Maybe a new show idea?
Give me a minute, I'm thinking.
Hmm. It's an idea. Something to consider.
I'm not sure, it might work, we'd have to "think on our feet," as it were. While seated. We could stand.
After doing due deliberation I arrive at the discovery that I already do a show based on what pass for thoughts.
It's Blare OnAir Lite, available to all stations, 10-minutes daily of tossed ideas. That is, ideas tossed around.
Grab yours today at this link:
http://kdxradio.com/blare_lite.html
Being a revisionist historian, I will retroactively credit John WDCX with the original idea for "Blare OnAir Lite."
How about you do a show where you contradict yourself? It could be "Blare on Blare." Talk incessantly about long ground leads.
The subject of contradicting one's self was on my mind just earlier when I toyed with the idea of having one of my characters get caught contradicting himself.
The character is named Professor Chauncey L. Fitzkilpatsky, adjunct with Home School College, who lives in a car filled with bottles.
When it rains Chauncey is annoyed by the drip-drop on his car roof.
At the same time, when it rains Chauncey finds the pitter-patter on the car roof highly conducive to great sleeping.
Reminds me of Elliot Rosewater
You reminded me of Eliot Rosewater.
“Samuel thundered that no American factory hand was worth more than eighty cents a day. And yet he could be thankful for the opportunity to pay a hundred thousand dollars or more for a painting by an Italian three centuries dead. And he capped this insult by giving paintings to museums for the spiritual elevation of the poor. The museums were closed on Sundays.”
Those of us working in part 15 program factories would be lucky to see 80-cents a day.
In effect, we are museums who stay open on Sunday.
While waiting for periodic oil change on my KDX Mobile Unit, I realized that the service station guys did not know about my radio station, which could easily be tuned in on their computer. I wasn't done thinking, so I went on to another thought...
Almost no one I know knows about KDX Worldround Radio. I just never mention it. What does that mean?
I suppose I kind of pre-judge people's tastes, and sincerely doubt that most people would be interested in what I schedule.
Just then my thoughts were interupted when Bill mentioned that I'd only driven 200 miles since May.
"There are a lot of places I don't go," I said, asking Leonard how the tires looked.
"You haven't even broken them in," he said.
Not bad for a 2007 car.
Thinking will resume at a later time.
" As I hung up the phone it ocurred to me..."
the shows where you walk around and
do things in the internet building and
out in - what is it? "College Park?"
I have always remembered when you
put a mike outside and there were just
neighborhood noises for a little while.
I was wearing stereo headphones at the
time. I guess you weren't using a stereo
mike, but it was still cool.
It was great because I imagined I was
hanging around in your place, instead of
my place about 1000 miles away.
The theatre of the mind. Anyhow, you
will think of something. I know it.
Best wishes,
Bruce
"College Park" is good. That means I'm a campus and some do not want me to get away with being a campus, since I am both the professor and the student using ink-jet credentials.
But never mind all that, I just discovered something about the psychological impact of a certain audio event that happened on my station.
First of all, intelligent talk programming which communicates with the mind gets old after many hours and something else is needed. Music is good for awhile, but it appeals to the emotions and can alter moods, which needs to be done with care.
That's why I have been running a tock tock clock sound all night, sort of like WWV but without the time announcements.
At first I was adding short voice messages once an hour, but I found out that at 3 or 4 in the morning, when the brain becomes acostumed to the tock tock, the unexpected sound of a voice is momentarilly upsetting because the brain thinks there's somebody in the house talking.
For now I have removed the voice messages, but the principle might work in torture camps where they want to make lives miserable.