# Carl Kassel's last day tomorrow **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 30, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carl-kassels-last-day-tomorrow/523008 "2009-12-30T03:46:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carl-kassels-last-day-tomorrow/523008/1 "2009-12-30T03:46:28Z")
His last day on [Morning Edition](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122017544) is 30 December. He will still do _Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,_ and from the article be a “roving ambassador” for the network. I’ll be listening to NPR tomorrow morning. Something Cool is passing. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![kapri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carl-kassels-last-day-tomorrow/523008/2 "2009-12-30T03:49:41Z")
To be honest, I find him hard to listen to. When he speaks, it sounds like he has marbles in his mouth. I love \*Wait Wait, \*though. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carl-kassels-last-day-tomorrow/523008/3 "2009-12-30T03:59:33Z")
> [@kapri](#): > > To be honest, I find him hard to listen to. \*though. Oh fie, Sir or Madame! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carl-kassels-last-day-tomorrow/523008/4 "2009-12-30T05:05:24Z")
I’d miss him a lot more if I lived on the east coast. As it is, I’m hardly ever more than barely awake when he does the newscast. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carl-kassels-last-day-tomorrow/523008/5 "2009-12-30T05:15:50Z")
> [@kapri](#): > > To be honest, I find him hard to listen to. When he speaks, it sounds like he has marbles in his mouth. > > I love \*Wait Wait, \*though. I agree. He’s a billion years old, it’s time to move gracefully off the air. There’s someone with a weird name waiting in the wings for their chance on NPR. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carl-kassels-last-day-tomorrow/523008/6 "2009-12-30T06:31:54Z")
Glad to hear he’s still going to be on _Wait, Wait_. I love that show! ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carl-kassels-last-day-tomorrow/523008/7 "2009-12-30T23:20:21Z")
apparently a friend of mine just recently won “Karl Kassel’s voice on his answering machine” and he needed to provide a script. I had solicited a pretty raunchy one as a joke… my friend liked one bit though. So Karl will be ending the outgoing message with “mmmmmm juicy!” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carl-kassels-last-day-tomorrow/523008/8 "2009-12-31T01:37:03Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > apparently a friend of mine just recently won “Karl Kassel’s voice on his answering machine” and he needed to provide a script. Were I fortunate enough to win, I would beg for Paula Poundstone, or rather, her cat, who is no longer on her [website](http://www.paulapoundstone.com/), dammit. “This is Plant’s cat. I don’t know were the hell he is, and if I could work this damn can opener, I wouldn’t care.” ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carl-kassels-last-day-tomorrow/523008/9 "2009-12-31T04:15:33Z")
Wow. When I was growing up, my Dad had NPR on every single morning and I very clearly recall listening to Karl Kassel doing the news. I remember finding his voice very soothing. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carl-kassels-last-day-tomorrow/523008/10 "2009-12-31T04:53:05Z")
Mr. Kassel should have stopped announcing long ago. He’s almost impossible to understand at times. Drives me up a wall. He is less annoying on Wait, Wait …, but only marginally so. I hate listening to him do the limericks. Still, it’s the passing of someone who’s been there a long time.