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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Think
January 10, 2016 11:00 - 13 minutes - 16 KBWhilst sitting here in my big, manly, comfortable black leather poppa chair in my living room I just saw a startling statistic. By the way how do you like that fast use of the word whilst? I haven't whilst-ed anybody in a long time. It feels good. But back to the statistic. 38% of New Year's resolutions have to do with losing weight... which can be translated to losing fat. If that was your New Year's resolution STOP. WAIT. THINK. Remember what Big Louie says in my book Staying Happy...
Terror's An Error
January 03, 2016 11:00 - 14 minutes - 8.15 KBI have a couple of New Years wishes for you. New Year's wish #1 is "May your troubles this year last as long as your last year's New Year's resolutions." Lots of troubles are caused by simple confusion. For example, I was asking a woman on the phone about the status of an order from Amazon. She was taking a while and she said, "Please bear with me." I was shocked. I said, "I can't bare with YOU...I'm a happily married man." Confusion. I was using my credit card at a drug store, and t...
Happy 2016
December 27, 2015 11:00 - 14 minutes - 21.4 KBI've been doing this podcast sitting here in my big, comfortable, manly, black leather poppa chair in my living room for quite a while now. Not long enough to call it a "once upon a time-time," but it has been a long time. You think about things like that when a New Year pops up on the calendar. "Once upon a time." To lots of people it was a long ago "once upon a time" that the numbers on our years started with a one instead of a two. When you think "What's today's date?" do you some...
A Merry Christmas Yawning
December 20, 2015 11:00 - 14 minutes - 26.8 KBI'm sitting here in my big, comfortable, manly, black leather poppa chair right next to the Christmas tree in our living room...and I keep wanting to jump up and down and open presents. As a Louie Louie Generation guy, jumping up and down isn't something I want to do all that often any more. And I know what's causing this. It's about what's left of the little kid inside me who doesn't care that the rest of me is getting a little wrinkled. You probably have some of that little kid ins...
Cecelia & The Plastic Tree
December 13, 2015 11:00 - 17 minutes - 31.6 KBI feel like I am now preparing for Santa's visit, by installing a parking meter on the roof by the chimney. I bought an artificial Christmas tree. The Fed Ex guy just brought it. It's not like the traditional aluminum tree. This one is genuine green plastic. With the lights already installed. I don't know if I should have done it. For the last couple of years, we bought small trees that were growing in little pots. We planted them outside after New Years, and they both promptly died. N...
Christmas Connections
December 06, 2015 11:00 - 16 minutes - 37.5 KBLots of Christmas stories coming in, and you'll find them either in the blog at www.dicksummer.com/dsblog or here on the podcasts. Here's one from Proud Podcast Participant Becky: Whenever I'm disappointed with my spot in life, I stop and think about little Jamie Scott. Jamie was trying out for a part in the school Christmas play. His mother told me that he'd set his heart on being in it, though she feared he would not be chosen. On the day the parts were awarded, I went with her to...
Santa Stories
November 29, 2015 11:00 - 16 minutes - 38.5 KBTime to collect your Christmas memories, and your Merry Intentions for this Christmas, and Christmases to come.. Some have come in already, and you'll find some of them in this podcast. I hope you'll send yours to [email protected].
Thanks-Men-Are-Saints-Giving
November 22, 2015 11:00 - 13 minutes - 30.3 KBThanksgiving is an anniversary for me. It was on Thanksgiving night a lot of years ago that I started the "Men Are Saints" campaign on WNBC Radio. I called it the M. A. S. appeal—Men Are Saints. The idea came from remembering a special Thanksgiving while I was watching my Lady Wonder Wench and our daughter Kris, our daughter-in law Brenda, and our sister-in-law Beth scurrying around preparing dinner, while our Tall-Guy son Eric, my brother John and I were otherwise occupied, and I was ...
Vicious-Vicious
November 15, 2015 11:00 - 14 minutes - 26.4 KBThanks for dropping in here on my podcast. I'm sitting here in my big, comfortable, manly, black leather poppa chair in my living room, and I like having your company. I mean I like having your company in the personal sense, I'm not into taking over companies...corporate takeovers...because I don't like vicious things. I don't like big vicious things like bad guys doing awful things in the middle east, trying to stretch a pay check that isn't big enough to cover everything, and maybe...
