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Hello hello Rogers fans. Here are some sources.
Easiest clip of testimony: • May 1, 1969: Fred Roge...
Static via Raymond on Vecteezy
The Good Neighbor! The definitive Rogers' bio. Honestly, it kinda whiffs on the Pastore stuff, but other than that it seems good enough. Lots of research and detail for Rogers nerds. Nothing that will break your Rogers-loving heart.
amzn.to/3UxvkJ2
Full hearings:
americanarchive.org/catalog/c...
Older hearings:
americanarchive.org/catalog/c...
The Carnegie Commission report is really hard to find online. I had to find it in ...other ways. I guess email me if you want to find it.
Good primer paper on PBS/CPB:
www.jstor.org/stable/1190903 .
History of NET alone:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1...
Congressional research services always have good primers:
sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/RS22168.pdf
Nice little doc of Mr. Rogers - I didn't use this really just because I didn't want to clip too much, but it's gentle and fun to see. The line clip is from it.
americanarchive.org/catalog/c...
Pastore bio - didn't read the whole thing but checked my assumptions.
archive.org/details/pridewith...
Convention vid: • 1964-The Conventions. ...
Those are the main sources. A lot of this was Newspaper research and just combing through the hearings linked above. You'll find em on Newspapers.com, email me if you can't find by searching for the words.
Have a good day neighbor.

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@PhilEdwardsInc 17 дней назад

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@mccampretlammergeier8289 15 дней назад

how come this pinned comment came from 2 days ago? hmm.

@PhilEdwardsInc 15 дней назад

@@mccampretlammergeier8289 you can pin comments in advance and who doesn't like a little magical time travel vibe

@tim.a.k.mertens 15 дней назад

As a Canadian, I really find that PBS puts on display the best of US, no sensationalism, no advertising and pandering, just quality television

@snowballeffect7812 14 дней назад

advertising to children is one of the worst things that happened to US society.

@Aiuto-vk5tq 14 дней назад

@@snowballeffect7812 To the world, my friend. We in Germany suffer from the same things and our conservatives also defend this to the death with lies.

@matthewilluminating 14 дней назад

As a Canadian, I found the picture of Fred Rogers alongside Ernie Coombs (better known as Mr. Dressup) really bringing me back to my childhood. Mr. Dressup and Mr. Rogers were my two favourites as a kid, and I only recently realized that they had worked together in Toronto.

@foxtrotdeltausn4757 12 дней назад

Unfortunately the PBS news hour exists and while no advertisement they still have sensationalism to drive up ratings to justify funding

@TinLeadHammer 8 дней назад

Modern PBS programming is a pale shade of what it was, say, 20 years ago.

@Imperial_Squid 15 дней назад

"How Emotional Intelligence Landed Mr Rogers $20 Million" is the most depressing and dishonest way you could twist this story, the guy was fighting for TV funding not personal profit... God I hate LinkedIn

@sherlockmaverick 14 дней назад

LinkedIn is all about manipulation and deceit in a endless goose chase of economic gain, so this doesn't surprise me.

@laurendoe168 14 дней назад

I didn't get any indication at all that it was for personal profit.

@enemyspotted2467 14 дней назад

@@laurendoe168 Knowing LinkedIn, I am 100% certain it is intended to come off that way. The only people that use that site are wall street line goes up guys and self-proclaimed tech entrepreneurs

@MoxieLaBouche 14 дней назад

We need to be real and admit that LinkedIn is the weirdest, most bizarre, and at least true to life social media platform going.

@mrjoe5292 13 дней назад

Honestly I tend to turn off completely when I hear the phrase "emotional intelligence". It's not entirely without merit as an idea, but by and large the way it's used tends to be either awful and masturbatory or so generally that it's meaningless.

@San-li9ml 14 дней назад

I remember reading up on Pastore after hearing about the PBS funding case; to say he was a villain is such an evil thing, when you look at the man's career he was for the people and the children, an intimidating man who had a lot of good he wanted to do, and did. Glad he's getting his flowers in some way today

@Colorcrayons 14 дней назад

I think the role of villain was assigned because this video was rarely seen prior to the age of when it was reasonably possible to transmit video across the internet. This would be prior to youtube, and be around 2002, when Mr. Rogers was still alive. The three part video (three parts because sharing videos larger than 2MB was just difficult to do and required good connections) was usually shown without much context to the matter. It was just used to highlight how Rogers had a hand in keeping PBS around. I agree with you that this video is important, because like in most areas across the 'net, context is lost when sensationalism sells (even when the sensationalism is an overall positive message). I only know about this specific history because of how I came across this myself in 2001 via file sharing services of public affairs archives, and how it was shared more broadly in egroups, Usenets, and discussion forums.

