Boys Will Be Boys

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March 10, 2021

Well that was pretty weird.  Posting on The Choice podcast. In the area where you’re supposed to jot down a thought or two about what the episode is about.  I chose to say, “When you think you're alone is the moment you realize you still have yourself...”  Drop the microphone. Walk off the stage.  Yeah not gonna happen.  When you think you're alone is the moment you realize you still have yourself... How is this going to relate with the subject selected? I mean, the goal today was to talk about meeting up with coworkers you’ve not seen in weeks, months and years. For some reason the only thing you think about is how tall they are.  I hadn’t seen this guy in five years!  I think I’ve shrunk.  Is that what the Covid pandemic has done to us?  We spend so much time on our remote computers that our bodies are melting away.  We talked about radio.  That’s what broadcasters do.  We both agreed that it wouldn’t be the same.  What we experienced in our several years together were gone because the way of the corporate world is still the greatest uncertainty.  And this isn’t to serve as an invitation for those still in terrestrial radio, “Oh man you’ve got it wrong.  In our station we still have. We do this.” I’m praying for you.  Anyone still on the tower needs to be extremely grateful for what they have because the big change hasn’t caught up to them yet.  When you think you're alone is the moment you realize you still have yourself...  Not even two hours after seeing the coworker for the first time in five years I received a text from a broadcasting student, “Hey man can you write me a reference?”  When you think you're alone is the moment you realize you still have yourself...  Talk about being stuck in the center of two different storms!  It’s never going to be the way it used to be versus I’ll do anything to get in the front door.  Sadly this is the side of the industry that listeners never get to experience.  The creative act of being torn.  Selecting the right words becomes the layered journey.  It wasn’t sitting well within my cause and effect.  So, I took it to the people on the frontline.  You!  The real people with real laughs, real jobs, real families, real concerns, fears, doubts and victories.  You!  I started asking those moving through the areas how their businesses were handling the big change.  All but one said, “It’s never going to be the same.” When you think you're alone is the moment you realize you still have yourself... We can’t stop being us.  The job will do what jobs do.  But we can’t stop being us. Even if it’s six feet apart wearing a mask.  When I hear the stories of regular people coming to the grocery store just to be with people it gets deep into my heart.  No business on this planet can survive without creativity. You can’t put your mind body and soul in a remote location and change the world.  When you think you're alone is the moment you realize you still have yourself...  No!  We need each other.  You aren’t shorter than what you used to be.  Grow forward and outward.