The Dark Age
November 01, 2015 11:00 - 14 minutes - 33.4 KBThanks for dropping in here on my podcast. I enjoy having your company. Daylight saving time is gone. That means the dark ages is upon us...until sometime in the spring. And I'm sitting here in my big, comfortable, manly, black leather poppa chair in my living room soaking it in. I love the night. It's a time full of heroes and villains, perfume traces, quick smiles that leave lipstick traces, black lace falling slowly to the carpet...soft, quick personal sounds... a lover's key in you...
Blink or Wink
October 25, 2015 11:00 - 15 minutes - 35.6 KBWe now have a lumpy mailbox, I've thought for a while that catalouges and junk mail must fight their way into my mailbox to spawn. But no. It's Bill our mail guy who's causing the problem. I caught him this morning...stuffing stuff including jumk mail from my blinking congressman into my mailbox.
Wow
October 18, 2015 11:00 - 18 minutes - 42.2 KBJane Doe and I were both naked, standing there looking at each other, separated only by a window. I'm not sure Jane was her real name, and I didn't know why she was standing there naked, looking through the window at me. She was barefoot, but her legs looked like high heels make a woman's legs taper up to a perfect curve at her hips. She had lovely big brown eyes, and a body that would turn any male into an animal. She was breathing heavily... watching me ...so carefully... waiting fo...
A Good Gathering
October 11, 2015 11:00 - 14 minutes - 32.9 KBI'm back here sitting in my big, comfortable, manly black leather poppa chair in my living room again, having survived another terrifying road trip, with my Lady Wonder Wench driving. We went to a family gathering a couple of states away, and the weather was too messy to fly there in our little airplane. I've told you about my Lady's creative driving habits and her tendency to swerve back onto the road when she sees a cop in my book Staying Happy Healthy And Hot. But it was worth the ...
Your Mental See-Saw
October 04, 2015 11:00 - 17 minutes - 40.2 KBI'm sitting here in my big, manly, comfortable, black leather poppa chair in my living room, and I think I've found a simple solution to a serious situation. The serious situation is how I feel about a world full of starving kids, screaming politicians, internet scams, hurricanes and blizzards, big piles of bills, and empty spaces that people we loved used to fill. Stuff that always seems to be trying to break our hearts. Unfortunatlely, I know that my simple solution won't feed the ki...
Woman Worries
September 27, 2015 11:00 - 14 minutes - 33.9 KBI have a confession to make. Sometimes I get up in the middle of the night, and sit here in my big, comfortable black leather pappa chair in the living room, and I sneak a look at my Lady Wonder Wench's magazines...in what is probably a futile attempt to learn something...anything...about women. When I'm trying to figure out what's going on in a woman's mind about a situation, It could give an asprin a headache it's so confusing. For example, here's a statistic that says 6 out of 7 w...
Takin' One For The Team
September 20, 2015 11:00 - 16 minutes - 30.5 KBThank you for dropping in here on my podcast. I really enjoy your company. I'm sitting here in my big, comfortable, black leather poppa chair in my living room trying to figure out how to explain why a guy wants to become a disc jockey, because I have to tell you about a wonderful thing that happened to me. Clint Eastwood understood that guys want to become disc jockeys mainly to get girls. That's why he loved starring in and directing "Play Misty For Me" all those years ago. If you're...
Something Wonderful Is Going To Happen
September 13, 2015 11:00 - 16 minutes - 30.3 KBThanks for dropping in here on my podcast. I very much enjoy your company. I'm sitting here in my big, comfortable, manly black leather poppa chair in my living room trying to figure out how to break some news to you about something very big that's happening to me. But I think I'm going to have to put some context around it first. So here's a Quickie quiz...what famous pretend tv newscaster liked to describe his start in broadcasting as..."It all started at a 500 watt station..." (No f...
