O. Henry
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Oct 28, 2026
KatieGUEST
I don't honestly have a plausible guess.
KatieGUEST
So I'm just going to plug my favorite Christmas story, Gifts of the Magi by O. Henry.
John HodgmanHOST
Sure.
John HodgmanHOST
Absolutely.
John HodgmanHOST
All right.
John HodgmanHOST
I like that guess.
John HodgmanHOST
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry.
John HodgmanHOST
Well, all guesses are wrong.
Tom HoweHOST
Could the future of musicals be designed for our ears rather than our eyes? Jeff joins Pete Appleyard on Showtime to tell us more.
Jeff VlasterSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The idea began with an O. Henry story about reinvention.
Jeff VlasterSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
and a Hudson River School painting about hope.
Jeff VlasterSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In the story, people tell Jimmy, be yourself, but Jimmy is a work in progress, and he's a wanted thief who wants to be an honest man.
Jimmy WebbSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's beginning, middle, and end.
Jimmy WebbSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And the fact that it sort of has an O'Henry-esque twist at the end, which consists merely of the guy saying, she didn't really think that I would go, but he did.
Jimmy WebbSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And in fact, I didn't.
Jimmy WebbSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I didn't go.
Sunira ChaudhriGUEST
So my parents gave me a lot of classics.
Sunira ChaudhriGUEST
Black Beauty, Wuthering Heights, Stories by O. Henry.
Sunira ChaudhriGUEST
Again, I was seven when I got these books.
Sunira ChaudhriGUEST
They just knew I liked to read, so I think they were trying to give me the densest stuff.
Betty B.NARRATOR
a Burton Holmes lecture is weak and watery compared to the travel stories we listen to.
Betty B.NARRATOR
Were O. Henry alive, he could find material for a hundred new yarns, and William James numerous pointers for another work on psychology, while De Quincey might multiply his dreams ad infinitum.
Betty B.NARRATOR
Doubtless, alienists as well as fiction writers would find us worth studying.
Betty B.NARRATOR
In France, there's a saying that to be an aviator, one must be a bit off.
Darren MarlarHOST
History rarely discusses these cases in the same breath, but could the culprit behind the serial killings be one and the same? Local papers of the era dubbed the Texas killings the Servant Girl Murders.
Darren MarlarHOST
The annihilator nickname wouldn't appear until Austin writer O. Henry coined the phrase in mid-1885.
Darren MarlarHOST
As for the Servant Girl descriptor, it alluded to the occupation of many of the victims.
Darren MarlarHOST
The vast majority were young, African-American women employed as domestic help in the homes of Austin, Texas.
Owen FitzStevenVOICE_ACTOR
That's trivial.
Owen FitzStevenVOICE_ACTOR
I've been thinking of the Leggett family in terms of Dumas and you bring me a piece of Jim Crackery out of O'Henry.
Owen FitzStevenVOICE_ACTOR
If I were writing this, Gabrielle would kill her stepmother or dupe Eric into doing it for her.
Owen FitzStevenVOICE_ACTOR
No, that won't do.
speaker_6VOICE_ACTOR
Up they hop.
speaker_5NARRATOR
And so ends another exciting adventure with O. Henry's famous Robin Hood of the West, the Siskel Kid.
speaker_5NARRATOR
The Siskel Kid
speaker_15ADVERTISER
This episode is sponsored by We Feed Raw.
Owen TempleGUEST
It was Fifth and Natchez.
Owen TempleGUEST
It was called O. Henry's Back 40.
Johnny GoudieHOST
Because you're from Kerrville.
Johnny GoudieHOST
I grew
Owen TempleGUEST
Henry's Back 40.
Johnny GoudieHOST
Okay.
Owen TempleGUEST
And it was next to the Pit Barbecue, really next to where the O. Henry house is.
Owen TempleGUEST
They called it his Back 40.
Michael ToveGUEST
So first of all, going way back to when I was a kid, I've always loved the idea of being a storyteller.
Michael ToveGUEST
Um, in, in junior high school and high school, I would write these little short stories and all of my storytelling, um, was influenced by the writings of O. Henry, The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
Michael ToveGUEST
Any story that takes you down an unpredictable path and drops you off someplace you can't see coming, to me, is great storytelling.
Michael ToveGUEST
It's great drama.
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