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1:16:00 - Regarding the "Fish Out" - and wow, what a beautiful story - I would like to make two cross-references. First, to the twenty-first-century iteration of the term, which is largely delimited to a certain subculture (I'll leave it to the reader to look up the definition for themselves, and to make their own inferences as to how far we've degenerated as a culture) Second, a significantly more endearing quotation from literary history, which perfectly resonates with Shep's wonderful reminiscence: "I asked professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men. They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was trying to fool with them. And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along the Desplaines River And I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with their women and children and a keg of beer and an accordion." - CARL SANDBURG

"...all human beings are engaged simultaneously in two tasks: (1) they seek to know more about the world, and (2) they wish to protect themselves from the world - especially from information that might prove upsetting. As the need for defense against disturbing information gets stronger, curiosity about the world gets weaker." - The Open and Closed Mind (1960), by Milton Rokeach I was reminded of this statement while listening to this episode. Jean's creepy story required both curiosity and physical co-presence to leave such a morbid impression on his mind. Appropriately, the apocryphal legend of Dillinger contextualized the physical relic with a mythical quality beyond verification. As a young adult, my brain was warped by unmonitored access to the early internet. I listened to this episode with great fondness, reflecting on these long-gone barriers-to-information-entry with idyllic reverence. In many ways, particularly for impressionable children, the world really is better when it's smaller and localized. I cannot imagine how disturbing it must be for a young child in this day and age, with a tiny internet-connected computer in their hand at all times. Horrifying.

Hey,hey have been a Shep fan from the beginning and thank you for all you're hard work of putting these up . I do have a request if you could cut the commercials. Even back in the day they were annoying .It would be so nice to be able to listen to Shep seamlisly without interruption Thanks again & Flick does truly live 😎 Excelsior you Fathead !!

Shep at Peak Shep!

10:19 Shep predicts playing baseball in air-conditioned stadiums and players coming to bat with their personal walk-up music.

How did Shep manage to foresee the rise of Trump over 50 years before it happened?

40:32 Didn't see that Ozymandias turn coming, wicked 😅

27:10: Some of my friends and I were planning a camping/deer hunting trip many years ago. We asked our older friend who was a Korean War veteran if he wanted to go. He said, "No. I did enough camping while I was in the Army."

I was on that track in my uncles mom and pop supermarket. In 25 years I could work my way up to manager and an 80 hour week. In the last few months of my senior year I would answer an add in Popular Electronics Magazine. The add was for the RCA Technical as a prospective student, it changed my life. The school got me a job at Stouffers to pay my tuition and room and board in NYC. The course was 18 months long , earning an associate degree in Electronics Technology. RCA placed me in my first position with the company as a Color Tv Field service Tech. To make a long story short I progressed in the company to Instructor and later on as a Color Tv research technician at the labs in Princeton. Upon retirement I took a position with Swarthmore College teaching basic electronics to Sophomore Physics Majors. I had a good run and retired for good when I was 70. In. Y retirement years I traveled the world with my wife of 39 years. We settled down in a little town in Donegal, Ireland called Ballyshanon.

In today's post-9/11 world, the first way of getting a job wouldn't work anymore, since all big companies now have greater security and you have to show ID at the front desk and tell who you're there to see and at what time.

More than any other episode, this performance makes me feel Shep would have loved General Semantics

1:14:29 beautiful

“…in some areas they’re more intelligent..”💀💀 I love seeing how this guy is able to sneak some jabs in here and there, and how clean they are lmao. I might’ve been born about 50 years too late

40:46 🎉

24:28 😂

7:04 😅

2:26 Bobbsey Twins. I read a lot of their books when I was a kid in the 1960's.

:58 Comedy about WWII prison camps (Hogan's Heroes). My dad was a WWII veteran. Hogan's Heroes was one of the few tv shows that my dad watched.

That last name part was interesting. At my job we don't use last names, and it can get very confusing when five men are all called Mathew!!😂

For me, the very best part of this episode is where Shep does his renditions of the live amateur Midwestern wee-hours TV commercial used car salesman and the chef's-hat-wearing, come-get-'em-while-they're-hot pizza pitchman! Sheer Shep delight!!!

