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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Mississippi Bans Sesame Street (From the Useless Information Podcast)

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

Politics, History, News

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

From the excellent Useless Information podcast, the story of the development of educational television in Mississippi, and the exclusion of one particular program. For more information on Useless Information podcast, please go to www.uselessinformation.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.

0:05.0

So I wanted to introduce this podcast.

0:08.0

It is an Airwave Media Podcast and is in the network that I'm part of,

0:12.0

AirwaveMedia.com,

0:13.4

useless information podcast, Steve's doing a great job.

0:16.3

He's been around for as long as my history can beat up.

0:19.5

Your politics has been around, which is about, you know, 16, 17 years. So give him a listen. This is a particular

0:27.4

episode that I liked about Mississippi Banning Sesame Street and the story of all of that. It's quite interesting as a story about history, politics, and television.

0:38.0

And if you go to useless information.org you can get more information about the

0:44.3

podcast or find his podcast on Apple and all of that.

0:49.0

I am Steve Solman and this is the useless information

0:51.7

podcast. Useless Information Podcast.

0:54.0

Useless information.

1:01.0

One thing that I am certain that I've mentioned before in this podcast is that I was born in Brooklyn, New York.

1:07.0

Then at the age of seven, my dad made the decision to leave the city behind.

1:11.0

He sold our house, he sold his electrical business and we relocated to my parents summer home in the

1:16.8

Catskill Mountains. This move not only marked our departure from urban life

1:22.1

but it also signaled the end of our access

1:25.1

to much of anything in the way of television.

1:28.3

I'd say it best on a clear day we could receive three channels out of New York City. They were channels two, four, and five, and we couldn't get anything else.

1:37.6

I should mention we had a giant antenna on the roof of the house, but it still didn't help.

1:44.0

One station that we couldn't get was Channel 13, that's WNET,

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