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Thursday Nov 30, 2023
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. On today’s episode, Steve Riddle is watching “What I’ve Done” by Linkin Park from 2007.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sgycukafqQ
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
This week on It Was a Thing on TV we bring to you our annual Thanksgiving celebration!
First, it's an It Was a Thing on TV tradition like no other. Every year since 2019, we have looked at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in chronological order, starting with the 1983 parade. We're up to the 1987 parade. What characters will star in this parade? What products will advertisers shove down our throats? And did Charlie Brown ever get a growth spurt!
Then, the holiday tradition at the podcast now starts its trek going back in time, starting with the 1982 edition of The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. How does it compare to what we have seen from later in the 80s and why are so many kids expressing their emotions?
Finally, thirty Thanksgivings ago, Leon Lett committed one of the most boneheaded plays in NFL history. Oddly enough, less than a year earlier, Lett previously committed another one of the most boneheaded plays in NFL history, on the biggest stage of them all.
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Timestamps
0:46 - The 1987 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
1:21:36 - This Week in Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour History
1:28:53 - The 1982 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
2:31:53 - The Russell Westbrook Update
2:40:33 - Leon Lett’s Thanksgiving ‘93 blunder
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. On today’s episode, Keith Langston is watching “Castle” by Halsey from 2016.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk0xkd8qs9I
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
It's that most wonderful time of the year, and for NBA fans, it's only the beginning. So while the casuals were watching football and stuffing faces for Thanksgiving, Adam Murray and Andrew Riche, Place To Be Nation's NBA-Team, are back to catch you up on all thing National Basketball Association in the last month. Why are the veteran Warriors putting themselves in a headlock with suspensions and ejections on top of an already-thin roster? Is it possible that in May, we will see the Minnesota Timberwolves and Sacramento Kings as the last two teams left in a stacked Western Conference? Is it Embiid versus Jokic once again for the league MVP race? And in our annual December debate: Do we really believe in the Orlando Magic this time? Riche and Adam also talk about the upcoming In-Season Tournament in Las Vegas, the injury epidemic in Memphis, the precarious Chicago Bulls, and much more! So suit up and take it out in episode 290 with the NBA-Team!
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. On today’s episode, Steve Riddle is watching “Hero” by Chad Kroeger and Josey Scott from 2002.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmSRMWw8Y_0
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. On today’s episode, Andy Atherton is watching “Celebrity Skin” by Hole from 1998.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3dWBLoU--E
Friday Nov 24, 2023
Friday Nov 24, 2023
The girls put on their thinking caps and solve a mystery this month with Nina Simon in Mother Daughter Murder Night. Don't worry: no turkeys are involved. They also go over some exciting adaptations that have been announced, and maybe how to rescue one (https://www.change.org/p/save-shadow-and-bone-5ff54b93-d127-44a9-9f77-dfc410bdc2ba)! Don't forget to visit Blackwells.co.uk. to get some UK covers of your beloved favorites.
Books mentioned:
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Mother Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Nightbane by Alex Aster
The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
Flowerheart by Catherine Bakewell
Unfortunate Side Effects of of Heartbreak and Magic by Breanne Randall
Beauty and the Lycan Beast by Jessica Molly
It’s A Date Again by Jeneva Rose
Friday Nov 24, 2023
Friday Nov 24, 2023
Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. With the recent release of “The Marvels” in theaters, this week we are covering songs featured on the soundtrack for “Captain Marvel” from 2019. On today’s episode, Andy Atherton is watching “Connection” by Elastica from 1995.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilKcXIFi-Rc
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
On the thirty-fifth episode of Blockbuster Rewatch, Andy Atherton is joined by Keith Langston to do a live watch of 1999’s Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace. The guys talk about the return of the franchise after sixteen years; the introduction of Qui-Gon Jinn; different types of droids; the Gungin language; “there’s always a bigger fish”; looking for Keira Knightley; planet blockades; Anakin’s annoying habits; doing business with Toydarians; Shmi Skywalker’s “Immaculate Conception”; Sebulba’s cheating tactics; hairless camels; The Jedi Council; Coruscant, the city planet; The Jedi Code; Duel of the Fates; Gunga Balls; bottomless pits in Star Wars & pissed-off Yoda.
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. With the recent release of “The Marvels” in theaters, this week we are covering songs featured on the soundtrack for “Captain Marvel” from 2019. On today’s episode, Steve Riddle is watching “Crazy On You” by Heart from 1976.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZjEC4WhCvg
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
This week on It Was a Thing on TV it’s Week 3 of the Doctor Who 60th anniversary celebration!
First, by the mid 1980s, Doctor Who had emerged as one of the BBC’s longest-running brands, but even then it was getting long in the tooth. In 1986, they tried something big - a season-long arc, resulting in “The Trial of a Time Lord”. Will the Doctor be brought to justice? Will audiences be brought to watch?
Then, "Doctor Who" has had a storied history these past 60 years, but thanks to the economics of television at the time, it - much like that of any TV show at the time - is sketchy at best. But recently, the BBC has ramped up efforts to find and restore episodes long lost to tape wiping by any means necessary. We look at how this piece of TV history is being preserved and what is still missing media.
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Timestamps
0:11 - Correction from Episode 424
2:02 - Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord
50:27 - The Missing Episodes of Doctor Who
1:25:02 - This Week in Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour History
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. With the recent release of “The Marvels” in theaters, this week we are covering songs featured on the soundtrack for “Captain Marvel” from 2019. On today’s episode, Keith Langston is watching “Kiss Me Deadly” by Lita Ford from 1988.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIt3OGra3Lo
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
As Place To Be Nation and the Pop feed wish all the listeners a Happy Thanksgiving, Adam Murray and Andrew Riche on the NBA-Team Podcast are here for a special treat, and some leftovers, if you can stomach it. We go through the NBA with a family Thanksgiving get-together lens, from too many cooks in the kitchen to awkward silences to annoying uncles with conspiracy theories. And then we do Andrew’s favorite… giving TANKS! So suit up, take a chair at the dinner table, and Happy Thanksgiving from the NBA-Team!
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Welcome to PTBN Pop’s Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. With the recent release of “The Marvels” in theaters, this week we are covering songs featured on the soundtrack for “Captain Marvel” from 2019. On today’s episode, Steve Riddle is watching “Just A Girl” by No Doubt from 1995.
The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHzOOQfhPFg
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Monday Nov 20, 2023
In the forty-eighth episode of Making Mt. Rushmore, host/moderator/panelist Steve Riddle welcomes Ashley Cruse, Andy Atherton, Steve Bennett, and Aaron George to discuss which Lead Singers deserve a place on their respective lists. Is Freddie Mercury a no-brainer? What about Steve Perry? Does Mick Jagger grab a spot? Does Eddie Vedder or Jon Bon Jovi deserve a place? After that, they discuss which Guitarists will be part of that grouping. Can you argue that Eddie Van Halen shouldn’t get a spot? Will Jimi Hendrix be included? Is Eric Clapton in the conversation? What about Carlos Santana or Angus Young?