I'm a Martínez
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I promise (maybe) not to post about this next year but today completes one revolution around the sun for me at
@npr
@MorningEdition
I'm just happy about it and decided to be all nerdy over it. That's it.
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This is the first time I have met
@NPRinskeep
in person. I felt like Jimmy Olsen meeting Superman. (I’ve seen
@erikaaaguilar
&
@LeilaFadel
lots of times already.)
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Hey everyone, got some news to share. ⬇️
Welcome to
@NPR
@AMartinezLA
- we can't wait for
@MorningEdition
&
@UpFirst
listeners to get to know you!
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Just arrived for my 1st reporting trip for
@npr
@MorningEdition
! I’m not going to disclose the exact location I’m going to be at because I don’t want paparazzi hounding me like they did recently to
@arishapiro
and that other person he was with.
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As rare as an eclipse or Congress agreeing on…anything, the four hosts of
@npr
@MorningEdition
together at HQ in DC.
@LeilaFadel
@NPRMichel
@NPRinskeep
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I haven’t done a show with another living thing in the room since March 2020. I don’t mind the solitude because I’m friendly but not social. But for today introducing the 3rd host of
@npr
@MorningEdition
@UpFirst
who has more legs than
@LeilaFadel
& I combined.
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I'm in this reading, can someone please pinch me because I got to still be dreaming that I'm an
@NPR
staff member.
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The 6-year old boy who lives next door ran onto my front porch chasing his new puppy. When I opened the door and saw him getting ahold of the leash, he froze, looked up, scanned my house from left to right and said, "Wow, your house is way more haunted than mine."
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Nine years of nesting
@KPCC
@taketwo
now the nest is empty. Time for the new nest
@npr
@NPRWest
@MorningEdition
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Overheard at my family's house for Christmas Eve...."Well I'm drunker than shit but OK sure I'll hold the baby."
#ChristmasEve
#DrunkSanta
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In a few days it’ll be exactly 9 years in
#publicradio
So for my 1st
@MorningEdition
show I figured this is the perfect shirt for what I’ve evolved into.
@npr
@NPRextra
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Taking the Culver City to DC express shuttle and hosting
@MorningEdition
&
@UpFirst
from
@npr
HQ the rest of the week!
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This one is for all the
#publicradio
nerds: Yesterday I’m in a new hire orientation zoom meeting:
@npr
history 101. I’m listening & scrolling thru emails but when it got to the part about
@stamberg
I noticed HER email welcoming me! That was G-d awesome.
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@RyanShazier
"I talked to my father, mother, wife & I was like I'm a failure, sorry I let you down. (They) told me playing🏈is a bonus, being the man you are is what we love about you...overcoming this injury we look up to you more than we ever did."
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NPR Names KPCC's A Martinez As New Host For 'Morning Edition' And 'Up First'
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@npr
Intersectionality for radio geeks, grammar snobs and epiphany lovers: It just hit me that the 1st segment of yesterday's and today's
@MorningEdition
with me &
@NPRmelissablock
is literally an A BLOCK.
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Slight field assignment detour. I’ve always wanted to visit Four Corners and throw up four fingers. This is in the same ballpark as the time i was in Ecuador and tightroped the equator before doing the splits on both the Northern & Southern Hemispheres.
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It was in a pile of other shirts but I aggressively reached for it when I saw it.
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he would never let me go with him. When I asked him why he said, "Jorito, you run from people who cough or sneeze and don't like touching food your hands...you'd never last." Long story just to say that's probably why I never turned to a life a crime...the germs.
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@allysonfelix
"In track and field, the culture around pregnancy was silence. Athletes would either hide pregnancies to secure new contracts, or their contracts were in place were put on hold almost like they had an injury."
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Every once in a while on
@npr
@MorningEdition
we have segment where every part of it is self-contained. We call it a selfie. So here’s me taking a selfie DURING a selfie!
