I love radio, especially talk radio! Stories and talks, or information that gets
me interacting with it, the mythical radio spirit! It’s a personal passion and great learning
tool. So a current great gift with my
new plug in Prius is its Serius radio.
A
twirl of the radio knob there it is! A whole channel for old radio dramas.
Today’s show is from 1948, a short episode with Batman and Robin in a jail cell
because of an evil Mr. Jones. Good old
Clark Kent, Superman’s cover, was in the neighbourhood at Planet Radio. Knowing his friends were in trouble, his station
sent out an SOS.
Technology at the helm, they had found a threatening call by
the illustrious Mr. Jones, duplicated it and aired it widely. A $10,000.00
reward was offered for anyone who could identify his voice. Lo and behold a senior gentleman showed up at
Planet Radio. Before he would talk he
wanted to actually hold the money. Only
then, he revealed that he knew it as the voice of a “rabble rouser”, a big
mouth who couldn’t tolerate foreigners and was asking for money from anyone for
his cause - to stop the bleeding of US funds to poverty stricken Europe. Chuckling, my mind fast forwarded to a
certain Presidential hopeful of dubious character. “Rabble
rousing” they said was always done by selfish narcissists…are those two nouns
redundant?
Personally I am often
relieved at the growing number of rabble rousing or awakening voices throughout
the US and other countries, hollering about the rabid destruction of our middle
class, beloved mother earth and quality of life for many on our planet.
Again I chuckled. The
themes we experience these days are the same.
Streaks of humanity, protecting its status against change. Batman and Robin were saved in collaboration with
Superman, and they all melted the walls round their stardom for humanity’s
greater good!