Is there any Shep material that isn’t, great? I was in high school in Massachusetts, and got tuned into his WOR show, live.

In case anyone cares, it is Soldier Field (not SoldierS Field) in Chicago. Sorry, Shep.

Does anyone know the name of the first song that was played?

That theme song brings back so many great memories. I listened to Jean on WOR radio in NYC. What a wonderful storyteller he was.

We all know that he comes from a culture and a country that no longer exists. If you enjoy his work, then you are an endangered species.

Holy shit that intro is brutal💀

Great Shep stuff.

I absolutely love Shepherd's cultural metacommentary and reviews - endlessly fascinating - thank you for preserving, restoring and sharing his material <3

jean shepherd, the gawddang legend

Growing up I had the good fortune to be able to listen Shep every weeknight.

I'm not sure I agree with Shep's take on 1984. He posits that it is "economic," but I think it is far more "social." The citizen's of Oceania must outwardly laud the system for acting in their best interest. To openly state otherwise means death. They enforce social control through propaganda, technological and social surveillance. Your neighbor's duty is to report deviations, or risk his own annialation for failing to do so. The story of Winston and Julia is a cautionary tale, within this fictional society.

Listening must be done with your head down eyes closed in the dark

This is spot-on for people near Hammond.

18:35 😂

I'm already peeing and i'm only up to the 10lb bag o' rags. I was smiling at "gasket" but rags put me over the edge.

I miss Jean, to this day. I loved listening to him every night, still do, no one on air today comes close to his talent.

">Caller Defends the Worst You Could Imagine"< Thank goodness. I first thought the caller was going to claim an anatomical man can somehow "transition" into a woman.

The Chicago-area native who was a radio icon for generations of New Yorkers, primarily in the '50s and '60s.

I have to guess this is pre-1965. His voice sounds younger than it did in the 70s. He still took phone calls. He mentions performing at the Limelight.

42:17 the milk of human kindness began to curdle 😂

The CEO at a non-profit I used to work at was like that. He was very self-confident and probably narcissistic. OH BOY, what a temper! This was a peer-run mental health agency. He was so abusive to one of the department heads, that the department head threatened to quit. This department head was well-liked and respected, so the CEO agreed not to yell at him in the future.

How is it that every show makes me pee my pants?

Hilarious

He's been dead 25 years but hearing his voice is still just as soothing and reassuring as back in the day. Almost as though he's still around...

Can anyone tell a tale as well asShep?

Interesting to hear how pilots listen to Shep. Another great show on piloting.

Picking up radio stations from far away….pre internet. Jean was a pilot and I have a family member who is one. Very interesting for me to hear jeans take on a pilots frame of mind.

1:00 - i am sure that a certain percentage of people out there have witnessed what is being described at this moment, and I have witnessed this, once in the early 80's in the Barnegat Bay with my father and his brother-in-law. Interesting to me, Shep here, and my father and uncle all took a sexual take on the spectacle, while I in my 20's at the time thought being witness to hundreds or maybe thousands of german helmet/alien monster-looking horseshoe crabs slowly, gracefully and silently moving in unison in shallow, brackish bay water was one of the most awesome, beautiful, yet somewhat terrifying spectacles i have ever seen. Interesting to me that Shep and my family members looked at the spectacle as purely sexual, and I marvel to this day at the ancient, prehistoric, lunar affected, procreation miracle that enabled this ugly but at the same time beautiful creature to survive for millenia, if not millions of years. Edit I just googled and found that horseshoe crabs have been in existence for 445 million years. Horseshoe crabs survived the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, as well as ice ages and continent formations. But now are endangered due to overharvesting for bait and biomedical uses which drain the 💦blood out of the crabs, the blood being worth multi tens of thousands of dollars per gallon. A real shame that horseshoe crabs have survived hundreds of millions of years yet in a short time span, humans will probably cause their extinction. If they go extinct, what will become of their biomedical use?

Imagine Shep in our age of Grammarly.

Not one of his better topics.