{"id":3111,"date":"2023-04-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/04\/30\/radios-noble-savage-jean-shepherd-and-the-secret-people-thats-us-shep-and-kludge\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:24","slug":"radios-noble-savage-jean-shepherd-and-the-secret-people-thats-us-shep-and-kludge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/04\/30\/radios-noble-savage-jean-shepherd-and-the-secret-people-thats-us-shep-and-kludge\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio&#8217;s Noble Savage:  Jean Shepherd and The Secret People (that&#8217;s us) &#8212; Shep and Kludge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B3B6AVs_R2M?start=1566?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>I was looking at the pictures from the Nearfest hamfest when I spotted this quite from Shepherd at the bottom of a post in the AM Window by Carl WA1KPD: <\/b><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><b style=\"background-color: #e8e8fa; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: red;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">&#8220;Okay, gang are you ready to play radio? Are you ready to shuffle off the mortal coil of mediocrity? I am if you are.&#8221; Shepherd<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>I Googled the quote and that took me to this 1966 article from Harper&#8217;s: <\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keyflux.com\/shep\/shepharp.htm\"><b> http:\/\/www.keyflux.com\/shep\/shepharp.htm<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The article is a (mostly) accurate view of Shepherd. Much of it would not be socially acceptable today (and rightly so). The article correctly describes Shep&#8217;s stories as being truth-based but also filled with hyperbole. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>This got me wondering: How did Shep pronounce kludge? I mean, it could have been him who put me on the pronunciation track of kludge like fudge. He wasn&#8217;t being listened to outside of NYC, and maybe Boston and San Francisco. So that may explain why the rest of the country is getting the pronunciation so completely wrong. We may be on the verge of a breakthrough here. Steve Silverman: ALERT! <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Can anyone find a recording of Shepherd using the word Kludge? A Bronze Figlagee with Oak Leaf Palms will be awarded. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Check out the Harper&#8217;s article and the video (above) of Shep talking about THE SECRET PEOPLE. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>EXCELSIOR! <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking at the pictures from the Nearfest hamfest when I spotted this quite from Shepherd at the bottom of a post in the AM Window by Carl WA1KPD: &#8220;Okay, gang are you ready to play radio? Are you ready to shuffle off the mortal coil of mediocrity? I am if you are.&#8221; Shepherd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/04\/30\/radios-noble-savage-jean-shepherd-and-the-secret-people-thats-us-shep-and-kludge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Radio&#8217;s Noble Savage:  Jean Shepherd and The Secret People (that&#8217;s us) &#8212; Shep and Kludge?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,314,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jean-shepherd","category-kludge","category-silverman-steve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11298,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions\/11298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}