- Alexis goes to Hallmark and Butterfingers (not our sponsors) while I take a shower.
- She calls in an order to Edwardo’s Pizza (one of our sponsors).
- We pick it up. It’s usually two pizzas and a couple of salads.
- We drive across the street to the Munster Med Inn. It’s right next door to another massive building called the “Hammond Clinic.”
- We park, gather the gift bag, pop, pizzas, salads and the cake from Butterfingers, and we walk through a door in which you have to enter a code.
- We take the elevator to the second floor.
- We walk into the “party room” on the second floor and we have a party.
Alexis and I have a routine when it comes to going to the Munster Med Inn for her sister Martha’s birthday.
Radio is still free.
That’s something we gotta remember in all of this. As the three or four of you know, this week the FCC got rid of net neutrality. You may not really understand what this means, but in the end think of the internet becoming like cable television. For now, since Barack Obama prompted net neutrality, it was illegal for internet providers to pick and choose which websites they deliver to your computer or phone. Now, they can not only pick and choose, they can charge for the ones they pick. It’s 3:55 on Friday afternoon and I just got a haircut. I stopped at Nat’s barbershop on Calumet Avenue in Munster and sat quietly while the guy who cuts my hair, Dustin, and some guy named Frank held a conversation. Frank sat in the empty chair next to me. It’s the same chair that I sat in 50 years ago to get my first haircut.
It’s 7:22pm on a cold Wednesday in December. I did my radio stuff and then came home and took a three-hour nap. It felt like someone rubbing warm oil on your thighs. I don’t have that general low level of anxiety.
Instead, I have you and a couple of others. We get together after dinner to discuss My Radio Life. I hope that it’s not too much of me all of the time. But we both made the commitment to understand what radio is now and to appreciate that one day it will not exist as it does now. |
I run radio stations and a streaming video network in Hammond, Ind., and write this blog.
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