WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 4, 2022

Listener comments!
	👻 6:00pm Austin Rich: Good Hello!
	👻 6:02pm Austin Rich: Do I have to choose? Or, can I just... not?
	6:02pm Ellen Lovebug: Welcome, friends
	6:03pm HyperDose: Is there a poll? If so, put me down for murder with a capital M!
	6:03pm Ellen Lovebug: That's a logical leap
	👻 6:03pm Austin Rich: This would have been the "Halloween" broadcast for Box 13 in 1948. But I'm not sure you can make a case that this is a Halloween story.
	👻 6:03pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, Ellen, Hyperdose, and all those lurking in the chat! Nice to see you!
	6:03pm spacebrother: Hey hey!
	👻 6:04pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, Spacebrother!
	6:04pm Ellen Lovebug: Actually your commercial is 100% on target. I am trying to get a story out (by editing it), and my lack of a desk is notoriously devastating to my posture
	6:04pm Listener Robert: In detective shows, the deaths that turn out to be suicides are some of the most difficult, and also most depressing, solutions.
	👻 6:04pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, Listener Robert!
	👻 6:05pm Austin Rich: Most likely true, Listener Robert, but I do find it funny that in detective shows, all Suicides are secretly murders. It's essentially a trope at this point: if a death is ruled suicide, a bunch of detectives and Marples show up to "solve the case."
	6:06pm spacebrother: I get paid "VERY WELL"
	👻 6:06pm Austin Rich: Oh? Dan get's paid "Very Well" for his stories. I wonder what publisher pays him so well?
	6:07pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Audience! 😎🤙🦩🎙️📻🍿
	6:07pm Mr Fab: a soldier who "hated fighting"?
	👻 6:07pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, Mr. Fab and Scott67!
	👻 6:08pm Austin Rich: "Fights just happen at bars. So what?"
	6:09pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! Some great hardboiled dialogue here: -"I like you" -"Great, so you can have the next dance."
	👻 6:10pm Austin Rich: Not-so-secret subtext between Kling and Dan Holiday wanting to "dance" with each other.
	👻 6:10pm Austin Rich: Ha! That dialog was particularly odd.
	6:11pm Charles: The real detective is that bartender.
	👻 6:11pm Austin Rich: I mean, I think I would have to say that a suit that cost that much was "costly" too.
	6:11pm Ellen Lovebug: "Any cookie who comes in here dressed like you don't want a drink." Oh my. This reminds me of my aunt who calls me "Cookie".
	👻 6:11pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, listener Charles.
	6:12pm Ellen Lovebug: I like the music, but I don't think that gent was very forthcoming
	6:12pm Ellen Lovebug: He's so brazen.
	6:14pm Ellen Lovebug: A pug? Pugilist, boxer?
	👻 6:14pm Austin Rich: This informant sure knows a lot.
	👻 6:14pm Austin Rich: I think so, Ellen.
	6:14pm Ellen Lovebug: Oh my. Slipped a mickey. This guy is all about the cash
	6:14pm Ellen Lovebug: Uhoh!
	6:15pm Ellen Lovebug: Maybe he's Boxer 13, haha
	👻 6:15pm Austin Rich: I do like how the story sort of hit a dead end, and then an informant just appears to give him the info he needed.
	6:15pm Ellen Lovebug: I totally remember those from when I needed #2s for standardized tests!
	👻 6:15pm Austin Rich: Good one, Ellen!
	6:16pm Scott67: My only suit cost me $5 from a Thrift Store.
	👻 6:16pm Austin Rich: I currently sell a lot of Dixon Ticonderoga pencils at work all the time. They're still pretty popular!
	6:17pm Ellen Lovebug: :) Oh, wow! I definitely prefer them over the thin lead of mechanical pencils.
	6:17pm Ellen Lovebug: "You ain't from them" ooh, who's the them?
	👻 6:17pm Austin Rich: I have a number of thrift store suits, and then one that I spent a little cash on. (My wedding suit.) But I think I've spent a total of $200 on all of the suits I own. (Maybe 10?)
	6:17pm Ellen Lovebug: What color was your wedding suit?
	👻 6:17pm Austin Rich: Ellen: if you need me to get you some Ticonderogas, I know a guy...
	👻 6:18pm Austin Rich: My suit was Grey, with pink and lime green accents.
	6:18pm Ellen Lovebug: :) If I ever come record with you at the Lava Lounge, you can gift me one. Oh, neat. I love a nice lime green
	👻 6:18pm Austin Rich: (But I don't think the jacket fits anymore... yikes... guess I need to get back on the bike tonight!)
