Episode #17 - Shprintza
16 minutes, 56 seconds
What’s in a name? In Boston, 1960, a chance to make $1000.
Welcome to the Not Book Club Material Podcast
To begin with, this is not a podcast in the conventional sense. Or even in the unconventional sense. There are no interviews and there are no guests. It is just me, some of my talented friends, and a few hired guns, telling stories and spinning tales. Stories which I have been telling out loud, often ad nauseum, for years, which ended up in my short story collections and now find themselves being recounted out loud once again. In part, they are like stories you would hear from a bar stool, back yard bbq, or around the campfire and, in part, like an old time radio play. My books, my sister-in-law once told me in a moment of unfiltered candor, are not book club material. I loved that. I think she is right. I thought it would make a good name for a podcast which is not really a podcast material.
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Episode #16 - The Blessing
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Two dates on the same day is too much for a guy who does not have the ability to get through even one.
Episode #15 - Twenty Cent Wings
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An explosive boss, a hapless paint salesman, and the cheapest lunch in business history.
Episode #14 - Rashi's Dime
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A discovered dime is said to be a message from beyond. When I find one, all it brings me is more anxiety.
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Yorkdale
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I take my wheelchair-bound friend Harold to the mall on a doomed mattress-buying adventure.
The Rumour
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In Moscow, nine out of the ten times we stood in line, we did not know what we were standing in line for. Moscow was a city of people lines. It did not matter what it was. Because we needed everything.
Twenty Cent Wings
12 minutes, 24 seconds
An explosive boss, a hapless paint salesman, and the cheapest lunch in business history.
The Blessing
17 minutes, 39 seconds
Two dates on the same day is too much for a guy who does not have the ability to get through even one.
