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It's the time of the year when Christmas Story airs repeatedly BUT what you don't know is that creator Jean Shepherd was NO Ralphie.
Radio's Jean Shepherd, who's cultists of late night listeners cowered in the dark, hiding their transistor AM sets underneath pillows so as to not get caught listening after hours to the mellifluous maven of anarchistic storytellers, warped a generation's mindset during the 1960s.
Modern audiences know him only as the faceless narrator and co-scripter of the timeless depression era A Christmas Story directed by Bob Clark. But those episodes are strung together from the prodigious writings of Shep who's non-stop monologing on WOR-AM transfixed millions for decades.
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