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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: BM Radio

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

There was a time – a glorious time – when you could turn the dial in any city in the US and hear popular songs rearranged to be the most pleasant version of themselves. This was the Beautiful Music format and we are spiritually poorer for having lost it.

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0:00.0

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0:36.5

Hey and welcome to the Short Stuff.

0:40.3

I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too, and this is Short Stuff, the Routenus, Tootinus, down-home, sasperilla drinking podcast on the planet.

0:49.8

That's right. Welcome to W-S-Y-S-S-K, your source of all the smooth podcasting sounds.

0:57.2

That was great, Chuck. You have a future in radio, I think.

1:01.5

Oh, great. I hear there's a bright future in radio.

1:04.9

So we are talking radio. That's why you just did that. And we're talking about a specific kind of radio, but we should kind of go back a little bit to the beginning because, and I should, it occurred to me that there are

1:15.5

people who listen to us. They won't even know what we're talking about with AM and FM. But if you

1:20.6

know enough about radio, there were two bands, the AM band and the FM band. And when you, if you grew up in

1:26.7

the late 70s, 80s, 90s, you knew that AM radio was as square as

1:32.8

a Rubik's cube.

1:36.0

Yes.

1:37.3

And the FM radio was where it was at.

1:39.8

But it turns out that when FM radio first came on the scene in the 60s and then early 70s, it was square.

1:46.7

And AM radio was where it was at.

1:48.4

That's where you'd hear hits and rock and stuff like that.

1:50.9

FM was so super square that it actually gave birth to what we consider easy listening music today.

1:57.2

By the way, I know this is going to be kind of a long wind, but I still have to say this.

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