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Author:  Tad Queasy [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 1:43 pm ]
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Parkins is dumbfounded that the Sony Watchman existed and thought Mac was making it up. It came out in 1982 and was discontinued in 2000. Parkins isn't that young.

Parkins also told a story of seeing rapper T.I. at Cornell University which struck me as very Parkins-y/McKnight-y/Bernstein-y.
Author:  Frank Coztansa [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 1:55 pm ]
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Yeah. Parkins is roughly my age, and old school B&W portable TVs were a staple in our bedrooms as youngins. We also would take a small, battery powered TV in the Astro Van when we drove to Florida and would watch what we could as we traveled thru the bigger cities along the route.
Author:  billypootons [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 1:58 pm ]
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parkins is good at radio... but can come off really badly on other topics... and his math skills are embarrassingly bad.
Author:  T-Bone [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 2:07 pm ]
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Image

My brother had one of these. He would save all of his money and buy all the newest gadgets. He bought his own camcorder in high school
as well as a laser disc player and he was the only person I ever knew to own the Phillips CD-I gaming system. Not sure if anyone else here
ever played that one. It was pretty high tech at the time but never took off as I think Playstation was not too far behind it. He had Burn:Cycle
on it back in 1994 and it was the coolest game I had seen up to that point for home play.
Author:  Regular Reader [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 2:44 pm ]
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I actually forgot those existed.
Author:  koach klaus [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 3:00 pm ]
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I don’t know...this show is increasingly a hard listen. Parkins seems to be striving to be the smartest guy on sports radio. It’s SPORTS RADIO!! It isn’t supposed to serious and/or thought provoking radio. Other shows in other cities understand this. Even when Mac is on the show, it seems like he has a couple thoughts and drop ins and that’s it. When this show was announced, I hoped that Mac would drive and Parkins would be the side car. This show makes me miss Mac being Unsupervised.
Author:  Tall Midget [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 3:02 pm ]
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Who watches the Watchman?
Author:  Tall Midget [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 3:14 pm ]
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koach klaus wrote:
I don’t know...this show is increasingly a hard listen. Parkins seems to be striving to be the smartest guy on sports radio. It’s SPORTS RADIO!! It isn’t supposed to serious and/or thought provoking radio. Other shows in other cities understand this. Even when Mac is on the show, it seems like he has a couple thoughts and drop ins and that’s it. When this show was announced, I hoped that Mac would drive and Parkins would be the side car. This show makes me miss Mac being Unsupervised.


Mac hasn't had an original thought in a decade or more and is just marking the days off on the calendar until he can comfortably retire.

Mac has immense talent, but he is disengaged, uninspired and uninterested. Goff has thus far proven correct about Mac, who in his current incarnation amounts to nothing more than a dinosaur toiling in a dying medium. Depressingly, Mac seems at peace with this scenario, content to be writing his own professional epitaph as the glory days of a once-great radio station fade deeper into the recesses of the city's collective memory.
Author:  denisdman [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 3:16 pm ]
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Regular Reader wrote:
I actually forgot those existed.


I never knew they existed...

I was just really excited when my Filipino friend showed me his watch that had a video game on it. Francis always had the cool stuff in 5th grade.
Author:  blackhawksfan [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 5:26 pm ]
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I heard like 15 minutes of the show today and they were interviewing Len Kasper. Len sounded like the last thing he wanted to do was an interview with Mac and Parkins.
Author:  FavreFan [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 5:27 pm ]
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I'm the same age as Parkins and did not know this was a thing until this thread.
Author:  Curious Hair [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 5:33 pm ]
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blackhawksfan wrote:
I heard like 15 minutes of the show today and they were interviewing Len Kasper. Len sounded like the last thing he wanted to do was an interview with Mac and Parkins.

That's just how he always sounds on call-ins.
Author:  shirtless driver [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 6:05 pm ]
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T-Bone wrote:
Image

My brother had one of these. He would save all of his money and buy all the newest gadgets. He bought his own camcorder in high school
as well as a laser disc player and he was the only person I ever knew to own the Phillips CD-I gaming system. Not sure if anyone else here
ever played that one. It was pretty high tech at the time but never took off as I think Playstation was not too far behind it. He had Burn:Cycle
on it back in 1994 and it was the coolest game I had seen up to that point for home play.


