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Barry Farber Show
Airdate: Wednesday - October 21, 1981

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  Barry Farber Show with Jean Shepherd - Fistful of Fig Newtons Tour

No intro - Shep gives most abstract show as audition - and it worked - they loved it!

Wright Brothers couldn't keep new bike on the ground!

Shep's origins with talk radio.

Music break (theme??) - 4:34

Barry intro - Fistful Fig Newtons

Shep in Who's Who of American Women

Nut jobs they knew.

Short Wave explosion.
WMCA ID 16:02

Reintro - Shep on PBS Playhouse

Great American 4th of July - praise for Matt Dillon & James Broderick

American Rituals - Dish Rag Chain Letter

No greater thrill than hearing an audience laugh at you stuff.

Pinnacle of career - Carnegie Hall

Break & ID 28:05

reintro - Songs Shep sang (gap at 28:43)

GAP - Ham Radio-Nazis.

Timing the end of his radio show. "I am a pro!" Compares himself to Tom Seaver.

Remembering Long John - cuts off in story 37:46

GAP - pickup reintro - Farber remembers Shep in 1956 on WOR.

Working in the mills as a kid - shooting TV show in the Open Hearth

The return of Watts - loser of the neighborhood, turns full-bird colonel.

Creeping Meatballism - John Foster Dulles was a listener - gave the phrase to Eisenhower for a speech!! 48:20

Break & reintro restart 48:25

Shep the Adventurer - Scuba Diving, Headhunter Trip

Fired and goes into hiding in Maine

Bath Mat story - 1:01:01

Back - Candy for Headhunters, JFK Assassination - Shep preempted! He was pissed!

Claims to have "thousands" of tapes!

Farber's first week at WOR - Shep advises him to just be himself and cut loose.

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This Show

		Date	Title
		October 21, 1981	Barry Farber Show

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"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
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