"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 12/16 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 12/16/18 | Freak SJW Murray Horwitz

[Vision]

Friends it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana.

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[Vision]

The Big Broadcast is a Sunday night tradition for families throughout the WAMU listening area.

Longtime radio personality and The Big Broadcast host Ed Walker passed away early on Oct. 26 at age 83. We invite you to leave your thoughts and remembrances.

Saying Goodbye To Ed Walker

Ed Walker spent 65 years on the radio. His last program was unlike any other.

[Vision]

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

[Vision]

7 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The Red Mystery Matter” (CBS, Original air date December 20, 1959)(Running time 23:36)

7:25 p.m. 75th Anniversary, Death of Fats Waller

7:45 p.m. Hot Chocolates
“Big Business, Parts 1 & 2” (Fats Waller and Eddie Green, Original air date October 14, 1929)(Running time 6:57)

8 p.m. Gunsmoke
“The Professor” (CBS, Original air date November 20, 1960)(Running time 27:56)

8:30 p.m. Dragnet
“The Big Impression” (NBC, Original air date August 7, 1952)(Running time 26:49)

9 p.m. Lum & Abner
“Christmas Eve at the Store” (Blue Network, December 24, 1942) (Running time 13:36)

9:15 p.m. Firesign Theater interview (Running time 20:33)

9:35 p.m. “Tile It Like It Is”
(KRLA AM, December 24, 1967)(Running time 26:44)

10 pm The Campbell Playhouse
“A Christmas Carol” (CBS, December 24, 1939)(Running time 59:10)

[Vision]

Happy Sunday all and Merry Christmas! No thread next week as I’ll be traveling.

Lots of variety tonight...Hot Chocolates...Firesign Theater Interview...Tile It Like It Is...and ending with a Christmas Carol from ‘39, the best of years for it...

How are you? Haven’t thought of Christmas shopping yet...

[Viking2002]

Evening, folks.

[WXRGina]

Hi, Vision! Last week I watched “Holiday Inn” and “White Christmas.” They’re wonderful! Big-time BING PING! :-D

How’s it going?

[Vision]

Hey! I am waiting with anticipation for the latest story on the goings on in Alabama.

[Vision]

Sounds good Gina. It’s a Wonderful Life will be played around here soon.

Anything new?

[Viking2002]

Well, I haven’t finished my Christmas shopping for that end up there. Looks like I’m not only going to make it up until next month, I think I may need to make another trip to the doc for a radiology referral. And some serious prescription painkillers. When I fell, something broke. Or fractured, anyway. I went to church this morning, and could barely sit in the pew for an hour. We went shopping afterwards, and by the time I got home, I wanted to hang myself. She can’t get time off this year, and there’s no way I can make a 1500 mile round trip solo. A simple cough causes paralytic pain. I’d cause a wreck on the highway if I had a spasm. Looks like my disability claim is moving forward, though. Now I have 20 more pages of forms to fill out and a phone interview this week.

[Vision]

Damn, sorry to hear it. So no lights, Christmas decorations, no bass fishing?

[WXRGina]

That’s a good picture, too. Love it!

We’re doing fine, enjoying our Christmas lights and trees. :-)

[Vision]

Make this...

10 pm The Campbell Playhouse
“A Christmas Carol” (CBS, December 24, 1939)(Running time 59:10)

With Lionel Barrymore directed by Orson Wells!

[Viking2002]

Oh, I got two 18” trees, a 6’, and a 9’ up two weeks ago. Lighted mantle garland, the usual. Didn’t bother too much with the outside lights - where we live, nobody is going to see it. Just a string around the door, a Victorian Christmas street lamp, and a pair of 40” Noel candles. I have dusk-to-dawn electric candles in all the front and side windows all year, anyway, so I haven’t gotten out the holiday candelabras in years. Back before we bought this house, I used to go full Clark Griswold - one year, by my count, I had up somewhere in the neighborhood of 15,000 lights, inside and out. NASA could probably have seen us from orbit. And I haven’t been able to pick up a pole for three months, for the most part. Between the anterior rib fracture back in September, falling over in the kitchen last month, and now this, my range of motion is pretty limited. I’ve had a bruise across my tuckus since before Thanksgiving. Connie went for her checkup last week and told the doc what I did, and he didn’t even look up from his laptop. He just shook his head and said, “He’s just falling apart.” When I call him tomorrow, it’ll be my fifth trip there this year, and three of them were/are rib-related.

[WXRGina]

Oh, that’s past our bedtime, Vision! Very good show, though. :-)

[WXRGina]

Dang, Viking! I’m sorry you’re so bad off. That sucks.

[Viking2002]

God will provide. Connie and I have said for years that, no matter what the situation is, He gives us just enough to get through it. That’s good enough for me.

[Vision]

So you’ll have 50 people over for Christmas right? And you’ll do most of the work?

[Viking2002]

NO. No. No. No. No. And hell no. Freeloaders at Thanksgiving is one thing, but Christmas consists of the kids, spouses, grand-kids, and one niece-in-law. Christmas night is when Connie gets to sit there with lawn and leaf bags and gather up all the debris as it's created. *chuckle* And she can clean up after the buffet spread. For all the "I'll get to it!" I heard last month, I still spent an hour cleaning up on Black Friday. I'll toss food and dishes in the garbage can before I go though that again next week. 😡

[WXRGina]

And God is always so good to us.