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🗓️ 24 November 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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0:00.0 | Support for this podcast comes from the New Bower Family Foundation, supporting |
0:04.7 | WHY Wise Fresh Air and its commitment to sharing ideas and encouraging meaningful conversation. |
0:11.6 | This is Fresh Air. Happy Thanksgiving. We hope you're enjoying the holiday. |
0:15.8 | Saturday marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Schultz, the creator of one of the most |
0:21.5 | beloved and famous comic strips, peanuts. It was in the 1950s that a depressed, |
0:27.5 | insecure kid named Charlie Brown took his place on the newspaper comics pages. |
0:32.8 | Even if you didn't grow up with a peanut comic strip, you may recognize this. |
1:01.2 | That's from Charlie Brown, which was first broadcast in 1965 and has since become an annual TV tradition. |
1:21.6 | The soundtrack from the special is one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time. |
1:26.2 | Charles Schultz died in 2000, one day before his final strip was published. |
1:31.4 | I spoke with him in 1990 on the 40th anniversary of peanuts. He was in his studio in Santa Rosa, California. |
1:38.9 | There's a peanuts from, I forget the year, it's in the 1950s, where I think it's line |
1:46.5 | as Charles Brown a scar and he has Charlie Brown if he has any scars and Charlie Brown says, |
1:51.6 | oh, I have lots of them, but they're all mental. I think in a way that kind of sums up |
1:56.9 | Charlie Brown's view of life, the mental scars. |
2:01.6 | Did you find any reluctance and newspapers at the time to take on a subject like depression or mental scars? |
2:09.1 | No, I don't recall anybody ever complaining about that. |
2:14.2 | But editors were afraid of in those days much more than now was the mention of personalities and things. |
2:22.8 | There used to be a very wonderful lady who had a program out of Chicago called Miss Frances. |
2:30.5 | I used to watch it with my little kids all at the time and I mentioned her name in a comic strip one day |
2:35.3 | and some editor complained, he said, we shouldn't be promoting things like that. |
2:39.3 | Well now people mention almost everything and of course comic strip characters are saying things |
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