History is literally drowning,

History is literally drowning. Bourbon Street will always be there, but that's almost exclusively full of cover bands, and there are a ton of really classic old jazz places that aren't gonna come back.

It literally suffocates inside the armor.

For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.

We have history, because he was my training officer,

This station has so much history to it. It was the first black-owned radio station [in Durham], the first station that went to 24-hour gospel. So many superstars came through this door. Most of the announcers at other stations got their start at WSRC.