My grandpa was born on August 9th, 1918 in Pavlodar<\/em>; a city in northeastern Kazakhstan which was closely associated with Russia – they actually needed permission by going to Moscow and waited for 2 months in order to be granted leave – in the 1930s they arrived in Grunthal, Manitoba. This is a rare picture of my grandpa holding me when I was almost 3 years old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What I didn’t understand was (like the song) there was the boy inside the man. There is still a remanent of the past, an ember or perhaps a snapshot of the child he used to be, still encapsulated in that room. I remember after he died, the family divided things and cleaned out all the items out of that room, I got his cap guns but I hated that day because we took apart his room and took away a part of him in my eyes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Oddbits channel is my version of that room created for myself & for others… When I was really little (9 or 10 years) old, I had a tiny crystal radio (schematic below) from Radio Shack. For those that don’t know, a crystal radio doesn’t take batteries, it is powered by the band it is tuned too – it literally vibrates, so it has limited volume, but as long as the station is broadcasting and the radio is turned on; it will keep playing music – mini me thought that was so cool, in fact I still do. So I saw it fitting, that a radio is the background for each video in the CBS Radio playlist – that is why. I also loved comic books so I created a mini comic cover for the first 26 episodes of that playlist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I love mysterious and dark stories, for me they captivate or one could say, activate my imagination… I love listening to stories where I don’t know what is going to happen next and I get so worried<\/em> for the main character that sometimes I have to turn it off, I can’t keep listening; as a child I developed a massive fear of confrontation and emotionally unstable situations, most of the time I feel very little emotions about anything; and when confronted by extreme emotion (or at least extreme to me) I don\u2019t know how to deal with it. So listening to the stories I love are very hard for me to listen too. I have a playlist on Oddbits called the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre<\/a> and it has old stories of suspense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blumenort.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Aron.jpg\")
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