What happens
Fred Allen and his sidekick Portland Hoffa stroll through town, meeting a string of colorful residents, including the gloomy undertaker Digby O'Dell and the blunt Titus Moody. Their conversations turn to whether a high IQ makes a child a genius later in life. Allen's sketches of a bread shortage, a silver microphone award, and a planned television-era comedy show fill the program. The episode is part of the Fred Allen radio series, first broadcast on March 6, 1949, with Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar and Minerva Pious in the lead roles.
Main Street in a small town, a stationery store, a lunch wagon, and a delicatessen
Characters: Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Titus Moody, Digby O'Dell, Earl Wilson, Henry Morgan, Mrs. Nussbaum
Listen for: The walk down Main Street and the encounters with townsfolk who debate whether a high IQ means genius, along with the Silver Mike award presentation.
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.