@RoboticDragon 12 дней назад

Vilified by his enemies, who didnt like that he was in their way of making money.

@host_theghost507 14 дней назад

I was a student at Carnegie Mellon (and you are correct, it's not just Pittsburghers but Andrew Carnegie himself who pronounced it "Car-NEG-ee") and I had the privilege of meeting Fred Rogers while taping a TV play I wrote at WQED. I can confirm what many people have said about him-there was a glow. Any emotional guardrails you had up would vanish instantly. I believe part of his secret is that he spoke to the child inside the adult and the adult inside the child. It doesn't surprise me at all that he had the good sense to appeal to Senator Pastore's own sense of right and wrong-Rogers was a canny and fiercely determined person when it came to the welfare of children-but I also don't think it was a cakewalk. Pastore is clearly giving Rogers a hard time at the beginning of the hearing, which was basically his brand: he was infamous for incinerating television executives, and my understanding is that he didn't really know much about Fred Rogers when he sat down at the table. He was geared up for a fight, and quickly abandoned his line of attack once he saw that Rogers was on his side. So you're right-it wasn't a conversion story, but it also wasn't theatre. And I do believe Rogers charmed him. There are so many stories of him dissolving people's emotional barriers. Including mine.

@MoxieLaBouche 14 дней назад

As someone who does voiceovers for a living, I love that you included that pronunciation ❤

@mcrawfish 9 дней назад

I'm a student in Pittsburgh currently and was so glad Phil made a point to pronounce it right haha. Also, although he's not around anymore, Mr. Rogers definitely left a really deep legacy behind. When his name is brought up around here there's a subtle layer of pride just at the fact that THIS was where such a beautiful thing was born.

@AdEg66 14 дней назад

Pastore saying that public television was the most dynamic and impressive invention of the century gave me goosebumps. Adults that care so much about this public good, that is mainly consumed by children- now that's really special.

@I_WANT_MY_SLAW 15 дней назад

What wasn't talked about, but I also think it's an important anecdote to note, is that Fred Rogers is also the reason why we can record live TV. He believed that the way children learned, was by repetition. And that repeated viewing of his show, would be a good way for kids to learn. But back in those days, recording live TV was illegal, and considered copyright infringement. Even if it was for private use. But also managed to convince them that people should be allowed to record his program, so children could watch it repeatedly. And that's a part of the reason why we're allowed to record television today. And recording live TV seems like it was always a right we had, but people had to fight for that law.

@SaveTheFuckingElephants 15 дней назад

I didn't know you couldn't record off the TV. It's something we all take for granted. Thanks Mister Rogers. Just more proof of how goated and alpha Mister Rogers really was.

@MrAwawe 14 дней назад

This is incorrect. Recording the TV was never illegal; for a long time, it was simply impossible. TV came about long before there was any kind of recording technology capable of storing and playing back a signal at the frequency required for on-demand video. In the early days of TV, programs were either ephemeral live performances, akin to remote plays, forever lost once they had been sent, or recorded on film, and broadcasted by effectively pointing a TV camera at a film projector. There were some attempts at recording video in the late 50s, but they required massive drums of tape running at ludicrous speeds, and were thus relegated to institutions. In the late 1970s, Sony developed the first video cassette recorder, called Betamax. This was the first practical way to record TV at home. In response, Disney and Universal Studios sued Sony, claiming that recording TV at home was a form of copyright infringement. The case escalated to the Supreme Court, and in a landmark decision they ruled that "time shifting" was a legitimate use of VCRs. Rogers testified in favor of this decision, but the ruling only affirmed the status quo, and no laws were changed.

@zumabbar 14 дней назад

hey phil, an idea for the next video here!

@joeybaseball7352 12 дней назад

Mister Rogers was always on the right side of history. I bet he would hate all the DMCA abuse happening right now. And all of the gatekeeping happening right now with educational content.

@airl10 10 дней назад

It's pretty bold to claim that he is the reason TV recording is legal. Maybe a reason, but I doubt that Rogers' testimony was the make-or-break piece of evidence that led the court to rule in favor of Sony in Universal v. Sony.

