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Selling Out
Airdate: Monday - October 30, 1972 (Airdate Confirmed)

WOR Show
Original Airing

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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

Creeping around inside his north side home in Pittsburgh with his .357 Magnum pistol still smoking

Show Description

Salute to Ralph Zelik of Pittsburg who shoots his motorcycle Big guns - .44 magnum I've had my experience in the political arena - one thing that will wake up an American is 2 words, politics and sex. And of course money, but money is involved both in Politics and Sex so actually they are intertwined I am corruptible, and I'm one of the few men to admit it Sell outs Mephistopheles and Faust to scary music

News Articles Read by Shep During Show

Shep would often read articles he recently read or were sent in by fans

Time	Image	Description
02:01		Man kills his motorcycle

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
17:07	Fecund, which reminds me, this is WOR, New York, rich, ripe, a compost heap of ideas. It's just, here's WOR sitting in the middle of the dial here, just like a compost heap of just boiling passions.

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
18:00	Movie Promotion	Escape to the Sun - Premiers tomorrow
18:55	Lufthansa Airlines
20:08	House of Chan
23:22	Gramercy Park Clothes
25:46	Political Ad
39:19	Alexis Lichine Beau-Jolais Wine
40:58	Wolffs Kasha
42:20	General Tire

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
02:54	When The Saints Go Marching In
32:12	Unknown - Scary Music

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
07:36	Bill

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

Kazoo

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

This Show

		Date	Title
		October 30, 1972	Selling Out	Original Airing

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"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