Renee and Marc grew up in a prime time for television. School House Rock. Newhart. Saturday Morning. Must See TV.

Somewhere in the twentieth century, a box arrived and everyone in the house started facing the same direction. For a few decades, half a billion people could watch the same moment at the same instant. Then the box multiplied. We cover the story of how TV changed the culture.

This isn't a typical TV story though. Because we're us, we jump into the details of the tech as well as the impact to 20th century culture. And talk about an unsung hero - Philo Farnsworth. Who's he? Come have a listen to find out.

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Tune in tomorrow for a very special episode of the Nostalgic Nerds Podcast. All about Television. But the nerdy science-y television stuff.

So, we had to do a song all about the way a tube TV manages to keep the image in sync. Snaps, triggers, latch, return. It was just begging to be a snappy, poppy, funky song.

Lyrics below:

[Verse 1]
Picture starts to drift
Rolling on the glass
That beam won't fire on time
Vertical hold is slack
Phase is off the mark
Every sixty-three, we're gonna
Bring this picture round
[Pre-Chorus]
On my count
On my mark
Every sixty-three
Now
[Chorus]
Snap back (snap back)
Fire the pulse
Latch on (latch on)
Trigger the return
Snap back (snap back)
Every line, every field
Snap back (snap back)
Do what you're told
[Verse 2]
Picture's still on the run
Frame rate's coming down
Subcarrier drifts to blue
Fringe on every edge
Sync pulse coming late
Every sixty-three, we're gonna
Bring this picture round
[Pre-Chorus]
On my count
On my mark
Every sixty-three
Now
[Chorus]
Snap back (snap back)
Fire the pulse
Latch on (latch on)
Trigger the return
Snap back (snap back)
Every line, every field
Snap back (snap back)
Do what you're told
[Bridge]
Locked to the line (locked to the line)
Locked to the field
Sync pulse coming in on time
Phase clean, no drift
Snap
Fire
Latch
Return
Every sixty-three
Picture's back on track
[Final Chorus]
Snap back (snap back)
Fire the pulse
Latch on (latch on)
Trigger the return
Snap back (snap back)
Every line, every field
Snap back (snap back)
Locked in the frame
[Outro - vocal fading]
Snap back (snap back)
Snap back (snap back)
Every sixty-three

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Shout out to Bruce, from Australia for contacting Renee! Feel free to contact us any time.

A perfect moulded jelly used to be a way to show you had money. Someone spent a full day boiling bones and clarifying stock so you could set a shivering centrepiece on the table and let the room see what you could afford. Then it came in a box for pennies, and everyone could have the shape. This week one wobbling dessert travels from aristocratic showpiece to grocery aisle novelty, and we ask what gets lost when you take the work out of something.

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