Episode 4 - The Divided Dial

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🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

How conservative talk radio came to dominate a medium that once thrived on varied viewpoints.

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0:00.0	In the early 1980s, the radio dial was a bustling town square.
0:19.6	Voices from across the political and cultural spectrum jostled for airtime, a leading liberal
0:24.5	voice on the air.
0:26.0	This is Alan Burr.
0:27.0	Alan Burr got in and can't wait 370 in the afternoon.
0:29.4	Leave us about 10 minutes in the show.
0:30.9	Let's go to line one.
0:31.9	You're on the air.
0:32.9	With his gray, shaggy mop top, scruffy beard and reading glasses perched on the end of his
0:37.9	nose, Burr looked more like a high school geography teacher than a shock shock.
0:43.0	My dear, anybody who's programmed like you is person or person.
0:46.6	You're the one of oppression matters.
0:49.6	You are not me the only way.
0:51.5	You are a commitment.
0:52.5	Goodbye.
0:53.5	7, 6, 1.
0:54.5	I think the jizz are still firmly in control of the Soviet Union.
1:02.5	I think the response was the murder of 50 million right Christians.
1:04.5	You big self.
1:05.5	Yes, I do.
1:06.5	I think you're sick.
1:07.5	I think you're authentic.
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