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[Admiral Yi]

I chuckled.  Boston accent.

[Syt]

I'd never seen the video to Al Jarreau's Mornin', but I'm glad I've watched it now.

[Josquius]

I chuckled.  Boston accent.

This makes me sad. Why is she correcting herself

[Admiral Yi]

This makes me sad. Why is she correcting herself

I assume because she want to have a career in TV.

[Maladict]

This makes me sad. Why is she correcting herself

I assume because she want to have a career in TV.

It's not the 70s anymore.

[Admiral Yi]

It's not the 70s anymore.

I'd be interested to hear your point if you have one to make.

[Maladict]

It's not the 70s anymore.

I'd be interested to hear your point if you have one to make.

Meaning insisting that newsreaders should not have regional accents is a relic from the 70s. I'd like to think we've largely moved on, but I might be wrong.

[HVC]

Not on this side of the pond. Unless maybe you want to work for local news I guess. Wouldn't make it to the big leagues.

[Admiral Yi]

Play by play of Wittmann at Villers-Bocage.

[Josquius]

An ancient American TV show with minimal budget giving a really pretty interesting beginners look at linguistics. No big things I didn't know before but some interesting little side facts. Really hard to imagine such a show today.

[Syt]

There's been some controversy (because there always is) about the Fallout series on Amazon supposedly retconning the lore of previous games (esp. the infamous blackboard - if you know, you know ).

I think Many A True Nerd has a decent view of things and how/why they make sense. I'm mostly reminded of controversies like when the Mandalorian TV show introduced Mandalorians never removing helmets and parts of the fandom losing their shit - only for it to be explained later.

[Barrister]

So I've seen a whole ton of Conan O'Brien stuff on social media.  You almost wondered if he had died or something - but no he did an appearance on chicken wing talk show Hot Ones which was really quite funny.    From Conan stuffing chicken wings in his pocket, to bringing out his "personal physician" to check on him, to chugging hot sauce at the end, he brought it.

[grumbler]

So I've seen a whole ton of Conan O'Brien stuff on social media.  You almost wondered if he had died or something - but no he did an appearance on chicken wing talk show Hot Ones which was really quite funny.    From Conan stuffing chicken wings in his pocket, to bringing out his "personal physician" to check on him, to chugging hot sauce at the end, he brought it.

The John Oliver one was good, as well.

[Barrister]

So here's a totally random anecdote.

Summer of 1997.  I had been accepted to law school that fall.  I had a environmental science / geology degree I had just graduated with.  So for a summer job I had a job with Manitoba Energy and Mines as a research assistant.  We spent part of our time out in the field (which in northern Manitoba is in the absolute middle of fucking nowhere) but the rest of our time was in Thompson, Manitoba, which was a town of maybe 10k, also in the middle of nowhere.

But even living in Thompson, I lived in an RV which was out by the float-plane base out on the Thompson River.  Just so you know I was hardly living in luxury.

So anyways - when we ere back in town I'd listen to the local radio - in Thompson I think there was only one.  They were doing a call-in request show.  I think this might be the only time in my life I was bored enough to call in to a request show.  I requested the latest Depeche Mode song - "It's No Good".  In part because I wanted to hear it, but in part just because I thought they wouldn't - this is northern Manitoba in the 1990s.

Anyways the radio host (who was probably no older than I was) was very excited for my request.  She dug through whatever cassettes they had.  On the air she was like "I found it! I found it!"  And played my request for Depeche Mode to the people of Thompson Manitoba in 1997.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-QPvffO1gs

I'm not even saying it's a great song or anything (although I love DM).  But it's something I'll always remember.

(but seriously if you're curious - look up Thompson Manitoba - then look up Island Lake, Manitoba where I did my field work - way the fuck in the middle of nowhere)

[Barrister]

So here's a totally random anecdote.

Summer of 1997.  I had been accepted to law school that fall.  I had a environmental science / geology degree I had just graduated with.  So for a summer job I had a job with Manitoba Energy and Mines as a research assistant.  We spent part of our time out in the field (which in northern Manitoba is in the absolute middle of fucking nowhere) but the rest of our time was in Thompson, Manitoba, which was a town of maybe 10k, also in the middle of nowhere.

But even living in Thompson, I lived in an RV which was out by the float-plane base out on the Thompson River.  Just so you know I was hardly living in luxury.

So anyways - when we ere back in town I'd listen to the local radio - in Thompson I think there was only one.  They were doing a call-in request show.  I think this might be the only time in my life I was bored enough to call in to a request show.  I requested the latest Depeche Mode song - "It's No Good".  In part because I wanted to hear it, but in part just because I thought they wouldn't - this is northern Manitoba in the 1990s.

Anyways the radio host (who was probably no older than I was) was very excited for my request.  She dug through whatever cassettes they had.  On the air she was like "I found it! I found it!"  And played my request for Depeche Mode to the people of Thompson Manitoba in 1997.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-QPvffO1gs

I'm not even saying it's a great song or anything (although I love DM).  But it's something I'll always remember.

(but seriously if you're curious - look up Thompson Manitoba - then look up Island Lake, Manitoba where I did my field work - way the fuck in the middle of nowhere)

By the way I only linked to the video to complete the story - I had forgotten how funny portraying Depeche Mode as a bunch of skeezy lounge singers was.

Song is still merely okay.