(image from here.)
Currently I have two radio shows, one which this blog is ostensibly about, & the other is a very similar show called "The Dickenbock Report," which is on Freeform Portland. This week's show was about popcorn because it was on a "national day" called The Business Of Popping Corn Day. This almost certainly is not really a thing, since there are only a couple of places online that mention it, & the hashtag was not readily available on Twitter. But since I had previously done an episode about popcorn on Self Help Radio, I figured I could recycle some of the content & make it easy on myself.
(The playlist for the earlier show is here. That show aired in 2007 on KOOP. I haven't posted this week's show on the Self Help Radio website but you can see the playlist at the Dickenbock Report link above. There are lots of similarities. But I did play some different tunes.)
One of the things I did was subject the poor listener to many different versions of the song "Popcorn" made famous by the band Hot Butter in 1972 & written by Gershon Kingsley. Once you hear the song it sticks in your head for the rest of the day. It's been in my head for seven days now. I had about a dozen versions of it & did not try to find any more. But the song has its own website, popcorn-song.com. It's made me think there's enough space on the world wide web for websites about every song. Not that I have the time to make such web pages. But visit the site, you'll dig its "oh yeah web pages used to look like that" vibe. & marvel at all the different versions of the song. I hope it made Gershon Kingsley very rich.
(The playlist for the earlier show is here. That show aired in 2007 on KOOP. I haven't posted this week's show on the Self Help Radio website but you can see the playlist at the Dickenbock Report link above. There are lots of similarities. But I did play some different tunes.)
One of the things I did was subject the poor listener to many different versions of the song "Popcorn" made famous by the band Hot Butter in 1972 & written by Gershon Kingsley. Once you hear the song it sticks in your head for the rest of the day. It's been in my head for seven days now. I had about a dozen versions of it & did not try to find any more. But the song has its own website, popcorn-song.com. It's made me think there's enough space on the world wide web for websites about every song. Not that I have the time to make such web pages. But visit the site, you'll dig its "oh yeah web pages used to look like that" vibe. & marvel at all the different versions of the song. I hope it made Gershon Kingsley very rich.
This was a case (in my opinion) where I think I liked re-making a show, although I have never actually listened to the 2007 show. & I don't really want to. But I record the Dickenbock shows on the weekend & listen to them on Thursdays so I can live tweet them & I think I enjoyed my popcorn mix (not so much my airbreaks) more than I've enjoyed some of my recent shows. & to be fair, I don't really enjoy my shows. I like making them more than listening to them. If that makes any sense.
It's probably perverse to talk about the show before I have put it on my website. I'll do it next week. I just had popcorn on my mind tonight.
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