I did not watch television from 1973 to 1997. I lived in many different places that simply did not have a TV... Now that I'm retired, and have access to thousands of shows... I'm really enjoying some of them old ones... Like Star Trek...

And I have not seen the vast majority of those episodes... Plato's Stepchildren was quite revolutionary in 1968... It was the first instance of an interracial kiss... This episode was broadcast 6 months after Dr Martin Luther King was murdered...  Uhura and Kirk are forced to kiss by the Psychic Powers wielded by the bad guys... Who are able to make the people from the Enterprise dance like puppets on strings... And do whatever they want...

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Up until the year 1972, I lived in my parents house and we had a television... I remember watching the Moon Landing... And the police riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago ( the people protesting chanted "the whole world is watching, whole world is watching") ... And in fact, we all were watching... Only very recently the TV news started broadcasting live footage from the Vietnam War and riots... It made a big difference because the American public really rejected that war strongly when they saw how horrible it was... On live TV... In our living room... 

Then, I went to college at Chico State and did not have a TV... Then after 2 years I left and went to work at the Art Supply store in Valley Fair shopping center and rented a room out back of an old farmhouse and I did not have a TV... I did have a piano though! We got married and moved to Washington DC and for some reason never really got into television... I do remember we drank a lot of wine and played board games especially the one called Mastermind which required logical thought... And my wife always won at that game... Later she became a computer programmer... Because she was good at logical thought... After our divorce I moved into the condo and bought a bunch of electric guitars, drum machines, synthesizers and tape recorders... And I was really into the technopop home recording studio thing... Then I left Washington DC and moved to San Jose and lived in a bunch of group homes... Finally, at the place in Almaden we would all get together, smoke weed, and watch a TV show called "Friends" every night... After marrying my second wife we lived in Eureka and had to computers side by side in the living room... She liked to watch TV shows on her TV while I was busy doing art in "potatoshop" or writing blog posts... I remember one of the favorite shows was called the Sons of Anarchy... About a motorcycle gang in Stockton that was filmed on location and I was able to call up on Google Maps the exact location of where they were filming... We also watched the Obama inauguration... And the beginning of the Iraq War on TV news... That was really creepy because it was all filmed in night vision green and it looked like a video game... And we rented the movie Journey to the Center of the Earth featuring Rick Wakeman playing music with a Orchestra and choir... And a narrator...

One thing that's kind of funny is that when the TV show called Saturday Night Live was of good quality we had better things to do on Saturday nights than watch TV... We went to parties and out to discos! Then when we got older and had interest in watching television that on Saturday night the quality of the show really sucked... and to this day it really sucks...

I almost always have the sound off when I'm watching TV nowadays... It started with me turning off the sound for all commercials... And then I turned off the sound for TV news because I was in danger of hearing Donald Trump's voice... I certainly don't want to do that... And the TV news has the important parts of the story printed in English at the bottom of the screen so there's no need to listen to the talking heads... So now it's sound off unless I Channel surf to something that I want to hear...

And quite often I refuse to watch shows that I'm certain are going to make me angry... For example there was the State of the Union Address where Donald Trump talked... There's no possible way that my watching that show could improve my life... And shows like that are frequently broadcast on like 10 different channels... 

I really like watching the TV show called Jeopardy... It's a quiz show based on trivia... And other facts... I believe that it exercises my brain and is good for preventing dementia... I'm a member of AARP and they have many brain training games that you can play but none of them are fun... And so I don't play them... I would rather have dementia than play a game that's not fun... 

The One symptom of my own dementia is that I find it increasingly difficult to recognize famous people on TV... I'll see someone and say... Who is that? It's especially annoying when I'm watching a TV commercial and they went to the expense of hiring a famous person to work as a spokes model but then they don't print the person's name on the screen underneath their face... And I spend the entire commercial trying to figure out who that guy is instead of paying attention to the plastic crap they're selling... WTF?

At least on TV news they print the person's name at the bottom of the screen... And frequently their job title... The funny thing about that is that if someone is listed as a "Republican Strategist", that means they're unemployed... And a MAGA Moron!

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And that's why I didn't watch TV from 1973 to 1997! 

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I LOVE PBS Passport. Since I donated money to my local PBS station, I get the ability to watch any show at any time... And that's amazing! It's commercial Free Too!

https://www.pbs.org/explore/passport/ 

Recently I've been watching Ken Burns documentaries... Biographies of Benjamin Franklin, the Roosevelts and Thomas Jefferson... Subjects that I knew very little about... 

And they also have the history of English Kings and Queens... Guy Falks & the gun powder plot. He planned to Blow up Parliament while it was in session and the King was in the building... All because he was a Catholic and they were all Protestants... 

Trump cut off all funding for PBS... that's Evil!

Sesame Street teaches children how to read and do math... Something everyone should know!

I think that's the reason Trump is attacking Harvard and UCLA and all those other colleges... 

Human Footprint... Biology and how people fit in or don't fit in... A really interesting science program...