This is Rumble Strip. I'm Erica Heilman. Today I have a special show for you. It is a requiem for Larry Massett,

a great radio producer who died not too long ago. I played a number of his stories here.

Larry was my mentor. He was, he mentored many people in his own peculiar way.

Anyway, the Kitchen Sisters, produced collaboration with Barrett Golding and Transom.org, they made this

beautiful story about Larry.

It features segments from a lot of his work and a lot of people waxing poetic about Larry.

I will say that I listened to this story weeping in a Walmart

parking lot, which was the perfect place to listen to this story. So get yourself to a Walmart

parking lot and have a listen to a Requiem for Larry Massett. Welcome.

Today we are here to honor my dear departed friend Larry Masson. He was a wonder a wonder. He was a wonder boy playing with sound. Larry's radio stories and his music were all of a piece. They all flowed from

that same uncharted universe. He championed and mentored the outsiders. He didn't give me a lot of

advice, but he told me if what I was making was dead or alive. I feel like Larry and radio were made

for each other. Requiem for Larry Masset from The Kitchen Sisters Present,

an exploration of audio by a really influential radio producer.

Operator, do you read me now?

Operator, will you stand by?

I have a tape which I've been playing for friends for more than 20 years now. I tend to play it to anybody who stops by the house. I've played it for the postman. I've played it for the plumber. I've had it for so long I don't exactly recall how I got it. It would have had to have been back in the 70s sometime when I was scuba diving along.

The county carpenter should be on in about 30 or 40 seconds.

At the time I had friends, you know, scuba diving bodies, who were in the U.S. Navy.

Apparently it was making the rounds among U.S. Navy divers.

All right.

Scott, we have a long-distance call for you.

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