WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from June 20, 2022

Listener comments!
	👻 4:51pm Austin Rich: Good Hello
	6:01pm zivilars: Hey Austin!
	6:01pm Feldy: What's up, Austin!
	6:01pm Good Ol' Charles: Will it be a violence-free day for Holiday? We'll find out!
	👻 6:01pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, zivilars! And Feldy!
	6:01pm SW: Evening all!
	6:02pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Listeners! ☕😎🤙
	👻 6:02pm Austin Rich: And Charles and SW!
	👻 6:02pm Austin Rich: And Scott 67!
	6:03pm SW: Just have time to listen to Box 13 live today
	6:03pm Listener Robert: Nothing beats Acme pencils, but most of the others tie them.
	👻 6:03pm Austin Rich: We have a great line-up for you tonight! With a Heinlein story for our Dimension X slot!
	6:03pm MHLee: Hello all
	6:03pm SW: But that's ok as it's my favourite series 😁
	6:04pm Ellen Lovebug: I missed Alan's dulcet tones
	👻 6:04pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, Listener Robert! And MHLee: great show! Thanks for the set-up!
	6:04pm John R.: Good afternoon Austin and all!😊
	6:04pm Ellen Lovebug: That was a great line
	👻 6:04pm Austin Rich: Ellen, great to see you in the chat!
	6:04pm Good Ol' Charles: So Dan has been contacted by a filthy rich man before and now one of the richest woman?
	👻 6:04pm Austin Rich: And John R! The gang's all here!
	6:04pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin, I love dowagers! Do they exist anymore? They were always in old comedies, clutching their pearls, and gasping, "Well, I never! In all my life!"
	👻 6:05pm Austin Rich: And Mr. Fab! A dowager can be good for comedy... or drama!
	6:05pm Feldy: I need some ACME® Brand Pencils in a 2H lead. Everybody raves about the Blackwing pencils but they're super soft
	6:05pm Ellen Lovebug: Thank you, yes I recognize that dowager trope. This one sounds like Professor McGonagal
	6:06pm Ellen Lovebug: Forms her own opinions, I like her
	6:06pm Charles: Ahah I can hear it too now Ellen.
	6:06pm Feldy: Yes, same here Ellen
	👻 6:06pm Austin Rich: And ACME might not stand up to the reputation of a Blackwing, but it'll certainly get you though college. And that's a promise!
	6:07pm Ellen Lovebug: <3 <3 Wow, she's presumptuous
	6:08pm Ellen Lovebug: Oh my goodness. Perhaps she's trying to break up her grandkid and a fiancee of his by pretending Dan had an affair with her or something?
	👻 6:08pm Austin Rich: I do appreciate that almost every woman we meet in Box 13 isn't there for Dan to ogle. In fact, most of the women we meet aren't even Dan's age... except Suzie. It sort of helps maintain the tension between Suzie and Dan.
	6:10pm Ellen Lovebug: I get the sense that she's very nosy but that it might have to do with protecting her inheritance. Yep, now I'm certain with that twist it's about that
	6:11pm Ellen Lovebug: Oh my
	👻 6:11pm Austin Rich: I feel like I saw a Drag Queen do an old-woman impression, and sounded just like this old woman here.
	6:12pm Ellen Lovebug: I can understand her motivations
	6:13pm Charles: Let me finish.
	6:13pm SW: Sounds much like an old woman impersonating a drag queen too
	👻 6:13pm Austin Rich: During a pandemic: this story is VERY relatable.
	6:13pm Ellen Lovebug: I fully relate to agoraphobia
	6:14pm Ellen Lovebug: Today I made myself not wear a mask when in my own yard gardening. Wore a hat for the sun but not a mask. First time in months. I was always wearing a mask in my own yard while totally alone
	6:14pm Ellen Lovebug: Electric run-about
	👻 6:14pm Austin Rich: Right now, it's more about doing what makes us feel safe. Sometimes it takes a long time.