@hippopotamusbosch 15 дней назад

Phil Edwards has been cosplaying as Mister Rogers for a while now.

@PhilEdwardsInc 15 дней назад

I legitimately have an office sweater and slippers, but I didn't want to sully the man by comparisan.

@dustyrabbit9234 14 дней назад

you know what… i see it now.

@evanmcgurrin 14 дней назад

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, or something like that. Fred Rogers is a good person to be compared to, and Phil Edwards has a similar genuine sincerity. I don't think wearing a sweater is a problem here!

@matthewprice5749 14 дней назад

Nice Sully/ Tom Hanks/ A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood reference Phil. Also, great job on this film.

@stevenschwartz-yvr 15 дней назад

I was lucky enough to meet Fred Rogers at a grad school symposium on children's television. Just the nicest human I've ever met.

@K3NnY_G 14 дней назад

"Except the real story is totally different, and I think it is better." This is what makes your channel just.. Honestly my favorite 'recent' addition to my 'must watch' list of YT creatrors.

@harpreetsahota2984 15 дней назад

I did NOT know the connection to the CBC and (re)starting out in Canada. That's Mr Dressup (Earnie Coombs) at 7:55, and as a Canadian kid in the '80s I always recognized the similarities between the two, but thought Mr Dressup was just a Canadian knock-off of Mr Rogers. Both of these men are absolute treasures!!!

@kelvarnsen 14 дней назад

The Mr. Dressup documentary on Amazon prime is really good. it talks about how Ernie Coombs worked behind the scenes on Misterogers then when Fred Rogers moved back to the US, Coombs was able to develop his own show for CBC.

@Shadownumber206 15 дней назад

Something to note here, is that this all happened _before_ Sesame Street. And Sesame Street had a lot of the same funders as Mister Rogers did. But it took Sesame Street a long time for it to be finely tuned. They really wanted Jim Henson, but Jim wanted nothing to do a children's program. Despite him working with puppets. Jim hadn't gotten into robotics yet.

@brockmckelvey7327 8 дней назад

I just finished the video and I'm here to remind you that it's okay for grown men to cry. Especially if it's because of Mr. Rogers.

@afterburner94 14 дней назад

Thanks for putting back the truth into this historical moment and giving John Pastore's legacy the praise it deserves

@HunterHogan 15 дней назад

You routinely reshape my understanding of episodes I thought I understood. And you do it without bopping me over the head.

@gustavohernandeza.890 15 дней назад

Thanks for this video as someone who is a self-taught scholar of public broadcasting (I made my college thesis on that subject)

@I_WANT_MY_SLAW 15 дней назад

How can you say you're self taught, if you went to college to learn it?

@koalaunknown 15 дней назад

⁠@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW He wrote his thesis on it. That means he did his own research.

@TinLeadHammer 8 дней назад

This video is a self-taught scholar?

@BOABModels 15 дней назад

We should never forget how lucky we are to have the BBC here in the UK.

@PhilEdwardsInc 15 дней назад

it was interesting to me that the US almost had a similar excise tax

@tbird81 14 дней назад

Lol, BBC.

@applegal3058 13 дней назад

I feel the same about our CBC and localy we havel NTV. I remember we had 2 tv hannels for most if my childhood. Both of those channels were available for free with a set of wire rabbit ears...

@bamalamsue8720 14 дней назад

I miss Fred Rogers. Thanks for sharing this story with us.

@Drmcclung 15 дней назад

I love all the newfound praise for Mr Rogers going around for the last few years. What a sadly missed bygone era! My parents bought me a little Timex wristwatch for Christmas when I was 7, my mother calling it my "Daniel Tiger Timex" because she remembered him being my favorite character and loving his little puppet wristwatch 😂 Still my prized possession to this day! I've had that silly thing more than 40 years now and it still makes me happy every time I pull it out of the drawer to wear for a couple weeks at a time

@reNINTENDO 14 дней назад

Holy crap, your avatar is smacking me over the head with memories that by all accounts were all but forgotten. It's incredibly faint, but I definitely remember seeing those stickers growing up. For some reason I distinctly remember one being on our phone, which I'm not sure what the point was. Maybe don't lick it? Probably a good call (heh).

@Drmcclung 12 дней назад

@@reNINTENDO the old Latchkey Kid "Mr Yuk means no!" poison control center campaign

@joeybaseball7352 15 дней назад

Nixon is the real villian here. Nixon was a crook (despite him claiming he wasn't one), and an overall awful person. How he was popular enough to be elected president is beyond me.