Mourning Vs. Night
September 06, 2015 11:00 - 17 minutes - 32.9 KBThe only person who looks good early in the morning is my Lady Wonder Wench. That's why the good Lord made it so hard for us to get our eyes open early in the morning. When we first get up, our hair looks like we stuck a wet toe in a hot socket…our faces are a little off center from sleeping on a lumpy pillow and like most guys I have stubble sticking out of my chin. I think if we actually saw each other clearly early in the morning, the price of brown paper bags of exactly your head s...
I Heard From Dad Today
August 30, 2015 11:00 - 15 minutes - 35.5 KBThanks for dropping in here on my podcast. I like having your company. I think I heard from my dad today. Dad has been playing keyboards with Beethoven's Big Band in heaven for quite a few years now. But I woke up this morning with a song called The Leader of the Band running around in my head. You know how that works...a song just starts going around and around for no apparent reason. I'm sitting here in my big, manly, comfortable black leather poppa chair now, but I just came back ...
The No Drool Rule
August 23, 2015 11:00 - 16 minutes - 38.1 KBDick's Details...a bunch of totally un-important stuff for you to stuff in one ear, so you can squeeze the important stuff that's rubbing your wrinkles the wrong way out the other ear, and you can grab a grin. There was a story in the paper today about a rock group that's upset with an airline. The headline reads: "Smashing Pumpkin sues Virgin." Makes it seem like a modern Cinderella story. If the answer is "He would put it in our pockets" what is the question. The smart guys in the w...
Don't Worry Be Happy
August 16, 2015 11:00 - 14 minutes - 34.4 KBThanks for dropping in here on my podcast. Glad to have your company. I'm sitting here in my big, manly, comfortable black leather poppa chair in my living room, wondering how I ever got this lucky. I figure I have finally proven that men are smarter than women. Because if women were as smart as men, how come I married my Lady Wonder Wench and she married me? I know some of you are going through tough times, and I'm not telling you how happy I am to make you feel worse. In fact I want ...
Seeing Through Windows Ten
August 09, 2015 11:00 - 16 minutes - 37 KBThanks for dropping in on my podcast, glad to have you here. I'm sitting here in my big, comfortable, manly, black leather poppa chair in my living room, and I'm watching my laptop un-zipping stuff as it's changing into an operating system that Microsoft says I'll find a little more comfortable... Windows 10...and it looks like my laptop doesn't want me to watch it un-zip and change. The screen says something to the effect of, "This will take a while. You don't have to watch. I'll let...
The Legend Of Louie-Louie
August 02, 2015 11:00 - 16 minutes - 38.5 KBThanks for dropping in here on my podcast. I appreciate having your company. Sometimes an actual thought hits me as I'm sitting here in my big, manly, comfortable, black leather poppa chair. And like a rock with a note attached that comes crashing through your living room window, an actual thought just went smack, right on the side of my head. Ow. That hurt. Thoughts are like muscles. If you don't use them regularly they hurt when you do. But I'm a man so I can stand the pain...here's ...
Lookin' At It
July 26, 2015 11:00 - 13 minutes - 31.1 KBThanks for dropping in on my podcast. Glad to have you here. I'm sitting here in my big, comfortable, manly, black leather poppa chair in my living room, trying to digest a food supply crisis, caused by the closing of our favorite supermarket. Depending on how you look at it, it's either terrific or terrible. It could be terrific because the supermarket we'll be going to across the street has generally cheaper prices which I like, or it's terrible because my Lady Wonder Wench doesn't l...
Breaking News
July 19, 2015 11:00 - 16 minutes - 29.9 KBThanks for dropping in on my podcast. I'm glad to have you with us. I'm sitting here in my big, comfortable, manly, black leather poppa chair in my living room, staring at the black hole on the stand over on the wall. Technically speaking, it's a big, blank, black TV screen. But it's really a big, black hole...sucking you down inside...you can feel it happening...every time you turn it on, you can feel yourself...boldly going...nowhere. Well, maybe over to the couch. I don't like goin...
