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The Beeper (Chris 20)

December 20, 2020History, Music, NYC, podcastsPaul Mason Fotsch

The first pager system was used by the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn. Although associated with drug dealers, by the 1990s beepers became popular among teenagers, who developed elaborate codes based on numerical displays.

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I Played Pro Ball (Chris 19)

December 13, 2020Chicago, History, Music, podcastsPaul Mason Fotsch

Michael Jordan began playing for the Chicago Bulls in 1984. During the first several years of his career, one could see him play at Chicago Stadium for as little as three dollars and fifty cents.

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I’ll Find Some Music (Andy 3)

December 6, 2020Chicago, History, Movies, podcastsPaul Mason Fotsch

Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story, the 1988 film directed by Todd Haynes,
was prohibited from future exhibition in 1990, but bootleg copies continue
to proliferate online.

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I’m Running (outgoing 19)

November 29, 2020Chicago, History, Music, NYC, podcastsPaul Mason Fotsch

Rolling Stones fans are legendary: some dedicate their lives to transcribing guitar solos from fifty year old live concerts, others to chasing down grandfatherly idols for an autograph.

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I wish you the best of luck (Andy 2)

November 22, 2020Chicago, History, podcastsPaul Mason Fotsch

When Thomas Frank moved from the University of Virginia to the University of Chicago
to begin graduate school, The Baffler, which self identified as The Journal that Blunts the Cutting Edge, moved there as well.

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