Show Notes Episode 369: We Really Had A Blackout This week Host Dave Bledsoe tries to remember if he paid the ConEd bill or if he is about to experience his own mini-blackout.(Again) On the show this week we head back forty five years to 1977 and that time ConEd decided to turn all the fucking lights out in New York City. (Again.) Along the way we learn how Dave used to live in the kinds of places where the power goes on the regular.(Turns out, you DO have to pay that electric bill!) Then we dive right into the night of July 13th 1977 in New York City.(The Met sucked as always) and how the gross failure of the Consolidated Edison caused all the lights to go out for 24 hours.When that happened, things got…exciting? (In the OH MY GOD WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE! Kind of way) NEXT WEEK get ready for the Chubby Behemoth: we kick off a two-parter on the Son of Sam! Our Sponsor this week is The Flashlight In the Kitchen Drawer, who wants you to know it won’t be IGNORED!We open the show with a little audio documentary of the blackout and close with Danny Vaugh trying to cope with memory loss. Show Theme: https://www.jamendo.com/track/421668/prelude-to-common-sense The Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_Podcast The Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/ The Show on Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxP5ywpZ-O7qu_MFkLXQUQ www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/PuQN8BmMEFk We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: THE BLACKOUT OF 2003: THE PAST; The Blackouts of '65 and '77 Became Defining Moments in the City's History https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/15/us/blackout-2003-past-blackouts-65-77-became-defining-moments-city-s-history.html When riots raged amid the New York City blackout of 1977 https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/riots-raged-new-york-city-blackout-1977-article-1.816190 Why the 1977 Blackout Was One of New York’s Darkest Hours https://time.com/3949986/1977-blackout-new-york-history/ Was the 1977 New York City Blackout a Catalyst for Hip-Hop’s Growth? http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/10/16/roman_mars_99_percent_invisible_was_the_1977_nyc_wide_blackout_a_catalyst.html Uncited Additional Reading: https://www.space.com/16577-milky-way-galaxy-nyc-blackout.html https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/04/14/blackout-1977-here-comes-the-neighborhood/ https://medium.com/new-york-voice/the-real-story-of-the-new-york-city-blackout-of-1977-9fb8628e4e92 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_blackout_of_1977 https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/08/30/resources-new-york-city-1977-blackout https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05/impact-77.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_1965 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices