Voices in the Wire

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This week on 99% Invisible, we have two stories about the early days of broadcasting and home sound recording, produced by Radio Diaries and the Kitchen Sisters. The sounds that came out Frank Conrad’s Garage in 1919 and 1920 are … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	This is 99% invisible.
0:02.0	I'm Roman Mars.
0:04.0	Radio transmission.
0:06.0	The handle or name you adopt should be one of a kind
0:10.0	based on something special in your life.
0:13.0	This is Porky, Chadrock on March 12th, 1973.
0:17.0	Well, you nice people living in the middle of America, the beautiful.
0:21.0	Everything is beautiful.
0:24.0	We're talking about radio,
0:26.0	meaning you do not see the picture, you hear the voice.
0:31.0	Here's something called the Vox Humana, hear the human voice.
0:35.0	But the point is radio involved the audience far more than television ever did.
0:42.0	This is WJK.
0:45.0	Monday, March 12, 1973.
0:49.0	Thank you and here's some more hit music.
0:51.0	It's 820 now, people.
0:54.0	This is a big jacker.
0:56.0	1.
0:58.0	2.
1:00.0	On our way to Canaan land.
1:02.0	Here we go.
1:04.0	There are those innovations that everyone loves and depends on.
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