Chuck

Like that was what the government was getting involved in radio for.

Yeah.

Maybe, perhaps, if we would have been around at the time, it might have been stuff you should know.

Oh, I could see that.

Yeah?

I could see that.

Yeah, we would have been great for AM radio, I think.

As a matter of fact, we should probably just stop podcasting and start broadcasting on AM radio.

Yeah.

We've got to get the message of jackhammers out far and wide.

That's right.

You know, the Fairness Doctrine went away.

And, you know, like you said, we should do a whole episode on that.

But one of the things that happened was, you know, the FM becoming a dominant force and just way more choices and way more bandwidth for radio.

So they didn't need it anymore.

Right.

So then, you know, that's where that's really literally where the echo chamber of politics started, where you could turn into just your person who only talked about things that you agreed with.

Yep.

And that's it.

Yeah, not coincidentally, 1980s is when talk radio, like, really started to become a thing with, like, people like Rush Limbaugh.