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Old Guy

What is it about radio that keeps it in our subconscious for so many years after we're off the air?

My last show was in 1994, and my wife's ended five years later. But we both still have stress dreams in which we're scheduled to pull a shift in an unfamiliar studio with absolutely no guidance, using a bizarre selection of music that's totally disorganized.
 
Old Guy said:
What is it about radio that keeps it in our subconscious for so many years after we're off the air?

My last show was in 1994, and my wife's ended five years later. But we both still have stress dreams in which we're scheduled to pull a shift in an unfamiliar studio with absolutely no guidance, using a bizarre selection of music that's totally disorganized.
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I have the same ones. We aren't unique though, my wife's bus driver dreams involve being lost, forgetting a kid or being late.
 
I keep having one where I show up at the station, but all of the music has been changed to completely unfamiliar artists who aren't on the format and there are no carts with the spots to match what's on the log. Shows how old I am that there are carts and turntables in the studio in my nightmares.
 
We print guys have the same sort of dreams, almost all having to do with having too much to do and deadline approaching. As a copy editor, my specific nightmare is one in which I've been having a leisurely, uneventful evening of editing and layout, then suddenly realizing with about five minutes to deadline that I haven't laid out Page 1 yet. Two years into retirement, I still have that dream occasionally and, I suppose, will continue to have it the rest of my life. After all, my nightmares of oversleeping and missing final exams lasted at least 30 years past my graduation from college!
 
I did a Friday overnight show on a mom & pop station on Long Island for a little over 3 years. I loved it. For many years afterwards on Friday nights I would get this (hope I'm using the correct words) anticipating feeling about doing my show that night. Then I realize I don't have a show to do. But what I wouldn't give to go back in time and do my shows again.
And then there's always the dream of being locked out of the studio when the records about to end. I don't remember if the studio door had a lock on it, but the station (which was basically a house) had a front door (which was the only door you really could use) that could only be opened from the inside. There was a handle that you could turn to open it from the inside or you pushed the door bell button, a light would go on in the studio and the DJ would buzz you in. I have never seen the key or knew anyone who had it.
 
Old Guy said:
What is it about radio that keeps it in our subconscious for so many years after we're off the air?

My last show was in 1994, and my wife's ended five years later. But we both still have stress dreams in which we're scheduled to pull a shift in an unfamiliar studio with absolutely no guidance, using a bizarre selection of music that's totally disorganized.
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Same here... and my last show was in 1993. I'm usually back at some variation of the little AM where I started, with the music on all sorts of mostly unplayable media.
 
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