	6:19pm Ellen Lovebug: Dailey was working on a big story... maybe he has notes somewhere ... in his Acme desk
	6:19pm Ellen Lovebug: I use a treadmill every day. Some of my sweet spendy cosplays are tight in the tummy now
	6:20pm Ellen Lovebug: Oops, Lava Lamp Lounge, I meant. New photos...handy
	👻 6:20pm Austin Rich: Yeah. I think I let myself go a little too much during the etc. cliche of the last two years, and now I am absolutely overweight. Sigh.
	👻 6:21pm Austin Rich: Ellen: Yeah! You can come record on the patio when you're ready. Just say the word! Maybe Chris can come again, too?
	6:21pm Ellen Lovebug: Ex-newspaperman, a handy connection to have Proof on film! Who are these fellows?
	6:22pm Ellen Lovebug: They ransacked his room for the photos! I've been trying to motivate Chris towards some more Bast Awakening, we've talked about trying to get together this week for his birthday, which was yesterday. I'll broach the notion
	6:23pm Ellen Lovebug: How fortunate that the scrapbook wasn't in the ransacked room
	👻 6:23pm Austin Rich: I wonder what US Halloween was like in 1948?
	6:24pm Ellen Lovebug: Maybe there was some Army interference with the island?
	6:25pm Ellen Lovebug: Clever!
	👻 6:25pm Austin Rich: I do appreciate that the music really elevates Box 13 to sounding almost like mini-movies. Some detective radio from this era is... much less produced.
	6:25pm Ellen Lovebug: The production value on this show is pretty high
	👻 6:26pm Austin Rich: Alan Ladd was famous and had the money, so I'm sure he paid to have top music on his show.
	👻 6:27pm Austin Rich: (He ran the production company that made the show, too. Convenient he gave himself the lead role, too.)
	6:27pm Ellen Lovebug: Nazis oh my. Operation Paperclip
	👻 6:28pm Austin Rich: 1948, this is a pretty early example of the "escaped nazi" trope in media. I wonder how many Americans knew that as fact in 1948?
	6:28pm Ellen Lovebug: That was a pretty solid episode I must say.
	👻 6:29pm Austin Rich: Suzy really loves her job.
	6:29pm HyperDose: These are such time capsules. I love them!
	👻 6:30pm Austin Rich: (This used to happen all the time in comics, where there was always one more escaped nazi scientist who created a supervillain etc etc. It was such a trope, that I have one comic where they hang a lantern on this, and title the story "The Final FINAL Third Reich Story."
	6:30pm Ellen Lovebug: Her voice sounds deliberately dumbed-down, probably the only thing I don't like about the show
	6:30pm Ellen Lovebug: ha
	👻 6:30pm Austin Rich: I think the actor that plays Suzy probably does ALL the womens voices.
	6:31pm spacebrother: I always thought that.
	👻 6:32pm Austin Rich: This is one of my all time favorite songs. It's performed by Raymond Rachello in Orson Welles "War of The Worlds." (Not a real performer, to my knowledge.) I love dancing to this song with my wife.
	👻 6:33pm Austin Rich: The audio quality isn't too bad on this episode, but I did a little clean-up on it to improve it a little. All of the Voyage episodes have a lot of background hiss, or the audio is very quiet. I try to improve it as best I can, which is better than other radio shows that have re-run these, which ran them in an almost unlistenable form the first time I ever heard these shows.
	6:34pm Mr Fab: yeah, this sounds good.
	👻 6:35pm Austin Rich: I have a feeling that there was one collector who had some better recordings of this show, sort of the "core" story episodes. And over the years others have surfaced from crummier sources.
	6:37pm Ellen Lovebug: I have read There Will Come Soft Rains, by Ray Bradbury. It's quietly devastating. Just a heads up for Dimension X today
	👻 6:37pm Austin Rich: I know I have sort of mentioned this before, but drinking, bars, and getting very drunk seems to play a role in almost all our shows. (With the possible exception of "Chandu The Magician," and even still...)
	6:37pm Ellen Lovebug: I have to work but I will try to tune in for Obadiah tomorrow.
	6:37pm Scott67: Ads atmosphere! 👍😎
	6:38pm Mr Fab: "a very erect man" was watching them. Apparently they have pretty liberal obscenity laws in these wild seaside towns.
	👻 6:38pm Austin Rich: It's gonna be a good one, tomorrow! Live music, and a bunch of records. Nick Cave included. Gonna be solid.
	6:39pm HyperDose: I think there's a love connection here
	👻 6:40pm Austin Rich: In particular, The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen seems to be "pro-drinking" in a big way. It appears (at the very least) at the end of every episode, and there's often plenty of drinking throughout each show, too. I suspect that was pretty common among sailors in the late 40s (and probably still, even), but this show really paints a pretty "sloppy" lifestyle for Phil Carney and his crew.
