Posted on 02/19/2017 2:20:45 PM PST by Vision
Friends it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana.
Info *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.
Official OTR Blog of "The Big Broadcast" thread:
Longtime radio personality and The Big Broadcast host Ed Walker passed away early on Oct. 26 at age 83. We invite you to leave your thoughts and remembrances.
Ed Walker spent 65 years on the radio. His last program was unlike any other.
7 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The Duke Red Matter” Parts 3 & 4 (CBS, Original air dates January 25 and January 26, 1956)
7:30 p.m. The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show
“The Life Story Of Phil Harris and Alice Faye”(NBC, Original air date October 28, 1951)
8 p.m. Gunsmoke
“I Thee Wed” (CBS, AFRTS rebroadcast, Original air date August 31, 1958)
8:20 p.m. We Interrupt This Broadcast
55th anniversary of John Glenn’s orbital flight February 20, 1962
8:30 p.m. Dragnet
Program #51 “The Big Fake” (NBC, Original air date June 1, 1950)
9 p.m. Destination Freedom
“Transfusion” (NBC net, WMAQ, Chicago origination, Original air date March 27, 1949)
9:30 p.m. Nero Wolfe
“The Care Worn Cuff” (NBC, Original air date October 17 1950)
10 p.m. Words at War
Program #06 “From the Land of the Silent People” (NBC, Original air date July 31, 1943)
10:30 p.m. The Jack Benny Program For Grape-Nuts and Grape-Nuts Flakes
“George Washington Slept Here” (NBC, Original air date December 20, 1942)
Happy Sunday all...BEAUTIFUL day here...
A great lineup but is our annoying SJW host going to spend 1/12 of a year on black history? He seems to have a hangup on this. Love Phil Harris...another Destination Freedom (a story I expect we all know)...Nero Wolfe is a fun revisit...can’t remember Words at War...and love closing with Jack Benny...
How your day going?
We're back from our week-long trip to Gunsite Academy in Paulden, Arizona. It was rigorous, but well worth it. We learned a great deal. We returned home worn out but very glad to be back. Here's our 250 Pistol Class photo. Keith is third from the left on the front row, and I'm third from the right on the front (both in white t-shirts):
Cool, what did you learn?
We learned and practiced much more than I can write here. It was a 5-day course, basically 8 to 4:30 or so each day. Besides several classroom lectures on ballistics, situational awareness and other handgun defense-related topics, we did countless drills, practiced running pistol malfunctions, speed re-loads, drawing properly from the holster, various movements, like pivots, side-stepping, drawing and shooting from kneeling and rollover prone positions and shooting at a threat from behind.
We did a nighttime shoot with flashlight techniques. We shot from 3 to 25 yards. We practiced stop drills, which they called “failure drills” (two quick shots to the upper-center chest followed by one careful shot to the head) and non-standard responses, many of them under a very short time limit.
In their indoor and outdoor simulators, we learned how to properly clear a building and move through dangerous, threat-laden terrain and approach a doorway (also known as the “funnel of death”). There’s so much more, but that’s a brief overview.
Damn. Good for you two. Anything else new?
I smoked salmon...
We spent Valentine's Day shooting guns and worn out, so tonight we're doing filets on the grill--also to celebrate our graduation from Gunsite.
Nothing much else here. I have a couple of columns I need to write on my experiences of the past week, including yesterday when I was sexually assaulted in a needless, bogusly-enacted "pat-down" by the TSA at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
Big tubes warming now. Zenith “cats eye” tuner glowing green. Long wire antenna set for 180 meters SWL, all systems up and ready to capture the excitement now on the air.
Wow, sorry to hear that.
The salmon was great, tried this brine...
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/217779/fire-and-ice-smoked-salmon/
Wow! That smoked salmon recipe came from Phoenix. :-) Phoenix.
In the cool cool cool of the evening...
I heard a 1938 “Shadow” last night on WGN.
Margo Lane’s voice was so beautiful, I thought, how can that possibly be Agnes Moorhead?
Turns out it was Margot Stevenson.
How do you like the pellet grill? I here they are great.
Cool. Love the Shadow and the 30s era.
Good music!
Yesterday I smoked salmon on the smoke setting (160-180f) designed for maximum smoke. It produces thin blue smoke, lots at times. The salmon was in for 2 hours, I was concerned the fish would be over smoked. Yet there was barely any smoke flavor. It was however some of the best smoked salmon I've had.
Last weekend I smoked a pork shoulder. In the past with a wsm I never used 225 as it was too hard to keep a fire constant. Well at 10pm two Friday's ago the pork went on, and was programmed to cook itself. It cooked two hours in smoke, then increased to 225 until the pork was 200f, then turned the temp down to smoke to hold it for me. I slept soundly and showed up around 7pm to pull it. It was great, but with little noticeably smoke flavor. If you want to try a quality basic unit try a camp chef. The lowest level is less than $400 and the lux seems nice at $800. I have a mak 1 star. I'm in love.
Interesting stories tonight. Thanks for the reminder!
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