Ms. Medical Midnight
July 12, 2015 11:00 - 16 minutes - 30.3 KBIt's pretty neat to be sitting here in my big, comfortable, manly, black leather poppa chair again. I was sitting in a hospital bed for a couple of days this week. Don't worry. It was just kind of a glorified tummy ache. They said, "You're suffering from acid reflux." Right. Of course I was suffering from it, what else was I supposed to do with it. I didn't want to go to the hospital, but I went when my Lady Wonder Wench mentioned that my breathing was coming in short pants, and she ra...
Lights Out
July 05, 2015 11:00 - 15 minutes - 34.9 KBI was sitting here in my big, manly, comfortable, black leather poppa chair in my living room the other night, watching a movie called Tootsie, starring Dustin Hoffman on TV, and I couldn't resist telling my Lady Wonder Wench that Dustin's agent must have called him after he auditioned for the part, and said, "Dustin, you got the Tootsie Roll." Immediately…as soon as I said that, there was a clap of thunder, and the lights and the TV went out. It was like God was looking down at me and...
Don't Stand For Them Telling Us Not To Sit
June 28, 2015 11:00 - 14 minutes - 26.3 KBThey're telling me I shouldn't be sitting here in my big, manly, comfortable black leather poppa chair in my living room, and I'm not going to stand for that. The smart guys in the white lab coats are telling me that sitting is one of the worst things I can do to myself. They're implying that sitting is a reckless act of self-destruction. They say it's worse than smoking, and of course smoking kills people. I think they're a little off base with that one too. I don't think smoking is r...
The Eye Flash And Shoulder Flip
June 21, 2015 11:00 - 16 minutes - 39 KBAs you know by now, Louie Louie Generation guys are the bedmates of choice of supermodels, lovely, lusty lady chief executives, and Catherine Zeta Jones look-alikes. That's because we treat our women with lots of love and lots of lovely lust, we have some pretty good life stories to tell, and many of us have paid off our nice cars and sometimes even our boats and private airplanes." I know that's true because it says it on page 2 of my book "Staying Happy Healthy And Hot." Louie Louie ...
Meet The Elite
June 14, 2015 11:00 - 15 minutes - 34.8 KBYou know about the "Elite"...the guys who keep their personal helicopters on their yachts, which are anchored on some of their private islands, and their his and hers personal jets ready at all times to take emergency trips to those Islands, or anywhere else that's really exclusive. It's some kind of different world from the one the rest of us live in. And I love watching it un-ravel in the James Bond movies. But I'm never going there. On purpose. I was sitting here in my big, comfor...
Testosterone Triumphs
June 07, 2015 11:00 - 16 minutes - 29.8 KBI was a little concerned after last week's podcast in which I revealed Big Louie's All Purpose Answer to the Three Deadly Questions all women ask, because it gave guys a huge advantage. I was afraid I'd find my Lady Wonder Wench carefully reading our wedding license looking for loopholes. As smart as she is, I don't think even my Lady Wonder Wench has really come to grips with how completely basic Louie Louie Generation guys are. I doesn't matter what we're doing...giving a presidentia...
Big Louie's All Purpose Answer
May 31, 2015 11:00 - 14 minutes - 34 KBGuys...I about to give you an answer that you will need many times in the tumult of your lives. It's a phrase given to me by Big Louie, the star of my book Staying Happy Healthy And Hot. It's the only possible answer to the three great questions that all Louie Louie Generation guys must face. Question #1 is "Does this outfit make me look fat?" Question #2 is, "If I died would you get married again?" And great question #3 is "Was I your first sexual partner?" Guys, you will be tempted...
It Pays To Play
May 24, 2015 11:00 - 15 minutes - 36.6 KBI was sitting here in my big, manly, comfortable, black leather poppa chair in the living room, trying to explain to my Lady Wonder Wench why I absolutely must get a new and kind of expensive piece of navigation equipment for our little Piper airplane. She did that wifely moment of silence when something expensive comes up in a conversation, then she looked up at me, bit the corner of her lip, looked down and said "The biggest difference between men and boys is the size of their toys."...
A Virtual Companion
May 17, 2015 11:00 - 17 minutes - 33 KBI am a typical Louie Louie Generation lad. That means in dog years I am dead. I am young at heart, but somewhat older in other places. In short, some of the butter has slipped off my pancakes. And I guess I must be living proof that evolution can go backwards... because when I saw a comment from Broadway star Lea DeLaria in this week's New York Magazine I immediately stopped stirring my coffee with my car keys, I quickly put the coffee cup down on the table next to my big, comfortable...
