That’s the saying we use around the radio station. Whenever something weird happens – and it happens a lot because it’s radio – the echo is: “You can’t make this s--- up.”
It’s 5:22 on Monday evening. Did you see the video that’s trending all around the internet where the crocodile ensnares the trunk of a baby elephant? Then the bigger elephants stomp around on or near the crocodile until he lets go? You can’t make this s--- up.
That’s the saying we use around the radio station. Whenever something weird happens – and it happens a lot because it’s radio – the echo is: “You can’t make this s--- up.” There’s gotta be a reason to keep writing this blog. And there’s gotta be a reason for the three or four of you to keep coming back here. Do you remember why we even started together?
I do. It’s the preserve at least one man’s life of radio. You know and I know that at some point radio as we know it will go away. That’s what happened to me as a pit trader. One day we’re all standing around in a ring, yelling and screaming at each other, and next thing you know the whole process is taken over by a computer. That’s the progression. It worked for trading and somehow I think it will work for radio. It’s 8:43 on a Saturday evening and I really should be watching the Black Hawks beat up on the Nashville Predators in the first round of the NHL playoffs.
But the Hawks lost the first game – at home – on Thursday night, and now they’re losing 3-0. So I walked upstairs to listen to the radio, and it’s hard to believe, but right now AM 1230 and 104.7 FM has the best hockey game on the radio in the whole Chicago area. Grateful Dead and Joseph Conrad. I’m fairly predictable when it comes to music to soothe by and literature that can carry you across continents to a time and place that doesn’t exist anymore.
“Ah, so you’re a romantic,” a computer guy named Seth Tillman told me once. He caught me reading, for the zillionth time, Lord Jim. “What do you mean?” |
I run radio stations and a streaming video network in Hammond, Ind., and write this blog.
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