Bill Thompson

I don't think anything had a battery on it.

I think it was just a... Wow.

I could be mistaken, but I don't believe it was.

Powered by electromagnetic radiation.

Yeah.

I mean, you can look it up, Jamie, if you want.

Sorry to say that again, but... Tighten that thing down.

That thing's driving me crazy.

Yeah, sorry.

Yeah, but if you look up coil radio with small earpiece, I could be wrong.

I don't remember there being a battery on it.

Yeah, so kind of like a, same thing with like, you know, not the same wattage, but a microwave, right?

Sends power through the air.

Yeah, but I could be wrong.

But at any rate, that was the first time I got a radio and I was hearing things and I'd put it together and I'm listening to things.

Like what kind of things?

HF radio, VHF radio, people talking, that type of stuff.

And it was just, and then I found out how to get an antenna to make the antenna larger and started ordering auxiliary pieces for it.

And then what really changed me was my mother let me get a, my mother and I would clean houses.

She was a waitress, but we also would go around and clean houses.