Suspicious emails: unclaimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safe deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. They pop up in our inboxes, and standard procedure is to delete on sight. But what happens when you reply? Follow along as writer and comedian James Veitch narrates a hilarious, months-long exchange with a spammer who offered to cut him in on a hot deal.
https://youtu.be/_QdPW8JrYzQ
The Hubert Humphrey presidential campaign of 1968 began when Vice President of the United States Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota decided to seek the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States following the announcement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that he would not seek the party’s nomination.
On the eve of the election, Humphrey and his rival Richard Nixon each held four-hour televised forums from Los Angeles on rival television networks. Humphrey’s on ABC-TV at 8:30pm EST, Nixon’s on NBC-TV at 9pm EST. Humphrey fielded questions from a live studio audience and a phone bank of celebrities including Frank Sinatra. The Nixon telecast featured no interaction with anyone other than sports personally Bud Wilkinson who read queries from index cards beside rows of volunteers taking calls.
Humphrey was defeated by Nixon 301 to 191 in the electoral college. Although he lost, he would forever know that Frank stood by him.
https://youtu.be/uvMVonaWQ_U
One of the highly desirable memorabilia from Johnny Cash is the “Ridin’ The Rails” toy train box car (Model number 6-9780) produced by Lionel Trains in 1976 to commemorate the TV special starring Johnny Cash. A limited number of these 11″ long cars were produced and the car was fully functional and could be used with any Lionel electric train set of the same scale. It was selling for $225 at the Johnny Cash General Store, but don’t want one that badly – it was sold out years ago. Instead, sit back for 30 seconds and watch The Man In Black pay tribute to the train company in this TV ad from the 1970s.
https://youtu.be/A4M0D5hYhtI
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Eric Alper is a 6-time nominee for Publicist of the Year during Canadian Music Week and has overseen the publicity campaigns for over 183 JUNO Award-nominated albums (and 16 in 2025), 45 Grammy-nominated albums, including 47 JUNO Award, 58 Canadian Folk Music Award, 126 Maple Blues Award-winning albums and is also truly honoured to work with some of the biggest and most important artists of our time.
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