You're listening to 20,000 Hertz.

When you think of HBO, you probably imagine it as a streaming service.

People will say that they have Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Disney Plus, yada, yada, yada.

But HBO, the television station, has been around way longer than any of those. It's

even older than the internet itself. When I was a kid growing up in the 80s, we didn't have

HBO. It was something that you had to pay extra for, and in my mind, it seemed like this fancy

channel that only rich people could afford. But once in a while, on family vacations, I did get to watch

HBO in the motel rooms we stayed in. Back then, it was pretty common to see HBO included

on the signs outside of the motels. It was the kind of thing that made us poor kids say,

oh, I want to stay there. To me, HBO is this magic portal to all kinds of stuff that I couldn't

see anywhere else. For a kid, there was also an element of danger to it,, HBO was this magic portal to all kinds of stuff that I couldn't see anywhere else.

For a kid, there was also an element of danger to it, since HBO played R-rated movies.

Matter of fact, my parents once caught me watching Terminator 2 in our motel room, and I got

in big trouble. For me, For me, a big part of what made HBO feel so special was this outrageously epic song that would play before every movie.

To this day, I still get chills when I hear that,

and I know millions of other people do too, including a lot of our listeners.

That theme song still gives me goosebumps.

Reminds me of that time.

I love that theme song.

I think it's one of the best.

It just brings me back to being eight years old

in front of the TV every time I hear it, even now.

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