A quick warning. This episode contains references to adult language and might not be suitable for younger

listeners. I think you'll know within about 15 seconds if this episode is appropriate for your

kid, so it's just a head up. This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman

Mars. Before Crisp Roube became a big shot 99 BI producer he had a college radio show in Toronto where he

interviewed bands coming through town. I remember this one time when I got the call

to sit down with Monster Metal Legends Guar. You probably know Guar. They dress like aliens, they're very loud,

they're not my thing, but they're fun. So I go into the interview, my tape recorder in hand, and the dudes in guare cannot stop swearing, even though I repeatedly asked them to stop.

The tape of this interview has been lost to history, but it sounded something like this.

Hey Guar, how's it? Oh, uh,

please stop the.

Oh, uh, okay.

Okay. Look it was not my finest moment as a journalist.

The interview went out on the air and. Look, it was not my finest moment as a journalist.

The interview went out on the air, and right after, Chris was called into the station manager's office,

and he was told, in no uncertain terms, the interview had too many swear words.

But it didn't have swearing. It just had bleeps.

But people were concerned about the swearing because to lots of people, there isn't much of a difference.

The sound is synonymous with bad words.

Today the 1 kilohertz tone is universally understood to be covering up inappropriate words on radio and TV.

Don't don't try to play dumb. I didn't know. You probably hear the bleep button all the time

on reality shows like The Bachelor. You knew.

I didn't.

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