	👻 6:41pm Austin Rich: Mr. Fab: International law is always a little strange from place to place. I suspect that no one else saw him.
	👻 6:45pm Austin Rich: What was that old saying? "Men's Adventure stories and Women's Romance stories are basically the same?"
	6:46pm Listener Robert: Built like q boat??!
	👻 6:48pm Austin Rich: I guess it makes sense that Phil would have to essentially fall in love with the personification of his own ship before he could really fall in love.
	6:53pm Listener Robert: I love the 1st-person present-tense (but formally past) narration!
	👻 6:53pm Austin Rich: Considering that Phil did fight in the war, he's probably killed a lot of people over the years. I think this might the be most explicit, in-story time that Phil has killed someone.
	👻 6:54pm Austin Rich: I to like the idea that Red and the crew were hanging out, having adventures, while Phil is having is "vacation."
	6:56pm HyperDose: "Shut up" haha what a loverboy!
	👻 6:57pm Austin Rich: Yeah. Phil doesn't really seem like the kind of guy you wanna get involved with, romantically.
	6:57pm Listener Robert: That last bit of hesitation tells me she does know where the jewels are and is planning to smuggle them via the boat.
	6:58pm HyperDose: Yep there's the alcohol again. Starting to think he's always hammered
	👻 6:58pm Austin Rich: I mean, it was pretty obvious he was gonna leave her behind, right?
	7:01pm Mr Fab: Dames. They'll getcha every time.
	7:02pm Listener Robert: She'll be back.
	7:08pm Listener Robert: Know what story is evergreen? Not thinking of Bradbury, but A.C. Doyle: "The Lost Special".
	👻 7:16pm Austin Rich: I do love Sherlock Holmes, but I find radio adaptations to be not that great. I prefer the PBS Holmes films from the late 70's / early 80s.
	👻 7:16pm Austin Rich: There's some good Basil Rathbone read versions that I like, too.
	7:17pm HyperDose: There was a "viewers like you" Holmes?!
	👻 7:17pm Austin Rich: Well, I think they were UK films that were run in the US on PBS.
	7:17pm Listener Robert: But "The Lost Special" is not a Sherlock Holmes story -- although one of its recent radio adaptations WAS!
	👻 7:18pm Austin Rich: I'm not familiar with Lost Special. And, I was wrong! The one I saw on PBS was from the mid-80s. www.imdb.com...
	7:23pm Mr Fab: Austin, whatcha think about after you run out of episodes of "The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen," run some Marx Bros/Groucho Marx series? Since you were sugesting a change of pace from all the action/adventure.
	👻 7:25pm Austin Rich: That's a pretty good idea, Mr. Fab! And there's lots of different Marx Bros. things to run! I'll start digging around and see what I can come up with, easily.
	7:25pm Listener Robert: "The Lost Special" is one of A.C. Doyle's stories published in The Strand, and later collected as one of the Tales of Mystery in "Tales of Terror and Mystery", as well as one of the "Round the Fire Stories". It was adapted for "Suspense!" and "Escape", and much later for the [CBS] Radio Mystery Theatre stories of the 1970s, and then the version that put Sherlock Holmes into it, just a few years ago in a British production. In the 1930s it was VERY loosely adapted as a Universal movie serial. It was also a large part of the "input" to "Watchmen" (graphic novel) and "Lost" (TV serial). A Solar Pons version exists, "The Lost Express".
	7:28pm Listener Robert: "Lost" was partly named for "The Lost Special" (and partly after "lost heir" swindles), and so was its episode "Special".
	7:29pm HyperDose: I know nothing about Groucho Marx, but the character always intrigued me. I'm in!
	👻 7:29pm Austin Rich: This was a "Friday" episode of Chandu, so listeners would have to wait over the weekend to hear another installment. For us, we have to wait a full week, which does sort of kill the pace, but I think works better for our purposes.
	👻 7:29pm Austin Rich: Two votes for Marx Bros. radio!
	👻 7:33pm Austin Rich: I love this story, and I quite enjoy this adaptation. But for my money, the version that is read by Leonard Nimoy from the mid-70's is the best version to enjoy via audio. www.discogs.com...
	7:34pm HyperDose: That looks amazing. Surprisingly cheap too. Guess it's not that well known?
	👻 7:34pm Austin Rich: I've sampled this story so many times, and done a version of "The House" for Mini-Mutations that I'm afraid to do another version. But I think all of the ones I've done were live, and I studio version is probably worth pursuing.
