So episode one is in the books and if you haven't
heard it yet, feel free to give it a spin Now
that you've got a sense of what we're doing we've
got five more in the works where we'll explore
true stories that played out over the radio airwaves
I think The nature of radio as audio only, as
compact, as inexpensive, as a one -time fee to
buy a radio set for your house or wherever during
the Great Depression led to the popularity of
radio. Because MTV was initially run totally
by radio people. And they're like, we're making
radio with pictures, which meant they were using
all of the radio systemology and thought processes.
Late one night Art gets a random call from a
dude named Mel and the story goes that one day
he was walking back in his property and he found
what looked like an old well in his ground and
he would throw stuff in it and it wouldn't hit
the ground. So there it is the story of Mel's
hole. Technocracy was always kind of praying
that society would collapse and have another
Great Depression and that technocracy could help
rebuild society. And a big backbone to that was
this radio network that they created. All told
through the fictional lens of WFYZ, which, in
our alternate reality, is the world's last remaining
radio station. Robot radio hour, every Saturday
at midnight. Patting in from the UK is Patti
Sassler, host of Slam Poetry 2 Time. Be sure
to catch us live every Tuesday at 3pm Eastern
Standard Time, only on WFYZ, the world's last
radio station. Up next, it's the Medium with
Gia Rencone, so keep it locked on WFYZ 103 .1
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