Ronald Reagan’s first State Of The Union address from 1982. Think of it as an antidote.
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Have you found yourself feeling a bit too calm, secure, and physically safe lately? Reawaken your awareness of your own mortality, and of the precariousness of life, by taking a spin in the P45.
That’ll straighten you out.
h/t
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Tonight, from a recording made in 1932 or thereabouts, A.P., Sara, and Mother Maybelle Carter — the Carter Family — sing The Church In The Wildwood.
Dedicated to Revnant Dream.
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Put on your crash helmet, strap on your seat-belts, and brace yourself for a thrilling musical ride with Danyel Gérard, as he performs Youpi Ya Tamoure.
Please remain seated during the performance.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips British comedy duo Flanders and Swann perform three songs — A Song of the Weather, The Reluctant Cannibal, and Design for Living — from their musical revue At The Drop Of A Hat.
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Tonight, we take a slow ride around the streets of Vancouver, B.C….in 1907.
h/t Judith
One of the commenters under the video:

Starts on Granville where City Centre Canada Line Stn. is today. @1:18 turn onto W.Hastings and head east past Carrall. @3:21 now heading south on Carrall + turn right onto Cordova heading west. @4:18 turn left and go south on Cambie to Hastings. @4:32 skip to heading west on Robson around Burrard. @4:43 mark see “The Manhattan” Apts. under construction at Robson and Thurlow + continue along Robson to Broughton. @5:13 now on Davie past Bidwell heading east. Ride ends on Davie around Bute.

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Most schmaltzy, feel-good movies have happy endings so carefully and formulaically constructed that even a po-faced, tone-deaf viewer who missed the first hour will experience the correct emotions right on cue — all it really takes is the right music, and some Big-Ending Faces.
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Tonight, a short time-lapse film showing the breathtaking beauty of the natural wonders in our own backyard: Here’s Mountains In Motion: The Canadian Rockies.
Well worth your time.
h/t Robert W.
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Tonight, A Bad Lip Reading of the NFL.
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If the health-Nazi bureaucrats have their way you might eventually be forced to go the black-market route to visit a Lipidlegger.
And you just know who’ll be first in line when you get there..
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“Did you know that the percentage of the U.S. labor force that is employed has continually been falling since 2006 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics? Did you know that the increase in the number of Americans “not in the labor force” during Barack Obama’s first four years in the White House was more than three times greater than the increase in the number of Americans “not in the labor force” during the entire decade of the 1980s? The mainstream media would have us believe that 157,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy in January. Based on that news, the Dow broke the 14,000 barrier for the first time since October 2007. But if you actually look at the “non-seasonally adjusted” numbers, the number of Americans with a job actually decreased by 1,446,000 between December and January. But nowhere in the mainstream media did you hear that the U.S. economy lost more than 1.4 million jobs between December and January. It is amazing the things that you can find out when you actually take the time to look at the hard numbers instead of just listening to the media spin. Back in 2007, more than 146 million Americans were employed. Today, only 141.6 million Americans are employed even though our population has grown steadily since then. When the government and the media tell you that we are in a “recovery” and that unemployment is lower than it was a couple of years ago, I encourage you to dig deeper. The truth is that even the government’s own numbers tell us that the percentage of the U.S. labor force that is employed continues to fall and that the U.S. economy is heading into a recession. The Obama administration and the media have been lying to you about unemployment and about the true condition of our economy. After you see the numbers that I have compiled in this article, I think that you will agree with me.”

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Tonight, Tom Waits and Keith Richards team up for a sublimely beautiful take on the traditional folk song Shenandoah.
Better than all those easy-listening/choral versions put together.
h/t Judith
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Tonight, a little healthy alpine folk music from the market town of Waizenkirchen, Austria, as seven-piece group Waizenbläser (wahrlich, das ist Brigitte Groß on der schlappenharpen) play Koal Polka.
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Tonight’s video amusement en route to the Tips features the story of the unlikely friendship between Suriya the orang-utan and Roscoe the worn-out hound dog.
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In tonight’s Tips music Arizona-born Junior Brown – a darn fine “guit-steel” player, as you’ll hear – wonders Where Has All The Money Gone?.
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Jeepers, when a frustrated young man strings together enough clean-cut pseudo-oaths it sounds like an aardvarking stream of gosh-darned swears.
Golly, that’s weird.
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Tonight we cross the great briny to watch national public broadcaster RTE (Raidió Teilifís Éireann), the most watched TV channel in Ireland, and catch up on the latest Irish news.
h/t Judith
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Tonight, Billy Collins reads a poem about….about…
Darn it, I can’t remember.
Oh well.
h/t
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In tonight’s post-inauguration entertainment Connie Smith belts out House Divided.
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Just a friendly reminder that if you’re thinking of opening up a small business, you should choose the name very, very carefully.
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