{"id":13352,"date":"2020-03-23T18:05:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T01:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13352"},"modified":"2020-03-23T18:26:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T01:26:50","slug":"calls-from-the-coronaverse-bradcast-3232020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13352","title":{"rendered":"Calls From the Coronaverse: ‘BradCast’ 3\/23\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a glitchy start with a skeleton crew at KFPK<\/a> in Los Angeles, today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a> was a reminder, for me at least, of why radio over our public airwaves is so essential, especially now. [Audio link to show is posted below.<\/i>]\n

After a few news headlines on the latest from our horrifying global pandemic — more state Governors<\/a>, thankfully, issuing “stay-at-home” orders; more coronavirus cases and deaths<\/a> in the U.S. and around the world; more screwups from our imbecilic President regarding his “great friends” in Congress who have now contracted COVID-19; more fights in Congress about a $1.8 trillion relief package meant to save the economy and the American people (or, if left to the Republicans, to save Donald Trump and their favored companies, unless Dems continue to hold strong and not fall for another bailout con); and my own<\/i> suggested Bipartisan Stimulus Relief Plan<\/a> (the one that should be adopted immediately) — we open the phones to callers who have been enduring “stay-at-home” orders now for days in California, as well as elsewhere around the country.<\/p>\n

I thought today would be a good moment to touch base with folks to see how everyone is doing, how they are holding up in these circumstances. Right now, radio and radio stations are considered an essential service as part of our federal Critical Communications Infrastructure (a designation we take seriously.) So we hope to stay on the air as long as possible, with as much live radio as we can.<\/p>\n

Today’s callers help underscore why I believe that’s so important. Among the many great calls today:<\/p>\n