The Friday Maze #4: Happy 235th Birthday, Uncle Sam (7/4/17)
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1:18:12 – More Friday Maze! This was a spontaneous bonus episode back in 2011, the only episode of the series not to be released on a Friday. (Trivia hounds take note. I’m sure that one will show up on Jeopardy! one of these days.) Arthur Jaz is Shambles Constant and you’re not.
Originally released on archive.org on 7/4/11
Show notes:
1. Happy Birthday, USA – Jean Shepherd (Excerpt, recorded 7/4/64)
Jean Shepherd and live audience wish the United States a happy birthday.
Public domain.
2. Quad, Part 1
Arthur Jaz at a cajun music concert on the Illinois State quad. Dennis Stroughmatt & Creole Stomp.
3. Stop! Look! Listen! to the Music of the Band – The American Quartet
Music from 1921. Public domain.
4. Quad, Part 2
Jaz talks about The Friday Maze.
5. Lum Doesn’t Go to the Fourth of July Picnic – Lum and Abner (1945)
Originally aired 7/4/1945.
Public domain.
6. Fireworks, Part 1
Jaz walks around getting audio footage of crowds waiting for fireworks to start.
7. Skeeter Says Like Hi
See title.
8. Fireworks, Part 2
Technical difficulties plague the fireworks presentation.
9. Skrowerif
Experimental audio by Arthur Jaz.
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Shambles Constant, Falling Cow Productions – more info at onsug.com
Released July 2017 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.
Am I dreaming or do you always go to fireworks by yourself? 😉
Comment by Jimbo — July 4, 2017 @ 6:27 am
😃
Only the years when the rest of my family goes to Wisconsin and I have to work so I can’t go (2011 and 2016). We’ll all be going to fireworks tonight. Right now we’re at the parade in Lac du Flambeau near Minocqua.
Comment by Shambles — July 4, 2017 @ 9:23 am
The Flaming Lake?
Comment by Jimbo — July 4, 2017 @ 9:57 am
I don’t know if that’s the literal translation, but it’s close enough. The local casino is called Lake of the Torches.
Comment by Shambles — July 4, 2017 @ 7:49 pm
Ya ought to take a jaunt up to Sweet Esther and see the RJ Konk Memorial Home for the Veterans with Steely and Watery Slate Eyes
Comment by Jimbo — July 5, 2017 @ 2:30 am
Or the Enormous Hall for the Narrow-minded… Left-Sagging Hospice for the Slightly Crippled… Halfway House for Wayward Lassies… House-on-the-Hill for Crazy Youths…
Comment by Jimbo — July 5, 2017 @ 5:49 am
General Structure for the Bamboozled and Mentally Injured… Adobe for the Desert-Dwelling Caffeine Addict… Home for the Hirsuit
Comment by Jimbo — July 5, 2017 @ 5:56 am
Looks like I have a lot of ground to cover!
Comment by Shambles — July 7, 2017 @ 6:26 am
At the Adobe, ask for PQ…
You are coming back in August?
Comment by Jimbo — July 7, 2017 @ 6:52 am
Got back yesterday. It was a good trip (as always too short).
Comment by Shambles — July 8, 2017 @ 3:39 am