The Sensory Dispensary

In today’s episode of Gee – Scott’s brain is weird, in yesterday’s post about music nostalgia I mentioned a series of radio promos that ran in the 70’s and 80’s promoting all sorts of events in the Chicagoland area that I remembered but couldn’t recall the specific details.

What I didn’t mention is that I spent about 2 hours yesterday searching YouTube and Google and having my AI research jingles and such with absolutely no success. I added a query to my post here, asked on Bluesky and had Gina ask on Facebook but got no answers.

What I didn’t count on is the fact that my brain is weird. I often use the analogy of my brain as a computer because so much of what I do I can equate to programs and queries and databases, and um, even kernel panics and crashes…

So I must have started, without realizing it, a low priority background task of a query to search the archived memories in my brain for more information about this stupid promo.

Today while sitting with Gina and eating lunch, all of a sudden I just blurted out “Starbeat Presents What’s Happening” because, apparently that is the notification that the search was successful. I don’t think I was thinking about it, it certainly wasn’t at the forefront of my thoughts, but there must have been a part of me going through the LTO tapes, or punch cards, or whatever ancient shit I keep 45 year old seemingly unimportant facts on until it found it.

I wasn’t able to find an example of the radio ads that I remember, but here is one that ran on tv – the opening jingle part is the same as is the Steve Cronen / Starbeat Dictaphone mention at the end. I remember the radio ads being more music focused but that part may still be a bit fuzzy…

Good job Scott’s brain – good job…