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March 28, 2022

Michael Savage

Classic Intro Clip from 1999

This weeks audio clip is from April 30, 1999.

Michael Savage, a popular radio talk show host from KSFO in San Francisco, replays his show opening.

The whole purpose is to make light of some of the failed NATO bombings of Yugoslavia that were going on at the time.

Listen to the Clip

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March 21, 2022

November 1999 Commercials

Classic Dot Com Commercials

This week's Media Monday features some commercials I found on a VHS tape that had content from November 1999. I pulled off some commercials from that recording.

Watch the Commercials

Details

  • Discover Card - With USPS running away after delivery.
  • Dino Crisis by Capcom - Weird way to sell a video game.
  • AOL 5.0 - Aired during the peak of membership. Broadband would start gaining popularity in 2000.
  • Checkout.com - This looked to be an online rental service.
  • McAfee - Interesting way to sell computer security.
  • Web Without Wires by Motorola - Motorola promoted the world without wires.
  • Duracell Ultra - Duracell always promotes that they have the fastest battery.
  • eTrade with PacBell Promotion - Interesting promotion for new eTrade customers - California Only.
  • Intel Web Outfitter Service - Back in 1999, Intel offered a lot of free services on their website - not anymore.
  • Saturn SL - Classic Saturn Commercial.
  • Toyota Celica - Classic Toyota Celica commercial.

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March 14, 2022

Commercials from 2006 and Earlier

Do these Bring Back Memories?

This week's media Monday is a mix of some 2006 commercials. These were recorded using iMovie on my old G4 computer.

Video Collection

Here's this week line up:

  • ProLine Infomercial - A minute into the ProLine Infomercial
  • McDonalds - Eddie the Echo plays Mini Golf
  • Wild Card Sunday - Introduction to the NFC Wild Card Sunday Game
  • Pepsi Machine - A Pepsi Machine plays football
  • MasterCard - featuring Payton Manning.
  • Nextel - A couple of guys getting down in the office
  • Buy.com - CEO promoting Buy.com from the rooftop
  • Crush Soda - Watch the manager drink all the crush soda during the game.
  • McDonald Nuggets - Is this the first Chicken McNuggets commercial from McDonalds? (Not sure of the air date - maybe 1983?)

Commercial

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March 7, 2022

Auto Insurance Scam Calls

Caller Tried to Hide the Do Not Call List part

This week's Media Monday is a phone call that I got last week about car insurance. This is a typical type of call that I get.

Listen In

Couple of Notes

When the call got transferred none of the information that I provided to the original person was sent. Why did they ask me them? What are they going to do with that information?

The second call I got was an automated call. I got that particular call a couple of times that day and only once got beyond saying ???Good.???

I get this spam calls all the time usually they piggyback on each other. Almost if a vendor sells my active number and a machine takes immediate action and calls the number.

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February 28, 2022

Ski Wachusetts

Watch the Improvements of Skiing

This week's media is a montage of a video of Juliana going to Wachusett's Mountain in Palmer Massachusetts. She spent 2 mornings learning how to ski. We spent the third-day free skiing.

Video was shot using a GoPro Hero 9 attached to a ski pole via Gooseneck Clamp mount. The weather was really cold on the third day that the GoPro couldn???t warm up to work properly.

Watch Video

Ski Wachusetts

Mount Wachusett's offers 90 minutes of skiing. Students get an opportunity to ski before and after the lesson to practice what they learned.

We arrived early each day so we could get the first lesson of the day. The lessons start at 8 am.

Level 3 start on the Easy trail and end the day on the intermediate trail. Level 4 conductors their classes on the intermediate trail.

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February 21, 2022

Memory Power Infomercial

Featuring Harry Lorayne

Back in the 1990s, Infomercials were the late-night filler spot for many networks. I enjoyed watching them as a good way to fall asleep.

When going through my VHS collection, I found the Memory Power by Harry Lorayne infomercial. This is the kind of infomercial that would put me to sleep. It's just a show that will put you to sleep.

