countdown to Kickoff
4:00 p.m.  7:00 p.m.  Rams Training Camp Special
9:30 p.m.  12:00 a.m.  SportsCenter Saturday
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Wishing Red Barber were still around. He knew how to use an egg timer. #WhatsTheInningWhatsTheScore #LetsGoDodgers
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Happiness is ……. #Radio #ItsTimeForDodgersBaseball #MyDayInLA
A photo of a hand holding a transistor radio in the stands of Dodgers Stadium.  It’s tuned to 570 am. The view of the field is from the right field line.
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
If anyone is interested in owning a piece of history, The house I grew up in is for sale. With the first part of it built in 1680, The Red Fam is most known as the place Helen Keller spent the 2 years before she went to Radcliffe. www.realtor.com/realestatean...
This is a picture of the “red farm” circa 1978 during the blizzardA photo of the Red Farm back in the day. It’s a black-and-white photo taken across the street from the house which includes the main house, several outbuildings, a windmill, and a water tank.
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Happiness is …… Radio. #MyDayinLA
A picture of a transistor radio tuned to ESPN-LA being held in the stands of BMO stadium while the LAFC RSL match plays in the background
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
They don’t see the gorrilla. #InattentionalBlindness en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inatten...
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Inattentional blindness - Wikipedia
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
You might think a bus stop at @metrolosangeles.bsky.social #Westwood #RanchoPark station would serve all buses. No, that would not be the case. Apparently #CulverCityBus thinks #BigBluBus smells and put their stop way on the other side of the station.
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Once again, the case for Ice Cream. www.npr.org/2026/07/13/n...
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Eat your ice cream for a long, healthy life? This doctor says so
Dr. Zeke Emanuel, a renowned U.S. health policy physician, takes on the wellness industry with a back-to-basics approach to optimizing good health.
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Dan Casey @dancasey.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"Now give Switzerland a red card..."
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Up the long ladder And down the short rope To hell with King Billy And God bless the Pope If that doesn’t do Then we’ll tear them in two And send them to hell …With their red, white and blue. Skol!
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
And a partridge in a pear tree. “Fontana Unified School District’s PD has 7 aerial drones, 3 robots, 2 armored vehicles, 85 less-lethal launchers & 105 military-style rifles, or those that are .50 caliber or greater & specialized firearms that are not standard-issue shotguns & service weapons.”
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Some folks think broadcast is dying and it’s the result of changes in the way we consume media, but occasionally you come across something where you realize some broadcasters are not doing themselves any favors. Any guesses of what’s supposed to be on at 6 PM Pacific time?
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
You know you live in Los Angeles when you go to the Doctor’s office, the one question they ask you the most is “Do you need your parking validated?” #MyDayInLA #CarFreeInLA
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
It’s also known as Fourth of July prep.
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Muppets Johnny Tremain
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Ready for tonight’s game. Jersey provided by #MiSuegro #MexVsSKorea #MyDayInLA #WorldCup
Me standing in front of this stairway to the stone porch of a yellow craftsman bungalow, wearing a Mexican national team jersey along with blue jeans and blue and white shoes
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Americana at Brand Memes @americanamemes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
People in LA are more aware that there’s a new Minions movie coming out than that the World Cup is happening here on Friday.
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
TIL: The source of (de)lorem ipsum. youtu.be/kL1PDqzqhM4 TL:DW Designers at Letraset and James Mosley, the librarian at St Bride Printing Library, took a 1914 Cicero translation and scrambled it to make dummy text for Letraset's Body Type sheets around 1966.
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The Unsolved Mystery of Lorem Ipsum
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
A fellow #MassHole gave a speech to impressionable minds at the greatest university within one mile of 42.37343° N, 71.11947° W it’s worth listening to. #Conan youtu.be/yHBasrew8yY
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Conan O'Brien Commencement Address
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Deja Vu is an awful thing. www.npr.org/2026/05/27/n...
