From KCRW, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is unfictional.

And you were listening in your car, and maybe you had a few friends over, maybe you were in your house, whatever.

Everyone had nice stereos with big speakers back then because that's what you did, right?

Unfictional is a program of true stories, personal documentaries, and radio movies.

And on this episode, The Man Inside the Radio,

a story about L.A.'s rock radio history and mine.

And this is the final episode of this podcast season.

All of them were conceived and made weeks before we all had to go inside and stay.

But the stories on the season are all about fantasy in one way or another.

It's a dark time and the hope is that these stories will transport you somewhere else for a little while.

It's also the 10th year of Unfictional which began in fall of 2010 as a

radio program and I still think of it as a radio program even though it's a podcast first now.

So on this episode a personal appreciation even though it's a podcast first now.

So on this episode, a personal appreciation of radio

in two parts, it's unfictional, and the man inside the radio. So hi, how you doing? Bob, how are? The man.

So hi, Bob, how are you man?

I'm good.

It's what 35 years?

I know.

You sound like I remember you sounding though.

Yeah, I don't look the same though. I talked to Jim Nelson, veteran radio DJ programmer industry journalist. We've both

worked around radio for a really long time and went to high school in the same era.

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