LOOKING BACK WITH FONDNESS ON 2020 MIX

First, let’s start out with some comedy:

 

If Hairbands Wrote Songs in 2020; CORONAVIRUS Sounds of Silence parody; Henrik Widgren – Never Google Your Symptoms; You Can’t Take My Door

 

 

Now for some news and commentary:

 

A Chilling Warning From Trump’s Former NSC Director of Strategic Planning; Burnt Out Health Workers Prepare for the Worst in CORONAVIRUS Epicentre Wuhan; Peter Navarro: China Will Have to be Held Accountable for How CORONAVIRUS Started; Exclusive: Wuhan Funeral Home Staffer Reveals Real Death Toll From CORONAVIRUS; Man, I Feel Like a Woman: Walsh Absolutely Wrecks Entire Transgender Argument; Woman Gives Powerful Speech to Looters on Streets of NYC; Bill Maher – New Rule: Immunity Booster; The Fall of the Republic is the Rise of the Corporation; Transgender Woman Threatens Shop Employee Who Called Her Sir; Trump’s Full Speech at Orthodox Jewish Fundraising Event in Manhattan; Vancouver Police Arrest Protesters Supporting a Fake First Nations Band; World Health Organization Says Asymptomatic Transmission of COVID-19 Very Rare

 

 

Now, let’s go way back:

 

Dick Clark for Hot and Cold Dr Pepper; The First Radio Broadcast From Christmas Eve 1906; Drunk Partygoers From Around 1900; Robert Browning Recites his Poem 1889; Queen Victoria 1888; D. L. Moody Reads the Beatitudes; The Voice of Charles Spurgeon’s Son

 

 

In keeping with those last two recordings, let’s have a set of inspirational Christian stuff:

 

Bethsaida: Why Did Jesus Curse This City?; Christians Boldly Share the Love of Christ on the Streets of China’s CORONAVIRUS Hot Zone; How Does God Speak to Christians?; Street Preacher Kicked Off Costco for Preaching; The God who Sees

 

 

And now a triple play of stuff that doesn’t fit anywhere else:

 

Graham Chapman’s Memorial Service; How to Treat Casino Dealers; Why Engagement Rings Are a Scam

 

 

As always, we finish off this mix with some Christian music:

 

Acappella Create in Me; The Midnight Cry – The Rapture of the Church

 

 

RADIO-RELATED STUFF: CATCHING UP ON SEVENTY WEEKS WORTH OF SHORTWAVE AND OTHER RADIO NEWS

            A giant boot to the head to all the media outlets who cut back live programming during the COVID-19 pandemic. You are the media; your job is to keep us informed. Kudos to Radio Romania International for following the reverse of this trend.

Sad about WCSQ-LP going off the air.

Also sad about KKAA going off the air. Seemed like not even a shadow of its former self, though, compared to how it did in the first few years of its existence.

Wonder why that Catholic network that was on mediumwave in Portugal shut down.

Glad Australia is at least sort of back on shortwave.

People say shortwave is a dead medium, which, granted, it is in most of the world, but it's astounding that there always seem to be new ones being planned or coming on the air.

Can't find a stream for CHAH 580 Edmonton.

When it comes to international, and for that matter, domestic public broadcasting, whether it's the VOA, Radio Canada International, Radio Australia, Radio New Zealand, or even the BBC, these days the medium is like two people running a three-legged race starting out in two different directions.

Private shortwave broadcasters won't do anything about continuing to air people like Brother Stair and Tony Alamo until we, the listeners, start doing something about it. For my part, might I suggest recruiting clients from the many Christians who are on YouTube, Blog Talk Radio and other platforms to replace those should-be banished false Christians. 

 

Is Weather Radio Canada still planning to go off the air soon?

 

Sad to hear about the death of Noel Green in the UK. I appreciated his contributions to Glenn Hauser's "World of Radio."    

Hey, CBC, rather than using Radio Canada International as a de facto third domestic service for ethnic Canadians, why don't you put third language programming on your main Radio One network, seeing as how you're always banging on about how we old stock Canadians are going to become the minority, how awesome immigration is and how poorly the Natives and Inuit have been treated. Alternatively, you could switch your second radio network, the perpetually failing CBC Music or whatever its called this week, entirely to programming in indigenous and other unofficial languages.

Emily Keene's comments on World of Radio 2068 about girls into the radio hobby shows you truly can't pigeonhole people.

If there has been more political talk on the ham bands in the last few years it is because more and more people realize there's something rotten in the state of Denmark.

MEDIA-RELATED STUFF

    WTWW 5830 was coming in really well Thursday night.

