paints the house - meets a friend at the train station: Jack Benny (May 15, 1955)

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“paints the house - meets a friend at the train station” is an episode of Jack Benny, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 15, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Jack Benny spends a morning at home in Beverly Hills while Rochester cleans and the house is being repainted. Jack receives a letter from his old high school classmate Stub Wilbur, who is arriving by train that afternoon. Jack and Dennis Day go to Union Station to meet him, but the arrival board, the information clerk and a series of distractions make the trip slow. Along the way they run into several familiar faces at the station.

Jack Benny's home in Beverly Hills and Union Station in Los Angeles

Characters: Jack Benny, Rochester, Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone, Charlie Bagby, Mr. Kitzel, Stub Wilbur

Listen for: The station scenes, where Jack keeps trying to find out when Stub's train will arrive

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.