The Swami's Predictions: Burns and Allen (December 15, 1942)

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“The Swami's Predictions” is an episode of Burns and Allen, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 15, 1942. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Gracie Allen meets Tootsie Saguel for lunch at a gypsy tea room, where a fortune-telling Swami predicts a handsome man with the initials H.M. enters Tootsie's life. Gracie takes this to mean Herbert Marshall, her husband George Burns's friend, and her jealousy leads to a stormy row at home. Bill Goodwin, George's neighbor, offers his own advice, and George goes to Marshall's house to confront him. The Burns and Allen radio comedy is a CBS and NBC broadcast from December 15, 1942, starring Gracie Allen and George Burns, with Bea Benaderet and Mel Blanc in supporting roles.

A gypsy tea room, then the Burns house and Herbert Marshall's house in Hollywood

Characters: Gracie Allen, George Burns, Tootsie Saguel, Herbert Marshall, Bill Goodwin, The Swami

Listen for: Gracie's fortune-telling scene at the Romany Village tea room, and her confrontation with George over Herbert Marshall

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.