It's time to smile again with radio's home folks!As we go done the undated Vic & Sade episodes of 1939, our first segment today shows us more of exactly how treasured Vic's lodge, "The Dowsy Venus chapter of the Sacred Stars of the Milky Way" is to him.
Sade gets an offering from Mr Gumpox the ice man to stock some of "the bushels of junk" in her family in an unused stall next to where Howard the trash horse sleeps. 
The items described seem pretty special to me. I can see in my mind's eye perfectly the framed portrait of lodge founder R.J. Konk with the eyes that light up. Hell.I'd hang that in my living room.certainly not in a trash horse stall. 
Dig in folks. This is a serious one.
Sade gets an offering from Mr Gumpox the ice man to stock some of "the bushels of junk" in her family in an unused stall next to where Howard the trash horse sleeps.Vic is mortified that she should consider his lodge treasure trash and something to be stored in a horse stall, he is afterall the club president.
The items described seem pretty special to me. I can see in my mind's eye perfectly the framed portrait of lodge founder R.J. Konk with the eyes that light up. Hell.I'd hang that in my living room.certainly not in a trash horse stall. This sequence is rife with Paul Rhymer's midwestern "vicandSadeisms"."I was as thankful as a lion", "It's as white as pie", "There's not adequate room to take a serpent" and of flow my all time favorite running argument and it's variations "Not adequate time to choke Billy Patterson" and "Not adequate room to choke Billy Patterson"!
I kept wondering, who the heck is Bill Patterson and in this wonderous digital information age it took me but a few minutes to find...
Dig in folks. This is a serious one. The second Vic & Sade undated 1939 episode for today centers about the age old subject of a boy maturing and his parents not acknowledging becoming a man. In modern sitcoms this would be a "very special episode" with dozens of scholarship and kissing and perhaps a particular message about literacy from Nancy Reagan, but in Rhymer's expert hands it's amusing to a 'T' and with actual reality and warmth under it. 
Favorite "VicandSadeism"? "It's no flesh off YOUR foot!". 
...who more of you may live from late in his career where he was the voices of "Little John" (Robin Hood), "Thomas O'Malley" (The Aristocats) and "Baloo" (The Jungle Book) for Walt Disney... 
SIDEBAR: Remember when drunks were odd and not pitiable? sigh! I miss those days.And simple minded and amiably boy-like, Irish tenor Dennis Day. 
Another great 1/2 hour of insight into possibly the better show ever done.
Favorite "VicandSadeism"? "It's no flesh off YOUR foot!". Enjoy:In "Speaking of Radio: the Jack Benny Program" part 11 of 12, the spotlight forms on the musical contributers of the show, most specifically on the personalities cultivated for the performers by Jack. This was never like the muscial act on SNL where you alter the line or go to bed, this was rightfully part of the show.
There was that loveable souse and ladies man, Phil Harris...
...who more of you may live from late in his career where he was the voices of "Little John" (Robin Hood), "Thomas O'Malley" (The Aristocats) and "Baloo" (The Jungle Book) for Walt Disney... SIDEBAR: Remember when drunks were odd and not pitiable? sigh! I miss those days.And simple minded and amiably boy-like, Irish tenor Dennis Day. Another great 1/2 hour of insight into possibly the better show ever done. Enjoy:
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