Special Report: 35000 Watts - The Story of College Radio (2024)
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🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 158 minutes
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The two former (and one present) DJs discuss the documentary as well as their time on the air.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the projection booth |
| 0:02.9 | You're listening to the |
| 0:18.1 | podcast, the only podcast that matters. |
| 0:28.0 | Nobody knew who we were. |
| 0:30.3 | We weren't on pop radio. |
| 0:32.1 | We weren't on the billboard charts at all. |
| 0:33.9 | But college radio definitely were there for us. |
| 0:43.8 | Yeah. at all, but college radio definitely were there for us. Yeah, we couldn't have done it without college radio plays. |
| 0:46.7 | It's not like the mainstream radio stations were going to play that. |
| 0:49.7 | College radio was it. |
| 1:05.4 | Yeah. College Radio was it. That's what college radio did for us. |
| 1:08.0 | It didn't have to be a major city for the crowd to really be there. |
| 1:13.1 | College radio was huge for Love Tractor. I mean, we would not have gotten airplay, and we're still down. |
| 1:19.6 | College Radio was thankfully the one thing that embraced us, but it was also the one thing that we wanted to be embraced by. |
| 1:26.6 | I mean, how many careers |
| 1:28.2 | were launched because of college radio, because of, you know, a bunch of knuckleheads spinning |
| 1:35.3 | records for no money. Without college radio for sure, it would have been different. Yeah, we |
| 1:41.2 | would have been doing Taco Bell commercials. Right. |
| 1:47.9 | College Radio was a pretty sweet scene. |
| 1:50.2 | And I imagine it still is. |
| 1:52.2 | People just playing really weird stuff |
| 1:53.9 | sometimes, and I love it. |
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