Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison:
Playlists and Archives
Old Codger with Courtney T. Edison:
Playlists and Archives
The Old Codger: playing 78 RPM records like they're going out of style!
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April 16, 2013:
He doesn't need to prove he's God's gift to women. The facts speak for themselves.
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December 25, 2012:
He's not old enough to have known the baby Jesus, but he recalls as a youth reading the obit.
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December 4, 2012:
An hour of brutish entertainment
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October 23, 2012:
A quasi-life force fueled by steamed cabbage, cigar stubs plucked from the gutter, and petty grievances.
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July 3, 2012:
Nothing from the Codger's efforts grows stronger, better, or more beautiful; all is despoiled by mocking flecks of dung.
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May 8, 2012:
He's gone from crazy to foolish. Progress!
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November 8, 2011:
Show prep consists of three yawns and a pack of Luckies
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August 30, 2011:
Columnist Ty Muckton on the Codger (1944): "a surly curmudgeon whose behavioral spectrum consists of finely calibrated degrees of spitefulness."
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July 19, 2011:
He neither strives for achievement nor risks failure, focusing instead on solid, sustained mediocrity.
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January 18, 2011:
Stay out of his yard! Damn birds.
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December 7, 2010:
He's been "file-sharing" music since the 1930s. Only then it was called "shoplifting."
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July 27, 2010:
His third set of dentures are older than you!
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June 15, 2010:
If he ever forges his crankiness into a bullet, duck!
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January 12, 2010:
"His irascibility amounts almost to disease. He is a sad mortal to carry a wonder to." — Flossie Thrale
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August 4, 2009:
Spearheading the derrière-garde since 1948
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February 3, 2009:
Once described by his own lawyer as "a man of nugatory intelligence and much unpleasantness"
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December 22, 2008:
Loves the planet. Just hates all the people on it.
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June 10, 2008:
A fifty-dollar hat on a five-cent head
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May 27, 2008:
AARP considers him beyond his "sell-by" date
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May 20, 2008:
Buckets of unrelenting weariness
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April 29, 2008:
Still has full bladder control — and boasts about it often!
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April 15, 2008:
His autobiography grows an ever-thicker crust of hyperbole with each rehash
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April 1, 2008:
Pet peeve: YOU!
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March 18, 2008:
He wants to stick his chromium stylus in your groove!
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March 4, 2008:
His glass is always half-bull (Marathon 2008, with co-host Blossom Moskowitz)
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February 19, 2008:
At his age, it's hard to get parts
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February 5, 2008:
A nasty piece of work made up of many smaller pieces of nastiness
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January 22, 2008:
Old enough to know the guy who invented Monday
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January 8, 2008:
Tucked in his nostalgia blankie, blathering with self-absorbed gusto
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December 31, 2007:
Larger than life? He's larger than DEATH!
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December 25, 2007:
The Codger and his lady friend Blossom present the I'm In The Mood For Love (But NOT for Christmas) Extravaganza
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December 11, 2007:
He's been skinning local roadkill all day for stew
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November 27, 2007:
He just got the results of his blood test. It's RED. And HOT.
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November 13, 2007:
Thomas Wolfe on the Codger (1926): "a nervous ugly man, swollen with petty tyranny"
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October 30, 2007:
So old, his social security number's only three digits
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October 16, 2007:
Mean and stingy are his GOOD qualities
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June 24, 2007:
Refusing to budge from his perch atop Mt. Cranky
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January 2, 2007:
He's outlived five generations of obituary writers
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December 26, 2006:
Codger's not the Father of Old-Time Radio -- just a sperm donor
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August 29, 2006:
A Mamie Smith 78 is the only male enhancement drug he needs
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March 28, 2006:
He'd make surface noise the national anthem
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December 24, 2005:
For about three days in 1930 he was known as "Mr. Nice"
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December 6, 2005:
At the Codger's age, they mark birthdays by the decade
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July 23, 2005:
Is that an Amberol cylinder in his pocket, or is he just feeling frisky?
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December 25, 2004:
The reason there's a Social Security crisis is because the Codger started collecting 66 years ago and he's STILL ALIVE!
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August 21, 2004:
A walking wardrobe malfunction since 1906
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December 27, 2000:
All your Nora Bayes are belong to us!
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November 27, 1999:
Small town market share, big city ego
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December 28, 1996:
The Old Codger welcomes you to The Philco Cheap Cigar Boudoir
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August 14, 1996:
The best defense against accusations of intellectual vacuity is faked senility!
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December 30, 1995:
The Codger: Older than the first knock-knock joke
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April 29, 1995:
Courtney Testifies with Br. Paul
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December 24, 1994:
Sorry -- fighting for social justice, ending oppression and saving the planet are not on Codger's "To Do" list this week
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October 26, 1994:
Go West, Old Man! The Codger guests on KCRW, Santa Monica (host: Warren Kolodny)
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August 20, 1994:
Watch out or he'll dislocate your future!
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March 19, 1994:
Old enough to remember Casper the Friendly Ghost when he was alive
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March 5, 1994:
The Codger helps Laura during the Radio Thrift Shop '94 marathon
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January 8, 1994:
The cows came home long ago -- but he's still playing 78's
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January 1, 1994:
Codger's New Year's resolution: change the sheets
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December 22, 1993:
Where Memory Lane is riddled with pot-holes
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November 6, 1993:
The Old Codger: An ornery, crusty, useless, misanthropic, cigar-chomping anachronism
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October 9, 1993:
He loves YOUNGER women, age 45 or 50 — but he ain't messin' with no 40-year-old jailbait!
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March 24, 1993:
Codger and The Hound Marathon '93 Fiasco
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January 16, 1993:
He doesn’t just make history -- he makes it up!
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September 19, 1992:
The Old Codger: Age unknown -- carbon-dating tests ongoing
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June 13, 1992:
Plushed to the scuppers!
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December 28, 1991:
He's sowed enough wild oats to harvest 400 acres
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December 11, 1991:
Another evening of misplaced memories, questionable nostalgia, deranged opinions, and music nobody else cares about
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October 30, 1991:
The Old Codger: A carton with no expiration date
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August 17, 1991:
If you can't take it with you, he's NOT GOING!
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July 6, 1991:
His favorite singing group is Sophie Tucker
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May 8, 1991:
Putting the "stale" in "nostalgia"
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April 22, 1991:
The Codger and His Cronies Disrupt the 1991.1 Marathon
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March 27, 1991:
He'll snap your head off, then beg mercy from the court for being elderly and feeble
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February 20, 1991:
More incoherent recollection, meandering monologues, hyperbolic assertions, and cranky blather
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January 16, 1991:
He's got shoes older than you!
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December 19, 1990:
The Old Codger spins his usual toothless hillbillies, rancid novelties, and 250-lb. sumo sopranos
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October 24, 1990:
Playing 78s like they're goin' outta style!
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September 12, 1990:
The Old Codger: At large after being evicted from the Van Halen Nursing Home
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