The other listener had bad reception on their wireless due to a weak tube filament. As soon as they take the tube down to the tube tester at Radio Shack they can get the radio up and running and Hugh Horatio Hornblower’s ratings may go back up a little. ;-)
When he gets the new tube he’ll then find, “Crap! That’s not cowboy radio, that’s just some geezer screeching about Trump! “ *click*