	👻 7:35pm Austin Rich: I've been trying to find a copy in the wild, but I might just order one online one of these days. You can find a lot of versions online for free.
	👻 7:37pm Austin Rich: I think this and "The Day After" are probably the two visions of nuclear disaster that really stuck with Americans. Under current circumstances: a little prescient, unfortunately. We have smart homes now. And nuclear war...
	7:38pm Mr Fab: I'm glad Alexa doesn't keep telling me what time it is.
	👻 7:38pm Austin Rich: I think about this poem all the time.
	7:38pm HyperDose: Now we just need smart homes with anti-missile systems. I imagine it would be quite the expensive add-on package.
	7:39pm Scott67: I thought he said "what born do you want to hear.."
	👻 7:39pm Austin Rich: Ha!
	7:39pm Scott67: PORN**
	👻 7:40pm Austin Rich: I mean, you could probably get Alexa to ask you that if you wanted.
	👻 7:40pm Austin Rich: Or Siri. Or whatever your kink is.
	7:41pm Mr Fab: reminds me of the excellent non-fiction book, "The World Without Us" that describes how nature would quickly reclaim the world should we all disappear.
	7:41pm Scott67: My new Laptop keeps asking me to turn on Alexa! I don't roll that way.
	👻 7:42pm Austin Rich: I feel like I had that book recommended, Mr. Fab. But haven't yet read it. But yeah: Earth will shake us off like fleas, as George Carlin once said.
	👻 7:44pm Austin Rich: This was the first Dimension X / X Minus One / Science Fiction radio drama that I ever heard. I assumed all radio sci fi was like a Ray Bradbury short story. I was sorely disappointed as I explored some of the other sci-fi out there.
	👻 7:46pm Austin Rich: "They're not fairies." Interesting.
	👻 7:47pm Austin Rich: As someone who has done childcare fairly recently, with pretty young children, all of this kind of talk between the kids sounds pretty realistic to me. Anyone with kids out there listening?
	👻 7:48pm Austin Rich: All of the kid behavior seems pretty authentic, to me.
	👻 7:49pm Austin Rich: "Oh, fifth column, eh?" The Dad is pretty authentic, too.
	👻 7:50pm Austin Rich: "No more baths, either."
	👻 7:51pm Austin Rich: I haven't met any dads that play golf, personally. Too expensive. All the dads I knew as a kid played horseshoes. These days: I don't know? I just hang out with record nerds.
	👻 7:54pm Austin Rich: Part of me feels like "ET" sort of borrowed a bit from this story. (Kids building stuff under the noses of parents, to help an alien.) But certainly, this is from the parents point of view, unlike ET, which is from the kids POV.
	👻 7:54pm Austin Rich: "She's a scare-baby anyway."
	7:55pm HyperDose: Oh no, I need my bubble baths. I get cranky if I don't!
	👻 7:56pm Austin Rich: "Children, children. Why do we have them?"
	👻 7:56pm Austin Rich: "Whippings"?
	👻 7:56pm Austin Rich: I think this particular generation (Bradbury's) just could not figure out what to do with children, and couldn't trust them. So many stories from this era have evil kids in them.
	7:57pm Mr Fab: "I wonder if they ever forgive the whippings..? Er, gee, i dunno.
	👻 7:57pm Austin Rich: I think Gen X might be the last generation to be "casually spanked" by their parents. I just can't see the younger generations letting if fly.
	👻 7:58pm Austin Rich: This story takes such a dark turn, so quickly, near the end. And it starts so... suburban.
	7:59pm Charles: Creepy stuff
	👻 7:59pm Austin Rich: "I guess you better melt the lock, Drill."
	8:00pm HyperDose: I'm a slut for good sound design
	👻 8:00pm Austin Rich: Good night, everyone! See you next week!
	8:00pm Scott67: Thanks Austin!😎🤙📻🤖👽✏️⚓
	8:01pm Listener Robert: Peek-a-boo, everyone.
	8:01pm Charles: Thanks Austin, chat friends!
	8:02pm Mr Fab: that was great, thanks!
	👻 8:02pm Austin Rich: Until Next time...
