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Our Annual Christmas Special

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Our annual Christmas special features music from 40 of the greats!

Featured guests: Dean Martin, The Beach Boys, Brenda Lee, The Jackson Five, Jimmy Durante, Bing Crosby, The Sallan Boys, The Andrews Sisters, The Ventures, The Ronnettes, Kate Smith, The Drifters, Johnny Mathis, Aretha Franklin, Annie Lennox, Bruce Springsteen, The Dickies, Gene Autry, Bobby Helms, The Cadillacs, The Four Seasons, Darlene Love, The Crystals, Shedaisy, Chubby Checker & Bobby Rydell, Willie Nelson, Jimmy Boyd, Elvis Presley, Nat King Cole, Peter, Paul & Mary, Jose Feliciano, Burl Ives, Eartha Kitt, and Spike Jones.

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How I Do My Radio Show

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Ever wonder how I do my radio show? My show airs on four AM stations and is done the old-fashioned way. We record it “live” in an actual studio. I have a producer/engineer and a real radio mike and I sit in the booth and talk away and interact, via my headphones, with my call-in guests or directly for those guests that come “In Studio.” Check it out. We’re coming up on 3-years of doing my weekly radio show and it’s been so much fun!

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Special Moment Christmas Songs

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christmas songsEvery time #DadChat does music, we have a blast. Don’t we ALL love Christmas songs? What are your favorites? We brought ALL our favorites Thursday, December 20. Jason Ramsey, our resident music expert, did the co-hosting job as he did beautifully in the past for our music-related chats. Homework for this chat was The Ten Most Beloved Christmas Songs and listening to my annual Christmas Radio Special! See if YOUR favorite Christmas song was there in the #DadChat transcript!

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Five Tips to Stop Procrastination – Do It Now!

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Note: I wrote this column before the tragedy that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. Perhaps another lesson to be taken from this senseless act is related to procrastination. Don’t wait to tell those you love how much they mean to you. Don’t wait to do those things together as a family that you often put off. Put down your devices and LOVE your family now.

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The Evolution of Technology: Home Movies

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by Professor David E. Weber and Bruce Sallan

Our technology series continues a bit more on target by remembering the early days of home movies. We mean “movies” like in film, like in 16-mm, 8-mm and Super Eight, which were the primary sizes/forms when home movies were introduced. Professor Weber will lead off with his recollections and memories of this long-gone technology:

A projector casting flickering images onto a flimsy portable screen in a darkened living room: we called it watching home movies, once the only way an amateur filmmaker or chronicler of family life could work with the moving image.

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Christmas is Cancelled

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Christmas is CancelledDad and Son bemoan the growth of the anti-Christmas movement when Son hears that A Charlie Brown Christmas play was cancelled. Christmas is cancelled! They they go shopping for a Christmas tree only to get another surprise!

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