Chuck

Is that what he sounds like?

Yeah.

It wasn't around during Lincoln because everyone had been like, really?

But, yeah, you know, there was definitely public good.

And we'll dive into that a little bit, along with tons of entertainment.

And, you know, it was basically like 15 minute chunks for a long, long time of.

All over the map, variety style stuff, kind of reminiscent of vaudeville, like there were hosts of shows, but the DJ thing didn't come along till much later.

So you had like advice shows and news shows and obviously comedy stuff, game shows, you know, radio dramas were a big, big deal.

Yeah, that's where soap operas came from, too.

They were broadcast almost exclusively with women as their target audience.

And at the time, this is just post-World War I, where women had helped the war effort in the factories.

The men came back and they were like, get back in the house.

And women were stuck in the house all day, so these radio dramas were broadcast to them, and they were almost exclusively sponsored by cleaning product companies.

That's right.

So they became known as soap operas.

And one of the longer-lasting soap operas of all time actually made the jump successfully from radio to TV.

Which one?

Guiding Light.

No way.

Yeah, it started in 1937 on the radio and was finally canceled in 2009 on TV.