	8:02pm HyperDose: Thank you, Austin! Great entertainment as always!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 4, 2022

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April 4, 2022: Episode #11

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Box 13	"Suicide or Murder?" ""Suicide or Murder?"" by "Box 13"	31 October 1948	Mayfair Productions	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Artie Shaw	Star Dust [Excerpt] "Star Dust [Excerpt]" by "Artie Shaw"			0:28:41 (Pop-up)
The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen	"Jewel Thieves and The Straw-Filled Dummy"	11 September 1947	Mutual	0:30:18 (Pop-up)
Artie Shaw	Star Dust "Star Dust" by "Artie Shaw"			1:14:42 (Pop-up)
Chandu The Magician	"Journey Up The Nile"	9 July 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Networ	1:14:44 (Pop-up)
Dimension X	"There Will Come Soft Rains / Zero Hour"	17 June 1950	NBC Radio	1:28:22 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 6:00pm Austin Rich: Good Hello!
	👻 6:02pm Austin Rich: Do I have to choose? Or, can I just... not?
	6:02pm Ellen Lovebug: Welcome, friends
	6:03pm HyperDose: Is there a poll? If so, put me down for murder with a capital M!
	6:03pm Ellen Lovebug: That's a logical leap
	👻 6:03pm Austin Rich: This would have been the "Halloween" broadcast for Box 13 in 1948. But I'm not sure you can make a case that this is a Halloween story.
	👻 6:03pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, Ellen, Hyperdose, and all those lurking in the chat! Nice to see you!
	6:03pm spacebrother: Hey hey!
	👻 6:04pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, Spacebrother!
	6:04pm Ellen Lovebug: Actually your commercial is 100% on target. I am trying to get a story out (by editing it), and my lack of a desk is notoriously devastating to my posture
	6:04pm Listener Robert: In detective shows, the deaths that turn out to be suicides are some of the most difficult, and also most depressing, solutions.
	👻 6:04pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, Listener Robert!
	👻 6:05pm Austin Rich: Most likely true, Listener Robert, but I do find it funny that in detective shows, all Suicides are secretly murders. It's essentially a trope at this point: if a death is ruled suicide, a bunch of detectives and Marples show up to "solve the case."
	6:06pm spacebrother: I get paid "VERY WELL"
	👻 6:06pm Austin Rich: Oh? Dan get's paid "Very Well" for his stories. I wonder what publisher pays him so well?
	6:07pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Audience! 😎🤙🦩🎙️📻🍿
	6:07pm Mr Fab: a soldier who "hated fighting"?
	👻 6:07pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, Mr. Fab and Scott67!
	👻 6:08pm Austin Rich: "Fights just happen at bars. So what?"
	6:09pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! Some great hardboiled dialogue here: -"I like you" -"Great, so you can have the next dance."
	👻 6:10pm Austin Rich: Not-so-secret subtext between Kling and Dan Holiday wanting to "dance" with each other.
	👻 6:10pm Austin Rich: Ha! That dialog was particularly odd.
	6:11pm Charles: The real detective is that bartender.
	👻 6:11pm Austin Rich: I mean, I think I would have to say that a suit that cost that much was "costly" too.
	6:11pm Ellen Lovebug: "Any cookie who comes in here dressed like you don't want a drink." Oh my. This reminds me of my aunt who calls me "Cookie".
	👻 6:11pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, listener Charles.
	6:12pm Ellen Lovebug: I like the music, but I don't think that gent was very forthcoming
	6:12pm Ellen Lovebug: He's so brazen.
	6:14pm Ellen Lovebug: A pug? Pugilist, boxer?
	👻 6:14pm Austin Rich: This informant sure knows a lot.
	👻 6:14pm Austin Rich: I think so, Ellen.
	6:14pm Ellen Lovebug: Oh my. Slipped a mickey. This guy is all about the cash
	6:14pm Ellen Lovebug: Uhoh!
	6:15pm Ellen Lovebug: Maybe he's Boxer 13, haha
	👻 6:15pm Austin Rich: I do like how the story sort of hit a dead end, and then an informant just appears to give him the info he needed.
	6:15pm Ellen Lovebug: I totally remember those from when I needed #2s for standardized tests!
	👻 6:15pm Austin Rich: Good one, Ellen!
	6:16pm Scott67: My only suit cost me $5 from a Thrift Store.
	👻 6:16pm Austin Rich: I currently sell a lot of Dixon Ticonderoga pencils at work all the time. They're still pretty popular!
	6:17pm Ellen Lovebug: :) Oh, wow! I definitely prefer them over the thin lead of mechanical pencils.
	6:17pm Ellen Lovebug: "You ain't from them" ooh, who's the them?
	👻 6:17pm Austin Rich: I have a number of thrift store suits, and then one that I spent a little cash on. (My wedding suit.) But I think I've spent a total of $200 on all of the suits I own. (Maybe 10?)
	6:17pm Ellen Lovebug: What color was your wedding suit?
	👻 6:17pm Austin Rich: Ellen: if you need me to get you some Ticonderogas, I know a guy...
