Paul Harvey Jedi Master

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Transcript

01.24.2025 

Paul Harvey Jedi Master

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Well well and hello hello.  I know, I took a bit of a hiatus!  Well you know, holidays, and then the rest felt pretty good.  Creative things ideas come and go and, for me, the time off felt pretty good.  Taking notes but in no real hurry to produce.  Actually, sometimes rest feels pretty good because you actually “forget” all those production habits that work, and while relearning them you get a little better for the time off.  Sort of like a golfer who finds their swing again … feeling a little fresher after some time off.

I have been wanting to revisit Paul Harvey for quite a while.  He was (and still is) one of the all time “Kings of the Mic” and I remember listening to him often.  So recognizable.  I would argue he was the best story teller of all time.  Well, close to it, anyway.

Years ago (this broadcast was in 1965 … older than me!) This hit the airwaves and as there was no internet, it came and went as radio waves could carry.  Still, this was likely his most impactful commentary. Now, if you think about it, 1965 was just as the social revolution was heating up in the US.  Vietnam was evolving rapidly, but still 3 years away from peak counter culture.  A marker left for 1968.

It does say quite a bit that he penned this episode, titled, “If I Were the Devil” in 1965 … if only because it rings so true today and makes me think about how society is evolving.  The fact is much that we tangle with now was unthinkable when I was growing up.  And yet, we were tangling, because the mid 60’s was a spicy time most were not prepared for.  

I played this years ago for some friends in California.  They are pretty conservative and the episode got some head nods quickly, followed by a lot of reflection and conversation.  Minds blown about the era in which the episode aired.  

Now, ask yourself, “Would this air today?”   Honestly, I doubt it.  It would be cast off as too risky, maybe evangelical, over-the-top and, dare I say, offensive.  How far we have come boys and girls.  How far have we come.

Just to get ahead of the offense, I do replay this without apology.  I am semi-conservative, but not much of a bible thumper.  I really make it my business to stay out of peoples business. I mean, we all have dark closets that close at our last breath.  That is by life design.  And a good thing, really.

Still, the overlap is the high voltage gray area … high caution … that we all have to be aware of.  Yet we cannot really sacrifice our own good sense, either.  The obvious being obvious … at least to us.

So did Paul Harvey hit the mark here?  I will let you listen and judge for yourself.  Or maybe judge yourself.  

Regardless, whatever your conclusion is, I say so be it.  Paul Harvey wasn’t wrong, but he does seem a bit ahead of the curve.  As he seems to be stating the obvious to me.  An episode that rises to the top but one that should be in the dust bin archive as a quotidian majority opinion.

Ok, ok, so I am pretty conservative.  Whatever.  

And with that I give you around three-and-a-half minutes of the 1965 version of Paul Harvey social commentary.

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