"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 10/20/ 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 10/20/19 | Freak SJW Murray Horwitz

[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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Info *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.

[Vision]

The Big Broadcast is a Sunday night tradition for families throughout the WAMU listening area.

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.

Saying Goodbye To Ed Walker

Ed Walker spent 65 years on the radio. His last program was unlike any other.

[Vision]

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

[Vision]

7 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The Village of Virtue Matter” (Original air date April 27, 1958. CBS network, AFRTS rebroadcast) (Running time 20:49)

7:22 p.m. The Adventures of Babe Ruth, (Original air date December 11, 1949.) (Running time 10:44)

7:30 p.m. The Jell-O Program starring Jack Benny
(Original air date October 13, 1940. NBC Network.) (Running time 28:00)

8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
“Cyclone” (Original air date March 14, 1953. CBS Network.) (Running time 29:41)

8:30 p.m. Dragnet
“The Big Ham” (Original air date June 28, 1953. NBC network) (Running time 25:55)

9:00 p.m. Stars over Hollywood
“The Experiment” (Original air date May 24, 1952. CBS Network.) (Running time 27:58)

9:30 p.m. Destination Freedom
“Railway to Freedom” (Original air date July 4, 1948. WMAQ origination, NBC Network, AFRS rebroadcast.) (Running time 29:00)

10:00 p.m. The NBC University Theatre
“Of Human Bondage” (Original air date November 18, 1948. NBC Network.) (Running time 58:15)

[Vision]

Happy Sunday Evening all...

We have the The Adventures of Babe Ruth...Jack Benny!...Stars over Hollywood is interesting...and ending with what could be a good drama from The NBC University Theatre...

11.14.1948
“Of Human Bondage”. A failed art student/physician learns the complexities of life and the pain of a love for a woman beneath his station. Of Human Bondage is the story of a young man’s awakening to the complexity of the world and to the agony of love. Distinguished author, lecturer and critic Clifton Fadiman is the intermission commentator

How are you?

[WXRGina]

Hi, Vision. Happy Sunday! You doin’ well?

[Viking2002]

Evening, folks. Baked pork chops for dinner tonight. I'm also taking the first (and possibly only, dang it - the heat tortured our garden this year) decently-sized spaghetti squash and baking it alongside them. I plan on drying the seeds over the winter and getting them an early start for next spring. I think I'm giving up on all this strategic planting hooey and just going with raised boxes next year.

[Vision]

Hi Gina, life's good. You?

We have rain today, all day. It's wonderful. Have probably had 3 of these days since July.

[Vision]

Hi Viking, how are you doing? You should try sous vide pork chops.

[S.O.S121.500]

Thank You..........Holding my own still; cannot reach any one elses’. HO Ho ho

[Vision]

Good Evening.

[S.O.S121.500]

Thank You kindly. And yours as well.

[Viking2002]

I think I’d need some thick butterfly chops for that. These are the thin, center cut chops. Perfect for a light marination and a 325 degree baking, so they don’t dry out. Never thought about sous vide pork, though. I always thought about that as a ‘beef’ type of preparation.

[WXRGina]

Man! It sounds like you’ve been dryer than we were. We went almost two months with hardly any rain, most of August and September. I’m glad you’re getting some now. It’s so excellent after the dry spell.

We’re doing fine. Just the usual Sunday routine—no news is good news. :-)

[Vision]

It should work on any thickness but the thicker the better for the final searing.

[Vision]

Glad to hear it.

[Viking2002]

Yeah, like a good steak. These are getting finished with Johnny’s Whiskey Sauce. Never tried it, but we’ll see how it comes out. Odd, because it wasn’t over with the rest of the normal BBQ sauces in the market, it was over in the section that has all the McCormick dry marinade and sauce mixes, and bottled international cuisine cooking sauces (they have some pretty wicked Thai and Indian sauces there). I suppose it must be a finishing sauce. I haven’t read the whole label yet, I’ve been cleaning up the dining room. The bulb blew in the curio cabinet, so I turned on the ceiling light and *eewwwwwwww*. Cat fur and food all over the place. The fat cat, Pudge, left her window perch (basically, two bar stools slid together at the window sill), and took up residence on a box with a pool closing kit in it. The box isn’t that big, but she is - her blubber hangs down each side, like melted candle wax someone put fur on. So, I’ve taken the opportunity to do some sweeping and mopping of the floor and stools. She’s so furry, she sheds like crazy and can leave a spare cat under the window in a week. She’s the one who got knocked silly in a hailstorm several years back - she took a few shots to the head (I saw it happen), and she hasn’t been quite right since. She mainly just sits in the window all day, every day (unless we take her for a supervised walk), and only gets down to use the litter box and eat. She’s a weird one. At one point, she lived in the window of the master bath for so long, Connie put in a litter box in the closet for her, and a food and water dish on the floor. I ended up buying a heated window perch and hard-mounting it to the sill. Then her daughter Nermal came in and started sleeping on the toilet tank lid. LOL This went on for a full year, and just as suddenly, she abandoned it for the dining room window. Nermal got confused, relocated to the Wild Kingdom Room, and promptly crapped in one of my fish tanks and killed the fish. LOL I swear, I’m gonna become a Tibetan Buddhist monk, wear nothing but a red bedsheet, then sit on some silent mountaintop and meditate for the rest of my life.

[Vision]

hehehe, living in peace is a good life. You’re due.

Let me know how Johnny’s Whiskey Sauce is.

[Viking2002]

Mopping it on now. I tried it - it's a little thinner than your regular BBQ sauce (but not terribly thin), but it's bold. Sweet and peppery. Overall, I'd give it a solid 7.5/10. I'd buy it again. I'd have loved to have grilled them, but my deadbeat son-in-law used an entire tank of propane, went through most of my charcoal, let both grill lights on to go dead, then covered the grill back up uncleaned. (His idea of clean is, walk away and let someone else do it, just like the damn dishes!!!!!!) It'll take a bottle of Windex, grill cleaner, a wire grill brush, and maybe a coat of grill paint in spots to get it cleaned up for winter. They've about overstayed their welcome. 'Just a month or two, to get back our feet', my ass. Freeloaders. 😠

I picked out the seeds from the sqush to dry and save for next year. I've got a lot of vines out there with big flowers (and Romas, too), but nothing is developing, dammit. It's frustrating. I mean, what do I have to do, plant everything under tents? 😡

[Vision]

Under tents? Because of rain?

[Viking2002]

No, out of the baking sun. The last time I got on the mower - a good two months ago - the sun came out from behind a cloud, and it was scalding. Even with regular watering, you can imagine what that must to to a garden. What few vegetables we have gotten so far have had to be left out longer than normal for them to get to market size. I had several green bean plants vining, and all but a few beans turned yellow on the vine, even with a lot of water. In years past, we’d have been bagging them by the quart and freezing them. Rain had nothing to do with it - we’ve actually had to use a lot of water because we simply haven’t had any rain. The soil was rated as normal last year, and now it’s rated abnormally dry. Combine that with heat indices in the 100’s for weeks on end, and you walk around feeling like a jar of dry-roasted peanuts. Too much heat + too little rain = stubborn plants.