S2E25 - The Box That Ate the Living Room

S2E25 - The Box That Ate the Living Room

Renee and Marc grew up in a prime time for television. School House Rock. Newhart. Saturday Morning. Must See TV.  Somewhere in the twentieth century, a box arrived and everyone in the house started facing the same direction. For a few decades, half a billion people could watch the same moment at the same instant. Then the box multiplied. We cover the story of how TV changed the culture. This isn't a typical TV story though. Because we're us, we jump into the details of the tech as well as the impact to 20th century culture. And talk about an unsung hero - Philo Farnsworth. Who's he? Come have a listen to find out.  We'd love to hear from you. Click here to give us ideas on new episodes. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2521622/fan_mail/new] Join Renee and Marc as they discuss the history of technology, and what it teaches us about now. email us at nostalgicnerdspodcast@gmail.com Come visit us at https://www.nostalgicnerdspodcast.com/episodes or wherever you get your podcasts.

S2E25 Bonus - Snap Back

Tune in tomorrow for a very special episode of the Nostalgic Nerds Podcast. All about Television. But the nerdy science-y television stuff.  So, we had to do a song all about the way a tube TV manages to keep the image in sync. Snaps, triggers, latch, return. It was just begging to be a snappy, poppy, funky song.  Lyrics below: [Verse 1] Picture starts to drift Rolling on the glass That beam won't fire on time Vertical hold is slack Phase is off the mark Every sixty-three, we're gonna Bring this picture round [Pre-Chorus] On my count On my mark Every sixty-three Now [Chorus] Snap back (snap back) Fire the pulse Latch on (latch on) Trigger the return Snap back (snap back) Every line, every field Snap back (snap back) Do what you're told [Verse 2] Picture's still on the run Frame rate's coming down Subcarrier drifts to blue Fringe on every edge Sync pulse coming late Every sixty-three, we're gonna Bring this picture round [Pre-Chorus] On my count On my mark Every sixty-three Now [Chorus] Snap back (snap back) Fire the pulse Latch on (latch on) Trigger the return Snap back (snap back) Every line, every field Snap back (snap back) Do what you're told [Bridge] Locked to the line (locked to the line) Locked to the field Sync pulse coming in on time Phase clean, no drift Snap Fire Latch Return Every sixty-three Picture's back on track [Final Chorus] Snap back (snap back) Fire the pulse Latch on (latch on) Trigger the return Snap back (snap back) Every line, every field Snap back (snap back) Locked in the frame [Outro - vocal fading] Snap back (snap back) Snap back (snap back) Every sixty-three We'd love to hear from you. Click here to give us ideas on new episodes. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2521622/fan_mail/new] Join Renee and Marc as they discuss the history of technology, and what it teaches us about now. email us at nostalgicnerdspodcast@gmail.com Come visit us at https://www.nostalgicnerdspodcast.com/episodes or wherever you get your podcasts.

S2E34 - Jell-O, America's Most Unsettled Triumph

Shout out to Bruce, from Australia for contacting Renee! Feel free to contact us any time.  A perfect moulded jelly used to be a way to show you had money. Someone spent a full day boiling bones and clarifying stock so you could set a shivering centrepiece on the table and let the room see what you could afford. Then it came in a box for pennies, and everyone could have the shape. This week one wobbling dessert travels from aristocratic showpiece to grocery aisle novelty, and we ask what gets lost when you take the work out of something. We'd love to hear from you. Click here to give us ideas on new episodes. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2521622/fan_mail/new] Join Renee and Marc as they discuss the history of technology, and what it teaches us about now. email us at nostalgicnerdspodcast@gmail.com Come visit us at https://www.nostalgicnerdspodcast.com/episodes or wherever you get your podcasts.

S2E24 Bonus - Ninety-Five

Have you ever witnessed Jell-O reach that special temperature and just...melt away. Too long in the sun and a once solid, but wiggly, dessert turns liquid once again.  That special temperature is a just a bit below average body temperature. Right around Ninety-Five degrees F. So, that's our song this week.  Sorry we're running a bit behind. Schedules and production issues collaborated to keep us a bit late. Enjoy the song and the episode when it comes out. Lyrics below.  [Verse 1] I hold my shape in the chill set in the dark, sitting still firm on the shelf, sealed and sound cold is the thing keeps me round [Pre-Chorus] then the room warms up real slow and the cold finally lets me go [Chorus] Ninety-five (ninety-five) just ninety-five That’s when I come alive keep me cold and I keep my shape When it’s warm, I just escape [Verse 2] they brought me out into the sun picnic day, the warm had won left too long in open air ain’t nothing holding there [Bridge] I keep my whole life on ice steady, careful, cold, precise then they left the ice box wide and now ain’t no more me inside [Final Chorus] Ninety-five (ninety-five) just ninety-five That’s when I come alive keep me cold and I keep my shape When it’s warm, I just escape [Outro - vocal fading] ninety-five warm it up, I'm gone Gone Just melt away We'd love to hear from you. Click here to give us ideas on new episodes. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2521622/fan_mail/new] Join Renee and Marc as they discuss the history of technology, and what it teaches us about now. email us at nostalgicnerdspodcast@gmail.com Come visit us at https://www.nostalgicnerdspodcast.com/episodes or wherever you get your podcasts.

S2E23 - Come Clean

Somewhere in your house, a machine takes a full day of work off your hands every week, and you've never once thought about how that happened. For most of history, laundry was a whole day, every week. Then we handed the day to a machine. Over a couple hundred years, the washing machine evolved and eventually gave people back a day every week. We'd love to hear from you. Click here to give us ideas on new episodes. [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2521622/fan_mail/new] Join Renee and Marc as they discuss the history of technology, and what it teaches us about now. email us at nostalgicnerdspodcast@gmail.com Come visit us at https://www.nostalgicnerdspodcast.com/episodes or wherever you get your podcasts.