Instead of photos today, a tale of a time long ago when radio was relevant. No offense meant toward the radio industry of today but I think it's hard in this day and age to imagine having your only real live media connection short of a newspaper being your choice of two or three total radio stations and only sporadic test patterns on the crude TV (if you could afford one). With that in mind I bring you the story of a radio DJ, ***Dr. Hepcat***, who was the first black Top40 disk jockey in Texas, maybe in the whole country depending on whom you ask. He was many things, among them an Austin legend, a baseball announcer, a pioneer in radio, an inductee in several halls of fame, an ordained minister, and barrelhouse bluesman (pianoman) & gospel singer...
But first some backstory in the form of a timeline to fill in the context of his arrival on the scene:
BRIEF TIMELINE OF EARLY AUSTIN RADIO HISTORY
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1911 - School of Electrical Engineering at UT & A&M both receive donated radio equipment. Communication back and forth and experimentation were apparently the only uses at the time
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1913 - UT Physics Professor S. Leroy Brown gives talks on "wireless telegraphy"
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1915 - UT Professor Brown broadcasts weather and crop reports
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1917 - Brown teaches Radio courses for first time; WWI Radio School taught at UT, Penn Field
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1919 - Equipment consolidated under Brown with plans for future crop report broadcasts, experimentation
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1921 - US Dept. of Commerce assigns UT station as 5XY; Possibly first ever broadcast football game between UT & A&M on Thanksgiving day (in Morse code, originating at 5XB, now WTAW in College Station and almost certainly repeated on 5XY)
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1922 - UT station assigned two call letters, station WCM (to the now obsolete Texas Dept. of Warehouses and Markets) for broadcast of crop/cattle market reports and entertainment three nights per week and church services on Sundays, station switches to 5XU (to UT control) for experimental/testing work under the unique agreement.
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1925 - Equipment switchout with Houston station KTRH; WCM goes off the air on September 27 as UT issued official license for 500 watt station KUT with the slogan Kum to the University of Texas; Begins broadcasting immediately
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1927 - Newly formed FCC issues regulations on radio crystals, UT decides to get out of broadcas
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
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Lately I've been struck by misogynistic content in a lot of the bands from the so-called "third wave" of ska. I listen to significantly more problematic music in other genres, but I'm curious what you all think of this. I really enjoy all the bands I mention below, but it seems like this is rarely discussed.
For example, there are quite a few songs about underage girls - the Slackers (Pedophilia, Fifteen), Dr. Ring Ding (Little Girl), The Stingers (My Only 16). I get this is something of a tradition in both rock and roll and reggae, but I find it pretty repulsive. There's also songs that are effectively about this by context, such as all the Rancid songs about Brody.
Then there's the misogynistic songs about womanizing - take your pick of Pietasters songs, for example (they also have a lot of songs not like this, which I love).
And there's also just skeevy weird language, like the jarring use of the c-word in I Want to Be Your Girl, in what would otherwise be a modern Slackers classic imo. The line about mods "giving hummers in the back of the van" from the King Django and Scrucialists album similarly came across as jarring and skeevy to me.
Even my beloved Hepcat has Miss Congeniality and Bobby and Joe about literally killing a cheating woman.
I was really, really happy that during Django's amazing set at Supernova, he actually changed that lyric, which was the only change I noticed from any of his songs in his project-spanning set. I'd love to see some of these other bands change their lyrics or excise songs from their playlists. And the Scotch Bonnets have a song that is effectively a response to the Slackers' I Want to Be Your Girl. So some good things are happening, plus all the newer bands don't appear to have these problems, at least to the same degree.
TLDR - I don't really have a cohesive point that I've thought through, but there seems to be some misogynistic stuff going on in older ska bands, and I'm curious if anybody else has had related thoughts.
Edit: as pointed out below, in Hepcat's Bobby and Joe, Bobby shoots Joe.
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
There hasn't been a post all year!
You take away their little brooms
It was about a weak back.
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Nothing, it just waved
Him: I can explain everything!
(It's his best joke yet I think)
Bob
So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."
Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.
Just to clarify, 12345678
Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...
Notices there's only 2;
Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."
I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.
I was just sitting there doing nothing.