@PhilEdwardsInc 15 дней назад

my research led me to not be certain nixon was too antagonistic (at this time) - i suppose there are a couple ways of looking at it - he was increasing the budget, but nowhere near what pbs wanted. that said, he was anti ford foundation and later on quite anti PBS

@ryan49805 15 дней назад

Our politicians today are every bit as corrupt as Nixon was. 😘

@justins8802 14 дней назад

It seems like Nixon will always be a bit of an enigma. Arguably the most infamous president in history, but not at all consistently evil, and responsible for a lot of good, and moderating some more extreme voices. Off topic, but it would be really interesting to see where we would be in our relations with China if not for him.

@enemyspotted2467 14 дней назад

He was pretty popular up until watergate, and that is what he is remembered for today. I'm assuming you were not alive yet for his presidency, neither was I, but he was a pretty popular president, and a pretty decent one at that. Certainly not the shiniest US head of state, but his administration created the EPA, the endangered species and clean air acts, and strictly enforced desegregation in southern school, to name a few examples. He did try to end the war in vietnam, but after a few failed treaties with the vietnamese, kissinger got to him.

@joeybaseball7352 14 дней назад

@@enemyspotted2467 I mean, Trump got elected, so I'm not that shocked.

@ayaanq7016 15 дней назад

These videos are some of the best on RU-vid. The way you tell these stories are so compelling and intimate. I’m excited for your next one, Phil!

@catherinesweet 14 дней назад

Hands up, all you Canadians who got a thrill seeing Mr. Dressup in the photo at 7:53.

@applegal3058 13 дней назад

Indeed! I grew up watching Mr. Dress up! I never really took to Mr Roger's Neighborhood...but I think that's just my preference growing up, and nothing to do with the quality of the show.

@robinmichel9048 14 дней назад

What I love about Mr. Roger's Neighborhood is how it's so quaint, gentle, and sweet and how that still resonates in these contentious times.

@corgi_dad 15 дней назад

I remember watching Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, and I specifically remember my favorite part of the show was the part in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

@laurabowles 14 дней назад

The combination of growing up in the '90s without cable TV and also being the nerdy type meant I was a PBS kid through and through. Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow, Arthur, Kratt's Creatures, Bill Nye, Wishbone, and of course Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood were all on regular rotation. I know I have Mr. Rogers and now, also Senator Pastore to thank for that in large part. Great work as always.

@joeybaseball7352 15 дней назад

My only criticism is that you didn't adjust for inflation. $20 million doesnt sound a lot for a industrial grant. But it converts to about $170 million today. I just wished you had added that in, just to really illustrate just how large of a subsidy they were getting.

@PhilEdwardsInc 14 дней назад

it was viewed as pretty rinky dink even at the time, relative to the federal budget

@jp783 15 дней назад

Thank you so much for this video! That was great. I always had a notion that there was more to what was being told when Rogers testified than what was being portrayed. Gore Vidal once said, when speaking of FDR whom he knew through his father and step-grandfather, "politicians lie like birds sing", so the idea that Pastore was going to be swept up at a Senate hearing was a bit incongruous from the outset, but I didn't care enough to look behind the curtain and read about Pastore because TV is now becoming antiquated and we're too far away from 1969 for it to feel like something to invest a lot of energy into. However, I'm glad you did. Thank you.

@krysnb84 13 дней назад

Thanks for setting the record straight ❤

@JscoLP 15 дней назад

Phil is a masterclass in how to teach understanding. I thought I understood the entire time, while now I need to go question what purpose even means. Louved this story Phil! Signed- Canadian

@spddiesel 14 дней назад

10:34 YES! My dad was born in Carnegie (just outside Pittsburgh) and I was just back there this summer, can confirm the pronunciation lol.

@The_Sofa_King 15 дней назад

Mr Rodgers was such an interesting guy. He truly spoke with kindness and wanted to see the best in people.

@Schmidtelpunkt 15 дней назад

I am a bit surprised that so many people miss the obvious clues of the original clip and mistook it. Admittedly, it was part of the charade intended. But in a way it is a good indicator how easily people can fall for something like that.

@bigbohi 15 дней назад

thank you so much for telling this story! im about to graduate w/ my masters in public affairs and part of the reason why i concentrated my policy interests on education/public schools is because of the positive impact mr rogers left on me. keep doing what you do!