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One of the best things about visiting
#Ukraine
is actually watching music videos on
@MTV
We’ll bring you the serious stuff today on
@npr
@MorningEdition
live from
#Kyiv
my first show with
@LeilaFadel
!!
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It’s California Public Radio Day at
@NPRWest
so please support your local station!
@kpcc
@kcrw
@KQED
@KVPR
@KPBS
@KCLUradio
@kcbx
@KALW
@CapRadioNews
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I’m hosting
@npr
@MorningEdition
from home today & when I opened the blinds to get some sunshine this fuzzy face was staring back at me. I choose to believe this kitty cat was irresistibly drawn to the sound of my voice. Ironically, I thought had more a dog person vibe. 🐱 🐈��⬛
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It mean, it had to an easy decision considering how well it's worked out the other times
@MorningEdition
hired a host with the letters M-A-R-T-I-N in their last names.
NEW: Morning Edition host! Michel Martin's first day will be March 27.
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@NPRinskeep
wrote a great line today "Donald Trump, who's a famous germaphobe, likely gives his fingerprints today in New York." When I was teenager I wanted to hang out with my gangbanger uncle because he was a tough guy and I was tired of being so weak but...(short thread)
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Here the
@NPRWest
side of
@MorningEdition
today with Josh Newell on the board. I never show anyone my eyes…
Hello
@npr
studio 31, my old friend! Getting set to fill in hosting
@MorningEdition
with
@AMartinezLA
. That’s director
@_RyanBenk
rocking the Santa hat and engineer Patrick Boyd at the board.
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As the 5th most popular host
@MorningEdition
it was a pleasure to speak w/the 3rd most popular fictional host
@npr
& I'm sorry not sorry that I put a hit out on
@NPRinskeep
but
#LaurenCaspian
's voice seduced me into agreeing to it.
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@wtyppod
Justin Roczniak "...it staved off the strike but did not solve the problem, the tentative agreement...even though they have more time off under this agreement it's very easy for the railroads to deny then the time off they're owed."
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@ChokweALumumba
Mayor
@CityOfJxnMS
"Privatization is taking people from one state of misery to the next. We need to depart from the notion that privatization is the only way the system can be supported."
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'Sports-radio guy' to NPR 'Morning Edition' co-host: A Martínez's public radio journey
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No falser words have ever been written. Thanks
@KPCC
listeners and keep your ears open for me on
@NPR
@MorningEdition
in July!
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@Logic301
"very difficult to go on the internet & watch people call your baby ugly, or say your wife is a whore. That's the most difficult side of things-you put your heart & soul into something & because there's this bias, people tend to just hate it."
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@NPR
In this hour of
@MorningEdition
I sing, just a little...don't judge or judge if you want, I don't care.
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@MsRebeccaBlack
"Millions of people having awareness that you exist as a teenager is really complicated & something I didn't really understand. Now I'm 25...feeling like I had been defined by something that I never really set out to be defined by..."
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I bought these in a 2-pack a while back. This morning both ran out of ink within minutes of each other. RIP
@PilotPenUSA
G-2 0.38. I guess one couldn’t stand to live on & write after its partner dried up & died.
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@juliaioffe
"What they're seeing is a very sanitized version of what's happening in
#Ukraine
...according to Russian state media the war is limited to the east...& they don't know that the Russians are bombing Kyiv."
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Overhead part of a conversation: "Is it true that Smeagol was corrupted and became Gollum?" "I don't know, you've read more of the Bible than I have."
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In today’s troubled times it’s reassuring to have a superhero watching over you. Thanks
@Dommy_in_LA
for sending
#TheFlash
to
@NPRWest
to make sure
@UpFirst
&
@MorningEdition
on
@npr
go off safe and sound.
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@angie_rasmussen
"So far the hypothesis about the market origin has stood up. It's frustrating to have people assume that we make a decision & stick w/that no matter what. We're always willing to change our hypothesis should new information come up."
