Mike Sauter
@mikesauter.bsky.social
VP Broadcasting at Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting (WYEP/WESA). Radio nerd. Host of the PencilPod podcast.* All opinions my own. (Untrue. I felt left out since everyone else has one, so I George-Glassed it.)
60 years ago today (8/11/66), John Lennon sort of apologized for his statement, "We're more popular than Jesus." Some radio stations cancelled their bans of The Beatles after the apology, but not all of them. One station kept their ban for 4 years. This video explains all.. youtu.be/DmrBysiKDqs?...
"Ban The Beatles!" A CHARTstoppers Special Report
YouTube video by Chartstoppers
youtu.be
60 years ago, radio stations across the U.S. were banning The Beatles. A deep dive into the phenomenon.... youtu.be/DmrBysiKDqs
"Ban The Beatles!" A CHARTstoppers Special Report
YouTube video by Chartstoppers
youtu.be
OK, does NPR's Morning Edition theme remind anyone else of "Where Were You Hiding When the Storm Broke?" by The Alarm?
News Headlines These Days Can't All Have the Same Structure. But They Do.
60 years ago The #Beatles were banned from radio stations across the U.S. I'm making some videos about that situation. Here's one on the station that started it all... youtu.be/jDS4p73rDEg?...
Ban The Beatles! Let's Get WAQY!
YouTube video by Chartstoppers
youtu.be
Martin Sheen, using his "the choice of a new generation" voice
Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 4w agoYou suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?
Music fans once dreamed of the "jukebox in the sky," the notion that tech could bring us just about all music with a few touches of buttons.
Your animal husbandry name is the last name of the author of the third book you ever read plus the fruit you ate one year ago today.
I appreciate that the highway rest stop building has a posted evacuation plan. Basically, "get out" is the plan.
We just left DC and a one-song stop in Rockville, MD. Next up, Baltimore, Philly, NJ, and then a memorable pause in NYC, before we head home across PA to Pittsburgh by 6p!
Mike Sauter@mikesauter.bsky.social · 2mo agoUntil 6p today, were making a musical road trip back and forth across the USA on WYEP's American Travelogue! www.wyep.org/wyep-program...
We're now in Texas! Stops along the way in San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, Houston, and Galveston!
Mike Sauter@mikesauter.bsky.social · 2mo agoUntil 6p today, were making a musical road trip back and forth across the USA on WYEP's American Travelogue! www.wyep.org/wyep-program...
Until 6p today, were making a musical road trip back and forth across the USA on WYEP's American Travelogue! www.wyep.org/wyep-program...
Journey through the US with WYEP's American Travelogue (tune in July 3)
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States, WYEP will be bringing you WYEP's American Travelogue on Friday, July 3 from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
wyep.org
If Bryan Adams released "Summer of '69" now but kept the distance from release to subject year the same, it would be called "Summer of '11."
Please stay at this temperature and humidity. Thank you.
In late winter, an ice chunk fell from the roof after some subzero days. The ice landed perfectly on the hose bib and destroyed the valve knob. I finally got around to replacing it today, much to my wife's delight for gardening purposes. Never had luck with plumbing stuff. Fingers crossed.
Really put Oz the dog into a pensive mood when I played him "Sheep Go to Heaven"
Sure, but even then, Scott Kannberg said in the Lolla oral history book that "I’m pretty sure that (the mudslinging) had been going on before us, when Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Jesus Lizard played." Pavement didn't ruin it. Clearly Metallica was the band that ruined Lollapalooza. No contest.
Strolled up to see some of the leading runners in the Pittsburgh Marathon. The number of people pulling up to the cop directing traffic at 5th and Penn desperate to find a way out of the loop we're in is amazing. This event happens. Every. Year.
About to have my 2nd day off in a month tomorrow and I'm positively giddy. I bought extra eggs for breakfast tomorrow morn
If you know someone with a dad rock band, please encourage them to cover "Brutal" by Olivia Rodrigo. It would sound great and be a lot of fun. I'd love to hear it!
Has anyone ever composed a covert avante-guarde symphony? One that sounds like a normal symphony for, like, 10 minutes but then it goes into a 5 second loop and repeats the loop for another 10 minutes?
If only Mr. Rogers was still with us, he could've come out to announce the Mr. Irrelevant pick of the NFL Draft and sang "You Are Special" to him. Wouldn't have been a dry eye in the house, not even among Eagles fans
@jonbois.bsky.social Have you considered the lead theory in the decline of mound-charging? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2...
Lead–crime hypothesis - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
This part of the article jumped out at me: "Consent comes into question. Maybe it is because it makes us think of a corpse being put on strings, forced to perform like a soulless puppet." 1/2
Val Kilmer's AI resurrection is a grim omen for the future of movies
Digital necromancy is nothing new, but generative AI seems to have made it easier than ever to bring film stars back from the grave
gq-magazine.co.uk
