"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 7/19 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 7/19/20 | 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]

7:00 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The Embarcadero Matter” (Original air date August 23, 1959. CBS network) (Running time 18:50)

7:20 p.m. Superman
(Original air date February 21, 1940. WOR station) (Running time 11:47)

7:30 p.m. The Lucky Strike Program Starring Jack Benny
(Original air date February 3, 1946. NBC network.) (Running time 25:56)

8:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
“The Killer” (Original air date February 13, 1954. CBS network.) (Running time 24:30)

8:30 p.m. Dragnet
“The Big Help” (Original air date May 18, 1954. NBC network.)(Running time 25:18)

8:55 p.m. Salute to Amália Rodrigues, “Coimbra”
(Original air date November 16, 1956.) (Running time 2:33)

9:00 p.m. Richard Diamond, Private Detective
(Original air date July 16 1949. NBC network.) (Running time 29:13)

9:30 p.m. Rocky Jordan
“Consignment in Naples” (Original air date April 24, 1949. CBS Pacific network.) (Running time 29:31)

10:00 p.m. You Are There
“The Women’s Rights Convention” (Original air date June 18, 1950. CBS network.) (Running time 29:19)

10:25 p.m. This I Believe: Ralph Bunche. (Running time 4:21)

10:30 p.m. Theatre Five
“Barefoot In Athens” (Original air date May 27, 1965. ABC network.) (Running time 20:43)

[Vision]

Baby it’s hot outside...

We have a Jack Benny...Richard Diamond...Rocky Jordan...and an interesting Theatre Five with Barefoot in Athens...

How’s it going?

[WXRGina]

Hi, Vision! Hope you’re having a good weekend.

[Vision]

Life’s good Gina, it’s hot and getting dry. 93f out now. How are you?

[WXRGina]

Doing fine and still breathing mask-free, despite any mandates. :-/ :-)

It’s hot here, too; except humid, as well.

[Viking2002]

Evening, folks.

[Vision]

How you doing?

[Viking2002]

Muddling along. I *sigh* fell again about ten days ago. I was taking the garbage out (again) and lost my balance on the stairs (again). This time I not only injured my rib, I hit the top of my head right into the floor freezer. The crown of my skull still hurts. About three days after that, my mom was trying to navigate the stairs on my sister’s deck in Pittsburgh, lost her balance and broke two ribs. They kept her in the trauma center for two days due to her age and because one of her meds is an anti-coagulant. They sent someone to my sister’s house for follow-up, and I think she’s back home now. They gave her both Oxycontin and Dilaudid. Then Thursday morning I rolled the wrong way in bed and apparently separated the injured rib I had, and now I’m pretty much immobile. Fortunately, Connie had some extra oxycodone she didn’t take after her oral surgery, so I’ve been splitting them and taking a half every four hours or so to supplement the Alleve I shouldn’t take because of my low platelets. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

[Vision]

Damn Viking, you gotta be more careful. Sorry to hear about you and your mother. Those are some heavy drugs.

[WXRGina]

Oh, bummer! Like Vision, I’m very sorry to hear about you and your Mom.

[Viking2002]

Yeah, my sister said Mom was in pain, but too loopy from the painkillers to complain about it. My ribcage and back seem to be a little better this evening, so I think I just strained whatever I did originally. The top of my head is the weird one. It’s still tender, but I broke the skin where I hit it. That’s healed over, but I think I might have a deep cranial bruise, or I cracked it. Unless I have more symptoms or it gets worse, I’m not seeing my doc or the ER about it. I don’t seem to be having any blurry vision, or a loss of what coordination I do have, or anything like that. We have someone coming in to do the yard tomorrow - it looks like the African savannah out there. Ten days of rain, then me going down about the time it started getting steamy, there are areas knee high, and I hate a sloppy lawn. We have a high of 95 tomorrow with a triple digit heat index. I’m staying indoors with the cats where it’s 72, and staying hydrated.

[Viking2002]

Thanks, Gina.

[S.O.S121.500]

Be Careful. My last fall (only bruised the socket in the hip)garnered me the cheerful suggestion that the VA move me into assisted living of one sort or another. Rather not.

Using the cane again and brushing up on my Hapkido/Cane training in case I should be mistaken for an easy target.

You may find this of interest or use:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_0lZxxDNZg

BE Careful, too many go over from ‘complications’ dealing with a hip break.

[Viking2002]

I avoid the VA and all other government medical care if I can. (I experienced Army ‘medical’ care, which is why I never made a career of the Army.) I’m on full SSA disability and I’m fine with it. My doctor wanted me to use a walker around the house and I told him to go perform a physically impossible act of self-impregnation, so we compromised. I keep a ‘pimp stick’ in the car and one in the house. Kinda hard to keep one on hand when you’re dragging a fifty pound bag of your sister-in-law’s rat-nasty home canning down four lousy steps. I have diabetic neuropathy in both feet and must have stepped on a dead spot, and the weight of the bag pulled me straight over. That Hapkido/Cane training sounds awfully interesting. I used to be in great shape ten or so years ago, then diabetes, infections, etc. wrecked me like the S.S. Minnow.