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Random music news for Thursday, July 16, 2020

It’s to the point where I want to stand on the border and yell into the US “GET IT TOGETHER,

U2 was in Tokyo on the Joshua Tree 30 tour when The Edge ran into a typically high-tech Japanese toilet.

Twenty-one years ago today, Google was founded. How long did it take before “google” became a verb? Moving on to

Mascots–yuru-chara–are a big thing in Japan, so big that Last Week Tonight‘s John Oliver also has a big thing about

On this day in 1993, Intel released the first Pentium chips, the first of the new x86 series. They had

Japan is a strange, strange place. Here’s more proof. (Via Danny)

Happy 57th birthday, Axl Rose. And now for music news on February 6, 2019. A Foo Fighter got hurt and

One day, we’ll turn on the news and not hear anything about Donald Trump. One day… Meanwhile, here’s music news

Japan loves its mascots, especially when they compete in a dance-off. Not weird at all. Nope. https://youtu.be/ezJFq-TEr-Y

One more great German word we need to have in English: verschlimmbessern. That’s when you make something worse by trying

…keep in mind that this video is from Japan, the closest one can come to Mars without leaving the planet.

Dave Krikst in Conversation with TBP Podcast Ep 002 July 29, 2020
Dave Krikst (aka My Man D) is the creative mind behind many of the most memorable shareable off the court or ice moments in Canadian sports over the last 20 years. Throughout his career, starting early on with theScore television network and Rogers Media’s’ FAN 590, and then with Bell Media’s TSN, Dave has established […]
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Launch Day – The Backstage Project Podcast July 23, 2020
Welcome to the launch of The Backstage Project Podcast! I’m Mark Silver, and I’ll be your guide as we weave our way through the history, here and now, and future of the Canadian sports and entertainment landscape. The Backstage Project Podcast takes you on a journey into the sports and entertainment world. We focus on […]
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Rick Chisholm in Conversation with TBP Podcast Ep 001 July 11, 2020
In our premiere episode we are blessed to sit down with former Vice President of Programming and Production at TSN and Executive VP Broadcasting for Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium, Rick Chisholm. We chat with Rick about the formation of TSN, the Vancouver and London Olympics and much much more. Have a listen. The post Rick […]
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