178. A Great Run
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As we discussed in the last episode, we determined it would be extremely difficult to continue forward with the Smorgasbord Radio Show in its current form following the passing of co-founder Dave Jackson earlier this year. Have no dispair though, because Chris and Jerry will be launching a new podcast in early 2025. In order to finish this podcast series properly, it only felt right to return to how it started in January 2010 - with Chris and his daughter Ally teaming up on the mic. In this final episode, Chris and Ally discuss all the life stages we have moved through and the milestones...
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177. Reflections: Finding a Way Forward
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Chris and Jerry reflect back on a very difficult year and the challenges of living life in the 'new normal'. With the passing of Dave Jackson, our dear friend and co-founder of the Smorgasbord Radio Show, Chris has thought long and hard about how to continue the show going forward. Is it finally time to retire the Smorgasbord Radio show after 40 years?
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176. A Hole in Our Niche: A Tribute to Dave Continues
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Chris continues solo this week looking back our our friend, blood brother and Smorgasbord Show co-founder, Dave Jackson. Dave deserves more than one episode honoring him, so we found a few additional bits from over the years to round out our tribute: Palentine's Day Episode: Chris and Dave review male bonding activities and keep score of how many 'manly' activities they took part in together over the years. The results may shock you. Time Magazine Telephone Marketing: Taken from the original Chris and Dave Smorgasbord radio archives from 1984, Chris and Dave re-enact actual scripts...
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From the Archives: Paul Chris and Paul Dave
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Former longtime host of WLS's ‘Drive Chicago,’ Paul Brian passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on June 11. In honor of his passing, we are unearthing a rare recording of Chris and Dave from 2011 where they display their best baritone pipes to deliver this comical exchange. To give credit where credit is due, Chris and Dave 'borrowed' this concept from Chicago talk radio hosts Steve Dahl and Garry Meier who took on the names 'Paul Steve' and 'Paul Garry' and imitated Paul Bryan's deep radio voice. Chris and Dave decided to do this ad hoc recording after a special effects...
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175. A Hole In Our Niche
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The SmorgShow Podcast crew is devastated and heartbroken over the recent passing of our brother and co-founder of the Chris and Dave Smorgasbord radio show, Dave Jackson. We took some time away these past couple of months to grieve the loss of our dear friend, but now we are back to present this loving tribute to Dave. Our show never would have been what it was without the creative collaboration and contributions that Dave made to it over the years. In this episode we reflect on some of our best memories of Dave, and bring back some of our favorite episode clips of...
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174. Right or Racist: The Game
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Ally returns to the show and joins Chris and Jerry for a game of 'Right or Racist', the party game about stereotypes. Where on the spectrum will our hosts land? Other Topics: The AI Girlfriend - A Data Harvesting and Privacy Nightmare DignifAI - A new trend that uses state of the art artificial intelligence to analyze images and identify areas where they may not align with modesty standards. Without compromising the integrity of the original photo, DignifAI then applies digitally-rendered clothing, offering a seemless and respectful transformation. Baba Gonesh Investigative...
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173. Fasten Seatbelts: Turbulence Ahead
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After a much needed, but rather lengthy time away, Chris and Jerry are back for the first episode of 2024. And their return could not come any sooner! Here we are again in another election year. If recent history is any guide, we are in for some turbulent times. What will the globalists try this time? Another pandemic, a race war, power grid outages, or WWIII? Other Topics: Chris tries VR goggles for the first time Bill Gates celebrates World Toilet Day The relentless attack on the civil society and social fabric of the country The latest controversy with Google Gemini...
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172. SmorgShow Rewind: 'Letter From Cynthia'
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As we close out 2023, we went deep into our vast archives and dug up this gem from 2016 when the SmorgShow Players re-enacted the 1949 radio drama, 'Letter From Cynthia'. This is the 10th installment of the SmorgShow Theater radio drama series. Unlike other timeless Christmas classics like 'A Christmas Carol' and 'It's a Wonderful Life', this one is not very well known and can easily be overlooked. This was originally aired in 'The Whistler' old-time radio drama series from so many decades ago. Thank you to all our listeners for subscribing to our content and following us for so many years....
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171. Turkey Talk Hotline with Chef Ally
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Chris is joined by his daughter, Ally for this special Thanksgiving episode! Ally returns to the studio for the first time in over a year. As a result, the show has a more cheerful tone, free from the conspiratorial bent that has come through on our more recent episodes, thanks to the contributions of our Chief Conspiracy Correspondent. For our main course, Chef Ally answers listener emails and questions received on the Turkey Talk Hotline about how to prepare the perfect turkey and how to avoid common disastrous Thanksgiving pitfalls. The response to our campaign for listener contributions...
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170. Heart Attack Scam
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Kim brings a special fall cocktail to the studio while Chris and Jerry host this episode. The CDC quietly phases out COVID-19 vaccination cards Chris shares his observations about the current Hallmark Movies Lithuanian man arrested in Spain for faking heart attacks to avoid paying his bill at 20 restaurants Gen Z is now looking to AI for companionship Baba Gonesh's "Observations from the Street": A Fashion-Conscious Monkey Gen Z is lacking interpersonal skills and etiquette in the corporate world
info_outlineChris finds an old consumer complaint form that was filed in 1989 with the Illinois Attorney General's office in order to get out of a contract with a video dating service. This was a service where you create a profile video that is mailed to prospective love interests via VHS tape and in exchange you receive regular shipments of others who are looking for their own prospective love interest.
Chris alleged at the time that he met no one through the service, that each tape received featured the same individuals that he previously declined, and that the company had violated its payment financing installment policy by requesting full payment rather than the agreed upon monthly installments. Chris and Jerry discuss the trend of video dating services at the time as well as critique the Q&A interviews of the prospective love candidates sent to Chris on one particular VHS tape.