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This is only the 4th
#SuperBowl
where both teams are animals-Rams vs Bengals-& the 1st one of the 4 where the helmets are purely features of each animal's body-tiger stripes vs ram horns...so there you go.
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Another
@KPCC
alum making the move to ME!!!
Erika Aguilar will be the new
@MorningEdition
Edition' and
@UpFirst
Executive Producer
Congrats
@erikaaaguilar
& welcome to
@NPR
!
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I was running too fast to keep the camera steady but at the top end I noticed a 6 and 1. I guess we’ll never know if it was 16 or 61 mph.
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@JReidESPN
"They felt Black men were inherently inferior, that Black quarterbacks could not lead white players in the NFL & they just weren't smart enough. It was understood that if you were a Black QB in college, you were moving to another position."
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@RanaAyyub
"I feel like there is nothing like press freedom in the world's largest democracy of 1.3 billion people. I worry about every single person, especially independent journalists in India, who are putting everything at risk to fight that battle."
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I hosted DodgerTalk for 10 seasons & one of the best parts of my day was saying hello to Vin in the press box everyday. An icon who never even had to look at me would always smile & say hello. I made this in 2016 as a 9 min tribute to sweet, kind legend:
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NPR to feature bilingual broadcast of the State of the Union address | Al Día News
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@propublica
@CODanSchwartz
"In the past a 1.4 mile train was considered huge, now trains are 2 or 3 miles long...since 2015 (rail) laid off a 1/5 of their workforce...a lot of the cuts in maintenance so there's fewer people to catch trains in disrepair."
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If you do a 7 minute ab workout while listening to this, you can spend the extra 3 minutes of news listening time by eating ab workout recovery doughnuts.
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@LeilaFadel
It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me. At show time, everybody agrees. I'll stare directly at the show clock but never in the mirror. It must be exhausting always co-hosting with the anti-hero.
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@JohnLeguizamo
"..white people get to fail upwards (in Hollywood)..They have a million things that don't work. We don't get that chance. We get one chance & everybody's expecting it to be the most brilliant thing. And if it ain't & it fails, we're done."
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My 2-year old grandkid just told me “Papa you’re a goofball.” I knew younger audience demos understood me.
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I was strolling through Kyiv when for a second it felt like I was back home standing on the corner of Hollywood and Vine.
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@NPRextra
My podcast would focus squarely and exclusively on how
@npr
would grind to a halt without the contributions, intellect, sense of humor and overall delightful personalities of the
@NPRinterns
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If it appears that I look annoyed that
@NPRWest
burst into the room and disrupted my flow…I wasn’t…or maybe I was…who knows? A Martinez can sometimes be a mystery wrapped in a riddle.
I walked by
@AMartinezLA
's office this morning and thought ‘I’ve never seen him without a hat. Oh right! He’s hosting the super serious Nipper Awards at the all staff meeting today.'
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@thejohnway
@NPRinskeep
@MorningEdition
@taketwo
@KPCC
@NPR
When i started 25 years ago, the people I worked with could not remember my name so they yell....."Hey Martinez! Coffee, now!" That became A Martinez....
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A radio piece like this will make you feel good about why you support
@NPR
From the storytelling to the sounds in the background it feels like you're riding along with
@NPRinskeep
&
@ArezouRezvani
but at a safe distance
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@renato_mariotti
I think even if the affidavit was released & Merrick Garland answered every question they had, I think there are ultimately going to be critics that are going to criticize this & DOJ if it is searching a residence of Donald Trump.
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This would be me bringing my mic to work in the morning.
Thanks for asking. We use the same great microphones in studio; they stay there. So good that when NPR built new studios they moved over the old microphones. But it would be fun if we each arrived with a case holding our own implement, like Wonder Boy or Ol' Blue.
