"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 8/18 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 8/18/13 | Ed Walker

[Vision]

Friends, it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana.

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[Vision]

The Big Broadcast is a Sunday night tradition for families throughout the WAMU listening area. Each week, Big Broadcast host Ed Walker offers listeners priceless recordings of popular radio programs from the '30s, '40s and '50s. Priceless, especially, for a man whose first sentence as a child was, 'Turn the radio on.'

[Vision]

Happy Sunday Night...Classic Radio Time...

[Vision]

Evening all, how was the week? I bought a scooter and am pumped!

Baby Snooks, Dark Fantasy, and Quiet Please? What a lineup of new shows...

[Vision]

• 07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
  03/28-29/56 Lamar Matter Pts. 3-4 (Sus.) (CBS) (27:18)
• 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
  10/11/51 #122 Big Shoplift (NBC) (27:24)
• 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
  11/13/54 #135 Wrong Man (CBS) (25:28)
• 08:30 p.m. Lone Ranger
  12/18/42 #1546/759 Rope's End (Regional Sponsors) (MBS) (26:34)
• 09:00 p.m. Baby Snooks
  05/01/51 Report Card Blues (Tums) (NBC) (29:28)
• 09:30 p.m. Gangbusters
  04/04/41 #233 Case of the Missing Corpse (Sloans) (NBC) (28:39)
• 10:00 p.m. Dark Fantasy
  01/20/42 Death is a Savage Diety (NBC) (23:53)
• 10:30 p.m. Quiet Please
  02/16/48 #37 Whence Came You? (Sus.) (MBS) (25:59)

[WXRGina]

Hi, Vision! Again, I haven’t done the synopsis list!

We got flooded today. We got over 6 inches. Wowzer!

What did you get a scooter for? Fun or serious transport? What kind is it?

[Vision]

6” of rain? Is that a record? Was anything damaged?

It's a 2010 kymco agility 125. Just for fun around the neighborhood. A slightly bigger engine which requires a motorcycle license.

Besides the flood everything else is good?

[WXRGina]

Hey, yes, all is well. I don’t know that it is a record. We sometimes get monsoony rains here (is that a word?) This was part of the low pressure system that was down in the lower southwestern Gulf this week that didn’t turn into a tropical storm. The rain moved through, and now the sun is out for sunset.

Cool! You got a scooter get-around! That’ll be fun. Just be careful of others, as you know.

[Vision]

Ugh. This Baby Snooks is terrible.

[logitech]

Baby Snooks is bad. I do like the Lone Ranger for a regular weekly.

[WXRGina]

Gads! I got a call from a friend in one of our local TEA Parties and have been on the phone for the last forty minutes. I missed Baby Snooks so far.

[Vision]

For when you need to kill pain.

[Vision]

Gina, I’m heading to the radio to listen. Talk to you later. Night.

[WXRGina]

Keith checked in with a comment to you for the first time in a long time, Vision. As you may remember, Logitech is my husband.

Good night, Vision.

[Viking2002]

Evening, folks, just popped in out of the rain to warm my bones by the tubes.......

[WXRGina]

Hi, Viking! You must be getting the rain that we got earlier today. Above, you can see that we got flooded! Stay high and dry. :-)