I was listening to an interesting interview with veteran actor Pat O'Brien the other day and he mentioned he was writing a book. He does not aspire to any great literary career, but said in writing his book he was reminded of "the good old days when making pictures was fun." He went on to say that it was not fun anymore. Often when we radio people get together, we talk about the days when radio was fun. It's really not the same anymore. I imagine many of you out there are finding the same thing, regardless of what you do for a living. It used to be fun. Now it's just serious business with very few laughs thrown in. Well, where has the fun gone? Most of us are making a great deal more money than we did when we were having all the fun. The mortgage doesn't present a problem. We eat well, have a pretty good wardrobe, belong to this club or that, drive a much better car than we used to, and yet we long for the days when life was more fun. I think part of it is that we have all become so blessed professional. I know that is true in our business. We research everything right into the ground. We are a society that is concerned not with "how good” but "how much and how many." There was a time when we acknowledge that the other guy had to make a living too but today competition has decreed that only the biggest and the best shall inherit the earth, and some good places, some good products, some good people have gone down the drain. It's a little sad isn't it? Maybe that is why we don't laugh as much as we used to. Maybe that is why the fun has disappeared. I think possibly we are all a little sad because every day in someway or other each of us contribute a little something that makes this less and less a "people to people" world.
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