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@LAistStudios
@AGuzmanLopez
"I've been holding this story for 30 years. 1 of Oscar's friends kept telling me why don't you look into this? Part of me resisted because to do that would be to go back into my own activism back then which I had put away."
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Due to overwhelming demand, the A Martinez Sings On Morning Edition World Tour 2021 or AMSOMEWT2021 for short, is back!!! Enjoy as I will now spend the rest of the day sifting thru all the record deals waiting for me in my inbox.
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@thevirdas
"Had 7 criminal complaints filed against me...charged with sedition & defaming India on foreign soil, I was called a terrorist on 3 different news channels...that is a difficult conversation to have with your mother that evening."
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Compared to NY/NJ, not many 🇪🇨 in LA. So as a ⚾️obsessed kid I always thought it was so cool that
@JaimeJarrin
was a
@Dodgers
broadcaster. Still can't believe I can call him my friend. He's retiring. This is my 7 min tribute to him. Plz listen if you can.
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@arishapiro
@davidgreene
@MorningEdition
There really should be no confusion on this. I've displayed my voice talent on ME many times already so it's obvious that I sing better than Ari a fact I'm sure he'd agree with...but in every and any other way Ari and David clearly have me beat by a mile.
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@mahmoudar123
"...Muhammad Ali's (protest) was framed in the Black Power movement. Colin Kaepernick's during Black Lives Matter...myself...there was not a movement to frame it...you were like in an ocean by yourself."
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Just some random memories of
@taketwo
@kpcc
taken by
@JacobMargolis
starting with
@tylerthecreator
& ending with a peek at my
#OCD
on workspace cleanliness. Three more shows to go before it’s over.
#lastdays
#sad
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@rachelnpr
Aaaaaaggghhh, I forgot to call you on the super-secret, direct line to DC, old fashioned red phone!!!! Dang it….
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@NPRinskeep
Wait a sec
@NPRinskeep
you can't take "irrelevant" from me, that's the word I'm most closely associated with.
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@npr
I'm co-hosting
@MorningEdition
today with
@NPRDebElliott
who is on the mic from a place which in my imagination looks lovely, colorful, relaxing and jammed packed with vitamin C and sand...Orange Beach, Alabama! (⬇️not the real Orange Beach, Alabama, or is it?)
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@jemelehill
"She never compromised her blackness-never changed for the sport, she wore her hair beautifully & naturally, starting from the time when she had beads & she had braids. She didn't apologize for having a curvaceous body..."
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@NPRinskeep
@EllenDibble
@NPR
@EstherCinDC
@rachelnpr
He had to have been thinking of Esteban Inskeep, that's why he could not make the connection with "Steve"
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@RepRiggleman
"9 seconds is a lifetime to a counter terrorism analyst, you could say: get out of there,we need not to talk anymore, we need to go encrypted, go dark. Anybody who says 9 seconds isn't a long time has never done counter terrorism analysis."
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#ThrowbackThursday
#NewYearsEve
1996 an hour before my tryout show on XTRA Sports 690. Last
@taketwo
show of
#2020Ends
today at 2pm.
#HappyNewYear2021
#flannel
#thenineties
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I have been in many bands going back to when I was a lower case “a” Martinez. Here where it all began: Koreatown 1979 pop & lock crew. I was still holding it down for disco!
Got to hang out with
@AMartinezLA
and
@erikaaaguilar
today.
Our new album drops next week.
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It was difficult not to awkwardly grin while spending a morning with him. Especially after he was kind enough to see in my office why I got such a kick out of watching Agent Hanratty chase Barry Allen in Catch Me If You Can. I eventually calmed down enough to take a decnt pic.
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Find out what is the "magic question" that makes almost all things possible. 7 minute listen to get the answer.
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@carlissc
"Before the Civil War states had different definitions of when a Black person was a person...we fight a whole Civil War about it...14th Amendment passes...so in theory we shouldn't be able to allow states to define when personhood begins.."
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