Speaker 1: It's the fuck back to the day. We make you
Speaker 1: look smart and funny. Everybody's it's the fuck that to
Speaker 1: the day.
Speaker 2: Happy World Radio Day, pal back Atcherer Brother Rodney. I'm
Speaker 2: a big fan of the radio. I've always been a
Speaker 2: big fan of the radio. Listened to it as a kid,
Speaker 2: listen to my favorite DJs. I used to listen to
Speaker 2: the school closings in the morning. First thing I ever
Speaker 2: bought with my paper route money, which was really my
Speaker 2: first job. I was in sixth grade. I took all
Speaker 2: my Christmas tips and I bought a boombox. Bought a
Speaker 2: radio with a cassette in the middle with the two speakers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the first thing I ever bought.
Speaker 2: I'm radio.
Speaker 1: Very nice, all right.
Speaker 2: So I because it's World Radio Day, I became an
Speaker 2: official holiday in twenty twelve, I thought i'd bring you
Speaker 2: some radio facts.
Speaker 1: I hope you're not bored by these.
Speaker 2: The first commercial radio broadcast was over one hundred years ago.
Speaker 2: It happened on November second, nineteen twenty. The first radio
Speaker 2: station went live. Now there are over fifteen thousand radio
Speaker 2: stations in the US alone. A poll a few years
Speaker 2: ago ranked radio as the eleventh most important invention of
Speaker 2: old time, that is f who. Top three vote getters
Speaker 2: were electricity, phones and vaccines.
Speaker 1: Radio justice just missed the top.
Speaker 2: Ted, Sorry, that's my radio voice. Most of you are
Speaker 2: listening to us in your cars in the morning.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: The Model T came out in nineteen oh eight. Cars
Speaker 2: didn't get radios until the nineteen thirties. It cost an
Speaker 2: extra one hundred and thirty dollars to get a radio
Speaker 2: in your car in nineteen Thirty's dumb the car. It's
Speaker 2: two thousand, three hundred dollars in today is money? Just
Speaker 2: drive around like it's silent, thug. It's so bad, yeah, dude, yeah,
Speaker 2: the conversation. One of the big, one of the big
Speaker 2: initiatives right now with World Radio Day this year is
Speaker 2: to keep the AM radio in the car and to
Speaker 2: keep the radio in the car.
Speaker 1: There's some the rockets as the astro.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean talk radio and then keeping the FM
Speaker 2: radio that. Yeah, they just they want to get rid
Speaker 2: of the radio in the car. And it's like, guys,
Speaker 2: you can't do that. Yeah, I think that's it's a
Speaker 2: lot of facts.
Speaker 1: Just so you know.
Speaker 2: One more, here's a bonus one. The call letters for
Speaker 2: radio stations. So this radio station is ktbz uh. We
Speaker 2: are on the west side of the Mississippi. On the
Speaker 2: east side of the Mississippi, you.
Speaker 1: Get the w's.
Speaker 2: In New York and then most stations in Canada start
Speaker 2: with a C. I just had to throw that at THEE.
Speaker 1: Of course you got a fuck. That's to the day
Speaker 1: we make you look smart body. It's the day