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  • Episode 112, February 22, 2025 - Jean Shepherd Marathon, Part 6
    In this episode of the Jean Shepherd Marathon, we present:

    1. From September 11, 1960,  "Listen Baby, " air conditioned graves?  A reading from "Fu Manchu. " Shep mentions that "this is the last of the Sunday night shows, " and that his new air time will be 12:15 A.  M.  to 4:00 A.  M.  Memories of his recent trip to Guantanemo Bay,  Cuba.  Fall Haiku.  
    2. From September 18, 1960, What not to name the baby,  the water polo game of life,  "The New Jersey Effigy Company. " After the 4:00 P.  M.  time tone,  Mutual net news with Sanford Marshall is heard.  
    3. From February 22, 1961, Tapping the one thousand foot long watermelon of life.  The game of "World Diplomacy. " "National Nothing-But-The-Truth Day. " "Civil War: A stirring promotion theme. " 
    3 hr 14 min
  • Episode 111, February 15, 2025 - Jean Shepherd Marathon, Part 5
    In this Jean Shepherd Marthanon we will play:


    1. From September 3, 1960, The MONY sign,  Shep plans to make the first purchase at the new Paperbook Gallery.  Three hundred copies of "I Libertine" will be given away.  Og and Charlie on the shore of Lake Titicaca: the first clam is eaten.  The commercial for "The Electronic Workshop" (one of the sponsors) features a monaural component system for $150! 
    2. From September 4, 1960, A ride on the caterpillar.  Being on the "art studies" mailing list.  Don't vote!  The revolt of the British bus drivers.  A taste of slumgullion.  Getting the itch.  
    3. From September 10, 1960, Shep describes his visit to Guantanemo Bay,  Cuba.  Shepherd on the Voice Of America?  What would the world think?  Drawing objects and really seeing them.  A phone call from a "lovable girl" and a "dynamic man of action. " 
    2 hr 57 min
  • Episode 110, February 8, 2025 - Jean Shepherd Marathon, Part 4
    In this Jean Shepherd marathon, we present:
    1. Shep talks about: the chain on the door, the steel mill and "Terry and The Pirates." Permanent protection from the elements. WOR is breaking in a new fifty thousand watt transmitter after the show (the one in current use was put into service in 1923). Mom's cookie cutter, The New York Times asks Shepherd for assistance. Whitey Ford pitches to a loser. Fu Manchu for president! Chinese water torture, a lifetime credit card, three roosters on a bathtub. Portions of this program might be recorded out of sequence. (July 10, 1960)
    2. The emblem of the eagle should be replaced by a cocker spaniel. A modest proposal for ex-presidents (and others). The starlings have arrived in Queens, memories of the Lone Ranger. (July 23, 1960)
    3. "The Footrace Of Life" in New York. At the dog track: chasing the rabbitt of life. Shep reveals the source of alligators in the sewers of New York City. (July 30, 1960)
    4 hr 3 min
  • Episode 109, February 1, 2025 - Jean Shepherd Marathon, Part 3
    In this Jean Shepherd episode:
    1. The recording begins with Dwight Weist reading the WOR News. Grand Prix auto racing, fishing, air races, dance marathons. (June 25, 1960)
    2. The July 4th weekend, old Wallace Beery movies, Druids at Stonehenge, "We are being inundated by a wave of creeping meatballism." Shep asks all listeners who are using a portable radio to wave a white handkerchief or towel in the air. Shep refers to Del Sharbutt as "a human pipe organ." He awards a "brass figmagee" and recalls his mother's "rump sprung chenille bathrobe." Shep plays, "When The Bloom Is On The Sage" on his nose flute. Riding buses in New York. A good show! (July 2, 1960)
    3. Summer madness and "The Great  Ice Cream War." A real ingredient in bowling balls is cheese! (July 4, 1960)
       
    3 hr 52 min
  • Episode 108, January 25, 2025 - Jean Shepherd Marathon, Part 2
    In part 2 of the Jean Shepherd Marathon, we will present:
    1. Coney Island: the man in the batting cage, a visit to Germany, the Cincinnati Human Fly, grandmother's eyeglasses, "Excelsior, You Fathead." (April 9, 1960)
    2. Jean has been locked out of his office at WOR! Angry cab drivers, a world filled with agents, Aunt Theresa's Jell-O molds, Aunt Theresa and Uncle Fred. "There are elements of Ahab in each of us!" (April 16, 1960)
    3. A movie on the Late Show, a panorama of the Civil War, Indiana, a snake chucking, "Night People," a new kind of sin. (June 4, 1960)
    3 hr 26 min
  • Episode 107, January 18, 2025 - Jean Shepherd Marathon, Part 1
    Aichecks is featuring a Jean Shepherd Marathon, where we play as many shows as we can from the late 1950s to 1977 on WOR in NYC. In this episode, you will hear:

    1. I, Libertine (a literary hoax)
    2. Shepherd praises the "Gogomobile" at length (a cheap Dutch auto). Ronald Metzger said it for all of us. A Bacchanalian cry: Evoe! (May 2, 1959)
    3. 12:15 P. M. to 2:00 P. M. The first Jean Shepherd show on a Saturday afternoon. "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles," two letters from kid listeners are read, the solar system and restrooms. A five-and-dime grab bag. Shep complains about American  radio and compares it to radio services around the world. The Mutual net news at 1:00 P. M. has been deleted. (March 26, 1960)
    3 hr 51 min
  • Episode 103, December 21, 2024 - Christmas Special
    This is the Christmas Special of Airchecks! In this episode we feature:


    1. Hercules Poirot's Christmas (BBC, December 24, 1986)
    2. A Christmas Carol (Campbell's Playhouse, CBS, December 24, 1939)
    3. Marley's Dead (BBC Comedy, December 24, 2010)
    4. The Night Before Christmas (NBC Radio City Playhouse, December 15, 1949)
    Next week will be a New Year's Celebration episode.
    3 hr 43 min

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This Airchecks focuses on radio shows from old time radio to current shows written as plays or when a radio show was recorded. A showcase of radio programming that may have been lost over the…