Whoever Thought They Would Be President Date: 01-17-68
15.9 MB
46:15 min
Archie the Cockroach Date: 01-22-68
14.9 MB
43:28 min
Comments: The correct date may actuall be the 23rd or 24th
Radio Shows and Conversations Date: 01-25-68
15.3 MB
44:37 min
Flicks Tongue Date: 01-27-68
9 MB
52:32 min
Comments: Shep opens show talking about the previous portion of the show on which he played a recording of a Dayak curse.
For the rest of the show he goes about telling the story of being a kid and their involvement in kid mythology. There were the believers and non-believers. He talks about myths such as the poisonous inside of a golf ball, the indelible pencil, bats flying into your hair, swallowing gum will make your stomach stick together,and the tongue myth.
The tongue myth stated that if, on a very cold day, you placed your tongue on a metal object, it would stick forever. So one day on the way to school Shep, Flick, Schwartz, and Bruner start talking about this and as they pass an iron telephone pole, start to dare one another to try it. Dares led to double dares and then to the double dog dare! Flick walks up and places his tongue right on the pole and it's stuck!! The rest of the kid's run to class leaving Flick behind. Miss Shield's, their teacher finds out, and the fire department is called to solve the problem.
Drunk Test People in the News Date: 01-29-68
15.4 MB
44:43 min
Spy Stories Date: 02-01-68
15.4 MB
44:54 min
Versions of Hell Date: 02-17-68
9.2 MB
53:44 min
Bolus Wedding Date: 03-23-68
13.4 MB
58:40 min
Comments: It's the first Saturday in spring. Shep reads a letter from a 14 year old Park Ridge New Jersey kid. He get caught writing Flick Lives on the desktop and receives 3 weeks detention.
Scragging season has begun. Shep describes the art of 'scragging'. A bunch of guys driving around in a car on the prowl for chicks. "Hey baby! Oh Wow! Holy Smokes!"
Next he tells the story of his Polish friend Bolus. Shep, Flick, Schwartz, Bruner, and Bolus would play cards, go to dances, and go scragging together. They were always together and new each others friends. In their senior year of high school word get back to Shep that Bolus is getting married - and no one knows to who! When they finally pin Bolus down, even he doesn't know her - only that her name is Stella. His parents and her parents had met and made the arrangements for them to be married. They finally get to meet Stella and Bolus is a changed man. Very serious, no more ball playing. Right after High School graduation they get married and Shep and the rest of the guys are invited to the wedding where they dance the polka until after 4 in the morning.
Fake Shepherds Date: 04-xx-68
9.8 MB
42:38 min
Comments: The Seven Sins
Miss Robinette and Silas Marner
UCLA female flasher during band practice
Mr Melton and the proper pronunciation of 'proteins'
Shep talks about and reads a review of his recent show at Rutgers. One fan accuses him of not being the real Jean Shepherd. Shep 'admits' that there are many Jean Shepherds that do the appearances and radio show, he'sw one of them.
All the good people have moved to the center of the earth.
A literary round table over ham radio with a group of North Bergen, NJ high school students regarding IGWT.
Holy Rollers
Anniversary of First Ham Licence Date: 05-01-68
9.9 MB
43:21 min
Comments: Shep says May 01 is the anniversary of his first ham license.
Ray Galumbus Sr gives Shep his first try at ham radio.
Sopwith Camel Date: 05-03-68
16.4 MB
47:42 min
Soggy Coffee Cup-Pool-Bowling Date: 05-06-68
17.5 MB
51:03 min
Roaches Date: 05-17-68
9.9 MB
43:17 min
Army Hike Date: 05-25-68
12.3 MB
53:48 min
Balloon - Clipped Date: 05-28-68
8.8 MB
38:20 min
Lucky Lindy and The Father of Radio Date: 05-xx-68
29.5 MB
42:59 min
Campaign Speech Cliches Date: 06-08-68
6.9 MB
30:17 min
Electrical Shocks and Cheating in School Date: 06-11-68
8 MB
46:35 min
Comments: Poems from kids in Rumson, NJ including "My Desk", "The Worm", and "Poem to Lima Beans"
Shep relates finding a box with a crank in the basement of an abandoned house
in the woods with his friends - a very official looking medical case with a list of diseases (colic, scurvy, the "glunts", etc.) The number of minutes of electrical shock treatment per day was listed for each ailment! When Schwartz cranked, Flick took off like a $2 sky rocket - a new game was born. They took greater shocks each day, and graduated to holding on to a plug in an electric light socket - then to a Ford spark coil!
Schwartz wires Flick's car with a huge charge, but the gag backfires when Schwartz himself gets the shock!
Shep relates his attempt at cheating on a Chemistry test one Spring day. He penned in enough formulas on the tongue of his denim blue Ked tennis shoes to just squeak by, but a rainstorm during lunch dissolved all the ink into his socks so the notes were gone by the time of the exam.
Animal Kingdom and Dead Flies Date: 06-15-68
12.5 MB
54:35 min
Comments: Straws in the wind
Naked hitchhiker lady in England
2 women on golf course contronted by naked man in derby
Animals - members of the animal kingdom look upon humans as one of their own species.
The old man and the mouse
The Saber Tooth Blennie
Flipper makes guest appearance on Gentle Ben
Cockroaches cooked in pork chops
Shep tells the story about getting the car ready for a big date with Dorothy. At the gas station he buys some soda and takes 2 big chugs. He holds the bottle up to the sun and sees that there is an inch and a half of dead flies in the bottom of the bottle. Between the gas station and the beach he stops 512 times to run into the bushes.
