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Last Summary Update: 01-08-2025

12 Folk Talents
Airdate: Monday - January 8, 1973

WOR Show
Original Airing

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(NOTE ABOUT TIME REFERENCES: Since there are many different copies of shows out there from different sources, all time references are from the beginning of one single recorded copy, since various copies, depending on when the recordee started recording, had news at the beginning or shortened themes. The times would vary from copy to copy.)

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Yeah, I mean you know, we gotta salute one great athelete here. . .

Show Description

Shep reads article about man who stands up from bar stool, sneezes, and falls through glass door. He then talks about the annual sneezing contest in Peru Indiana and his own embarrasing sneeze. His brother Randy could wiggle his ears. Boles was a great knuckle cracker Leigh can touch her wrist with her thumb His old man had double jointed shoulders Spitting as a talent Gum Snapping Creativity with yellow snow Boles kicks the ceiling Scut Farkas could play music using a pencil on his teeth Randy could pour an entire quart of buttermilk without swallowing until it was all down and then let out a giant belch.

News Articles Read by Shep During Show

Shep would often read articles he recently read or were sent in by fans

Time	Image	Description
• 02:08		Bar Stool Sneeze

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 15:13	This is WOR New York

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 15:14	Castro Convertible
• 16:15	Veteran's Administration

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 02:48	Banjoreno

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 03:09	Ed Scaterday
• 03:34	Leigh Brown
• 26:31	Liz

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

Kazoo

Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
• [ 08:45 ]	People		Rutkowky, Boles
• [ 27:08 ]	People		Bruner, Ralf
• [ 27:08 ]	People		Flick
• [ 27:08 ]	People		Schwartz, Paul
• [ 27:23 ]	Plots / Story Lines		John's Lunch
• [ 3611 ]	People		Farkas, Scut

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

This Show

Date	Title
January 8, 1973	12 Folk Talents	Original Airing
March 26, 1976	Folk Talents, Boles knuckles/spitting	Syndicated Replay

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"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
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