Jean Shepherd - "Michigan Fishing Story"

[@TheScavenger71]

Thank you for posting the date of the broadcast. I have this show in my personal collection but didn't know when it was done. Many thanks.

[@greenteablend]

You can track down broadcast dates using the FlickLives database: www.flicklives.com/index.php?pg=224&XA=0

[@TheScavenger71]

@@greenteablend Thank you. Yes, I have done that and have had some success. The biggest issue is because most of these broadcasts were home recordings they don't always have the same name. Something like "Indianapolis Race" is pretty much cut and dried but more than once I downloaded a show with a new name only to find I already had that show under a different title. But thank you for the reminder. By the way, if you go to the archives of radio station KRAB FM in Seattle you'll find a two hour interview with Shep, Leigh Brown, and three members of the KRAB staff from October 1971. It is not available for downloading but you can stream it. It's a great interview with Shep being himself and towards the end you get to hear Leigh Brown talk about her role in the TV Show Jean Shepherd's America. Excelsior!

[@greenteablend]

@@TheScavenger71 This reply is a little late in coming, but I just found the KRAB FM interview. I plan to restore the audio and will post the entire two hour show in the next 2-3 weeks. Thanks for the info!

[@chrisest1965]

Sad that this story only has a little over one hundred listens. Five of which are mine. Soon it will be six. I love this story.

[@greenteablend]

Chris, it has 11K+ views.

[@westentrance]

I miss this guy.

[@polarbear3306]

There's nothing better than Shep at his best! THANKS!

[@franknowakowski3103]

Excelsior!

[@ericwertanen3018]

Let’s be honest here... Mr. Shepherd is the true “King of all media”. Movies ... one of which is a holiday favorite that gets its own Marathon. Great radio show. Great tv show. And a story teller like no other. Great

[@williamgilbert6892]

I followed this guy since 1970 (I was a senior in high school). NOBODY told stories or had the sound effects he had! Hope I come across some of his scarier ones--he could hold you spell-bound (especially with my cheap, scratchy radio & the lights out.) I'd close my eyes and be taken back to another time where my imagination could run wild!!! Thank's for posting!

[@wgoconnor33]

What a story I used to listen to Shep while helping my mom do the dishes in NY

[@TryHarderYouTube]

I have a 50 minutes commute to work. Just enough for one full episode...1962-1967.

[@TheBelegur]

Greatest story teller on radio EVER.

[@bettywing52]

On October 22, 1962, President Kennedy spoke to the nation about the Soviet nuclear rockets in Cuba in a televised address. But Shep made it to WOR.

[@polarbear3306]

C'mon guys, let's spread the word and grow the base! Shep lives! We can make it happen.

[@allenquartermane6134]

I had a Motorola 9 volt radio I used to put under my pillow to listen to Shep so the olman wouldn't know I wasn't asleep. I was about ten at the time, and Rt 22 was our haven of shopping bliss in Jersey! All the kids he talked about, Scut Farkas, Flic, etc.. was like he was talking about my gang. I'm 68 and this women came over to visit and I was playing the Fishing for Crappies tape and I never heard her laugh so much, and now I think she's hooked. I had a poster of Shep on my bedroom wall, and the olman would always look at it and shake his head and ask me if I was turning into a beat nik! hahahahhahahhahahahha........Kids now have no idea of the incredible art it is to story telling and Shep was the master for our time. I even saw him in person at the old RKO International theater after the porn movies let out, and all the guys in long coats turning their hats down and hiding their faces from all us kids in line to see Shep! What a hoot! My main purpose for my paper route was to have enough 9 volt batteries to never miss a show! and baseball cards for the Bazooka wad of pink gum! Oh those were damn good times!

[@allenquartermane6134]

@@orionorion99 That's funny!

[@cmans79tr7]

In that era I had an Orion transistor radio, and it was a good one, it said 8 transitors where ,"lesser" radios had 6 (ha ha!). In the evening to help drift off to sleep, I would listen to the Mets night games, hosted by Lindsay Nelson, Ralph Kiner and Bob Murphy, but even though my father would occasionally mention "Shep", I never heard Shep nor searched for him, although after the Mets games were over, I would sometimes search the dial to see what stations I could pick up via the atmospheric "skip" in the late evening, and from Central Jersey I could get a station I think was WBT in Wheeling, I assumed West Virginia. Was interesting to listen to Country Music in NJ at that time. One evening while searching the dial i did pick up some guy with a great story telling voice relating ( likely it WAS Shep) how he and his two buddies came across an abandoned house, and found a device which could generate electricity, and they would shock each other with it. They would return to that house multiple times, and the guy telling the story said they built up such a "resistance" to the shock, that they could take a 110 wall socket with ease! Ha Haha ! (Of course 110 can kill you, so don't try it).... At some point, I forget how or when, my father "commandeerd" that radio, hung it by the strap on a nail on the cabinet next to the bathroom sink, and every morning I would hear him listening to Imus in the morning getting ready to go to work. I wonder if Cavemen kids would have similarly heard their cavedad humming to himself in the wee hours of the morning while he was sharpening his tools getting ready to go hunting/gathering?😃

[@allenquartermane6134]

@@cmans79tr7 Oh yeah! Imus was another of my favs! There's so much kids nowadays have missed out on when it comes to pure Americana! and theres the amazing Mets! hhahahaha......

[@mortimerzilch2608]

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN - bring back SHEP!

[@deedonnerramone4757]

A pod Cast before the idea entered the "what if '

[@eddiecarderjr.2976]

2nd only to Mark Twain in US storytelling yet few know of him.

[@pieterisp]

Those that create for fools will have a large audience.

[@AdventureJim1969]

Now This in one impressive Fish Story. It's not so much what happened as the way Shep gives us his impressions of the incident.

[@vrt42]

AdventureJim1969 great stuff of a bye gone art!

[@csbohannon1]

there's some mighty fine podcasts out there. not bygone yet! still this guy's one in a billion

[@jordanhicks5131]

Tiger muskie, monsters of Michigan

[@mortimerzilch2608]

FLICK LIVES !