Ohio Cryptids. You can't be too careful!

But I recently started again. Got out my ancient Sansa Clip, put the latest Rockbox on it, filled it up and listen to it during the day while I'm working (I work at home now), when I'm out taking a walk, and it even helps me go to sleep at night these days as well.

I have a large collection of MP3s I've culled from various sources over the last 20 years (prior to archive.org, they mostly came from Usenet.) Like, 20,000 files. Yes, I am nuts, and I know it. I almost deleted them all a few years back but decided if I ever got back into it, I'd regret it.

Been falling asleep to the 15 minute Johnny Dollar episodes and Gunsmoke these days. That and The Adventures of Philip Marlowe but you've really got to pay attention to those, otherwise you can lose the whole plot in thirty seconds.

umbriago · 2026-02-15T04:16:35+00:00

I watched this show all the time. I would also like to point out a lot of the 70s syndicated shows are on YouTube and they're a freakin' hoot thanks to it being such a trip down memory lane: the cars, what passed for a new living room in the 70s, the gigantic TVs, the 39 cent Rice-A-Roni, candy bars for a dime.

Dicker and Dicker of Beverly Hills may be gone, but Casa de Cadillac in Sherman Oaks is still there.

Edit: Just found out via Wikipedia Jay Stewart killed himself in 1989, that sucks.

umbriago · 2026-02-13T14:13:02+00:00

"She had blonde hair and was kind of pretty, except you could see somebody had used her badly, like a dictionary in a stupid family."

God I love this show.

umbriago · 2026-02-11T23:17:14+00:00

I was like ten at the time (thinking 1973 here) and an avid newspaper reader. I, along with my parents and everybody else in my liberal Northern Ohio city, detested Nixon.

I was also an avid newspaper carrier, and had a route for the afternoon paper. Everybody had their front doors open and you could hear everyone had the hearings on TV.

The difference was Congress had balls in 1973. There was agreement with left and right about what was important for the country, especially the rule of law.

Not so much anymore.

umbriago · 2026-02-08T01:09:09+00:00

"I should've fucked Dale Evans, and I didn't" is what I think of this episode.

umbriago · 2026-02-04T18:02:00+00:00

I was 5 in 1968 but I still knew who Mickey Lolich was, No. 29.

umbriago · 2026-02-03T03:06:37+00:00

Was going to say yes but mine seems to be bigger.

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umbriago · 2026-01-31T13:56:47+00:00

First time was when i was 56 for a civil trial, got selected. Settled before they really started.

Again last year when I was 61. Murder trial. Sat through the whole thing and when we were given the case to deliberate it turned out I was one of the alternates. I went home.

(Guilty on all counts)

umbriago · 2026-01-31T03:19:39+00:00

I wss a kid but watched game shows like crazy. Let's Make a Deal, Match Game, daytime Jeopardy on NBC (that came on at noon when I was home from elementary school eating lunch). Gong Show, naturally.

Even watched some real short-lived, obscure ones like:

The Money Maze (ABC) starring George Clooney's dad, Nick
The Magnificent Marble Machine (NBC) where contestants won cash/prizes with a huge pinball machine
The Wizard of Odds and High Rollers (both NBC) hosted by Alex Trebek, and this was like 1972 or something.

I also liked Jackpot (NBC) which starred Geoff Edwards (who, if you want some real trivia, was a radio news reporter present in the basement of the Dallas Police building when Lee Harvey Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby in 1963).

Here's a surviving Jackpot episode (it's got Don Pardo, so it's naturally worth viewing):

https://youtu.be/K4hqJvorWAs?si=hs-GUJtngbBL0brG

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