Wanna Live Forever
May 10, 2015 11:00 - 14 minutes - 25.8 KBI am beginning to lose my sex drive. I noticed it last night and twice this morning. But as Big Louie, the star of my book Staying Happy Healthy And Hot always says, "Just because we no longer have the rock hard abs and perky breasts like the people in the TV beer commercials, there's no reason to let ourselves just give up and turn into hunks of luke warm meat." And so I think there is still hope. Hope is pretty much the mission statement of our Louie Louie Generation. Big Louie al...
A Tale Of Two Tunes
May 03, 2015 11:00 - 19 minutes - 34.9 KBYou know how a chunk of a song sometimes keeps going around and around in your head. The smart guys in the white lab coats call that an ear worm. I really wish they had called it something else, because that's not a nice picture. I have two of them going on right now. One of them is a once upon a time, a long time ago song called, "Little Things Mean A Lot." The part of the song that's going around in my head goes "...always and ever...now and forever...little things mean a lot." Usu...
Walk-Don't Walk-Run
April 26, 2015 11:00 - 13 minutes - 25.1 KBThe next time your hat pops off because your head is expanding to keep up with your ego, do one of three things. #1-Try telling some other guy's dog to roll over and play dead, #2- Walk down the beach trying to catch the attention of someone in a bikini while you're wearing your 40 or so year old Speedo. Or #-3 push the pedestrian crossing button to change the sign from don't walk to walk. I have done #s 1 & 2 before several times, and today I hit the trifecta. I stood pushing the d...
Things That Go Bump In The Night
April 19, 2015 11:00 - 16 minutes - 30.7 KBI was having a wonderful erotic dream last night, when something went BUMP! I leaped out of bed, throwing my back out of whack, bit my upper lip so I wouldn't yell something the Lord wouldn't want to hear, hit my head on Mr. Floor which made my world spin backwards a couple of turns, and woke up my Lady Wonder Wench who said something that sounded like "Gezorninplatz" which I think might mean "It's 4 AM, what the hell are you doing?" I said, "shhhh" as I grabbed my 12 gauge, and stumb...
No Dogs Allowed
April 12, 2015 11:00 - 14 minutes - 26.1 KBAs I have mentioned, I am not in the dog house with my Lady Wonder Wench. I am, instead, sitting here in my big, comfortable, manly, black leather poppa chair in my living room. I am not in the dog house, because we don't have a dog. And at the possible cost of being placed on the neighborhood terrorist watch list, I don't want a dog...ever again. I had a couple of very bad dog experiences, and I've never fully gotten over them. My buddy Al has a dog named Ike. He often says Ike is l...
Big Bad Boo-Boo Daddy
April 05, 2015 11:00 - 14 minutes - 33.6 KBPull up a chair, chillin, and lend an ear. I am really excited. I have just found out that I am intimately involved in one of the worlds' biggest bad decisions. Now there are different levels of very bad decisions. If you are a very curvy young lady, taking accordion lessons would be a very bad decision. A different level bad decision was when the Japanese decided to bomb Pearl Harbor, although all our aircraft carriers were out to sea. That was a very bad decision. Taking a bite out...
Two Stories And A Fantasy
March 29, 2015 11:00 - 17 minutes - 40.6 KBFollow your dreams...that's what all the great thinkers tell us. And I think you should follow your dreams, except for that one where you're naked at work. If you don't follow your dreams you'll spend your life sitting in some corner gathering dust like the Dreary Drones in my book Staying Happy Healthy And Hot. I followed one of my dreams a long time ago, when a major record label hired me to do an album of some of the lovin touch stories I told on the radio. I thought it was a drea...
Story Time
March 22, 2015 11:00 - 24 minutes - 45.1 KBI am an attention sponge. We all want a little attention. Some achtung! There are three little words that'll get a lot of guys attention... "My husband's home." That'll do it every time. There are four little words that will also get a guy's attention... "You've got a raise." That statement has several different meanings of course. It means one thing if your smiling boss says it, and it's another thing if your smiling wife or girlfriend says it. "Once upon a time" are four little ...
