Blah Blah Blah- such warmed over news, totally disappointing for a network that has been defunded by this administration and might want to think outside the box a little. Like plans to disrupt the midterms might be as helpful as following the jockeying of the horse race

One of my favorite podcasts. The “If you can keep it” series has been so informative. Thanks for the work you’re all doing!

I often catch pieces of episodes that I would really like to hear the entire length of but whenever I search within the podcast, I can never find the title. I even used AI to try to find a recent episode and it gave me a title but when I come to the podcast, it is not there!

The exuding negativity towards conservative thought is palpable. I just wish for a centrist podcast. I guess this ain't it. Buh Buh

But you missed it on the NOAA story. The National Weather Service is not NOAA. NWS budgets have long been starved by their parent agency NOAA. NOAA is full of biologists, oceanographers, and bureaucrats - not meteorologists. NWS was understaffed and their funds “administratively taxed” for broader NOAA IT and “workforce services”. Ask for the stats, NWS staffing has been at dangerous lows since 2021 and NOAA largely starved NWS. Again, I beg you to ask the question and not blame Trump. The blame rests with NOAA. NOAA has ships and researchers who work without deadlines on turtles, fish, and policy. NWS has staff work 24x7 and create the data and forecasts which you used daily. Follow the money and your story is very different. NWS probationary employees were largely spared (90+%) cuts. NWS staff, generally over the age of 57 were offered the same government wide early retirement and given the low staffing and budgets of the past 4 years, many took the early out. Again, check the employment numbers for the past 5 years and you’ll see the major problems came in the 2020s. Not all NOAA cuts will harm the weather. There is a lot of fat in NOAA which is not weather.

1A used to be much better and quite good. Then... On the Friday week in review show, they replaced the male host, and made the panel predominantly female. It is worse. And more narrowly focused. Way to be inclusive. No hostile intentions? Toxic!!

I’ve been listening to NPR distributions well over a decade thanks to my parents playing it when I was a child. I almost broke with NPR as a whole when they consistently failed to accurately report the genocide occurring in Palestine, but it was this specific pod which kept me in the NPR ecosystem. Jenn White and her cohosts like Todd Zwillich never miss the mark and are so genuine and earnest in their reporting that I end each episode desperate for more- even after the news roundups! They’ve gotten me through so many commutes and chores, and I look forward to the many more decades to come.

The content and people interviewed were so vague about what the dept of education does its no wonder that the Trump Admin has discontinued it. Collect data, yes, but how is this data used - no specific examples. After school programs, yes, but what do these programs do - improve education outcomes or provide baby sitting? Enforce racial justice. , yes, but we already know that Trump doesn’t want to spend money on that. If I were a Trump or a supporter, I’d brush the entire interview off as trivial and it worthy of further concern. I was ready to gain some specific examples of what will be lost. Even though I consider myself a social liberal, I heard nothing in this program that concerns me about the loss we will face with the Dept of Education going away. I was concerned before I heard the program. I now feel at a loss to explain what will be lost without this department. No stories. No data. No examples. No specifics.

Thank you for putting out the stuff that is crucial to report, though it increasingly puts your jobs at risk. Thank you for not going soft, or relying on AI, or reporting on the gen z stare, which is not a story. Now more than ever I know you need financial support. Now more than ever I want to contribute, yet now more than ever I face economic and social instability. Keep it up

Great collection of guests who seem to be truly “informed sources”. I could not get over the Trump supporting staffer Brian, who repeated talked in terms of “Welfare fraudsters”, just like Reagan in 1980. As Scrooge replied to not supporting those in need … “are there no workhouses, are there no prisons”. Brian would let people just wallow. Sad.

Deserve to defund and unsubscribe. Fire your baloney leftist CEO!

1A offers a model of how to do journalism in these times. It is fact-based, they bring in diverse voices, they cover critical topics. Jenn is an excellent moderator.

