I Miss the Days When Radio Was Just a Voice

Oh man, it's so good to record. Just audio. And not worrying about video. The old school way. The broadcast way. The podcast way. Where it was just you and a microphone. And there was always a thing with broadcasting, especially like in talk radio or podcasting, where it was just an audio experience. You could use your imagination without seeing any visual thing. And I remember as I was driving in vans delivering automotive parts in my early 20s, I would listen to these broadcasters wondering what the studio would like. I would paint a picture in my mind how everybody would look, what the studio would look like, how they were sitting. You use your imagination listening to your favorite broadcasters in the day. I say broadcasters because It's kind of a thing of the past. But now we call them podcasters. But now everything is visual. Even if you listen to a morning show on iHeartRadio, everything's visual now. You can log on your phone and catch them live with their live stream. You can see what they're looking like. You can see what they're wearing. The whole night of it. I miss the days of simplicity. When things were kind of separated. But yes, we're living in some of the greatest times in history. With technology. I miss the good times. The easy times. When it was just you. And a microphone. And throwing your voice out there. In the atmosphere. And wondering who is listening to you at that present moment. That was the beauty about radio. There was no analytics. There was no. checking your retention rate, it was just like, hey, we can reach 8 million people in our radius at any given time. So the imagination was always there. You could say, man, you know, there was not 8 million people listening to you on the radio, but you still were free, caregiving, and you could relax. Now with technology, you're always looking at the numbers. You're always looking at, man, I'm losing my audience three seconds in. I'm losing them fast. And then you start getting it all in your head with this stuff. And where the true fact of the matter is you started doing this because you love to do it. You were inspired by some of the greats broadcasters back in the day, the Casey Kasems, How I gravitated towards him when I was a kid, waiting for my favorite song, listening to American Top 40's Countdown. Man, those were special times. When the radio meant something. When voices, just voices, meant something. And I think that's the beauty of music too. And why audio voice and music and the radio experience went hand in hand. You know, when MTV came out with music videos, that changed everything. Music became visual. Now, granted, I love that medium as well. It created a whole new space for music. The same thing with broadcasting, podcasting. The fact that you can have anybody see you at any time. I love that too. But I do miss the simplicity of doing what I'm doing right now. Throwing it out there. There's no video attached to this. I'm literally laying in my bed with a microphone pointed at my mouth in my underwear. And it is the most freeing thing and the best because I can talk about what I want to talk about. Say what's on my mind. I'm not worried about what I look like, man. Where do those times go? I'm going to start doing more of these things. And if they connect with people and so be it, but it's just a free flowing thought that That I can have. And broadcast. What I call this. Broadcast or podcast. I don't know. I prefer broadcast. Even though when I'm broadcasting on the radio. More on the internet. So podcast, broadcast. Whatever we want to call it. But I love this. I love this. And I'm going to start doing more of this. Getting back to. My love. Talk radio. Just the format. Of audio. You. In a voice in a car driving along. And you're engaged in the conversation. You're behind the steering wheel. You're looking what's ahead of you to the left of you, the right of you, but you're listening to the conversation. Whoever's coming through those speakers in your car. What a great. Feeling that is. Those drives, those long drives to work. When you're looking for your entertainment, you're looking for the latest and greatest news to catch up on what's going on in the world. Sometimes that's always heavy, depending on what you're listening to and what you tune into. But we just want to feel connected. And the art of the voice, the audio outcome is amazing. I'm Jeff Adams. Thanks for listening. And I'm going to do more of these. Talk soon.