The Station Cut Overnight Staff
Memo cut overnight staff in half. More automation. Fewer humans at the worst hours. I told my boss two listeners is a community. He said metrics. I said soul...
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Tracy Dunn
Two Listeners and a Truck Driver at 3 AM
Overnight show. Two listeners steady. A truck driver called about loneliness. We talked until he reached his exit. Radio is intimacy without faces. Lonelines...
A Listener Called to Say Goodbye
I got a call on the overnight show from a man who said he was driving nowhere and wanted to hear a voice. We talked forty minutes. I gave him the crisis line...
Carol Knows My Order
A truck stop outside Amarillo and a counter woman named Carol reveal what we get wrong about transient connection and emotional consistency.
Two Listeners Is Enough
A trucker's two-listener podcast challenges our obsession with scale. When cousin Raymond said it made him feel less alone, that was enough.
You Cannot Outrun Your Thoughts at 65 MPH
A long-haul drive through Nebraska becomes a meditation on solitude, introspection, and why we can't outrun our own thoughts no matter how fast we drive.