I remember being bored to tears when my parents would listen to talk radio when I was little. 1040 WHO on the AM dial, with Jan Mickelson in the morning! - is the one I remember. Long. Uninteresting. And you can't change the channel because you're a kid and not the boss.
Not that there was anything else interesting on the FM side... I mostly preferred to listen to songs on tape (recordings of The Music Man, Brigadoon, The Little Mermaid and VeggieTales) and sing along, although, my mother will point out that I went through a very blatant "must listen to country music all the time" phase in middle school. Sorry mom.
The best thing about AM radio was that on some nights, at 9:00 PM, they would air old radio shows from the 1930s and 40s. I loooooved listening to Edgar Bergan & Charlie McCarthy, Abbott and Costello, The Life of Riley, and Fibber McGee and Molly.
Now, that I am an adult, I have come to love talk radio. More specifically, NPR. I still listen and sing along to my Broadway tunes, but do I listen to NPR news and classical quite a bit.
Saturdays are my favorite - with CarTalk and Wait-Wait, Don't Tell Me. I also like the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts on NPR classical on Saturday afternoons. I always learn a lot from all of those shows! (I wish I had known about the Met broadcast when I was in college. It would have helped a lot with my music history classes!)
Not that there was anything else interesting on the FM side... I mostly preferred to listen to songs on tape (recordings of The Music Man, Brigadoon, The Little Mermaid and VeggieTales) and sing along, although, my mother will point out that I went through a very blatant "must listen to country music all the time" phase in middle school. Sorry mom.
The best thing about AM radio was that on some nights, at 9:00 PM, they would air old radio shows from the 1930s and 40s. I loooooved listening to Edgar Bergan & Charlie McCarthy, Abbott and Costello, The Life of Riley, and Fibber McGee and Molly.
Now, that I am an adult, I have come to love talk radio. More specifically, NPR. I still listen and sing along to my Broadway tunes, but do I listen to NPR news and classical quite a bit.
Saturdays are my favorite - with CarTalk and Wait-Wait, Don't Tell Me. I also like the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts on NPR classical on Saturday afternoons. I always learn a lot from all of those shows! (I wish I had known about the Met broadcast when I was in college. It would have helped a lot with my music history classes!)
This is from September 2012. I went with my future brother-in-law to a live recording of the NPR game show "Whad'ya Know?" at UNI with host Michael Feldman.
Speaking of talk radio and NPR, I heard a really interesting article on NPR yesterday that I've decided to share and write a little about! It was about childhood amnesia. Until that article, I don't think I had heard of that specific term before.
Simply put, childhood amnesia is not being able to recall memories from when you are very young. It doesn't mean that you can't recall early memories, or that you don't have them, but you probably don't have an exact memory recall of the daily minutia you experienced when you were two-years-old.
Simply put, childhood amnesia is not being able to recall memories from when you are very young. It doesn't mean that you can't recall early memories, or that you don't have them, but you probably don't have an exact memory recall of the daily minutia you experienced when you were two-years-old.