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Last Summary Update: 05-01-2026

Stealing Spicy Magazines
Airdate: Monday - June 7, 1971

WOR Show

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(NOTE ABOUT TIME REFERENCES: Since there are many different copies of shows out there from different sources, all time references are from the beginning of one single recorded copy, since various copies, depending on when the recordee started recording, had news at the beginning or shortened themes. The times would vary from copy to copy.)

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Eins, Zwei, Drei . . .

Show Description

I'm a cultual fall guy How many saw our Beer show last night on television? Who was the first health food nut in the comics. Sandy - Black Strap Molasses organically grown Flick give Shep a spicy copy of 'Terry and the Pirates', 'Popeye', 'Winnie Winkle' and more in class and Miss Nelson catches them. The phone call came from Miss Nelson later that night! Shep and the group are getting their newspapers together for their routes. They notice a bunch of dirty magazines. He steals one folding into one of the newspapers. At the end of his route he discovers he threw the wrong paper onto someones porch! The next day he grabs another and then another. He kept them in the basement behind the ice box. One day when he went down to 'read' - they were gone! Nobody said anything.

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 14:52	Everywhere you look there's a barnacle hanging on the underbelly of the ship of life. Which reminds me this is WOR New York. . .

Commercials (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 15:14	Palisades Amuesment Park

Music (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 02:07; 05:22; 07:00; 10:40; 20:33; 34:24	Unknown - Flea Band March

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 05:31	Herb Squire
• 03:10	Keith

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

Kazoo
Echo Chamber

Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
• [ 04:18 ]	Television		Beer
• [ 17:26 ]	Schools		Warren G. Harding Elementary School
• [ 19:57 ]	People		Flick
• [ 22:34 ]	People		Nelson, Miss
• [ 25:35 ]	People		Woczniewski, Chester

Record: 8767 / ID: 19710607W8767

Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

This Show

		Date	Title
		June 7, 1971 Recno: 8767	Stealing Spicy Magazines

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Database Record Status

Database ID #:	19710607W8767	Sponsors up to date:	Yes
Record Created:	05-01-2026	Sources up to date:	Yes
Last Update:	05-01-2026	Station ID up to date:	Yes
Show Redated From: See Dating Notes		Engineers up to date:	Yes
Music up to date:	Yes	Instruments up to date:	Yes
Description up to date:	Yes	Date Confirmed	No

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Notes

Dating Notes

Notes

Time: 04:18 Source: Jim Clavin (Date: 05-01-2026)

Shep makes reference to his "Beer" episode of JSA last night. (Sun 6/6/1971) Makes this show 6/7/1971

Time: 11:16 Source: Jim Clavin (Date: 05-01-2026)

"It's the beginning of the week"

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	Recordee			¹ Shortened Theme: 55 seconds ² Audibly Dated: By recordee or other ³ Modified Theme: Theme added by Gary Hines ⁴ Syndicated Intro: Intro broadcast as part of Synd Shows
	This copy used for summary time references		Inventory File Name coding explained

Source Name

Information

Gary Hines

Running Time: 45:10

Timing Reference
Inventory Name: 1971 06 07_W8767_097 Stealing Spicy Magazines.mp3
Source filename: 70-00-00 Stealing Spicy Magazines.mp3
Station: WOR

"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975