I grabbed my dad's Watchman when I was packing up his storage unit after he died in 99.
I had that thing on in my office the morning of 9/11.
Have no idea what happened to it after that.
Author:  ToxicMasculinity [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 6:18 pm ]
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Do they still make portable TVs? Seems like a tech that could be upgraded
Author:  vitoscotti [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 6:34 pm ]
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koach klaus wrote:
I don’t know...this show is increasingly a hard listen. Parkins seems to be striving to be the smartest guy on sports radio. It’s SPORTS RADIO!! It isn’t supposed to serious and/or thought provoking radio. Other shows in other cities understand this. Even when Mac is on the show, it seems like he has a couple thoughts and drop ins and that’s it. When this show was announced, I hoped that Mac would drive and Parkins would be the side car. This show makes me miss Mac being Unsupervised.

Mac solo or a new partner makes sense. Parkins or Julie will be next to be shown the door.
Author:  ToxicMasculinity [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 6:36 pm ]
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Nah Parkins is the future of WSCR, like it or not
Author:  Tad Queasy [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 8:39 pm ]
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ToxicMasculinity wrote:
Nah Parkins is the future of WSCR, like it or not


I did the calculus, and you're correct.
Author:  Regular Reader [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 8:41 pm ]
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denisdman wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
I actually forgot those existed.


I never knew they existed...

I was just really excited when my Filipino friend showed me his watch that had a video game on it. Francis always had the cool stuff in 5th grade.


Casio watches were the coolest. In a certain set. :wink:
Author:  redskingreg [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 9:13 pm ]
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I’m 35 and have never heard of this.
Author:  Don Tiny [ Mon Jun 18, 2018 9:57 pm ]
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Nobody mention the portable record players or he might have an aneurysm.
Author:  Douchebag [ Tue Jun 19, 2018 12:16 am ]
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Tall Midget wrote:
koach klaus wrote:
I don’t know...this show is increasingly a hard listen. Parkins seems to be striving to be the smartest guy on sports radio. It’s SPORTS RADIO!! It isn’t supposed to serious and/or thought provoking radio. Other shows in other cities understand this. Even when Mac is on the show, it seems like he has a couple thoughts and drop ins and that’s it. When this show was announced, I hoped that Mac would drive and Parkins would be the side car. This show makes me miss Mac being Unsupervised.


Mac hasn't had an original thought in a decade or more and is just marking the days off on the calendar until he can comfortably retire.

Mac has immense talent, but he is disengaged, uninspired and uninterested. Goff has thus far proven correct about Mac, who in his current incarnation amounts to nothing more than a dinosaur toiling in a dying medium. Depressingly, Mac seems at peace with this scenario, content to be writing his own professional epitaph as the glory days of a once-great radio station fade deeper into the recesses of the city's collective memory.

golf clap
Author:  Frank Coztansa [ Tue Jun 19, 2018 8:14 am ]
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And how much of this show have you two listened to?
Author:  vitoscotti [ Tue Jun 19, 2018 4:49 pm ]
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Douchebag wrote:
Tall Midget wrote:
koach klaus wrote:
I don’t know...this show is increasingly a hard listen. Parkins seems to be striving to be the smartest guy on sports radio. It’s SPORTS RADIO!! It isn’t supposed to serious and/or thought provoking radio. Other shows in other cities understand this. Even when Mac is on the show, it seems like he has a couple thoughts and drop ins and that’s it. When this show was announced, I hoped that Mac would drive and Parkins would be the side car. This show makes me miss Mac being Unsupervised.


Mac hasn't had an original thought in a decade or more and is just marking the days off on the calendar until he can comfortably retire.

