"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 5/10 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 5/10/20 | 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.

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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.

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

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7 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The Winsome Widow Matter” (Original air date April 26, 1959. CBS network) (Running time 19:15)

7:20 p.m. The Life of Riley
(Original air date May 11, 1946. NBC network) (Running time 27:04)

7:50 p.m. The Hank Williams Mother’s Best Flour Show, excerpt
(Original air date March 8, 1951. WSM Nashville) (Running time 9:53)

8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
“How To Kill A Woman” (Original air date October 31, 1953. CBS network.) (Running time 23:08)

8:35 p.m. Dragnet
“The Big Rod” (Original air date March 16, 1954. NBC network) (Running time 26:24)

9:00 p.m. Family Theatre
(Original air date May 6, 1948. Mutual network.) (Running time 29:26)

9:30 p.m. Suspense
“You’ll Never See Me Again” (Original air date September 14, 1944. CBS network.) (Running time 29:53)

10:00 p.m. Screen Directors’ Playhouse
“Bachelor Mother” (Original air date March 8, 1951. NBC network.) (Running time 58:14)

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Happy Mother’s Day all...

It’s a Mother’s Day show...am curious of the Hank Williams Mother’s Best Flour Show...and then a strong lineup of Family Theater, Suspense, and Screen Directors’ Playhouse...

How’s it going? 

[Calvin Locke]

"I love to have that gal around
Her biscuits are so nice and brown
Her pies and cakes beat all the rest-
'Cause she bakes them all with Mother's Best."

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[Calvin Locke]

And Mother’s Best self-rising corn meal for cornbread and hush puppies, too.

[Vision]

I love hush puppies.

[Viking2002]

Good ‘we have no water’ evening, folks. (Well, we do, but it takes 30 minutes to shower. After we open the main in the yard.)

[Vision]

Evening, what’s going on?

[WXRGina]

Hi, guys!

Viking did you bust a water main, or what happened?

[golux]

Thanks for the reminder! We love The Big Broadcast!

[Viking2002]

Meh. They've been replacing the water mains around here since last fall. They finally made it down to our neighborhood, and were hanging door hangers on everyone's doors, saying they may be brief interruptions in water service on the 7th and 8th. Well, they didn't do anything until yesterday. About 2 or 3, I noticed a sound like a toilet tank was filling in the hall bathroom and it was even louder in the master bath. Then I noticed the water pressure was only about 1/3 of what it should have been. It took almost half an hour to shower properly. Well, Connie got home, and started nosing around, and located the source coming from under the house. Apparently, when they turned the water main back on up the road, the pressure blew our main line coming in to our water meter, and it runs under the house. The only way to get to the sucker is by going in through the crawlspace door in back, and around the living room wall (it's a sunken living room), to shimmy commando style to the source of the leak. And God knows what they'll find under there. I certainly can't do it; fire and rescue would have to come in and pull me out. Actually, we just went out, pulled a vent over off the foundation at that end, and Connie was able to semi-see the source of the leak - looks like it may have been a weak PVC coupling. We've been leaving our water main into house off unless it's for something like a shower to prevent a $500 water bill. We have jugs of water to fill the tank of the one toilet we're using, for flushing purposes. Dishes go in the dishwasher for now. I'll be on the phone bright and early tomorrow to find a plumber who can get out here ASAP and fix it. The homeowner's insurance covers it, but it's a $1,000 deductible, and I'm hoping it won't be that much.

[Vision]

Sounds like that’s under control...in other Alabama news...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IROXXzb1oao

[Viking2002]

*whew* Actually, my step-son is taking a personal day tomorrow, and he’ll come over and fix it. I’ll buy him any materials I don’t already have in the garage, and it’s like Lowe’s out there already. And after 22 years here, that video doesn’t surprise me. At the old house, we had chickens running the neighborhood. We once had a Rhode Island Red in the front yard for weeks. Deer and coyotes around here are permanent fixtures. There are several cattle farms (BIG ones) around here. Heard a call on the local police frequency a few months back; someone’s cow was blocking the road a half mile from here and grazing on the grass on the shoulder. The neighbor across from us with the bass pond has what seems like an entire barnyard on his property. A family up the road has a barn and stable and keeps Shetland ponies. This ain’t city living down here.

[WXRGina]

Poor cow! :-)

[WXRGina]

Water troubles are a BUMMER! That’s nice of your step-son to help. Was he one of the ones who moved into your house and irked you so badly?

[Viking2002]

No, that was the other ones, with the mop-haired, uncoordinated five year old who is a two-legged dumpster fire and has a habit of staggering face-first and full speed into doors then screeching her head off on the floor, and our Wreck It Ralph grandson who can eat a shopping cart's worth of food in three days flat. LOL. I bet he takes in 4,000 calories a day and never gains an ounce. Ah, to be that young again and feast endlessly. Anyway, my step-son has sacked out here a couple of times when he was having marital issues and they were in counseling, but he was as quiet as a church mouse and several magnitudes cleaner compared to them. Not to mention one extra resident is tolerable, but four? Plus I inherited a Mossberg Model 500 20 gauge pump shotgun off him, so that sweetened the deal. Make a great duck or maybe turkey gun, if I ever went bird hunting. He's got more guns than I do, and I could probably overthrow a South American country with my firepower. The first time he showed up with his suitcase, he tried to bribe me with a shiny stainless steel Ruger Redhawk in .357 Mag, but that was a little much. It's not that I refuse to give safe harbor to someone who needs it, but I just like my peace and quiet. He got up and worked every day. He and his wife got their differences ironed out, he's making $100k/yr doing manufacturing control machinery programming and maintenence at a big aerospace plant a short drive from here, and owns a three BR brick rancher ten minutes away. The others were just welfare-collecting deadbeats who are living in the single-wide they truly deserve.

[WXRGina]

Sounds like they’re night and day! I’m glad you have good help with your water line! :-)

[Viking2002]

Fortunately it wasn’t a major repair - a pipe blew out from the coupling. Giving the glue another 30 minutes to set, and giving it a test. I knew we should have bought a property with a well or cistern. Them I’m used to.