Chuck

I'm, by the way, a little mad at you because ever since you sent me the Marconi tidbit this morning, I cannot get We Built This City on Rock and Roll out of my head.

How?

Why?

That's odd.

Marconi played the mamba.

Listen to the radio.

I gotcha.

Yeah.

I mean, I hate that song so much, and I can't get it out of my head, all because I just saw the word Marconi typed in an email.

I always thought, seriously, it was some gibberish I had in my head.

I knew it wasn't right, but it was like, and on the lay says La Bamba, something like that.

I had no idea Marconi was name-checked, but that's appropriate.

Yeah, I'm not really mad at you, but, boy, that thing really gets rooted in your head pretty well.

But, like you said, by the early 1920s, everybody was on board.

In 1922, in fact, AT&T had the first radio network built when they linked 38 radio stations by phone lines and could broadcast, you know, WEAF out of New York all around the country.

So, like, people...

It was literally, like you said, like the internet.

It was American life before and life after, as far as AM radio goes.

Well put.

And not just American life, too.