Jean Shepherd - Avoiding Responsibility & Reality 1964
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- The only difference between American & Europeans is that the Europeans have lived through a lot of hogwash. Our old and their old are two VERY different things.
Starts at: 0:31
Jean talks about a one-set play (an apartment room) where Shep has a notion that his fake apartment was better than his real apartment.
Starts at: 2:58
A jurist believes that in the future the court system will have computers to decide that people are innocent or guilty. Are computers more human than humans? What would happen if mankind was replaced with machines?
Starts at: 7:45
Jean reads about an island cult who voted for President Johnson to become leader of New Hanover
Starts at: 14:00
Many guys never had anything ever happen to them so there was no past to live in. Other guys who have seen it all, know something that lesser men do not: life is a game
Starts at: 18:37
Jean comments on a news clipping from the Roanoke Times.
Starts at: 23:43
One can determine the age of a listener by the letter they write to Ol Shep. Print letters are from the kids and cursive is from the older generations.
Starts at: 30:15
The most devilish of human urges of to transform from lead to gold.
Starts at: 32:37
As a kid, Jean has the desire to learn about radios
Story Starts at: 34:44
[Audio is public domain, Photo © by Roy Schatt]
Hey Dapper Gent, this is a very timely (timeless?) episode🤔.
I’m glad someone noticed haha! Happy New Years!
-DG
(Me: four-fifty AM to five-fifteen AM) 00:50 "...Greasy Kid Stuff..." When I was in First and Second Grade circa 1965, my mother would embellish my hair style with a hair product called "Groom N" Clean", which held my hair in place, but was indeed kind of greasy💦. Then approximately during the time of this Shep's radio broadcast, a commercial came out for another hair product with the jingle 🎶"BRYL-CREAM, a little dab'll do ya"🎶, and a famous baseball player intoned something to the effect of: Brylcream will hold your hair in place neatly, not "like that greasy kid stuff". This commercial probably killed off all other "greasy " hair products, because no one wanted to be an adult, but use products designed for a greasy kid, and to be honest, I don't recall my mother using Groom N' Clean after this commercial. One thing I find remarkable, is that those two phrases are still being used in today's lexicon (first quarter of the 21st Century) by people who probably are too young to have seen or even know about those TV commercials 😂.
Jean is irreplaceable.
1:04 ...."...Second Children's Crusade..." Wow! I had forgotten about the SCC, and just now had a chill, remembering as a kid being taught about that, and I recall thinking how abusive to children those times had been, and i remember the fear i had back in the 60's that we kids might be forced into the same😮
One thing about Shepherd. He most certainly had political viewpoints, but I don't recall any of them being expressed. Anyone?
13:38 - New vocabulary word of the day: "Sarasen holder" (spelling?) Can someone explain what that is? Google lookup has failed me here😞