1,449 episodes
The Brass Figlagee Jean Shepherd
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4.7 • 101 Ratings
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A mostly-every-night earful of the genius that was actor, writer, satirist, and humorist Jean Shepherd. Shep (as both he and his fans called him) is very hard to tie down to one or two labels. He was one of the great media talents from the 50s to the 80s, very much like the Mark Twain of his time, and most nights he could be heard on the radio waxing eloquent, his gift for insight and articulation wrapped up in what seemed like comedic nostalgia, fascinating and inspiring generations. His stories work on so many levels. His characters are vivid, unforgettable, and oddly likable. Shep had an uncanny mastery of the narrative form: enticing the listener with his nightly premise, careening down one tangent to the next, eliciting knowing laughs along the way, and often leaving one with a warm sense of the fondness the artist felt for his past. And somehow, more often than not, one might sense a deeper meaning, a hidden message in all the lighthearted romps. This podcast is an attempt to maintain, and hopefully spread, awareness of Jean Shepherd, his wonderful mind, and his amazing body of work. (photograph (c) Copyright Fred W. McDarrah, Used With Permission)
Customer Reviews
The wonders of Shep and other things…
we grew up in a time when people had conversations. People spoke to each other vs at each other. I think its because the people were in the same studio with each other so it mitigated impolite behavior. Now with satellites commentators are relegated to little boxes on one screen and can be as rude as they wise without a thought to getting into an altercation.
It was better the other way: civil discourse on a wide variety of interesting subjects. Thats what Shep, Long John Nebel,Barry Farber,Candy Jones, Barry Gray, Alan Colmes and others presented to the listener. Im so grateful to be able to hear Shep with Long John unedited.
God bless them all.
Pleased to discover Jean Shepherd again
I have been a talk radio listener for decades, and I always regretted not having listened to Jean Shepherd when I could have as a kid. I remember getting little radios as gifts and never having anything that I wanted to listen to. Being able to fill the time with honest, fun stories that are in some ways still relevant is almost therapeutic. Great podcast.
Irrelevant and still a socially pertinent commentary.
I’m exceedingly happy that so many of my radio listing cohorts have rediscovered Jean Shepherd as adults. Although, I think he would have been a little disappointed that so many would relish the program out of nostalgia.
I’ve seen a number of his social predictions come to pass and most of Shepherd’s commentary remains pertinent today. Almost all of his thumbnail plot sketches have become movie plots, ie “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”. In short his is a multi-talented voice that speaks to us out of the night still.