[Kzyxtalk] The Susquehanna Hat Company routine.

[Marco McClean]

The Susquehanna Hat Company routine.


"We are all stardust." Neil deGrasse Tyson points at me. "Except /you/." 
Startled, I drop my beer can, it rolls to the front of the auditorium. 
–Vineyille


The recording of last night's (2016-10-14) KNYO (and, three hours in, 
also KMEC) Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show ready to download and 
enjoy, via http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com


Or, thanks to web maestro Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost, you can now 
get it this other way, which has the advantage of an 
instant-gratification play button: 
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/podcasts/memo-of-the-air/


A pretty good show. Lots of nuanced information, as usual. I gave about 
three minutes of this seven-hour show to a bit about why supporting tiny 
KNYO (the Little Lion in Fort Bragg) with your radio dollars makes a lot 
more sense than throwing good money after bad into the dishonest opaque 
spendthrift tax-supported-anyway management of, say, KZYX. That's just 
after midnight, three hours in. Or you can just go to http://knyo.org 
and scroll down to the big red heart that says DONATE NOW. Every penny 
you put into KNYO goes to keep it on the air and make the station 
better. Every fricking penny. In contrast, KZYX pays half a dozen office 
drones a quarter of a million dollars per year to sit on their thumbs in 
the office and /they/ keep all the money for themselves and don't even 
pay the airpeople to do their shows. When a radio station is at bottom a 
transmitter and a microphone and a piffling amount of electricity and 
basically the only thing you have to do to keep it and the great shows 
on the air is avoid stumbling drunkenly into the transmitter shack and 
tripping over the plug, you'd think that a radio station that blows 
through an astounding $600,000 a year would be able to /pay/ the 
hard-working talented providers of what the station's there for in the 
first place, wouldn't you.


KNYO needs about $1,000 a month, total, for rent on the storefront 
performance space and fees and electricity and city water, and that's 
it. Only a hundred helpers at ten dollars each. That's not much, but it 
needs it. A few more people beyond that and it can have a new microphone 
or a new mixing board or a backup power system, or better portable 
equipment, all reasonable goals. Thank you so much for helping. You're a 
wonderful person. How wonderful life is while you're in the world.


Speaking of keeping us on the air, at my weblog there's a full 
explanation, with a three-color scientific graph and everything, of a 
handful of dropouts that occurred in getting the show through the web to 
the radio transmitter this time. The recordings of my shows, always 
being made where I sit and read aloud, are seamless and not annoying at 
all, at least not because of sound quality.


If you want to do a radio show of your own, or you want to set up a 
regular KNYO underwriting schedule prominently related to your business 
or service, email Bob Young bobb at poetworld.net and say so, and you'll be 
on the air, or swimmingly underwriting, or both, before you can say 
Susquehanna Hat Company. It's easy and fun.


Besides all that, at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find 
literally thousands of links to not necessarily radio-useful but 
worthwhile things to see and do and learn about, rainy day or shiny day, 
such as:


The over-commercialization of Halloween is a crying shame. They don’t 
even sing the old songs anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0McggLIYmnE


Emotional movie moments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GMQ0F_YUCs


Eruptions, earthquakes and emissions.
http://volcano.si.axismaps.io/


And marvel at how heavy metal played without the guitar distortion 
reveals it to be simplistic noodly surf music. I like the expression on 
the guy's face. He's like /What/.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVqqWUyDPzA and 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_O3TnfpN1E


--

Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com