You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

What have you gentlemen done with my child?

You've debased this child. You've debased this child.

You've sent him out into the streets, in rags of ragtime, tatters of jive and boogie-woogie.

But nobody had taken lead to forests, son, or daughter.

The inventor, or one of the inventors of radio, was talking about what the industry had done to his invention.

Before we get into Lee DeFarrest's words, first, just a reminder that if you're riding down that dark road,

taillights, yellow lines, maybe I'm picturing a big cactus, lonely, dim-lit gas station.

Who's with you? Well, I am. Thomas Thornbury writes to me,

just purchased my copy of the My History Can Beat Up Your Politics Archive. And I'm looking forward to delving into it, just now introducing my wife to your work,

though you and Dan Carlin have long then my travel companions on those dark, early morning

car trips that I have to take as part of my job.

Well, thanks, Thomas.

You know, we're going to talk about radio on this show.

And I'm a big believer in audio because you can do something else.

Jog, work out, play with the cat, water the plants, while you're listening.

As we'll discuss later, you can even play video games.

And like radio before podcasting, we stimulate your ears when we try to, and we think we stimulate your brain.

But not your overused, tired, 21st century eyes that are always peering into some glowing box these days.

That's what's great about audio.

So buy the archives, support your podcasters. 1888 is a great deal considering the sheer

amount of content, scores of hours of discussions of great political topics and stories.

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