Good Night
868 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsSometimes it's hard to get to sleep.You just can't seem to say goodnight to yourself. Booze helps sometimes...or pills. But that's a big step down a bad street. "Good Night" puts a smile on your face, tells you a bedtime story, helps you chuck the day's problems, gives you a verbal back rub, and tucks you in for a safe, sound, sleep. Dick Summer's voice puts a strong and friendly arm around your shoulder. You hear him on television commercials all day. But when it's getting late, and you want to "take the day and shove it," but you can't seem to say good night to yourself... Dick's Podcast is a quiet place to rest your head...a safe place to hide a hurting heart...a gentle place to fall. It's a comfortable way to tell yourself, "Good Night."
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Stuck In The Middle With You
January 07, 2018 11:00 - 16 minutes - 30.2 KBI'm sitting here in my big, manly, comfortable black leather poppa chair in my living room, recording this podcast about a week after New Years. It's cozy in here but it is cold outside. This is kind of an in between time for the next couple of weeks. We seem stuck In the middle together somehow. Auld Lang Syne has just recently faded out, but we can still reasonably wish folks "Happy New Year." Pretty soon that will fade out too, and we'll be back to "Have a nice day." When that happ...
The Best Ever New Year Wish
December 31, 2017 11:00 - 11 minutes - 16.2 KB2018 will bring lots of new things. Some good some not so good. I like new things, and remembering new things that happened long ago. My first girlfriend, leaving my oldest son off at kindergarten for the first time, the first sniff of a real Christmas tree, the first time I flew an airplane by myself. This podcast contains a New Year's wish that I was afraid I would never be able to give you again. Happy New Year.
Our Santa Flight
December 24, 2017 11:00 - 23 minutes - 31.8 KBSanta isn't the only one who flies for Christmas. My Lady Wonder Wench and I did too. This podcast is about the memory of finding Christmas from 2,000 feet in the air.
Christmas Dreams
December 17, 2017 11:00 - 17 minutes - 23.7 KBIf it weren't for dreams, Christmas would be just another cold winter night. This podcast is about dreams, and the dream our little Cecelia had about wishing you a Merry Christmas.
Christmas Wonders
December 10, 2017 11:00 - 21 minutes - 29.9 KBMy favorite Christmas carol, played by my favorite Christmas carol player, and a story about an encounter with THE MOUSE from "Twas the night before Christmas all all through the house, not a creature was stirring except THIS DAMN MOUSE!
Christmas Connections
December 03, 2017 11:00 - 16 minutes - 30 KBSanta is the guy who connects us with the feelings you had when you were a kid, and got your first Christmas train set, or when you were a little older and got your first Christmas kiss. He gets a bum rap these days for the loud, frequent and tasteless commercials. But give this podcast a listen, and you may find a genuine connection to...Christmas.
Looking For The Christmas Kid
November 26, 2017 11:00 - 14 minutes - 27.4 KBThere's a little, excited, Christmas kid inside most of us. It has nothing to do with religion. It's a feeling that makes you want to jump up and down and open presents. We'll find that kid in this podcast.
Thanks Is The Magic Word
November 19, 2017 11:00 - 15 minutes - 21 KBOnce again looking forward to the arrival of Mr. Turkey, Mr. Claus and Baby New Year. This podcast explains why it would be good for Mr. Turkey to talk to Mr. Easter Rabbit, and also why good Louie Louie Generation guys so very generously let our women spend the whole Thanksgiving Day in the warmest room of the house. While we risk our lives sitting in front of the dangerous rays streaming out of the TV tube.
Midnight Fantasies
November 12, 2017 11:00 - 14 minutes - 26.6 KBBlack lace falling quietly on a soft carpet, touch me looks flicking across rooms, warm hands in sensitive places, a lover's key turning in a lock...fantasies. That's what this podcast is about. Fantasies are the difference between underpants and a thong. Have a fantasy with us.
More Stories
November 05, 2017 11:00 - 14 minutes - 26.6 KBI love sitting here in my big, comfortable, manly, black leather poppa chair in my living room. It's a safe place to tell you some of my favorite stories. If I tried telling you some of them in person, you might be tempted to tell me to stop bothering you and go play some old Louie Louie Generation appropriate games...like walk scotch, hide and go sleep, or spin the hot water bottle. You might even want to attach a banana peel to the tip of my cane. But ha...I don't have a cane. But I...