Diane says what I’ve been saying for an age. The speeding up of speech patterns on radio does not lend itself to discourse and Public Radio is changing and not for the better. Seems to be dumbed down with too many Gen-Z staffers.

I’ve been listening to 1As 38minute episode on deporting pro-Hamas student agitators, referred to as people who “voice support for Palestinians “. What a perfect example of the general NPR bias! At no point do they discuss the anti-Semitic assaults on students and the disruption of classes with Jewish instructors; Hamas is not even mentioned. So as far as 1A is concerned, a guy who dons a Kafka, leads assaults on Jewish students, calls for an October 6th type attack on American Jews, is just a person whose free speech is being suppressed. No wonder Republicans want to defund these radicals.

I listened to your weekly news round up on March 28 and the discussion regarding Mahmoud Khalil. Missing from this conversation was that Khalil was the leader of a movement that violently took over a campus building and restricted where “Zionist” students could go. Simply claiming that this is an issue of suppressing the free speech of pro Palestinian groups is a major mischaracterization of the scene at Columbia.

I love this show! Thank you.

I listen to 1A almost daily. Jenn White is a terrific journalist/moderator/commentator with a great voice. Topics are varied and timely. Presentations are factual, concise and unbiased. Thanks WAMU and NPR for keeping 1A on the air.

Jenn is spot on. I learn about a wide range of topics. It’s one of my go-to podcasts. Listen everyday.

Always interesting, insightful, and I love her voice!

What’s wrong with NPR that it takes literally days to provide the latest episodes? Friday News Roundup becomes useless by the time it’s made available here.

IA has become one of my favorite podcasts. It’s so informative and I’m learning so much from the experts you’ve had on the show.

IA is one of my favorite Npr programs. Jen White is fabulous.

Y'all, I used to be able to rely on this being quality, and this is absolutely no shade to the hosts. Multiple times now I've encountered basic errors in finished episodes(fri 4/12/24 weekly round up), either ending literally mid sentence or mis-posting an entire episode as an episode that released next to it ("If You Can Keep It" released on 3/18/24) which has never been fixed. Just a missing episode in the void I suppose. This feels more than anything like some kind of mismanagement on top of some of the new ads being very odd for what I'd expect. please keep an eye on what's important about broadcasting a show of quality

There is only one view on every issue: progressive democrat. The interviewees are offensive. Shame on you, NPR.

This show needs a new host. Jen White was great the first couple of years now she just mails it in, any time she hosts now its just “let’s revisit a conversation I had few months ago” also she hasn’t done the Friday news roundup in a year it’s always fill in hosts. It’s time to get a host that actually cares about the content!!

Interesting topics, well presented. It is US-based, so most of the topics deal with issues of interest to Americans, but the presentation is thoughtful enough that even the very US-oriented segments, like around elections, are worth listening to. Thoroughly enjoyable

Thank you; this is a well-informed and useful news show. Keep up the great work.

NPR has pretty much gone the way of corporate radio media. All they do is advertise for Trump and leave out anything that actually is news. I won’t be listening to NPR anymore as they are starting to sound too similar to FOX, MSNBC, CNN and others. If you look at numbers and statistics the things they are reporting on is maybe half-truths and nothing else. Just another propaganda station.

A great addition to NPR programming. Nice inclusion of listener comments

Thanks for this intelligent news show. Thank you NPR and WAMC.

This show perfectly sums up why I’ve stopped supporting and listening to NPR. The hosts lob softball questions while ‘progressive’ guests spout trendy dogma. It’s disappointing to have seen one of my most trusted media sources become a megaphone for misinformation. On Point is occasionally like the NPR I knew and respected but the rest is not worth your time.

Always a great listen and always informative, this is a must add podcast to your list!!!!

Thoughtful discussions on critical topics. Host is incredibly well informed and manages the discussion very well. I regularly learn new things each time I listen. Always in my queue

Trivia topics, shallow conversations, and lacks substance. It’s like the Entertainment Tonight of NPR.