	👻 6:15pm Austin Rich: I think that was a reference to the old electric cars they used to have in the 30s and 40s, that were run out of business by gas car companies.
	6:15pm Ellen Lovebug: I love the orchestration of this show's various intros and outros and highlights Gosh I remember #2s
	6:16pm Ellen Lovebug: Watch the documentary, "Who Killed the Electric Car". It was illuminating (pun intended)
	6:16pm MHLee: I like the idea you can only get 1 or 50
	👻 6:17pm Austin Rich: It would be cool if there were and easy way to get the soundtrack to Box 13, so I could make my own. I have a few cues that have been isolated, but a lot have talking over them.
	👻 6:17pm Austin Rich: The ACME company doesn't have the best sense of the kinds of quantities people actually buy.
	6:18pm SW: Some of the very early land speed record cars were electric.
	6:18pm MHLee: All the HB production music is online and the Ren and Stimpy stuff. I reckon I could put a show together with those.
	6:19pm Ellen Lovebug: Framed for theft?
	6:19pm Charles: Police? Hey what's up!
	👻 6:19pm Austin Rich: I think, based on Dan's actions in the first half of this show, that Dan would just just go on a series of dates with almost anyone who writes to Box 13. Is Dan really lonely? He really needs to figure out that Suzie is into him.
	6:20pm Ellen Lovebug: I hope the series ends with them together
	6:21pm MHLee: The quality of this recording is really good
	👻 6:21pm Austin Rich: I honestly can't remember how the last episode goes.
	👻 6:22pm Austin Rich: There's a little bit of "crackle" from the transcript disc, but otherwise: not bad! Box 13 is usually pretty well preserved, but I don't know the reason why. (Like: were these official "Mayfair Productions" copies, or fan copies... or... ?)
	6:23pm Ellen Lovebug: Maybe the emeralds have been replaced with fakes, and the dowager figured it out, and didn't want the blame to fall on her grandson
	6:24pm Ellen Lovebug: Maybe she pawned them to keep her estate and the grandson knew that
	6:25pm Charles: If Dan has to get physical with the butler he will. Don't doubt that for a second!
	👻 6:26pm Austin Rich: I think we established that Dan was the service, and participated in the European theater of WWII. So I suspect he is well trained in a number of combat styles.
	👻 6:26pm Austin Rich: Ellen! I think you called it!
	6:27pm Ellen Lovebug: Wow I think this is my new favorite episode
	6:28pm Ellen Lovebug: Dan is rather chivalrous
	👻 6:28pm Austin Rich: This episode is pretty charming... but no real crime this week. Or, at least, nothing too wild.
	6:29pm Ellen Lovebug: I like the acting and the motivations in this one and Dan having more to talk about
	6:29pm Listener Robert: I'm LOL at that ad.
	6:29pm zivilars: Enjoying listening to those radio dramas in the middle of the night here ... perfect time for that
	6:29pm Feldy: Pencils! Write upside down, in all temperatures!
	👻 6:29pm Austin Rich: Come to think of it: I think I've heard a Drag Queen do a voice like Suzie, too.
	6:29pm Ellen Lovebug: Oh Susie with the silly quips
	👻 6:29pm Austin Rich: Glad to hear that, zivilars!
	6:29pm SW: Well I have to go already, that was indeed a good episode. Night Austin and everyone!
	👻 6:30pm Austin Rich: I do listen to these at night if I can't sleep, either.
	6:30pm Feldy: Also included with pencils: Eraser tip with ferrule
	6:30pm Ellen Lovebug: Ok, love you all, sorry that I have to go back to work and miss the rest. I always enjoy your little commercials
	👻 6:30pm Austin Rich: See ya next time, Ellen!
	6:30pm Charles: That was great even if I didn't get to hear those great sound effects of people getting punched.