National Breast Awareness Month
October 29, 2017 11:00 - 17 minutes - 32.1 KBSome of you have been listening to these podcasts for a while, so you will have some understanding of the testosterone tsunami that shook me today. This is no kidding. I saw a sign outside a medical building today that said..."This is National Breast Awareness month." My Lady Wonder Wench was driving, and in an instant I understood that old psychological precept: "Your unconscious mind is much faster than your conscious mind." My big mouth was connected to my unconscious mind at the t...
Fantasies
October 22, 2017 11:00 - 18 minutes - 33.2 KBFantasies turn underwear into lingerie. Fantasies turn ordinary men and women into heroic movie stars, or dreadful villains. More importantly fantasies turn a relationship into a romance. A relationship builds over time, a romance just explodes. And a fantasy is usually the spark that ignites the explosion. Like lots of our friends my Lady Wonder Wench and I have been together for a long time. It has been good...and comfortable...living together. Comfortable is good. But it's also r...
Still Pulling An All Nighter
October 15, 2017 11:00 - 15 minutes - 27.6 KBI'm sitting here in my big, manly, black leather poppa chair in my living room ...and it's so comfortable. Not at all like the hard chairs and harsh fluorescent lights I remember from when I was doing the all night shows at WBZ and WNEW and WNBC. There were good things and bad things about being on the air all night. One of the bad things was there weren't many people listening, but one of the good things was that the people who were listening were really listening. It wasn't just s...
Angels Again
October 08, 2017 11:00 - 16 minutes - 30.3 KBAngela is a special lady. My Lady Wonder Wench and I have known her for a long time. I call her "Angels." She has a problem with the beast right now. She can use whatever prayers and/or positive power thoughts you can send her. Today's podcast will give you an idea of the funny way we met. "Angels" is a good, tough, Brooklyn lady. If anybody can beat the beast, it's Angels. Please help. She's special.
Bunches Of Hunches
October 01, 2017 11:00 - 18 minutes - 34.7 KBI'm guessing that just from the sound of my voice, you can tell where I'm recording this podcast. That's not a hunch, it's a guess. Because I've given you lots of hints over the years. There's a difference between a hunch and a guess. A guess has a lot of figuring out involved. A hunch just hits you. If I thought I had a shot at having my Lady Wonder Wench join me for a night of passion all those years ago based on the fact that she was smiling at me lot, twiddling with her hair, and ...
Exceptional Beats Perfect
September 24, 2017 11:00 - 14 minutes - 26.4 KBI am sitting here in my exceptionally comfortable and manly black leather poppa chair in my living room. It now has a small streaky spot on the left arm rest where I spilled a little coffee a few mornings ago. So it is now exceptional as opposed to perfect. It's like lots of you who are listening to this podcast right now...many of you are also exceptional, but you're not perfect. And that's good. Because nobody is perfect, and you are not a nobody.
My Lust Lion
September 17, 2017 11:00 - 15 minutes - 29.2 KBI am once again sitting here in my big, manly, black leather poppa chair in my living room, and let me tell you it's a lot more comfortable than the seat at gate D15 at Philadelphia airport where I was stuck a few weeks ago because of another cancelled flight. I told you a few podcasts back that the airlines are screaming for pilots because 96% of American pilots are guys, and in the last 30 years, young guys have had a 52% drop in testosterone which as you know is a key ingredient in...
Wind Your Watch
September 10, 2017 11:00 - 20 minutes - 38.2 KBPlease keep this podcast around for the next time you get so OUTRAGED that you're tempted to do something you'll regret. "Wind your watch" Mike said...between clenched teeth. Mike was my first flight instructor all those decades ago. His teeth were clenched because I had the plane stalled. It was pointed straight down and it was starting to spin, and I was reaching like a mad man for buttons and switches and pulling on levers...instead of THINKING. Mike was teaching me a pilot sayin...
Getting Over Growing Up
September 03, 2017 11:00 - 16 minutes - 30.8 KBI am sitting here in my big, manly, comfortable black leather poppa chair in my living room...enjoying the fact that I have gotten over GROWING UP. That's a surprising statement from a guy who spent most of his life fooling around on the radio. So what made me say it? I figured out a little test for how you can tell you're getting over growing up today, and I passed it. Here's what I mean. Can I open my own peanut butter jars? Yes. Do I really understand how my car is going to get t...
Too Sexy For Studies
August 27, 2017 11:00 - 15 minutes - 28.5 KBNo, no, no, no. I do not believe this report from Harvard University. I'm trying hard not to fall out of my big, manly, black leather poppa chair while I'm laughing from reading this thing. This report says "Posting views on Facebook and other social media sites delivers a powerful reward to the brain similar to the pleasure from food and sex." No, no, no guys...that may be true...but only if you have food and sex while you're wearing your fully buttoned up, tight fitting white lab co...
