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man the main feeling i feel right now other than drunk is depressed. im not gonna reach my goal. im not even going to come close. ive come to realize that there just arent enough people in this town who care about the blues and this staiton to really keep it going. maybe ipicked the wrong genre or something i dont know

and you know what really pisses me off? theres another low power station in this town that is pure evil and it gets to survive. the owner uses his station to beat restaurants into giving them free food because theyre nonprofit. he uses his nonprofit status as a cudgel to beat everyone over the head so he doesnt pay for anything and it makes me sick because for some reason it works.
so then when another nonprofit radio station calls (me), the people i call are just sick of non profit radio stations and want nothing to do with us. this guy breaks the law, no one cares. everyone he does business with they hate him HATE him. still, he carries on. and me who is trying to do something good cant make it because i cant convince anyone to donate 5 dollars. FIVE DOLLARS. yet board games asking for 10 grand can get 2 MILLION.

im in the wrong business or something. why torture myself any further? i'm goinjg to take a nap.

EDIT or maybe i'm depressed because i've been listening to the blues for 36 hours straight LOLOLOL

Sorry I'm a bit behind on questions! I got sidetracked by a very business-savvy african american gentlmen who goes by the name of silky ray, and I swear I am NOT joking. This man is an encyclopedia of blues history... I can't tear myself away LOL

Thanks man. That's really cool re: the engine project.

And yeah, I hear ya! I've been told the blues are apparently really huge in Europe and like Finland, Norway, etc. right now. Major American bands have been heading over there and playing to sold out crowds. I need to move over there, I guess, and run a scene straight out of Lillyhammer (Steve VanZandt series on Netflix). ;)

Overwhelming!!

Well, and I don't mean this as a put down in the slightest, but it's a local community thing. And I get it. If you're not interested in the neighborhood or city unity or community identity and that stuff, then yeah, you're not going to care about a local radio station.

Local limited radio is WAY easier to promote and build than an online podcast or playlist. Trust me. From someone who has done dozens of episodes of podcasts to audiences of 20 people at most, when you have something on a radio dial, you are reaching regular, everyday people.