	👻 6:18pm Austin Rich: My suit was Grey, with pink and lime green accents.
	6:18pm Ellen Lovebug: :) If I ever come record with you at the Lava Lounge, you can gift me one. Oh, neat. I love a nice lime green
	👻 6:18pm Austin Rich: (But I don't think the jacket fits anymore... yikes... guess I need to get back on the bike tonight!)
	6:19pm Ellen Lovebug: Dailey was working on a big story... maybe he has notes somewhere ... in his Acme desk
	6:19pm Ellen Lovebug: I use a treadmill every day. Some of my sweet spendy cosplays are tight in the tummy now
	6:20pm Ellen Lovebug: Oops, Lava Lamp Lounge, I meant. New photos...handy
	👻 6:20pm Austin Rich: Yeah. I think I let myself go a little too much during the etc. cliche of the last two years, and now I am absolutely overweight. Sigh.
	👻 6:21pm Austin Rich: Ellen: Yeah! You can come record on the patio when you're ready. Just say the word! Maybe Chris can come again, too?
	6:21pm Ellen Lovebug: Ex-newspaperman, a handy connection to have Proof on film! Who are these fellows?
	6:22pm Ellen Lovebug: They ransacked his room for the photos! I've been trying to motivate Chris towards some more Bast Awakening, we've talked about trying to get together this week for his birthday, which was yesterday. I'll broach the notion
	6:23pm Ellen Lovebug: How fortunate that the scrapbook wasn't in the ransacked room
	👻 6:23pm Austin Rich: I wonder what US Halloween was like in 1948?
	6:24pm Ellen Lovebug: Maybe there was some Army interference with the island?
	6:25pm Ellen Lovebug: Clever!
	👻 6:25pm Austin Rich: I do appreciate that the music really elevates Box 13 to sounding almost like mini-movies. Some detective radio from this era is... much less produced.
	6:25pm Ellen Lovebug: The production value on this show is pretty high
	👻 6:26pm Austin Rich: Alan Ladd was famous and had the money, so I'm sure he paid to have top music on his show.
	👻 6:27pm Austin Rich: (He ran the production company that made the show, too. Convenient he gave himself the lead role, too.)
	6:27pm Ellen Lovebug: Nazis oh my. Operation Paperclip
	👻 6:28pm Austin Rich: 1948, this is a pretty early example of the "escaped nazi" trope in media. I wonder how many Americans knew that as fact in 1948?
	6:28pm Ellen Lovebug: That was a pretty solid episode I must say.
	👻 6:29pm Austin Rich: Suzy really loves her job.
	6:29pm HyperDose: These are such time capsules. I love them!
	👻 6:30pm Austin Rich: (This used to happen all the time in comics, where there was always one more escaped nazi scientist who created a supervillain etc etc. It was such a trope, that I have one comic where they hang a lantern on this, and title the story "The Final FINAL Third Reich Story."
	6:30pm Ellen Lovebug: Her voice sounds deliberately dumbed-down, probably the only thing I don't like about the show
	6:30pm Ellen Lovebug: ha
	👻 6:30pm Austin Rich: I think the actor that plays Suzy probably does ALL the womens voices.
	6:31pm spacebrother: I always thought that.
	👻 6:32pm Austin Rich: This is one of my all time favorite songs. It's performed by Raymond Rachello in Orson Welles "War of The Worlds." (Not a real performer, to my knowledge.) I love dancing to this song with my wife.
	👻 6:33pm Austin Rich: The audio quality isn't too bad on this episode, but I did a little clean-up on it to improve it a little. All of the Voyage episodes have a lot of background hiss, or the audio is very quiet. I try to improve it as best I can, which is better than other radio shows that have re-run these, which ran them in an almost unlistenable form the first time I ever heard these shows.
	6:34pm Mr Fab: yeah, this sounds good.
	👻 6:35pm Austin Rich: I have a feeling that there was one collector who had some better recordings of this show, sort of the "core" story episodes. And over the years others have surfaced from crummier sources.
	6:37pm Ellen Lovebug: I have read There Will Come Soft Rains, by Ray Bradbury. It's quietly devastating. Just a heads up for Dimension X today
	👻 6:37pm Austin Rich: I know I have sort of mentioned this before, but drinking, bars, and getting very drunk seems to play a role in almost all our shows. (With the possible exception of "Chandu The Magician," and even still...)
	6:37pm Ellen Lovebug: I have to work but I will try to tune in for Obadiah tomorrow.
	6:37pm Scott67: Ads atmosphere! 👍😎
	6:38pm Mr Fab: "a very erect man" was watching them. Apparently they have pretty liberal obscenity laws in these wild seaside towns.
