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So episode one is in the books and if you haven't

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heard it yet, feel free to give it a spin Now

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that you've got a sense of what we're doing we've

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got five more in the works where we'll explore

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true stories that played out over the radio airwaves

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I think The nature of radio as audio only, as

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compact, as inexpensive, as a one -time fee to

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buy a radio set for your house or wherever during

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the Great Depression led to the popularity of

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radio. Because MTV was initially run totally

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by radio people. And they're like, we're making

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radio with pictures, which meant they were using

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all of the radio systemology and thought processes.

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Late one night Art gets a random call from a

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dude named Mel and the story goes that one day

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he was walking back in his property and he found

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what looked like an old well in his ground and

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he would throw stuff in it and it wouldn't hit

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the ground. So there it is the story of Mel's

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hole. Technocracy was always kind of praying

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that society would collapse and have another

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Great Depression and that technocracy could help

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rebuild society. And a big backbone to that was

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this radio network that they created. All told

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through the fictional lens of WFYZ, which, in

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our alternate reality, is the world's last remaining

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radio station. Robot radio hour, every Saturday

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at midnight. Patting in from the UK is Patti

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Sassler, host of Slam Poetry 2 Time. Be sure

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to catch us live every Tuesday at 3pm Eastern

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Standard Time, only on WFYZ, the world's last

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radio station. Up next, it's the Medium with

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Gia Rencone, so keep it locked on WFYZ 103 .1

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FM. So go ahead and subscribe to the feed or

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favorite it or whatever it is, your app has you

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coming soon.