Tune in to Yale radio

"Yale Radio, 1340-AM, WYBC, New Haven. You're listening to Bedtime for Bonzo. I'm Bonzo—I mean, Sam—I mean, your host for the evening. You just heard Sun Ra's `Space is the Place.' Tonight's theme is geographical locations, and if space isn't part of our cosmic geography, I don't know what is. Only problem is, I'm plumb out of geo-graphy records, so I think I'll go a little more conceptual. Next up is the Stooges' `Down on the Street.' `The Street' is a geographical location—right? Well, just pretend it is..."

There I go, quoting myself again. Maybe I just like the sound of my own voice. Maybe that's why I have a radio show. And maybe that's why you should have a radio show too. Just think: two hours of you, transmuted into a waveform on people's radios, and in people's ears. People will like you; I've gotten calls from "Dave the lonely grad student," the frisbee team, and my friend Dan, demanding that I play a 15-minute-long song by Yes. For the egoist in you that wants to get out, go Yale radio. Go WYBC.

Of course, there's that little thing I like to call "music." That's important too. I'm co-music director of WYBC-AM, and we get music, lemme tell you, and, oh my, is it stellar! Why, just yesterday I threw out two novelty records and the Squirrel Nut Zippers' Christmas album (all right, three novelty records) because we had to make room for Quality. We get buckets of music, and at least dipperfuls of Quality.

Genres too, we got 'em aplenty: rock, hip-hop, techno...And sub-micro-genres: spazz-core, nerd-o-funk, prog punk, psychedelic spoken-word, pop obscurantism. And you can play it, this big ole heap o' records, this variegated clump o' freeform. Go WYBC.

For you high-powered types, not to worry. WYBC-AM is high-powered as well, with 1000 watts of radio power, and 28.8K of Internet power at www.wybc.com. And for you even higher-powered types, we have an FM station too, 94.3. It plays hip-hop and R&B, and is the highest-rated station in New Haven. You can rule the world from a cozy booth in Hendrie Hall or destroy it like Orson Welles on "War of the Worlds"—you have the power, the high power. Go WYBC.

To summarize: your ego, your music, your high power—your transglobal hegemonic monoculture. All this after a few hours of training. Where else? Go WYBC.

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