Lower Reptillian Brain
August 20, 2017 11:00 - 17 minutes - 23.7 KBMy lower reptilian brain just went on maximum overload red alert, sitting here in my big, manly, black leather poppa chair in my living room. Actually my fanny is sitting here in the chair, it was my brain that just exploded. That happens fairly frequently when I watch the day's news on TV. It's the kicker stories at the end of the newscasts that get to me. Riots, threats of nuclear war, and another politician caught where his hand shouldn't be...maybe in a financial cookie jar, or ...
Sex and Your Airline Flight
August 13, 2017 11:00 - 17 minutes - 32.9 KBMy flight out of Philly just got cancelled, and I think the cancellation was caused by Sex. They claim it's due to mechanical problems, but I think the reason just might be sex. Lots of flights these days are cancelled because of sex. It has nothing to do with something going on in the bathroom of the pilot's lounge between the hunky pilot and a sexy flight attendant. It has to do with testosterone...or the lack of it. Testosterone is a key ingredient for guy-hood. And I think tha...
Figuring Things Out
August 06, 2017 11:00 - 13 minutes - 24.8 KBI'm sitting here in my big, manly, comfortable black leather poppa chair in my living room, trying to figure things out. Things like "Why is everybody always taking selfies these days?" Could it be that it's because nobody else is interested? What would be a completely safe security question? How about "What is the meaning of life?" If we're not supposed to have midnight snacks, how come a light comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Why should we want to save the planet? How a...
Wassup Lawn Tractor & Piano Man
July 30, 2017 11:00 - 17 minutes - 32.1 KBWhat happened when "Lawn Tractor Man" met "Piano Man"? Something happened. This podcast was done years ago. But it was by far the most downloaded podcast of all TODAY, and there are 558 podcasts in all. It has a story in it about NYC Police Detective Bill McGroaraty, who was a friend of mine until the bad guys got him. And there's a story about some chest thumping, sweat stained pride in having the fastest lawn tractor on the block. And there's also a story about two pilots and a wo...
1997
July 23, 2017 11:00 - 16 minutes - 29.5 KBI am sitting here in my big, comfortable, manly black leather poppa chair in my living room, reading a newspaper. A NEWSPAPER. Do you remember reading a NEWSPAPER? And it's published by the AARP! I guess that explains why when I fill out an on line form it takes forever to scroll down to my birth year. And why I sometimes think 1997 was ten years ago. I have good memories from 1997. My phone plugged into the wall in 1997. And I used the dial up method of getting on the internet. It ...
Fortune Cookie Words
July 16, 2017 11:00 - 14 minutes - 26.1 KBI like fortune cookie words. Break some words apart, like a fortune cookie, and sometimes you find interesting messages inside. The word "Politics" is a good example. Break it apart and you find "poli" which means many and "ticks" which refers to annoying little blood sucking bugs. Do politics ever annoy you...like a bunch of little bugs crawling around on you...drinking your blood? I like sitting here in my big, comfortable, manly, black leather poppa chair in my living room, brea...
The Royal Order Of The Purple Shaft
July 09, 2017 11:00 - 14 minutes - 26.9 KBBack in the day when there were daily duck and cover drills, when we practiced putting our school desks between us and thermo-nuclear distruction, there was a group of friends who called themselves, "The Royal Order Of The Purple Shaft." I was a charter member, along with John, Jerry, Frank, and Leo. We have all lost touch over the years. But a time warp ZAP! happened this week. John's daughter Jane sent me an email, and I think at least part of the Royal Order shall ride the shaft ...
Who Do You Trust?
July 02, 2017 11:00 - 15 minutes - 14.3 KBWho do you trust? I'm sitting here in my big, manly, comfortable black leather poppa chair in my living room, looking at one person in my life who I can trust, completely. My Lady Wonder Wench. She's in her pink bathrobe, with her left leg tucked up under her butt, and she's sticking out her tongue a little while she's squinting through a magnifying glass at a cross stitch pattern she's working on. I'm a lucky guy in lots of ways. There are several other friends and relatives in my ...
You Can't Do Nothing
June 25, 2017 11:00 - 16 minutes - 30.5 KBThis just in from a big tourist company: "What vacationers want to do most on vacation is nothing." That's not big news to those of us who are members of the Louie Louie Generation. But...remember that Big Louie...the head guy of the Louie Louie Generation says in my book Staying Happy Healthy And Hot, available at Amazon dot com...shameless plug...Big Louie always says, "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want to do." And as usual, he's right. But not for the reason ...
