Comments on: And that’s the way it is… https://www.habitablezone.com/2023/05/22/and-thats-the-way-it-is/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:11:35 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: podrock https://www.habitablezone.com/2023/05/22/and-thats-the-way-it-is/#comment-51922 podrock Tue, 23 May 2023 03:05:39 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=99773#comment-51922 The whole episode is strangely fascinating. Like you, I watched the whole nostalgic thing. I probably watched it in real time, back in the day, fresh off my high school graduation because the ash from St. Helens was falling from the sky and my first opportunity to vote in a presidential election was months away. And I've always been a news junky. Can you guess who I voted for? The commercials! But what is cool, is that I can, in just a few minutes, find and watch it again after all these decades and wrinkles. Oh, and why not, since it was released in the same year: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5IsSpAOD6K8" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> The whole episode is strangely fascinating. Like you, I watched the whole nostalgic thing. I probably watched it in real time, back in the day, fresh off my high school graduation because the ash from St. Helens was falling from the sky and my first opportunity to vote in a presidential election was months away. And I’ve always been a news junky. Can you guess who I voted for?

The commercials!

But what is cool, is that I can, in just a few minutes, find and watch it again after all these decades and wrinkles.

Oh, and why not, since it was released in the same year:

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