In keeping with my usual near-holiday appearance (the only Friday the 13th of 2016, and the first Friday the 13th of the year is Blame Someone Else Day), I am of course appearing on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Ideas Network’s Joy Cardin Week in Review Friday at 8 a.m.

You can hear me Friday on WLBL (930 AM) in Auburndale, WHID (88.1 FM) in Green Bay, WHWC (88.3 FM) in Menomonie, WRFW (88.7 FM) in River Falls, WEPS (88.9 FM) in Elgin, Ill., WHAA (89.1 FM) in Adams, WHBM (90.3 FM) in Park Falls, WHLA (90.3 FM) in La Crosse, WRST (90.3 FM) in Oshkosh, WHAD (90.7 FM) in Delafield, W215AQ (90.9 FM) in Middleton, KUWS (91.3 FM) in Superior, WHHI (91.3 FM) in Highland, WSHS (91.7 FM) in Sheboygan, WHDI (91.9 FM) in Sister Bay, WLBL (91.9 FM) in Wausau, W275AF (102.9 FM) in Ashland, W300BM (107.9 FM) in Madison, and of course online at www.wpr.org.

(Friday is, for some reason, also Leprechaun Day and Frog Jumping Day, while Saturday is National Chocolate Chip Day, Sunday is National Sea Monkey Day, and Monday is No Dirty Dishes Day.)

As long as WPR comes up, I should tout programs I’ve been listening to while driving with the house’s newest driver. Weekends between 8 and 11 p.m. WPR’s Ideas Network carries “Old Time Radio Drama.” As the adult supervisor the first night we went out I was scanning the radio and came upon this. It is quite entertaining to hear such radio as “Sherlock Holmes,” “Philip Marlowe,” “Have Gun Will Travel,” “The Lone Ranger,” “Dragnet,” “Johnny Dollar,” “Tales of the Texas Rangers,” “The Shadow” (played by pre-“Citizen Kane” Orson Welles), “Night Beat” (a Chicago newspaper reporter) and “Frontier Gentlemen” (a London Times reporter out West), theater of the mind as the night goes by. (There was even one show with a Wisconsin setting starring none other than Jimmy Stewart.)

Less entertaining, I must admit, are the comedies, which feature humor that apparently was viewed as appropriate for the 1940s and 1950s but is just corny by today’s standards. On the other hand, one night (where no driving took place due to scheduling conflicts) I listened to a “War of the Worlds”-like adaptation of a 1912 Jack London novel, “The Scarlet Plague.” It described the symptoms of my illness of the time quite well.