Mac has immense talent, but he is disengaged, uninspired and uninterested. Goff has thus far proven correct about Mac, who in his current incarnation amounts to nothing more than a dinosaur toiling in a dying medium. Depressingly, Mac seems at peace with this scenario, content to be writing his own professional epitaph as the glory days of a once-great radio station fade deeper into the recesses of the city's collective memory.

golf clap

Parkins a few weeks ago said Happ is a better defensive player than almora. He loses all credibility saying something that stupid.
Author:  Ron Wolfley [ Tue Jun 19, 2018 5:12 pm ]
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vitoscotti wrote:
Douchebag wrote:
Tall Midget wrote:
koach klaus wrote:
I don’t know...this show is increasingly a hard listen. Parkins seems to be striving to be the smartest guy on sports radio. It’s SPORTS RADIO!! It isn’t supposed to serious and/or thought provoking radio. Other shows in other cities understand this. Even when Mac is on the show, it seems like he has a couple thoughts and drop ins and that’s it. When this show was announced, I hoped that Mac would drive and Parkins would be the side car. This show makes me miss Mac being Unsupervised.


Mac hasn't had an original thought in a decade or more and is just marking the days off on the calendar until he can comfortably retire.

Mac has immense talent, but he is disengaged, uninspired and uninterested. Goff has thus far proven correct about Mac, who in his current incarnation amounts to nothing more than a dinosaur toiling in a dying medium. Depressingly, Mac seems at peace with this scenario, content to be writing his own professional epitaph as the glory days of a once-great radio station fade deeper into the recesses of the city's collective memory.

golf clap

Parkins a few weeks ago said Happ is a better defensive player than almora. He loses all credibility saying something that stupid.


He said no such thing. He said Happ is faster. That’s it.
Author:  Colonel Angus [ Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:40 am ]
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My mom had one that had a Bears helmet on it.
Author:  HawaiiYou [ Wed Jun 20, 2018 1:11 am ]
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I had this and use to travel with it quite often.

I remember once I was on a plane @ a stop in Kansas City. I had the aisle seat and a farmer type man and his 8 year oldish kid sat next to me. I pulled out that walkman and those 2 thought it was some kind of bomb. I turned it on during the stop and they were amazed at it.

It was a pretty advanced and cool gadget for it's time.
Author:  Exile on Route 41 [ Wed Jun 20, 2018 3:54 pm ]
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Tall Midget wrote:


Mac hasn't had an original thought in a decade or more and is just marking the days off on the calendar until he can comfortably retire.

Mac has immense talent, but he is disengaged, uninspired and uninterested. Goff has thus far proven correct about Mac, who in his current incarnation amounts to nothing more than a dinosaur toiling in a dying medium. Depressingly, Mac seems at peace with this scenario, content to be writing his own professional epitaph as the glory days of a once-great radio station fade deeper into the recesses of the city's collective memory.


Mac sounds uninterested when it's not football season? Well, not like Stevie Wonder could have seen that coming or anything.
Author:  Hank Scorpio [ Wed Jun 20, 2018 4:15 pm ]
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Ron Wolfley wrote:
vitoscotti wrote:
Douchebag wrote:
Tall Midget wrote:
koach klaus wrote:
I don’t know...this show is increasingly a hard listen. Parkins seems to be striving to be the smartest guy on sports radio. It’s SPORTS RADIO!! It isn’t supposed to serious and/or thought provoking radio. Other shows in other cities understand this. Even when Mac is on the show, it seems like he has a couple thoughts and drop ins and that’s it. When this show was announced, I hoped that Mac would drive and Parkins would be the side car. This show makes me miss Mac being Unsupervised.


Mac hasn't had an original thought in a decade or more and is just marking the days off on the calendar until he can comfortably retire.

Mac has immense talent, but he is disengaged, uninspired and uninterested. Goff has thus far proven correct about Mac, who in his current incarnation amounts to nothing more than a dinosaur toiling in a dying medium. Depressingly, Mac seems at peace with this scenario, content to be writing his own professional epitaph as the glory days of a once-great radio station fade deeper into the recesses of the city's collective memory.

golf clap

Parkins a few weeks ago said Happ is a better defensive player than almora. He loses all credibility saying something that stupid.


He said no such thing. He said Happ is faster. That’s it.



We need to get Vito a new radio. He listens to a lot of imaginary radio.
Author:  leashyourkids [ Wed Jun 20, 2018 4:21 pm ]
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I had never heard of this. I thought Tad had misspelled "Walkman."
Author:  pittmike [ Wed Jun 20, 2018 6:02 pm ]
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leashyourkids wrote:
I had never heard of this. I thought Tad had misspelled "Walkman."


Well, he never was the sharpest knife in the drawer.
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