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Stealing From the Melon Patch
Airdate: Monday - July 8, 1968

WOR Show
Original Airing

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First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Here we are, hello there gang. . . .

Show Description

Mrs. Boggs and the Turnip patch, "Pistachio" - the kid made out of balsa wood, male things, choosing up sides. Shep quickly runs through these items in his opening comments during the first few minutes of the show. He reads an article from Blyville Arkansas about a Deacon asking the lord to strike his congregation all dead. They all turn on him and everyone ends up in court. Shep sets the topic of the show by mentioning that is the heart of cantaloupe season in the Midwest. He, Flick, Schwartz and Bruner go out to the river on their bikes and come across a cantaloupe patch. After a discussion about stealing one, they decide it is too light out and they should come back after dark, Even though they all had cantaloupes in their refrigerators back home, they felt the need to steal one. They go back home, eat supper and hang out until it gets dark. Then Shep, Flick and Schwartz hop on their bikes and return to the field just out of view of the farmer's house. Accompanied by owls, mice, muskrats, black snakes and all the other creatures that come out at night, they sit there cutting open cantaloupes and eating. After eating their fill they decide to take some home and just as they were about to leave a dog starts barking. A door slams in the distance and the farmer is silhouetted in the moonlight at the top of the hill. "Who's down there? Who's down there in that field?" The shot gut goes off and there is the sound of bees going past the boys ears. Flick gets nicked with one of the pellets. They take off and don't stop until they come to the gas station where they all run into the men's room and unleash all the cantaloupes they had eaten. "Crime does not pay!"

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• Shep yells at Leigh. "It pays for the producer to pay attention!"

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Record: 846 / ID: 19680708W0846

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	Date	Title
	July 8, 1968 Recno: 846	Stealing From the Melon Patch	Original Airing

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Database ID #:	19680708W0846	Sponsors up to date:	No
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Gregg Motyka

Novatech

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Source: Max Schmid
Max says this show is from "Novatech" at the beginning of MB show
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	Recordee			¹ Shortened Theme: 55 seconds ² Audibly Dated: By recordee or other ³ Modified Theme: Theme added by Gary Hines ⁴ Syndicated Intro: Intro broadcast as part of Synd Shows
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Running Time: 44:59

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Inventory Name: 1968 07 08_W0846_500-536_M2002-05-28 Stealing From Melon Patch.mp3
Station: WBAI

Comments: Mass Backwards recording

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Running Time: 42:59

Recordee:
536 - Novatech

Inventory Name: 1968 07 08_W0846_022-500-536 Stealing From Melon Patch.mp3
Station: WOR

Comments: Ripped from mass backwards recording

Gary Hines

NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Source description: 7-8-68 Stealing Melons
Station: WOR

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54 - Gregg Motyka

NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Source description: Stealing From Melon Patch.mp3
Station: WOR

"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975