Watch this broadcast from 1998:

Order the Tapes on eBay

You can order the Memory Power by Harry Lorayne 5 Cassettes/ 1 VHS Tape Set~1988,1992 for about $20 on eBay.

The funny thing is that some people are selling the 1992 cassettes as new, they ordered the tapes but never bothered to open and listen to them.

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February 14, 2022

Mega Speed Reading Informercial

Classic Informercial from 1998

Is it possible to purchase a training program that can help you read faster? Kevin Mark Trudeau and Howard Stephen Berg think they can.

Watch the first ten minutes of this infomercial from 1998.

Still interested?

You can find the complete package that Howard Stephen Berg was selling on the infomercial on eBay. There are plenty of people that are selling the Mega Speed Reading Course for about $10.

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February 7, 2022

2001 Commercials

Some Classic Commercials from my VHS collection.

This week???s feature is a collection of commercials from May 2001 from San Francisco California. These classic commercials are a reminder of how young the internet was.

Hard to believe that these commercials will be 21 years old this year. (That???s like watching commercials from the 1980s in 2001.)

Commercial Listings

  • Kristi Yamaguchi promoting K101
  • California Department of Health Services - Stop smoking campaign
  • Pacific Bell - ???What???s up with all these companies that aren???t focused on customers????
  • Jack in the Box - Play of the Day with the Triple Ultimate Cheeseburger.
  • Mitsubishi ???Wake up and Drive??? - Catchy tune commercial featuring ???Start the Commotion.??? The commercial caused the song to reach the top 40 in the USA in 2001 - four years after it was released.
  • Toyota Corolla featuring Steve Young - Not sure why, San Francisco Quarterback, Steve Young was featured in these commercials. Does anyone think that he actually drives a Toyota Corrolla in real life?
  • Real Cheese with a cameo by Bob Dole - A fictional presidential candidate mistakes says he doesn???t like cheese. So what does Bob Dole think about this?
  • onMoney.com - Introducing the ability to have the entire financial world at your fingertips. The company closed in 2004.
  • Shopnow.com - Why aren???t people going to your website to buy?
  • Gateway Country Store - Just as Apple was about to open its first store in Tysons Corner, Virginia, Gateway started promoting its stores on major TV networks. Apple never really considered them a competitor.
  • Mother???s Cookies - Commercial that features people that have worked at the company for a long time. I wonder how many of those people featured are still working there today?

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January 31, 2022

Medicare Scam

Listen to a Call Try to Steal Information

I get a lot of the Medicare Part C scam calls. There's no reason for me to be getting these calls.

I keep telling them I don't qualify for Medicare, yet they keep calling me back.

Every once in a while I will play with them. I challenge them on why I would want to volunteer to give information to an unknown caller.

Listen Into One of the Calls

The video ends abruptly because the audio recording stopped because of another incoming scam call.

Seriously, why do people willing to give personal information to strangers over the phone???

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January 24, 2022

1999 Commercials

Sample of Commercials that Aired in 1999

This week's media feature is a collection of 1999 Commercials. These aired during the spring months on KRON TV in San Francisco California.

Featuring

  • McDondalds - featuring Eddie the Echo. In this commercial spot, he doesn't have any lines.
  • KSFO - The morning talk show hosts Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan try to convince people to listen to their conservative morning show. They did have a great program!
  • The San Francisco Chronicle - this commercial spot featured Adair Lee and her writing style. This was a creative way to sell newspapers.
  • Prodigy Internet - This commercial featured the Prodigy Online service convincing people to switch away from America Online.
  • California Great America - A local commercial about the Great America Theme park in Santa Clara, California.
  • MCI Worldcom - Commercial features Michael Jordon with the looney tunes characters. This came about 2 years after the Space Jam movie.
  • 1800Collect - This commercial featured Steve Austin - who was at his peak winning the WWF Championship.
  • Saturn - This funny commercial promotes how college students can order a car delivered just like a pizza. The company would no longer exist ten years later.
  • ESPN SportsCenter - Featuring Mark McGwire giving up his winning 62 home run ball to Dan Patrick.

Watch The Commercials

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