@iveyao120 14 дней назад

You are a wonderful person in the neighborhood for making this video. Thank you for brightening my day :)

@JusNoBS420 15 дней назад

Thank you to Josh from CoPilot for the video inspiration. And to Mr. Edward's Neighborhood for bringing it to life

@stevegarretson1828 15 дней назад

As always great videos. Thanks for the effort and extra context.

@bbartky 14 дней назад

Phil, You really hit it out of the park with this one-bravo! 👏 Right now, this is my favorite video of yours. I really like how you show how much context matters. I went to the US Congress website to read Pastore’s biography and I was not surprised to learn he was an assistant attorney general twice. Like a defense attorney, Pastore was clearly disarming Public Television’s critics.

@mattmcglennon 14 дней назад

Always love your deep dives into culture and historical moments!

@sparky_murph 15 дней назад

I watched, every episode of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood as a kid. Those were the days. Good days. Later generations, missed out on not watching and learning from his show.

@sparky_murph 15 дней назад

Another great video, Thank you!!! Need more videos, 😊

@SaveTheFuckingElephants 15 дней назад

Fred was a pioneer in so many ways. Yes, he came from a rich family, and people like to use that to diminish his accomplishments. But just because he had money, doesn't mean he had a happy upbringing. He was actually very sad a child. And the money couldn't make him happy. And ultimately, Fred never cared about money from a personal standpoint. And outside of grants, he would even outright refuse money on principal. Even when his show became very popular, and companies wanted product to pay him to have placement on the show. He refused. If you watch his show, nothing is branded. He always took off the labels and had the art department make custom Neighborhood branding. Even something like dog food. It wouldn't be purina, it would be Neighborhood dog food. The only time you would see brands, is he was either showing a video, or he visited a factory. He lived a modest life. Never one of someone rich. He didn't make nearly as much money as you would think someone as famous as him would have you believe. I think he died with a total net worth of about $2 million. He could've made countless riches selling out. Selling his name, and product everywhere (which PBS later did after he died). But he didn't.

@Scott_Silver 14 дней назад

Fantastic episode, best one yet!

@Zzyzzyx 15 дней назад

Thanks for this story!

@scroogeydoogeedoo 14 дней назад

beautiful video. thank you!

@FaithOriginalisme 14 дней назад

thank you so much for telling the real stories

@ezydoesit993 14 дней назад

you make some of the best videos on youtube! thank you

@toddpearson2823 14 дней назад

Thank you. 😊

@fresusjeak 14 дней назад

Dude! The lighting and framing on your couch shots - fantastic!

@PhilEdwardsInc 14 дней назад

ah thank ya! warms my heart

@azrinaz8993 14 дней назад

Phils' videos are easily one of the best produced and well narrated stories. His demeanor and voice is almost Fred Rogers like. You are definitely one of the top journalists on RU-vid Johnny Harris and Cleo. Keep up the great work Phil.

@douglasgriffin694 13 дней назад

Thanks for another great video, Phil! As always wonderfully produced and scripted!

@XxXenosxX 15 дней назад

Yay, new episode!

@necr0mancrr 14 дней назад

Great video!

@abrahamatess2643 14 дней назад

Thanks for the Upload! I'm a child and youth support worker and I often turn to Mr. Rogers for inspiration. It might be an episode of his show, a documentary, a youtube video, TV interview, biopic, it doesn't really matter. I just need to spend some time with his energy.

@MR101722 14 дней назад

Wow! Didn't realize Mr. Rogers worked in Canada at all, I was only aware of our dear Mr. Dressup! Awesome video Phil!

@meikahidenori 14 дней назад

Thanks for this video. As An Australian whose children's tv was always pretty decently addressed it's hard to imagine other places having to fight for the right to have good children's television programming on the air. Mind you ours originally started as copies of some UK tv shows- hilariously we are now the only country that still produces Playschool (there used to be 3 and ours have been going for over 50 years and still going strong) and something at least 4 generations of Aussies have seen and grown up along side of. So thank you for this.😊

@ShafferN 14 дней назад

A solid video from one of my favorite guys about my favorite guy.