 Glad      internet radio is still on the air.

Book Television and Fashion Television are going off the air. Never watched either one of them and I'm astounded they lasted nearly twenty years.

NBC Sports Television is going off the air. I wonder if this means NBC Sports Radio will follow.

I found last week's episode of "Radio Lab" about loops truly interesting.

RADIO-RELATED STUFF

    Glad 91x has that show "For the Record." It quite possibly could help out a lot of bands in these lean times.

Tuned into "Common Sense" with Bill O'Reilly on WABC the last couple nights. It somewhat has potential.

 Listen to Radio Kantipur in Nepal.

A LONG OVERDUE MIX OF MUSIC AND OTHER STUFF

First, a set of songs previously featured on this blog:

 

Death From Above – Caught Up; Father John Misty – Mr. Tillman; Luke Nicholson – All Your Dresses; Josh Turner – Me and God

 

 

Now a set of some songs new to the blog:

 

Queens of the Stone Age – Feet Don’t Fail Me; Alfie Zappakosta – Start Again; Cledus T. Judd – Riding With Inmate Jerome

 

 

Well, given the nature of that last song, let’s keep it going with a set of musical comedy and other cool weirdness:

 

A Neuroscience Love Song; The Hymn of Acsiom; Thomas Benjamin Wild – I’ve No More F***s to Give; Arrogant Worms – My Neighbour’s Learning Saxophone; Trevor Moore – The Ballad of Billy John

 

 

Now let’s go back to normal for a bit:

 

Drew Weber – Mud in the Wind

 

 

Now let’s take a break for news and commentary:

 

An Entire Family of Four is Transgender; Another Reason to Not Trust Trump: Paula White; Can a Helter Skelter Get You Closer to God?; Child Molester Gets Free Gender Reassignment Surgery; Dear White Gay Men, Stop Stealing Black Female Culture; Faith Goldy: Charlottesville, in My Own Words; Man Undergoes 100 Procedures to Become a Genderless Alien; New Restaurant Staffed with Deaf Waiters; Police: Man Used Axe During Robbery, Wore Pokemon Backpack; Popular Toronto Spa Accused of Excluding Trans Women;  Ryan Anderson Responded to the Redefinition of Marriage; Scientific Fraud, Gay Marriage Study Retracted; Talk Radio Conservatives Silenced Before Toronto Election; The Surprising Growth of Evangelical Churches in France;   Trudeau’s Orders: No Funds for Christian Summer Camps Due to Abortion Beliefs; Who’s More Pro-Choice: Europe or America?

 

 

Now, let’s take a comedy break:

 

History of Men Moving On; News Bloopers, Freudian Slips; Are Canadians Satisfied With Justin Trudeau?; The People of Vietnam Think Justin Trudeau is Very Handsome

 

 

Good to see “This Hour Has 22 Minutes” has still got it. Now for some inspiring Christian stuff:

 

Jefferson Bethke – Counterfeit Gods; David Platt – Why Accepting Jesus in Your Heart is Superstitious and unbiblical; Jeff Vanderstelt – Stop Trying to be Jesus; N. T. Wright on Gay Marriage

 

 

We turn now to a bunch of things that don’t fit anywhere else:

 

Amazon Alexa Can’t Understand Scottish Accent; Creepy Doll Recordings by Thomas Edison; Blind People Tell us Which Questions Annoy Them the Most; Foster Hewitt Home Recording February 12, 1949 Parts One, Two, Three, and four; Go Go Mario; Top Ten Places No Human Has Ever Visited on Earth; What If English Were Phonetically Consistent; What is the Fastest Music Humanly Possible?; Why This Creepy Melody is in so Many Movies

 

 

Let’s finish this off with a set of Christian tunes:

 

Ghost Ship – Mediator; Elevation Worship – Greater; Lacey Sturm – Mercy Tree; Elevation Worship – Nothing is Wasted; Elevation Worship – Unchanging God

 

 

 

ANOTHER BLAST FROM THE PAST

            101.5 The Wolf (CKWF-FM) Peterborough from October 1992 Jay Sharp playing the tunes. 

MEDIA-RELATED STUFF

                Glad Scott in Florida, who used to call into Johnny Lightning, is still at it.

As far as that radio commercial for the HIV preventative is concerned, maybe you should have prepped with abstinence instead.

Hey, DW (Deutsche Welle), great hit piece on American evangelicals Saturday afternoon. One of the finest examples of smearing and yellow journalism I've ever seen.

Congratulations, Uvagut Television. You, as a private company, have managed to do something CBC hasn't accomplished in nearly seventy years.