Under normal circumstances, it wouldn’t trigger a neurological alert. ![]() So is “No problem.” Sometimes a segment ends with “My pleasure” or, more recently, “Good to be with you.” And NPR listeners have become accustomed to David Folkenflik’s “You bet!”īut occasionally you hear a much more interesting response - an outlier that, when I first heard it, made my head pop up and swivel like one of those meerkats on Nature. It’s the deceptively simple “You’re welcome.” How do they usually go? “Thank you for having me” is popular. That is, until we get to the reporter’s goodbye. Then they play the tape and talk for a bit afterwards until A says something like “Thanks, B.”Īnd that’s about it. They talk to each other for maybe a minute, setting up the interview that the reporter recorded earlier. Host A introduces reporter B during, say, All Things Considered. The on-air back-and-forth between an NPR host and a reporter is so much a part of the public radio lexicon that by now we take its structure for granted.
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