With October around the corner, here's a little story for Halloween: "Old Man Daniker."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsAwSFYgsQE&list=PLTKxiyHfQSSDzMU1BWprAi3RMnaaCSO9A&index=2&t=339s
Most of Jay's stories have been recorded and are available for download. I am especially partial to the collection Village Heroes, because I was able to see the audience reaction to several of these tales: "Edha Robinson " was a love story that had several members of my staff in tears, and "Hary Janos" was a delightful tale of a Hungarian folk hero (the basis of an epic poem by Janos Garay and a 1926 folk opera by Zoltan Kodaly); Jay's take on Hary Janos was one that I have never forgotten, nearly forty year later. Also well worthwhile are his amazingly researched story of NASA, Forged in the Stars, and the true story his uncle, His work is available at his uncle, U.S. Navy Chaplain Joseph T. O'Callahan, who saved the USS Franklin after it was set ablaze by Japanese aircraft in World War II, Father Joe: A True Story. Jay O'Callahan's work is available for download at his website, https://www.ocallahan.com/. I strongly recommend you heck it out. You won't be sorry.
Being a stage manager would have been a dream job for me.
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