Your Minutes of Zen

[BrandonDaCollector]

Back to those A.I. trailers. There's a huge variety of them. Really, I'm surprised there is many Alien, Predator Terminator ones as well as Doom, MOTU & BTTF. Great clips there. The animation reminds of classic Voltron.

Remember when I was talking about My local newscaster & reporter Robin Smith a while back Well, here's this news report during February, 1982 featuring the late great Julius Hunter. Notice it's KMOX, not KMOV. They changed a few years later and KMOX stayed as a Radio Station that is was originally known for that The St. Louis Cardinals were on that the late great Mike Shannon was on commentary. The very cool but very brief WWF Radio from 93 - 94 was on it as well. In this video, they just talk about her here but has a story about Adoption.



Now, before you see these little videos I found of her (thank goodness people preserved some of her history), allow Me to explain a small personal story of Mine. It was one day Me & My Mom went to the old Busch Stadium but I'm not sure if it was 98 or 99 so I'm about 17 or 18 years old here. We went to dozens of Cardinals games both years I mean it the Home Run Race and Baseball was so darn fun then. So, We were near the entrance to get Our Tickets. While I was waiting and looking around I mean it's Downtown St. Louis, it's such a place to be. While turning around I saw KMOX/KMOV news reporter Robin Smith in action doing a report. I'm sure it was about the game or some special activity or festivity that was going on. She had just finished and was just talking to her cameraman or somebody. When I was looking at her she was looking at Me We both did for like literally a minute or so. She's lie are you going to come over here or what Well, the line was finally moving and then Me & Robin stopped looking and We moved on to what what was next. I have NEVER forgot this moment. Still to this very moment, I kick Myself in the @$$ about this every now and then because I thought she was so pretty since I was a youngster and that I had a opportunity to meet her in person even if it was just for a few seconds and I didn't pull the trigger OK, with that being said, here's these two short clips from March, 1987. She looked a lot like this when I saw her in person




Now, here's this interview that she did featuring Mr. Magic a while later. I don't know much about him nor his whereabouts.

[packerbacker180]

I've been on camera a few times but never did an actual interview with anyone or really talked off camera with anyone.

[BrandonDaCollector]

That's good. It didn't matter to Me about being on camera or not, what mattered to Me is that I failed to meet her when I had the opportunity I was probably one of the only guys or people in general that wanted to

How apropos that Rollins was there when he's feuding with CM Punk and just days after Mongo is gone Most of those people there probably don't keep up with Seth but if they do then big kudos to them. How about that with Cena & Idris.

OK, I know you now The Family Channel from way back.



Well, in 98, they were becoming The Fox Family Channel. Here's the first ad that revealed it



Here's one of the first of The Fox Family Channel Commercials which I kinda gave the heads up the other day

[packerbacker180]

Wild they had a hotline for people questioning the station changing. That'd be such an alien concept these days when you can just google it. Like who would even do that back then? Who would call a hotline to find out about shows changing, lol. It's just crazy.

In honor of this badass figure I just picked up the other day...

[BrandonDaCollector]

That's great about Darth Maul Yes but Google wasn't a thing till 1998 and not every household was accustomed to the Internet yet.

Here's this Family Channels from 98 as well.

[packerbacker180]

Oh I know, it's just wild to think that anyone would be so confused or upset by a channel changing names that they'd be compelled to call a hotline about it.

[BrandonDaCollector]

Yes, that's the way was then. By 2000 or so, it was becoming the norm for most. That was great wrestling there. One of these days we gotta get back to posting wrestling promos & themes. I've posted some that got no attention since Christmas, and I posted Mongo's theme in honor him just recently.

Yesterday, I posted a commercial of "The Mad Hungarian" Al Hrabosky which really didn't show why he's called that. This here will show you



Here's this ESPN Commercial from 1988 featuring Hrabosky.



Here's this video of one of his craziest moments



Now here's this. Just last year, Al, "The Wizard" Ozzie Smith & Ted Simmons had this special