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.
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.
This week's media Monday is a mix of some 2006 commercials. These were recorded using iMovie on my old G4 computer.
Here's this week line up:
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.
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.
PermalinkThis 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.
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.
PermalinkBack 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:
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.
PermalinkIs 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.
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.
PermalinkThis 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.)
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.
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'
PermalinkThis week's media feature is a collection of 1999 Commercials. These aired during the spring months on KRON TV in San Francisco California.
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