Non-Judgment Day
June 18, 2017 11:00 - 14 minutes - 13.4 KBI like sitting by the window when my Lady and I go to Applebees for our regular Friday night dinner out. The window shade was down this Friday, so I pulled it back up so my Lady and I could watch the world outside spin around. We like to do that, because we like to watch the other people arriving for their Friday night dinners out. Are they holding hands? What's he doing with a girl as pretty as she is? Oh please don't bring that screaming kid in here. We had just started guessing w...
Shocked I Tell You
June 11, 2017 11:00 - 15 minutes - 27.9 KBSacred excrement. I knew this was going to happen eventually. But it knocked me right out of my big, manly, comfortable black leather poppa chair in my living room anyway. This just in...seriously: "A Vancouver Buildings Council has blocked the lease of a restaurant property to the fish-and-chips chain "Moby Dick" on the grounds that "Dick" is an offensive word. The restaurant chain says the name has "Literary significance" and does not refer to male genitalia. Dick is not an offensi...
Gettiing Back In Whack
June 04, 2017 11:00 - 20 minutes - 38.1 KBI Just came back from a quick trip to our favorite diner with my Lady Wonder Wench. It's in a college town nearby. I couldn't figure out what was going on. Out of 13 couples we saw, only one couple was holding hands. That seemed very much out of whack. My mind often jumps from one thing to another, so I started wondering what is this whack some of us are so often out of. And I got one answer when I sat down here in my big, manly, comfortable black leather poppa chair in my living room ...
The Sologamy Story
May 28, 2017 11:00 - 14 minutes - 25.9 KBI almost fell out of my big, comfortable, manly poppa chair in my living room just now, when I saw this in a very legit news magazine. "Longtime single people in places like Brooklyn and San Francisco are now marrying themselves in full ceremonies." First of all, I was born and brought up in Brooklyn and I've been to San Francisco. Any comparisons are fraught with foolishness. Brooklyn guys figure a 7 course meal is a hot dog and a six pack. The same cannot be said for guys in San Fr...
Distractions
May 21, 2017 11:00 - 18 minutes - 16.9 KBDistractions, distractions, distractions. They're all over the place. I was sitting here in my big, manly, comfortable poppa chair trying to get started on a new podcast yesterday when a four engine, 6 ton wasp hit the glass door here in my living room. I mean he hit it. I thought he was going to break the glass. He didn't break the glass, but the whack must have made him dizzy, because he fell down, and glared up at me...and buzzed. I could hear him through the double glass door. Th...
Peek-A-Boo
May 14, 2017 11:00 - 16 minutes - 15.1 KBI've just had a "Peek-a-boo I see you" experience at my eye doctor's office. Peek-a-boo I see you is the only game you can't cheat at. And it's magic. Real magic. Especially the I see you part. You put your hands up over your eyes and everything disappears...except what's inside you. You catch a quick glimpse & a feeling of what's really inside yourself. No words just a few quick images and sometimes deep feelings. It's like taking a selfie of your entire universe for a moment. Then yo...
Scratching My Head
May 07, 2017 11:00 - 15 minutes - 14.5 KBI'm sitting here in my big, manly, black leather poppa chair in my living room, scratching my head again. Those of us who are guys in long term relationships with someone who is estrogen enriched and has a high voice and confusing ways will understand. Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement. In the end it's best to ignore almost all the endlessly depressing small print and just click "I agree." When you sense something has gone wrong in your relationship be...
Alone vs Lonely
April 23, 2017 11:00 - 15 minutes - 13.8 KBI'm sitting here in my big, manly, black leather poppa chair in my living room, contemplating the great divide between men and women. I know a couple of really smart, pretty women who are leading lonely lives...I think un-necessarily. In my book Staying Happy Healthy And Hot, there's a story about a Louie-Louie Generation lady I saw in an Applebee's bar recently. She was eyeing some guy sitting alone. She reached into her pocket book for a small perfume bottle, squirted some on her l...
The Heart Throb Headline
April 16, 2017 11:00 - 14 minutes - 13.7 KBToday's Headline: Heartthrob Kit Harrington, the brooding, sword-wielding hero Jon Snow in HBO's Game of Thrones, is fed up with women swooning over him, hearts throbbing like mad. Awww. Let's say it all together guys at the count of 3. 1-2-3...AAwww the poor guy. He says, "It's blatantly sexist." Yes, and I am shocked...shocked I tell you. And not the least bit jealous. Because I'm a real guy. If you women started spreading some of that excess swooning and throbbing over Kit around ...
