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THB #671: Getting Back To "Normal"

THB #671: Getting Back To "Normal"

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Feb 07, 2025
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Watching TV, I have had the oddest feeling lately…

It feels like it used to feel… a bit.

I mean, it is so impossibly different. The first TV I watched regularly, in Baltimore, offered only 4 UHF stations (those are the channel numbers 13 and under, for those who are already confused by this retro notion) and a few UHF channels. I mostly remember Channel 45, which had an afternoon hist named Captain Chesapeake whose sidekick was a puppet sea monster.

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