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Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 25, 2024

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Not something I would normally listen to, but maybe I'll give one a try to see how demented he is! As far as I can remember he pretty much always talked like he does in your clips -- maybe it's a sort of Trumpy thing where you need to be on his wavelength?

It's true, I played one for a minute and he didn't sound half bad.

My record of listening to Cherry is pretty sporadic. He seemed much more coherent in some of his older legendary rants I've listened to, but I definitely wasn't a tune-in-every-week kind of guy.

Huh, are you one of those rootless millenial types? Just that in my formative years, you were tuning in to Cherry every Saturday night whether you liked it or not. Something something neuroplasticity, foreign languages.

Huh, are you one of those rootless millenial types?

Not entirely sure what you mean by this, but my family and childhood social groups slowly scattered over the last decade or two as Quebec continues to hemorrhage anglos. I had to move a couple of times for grad school, but I have a family/house and I've been in the same city for the past five years or so.

Oddly enough I don't think anyone I knew growing up would watch Don Cherry or even hockey games that regularly. But then, I was also the only kid in the advanced class that played a sport, and I was never that close with any of my hockey teammates so could just be a function of my social circle.

It was just an age joke -- kids these days don't know what it was like to have TFC [1] as their only source of television. But you probably had more than that in Montreal. :)

For vast swathes of rural Canada in the 70s/80s, Saturday really was Hockey Night in Canada, even in the unlikely event that you didn't really care about hockey -- and if you were watching that you were watching Don Cherry in the second intermission.

[1] Two Fuckin Channels