	👻 6:32pm Austin Rich: Another "educational segment" crammed into Voyage of The Scarlet Queen. I relocated it to the break, as that makes more sense to me.
	6:33pm Listener Robert: I was sure that was going to end in a pun set up by all the BS.
	👻 6:34pm Austin Rich: (As a result, this week, Voyage of the Scarlet Queen is a little short.)
	👻 6:34pm Austin Rich: (Yeah, that "educational" spot was particularly... not educational.")
	👻 6:35pm Austin Rich: Not bad sound this week on Voyage of The Scarlet Queen... I did a little adjustment to get it a little more in-line with the rest of the show. Still... it sounds better than man others I've aired.
	👻 6:37pm Austin Rich: Gordon & Kohler! New crew members!
	👻 6:43pm Austin Rich: That gives us five of the eight crew members now named: Phil. Red Gordon Kohler Neilson Person 6 Person 7 Person 8!
	👻 6:44pm Austin Rich: I wonder if we'll get the last three crew members names before the end of the existing episodes.
	6:44pm Charles: I like Phil's exasperated Bonsoir's.
	👻 6:45pm Austin Rich: Now that the Kang storyline is over, this is sort of more representative of what the show is like for the remainder: Phil and Red, going from port to port, trying to do their regular work and getting into trouble.
	👻 6:47pm Austin Rich: Oh! This episode was broadcast on Thanksgiving, 1947. I can imagine a lot of people were probably listening to the radio after dinner with the family, passing the time before they had to drive home.
	6:59pm Charles: I liked that. I don't mind the "port of the week" format.
	👻 7:00pm Austin Rich: Me either. I think it works just as well. Wish the company that made it had kept going...
	7:01pm Scott67: Still listening!☕😎🤙
	7:03pm Feldy: Hey Scott! 🍻
	7:04pm John R.: Looking forward to hearing it Austin.
	7:09pm John R.: Doh, Sorry Austin I thought it was starting next week 😁
	👻 7:10pm Austin Rich: Whoops! Guess I wasn't very clear. So you get to hear it now!
	7:11pm Scott67: G'day Feldy! 🍻😎🤙
	7:12pm John R.: Austin: 👍😊
	7:14pm Charles: Boxes that make noises are my favorites.
	👻 7:15pm Austin Rich: I'm with you, Charles. I got my first radio when I was 10, and I've been turning the dials on weird sound making things ever since.
	7:15pm MHLee: Have to duck out, cheers
	👻 7:16pm Austin Rich: Thanks for listening, MHLee!
	7:17pm Charles: Hey I got my first radio as a gift at 10 too! Fun!
	👻 7:17pm Austin Rich: Mine came with a tape deck, so I could record the radio. It was all over from there...
	7:22pm Charles: I played with that a bit too but tapes were on their way out. We had Compact Discs now!
	👻 7:24pm Austin Rich: I got one of those in High School, but I couldn't record to CDs (not for a long time), so I was a tape guy until around 2004.
	👻 7:24pm Austin Rich: I still have hundred and hundreds of tapes.
	7:25pm Charles: How long tapes last?
	👻 7:26pm Austin Rich: Pretty long. I have some reel-to-reel tapes that my mom made in the 80's, and I think they will still play. (They look fine.) I have some tapes from High School... they still play fine.
	👻 7:27pm Austin Rich: (That was almost 30 years ago.)
	👻 7:28pm Austin Rich: I have some cds from 2003 that no longer read, sadly. But my tapes and records still play fine.
	7:30pm Charles: What do transcript discs look like? I suppose you have some?
	👻 7:31pm Austin Rich: But a professionally duplicated CD can last quite some time. And I even have some Burned CDRs that are over 20 years old that still read just fine. Like with anything, care and proper storage is the key to keeping old media working well.
