Chuck

Yeah, I mean, it's called the emergency alert system now.

It used to be the EBS, the emergency broadcast system.

And if you're thinking like, man, I get my Amber Alerts, like all that stuff comes to my phone now.

And this isn't like Gen X are saying like, oh, you're too reliant on your phones, but...

Like if you expect that phone to always work in all cases for the rest of time, you're sorely mistaken because if that system is taken out, then you're going to rely on something like AM radio to get important information out.

You know, I mean, that's why it's still there.

That's why they're, you know, going to the car makers and saying like, hey, like you may not listen to it.

You may think it's old fashioned, but there are still 4000 AM stations and 80 million listeners a month.

that some of them rely on this stuff to get information.

And you can't just say like, well, it seems old timey, so we don't, it interferes with our stuff, so we don't want it anymore.

Yeah, I do kind of have the feeling that there is like a certain scorn toward the nostalgic factor of AM radio.

Yeah.

And that that's part of maybe what's driving it, which really ticks me off because who are car makers to decide whether AM radio sticks around or not?

Congress says, no, we actually have come up with a law called the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act that basically says if you sell a car in the United States, it has to have AM radio as a feature, not even an option.

And a lot of car makers are like, sure, fine.

We're on board with that.

Honda, Hyundai, Jaguar, Kia, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Solantis, Subaru, Toyota all said we're keeping AM radio.

Ford had said they weren't.

And they said, OK, we didn't realize AM radio was so popular.

We're going to keep it, too.