Have A Friend For Lunch
"Alfred Griner "Alferd" Packer (January 21, 1842 – April 23, 1907) was an American prospector who confessed to cannibalism during the winter of 1874. In 1968, students at the University of Colorado Boulder named their new cafeteria grill the "Alferd G. Packer Memorial Grill" with the slogan "Have a friend for lunch!" Students can order an "El Canibal" beefburger and on the wall is a giant map outlining Packer's travels through Colorado."
Science
"In science, you dont just get to cherry pick the parts that justify what you were going to do anyway, that's religion. You are thinking about religion. "
John Oliver discusses how and why media outlets so often report untrue or incomplete information as
The Long John Nebel Collection
For your listening pleasure here then is a fella who as far back as the mid 1950s was doing radio in ways that were not surpassed until decades down the road.
He was an early pioneer of what we might now call talk radio. In new territory he let all topics on the air, allowed the guest to go on for hours about their passions and on occasion would simply leave the studio and let the guests take over.
He quickly become the show that took on the topics most people of that time hardly heard on the airwaves. UFOs, government cover ups, psychic telepathy as well as skeptics to put all claims to the flame.
Jackie Gleason was on one night talking about his brush with UFOs, authors Lester Del Rey and Arthur C Clarke would show up to be the skeptics voice, Jean Shepherd would drop by to spin more yarns and over several shows Otis T Carr planned, built and tested his flying saucer. Spoiler, not so much flying was to be had.
Long John would not only cover hoaxes, pranksters and various charlatans he would often dive right in with his own creations. One show of note gets to the bottoms of the famous I Libertine book publishing hoax.
Give it a whirl, I pushed a cleaned up set up onto archive.org.
Enjoy.
Long John Nebel made great radio (50’s-70’s) on a plethora of topics. #otr #radio #ufo https://archive.org/details/TheLongJohnNebelCollection … Embedded image. 2:35 AM – 8 May 2016. Reply to @tomwsmf · Home · Sign up · Log in · Search · About. More like this; Less like this …
King George Speaks on VE Day
There comes a point in every national election year when I reach total saturation and have to tune it all out to stay sane—the nonstop streams of vitriol, the spectacles of electoral dysfunction, the ads, the ads, the ads. I’m sure I’m not alone in this.