	👻 7:32pm Austin Rich: I have a few transcript discs. They looks just like vinyl LPs, but they are 16"s in diameter, for the most part. (Sometimes smaller.) They often have a metal core and and plastic or shellac outer portion, where the information is etched in. During WWII, they were made of a much more fragile material (metal was precious), so most of the discs that have survived into the modern age are from after WWII.
	👻 7:35pm Austin Rich: But really, radio shows were distributed on just about any format. For the longest time, 10" discs were the standard for commercial and radio use, mostly before WWII, in the earliest days of radio. Well, in the earliest days: all radio was live. But later, transcription discs allowed at least 15 minute bursts where you didn't have to have a live person on the mic.
	👻 7:37pm Austin Rich: You can sort of hear a "ghost" recording of this show in the background of the proper recording. Whoever archived this show originally didn't do the best job of keeping the audio pristine, and I suspect at one point in this recordings life, it was transferred onto a tape that had another recording already on it, and then that tape became the "master" that this digital file was made from. Unfortunate, but I've heard much worse.
	👻 7:39pm Austin Rich: This has got such an "early 50's" sci-fi vibe to it. It seems like authors then loved to imagine that all the "luxuries" of the 50's would persist forever, and even the sci-fi concept is one tied desperately to the notion that commuting is the future of all life.
	7:40pm Charles: And no one has transcript discs of those shows? They were only for radio uses? Otherwise I'd think it would be easier to archive shows from those than recording them live. My english is failing me a bit. Sorry if I'm not making sense right now.
	👻 7:41pm Austin Rich: You are making sense, don't worry.
	👻 7:42pm Austin Rich: If a radio show was broadcast live, then there was never a transcription disc. Unless a listener at home recorded the show themselves, and saved it for the future. (Which did happen.)
	👻 7:42pm Austin Rich: And, to many fans horror, a lot of shows were "thrown away" once they were aired, as a lot of stations didn't think to save things.
	👻 7:43pm Austin Rich: Discs that were made of metal were scrapped for the war effort in WWII, so we don't have much from before then.
	👻 7:43pm Austin Rich: "Tape" was not really commercially available until after WWII.
	7:44pm Charles: Oooh I understand a bit better now. Makes sense.
	7:44pm John R.: Thank you for the info Austin.
	👻 7:44pm Austin Rich: So there's a lot of factors that were working against there being a lot of recordings of old radio shows. But there are still an astonishing number of shows that are still available, in the modern age, thanks to fans who took on preservation efforts.
	👻 7:45pm Austin Rich: archive.org is my primary resource. I search, "Old Radio Shows." Thousands of recordings come up.
	👻 7:46pm Austin Rich: Still, I dream of a radio that could tune into the past, so I could listen to radio the way it used to be. There's only so much that I can learn from books and the recordings that do exist.
	👻 7:49pm Austin Rich: The "terrorist" angle of this story was certainly not expected when I first heard this.
	7:50pm Listener Robert: Not one of Heinlein's better stories. I'm among those who suspect it was written just to fill in details in his History of the Future, since the "later" stories had already been published making reference to the by-then abandoned rolling roads.
	7:51pm Charles: That was a great "ooouuuuuuh".
	👻 7:52pm Austin Rich: I'm with you, Listener Robert. It's not the best story, but it was good "filler" for that particular effort. I think some of his other stories are better for radio purposes.
	7:53pm Listener Robert: No, Mr. Rich, Heinlein's History of the Future did NOT assume those things would go on forever. Look at the stories "later' in the history that refer glancingly to the then-abandoned "road cities" as a kind of short-lived folly.
	👻 7:55pm Austin Rich: Within the context of this story, though, the idea that a Steak is still a luxury item in their future is a very "50's" vision of the future.
	7:55pm Listener Robert: In fact his History of the Future imagined all sorts of trends that would come and go.
	👻 7:55pm Austin Rich: "Steak will always be the best meal." Welll... until meat runs out.
	7:56pm Listener Robert: On my budget it's still a luxury item.
