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arkadyfolkner · PO3 Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 271

One wonders if this will be the undoing of his campaign? Because ALL he has to do is be his smug and arrogant self, or make a serious gaffe, and he'll destroy his chances.

Me and the girlfriend will have to watch our would-be Socialist Overlord just to see how badly he screws himself with this arrogant infomercial.

Besides, isnt he bumping baseball that night? you do NOT want to make those fans mad!

zinfella · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:58 pm Post subject:

I cannot bring myself to watch the arrogant SOB. I'm sure that there will be an old movie on at the same time.
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TEWSPilot · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:08 pm Post subject:

I love Old Time Radio, so more and more I just go to this site and listen to programs I heard as a kid and up into my youth. Shows like "Gangbusters", "Gunsmoke", "Inter Sanctum", "I was a Communist for the FBI", "Sky King", "Sgt Preston of the Yukon", "The Shadow", "Suspense", "Fibber Magee and Molly", "Jack Benney" and all the old variety shows, hundreds of great programs -- my favorite is "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar". Each case was done in segments, which ran for 15 minutes each weekday night, with the 'finale' on Friday night when he solved the case and brought the perpetrators to justice. Dollar is an insurance investigator, and the story is told in terms of his expense account. There's always a beautiful girl, murder, intrigue, all the ingredients. Some of the great radio stars played various characters...not trying to run a commercial here, but this is an EXCELLENT alternative to the CRAP on TV these days, and a beneficial option to listening to a BO Crap-a-thon Infomercial for MARXISM.

Streaming Old Time Radio ...plays on Real Player.

If you want to buy CDs of the programs, there is another site that I like (probably lots of site, but this one is very cheap, like $5 for a CD plus freebies on Samplers)

zinfella · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:14 pm Post subject:

TEWSPilot · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:16 pm Post subject:

When I was a kid, I would hide under my covers after I was supposed to be asleep and listen on a crystal set that I built. At that time, my favorite was "Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons". It's on the OTR site, too. Tell me more about "The Fat Man".

...found it. You can get 50 episodes in ".mp3" format on the second site I listed (click on the banner). Here's the link to "The Fat Man" series (...costs $5 plus S&H)...you can also download a free episode:

The Fat Man

zinfella · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:36 pm Post subject:

Check out the website below. It also has a photo of J Scott Smart, the actor that played The Fat Man, and from that you'll see that he also looked the part.

<http://www.old-time.com/sights/fatman.html>
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zinfella · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:45 pm Post subject:

TEWSPilot · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:04 pm Post subject:

Now, after all these years, you can finally find out how that episode ended....just doing my public duty....does that make me an "honorary Community Organizer?" Laughing

zinfella · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:26 pm Post subject:

In that photo he looks a lot like Avery Schreiber! Laughing

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Navy_Navy_Navy · Admin Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 5777

I LOVE OTR!!!

Fibber McGee & Molly is one of my favorites - but Lum & Abner are the BEST!!! Lum for President! Let's 'Lect Lum! Wink

Here is more free OTR than you can possibly listen to in a lifetime:
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=otr%20AND%20mediatype%3Aaudio

They have vast chunks of all the popular series - in the case of Lum & Abner, for instance, there are hundreds of shows from the 30's, 40's and 50's. But, there are megadoses of just about any radio show you could want.

And here's The Fat Man on archive.org - and yet he weighed only 237 pounds? He sure looks like he's a lot heavier - the picture doesn't go with the scale.

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Leeman · PO3 Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 265 Location: Connecticut

I like "yours truly Johnny Dollar" also maybe because the Insurance company that he worked for was in Hartford CT.
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TEWSPilot · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:57 pm Post subject:

What a difference half a century of Liberalism makes. Crying or Very sad

zinfella · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:51 pm Post subject:

TEWSPilot · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:11 am Post subject:

What ever happened to those old Western Movie and TV Stars?...some even served honorably in the military, and one was the most decorated military veteran of WWII.