"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 3/2 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 3/2/14 | Ed Walker

[Vision]

Friends it's Sunday night again, and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another four hours of classic radio Americana.

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*tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.

[Vision]

The Big Broadcast is a Sunday night tradition for families throughout the WAMU listening area. Each week, Big Broadcast host Ed Walker offers listeners priceless recordings of popular radio programs from the '30s, '40s and '50s. Priceless, especially, for a man whose first sentence as a child was, 'Turn the radio on.'

[Vision]

Happy Sunday Night...Classic Radio Time...

(((((Early Ping)))))

[Vision]

• 07:00p Johnny Dollar
  06/12-13/56 Laughing Matter Pts. 2-3 (CBS) (26:56)
• 07:30p Dragnet
  05/01/52 #151 Big Safe (NBC) (26:48)   
• 08:00p Gunsmoke
  05/21/55 #162 Liar From Blackhawk (CBS) (24:42)
• 08:30p Life of Riley
  06/09/50 The Spicy Book (Pabst) (NBC) (29:58)
• 09:00p Nick Carter
  10/25/43 #029 An Angle on Murder (Sus.) (MBS) (28:52)
• 09:30p Suspense
  11/10/57 Pit and the Pendulum (Ex-Lax/Heinz/Pontiac) (CBS) (23:36)
• 10:00p NBC University Theater
  09/10/50 #105 Lost Horizon by James Hilton w/Raymond Hill (Sus.) (NBC) (59:08)

[Vision]

Hi All, an early ping as I’ll be away from the computer until showtime.

We have a Suspense tonight...and a winter storm on the way here...

[WXRGina]

Hi, Vision!

I hope you stay safe and warm during the storm! I’ll see if I can work up a synopsis list here in a bit.

[Vision]

Hey Gina, what’s happening?

[WXRGina]

Hi, Vision,
I’ve just been doing house work, as usual, a little extra cleaning, so I didn’t end up stopping to do the list. Oh, well. We’ll hear it as it airs.

Did you have a good day today? Volunteering again?

[Vision]

Yea, today was good and the Feds just closed so I have the day off tomorrow. Kind of a crazy week with an insane supervisor, but all is well.

I've got a bbq assignment for you...

[Vision]

Also, with no good movies on TV last night I tuned into Hot Jazz Sat night.

[WXRGina]

Very cool on all of the above! Show me the barbecue! :-)

That jazz show rocks! You have a day off tomorrow, and that’s almost like Mardi Gras here—it’s Tuesday, although the parades have been going on for a few weeks now, “Carnival Season,” as it’s called. But, lots of people are off work on Fat Tuesday.

[Vision]

Somebody shoot Shinn in the back and let’s move on with our lives.

[Vision]

Your assignment is pork steaks. I mentioned these to you before but this is a new, and easy, method.

Get 1” thick pork steaks. I buy a boneless butt and slice them lengthwise.

Put your favorite pork rub on.

Smoke indirect at 275 - 300 until they reach 185. This took 3.5 hours Saturday.

Serve with bbq sauce on the side.

Report back.

[WXRGina]

Got it! Good suggestion to cut our own pork steaks from a butt! Hey, that sounds like a winner! :-) Stand by...

[WXRGina]

I had a feeling Shinn was a scared guy. It turned out sad.

[Vision]

I wonder if there is another show as good as GS. The acting, sound effects, sophisticated stories and raw emotion...it really stands out. Off the top of my head I can't think of another OTR series that was so well done.

[Vision]

...stories that can be brutal and also very intimate; in the same show.

[logitech]

Sounds good. We’ll try that recipe next weekend.

What kind of grill do you use?

I don’t know if I can go 3 hours on the green egg @ 275 without overcooking. Can I keep it @ about 200F?

Any suggestions?

[Vision]

I use a WSM.

What do you mean by “I don’t know if I can go 3 hours on the green egg @ 275 without overcooking. “

(I wouldn’t recommend 200.)

[Vision]

You don’t have to go 3 hrs, you need to take the steaks to 185f and mine stalled at 160 for over an hour.

[WXRGina]

We were just wondering how an indirect 275 to 300 degree grill could not overcook 1 inch pork steaks for that amount of time. No biggie.

Keith’s been running grills for about 35 years now, so he was curious. We’ll try this. It sounds excellent!