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 Truly sad (I think)

https://www.kusc.org/

KUSC classical radio station has a stream where they play the top 250 classical music pieces over and over again all year long Non-Stop. Each year people send in their votes and they pick the top 250 pieces and they play them over and over and over. 365 days. They're without ads although they do occasionally say kusc I think. But it's as close as you're going to get to just hearing straight classical music with almost no talk. Now what was truly sad was that after I had listened for several months they finally started doing a little startup ad when you click play. They would say hey this stuff cost money why don't you help us out. Well hey that just ruined it for me. So I quit listening. After listening weeks and weeks and off and on for months I just went cold turkey. No more kusc, no more Beethoven, no more Tchaikovsky, no more Bach. It was tough but a man's got to be a man.

So here is my next incredible part of this rant. I love billionaires. I'm glad we live on a planet where people are able to amass wealth and enjoy it. I want them to spend it however they want to spend it. If they want the billion dollar yacht what the hell get to. If they want a 747 jet, go ahead and have one waiting and every major international airport around the world. You're never going to miss the money anyway. You'll buy all that stuff and next year you'll be richer. You got 50 billion dollars this year, you buy 10 billion dollar yachts and next year you're worth $60 billion. How does that work? Spend 10 billion and end up up 20 billion. I don't know, I never was good at math anyway. These guys have money. And some of them say I'm going to give half my wealth to charity. So because of the feature that I mentioned above how the more they spend the more they get, generally they will set some sort of amount that they're going to give away. So let's say they have $100 billion and they say I'm going to give 50 billion away over the next 10 years. So at the end of 10 years they've given 50 billion dollars away and now they're worth $200 billion dollars. That's just the way being a billionaire works. Now if you give it all away then I don't think it's going to work. Maybe but I think if you give it all away then you don't have anything. I can relate to that because that's the way my life works and when I wake up on January 1 I don't suddenly have a hundred billion dollars in the bank when yesterday I had nothing. But maybe being a billionaire is different. Maybe it doesn't matter what you do once a billionaire always a billionaire. Anyway enough of that nonsense the point is there doesn't appear to be a single billionaire on this entire planet that would love to give enough money for the entire planet to listen to the top 250 classical music pieces year-round non-stop with no ads or human talking of any kind so that the whole planet could listen to this for free. Streaming over the internet for anyone to hit the URL click on play and start listening to the greatest classical music that's ever been written. With no talking no ads no please for money no begging no nothing just music. If even one of these guys gave a tiny percentage of their total wealth the whole world would have free classical music for the next 50 years. But we can't find one person to do that. We can save baby seals, even though polar bears eat them like they're going out of season. We can save the whales. We can count the number of penguins in every penguin colony on the planet. But we can't give 7 billion people free classical music. Music to free their soul music that screams out listen to me this stuff came right out of the throne room of God, well at least some of it. No we just can't come up with an extra 10 or 20 billion dollars a year to do that. We need to fight viruses we need to have rapid response teams flying around the world and helicopters we need to have satellite system circling the globe and fleets of thousands. Free music that's just beyond us. Free classical music, who wants that?

What else is really extra sad, from what I can tell kusc is the only radio station on the planet, dare I say it, in heaven or on Earth, that even comes close to trying to provide free classical music without blabbering at you constantly without begging constantly without constantly interrupting and turning up and down the volume and fading in and out songs trying to get you to send in another buck. So my hat's off to them, but I'm just not going to listen to the ads.