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Paul Brandt – Convoy

An evening pause: A 2004 version of the 1975 C. W. McCall song that sure proves that life sometimes imitates art.

Hat tip Mike Nelson.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 
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8 comments

  • wayne

    let us, go for a drive….

    “She Talks in Stereo”
    Gary Myrick and The Figures
    (Route 67 North, Illinois)
    https://youtu.be/kmoxMNFrJ8w
    3:57

  • MDN

    Here’s a more contemporary take based on the Canadian convoy appropriately set grifting off of Neil Young’s “Rocking in the Free World”:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zdnTWQrAAOI&t=250s&pp=2AH6AZACAQ%3D%3D

  • MDN

    Note: Youtube appear to have mucked with the link to this video a bit. It loads and plays nothing when you click on the unmute button, but after a few seconds displays the end with the Replay symbol. When you click on that it plays OK.

  • MDN: I had that problem on youtube, but I don’t see it with the embedded video on my page.

  • wayne

    MDN–
    yes– that link you posted is not in the correct format.
    Try this one….
    (These guys have great Production values! Good find.)

    Truckers Freedom Convoy 2022
    https://youtu.be/zdnTWQrAAOI
    4:18

    Anecdotally—
    I have a free, throw-away account at Spotify, and at no time whatsoever was Neil Young’s music “pulled” or otherwise not available to me the past month. Same for the JRE episodes they claim to have pulled.

  • Jeff Wright

    C.B. radios were the thing in the 1970s. Now kid truck drivers expect dispatchers or security to call them on their individual cell phones. Brats.

  • David M. Cook

    In the 80‘s our trucks (hauling air freight) were equipped with 2-way VHF radios, just like the police use. Way better than that silly, useless CB radio band!

  • Jeff Wright

    Channel 19 is still used some. Iran may have a sat now.

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