	👻 7:57pm Austin Rich: Unfortunately, this was the best recording of this story I could find. Did a little clean-up, but it's still not great. Like my dream of the past radio, I would basically tune in to get good recordings of these old shows.
	👻 7:57pm Austin Rich: Another Dimension X trope: the wife that gets left in the lurch...
	7:58pm Charles: Thanks Austin! Later everyone!
	👻 7:58pm Austin Rich: Thanks Charles! See ya'll next week!
	8:00pm Scott67: Thanks Austin! Scintillating stuff mate! 🍻😎🤙🎶📻
	👻 8:00pm Austin Rich: Thanks Scott67! See ya next time!
	8:00pm Feldy: Thanks Austin!
	👻 8:01pm Austin Rich: Thanks Feldy!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from June 20, 2022

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June 20, 2022: Episode #22

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Box 13	"The Dowager & Dan Holiday"	16 January 1949	Mayfair Productions	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Duke Ellington	Take The "A" Train			0:29:19 (Pop-up)
The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen	"Huntsman's Quarry & the Dead Chinese"	27 November 1947	Mutual	0:34:16 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Duke Ellington	Take The "A" Train			1:03:08 (Pop-up)
Ben Brooks	The First Fifty Years Part 1	The History of Radio	Group W: Westinghouse Broadcasting Company	1:06:09 (Pop-up)
Chandu The Magician	"Betty & Bob Disappear"	27 July 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Networ	1:14:19 (Pop-up)
Dimension X	"The Roads Must Roll"	1 September 1950	NBC Radio	1:27:31 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 4:51pm Austin Rich: Good Hello
	6:01pm zivilars: Hey Austin!
	6:01pm Feldy: What's up, Austin!
	6:01pm Good Ol' Charles: Will it be a violence-free day for Holiday? We'll find out!
	👻 6:01pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, zivilars! And Feldy!
	6:01pm SW: Evening all!
	6:02pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Listeners! ☕😎🤙
	👻 6:02pm Austin Rich: And Charles and SW!
	👻 6:02pm Austin Rich: And Scott 67!
	6:03pm SW: Just have time to listen to Box 13 live today
	6:03pm Listener Robert: Nothing beats Acme pencils, but most of the others tie them.
	👻 6:03pm Austin Rich: We have a great line-up for you tonight! With a Heinlein story for our Dimension X slot!
	6:03pm MHLee: Hello all
	6:03pm SW: But that's ok as it's my favourite series 😁
	6:04pm Ellen Lovebug: I missed Alan's dulcet tones
	👻 6:04pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, Listener Robert! And MHLee: great show! Thanks for the set-up!
	6:04pm John R.: Good afternoon Austin and all!😊
	6:04pm Ellen Lovebug: That was a great line
	👻 6:04pm Austin Rich: Ellen, great to see you in the chat!
	6:04pm Good Ol' Charles: So Dan has been contacted by a filthy rich man before and now one of the richest woman?
	👻 6:04pm Austin Rich: And John R! The gang's all here!
	6:04pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin, I love dowagers! Do they exist anymore? They were always in old comedies, clutching their pearls, and gasping, "Well, I never! In all my life!"
	👻 6:05pm Austin Rich: And Mr. Fab! A dowager can be good for comedy... or drama!
	6:05pm Feldy: I need some ACME® Brand Pencils in a 2H lead. Everybody raves about the Blackwing pencils but they're super soft
	6:05pm Ellen Lovebug: Thank you, yes I recognize that dowager trope. This one sounds like Professor McGonagal
	6:06pm Ellen Lovebug: Forms her own opinions, I like her
	6:06pm Charles: Ahah I can hear it too now Ellen.
	6:06pm Feldy: Yes, same here Ellen
	👻 6:06pm Austin Rich: And ACME might not stand up to the reputation of a Blackwing, but it'll certainly get you though college. And that's a promise!
