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1-30-05
When you have been in a desperately serious fight the way I have for fifty years, you either develop a really weird sense of humor or you go nuts. I get a kick out of laughing at myself.

James Kelso, ever the kind man, told me to back David up in this interview, since it was his first web broadcast, so I thought, “OK, Bob, it’s time to the Elder Statesman.”

The runup to the program was nerve-wracking. Dave had to do his own technical work here. Following James Kelso’s instructions, I jumped in and filled in in Town Hall while David got things straight.

Then I backed him up in the discussion as best I could. It’s HIS program, so I tried to be kind of McMahon to his Johnny Carson.

I was so proud. Pretty soon Ole Dave was leaning back and handling everything like a pro. I decided I must have done a hell of job as the calm Elder Statesman.

Afterwards I was bragging about it, and David just mentioned in passing, in that very kind way people do when Ole Bob is making a fool of himself — again — that he had run a talk show for two years that out-did Rush Limbaugh.

Here I had been trying to be a shepherd to a pro.

A younger man would probably have been embarrassed. I think it was hilarious.

I repeat, in this kind of battle, if you don’t learn to laugh at yourself, you’re dead meat. All that counts is not that I made a great showing, but that David and James asked me to do my part and I did it.

If I get a chance to laugh at myself in the meantime, that’s just a bonus.

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One of the main things a guy my age has to offer is called “institutional memory.” I remember the people and events that came before.

In the case of radio, I have a special mine of institutional memory. What went through my mind as I watched David doing the technical work on his computer to get the broadcast on the Internet brought thoughts to my mind that make me want to share with you the sheer awe of it all.

I have held an amateur radio license for over fifty years. I remember assembling my own little Walter Ashe rig and reaching Ohio with my code (it was all in code for me).

Then I did a little radio broadcast in tiny stations and had to “handle my own board.” I came on, the guy before me went home, and the station was just me for hours. The station might reach across and most people had radios.

In Europe as late as 1970 you could go all across the dial and get maybe two or three radio stations. There was only one BBC, one Austrian Radio, and so forth.

So I sat there, watching David “handle his own board,” and I began to realize that more people today have computers than had radios back then. I used to think in terms of reaching Ohio on my ham radio or the next town in the heavily regulated tiny station I was working at.

I started to think about who could hear David. I could not quite realize that there are simply no limits. My whole experience with radio was limits. But Antartica could hear David clear as a bell.

I kept saying to myself, “Bob, there are no limits here.”

If you could put yourself in my place, you would realize that this concept has STILL not really sunken in.
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