Here is a little addition to our Yesteryear Listening Guide. We've looked at all our radio shows, and have grouped them into the day of the year they were broadcast. As a little bit fun we've also added some small snippets. See what was on the airwaves on your birthday, or other memorable dates in your year. Happy Listening!
On This Day:
P. T. Barnum's circus starts 1st tour of US (1835) BORN: Johnny Weissmuller actor (1904) DIED: Giuseppe Garibaldi revolutionary (1882)
Quote:
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. (Abraham Lincoln)
Fact:
Norse Gods: Baldr (God of Beauty/Innocence/Rebirth) - Forseti (God of Justice/Peace/Truth) - Gefjun (Goddess of Fertility/Plough)
Word:
gainsay (verb) 1: To declare false; deny 2: To oppose by contradiction
Fortune Cookie:
Better to face danger than be always in fear
Poem:
Now the swinging bridge / Is quieted with creepers... / Like our tendrilled life / (Haiku by Basho)
Joke:
During sex, my girlfriend always wants to talk to me. Just the other night she called me from a hotel.
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Lydia Winters has just been divorced and plans to be marry again. Her uncle sets up his will as a weapon between Lydia and her new husband. One of the characters is named, "Ballinger," an in-joke on the name of Hollywood radio actor, "Art Ballinger".
Johnny is hired to protect 4,000 year old antiquities being sold and transported to a local museum in Connecticut. Losing his memory is not going to help Johnny Dollar in his mission!
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