On TV people can see it. On radio you've got to create it.
~Bob Uecker
We're still in the last stages of winter, though you wouldn't know it if you looked out my window. In Flyover Country, temps will be within touching distance of 70 Friday (or yesterday, as you read this), and then maybe snow Sunday. It's no wonder my sinuses are plotting a revolution. We’ll cross that bridge when we get there. As I type this, the Brewers are on and leading, so things are looking up.
You have to find the silver linings where you can.
As big of a fan as I am of the TV reporting by the likes of Bill "Rock" Schroeder and Sophia Minnaert, it's not the same as listening to the radio, and here I am once again lamenting the loss of Bob Uecker. There is something about radio that hits different.
It's deeper. It matters. It's a huge part of the mythos of being American. It's a huge part of being human.
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