	👻 6:38pm Austin Rich: It's gonna be a good one, tomorrow! Live music, and a bunch of records. Nick Cave included. Gonna be solid.
	6:39pm HyperDose: I think there's a love connection here
	👻 6:40pm Austin Rich: In particular, The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen seems to be "pro-drinking" in a big way. It appears (at the very least) at the end of every episode, and there's often plenty of drinking throughout each show, too. I suspect that was pretty common among sailors in the late 40s (and probably still, even), but this show really paints a pretty "sloppy" lifestyle for Phil Carney and his crew.
	👻 6:41pm Austin Rich: Mr. Fab: International law is always a little strange from place to place. I suspect that no one else saw him.
	👻 6:45pm Austin Rich: What was that old saying? "Men's Adventure stories and Women's Romance stories are basically the same?"
	6:46pm Listener Robert: Built like q boat??!
	👻 6:48pm Austin Rich: I guess it makes sense that Phil would have to essentially fall in love with the personification of his own ship before he could really fall in love.
	6:53pm Listener Robert: I love the 1st-person present-tense (but formally past) narration!
	👻 6:53pm Austin Rich: Considering that Phil did fight in the war, he's probably killed a lot of people over the years. I think this might the be most explicit, in-story time that Phil has killed someone.
	👻 6:54pm Austin Rich: I to like the idea that Red and the crew were hanging out, having adventures, while Phil is having is "vacation."
	6:56pm HyperDose: "Shut up" haha what a loverboy!
	👻 6:57pm Austin Rich: Yeah. Phil doesn't really seem like the kind of guy you wanna get involved with, romantically.
	6:57pm Listener Robert: That last bit of hesitation tells me she does know where the jewels are and is planning to smuggle them via the boat.
	6:58pm HyperDose: Yep there's the alcohol again. Starting to think he's always hammered
	👻 6:58pm Austin Rich: I mean, it was pretty obvious he was gonna leave her behind, right?
	7:01pm Mr Fab: Dames. They'll getcha every time.
	7:02pm Listener Robert: She'll be back.
	7:08pm Listener Robert: Know what story is evergreen? Not thinking of Bradbury, but A.C. Doyle: "The Lost Special".
	👻 7:16pm Austin Rich: I do love Sherlock Holmes, but I find radio adaptations to be not that great. I prefer the PBS Holmes films from the late 70's / early 80s.
	👻 7:16pm Austin Rich: There's some good Basil Rathbone read versions that I like, too.
	7:17pm HyperDose: There was a "viewers like you" Holmes?!
	👻 7:17pm Austin Rich: Well, I think they were UK films that were run in the US on PBS.
	7:17pm Listener Robert: But "The Lost Special" is not a Sherlock Holmes story -- although one of its recent radio adaptations WAS!
	👻 7:18pm Austin Rich: I'm not familiar with Lost Special. And, I was wrong! The one I saw on PBS was from the mid-80s. www.imdb.com...
	7:23pm Mr Fab: Austin, whatcha think about after you run out of episodes of "The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen," run some Marx Bros/Groucho Marx series? Since you were sugesting a change of pace from all the action/adventure.
	👻 7:25pm Austin Rich: That's a pretty good idea, Mr. Fab! And there's lots of different Marx Bros. things to run! I'll start digging around and see what I can come up with, easily.
	7:25pm Listener Robert: "The Lost Special" is one of A.C. Doyle's stories published in The Strand, and later collected as one of the Tales of Mystery in "Tales of Terror and Mystery", as well as one of the "Round the Fire Stories". It was adapted for "Suspense!" and "Escape", and much later for the [CBS] Radio Mystery Theatre stories of the 1970s, and then the version that put Sherlock Holmes into it, just a few years ago in a British production. In the 1930s it was VERY loosely adapted as a Universal movie serial. It was also a large part of the "input" to "Watchmen" (graphic novel) and "Lost" (TV serial). A Solar Pons version exists, "The Lost Express".
	7:28pm Listener Robert: "Lost" was partly named for "The Lost Special" (and partly after "lost heir" swindles), and so was its episode "Special".
	7:29pm HyperDose: I know nothing about Groucho Marx, but the character always intrigued me. I'm in!
	👻 7:29pm Austin Rich: This was a "Friday" episode of Chandu, so listeners would have to wait over the weekend to hear another installment. For us, we have to wait a full week, which does sort of kill the pace, but I think works better for our purposes.
	👻 7:29pm Austin Rich: Two votes for Marx Bros. radio!
	👻 7:33pm Austin Rich: I love this story, and I quite enjoy this adaptation. But for my money, the version that is read by Leonard Nimoy from the mid-70's is the best version to enjoy via audio. www.discogs.com...