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NPR's newsroom shrinks through buyouts and layoffs
At least 18 NPR journalists have accepted buyouts and another 10 have been laid off as the public media network attempts to save money and reorganize the newsroom.
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
@metrolosangeles.bsky.social a single tracking subway trains at seventh and Metro however, we’re seeing trains heading outbound on the inbound track arching on the third rail as they depart. Announcements on status are infrequent and inaudible.
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This is one of the very few times. I have felt FOMO while working at NPR West. Though I did watch the live stream. youtu.be/wxaXWSVhRXU?...
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Foo Fighters: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
There is something FANTASTIC about listening to Kate Pierson sing the theme to Pee Wee’s Playhouse live. #SaidTheSecretWord #LaLaLa #NetflixisAJoke
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A toast to the lads of @wrexhamafc.co.uk for one hell of a season. I raise my jar and can’t wait to see you on the pitch next season. #UpTheTown
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Have you boarded a train lately? H/T 🎩 @joelrose.bsky.social Passenger railroads see a sharp jump in ridership as gas prices climb one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5801...
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🔊 Listen Now: Passenger railroads see a sharp jump in ridership as gas prices climb
Morning Edition on NPR One | 2:30
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
As seen in the wild @barnesandnoble.com at The Grove LA #PlanetMoneyWroteABook #MyDayInLA #NPRLife
A display table at Barnes & Noble with a sign that says new in non-fiction. There are at least 20 books on the table with multiple copies stacked high.  on the second round of books on the right hand side is a book titled “Planet Money, A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life”
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
How many years is shortly?
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Testing out the gear. #OtherDutiesAsAssigned #OnTheAirEverywhere #NPRLife.
On top of an old wooden picnic table there is an orange equipment, bag and IP Codec, headphones, a microphone and a Starlink Internet device.
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Back in our perch for this season. #ShoulderToShoulder #ExpoParkOriginales #MyDayInLA @lafcmirror.bsky.social
A View of BMO stadium from the back of the second tier over looking the midfield line of the pitch.
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
My colleagues at the Nipper will be relieved he is still a Good Dog. 14 out of 10. Right @weratedogs.com ?
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
At work, I’ve learned to listen to audio at double speed. It makes things go, well, twice as fast. It also spills over to my other listening & watching which annoys @DommyGonzalez.bsky.social to no end.
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
To all the folks back in the #Northeast who’ve had up to 3’ ft plus of snow dumped on you, I feel your pain. Except I’m jealous too, even about the snow removal process. Would you send some to LA? We could use the water. #OnceAMasshole #LetItSnow
Myself outside with about 8 inches of snow on the ground wearing a Darrow School hooded sweatshirt, black ski gloves, wool hat,  jeans and LL Bean Duck boots pushing a small Toro Electric Snow Shovel to clear a driveway while the snow is still falling
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
It’s time once again for another season. I’m ready. #ShoulderToShoulder #LAFC #ListenToTheRadio.
Me standing on the porch of the Sunny Bungalow all decked out in LAFC Gear with a 2022 season scarf a black and gold radio set to 710 am for play by play.  My driver cap with the LAFC patch and my”Tacos” sweatshirt in the LAFC logo style.
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Patrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
It’s time for the annual #WorldRadioDay rollcall WGAO Franklin MA WMLN Milton MA WERS Boston MA WEEI Boston MA WBUR Boston MA WBZ Boston MA Kid Company Radio Boston MA NPR Mothership Washington DC NPR San Francisco CA KQED San Francisco CA NPR West Culver City CA #NPRLife #ListenToYourRadio
The radio that’s in a Ford CMax Energize tuned to the station KXLU in Los AngelesA Sony tabletop radio tuned to KCRW 88.9 FM. The display is also advertising that it is airing Weekend Edition Sunday.This is a picture of a very small portable radio being listened to at an LAFC game tuned to 1110 AM which at the time was broadcasting @ESPNLosAngelesThis is a photo of a Spark HD radio, which is tuned to 89.3 WNPN – FM The Public’s Radio, also known as Rhode Island Public Radio
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