A version of this was published on my old political website in August 2017. While on a recent trip around Georgia, I let the radio scan for rural AM stations hoping to expose my son to some jewels in the rough. AM radio always seems to add a Depression-era down on your luck flavor to whatever is aired. Maybe it is the underlying static. I was disappointed to find how many AM stations were no longer broadcasting. I am sure that it is all about the money, but when I was my son’s age, there were AM stations that made money from local sponsors by broadcasting local talent. I guess the local talent moved on to American Idol.