Comments: Shep opens show speaking of Lee Harvey Oswald as a show business persona
West coast spy sent Shep an LA Times advert Commentary on the moon landing and the fact that Armstrong might be the first, "How American can you get!"
Wilmington Delaware news report a prison search for a missing library book on Houdini
Back to the advert which Shep interprets as a commentary on the dominance of women
Gretchen the Inflatable Doll reminds Jean of a Gretchen Shep knew
Shep speaks of a marching horde from last year, the Woody Allen syndrome and the fact that the real thing is better than a movie
People feel anonymous and it feeding a need for recognition
Cardboard camera's and ducks
Shep sets up a read your name on the air lottery, you can win recognition - send in a postcard with your name and he will read them 'next Thursday' (March 20th, 1969)
Violence report: segue from the Magnavox commercial, baby baptismal violence as a result of television
Benedict Arnold High School and how popular he would be today
Friday horror elevator story
The camping show in New York story
Frozen In Ice Date: 03-15-69
12.6 MB
55:01 min
Comments: "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey" with Jew's Harp and Kazoo
Salute to Gorillas - Officials at zoo in Bristol, England attempting to fingerprint three gorillas
Letter from kid who purchased a 1936 Hudson - Shep relates "the facts of life" learned from his own Hudson Hornet ("an aggressive piece of junk") purchased from Friendly Fred
Story of Old Man's Essex which couldn't get off the street car tracks due to bad kingpins as street car approaches
Description of the lot of the "walkin around guy" - the guy not invited to the Roman orgies who might have had cleanup duty in the lion cages at the coliseum
Adaptability of cockroaches and man - both can be frozen in a block of ice and survive when thawed
Story of radio station promotion at a circus in which Shep (age 17) is frozen in a block of ice while providing five minute remote broadcasts every three hours to describe the process - complete with a feeding tube, rubber suit, attached microphone, and refrigeration tank
Rumpelstiltskin Date: 03-17-69
9.7 MB
42:34 min
Comments: Promises not to talk about the holiday - St. What's? Day
A touch of Spring is in the air. "You can see every cigar butt - every bum etched in clear delineated lines against the sunset"
Flying over Jersey on Sunday - a "soft, blue Jersey haze at 500 feet -- A woolly blanket of haze"
Recollections of anticipating a date while a "yardbird." "Men know the madness that sweeps over them, but later realize that they might rather be at Howard Johnson's having a Texas Tommy"
Distorted views of the fairy tales that Mrs. Ossenschlager told in 5th grade to keep the class quiet - Dumplestilsken, and Andora's Box, and Sampson and Gretchen
Describes being in a classroom at a small campus of Indiana University in the middle of a huge refinery complex - a "gamey atmosphere like living in a tremendous sea of rotten cabbage where every once in a while a bubble of ancient primal methane gas would break the surface." Times when people would be afraid to strike matches in the air - the whole town would go up! Octane in the air was close to the standard antiknock Texaco gas sold in the area Could run a car on the air - the car wouldn't know the difference!
That Spring afternoon - like an enormous compost heap which is just a pile of life itself. The professor was dissecting a word at the board as Shep only thinks of Betty Lou Morrison outlined against the windows as he glances through his school wardrobe issue of Esquire magazine showing idealized views of models next to expensive Italian autos. The campus reality is the refinery cracking plant where petroleum is cooked to produce wax, kerosene,
and bezene! Then Kaboom - a sound like a big wet dishcloth hitting a bass drum as the light in the classroom changes to mustard yellow, and a mushroom cloud rising to 5000 feet is observed. Kerosene dropped from the air on everything in the county including the canvas top of Shep's own convertible as the professor just went on. Months after, the beer ordered in restaurants tasted of kerosene, but there were no complaints - people accepted life as it
was.
A second incident of an exploding cracking plant is described as occurring when Shep was a kid as they drove in a car over a bridge. "The widows in the car just caved in, and the Old Man never looked back"
Second Annual Parade of Humanity Date: 03-20-69
7.5 MB
43:50 min
Comments: Shep spends the entire show reading the names of fans who wrote in. This is the second time he did this and mentions that it was done about this same time last year.
Square Eggs aka Spring Equinox Date: 03-21-69
8 MB
34:52 min
Margate Elephant Date: 03-28-69
9.7 MB
42:20 min
Comments: Shep opens show with a salute to the Margate Elephant. A classic example of NJ slob art.
Last Sunday's Times Newspaper report that the Margate Elephant is dying at the age of 87 years.
Miniature Golf cuckoo's
We are the only country in the world that believes you can buy a book to teach you anything
The Karate poster
Gadget Cuckoo's (a busy box for geeks is described in detail)
April is the cruelest month
Bullets Xrays Corkscrew Date: 04-10-69
9.9 MB
43:24 min
Comments: Kid brings marijuana seeds to school for "Show and Tell"
President Nixon's sense of humor
Lack of humor noted among technical people
Doctors' sense of humor based on real world - man's x-ray shows swallowed stainless steel corkscrew ( "It's a good one, too - Hoffritz!")
30 caliber bullet on x-ray of guy's shoulder - origin unknown
Man deaf for 20 years - full hearing restored after cork pops out during ear
cleaning
Unknown origin of bullet holes in Shep's gas tank
Jet forced to land due to 22 caliber bullet "winged" by guy in cornfield
Guy in Jersey finds finger in bag of grass seed
Evil Knieval's planned motorcycle jump across Grand Canyon
First Live Performance Date: 04-18-69
9.9 MB
43:17 min
Comments: Shep opens show asking about what good are frogs?
Newspaper article about a French toilet.
Newspaper headline claims a happy childhood is inked to atheism
Princeton University musings about Jeans appearance - caller mentions it is first time he saw Shep live which leads to Shep's story closing this show.
Salute to the little old lady from Philadelphia who fooled a hold up man
Woo-Woo's another salute to privatization of the economy
Sheps first live performance while working during High School at WJOB he is sent to do a talk in front of a ladies club.
Fantasies Date: 05-28-69
9.7 MB
42:13 min
The Cut-clipped Date: 06-06-69
10.5 MB
45:55 min
Ludlow Kissel and the Dago Bomb Date: 07-04-69
12.6 MB
Wrong-way Corrigon - Clipped Date: 08-04-69
8 MB
34:58 min
Horse Opera Date: 09-05-69
9.4 MB
40:54 min
Salute To Jersey Date: 09-08-69
9.9 MB
43:05 min
Comments: Deodorant commercial mistake on "live" network TV
Announcer quiz - Shep gives voice imitations
Hair and deodorants as concerns - "reaching for antiseptic beauty"
Elegant luncheon ruined because somone had made the wrong step on the way over which confirmed New York's larger dog population than people population
Inverse Theory of Progress - the more a city is applauded for progress, the less progress it is making
Corporation Board Meeting with Mr. Bullard
Erotica Picture Corporation of North America presents Lesbia O'Toole in Hearts Aflame filmed in wide screen Eroticolor
A lady victim of Equal Rights wants to burn down statue of Susan B. Anthony
Another shattered dream - man buys a tapered Edwardian suit and ends up looking like a "bowling pin with ruffles"
Salute to Beloit, Wisconsin - 1st city to deodorize itself with giant city wide spray deodorant
Salute to New Jersey as apology to listener for "always saying bad things about NJ" - includes Hoboken, South Orange, Plainfield, Rt. 22 (with Pat Boone's Hamburger Heaven, Leaning Tower of Pizza, Two Guys from Harrison), Clifton, Neptune, Metuchen, Long Branch, and others
