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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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through the fictional lens of WFYZ, which, in our alternate reality, is the world's last remaining 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 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
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Gia Rencone, so keep it locked on WFYZ 103 .1 FM. So go ahead and subscribe to the feed or favorite it or whatever it is, your app has you do. And when the rest of the series is ready to go, you'll get an alert. Our beloved Medium, coming soon.