Listening to the radio, still?

Nathan

Nathan

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I used to listen to the radio a lot, from pre-teen to growing up into adulthood. Music mostly, either while driving or sitting outside in the evening with a beer(and a cigarette). Listened to talk radio as well- favorite program was Leo Laporte's The Tech Guy, now a podcast called This week in Tech. But, life changed...around the early 2000s I started to find listening to the radio while driving distracting, and actually annoying. Silence while driving is just fine, and probably safer also.
Then I quit drinking beer, and a few years later quit smoking, and as quitting one habit leads to quitting another- I just quit listening to the radio as well.
These days, if I want to listen to music there's Youtube. For intellectual fulfillment- Google specific topics for reading.
 

Used to listen all the time. In the car except when driving somewhere that was unfamiliar or when parallel parking because, yanno, needed silence to pay attention. Used to have always have it on in the house. Now? Keep the TV on for company.

Out on the teeny, tiny patio, though, I have an HD radio. If I'm outside, it's on NPR news or on a different frequency for classical music.

If I were still driving, I'd probably have it on.
 
Nathan said:
I used to listen to the radio a lot, from pre-teen to growing up into adulthood. Music mostly, either while driving or sitting outside in the evening with a beer(and a cigarette). Listened to talk radio as well- favorite program was Leo Laporte's The Tech Guy, now a podcast called This week in Tech. But, life changed...around the early 2000s I started to find listening to the radio while driving distracting, and actually annoying. Silence while driving is just fine, and probably safer also.
Then I quit drinking beer, and a few years later quit smoking, and as quitting one habit leads to quitting another- I just quit listening to the radio as well.
These days, if I want to listen to music there's Youtube. For intellectual fulfillment- Google specific topics for reading.
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I always listen to the radio in the car... if I don't have the radio on, I can't concentrate lol.... I also sometimes listen to it through Alexa....in the house....

When DD was growing up the radio was always in the house, not the TV... but after she left home, I stopped listening to the radio for some reason indoors... every day... but I definitely like to listen in the car because it's music & Chat..unlike youtube where it's just music...
 

astralcat said:
Same. I always have the radio on in the car - I had to change stations recently - the station I always listen to started playing Christmas music in November - nope. not gonna listen. I keep the radio on very softly.
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lol...I did the very same thing..... :ROFLMAO: I changed from my usual Radio 2 channel..over to a different channel I never usully listen to... because of that exact reason.... ...I do not wish to listen to the song ''I wish it could be Christmas every day''... every day for 6 weeks ...
 
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I'm always listening to the radio in the car when I'm by myself. Hubby doesn't like listening to it in the car unless we are traveling somewhere.

If I want to get work done inside the house (TV on = nothing done), I turn on the radio like the one below. I sold my cassette tapes years ago at a sale & now I wish I would have kept them. I'll still pull out CDs & a few records from time to time. In the basement, I have my little radio/CD player that I used in my office at work.

Outside, I have our Milwaukee radio & I'll plug in my I-Pod to play.

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The first thing I used to do when I'd come home was turn on the radio, and I'd always have the radio on in the car. At some point, commercials got to be so incessant, listening to the radio became intolerable, which was when I quit listening. I'd rather have quiet than have to listen to all those commercials. I never did get XM or Sirius radio, which I guess would have solved that problem. I just didn't feel the urge since there wasn't very much good contemporary music to listen to.

I watch a lot of YouTube videos, and they're now being overloaded with commercials. You have to get YouTube premium in order to get commercial free viewing. YouTube made almost $8 billion in profits last year; that was after they paid all the content providers and other operating expenses. Their parent company, Alphabet, made over $100 billion in profits.

It seemed like radio and entertainment in general was much better before it started to exist only for profit.
 
Oldeagle66 said:
I used to be a big AM talk radio guy during the day and CBS Mystery Theater and Art Bell at night. I just fell off and haven't listened to the radio in years now. My clock radio stopped working except for the time and I don't even care.
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I would listen to Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell or George Noory at around midnight, while driving home from work after swing-shift(4pm-midnight). He had a lot of interesting guests, some experts or important people from the paranormal and government UFO fields.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
I'd just as soon have silence in the car to minimize distractions, but sometimes I put on the radio during a long monotonous drive to just any station playing tolerable music.
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I'm with you on that! My big thing is that I want to be able to hear emergency vehicles if they are in the area. Sometimes I'll sing to myself while driving down the road but I can still hear what's going on around me.
 
same here! Who was the guy with the money advise? I listened to all of them. The people that called in were also very "interesting."😁
 
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