@daverizz 15 дней назад

Love Fred Rogers, loved the Doc, and loved this video. Has anyone ever told you that you give off a little Mr. Rogers calmness? (Esp when compaired to so many other RU-vid creators) And interesting branding choices with this video. Nice. Also, I usually zip past big chunks of sponsorship inclusions (sorry, too much content, and not enough hours in the day... I also watch all RU-vid videos, except Phil DeFranco, at 1.25 or 1.5) but this CoPilot integration felt pretty logical & genuine. Will actually click the link and try to figure out if I should cancel my PlanetFitness... no promises tho Phil.

@PurpleHippoCinema 14 дней назад

Loved this video

@halgerson 14 дней назад

I was wondering about this exact thing literally last week. I love Mr. Rogers, but I thought that Senate hearing didn't sound the way that it is commonly portrayed. But of course I was too lazy to actually look into it. Thanks for the great video as always, Phil.

@heyo423 13 дней назад

Anytime I get more info about Fred Rodgers I just feel so much emotion. He already made such an impression on me as a child, but all the backstory gives me so much faith in humanity.

@PhilEdwardsInc 13 дней назад

@RoxYgen03 12 дней назад

This has been my favorite piece of work you’ve shown us here on this channel. Brilliantly whimsical, wonderfully informative and superbly edited. Thank you so much Phil!

@PhilEdwardsInc 12 дней назад

ah thank you! i appreciate it!

@josephhargrove4319 15 дней назад

Thanks for a great video that thinking adults can find uplifting. In an environment where it seems popular culture wants everyone to remain children (and apparently so many do), it's refreshing to see and hear a presentation that presents a story targeting adult sensibilities. richard --

@MerelyanIdea 14 дней назад

Amazing vid!

@jawzdeadeye 13 дней назад

Love that picture of Mr. Rodgers and Mr. Dress Up (On the left in the Canadian show picture.)

@QuestionMan 13 дней назад

You really channeled your Fred Rogers in weaving and delivering this narrative. No sweater required. Well done.

@mooshow 13 дней назад

This really puts a wonderful new light on that documentary. Bravo Phil

@VelcorHF 13 дней назад

I always watch every Mr Rogers video that comes up. There’s always something new and interesting to learn about him.

@PhilEdwardsInc 13 дней назад

this is true! and you never get let down

@orterves 14 дней назад

Love that the viral Mr Rogers speech really featured two heroes

@JimBo-tf1wp 14 дней назад

Thanks! Nice to see the spot with his Canadian counterpart Ernie Coombs (AKA Mr Dressup)

@pdelponte 2 дня назад

Nice job. I grew up in Providence and Sen Pastore was a true hero. He was largely responsible for the structure around not just public TV but whole host of communications laws that promoted public decency. It’s too bad he’s not around now to tame social media.

@zacharyhenderson2902 6 дней назад

I watched recordings of that famous hearing, and I couldn't see why the senator had a reputation for being such a hard ass, because Mr. Rogers entire testimony seemed pretty cordial and brief

@WanukeX 6 дней назад

7:53 - The CBC later had its own version of Mr. Rogers called “Mr. Dressup”, I had always assumed it was just a knockoff. But after watching this and looking it up, turns out that “Mr. Dressup” (Ernie Coombs) had actually been an understudy of Rogers when he was at the CBC.

@180_S 12 дней назад

This is an excellent corrective. Great job Phil!

@sarkrex3212 13 дней назад

That guy standing beside Fred Rogers, is Ernie Coombs. He would become Canada's version of Mister Rogers, known as Mister Dressup.

@fusiontimelord 14 дней назад

If you ever wanted a companion piece to this video: you might find the Canada and PBS connections interesting. For example, I grew up with PBS because WQLN (Erie, PA) was the station near me (London, Ontario). Because of these coverages, PBS relied heavily from donations from Canadian viewership. WQLN was such a rotatable example that they've acknowledged the Canadian connection by referring their station "Eric-London." I haven't been able to have the channel on but when I do my searching for the channel, they still do segments about London Ontario.

@gregory-of-tours 5 дней назад

7:54 That's Mr. Dressup next to Mr. Rogers right? (Mr. Dressup had a similar children's show on CBC for years.) I guess the influence on each other was more direct than I realised

@ericfielding2540 12 дней назад

Fred Rogers was an important part of the childhood education for so many people in the USA. I am glad that Sen. Pastore fought to get funding for PBS.

@forivall 14 дней назад

Memory unlocked: typing "neighbourhood" in an old word processor and the spellcheck not understanding the word or what to correct it to.

