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Selling Out
Airdate: Monday - October 30, 1972

WOR Show
Original Airing

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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

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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	Apres la Mort 1	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

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

	Date	Title
	October 30, 1972 Recno: 8891	Selling Out	Original Airing

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