A List of Things People Blamed on Radio 🧵 - ThreadSky

cbindc.bsky.social•112 days ago

Rush Limbaugh

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kimoralynn.bsky.social•112 days ago

Radio deserved that shit.

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chrisdornan.bsky.social•112 days ago

Now do Things People Blamed on Rodeo

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macroc.bsky.social•112 days ago

Aliens making all the funny sounds on the AM spectrum

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dcnats.bsky.social•112 days ago

I feel like the library one is kind of different from the loony, RFK Jr-esque other ones.

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vickyo.bsky.social•112 days ago

Great thread.

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ewangibbs.bsky.social•112 days ago

Are you not missing the Frankfurt school blaming the rise of the Nazis on radio here?

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paulisci.bsky.social•112 days ago

Americans talking too loudly

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fiercefeline.bsky.social•112 days ago

This might explain Rush Limbaugh

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paulisci.bsky.social•112 days ago

Men becoming more feminine and women more masculine

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paulisci.bsky.social•112 days ago

Drought

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paulisci.bsky.social•112 days ago

Rainfall

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paulisci.bsky.social•112 days ago

Spotted skin

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pauladams29.bsky.social•112 days ago

All the other ones seem a bit nuts.

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paulisci.bsky.social•112 days ago

The ghost of Antigonish

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auntcindy.bsky.social•112 days ago

West Virginia. Not much had changed, I see.

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odvetnik.bsky.social•111 days ago

is this true about oxford trousers @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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jmnurick.bsky.social•112 days ago

"Men becoming more feminine and women more masculine"

Radio waves just one of a very long list of things blamed for that...

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douginmetrodc.bsky.social•112 days ago

🤣

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badfengshui.bsky.social•112 days ago

This is insane and feels like it belongs to pre-Enlightenment times, not the 20th Century.

But man is it entertaining!

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wadeneal.bsky.social•112 days ago

I think this one was valid.

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locutusof.bsky.social•112 days ago

While I enjoy your posts here/elsewhere, I wonder if you aren’t giving Qanon ideas!

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neilforreal.bsky.social•112 days ago

Great thread ... and hey! You're that "Things were better in the 60s/50s/40s..." guy! I remember your terrific content from Twitter in the before times. Things sure were better back then ...

Great to read your posts again. 🤝

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retrostation1989.bsky.social•112 days ago

They had to replace all the things from the 'When to Commit Women To An Asylum' list.

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bingo46.bsky.social•112 days ago

Is that why they hired Video to kill it?

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lamprod.bsky.social•112 days ago

Shh. Don't tell RFK Jr.

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jackassels.bsky.social•111 days ago

He's already on it. Radio is just long-wave 5G.

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mrmidwest.bsky.social•112 days ago

I wish the years were posted on those, a lot of them are similar to complaints today (men turning more feminine) with today’s technology.

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paulisci.bsky.social•112 days ago

If you check the ALT text the dates are at the bottom

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mrmidwest.bsky.social•112 days ago

Thank you 🙏🏼

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lfillingham.bsky.social•112 days ago

Flappers seem to have had worse effects than radio if I remember correctly.

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paulisci.bsky.social•112 days ago

Hah, should do a power ranking one day.

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ubfriccardo.bsky.social•112 days ago

The video star?

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trifan.bsky.social•112 days ago

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

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syntropia.bsky.social•111 days ago

Thank god for MTV!

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misanthropesq.bsky.social•112 days ago

Sure, but video killed the radio star so it evens out.

(I’ll show myself out.)

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boothlib.bsky.social•112 days ago

Don’t podcast my radio!

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sociologian.bsky.social•112 days ago

relevant to your interests @genebaxter.bsky.social

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genebaxter.bsky.social•112 days ago

So true!! Thank you.

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billnemacheck.bsky.social•112 days ago

It did cause a panic, when War of the Worlds was broadcast. It also caused confusion, for some, when NPR read the declaration of independence.

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corb71.bsky.social•112 days ago

These guys were going to make us all devil worshipers lol

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open-spectrum.bsky.social•112 days ago

Paul, I tried to use software to de-fuzz your image of the "radio blamed for everything" article, which I posted on my blueSky stream. Not much improvement but feel free to use it if you want: