"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 5/31 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 5/31/20 | 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.

[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]

Happy Sunday Evening All...

It’s a good lineup...never heard of The Drene Show...(some) Jack Benny!..probably an interesting Cavalcade of America...and ending well with Lux on Bell...

How’s it going?

[Vision]

7 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The Big H Matter” (Original air date May 31, 1959. CBS network) (Running time 18:48)

7:20 p.m. The Drene Show
(Original air date January 12, 1947. NBC network) (Running time 29:27)

7:50 p.m. excerpt from The Fred Allen Show
(Original air date May 25, 1947. NBC network) (Running time 8:04)

8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
“Kick Me” (Original air date November 28, 1953. CBS network.) (Running time 22:18)

8:20 p.m. Dragnet
“The Big Saw” (Original air date April 6, 1954. NBC network)(Running time 26:19)

8:20 p.m. excerpt from The Jell-O Program Starring Jack Benny
(Original air date March 14, 1937. NBC network) (Running time 9:01)

9:00 p.m. X Minus One
“Cold Equations” (Original air date August 25, 1955. NBC network.) (Running time 24:42)

9:30 p.m. The Cavalcade of America
“The Doctor and The President” (Original air date April 21, 1947. NBC network.) (Running time 29:23)

10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theatre
“Alexander Graham Bell” (Original air date May 4, 1945. CBS network.) (Running time 58:50)

[Calvin Locke]

And, IIRC, a lesson (X-1) for stowaways.

[Vision]

Evenin’

[WXRGina]

Hi, Vision! I hope your city isn’t burning.

[Vision]

We're doing fine over here Gina, how about you?

[Calvin Locke]

Howdy.

BTW, “Drene” was a shampoo. A P&G product. The first no-soap shampoo.

Don’t remember the format of the show that it sponsored, other than it had the Battlin’ Bickersons.

[Viking2002]

Evening, folks.

[Vision]

Hey. What’s happening?

[Viking2002]

Oh, not much. Just mowed about half the yard (fixed the Craftsman tractor - Dim Bulb thought he was going to be helpful last fall and dismantled half of it because it wouldn't start, but he didn't bother to check the GAS GAUGE on the tank first, the idiot, and the Murray is going to require several hours of labor), got some bushes in front trimmed, took the leaf blower to the front, got the pool cover off and the pump started (it was so green I thought an alligator might be in there - still may be until the filter, pool chemicals, and pool robot work it for a couple days), put a dent in getting my garage organized again, strung up a beautiful set of Hampton Bay outdoor lights on the courtyard arch, and finally got my damn truck back so I can put my SUV in the shop and get the front end repaired. Now I'm in the process of heating up The Meat Machine to grill two obscenely expensive steaks while I'm kicking back with an ice-cold Bud Guav-A-Rita. (Ha - she's acting as grillmeister and is lording over the steaks. Yes!) My legs and back will bestow some serious retribution on me come tomorrow. Plus I got a laundry list of jobs for Landscape Team Alpha, to keep them busy even though I finally have all of my power equipment running again. Depending on how I feel after I cut the rest of the estate and run the weedeater, I plan on taking the limb/chain saw to some flora and prepping pots for some patio corn and baby summer squash. We're already seeing some cherry tomatoes coming in.

Not much happening. You? LOL!

[WXRGina]

We’re fine, too, Vision. Glad you are.

[Vision]

Wow, exhausing. My biggest issue this weekend was finding a black snake, one who ate baby birds in the nest last week, draped off a beam in the garage. It was a mess getting it out of there and I'll spare you the gruesome details. Not a fun way to start an early Sunday morning.

[WXRGina]

Sounds like you’re trucking right along, Viking! Excellent! :-)

[Viking2002]

Oh, we had a garter snake living under the pool walkway for years. They're attracted to water just like all the other wildlife. Imagine going out there every day, lifting the cover off the skimmer well, and finding everything from chipmunks to frogs in the basket, drowned. I had to fish out a small snake just a couple of years ago and give him the boot. I don't know if you've ever seen one of these:

It's a critter pad. An escape ramp for frogs, newts, etc. When the cover came off this afternoon, she said it was like someone announced that the municipal park pool was open, and we got swarmed. But she'd also treated the pool with Shock Xtra Blue, chlorine, pool salt, and flocculent, and the frogs went nuts. She put the critter ramp down, and it was like watching a boat being evacuated. They can get in, but most of them are too small and/or too dumb to get back out. That goes for the chipmunks and snakes, too. We put it down by the deep end so they don't have to fight the suction of the pump inlet. I'm high risk for recurring leg infections, and I don't want to get in a pool with water that's been flushing past dead animals. My doc says I can get in the pool as long as the water is clear, pH balanced, and chlorinated, and I don't have any sores or scratches on my legs. The pool above is oval and ours is rectangular, but you get the idea.