Best of Classic Radio 09-14-26 - A Pride of Carrots, Blind Justice, and the Love Affair

Wyatt Cox (0:00)

Thanks for being with us on this Monday, the 14th day of September. And we're going to have some fun stuff this hour. We're going to have the CBS Radio Workshop, their production of A Pride of Carrots, or Venus Well Served, June Foray, Bill Thompson, Daws Butler, Alan Reed. It is a fun treat for the year. Edward Pauley in Big Town, and Claudia, and the Country Auction, The Lives of Harry Lime starring Orson Welles, and we will wrap up the Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar story, The Confidential Matter. And it turns out things are just about as bad as Johnny thought they were. Enjoy this blast from the past, and I may just take one more week. I'm not sure yet. I'm just enjoying being able to have some time off, you know.

These 14 hour days get rugged sometimes.

Yep, they do, like the convenience store that was locking up at 10 o'clock at night. The guy said, Weren't you open 24 hours? The clerk said, Not in a row. Okay, let's get to what took place on this date back in 2022

SPEAKER_2 (1:23)

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SPEAKER_3 (1:47)

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Wyatt Cox (1:51)

A delightful episode of the CBS Radio Workshop from 66 years ago, September 14, 1956, A Pride of Carrots, or Venus Well Served. And we thank you for tuning in. On this Wednesday, and of course, you know what that means. This is the 14th day of September, 257th day of the year, 108 days remaining until we get to 2023 Francis Scott Key composed the lyrics to the Star-Spangled Banner on this date in 1814

Winfield Scott captured Mexico City in the Mexican-American War in 1847 The typewriter ribbon patented on this date in 1886 In 1901, on this date, President McKinley died of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him. In 1940, Congress passed the Selective Service Act, providing for the first time peacetime draft in the US history. In 1948, groundbreaking for the UN headquarters in New York City. In 1959, the Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the moon when it crashed onto the lunar surface.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries founded on this date in 1960 Mark and Mindy premiering on this date in 1978 Robin Williams' biggest TV hit, Entertainment Tonight, also premiered on this date in 1981

Princess Grace of Monaco died from injuries sustained in a car crash on this date in 1982 And in 1990, Ken Griffey Jr. and his father, Ken Griffey Sr., became the first father and son duo to hit back-to-back home runs. In 1994, Acting Commissioner Bud Selig announced the cancellation of the 1994 baseball season on the 34th day of a strike by players.

Donald Fehr (3:52)

Like a lot of things in life, you anticipate something and fear that it's coming, hope that it isn't.

And when the day is here, there's an incredible amount of sadness. There appeared to be no urgency, no desire to go to any extraordinary lengths to find an agreement. Every reason to believe, given the calmness with which this announcement was preceded, that this was something the owners had long since, weeks if not months ago, come to accept as necessary. We just can't continue to do business as usual. I'm all fascinated by the still portrayal of the greedy owners versus the greedy players. That's not what this was about. That's not what this is about.

Wyatt Cox (5:04)

Acting Commissioner Bud Selig and the head of the Major League Baseball Players Association, Donald Fair. Strike suspended on April 2nd, 1995 After 232 days, the longest such stoppage in Major League Baseball history, breaking the record set by the 1981 strike. 948 games canceled in all. Major League Baseball became the first major professional sports league to lose an entire postseason due to labor struggles. And I have to tell you that these labor stoppages have hurt Major League Baseball's perception to the American people, much like the strikes in hockey have hurt the National Hockey League.

You know, football and basketball tend to proceed without those issues, and you have the multi-millionaires there getting their salaries, and yet, baseball and hockey, they're not entitled to strike. Go figure. Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom completed a $37 billion merger on this date in 1998 to form MCI WorldCom. Microsoft issued the last update to MS-DOS on this date in 2000, and on that same date in 2000, Windows ME was released. It was meant to be Windows Millennium Edition, but quite frankly, it should have been Windows M-E-S-S because it was a mess.