Talk radio great, Jean Shepherd, tells the story of how Flick's tongue got frozen to the telephone pole.
This is it! The 50 minute rambling story that led to about 2 minutes in one of my all time favorite movies _A Christmas Story_. Jean Shepherd was a crazy midwesterner who made his way to New York in the middle of the last century to pioneer talk radio. There are a number of hilarious anecdotes related by him and about him. My favorite is how he used to consistently promote a book called _I, Libertine_ to his listeners. Frustrated, people would write to him that they were unable to find such a book in their book stores and the proprietors seemed powerless to order the title. When he finally got enough requests that he deemed it worthwhile, Shep wrote _I, Libertine_ and sold a ton of copies! What a huckster!
I recommend you skip the first chaotic minutes and start listening at about 6:30, where the story begins for real.
Jean Shepherd
Flick's Tongue
28 January 1968
Jean Shepherd
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