Comments: Sparrows and Spatsies - The National Bird(Starling)
Tin Mill Girl Date: 01-15-63
14.9 MB
32:37 min
Comments: By George thank God there is an England BBC news
The getting to know you better Tokyo news
Camels and chipmunks relationship explained
What is a drop forge plant
Finally the tin mill and sheets of moon light
Medicine Cabinet Discovery Date: 01-18-63
5.5 MB
32:08 min
Comments: Dreamers, Realists, & Cynic's (all of mankind)
The power of translators
Ma what have ya done for me lately
Shep discovers Psychedelics
Electro Therapeutic Date: 01-22-63
5.6 MB
32:38 min
Comments: Newspaper strike
Being in a play
Scientific formula's
More deserted houses in the upper mid west
Note: This was very popular in France at one time, and it is not unusual for French homes to have several Electro Therapeutic devices.
Getting Ham License Date: 01-24-63
5.8 MB
33:36 min
Comments: Very cold weather described
Passing long winter nights in search of his white whale, Shep does a Melville
Hunting of the Snark Date: 01-29-63
9.9 MB
43:03 min
Comments: Shep spends the whole show reading "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll.
At the end he says that this should be required reading by all the under-graduates, twice a year, along with the Army general orders. He compares Carroll's 'nonsense' to Herman Woulk's 'sense'
Note: Special thanks to David Director for providing this show and David Singer for originally recording it and preserving it over these years.
Old Mans EH Scott Radio Date: 02-07-63
10.3 MB
14:58 min
NYC via Paddy Wagon Date: 02-21-63
7.3 MB
10:42 min
Homer Croft Bugler Date: 03-01-63
5.6 MB
32:36 min
Comments: News article Colonia, New Jersey
The code all around us
Bugle calls and faking it
Orwellian Opposites Date: 03-05-63
9.5 MB
33:13 min
Comments: Three men have recently announced they are not running for the presidency, even though nobody asked them to. (Ironically, two them -- Goldwater and Rockefeller -- did indeed run for president in 1964.) Shep takes that as a queue to announce he will not be running.
Due to the newspaper strike, Shep is reading anything he can get ahold of. He found a sports magazine article listing great underdogs...including Wilt Chamberlain and Ernie Banks.
He noticed the use of "Orwellian" language in modern society. Love is hate, etc.
Hung Up Ham Radio Date: 03-07-63
6.6 MB
38:42 min
Comments: The eternal sewerage system of the soul
The Village Voice newspaper as a humor paper
The Major problem of being Hung Up & an article in the Newark Star Ledger as an example
Most people are Hung Up on themselves
Dictators in America, and revelling in your wrongness
Shep's admission of his Hang Up
Fanatics and Tyrants Date: 03-14-63
6.7 MB
39:16 min
Comments: Jesus Saves (others spend?)
AP piece on a driver on a mission in Michigan
Zealot Fraternities & Associations
Pop Culture Date: 03-18-63
6.7 MB
39:01 min
Comments: A story about a gaboon Viper found dead in the Philadelphia zoo with his own fangs embedded in his back, leads Shep into one of his serious discussions, this time about pop culture.
Hitchhiking to School Date: 03-19-63
6.4 MB
37:07 min
Comments: Men Always Choosing Up Sides, Hitching to School
Sixth Grade Book Report Date: 03-21-63
6.9 MB
40:14 min
Comments: Shepherd is in a rotton, skunky, stinky, mood - he has a cold.
Colds were put on earth to remint man of his mortality
Shep tells the story of his sixth grade book report based on the book
Decameron of Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio. This story became "MISS BRYFOGAL AND THE CASE OF THE WARBLING CUCKOLD" in the August 1966 Playboy and was ultimateley used in the movie "My Summer Story" as on of the plot lines.
BBQ Shrimp Date Date: 03-22-63
6.7 MB
39:19 min
Comments: Shep still has a bad cold
Army Specialized Training Program Date: 03-25-63
6.9 MB
40:08 min
Dimestore Grab Bag Date: 03-26-63
6.9 MB
40:10 min
Comments: "This is a dime store culture we live in."
Shep discusses the people and atmosphere of the old dime stores such as Woolworth's.
He sets out as a kid to buy a birthday gift for his father. He looks around in Woolworth's and almost buys a tie pin with a pheasant. He decides to ponder it for a while and heads for the toy department where he looks over the model airplanes. There was a big box marked "Grab Bag 25 cents". Considering this he decides to spend the quarter on one of the mysterious packages. After being asked by the cashier if he was sure he wanted it, he plops down the quarter and picks the biggest package there. He gets on the bus and get almost home. He gets off and goes to an empty lot where he can open it with nobody around. It turns out to be a Shirley Temple cutout book. He looks it over and heads back to Woolworth's. The woman behind the counter looks at him and asks if he wants his quarter back. He takes it and heads back out of the store and onto the bus. A lady on the bus asks his what's hanging on his elbow. When he looks he finds a blood red broach hanging on his sleeve. It must have hooked onto him while passing through the jewelry department. He takes it home and give it to his mother. His mother says why give it to me? It's your father's birthday. "Well I figured dad would prefer it if I would give you a present. The old man says "That is the best present you could have given me."
Double Speak Date: 03-27-63
6.5 MB
38:07 min
Comments: Pet turtle travels 10 miles to return home and continue eating vegatable garden.
Did anyone see this cartoon about a turtle with 2 snails sitting on op of his shell. One says to the other "Hang on! Here we go!"
Shep discusses the different forms of double talk around the world, sports, politics, entertainment, and people in general.
Ball Lighting Date: 03-29-63
6.3 MB
36:31 min
Comments: Shep begins by discussing a lightning bolt that hit a plane with 22 Methodist Ministers on board.
"Global Cooling"
"End of the world" syndrome
Fireball rolling down the street when he was a kid. It makes a left turn and goes right through the front door of the Striker house.
