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The 35 Minutes That Sum It Up Best: Motivational Karaoke, "Spring Training Eve"

Today while driving around South Austin, my iPod bringed me a blast from me past.  A 35-minute segment of Motivational Karoke, the WESN radio show that Chris Golwitzer and I painstakingly crafted from 2002-2005.  It wunt crafted.  It wunt no pain. Part 5 of "SPRING TRAINING EVE (2/22/04) just seemed to sum up what we were about. It starts with an interview with Ted Leo after he blew out his voice in Champaign and I finished the singing for him.  That ends with a clip of Babe Ruth with a fake swear word beeped in. We played Ted Leo quite a bit. A new song that's old now. A lengthy, lie-riddled microphone break, back-selling a lot of things that we used to play.  A tongue lashing of the DJs on before us. An explanation of what Google is and how to spell it, followed by the futile spelling of our very long impossible find website. We were doing Dream Warriorisms then because we were on from 12-2am at that time.  We went retro and pulled out a Motivational Karo

Miami Vice - CHiPs + Dirty Harry / Chihuahuas = MoPac

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If there’s 1 thing you need to know about Austin, TX, it is the exhilarating excitement of driving on “MoPac,” aka Texas State Highway 1. Inspired by my favorite non-baseball Twitter follow, @EvilMopacATX , the Official Voice of MoPac®, I devised an Official Theme Song®. While an avid fan of Bon Jovi® , l decided that Mopes deserved something other than it probably desired.  This is the game that Mopes plays.  Besides, most of the song bits had already been recorded long ago.  I just, figuratively, built a new express lane and advertised it as an improvement.  It still feels like it goes nowhere. The vibe I had pictured was the opening to an early 80s TV action/drama like Miami Vice® , but with the vibe of an action drama like CHiPs® as well.  I then could not resist the dramatic sound effects of a Dirty Harry® film.  Then I found an alternate version I forgot working on and haphazardly slapped it on the end as an outro®. Short Story Long©️, while people