@LakanPepe 14 дней назад

Thanks very much for this. It's baffling to me that this wasn't the story that they went with.... It's so much more moving and interesting.

@spencercreelman8498 14 дней назад

Love the Ernie Coombs cameo. Big ups to all my Canadian Me. Dressup heads

@michaelhannell4083 13 дней назад

Even Sears had their hands in Mister Rogersin the early years I didnt even know that. That's a trivia question that needs to be in a trivia night.

@PhilEdwardsInc 13 дней назад

yeah sears kinda saved him! and before that hornes! he was a real department store hero

@anon69_q 15 дней назад

Amazing video as usual, but I really liked the pacing of this.

@derekmcclure6574 14 дней назад

Fantastic episode once again.. perhaps another episode on why the US is the only country in the world that spells neighbourhood, colour, flavour, etc without the 'u'.. Love your work!

@thehypomc 13 дней назад

PBS is still doing great content as well. Otherwords on RU-vid is fantastic, along with various shows about mythology and history! It's always been the mission!

@sarahwatts7152 14 дней назад

Somehow the story got even more heartwarming

@MalachiTheBowlingGod 14 дней назад

Interesting! That better matches the vibe of that famous 'Rogers vs Evil Senator' clip. (And thank you for avoiding Tom Hanks' turn as Rogers.)

@PhilEdwardsInc 13 дней назад

such bad casting...

@ryanortega1511 8 дней назад

Oof.

@skasev 14 дней назад

Thought I was going around the uk in a tiny speedboat there for a moment.

@jessehammer123 14 дней назад

I had actually never heard this story told in such a way that Pastore was a bad guy won over by Mr. Rogers’ wonderfulness- I’d only ever heard roughly the story elaborated in this video. Interesting!

@pohldriver 7 дней назад

How many of us wouldn't be nerds today if not for Mr. Rogers and PBS? So many of us grew up watching Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, which would be followed up by shows like Nova and David Attenborough. I grew up in rough neighborhoods and didn't have friends, except for Fred Rogers. And when he died, we all lost a dear friend. I doubt few of us had dry eyes when we heard he was gone. I love knowing how things work because of a video he showed of brass instruments being made. And when my best friend, coincidentally enough, is also a Mr. Rogers, asked why i loved machines so much, i said about that video. He's got the memory of a goldfish, but he lit up and exclaimed he remembered that.

@dodaexploda 14 дней назад

"We're grown ups". HEY! Speak for yourself! Fantastic video like always Phil.

@mikemurphy80 14 дней назад

It’s a Phil Edward’s Sunday! What’s your schedule? Is there one or just as they come out? Was going to set a calendar reminder

@PhilEdwardsInc 14 дней назад

ugh i feel such guilt. right now it's triweekly which makes no sense. striving for biweekly...

@mikemurphy80 7 дней назад

@@PhilEdwardsIncno guilt needed. We will take quality over quantity, all day long. I’ve been rewatching some classics for Sunday ritual.

@Yourmission9 14 дней назад

A beautiful story, and you’re correct it’s Carnegie (CarNayGhee)

@rodfer5406 14 дней назад

Very good

@benmcreynolds8581 14 дней назад

I long to see the days that our American government ACTUALLY functions & adapts. It's exhausting to see how dysfunctional & unaffordable everything is nowadays. I really hope thing's can change. Genuinely change

@user-hc3ps6uz5p 13 дней назад

Great video.

@NigelMelanisticSmith 15 дней назад

Everytime I see Copilot I feel bad for Microsoft muddying up their name lol

@NinjaMatt2201 14 дней назад

There are moments when taken out of context, make Pastore look bad, but he was probably just playing devil's advocate. Playing a strategy to set up Rodgers to sell it to other people who were a harder sell. He knew others wouldn't be paying attention to a full 10 minute speech, playing into the scepticism of the others. Rodgers didn't need to convince Pastore, but no one else was willing to even talk to Rodgers, so Pastore had to play the role. That kind of thing.

@PhilEdwardsInc 14 дней назад

very much!

@aidanb.c.2325 14 дней назад

So Rogers and Pastore basically performed a good cop-bad cop routine (unintentionally).

@MichaelCCasey 9 дней назад

@Phil Edwards I attend the seminary where Mister Rogers went, and we really lean in on the formation of imaginative thought processes for people to do adaptive and innovative ministries, like he did with his television show.

@PhilEdwardsInc 9 дней назад

thanks for mentioning!