re: re: radio is cool, actually

this post is in response to this post by lwgrs and this post by donthave2sting. I am also not going to talk about shortwave radio in this post as it's outside the scope of these two but historically speaking it predates FM radio and was crazy. Google it. It's crazy. I have probably mentioned this before when I talk about listening to podcasts in the car. I am the same age as lwgrs so I grew up with the world of radio that he describes. We listened to the radio in the car every morning because that's where the local news was. If there was bad weather we turned on the radio to find out if we needed to take shelter. If we wanted to listen to something new we would turn the knob through the static to discover music we would otherwise never listen to. Now, we did have tapes and later CD's in the car but you have to buy those and they were expensive then so you only had stuff that you already liked on hand to listen to that way. It wasn't until 2003-ish that I had a car with a CD player…