Posted on 07/02/2017 2:00:45 PM PDT 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 Clinton Matter” Part 3 (CBS, Original air date March 14, 1956)(Running time 14:47)
7:15 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The Clinton Matter” Part 4 (CBS, Original air date March 15, 1956)(Running time 14:47)
7:30 p.m. Magnificent Montague
“July Fourth” (NBC, Original air date June 30, 1951)(Running time 27:32)
8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
“The Search” (CBS, Original air date February 22, 1959)(Running time 24:08)
8:20 p.m. The Adventures of Superman
“The Mechanical Man” Part 1 of 10 (Mutual, Original air date December 19, 1941)(Running time 12:00)
8:30 p.m. Dragnet
Program #70 “The Big Quack” (NBC, Original air date October 12, 1950)(Running time 25:58)
9:00 p.m. Our Miss Brooks
“4th at Eagle Springs” (CBS, Original air date July 3, 1949)(Running time 29:44)
9:30 p.m. The Cavalcade of America
“The Blessings of Liberty” (NBC, Original air date May 15, 1944)(Running time 29:40)
10:00 p.m. Biography in Sound
“They Knew George M. Cohan” (NBC, Original air date July 3, 1956)(Running time 54:26)
A fairly bland lineup tonight, would have liked to see the Jimmy Stewart telling of the founding of the country. The Blessings of Liberty look good, have no idea at this time what George M. Cohan is doing at the 10pm slot.
Having a fun weekend?
Hi, Vision! How’s it going?
Happy Independence Day weekend! It’s a hot, steamy one here today. During June we had over 22 inches of rain here on the Coast.
Things are just fine. (: Am smoking some salmon, about to open some wine, sunny and 90 here, off until Wed.
22”? That’s incredible. Is that a record? We never get rain like that.
I had to laugh at the 1 of 10 Superman.
That will finish in September! lol
Evening, folks.
Vision, I don't know if that's a rainfall record or not. We get those tropical systems, and they can dump loads and loads of rain. The week before last, the TS Cindy system dropped about 10 inches, and then this past week we had about another six, which fell quickly. Our street became a navigable waterway: Street Boating MS Gulf Coast
Howdy, Viking! Happy Independence Day!
I expect he’s replaying his childhood with superman, and wasting broadcast time to adults.
Crazy video Gina, thank God that water level stopped.
Hey Viking, feeling good?
Same to you, Gina. Just heading out to Kroger. I committed a major faux pas. Connie was running watermelon through the food processor to mix with watermelon Jello, to make watermelon Popcicles for the kids on the 4th. I came into the kitchen, saw the bowl in the sink, thought it was just leftovers, and rinsed the bowl out. I am in the doghouse until I cough up a new one.
Jack Benny would be proud.
Love the video of you all listening to the Cowboys game via the classic radio.
DUDE! That was a gross blunder!
:-D
Yes, that was a good video, except the Cowboys ended up losing.
The street boating video was bad quality, because of the cheapo camera and my moving too quickly. But you get the idea of the water. It doesn’t normally get up that high, but when that last wave of rain hit, the ground was already saturated from the Cindy dump.
Yeah, it was something right out of a sitcom. I don’t cringe much from her around here, but I had to fess up and she gave me an earful. It was one of those rare times that I really had to hang my head in shame and make it right. And health-wise: good news/bad news. The good news is, the insurance company finally got it’s hair-splitting act together, and they’re going to pay for Connie’s MS meds - FREE. WOO HOO! She’ll be starting back on it next week, I think. Now the bad news: she found this out Friday when she was seeing our doctor. I told her to ask him about my blood work from three weeks ago, because I was curious about my A1C level and hadn’t heard back. He thought she was joking at first, but he pulled up my records, and nothing was in there, so he logged into LabCorp so see what happened. Turns out that my results were sent back the week they were installing their new computer network, so my records didn’t get entered into the system. And he wasn’t happy with what he saw. She called me as soon as she left his office, told me what happened, and said he needed me to call in ASAP for more tests. He said he’d have had me back in two weeks ago if there wouldn’t have been a glitch in the new network. My A1C has shot up to 9.2 on it’s own (even with all the damn pills and shots), my platelet count is so low now I’m lucky I don’t bleed to death, and when I called in to make a new appointment, he personally got on the phone to talk to me. When he found out that I had a swollen spleen and liver, he started texting the oncologist I was seeing while he was talking to me. How or if this ties into the venous stasis in my legs, I don’t know. But my giblets are malfunctioning, and I’m going back in for more blood work tomorrow morning. It kind of makes sense now why I had such a large hematoma on my arm for so long after the last lab work was done.
But on the bright side, I got her a new watermelon and the Popcicles got made! LOL
Wow Viking, sorry to hear that. Prayers sent. How you doing?
Thank you kindly. Actually, I feel OK, overall. I feel a little kick from my liver now and then, but nothing too bad. Had that for years but attributed it to an old rib injury. Still gotta wear these compression stockings. The biggest bugaboo for me is these diabetic blisters I have on my left shin. Never saw the like until I got that 2nd staph infection in that leg last year. Now they want to pop up and leak when my leg swells (another thing that manifested itself last year). I had to call Connie when I was trying to zip up a stocking on that leg (to go get another watermelon, ‘natch LOL) - I saw a pool of what I thought was just fluid leaking under it, but it turned out to be blood. I am really getting frustrated with this situation. I used to be healthy as an ox and could lift a Volkswagen off it’s tires. I turned 54 today, but I feel like I’m 80 in some ways. I love our new doc - very knowledgeable, really has concern for his patients, and is very proactive. My last one was just a ‘steady as she goes’ type.
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