	7:34pm HyperDose: That looks amazing. Surprisingly cheap too. Guess it's not that well known?
	👻 7:34pm Austin Rich: I've sampled this story so many times, and done a version of "The House" for Mini-Mutations that I'm afraid to do another version. But I think all of the ones I've done were live, and I studio version is probably worth pursuing.
	👻 7:35pm Austin Rich: I've been trying to find a copy in the wild, but I might just order one online one of these days. You can find a lot of versions online for free.
	👻 7:37pm Austin Rich: I think this and "The Day After" are probably the two visions of nuclear disaster that really stuck with Americans. Under current circumstances: a little prescient, unfortunately. We have smart homes now. And nuclear war...
	7:38pm Mr Fab: I'm glad Alexa doesn't keep telling me what time it is.
	👻 7:38pm Austin Rich: I think about this poem all the time.
	7:38pm HyperDose: Now we just need smart homes with anti-missile systems. I imagine it would be quite the expensive add-on package.
	7:39pm Scott67: I thought he said "what born do you want to hear.."
	👻 7:39pm Austin Rich: Ha!
	7:39pm Scott67: PORN**
	👻 7:40pm Austin Rich: I mean, you could probably get Alexa to ask you that if you wanted.
	👻 7:40pm Austin Rich: Or Siri. Or whatever your kink is.
	7:41pm Mr Fab: reminds me of the excellent non-fiction book, "The World Without Us" that describes how nature would quickly reclaim the world should we all disappear.
	7:41pm Scott67: My new Laptop keeps asking me to turn on Alexa! I don't roll that way.
	👻 7:42pm Austin Rich: I feel like I had that book recommended, Mr. Fab. But haven't yet read it. But yeah: Earth will shake us off like fleas, as George Carlin once said.
	👻 7:44pm Austin Rich: This was the first Dimension X / X Minus One / Science Fiction radio drama that I ever heard. I assumed all radio sci fi was like a Ray Bradbury short story. I was sorely disappointed as I explored some of the other sci-fi out there.
	👻 7:46pm Austin Rich: "They're not fairies." Interesting.
	👻 7:47pm Austin Rich: As someone who has done childcare fairly recently, with pretty young children, all of this kind of talk between the kids sounds pretty realistic to me. Anyone with kids out there listening?
	👻 7:48pm Austin Rich: All of the kid behavior seems pretty authentic, to me.
	👻 7:49pm Austin Rich: "Oh, fifth column, eh?" The Dad is pretty authentic, too.
	👻 7:50pm Austin Rich: "No more baths, either."
	👻 7:51pm Austin Rich: I haven't met any dads that play golf, personally. Too expensive. All the dads I knew as a kid played horseshoes. These days: I don't know? I just hang out with record nerds.
	👻 7:54pm Austin Rich: Part of me feels like "ET" sort of borrowed a bit from this story. (Kids building stuff under the noses of parents, to help an alien.) But certainly, this is from the parents point of view, unlike ET, which is from the kids POV.
	👻 7:54pm Austin Rich: "She's a scare-baby anyway."
	7:55pm HyperDose: Oh no, I need my bubble baths. I get cranky if I don't!
	👻 7:56pm Austin Rich: "Children, children. Why do we have them?"
	👻 7:56pm Austin Rich: "Whippings"?
	👻 7:56pm Austin Rich: I think this particular generation (Bradbury's) just could not figure out what to do with children, and couldn't trust them. So many stories from this era have evil kids in them.
	7:57pm Mr Fab: "I wonder if they ever forgive the whippings..? Er, gee, i dunno.
	👻 7:57pm Austin Rich: I think Gen X might be the last generation to be "casually spanked" by their parents. I just can't see the younger generations letting if fly.
	👻 7:58pm Austin Rich: This story takes such a dark turn, so quickly, near the end. And it starts so... suburban.
	7:59pm Charles: Creepy stuff
	👻 7:59pm Austin Rich: "I guess you better melt the lock, Drill."
	8:00pm HyperDose: I'm a slut for good sound design
	👻 8:00pm Austin Rich: Good night, everyone! See you next week!
	8:00pm Scott67: Thanks Austin!😎🤙📻🤖👽✏️⚓
	8:01pm Listener Robert: Peek-a-boo, everyone.
	8:01pm Charles: Thanks Austin, chat friends!
	8:02pm Mr Fab: that was great, thanks!
	👻 8:02pm Austin Rich: Until Next time...
	8:02pm HyperDose: Thank you, Austin! Great entertainment as always!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 4, 2022

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