#ben wattenberg

[fauxfickle]

We now return with your regularly scheduled and all too familiar feeling of malaise and the search for "The Great All American Pizza Show!"

So it's been a little under a month since my last post and I've been skimming through commercial compilations from the LA area. I've found some cool YT channels that archive old ads from that area but I obviously don't have anything to show for it. The ads are either too early or too late to be part of this campaign which is a bit frustrating. Something I neglected to mention last time was that I was also looking through Colossal Pictures demo reels to see if they had a snippet of the animated commercial but of course, there's nothing. There seems to be a cutoff point in the early 80s as most demos only show things from that far back. I was able to find some obscure, silent, avant garde, sci-fi film possibly connected to Colossal but I don't think that'll help me much.

Colossal had some sort of "meet the crew" type video where all the employees said they're names but only their first name so I can't really track them down or anything. I'll keep looking, I didn't look all too hard as I was kinda at my wits end at that time looking through ad comps for hours.

I took a bit of a break for a while before reading through the old Pizza Times newsletters from Dec 79 - May 80. The May 1980 newsletter had some cool info about commercials and news features filmed at the various stores. Some of these aren't technically part of TGAAPS campaign but ehhhhhh I don't really care. They're part of early PTT history and I wanna see them damnit!

Let's go through these starting with Citrus Heights. The Citrus Heights section is loaded with info regarding lost media, 3 in fact! Sacramento's Channel 40 (KTXL), which has since been bought out by FOX in the mid 80s, did a Newsplus at 10 feature on the cyberamic systems at the new store during it's opening week. If we consult the ever so useful Chuck-E-Pedia, we can find that this feature would have been shot and most likely aired on Christmas week of 1979. A perfect pin point set of dates to look through! Next, Chuck was seen in the lead up to the United Cerebral Palsy Telethon which also gives us some idea of where to look. Finally, a TV commercial was filmed, possibly with TGAAPS slogan. Bob Wilkins' ad agency produced it but I couldn't find ANYTHING regarding this company. It's mentioned on his wikipedia but not named, and a even his own website doesn't mention anything about it. It's surprising that someone who seems like a local celeb in there area could have an ad agency that goes almost entirely undocumented.

Next, we move to Sparks, Nevada. Channel 2 (KTVN) filmed a feature on the store for the PM Magazine. The store was visited by reporter Keith Hirshland. Now I'm actually pretty sure I've found this dude! I found a local online article talking about him and the timeline works perfectly. Assuming this was filmed in early 1980, Keith would of been still fresh out of college with a degree in journalism and around 23. He also says he grew up running down the halls of the KTVN office. As a little aside, I'd just like to say don't bother this man or anyone/company mentioned in any of my posts. The last thing we need is to scare off these people.

This last little piece of lost media probably has the best chances of being found out of all the rest. Ben Wattenberg's 1980, from what I can find, is a dry, uninteresting TV news segment hosted by an equally dry and uninteresting host, the neo-conservative Ben Wattenberg. Ben Wattenberg's 1980 itself seems to be almost entirely lost media as only a few stills, episode descriptions, and TV listings exist online. However, this show was on PBS which no doubt has it somewhere in it's archive. What's better is that that there not only an exact date of when the episode will air, but also the name of the episode itself! One user on taptalk was able to find a TV listing which unfortunately doesn't lead anywhere and isn't archive on the WayBack machine. Luckily people actually said the name of the supposed episode which would of been "Silicon Valley: The New Entrepreneurs". We can also find evidence of it in a newspaper from that June 15th.

I sent e-mails to KTXL-40 and PBS on 2/24, so far no responses. I'll wait a little longer and in the mean time look for more leads and contacts. As I said before, don't bother these people/companies. I don't want them to be swamped with calls and e-mails and clam up on us. Bye for now!

[thechanelmuse]

The thing about Roe v. Wade

When you realize politicians and the courts are always in pursuit to overturn it because of the white birth dearth, everything makes sense 💡. 

Jane Elliott even broke it down some years ago:

“There’s a book out there that everyone should read, or go to the library to get it. Don’t add anything to that man’s estate. But Ben Wattenberg wrote a book called The Birth Dearth. He was an advisor to the President of the United States [Lyndon B. Johnson]. 

He says, ‘The major problem confronting the United States today is there aren’t enough white babies being born. If we don’t do something about this and do it now, white people will be in the numerical minority and we will no longer be a white man’s land.’

“He says, ‘There are three ways to solve this problem. Number one: we could pay women to have babies as they have been doing in Western Europe nations for years.’ Then he says, ‘Unfortunately’—and these are his words, not mine. He says, ‘Unfortunately, we would have to pay women of all colors to have babies, so we don’t want to do that.’ He says, ‘The second thing we can do is increase the number of legal immigrants allowed into this country every year.’ Then he says, ‘Unfortunately, majority of those coming into this country today are people of color, so we don’t want to do that.’”

Chile, Biden has been doing that at high speed with perks and set asides for legal and illegal immigrants strictly. And not to mention the 100k Ukrainians he’s rolling out the red carpet for. But continue, Ms. Elliott: 

“[Wattenberg] said, ‘The third thing we could do is remember that sixty percent of the fetuses that are aborted every year are white. If we could keep that sixty percent of life alive that would solve our birth dearth.’”

To everyone else’s detriment. 

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[padraigcolman]

Soap Opera: futility and fertility

Soap Opera: futility and fertility

Let us not listen to Malthus and “court the return of the plague” just yet.

  This article appeared in Ceylon Today on May 28 2014

    Soap

On May 12 2014, the London Independentpublished an article claiming “research has shown” that chemicals in soap can cause male infertility. Professor Niels Skakkebaek, of Copenhagen University Hospital, said: “For the first time, we have shown a direct link…

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