I Lied
April 09, 2017 11:00 - 19 minutes - 17.9 KBI am generally in favor of telling the truth. Truth is powerful. But last week I lied. I lied to Facebook. I told them my birthday was last week, they put up a notice to that effect and somewhere around 400 of you sent Happy Birthday greetings...for which I sincerely thank you...I tried to answer all of you, to tell you thanks, I didn't mean to lie to you, I only meant to lie to the Facebook computer, and I really do appreciate your good wishes. But after about 100 answers, my compute...
Stop Complaining
April 02, 2017 11:00 - 12 minutes - 22.7 KBStop complaining. We can't do anything much about what is, but we can look at it differently...and we really should.
Borderline Harrison Ford
March 26, 2017 11:00 - 14 minutes - 26.5 KBEverybody is entitled to a fantasy, right? Here's one of my favorites.
Mickey vs. Dickie
March 19, 2017 11:00 - 16 minutes - 31 KBI had to kill the mouse! He had my Lady trapped on her dresser. Poor little thing. (The mouse I mean.)"Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring not even..." Yeah. THAT MOUSE.
Tune In And Laugh At Americans
March 12, 2017 11:00 - 17 minutes - 32.1 KBIt sometimes seems like China purposely sends us stuff to assemble that just doesn't want to fit together. Is it so they can video a "Reality" show from their satellites?
Baseball Memories
March 05, 2017 11:00 - 16 minutes - 30.6 KBWhy won't women ever play major league baseball? The answer is right here in this podcast, along with a little touch of magic at a ball park.
Barbara's February Flower
February 26, 2017 11:00 - 14 minutes - 25.8 KBOnce upon a time, many, many years ago, I was cutting down a pine tree in my most manly way, and my ax split off a small chunk of wood that had a smaller plug inside. You know how a hot dog looks in a bun? That's kind of what it looked like. It was... unusual. And it smelled wonderful...it was pine. So I gave it to my Lady Wonder Wench. She still has it on her dresser all these years later. She keeps treasures like that...shells from various beaches we've visited on vacations we've e...
Hair On Fire
February 19, 2017 11:00 - 15 minutes - 27.8 KBIt seems to me that everybody's hair is on fire these days. People are scared. When opportunity knocks these days, by the time you look through the peephole, put your shot gun away, tie up your Doberman and slide back the dead lock to open your door, opportunity is long gone. Politics have been going from bad to worse every year, and this year they got there. There's an explanation for that right there in the word politics. Poli means many. And tics are small, blood sucking parasites...
Pass Your Passion
February 12, 2017 11:00 - 16 minutes - 30.2 KBI've been sitting here in my big, manly, comfortable, black leather poppa chair watching a ball game. One of the things I like best about watching sports is the passion involved. It starts with the National Anthem just before the game begins. I sometimes sing along with the Star Spangled Banner. I do the best I can with the high notes. That gives me a freebie connection with the people who paid to get into the ballpark. I like that connection. It feels like we are passing the passion f...
How Come
February 05, 2017 11:00 - 13 minutes - 7.51 KBThe "Backache Monster" sank his claws into my spine yesterday, so I've been sitting here in my big, manly, black leather poppa chair in my living room counting the few moving parts I seem to have left...on the fingers of one hand. I had a TV dance party show in what seems like a few eons ago. I used to do the Watusi, the Mashed Potatoes, and the Loco Motion with the kids. I didn't do the Twist because of my bad knees. How come they don't have dances like that anymore? How come? How com...
Hanging On To Some Stuff
January 29, 2017 11:00 - 15 minutes - 27.9 KBSome things can go away. Some things we've got to keep. So as I am sitting here in my big, manly, comfortable, black leather poppa chair in my living room I thought I'd tell you about a phone call from our granddaughter Cassie. Cassie was talking about politics, and how some politicians just go on and on and on about the same ideas. I said "Yeah, like a broken record." Cassie said, "What do you mean, Poppa?" I rememberd her age, took a deep breath, and said something like "It means t...
Toxic Testosterone
January 22, 2017 11:00 - 15 minutes - 14.1 KBI am sitting here in my big, manly, black leather poppa chair in my living room quietly overcoming my toxic masculinity. Seriously. Duke University and Ithaca College are just two of a whole sclunge of institutions of higher learning that are proving that some ideas are so silly, that only intellectuals with Phds will believe them. They are running courses and workshops devoted to curbing what they call Toxic Masculinity. They haven't the slightest idea of what they're talking about. ...