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sasquatch69

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  1. We went to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis a few weeks back. The first exhibit (while you’re waiting for the intro film) is about the history of the slave trade. It has life-size sculpted figures huddled in chains and recorded sounds of cries of agony. It left me shook - and Desantis should be forced to sit in there for a while and take it in.
  2. Getting serious Range Rover vibes from the new Santa Fe. https://www.autoweek.com/news/a44590687/2024-hyundai-santa-fe-teaser/
  3. I'm at about 600 miles for 2023 so far, but not much MTB lately. When I have ridden in June/July so far it's been almost all paved trails - mainly the loop from North Dallas down around WRL and back - because there's more of a breeze. I need to figure out motivation to get up super early and go ride actual unpaved trails while it's still semi-tolerable out.
  4. Having worked in the biz, I can say with relative certainty that there are still a lot of AEs with broadcast background who can sell traditional radio ads all day long, but can't seem to figure out how to attractively market the value proposition of streaming ads.
  5. Welp - Rhyner is becoming a granddad. Nothing with the Hang Zone. As you were...
  6. Pretty fascinating story about the making of “Vogue” here from legendary DJ/producer Shep Pettibone. I’d argue that the “Vogue” video by David Fincher (and the complementary but completely different take on it at the MTV Video Music Awards) are the most iconic single thing Madonna did in a career full of iconic moments. https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/vogue-producer-shep-pettibone-interview-6575923/amp/
  7. This got brought up in the Titanic submersible thread for some reason, but it seemed more apropo for this one. My question: Where the heck is this skate park-looking concrete ramp and stairwell structure under Mopac? Can't recall ever seeing it and it's not easily identifiable from Google Maps.
  8. Gordo called for it on Muse in the News, and it didn’t take long at all.
  9. Basically, when he was at KLIF, Norm thought the Ticket was unserious, and the Ticket guys thought Norm was goofy and too inside-baseball for wider audiences. One of Gordo's earliest bits was Norm and his sidekick Andy Panda, and it made frequent references to a gambling addiction, which apparently Norm really took umbrage to. You can hear one of the really early ones (from while Norm was still on KLIF) here - it's track #8 in the player: https://www.theunticket.com/5-years-of-failed-bits-ticket-cd/ (Side note: Pretty much every track of the CD audio linked above is greatness, and a direct glimpse into the first few years of the little Ticket.)
  10. I spent a few years in Columbus while growing up in the mid 1980s, and the Hannas went to our church. Good folks.
  11. Wanting the Frogs to pull it out, but either way this is a hell of a game.
  12. Not necessarily a celebrity per se, but he was one of my all-time favorite radio voices, a hell of a reporter and an all-around great Texan (and a Longhorn). https://www.npr.org/2023/06/08/1167837454/wade-goodwyn-npr-correspondent-dies
  13. This is already happening in Southlake, thanks to the Patriot Mobile takeover of the school board. Teachers and support staff leaving in droves, district now facing a multi-million dollar shortfall, etc. The Southlake Together Twitter account (@southlake4all) does a pretty good job chronicling the insanity.
  14. Oh man, I hate to hear this. I figured out who he was IRL back when he was sweetjones/upgrayyed but didn't realize he'd switched monikers again on here. As a fan of both good music writing and Texana, I got to be a big fan of his work. I will miss reading his future takes on the Lone Star State and everything else.
  15. Looks like WVU may be looking for a new coach soon.
  16. Because the PPM sample set is so small, a station with a smaller (and/or growing) audience seems bigger fluctuations month to month. Still, that dropoff was surprising. The Freak *really* needs to mix in more sports if they want to be competitive. I love the personalities on the Downbeat, but I need more consistency and less randomness to be a more regular listener. The morning show is a tuneout for me, too.
  17. Banner couple of weeks for the Crow family. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/03/20/trammell-crow-jr-billionaire-linked-sarah-ferguson-accused-financing/
  18. Thx for clarification. Yes, Welpton is totally correct in that the ticket’s changes over the last few months have been smart and put them on a remarkable run. But I still think the Freak can carve out a space for success, especially in afternoon drive. But I think they were also counting on KTCK staying complacent, and they certainly haven’t done that.
  19. Downbeat is moving up month to month - over a 3 share now. I don’t know how much it will affect KTCK, but the Fan is dropping. End of football season has a lot to do with that, too. Nice to have a good sports radio rivalry again here, though. I find myself listening to the Musers but then switching to 97.1 for afternoons. The Fan never makes it into the rotation, ever.
  20. So The Freak got booted with 24hr notice from their reserved spot for a remote today at Texas Live next to Globe Life for opening day. And then suddenly, The Ticket was at Texas Live doing THEIR live broadcast today. Hmm...
  21. I get all that, but I specifically went with the physical Oystercard so my kids wouldn't have their phones out (we worked hard to keep phones put away - except for photos - and be present in the moment). Anything we could do to not have them have to get their phones out was a plus as they paid a lot more attention to their surroundings.
  22. One other note: Stonehenge is worth seeing, but it's a good 1.5hr bus ride from London (about the same for train + shuttle). They built a new visitor center which is much nicer than the old one, but it's nearly two miles from the actual Stonehenge. You either walk the two miles via footpath (which my older son and I did), or you wait in a queue for a shuttle bus to take you to the stones (my wife and younger son chose this option). We did Stonehenge as part of a Viator day tour to Windsor Castle, Stonehenge and Oxford. We wished we had more time in each spot, but it was a good option since we only had a week there. My caution: Our tour got us to Windsor before opening time so we got a spot at the front of the queue to get in. By the time we left 2h later, the line was several hundred people long, and I doubt those folks on tours got much time at all to spend in the castle. And in the summer it'll be worse - we were there in early March before the full tourist wave really hit.
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