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We have the honor and pleasure of Finn O'Sullivan here at KGNU.

Finn recently released an EP and is performing live on the Morning Sound Alternative.

What is this next song, your last song, that you're going to play today for the KGNU listeners?

Yeah, this one is called “Someone in Texas.” Great.

Here we go.

You gotta brand new tattoo on your shoulder.

Bite me it says.

You would if you were bolder.

Someone in Texas loves you.

He wants to marry you.

A lot of other stations, they only play classic rock.

They only play indie music.

They only play like top 40 hits.

What we offer is human curation.

We want to lift independent voices, local musicians, people who haven't had a platform before.

We want to play their music on our station.

I think there's some freedom here that probably is not.

For example, at a lot of commercial broadcasters.

When we put mayhem on our newscast, that seems to attract more people.

You know, we're not we're not making decisions like that.

We're making decisions based on a mission to, to serve the community with local voices.

And particularly in KGNUs mission, unheard voices So 15.5% of our budget comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

With the fiscal year that starts in October 1st, that's going to go away for this station.

It's $155,000.

It touches a lot of different parts of our programing, and there's a lot of conversations.

We're having a staff now trying to figure out how to make up the funds and really stay strong as a community station.

Most of the voices you hear on the air are volunteers.

Oh my gosh, those were beautiful.

That's what makes us really special.

Is that we are able to highlight so many different perspectives and voices through our airwaves, and give people the opportunity to learn how to be a Radio DJ (303)442-4242 call me now.

Can't wait to talk to our winners.

Okay, bye.

I'm worried for all the small stations that took these big funding hits.

If we believe that one definition of democracy is a multiplicity of voices, we have to stand up for the independent news outlets that are bringing us those voices.