Wednesday, June 24, 2015

HMOTD 009: Someday You're Gonna Buy It


Mike and Rob enjoy two great episodes of WKRP in Cincinnati: the toe-tapping "A Commercial Break" and the powerful reverse shark-jump, "Who Is Gordon Sims?"

(Full show notes appear at Hold My Order Terrible Dresser two days after each episode is released. All audio clips are the properties of their owners/creators and appear in this work of comment and critique under fair use provisions of copyright law.)

Check out this episode!

5 comments:

  1. I'm genuinely bummed that at no point did you play either version of the complete jingle.

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    1. Sorry, Jeff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXRxYLfq78g

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  2. Re: desertion.

    In 1985 I was billeted at the transit barracks in Camp Pendelton, waiting for a ride to my new unit. In the next bay were a gaggle of 20 or so guys, some young, some middle-aged, one guy in his late 50s. They were not confined in the sense of being behind bars: they were restricted to the area of the barracks, marched to and from chow. Roll-call was held on a regular basis but I saw no special effort made to keep them from bolting.

    They were deserters. Guys who had walked away, and not come back. Clearly, the older guys had been on the run for a while.

    Their fate varied, but generally, I was told, if a guy had been gone for a few years, he was being held long enough to process his paperwork, give him a discharge, and 'so long'.

    Based solely on my experience, I believe that the Army would, if presented with a deserter from 1970, in 1978, would hold on to him long enough to process the paperwork and bid him farewell.

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    1. Brian, thanks for this story; fascinating stuff. This is the kind of thing that a book about the Carter/early Reagan-era military won't necessarily tell you. Thanks for contributing and we'd love to hear from you on other topics as the show progresses.

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