Chuck

Yeah.

I mean, top 40 radio started on AM, which is, I mean, I think these days the kids, if they hear of AM radio, probably either don't know what it is or may not, if they have, as we'll see, a newer model car, especially EV, may not even have AM radio.

or a radio in their house, like a transistor radio or something, or receiver.

But they may think AM radio is as like, you know, news talk, sports talk, maybe some foreign language stations, maybe some if they're driving through a rural community, some like weird farm report or something that they've never heard.

I remember that.

And that's kind of what AM radio became.

But it launched top 40.

It was the...

Up until like 1978, it beat FM and FM had been around since what, like the 30s?

Yeah, it had.

And everybody said, nope, we're really happy with AM and stuck with it even after FM came around for quite a while.

But let's talk about this because you hit on some really good points and we're going to touch on all of those.

But let's start at the very, very beginning.

When AM radio really started to come around because people had been messing with AM broadcasting since the very early 1900s.

There were some inventions that all kind of came together around the same time.

And I do not understand how this could possibly happen.

But putting these disparate inventions together and figuring out how to broadcast radio waves that have encoded sound in them is just, I mean, hats off.

That's like mad genius stuff.

But that's what happened in the very early 1900s.

Yeah, there were people broadcasting AM signals at the time.