{"id":858,"date":"2018-09-06T01:27:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T08:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trixie.com\/tunein\/?p=858"},"modified":"2022-09-14T14:12:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T21:12:27","slug":"middle-of-the-night-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trixie.com\/tv\/middle-of-the-night-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle of the Night Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=\"1\" _builder_version=\"4.18.0\" background_color=\"RGBA(255,255,255,0)\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_row _builder_version=\"4.16\" background_size=\"initial\" background_position=\"top_left\" background_repeat=\"repeat\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\" _builder_version=\"4.16\" custom_padding=\"|||\" global_colors_info=\"{}\" custom_padding__hover=\"|||\"][et_pb_post_title comments=\"off\" _builder_version=\"4.18.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" title_font=\"|800|||||||\" title_text_align=\"center\" title_font_size=\"49px\" meta_text_align=\"center\" text_orientation=\"center\" title_text_shadow_style=\"preset1\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][\/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.18.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>When I was young, we had a radio at home in the eighties very similar to this one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=\"4.18.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" hover_enabled=\"0\" sticky_enabled=\"0\" color=\"#0C71C3\"][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.16\" background_size=\"initial\" background_position=\"top_left\" background_repeat=\"repeat\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"]<\/p>\n<p>I've always been a night person. I love being awake when everyone else is asleep.<\/p>\n<p>I don't need a lot of interaction with people, but when I was a tween and young adult I would sometimes turn on the radio in the middle of the night ... and just want the DJ to say something. Definitely not morning-DJ stuff. Just a very not-morning-dj few words that sounded real and like they were alone sorta nearby in Seattle locked in a dim glassy cell (like I saw on WKRP in Cincinnati?) with a whole bunch of records to choose from (my fantasy). Sleepy-voice. Just announce the station and their name. This is so-and-so and you're listening to blah blah balh. 101.5. Something small -- a tiny connection to some other person awake and alone at the same time, listening to the same music.<\/p>\n<p>When I'd wait through song after automated-song without hearing a live voice, I'd feel more and more alone. But on the nights when they DID say something -- even just a handful of words -- if I could tell there was a real person saying it in a box in a darkened building 25 miles away I felt immense relief and companionship. Knowing that one other person was awake with me, playing music. Nothing more was required or desired.<\/p>\n<p>I want to give that to other people - a breath of intimate weirdo connection when you're awake, alone, and\/or feeling different from almost everybody else. It's part of why we broadcast 24\/7 live voyeur cams for a decade.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tM34A80RTv4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I hope everyone has a moment alone under a starry sky when some kind of fragile truly-piloted airplane sails out of the darkness straight to you.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love being awake when everyone else is asleep. I don&#8217;t need a lot of interaction with people, but when I was a tween and young adult I would sometimes turn on the radio in the middle of the night &#8230; and just want the DJ to say something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"I've always been a night person. I love being awake when everyone else is asleep. I don't need a lot of interaction with people, but when I was a tween and young adult I would sometimes turn on the radio in the middle of the night ... and just want the DJ to say something. Definitely not morning-DJ stuff. Just a very not-morning-dj few words that sounded real and like they were alone sorta nearby in Seattle locked in a dim glassy cell (like I saw on WKRP in Cincinnati?) with a whole bunch of records to choose from (my fantasy). Sleepy-voice. Just announce the station and their name. This is so-and-so and you're listening to blah blah balh. 101.5. Something small -- a tiny connection to some other person awake and alone at the same time, listening to the same music.\n\nWhen I'd wait through song after automated-song without hearing a live voice, I'd feel more and more alone. But on the nights when they DID say something -- even just a handful of words -- if I could tell there was a real person saying it in a box in a darkened building 25 miles away I felt immense relief and companionship. Knowing that one other person was awake with me, playing music. Nothing more was required or desired.\n\nI want to give that to other people - a breath of intimate weirdo connection when you're awake, alone, and\/or feeling different from almost everybody else. It's part of why we broadcast 24\/7 live voyeur cams for a decade.\n\n&nbsp;\n<center><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tM34A80RTv4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/center>\n\nI hope everyone has a moment alone under a starry sky when some kind of fragile truly-piloted airplane sails out of the darkness straight to you.","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trixie.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trixie.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trixie.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trixie.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trixie.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/trixie.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/trixie.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trixie.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trixie.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trixie.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trixie.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}