{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Presenting the Transcription Feature 188: ROGERS OF THE GAZETTE & LUM AND ABNER","description":"It\u2019s summer time, and I want to present a couple of summer-themed and summer-adjacent radio shows.  We\u2019ll start off with real American politician, writer, and newspaper publisher Will Rogers, Jr playing a fictional Will Rogers, Jr who runs the fictional small-town newspaper, the \u201cIllyria Weekly Gazette.\u201d  What else says summer more than a county fair, with lots of people partaking in various competitions?  Well, this year, the ladies of Illyria have decided not to participate.  Whither the jams, jellies, and pickles?  Then, I finally get around to presenting \u201cLum and Abner.\u201d  The show was created by, and stars, Chester Lauck as Lum and Norris Goff as Abner, the owners of the financially disastrous Jot \u2018Em Down general store.  The show was a 15-minute continuing serial, a comedy soap opera.  In both of tonight\u2019s episodes, the boys are planning vacations. Episodes Rogers of the Gazette October 22, 1953 \u201cEula Horner and the County Fair\u201d 2:27 Lum and Abner September 8, 1942 \u201cBack to Nature\u201d aka \u201cVacation\u201d 34:10 July 19, 1945 \u201cStore Closed for Vacation\u201d 46:17 ","author_name":"The Chronic Rift Network","author_url":"http:\/\/chronicriftnetwork.libsyn.com","html":"