This week’s podcast is a little early and is all about the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade I talk about the history of the parades, its broadcast and of course the various balloons that we see every year. We have a nice treat this week. We have audio from the Retroist Broadcasting Archive on their disastrous attempt at broadcasting at the parade.
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Happy Thanksgiving to the Retroist, staff and all us retroist fans,may your day be full of great food,family,friends,and a little time to reflect on how lucky we are to be Americans.Great podcast ,brought back many of my own memories and I think Cristopher’s artwork is just terrific.
You should do another one of these and talk about some of the more notable floats. Didn’t they do a He-Man one?
Its been a few month, but I think when I recorded this I did a much more comprehensive listing of floats, but without the visual it felts very flat, so I cut it out. Maybe I can figure something out that will work better for the upcoming Turkey day.