Forever Family
March 08, 2015 11:00 - 17 minutes - 32.8 KBAccording to Big Louie his own bad self, one sure way to tell if you're in a real family restaurant is check the conversations that are going on. If there's a lot of screaming going on at all the tables you're in a family restaurant. But there's some nice stuff happening there too. Like this
Louie Live!
March 01, 2015 11:00 - 16 minutes - 29.8 KBI told you...let some Louie Louie into your life, and your life will have more life. I'm sitting here in my big, manly, comfortable black leather poppa chair in my living room trying to keep from doing a one man wave. A Harvard professor by the name of Ellen Langer says I'm right. I've told you lots of helpful things through the years, like, "Rectal thermometers are the best way to take a baby's temperature, and besides it really shows who's boss." And "If your kid picks his nose a lot...
Guys Don't Over Think
February 22, 2015 11:00 - 15 minutes - 28.8 KBLike a lot of Louie-Louie Generation guys, sometimes I just don't think things through. That's why we need the guidance in my book Staying Happy Healthy And Hot, from Big Louie his own bad self the Chief Mustard Cutter of the Louie-Louie Generation. He makes things so simple. He says, "Just figure out what you don't do well, and don't do those things." Brilliant. He says, "Deep down we're all pretty superficial" and he's right. He says "Why make things complicated. The answer to the co...
Meet Meat Reality
February 15, 2015 11:00 - 15 minutes - 35.8 KBI don't have a smartphone. My Lady Wonder Wench and I have the last dumb phones in our zip code. All they do is make phone calls. I like the fact that other people's smart phones can't text me, because I like sitting here in my big, comfortable, manly, black leather poppa chair in my living room, just entertaining myself with visions of sugar plums and my Lady Wonder Wench dancing in my head. Like most Louie Louie Generation guys who have real flesh and blood lives, I really don't need...
Making Something Wonderful (For Valentine's Day)
February 08, 2015 11:00 - 17 minutes - 41.2 KBI like ladies. I have always liked ladies. When I was a kid, and the other guys were throwing snowballs at the girls, I always threw snowballs at the guys who were throwing the snowballs at the girls. As I said, I have always liked ladies. So does my buddy Big Louie. As I have explained in my book, Staying Happy Healthy and Hot, I am the spokesman for his brand new Louie Louie generation here on earth. Last year Big Louie and I ran a survey of how most guys deal with Valentine's day. T...
FebRRRuary
February 01, 2015 11:00 - 16 minutes - 31.1 KBI am sitting here in my big, comfortable, manly, black leather poppa chair in my living room, thawing out from the trip I just took to the mailbox. It's cold. No I mean COLD. That's because it's February. And as I told you in my book, Staying Happy Healthy And Hot (available at Amazon.com) the word is FebRUary. Not Feb-YOU-ary. Think about this please: If you, a priest, a rabbi, and a minister walked into a bar and the bartender asked if you wanted some b-YOU-skis you, the priest, the ...
Keeping Company
January 25, 2015 11:00 - 14 minutes - 26.7 KBLooks like Louie has done it again. I'm sitting here in my big, manly, comfortable, black leather poppa chair in my living room, and I just got a note from Big Louie. He said I should tell you to "If things are tough, let a smile be your umbrella, because you're going to get soaked anyway, and grins are always good." Big Louie is always good company. And good company is precious. If you're new to these weekly podcasts, I should explain that Big Louie is an important part of my book c...
Mr. Wonderful
January 18, 2015 11:00 - 15 minutes - 28.2 KBI am convinced that somewhere near here there is a dedicated group of women who call themselves the Fed Up Females Federation of America. And I am sure that it is that group which is responsible for the doll by the name of Mr. Wonderful. Mr. Wonderful is sitting right here on my lap in my big, manly, comfortable black leather poppa chair in my living room right now. He's about 5 inches tall, and he weighs around 6 ounces. He has wavy brown hair, and a big happy-wappy smile. He looks a ...