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Live (well, live on MP3). from their primary domiciles, it's the mighty GLoP podcast! This week, a trip back to days of show biz past as the GLoP-heads revisit (warning: you may want to sit down before you read the next few sentences) the long lost Jerry Lewis Show, which ran for 5 episodes in 1984. Also, who was Joe Franklin and why was he on TV? We answer that question for you. Also, will the movie theater business (and the live show business at large) survive COVID-19? We discuss. And when will this all be over? And what about the kids (specifically, John and Jonah's kids)? Finally, the guys discuss what they are watching with all of their free time.
John Podhoretz
Jonah Goldberg
Rob Long
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WOR Ch. 9 was Million Dollar Movie, the Mets, Knicks and Rangers, and Joe Franklin for most of the 1960s through the early 80s because they were by far the cheapest of NYC's independent stations. But their sports programming got them uploaded for a while as a Superstation when cable/satellite TV came vogue, like Ted Turner's WTBS or WGN in Chicago, because they were desperate for programming. So there was a brief period in the late 70s and early 80s that viewers in places like Lubbock or Tucson could enjoy the bizarre nostalgia goings on of Joe Franklin (and the show just fit in with WOR's old studio at the seedy south end of Times Square; it wasn't quite the same when the FCC forced them to move to New Jersey).
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As mentioned in the show, we connected the guys on video for this one. Here are a couple of screen shots. Have some video that I might post later:
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Perhaps it was Mussolini who set the example for Tony Curtis by having a "mistress/biographer", although Curtis topped him by having two.
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Rob's selection of eye wear is very Melmanesque:
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I was thinking more Harry Carey. Rob should have guzzled a Bud and sang "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" three-quarters of the way through the podcast.
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