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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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...