Wow! A whole episode on how to reduce climate emissions and no mention of how our military is the largest polluter on the planet! Go NPR!

I grew up listening to NPR. So disappointed by what NPR has allowed itself to become… Trump broke you.

The biggest failure of the hip-hop 50\1a record club episode was that people continuously talked about hip-hop has only a musical form. Hip hop is culture. It is not youth culture, but Black and Latin folk culture that got globalized. To reduce hip-hop to only its musical output, is to defend its power.

Jenn is a great interviewer. She is able to ask probing questions in a diplomatic manner. Many interviewers stick to a script but Jenn presses on and gets to the heart of the matter. I love the ‘personal’ aspects that Jenn brings to a conversation- she reacts in her own personal way. I’m glad she had a vacation but missed her when she was away. Thank you Jenn!

Thank you 🙏🏾…very helpful in isolating the noice.

For those who are disappointed that they cannot find episodes thru their pod app, please know that if you go to the 1A website all episodes should be available. That said, l am disappointed that under current host, the show frequently jams multiple story lines into a single hour. Under former hosts I was used to getting an hour long deep dive into a single topic. When Jen does 25 minutes on topic A and then 35 minutes with some entertainer, I feel she is feeding people’s growing inability to concentrate on a single thing.

I enjoy your show and diversity of subjects. I only wish all your episodes were available as podcasts. I sometimes catch a show in the car that I’m unable to finish and later go to find on podcast only to find it not available.

Myself AND my mother had to be raised by a grandparent. Dessa just interviewed a grandparent on an episode about grandparents getting stuck with custody, when the grandma (“Jackie”) instead decided to go on a tear about the birth mother’s own struggle with drug addiction, blaming the birth mother for all of grandma’s problems. Maybe next time, someone can ask her why her son, the SPERM DONOR, i.e. the baby’s father, felt the need to impregnate someone despite his own drug problems. This was just another MIL blaming her son’s girlfriend for everything, and placing zero responsibility with the promiscuous son she raised years earlier. Maybe these grandparents would have less to complain about, had they not bungled in raising their own children. Also, stop raising male children to be so irresponsible. As a female, I’m so sick of being stuck having to mind them all my life.

1A is a great show I especially love the Friday News Roundup. But I don’t understand why it takes days for shows to be uploaded on the podcast. Often it will be Sunday before I can listen to the Friday news round up if I didn’t hear it live! I listened to part of a show yesterday and wanted to continue today. Very frustrating.

I agree with the person who questioned the absence of episodes. Why? I heard the tremendous episode on the author of ‘Builder… “ in the car. When I wanted to hear it again at home, I could not access it. Nor could I suggest my house-building brother listen to the episode. Very frustrating.

Niala, Preclampsia. Really? If the topic is going to be brought up during the time you host, at least familiarize yourself with the words you’ll be using surrounding the issue. It’s pre-eclampsia for crying out loud. This is with respect to the News Roundup. I at least bothered to look up how to spell your name. Check out google. They have a pronunciation feature.

Agree with prior review. Great episode on woodworking that I wanted to share with someone and nope! Totally different show is listed for today.

Good questions, good guests. Jenn White is so good at what she does.

I really like the show 1a, a lot, but why are there missing radio episodes in the podcast area? A day or two ago there was a really great episode on the radio that I only heard half of, on “Sleep”, and it does not appear in the podcast list, even though there are newer episodes there. I don’t understand why you’re missing lots of radio episodes there, do you only put up a couple from each day? I would love to be able to catch up on some of the radio sections that I missed or only was able to hear some of. I was only able to give the podcast four stars because of this problem which is quite irritating.

Today’s episode made me want to live at/in the Library of Congress. I could spend the rest of my days reading, seeing, watching, listening and absorbing as much as I could. The number of people and the amount of work that goes into this one show is astonishing. Thank you NPR for all you do!

The most recent episode is spectacular. Jenn White RAN that interview. Bravo