Happy April Fools Day or the first anniversary of this program.
I chose to start the show on this day last year because in some ways I'm a fool and I knew this would not be easy.
The team I work with at USA Today worked for damn near a decade to reach millions of people via podcast.
So how do you reach a million listeners?
Very slowly and all at once.
Honestly, I don't know.
As I write these notes day after day after day, I often wonder what exactly I'm doing here and are there better things to do with my time.
And yes, maybe there are but as my mother once told me ‘Your hard head won't have it any other way.”
As for what I'm doing here the phrase I landed on is radio like it used to be or maybe media like it used to be.
People like Bill Moyers, Andy Rooney, Bill O'Reilly, Charles Osgood, Dave Ross, John Stossel, and many other TV, radio, and newspaper essayists make me want to do this.
And yes, I know my politics are all over the place.
With hopefully decades of work left for me in a world of media, feeling smaller and somehow infinite, why not try to be the change you want to see? Or hear?
Because I know no one is going to give this to me and no one is coming to save me.
Thank you for the thousands of you who have shared this journey with me so far as I evolve this space. It will evolve further. Thank you for the support, the shares, the likes, the calls, the comments.
I'm grateful for it all.
On that note, I'm James Brown and as always be well.
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These are some of my favorite commentaries from last year:
Hug 'em if you got 'em
The last few weeks have been unlike any other for me. The visor above my steering wheel says it all. It’s packed with these little cards that I’ve been using to get in and get out of a hospital halfway across town day after day after day. Through a comedy of errors and bad choices and maybe bad luck, health issues that seemed like passing showers for my…
Broke
On this Monday, I find myself floored by a spate of recent reports about the economy in people around my age. One from CNN stood out. It's called, an affordability crisis is making some young Americans give up on ever owning a home. The first subheading says, surviving is the priority, not saving for a down payment or even having kids.
I'll be there for you - REUPLOAD
At a recent Charlie Perth show in Melbourne, Australia, the singer led a melancholy crowd as they sang the theme song from Friends. This, of course, is because of the death of Matthew Perry a few weeks back. As regular listeners know, I have a fondness for sitcoms.
Don't forget to take photos
Stop. Breathe. Watch the sunrise. And don't forget to take photos. Turn off the news. Make mistakes. Drive an hour or two or three more if you can or have to. Spend too much on a hotel or Airbnb. Bring a loved one to share it with. Remember to kiss her. Remember to rest. Remember to slow d…
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