	6:07pm Ellen Lovebug: <3 <3 Wow, she's presumptuous
	6:08pm Ellen Lovebug: Oh my goodness. Perhaps she's trying to break up her grandkid and a fiancee of his by pretending Dan had an affair with her or something?
	👻 6:08pm Austin Rich: I do appreciate that almost every woman we meet in Box 13 isn't there for Dan to ogle. In fact, most of the women we meet aren't even Dan's age... except Suzie. It sort of helps maintain the tension between Suzie and Dan.
	6:10pm Ellen Lovebug: I get the sense that she's very nosy but that it might have to do with protecting her inheritance. Yep, now I'm certain with that twist it's about that
	6:11pm Ellen Lovebug: Oh my
	👻 6:11pm Austin Rich: I feel like I saw a Drag Queen do an old-woman impression, and sounded just like this old woman here.
	6:12pm Ellen Lovebug: I can understand her motivations
	6:13pm Charles: Let me finish.
	6:13pm SW: Sounds much like an old woman impersonating a drag queen too
	👻 6:13pm Austin Rich: During a pandemic: this story is VERY relatable.
	6:13pm Ellen Lovebug: I fully relate to agoraphobia
	6:14pm Ellen Lovebug: Today I made myself not wear a mask when in my own yard gardening. Wore a hat for the sun but not a mask. First time in months. I was always wearing a mask in my own yard while totally alone
	6:14pm Ellen Lovebug: Electric run-about
	👻 6:14pm Austin Rich: Right now, it's more about doing what makes us feel safe. Sometimes it takes a long time.
	👻 6:15pm Austin Rich: I think that was a reference to the old electric cars they used to have in the 30s and 40s, that were run out of business by gas car companies.
	6:15pm Ellen Lovebug: I love the orchestration of this show's various intros and outros and highlights Gosh I remember #2s
	6:16pm Ellen Lovebug: Watch the documentary, "Who Killed the Electric Car". It was illuminating (pun intended)
	6:16pm MHLee: I like the idea you can only get 1 or 50
	👻 6:17pm Austin Rich: It would be cool if there were and easy way to get the soundtrack to Box 13, so I could make my own. I have a few cues that have been isolated, but a lot have talking over them.
	👻 6:17pm Austin Rich: The ACME company doesn't have the best sense of the kinds of quantities people actually buy.
	6:18pm SW: Some of the very early land speed record cars were electric.
	6:18pm MHLee: All the HB production music is online and the Ren and Stimpy stuff. I reckon I could put a show together with those.
	6:19pm Ellen Lovebug: Framed for theft?
	6:19pm Charles: Police? Hey what's up!
	👻 6:19pm Austin Rich: I think, based on Dan's actions in the first half of this show, that Dan would just just go on a series of dates with almost anyone who writes to Box 13. Is Dan really lonely? He really needs to figure out that Suzie is into him.
	6:20pm Ellen Lovebug: I hope the series ends with them together
	6:21pm MHLee: The quality of this recording is really good
	👻 6:21pm Austin Rich: I honestly can't remember how the last episode goes.
	👻 6:22pm Austin Rich: There's a little bit of "crackle" from the transcript disc, but otherwise: not bad! Box 13 is usually pretty well preserved, but I don't know the reason why. (Like: were these official "Mayfair Productions" copies, or fan copies... or... ?)
	6:23pm Ellen Lovebug: Maybe the emeralds have been replaced with fakes, and the dowager figured it out, and didn't want the blame to fall on her grandson
	6:24pm Ellen Lovebug: Maybe she pawned them to keep her estate and the grandson knew that
	6:25pm Charles: If Dan has to get physical with the butler he will. Don't doubt that for a second!
	👻 6:26pm Austin Rich: I think we established that Dan was the service, and participated in the European theater of WWII. So I suspect he is well trained in a number of combat styles.
	👻 6:26pm Austin Rich: Ellen! I think you called it!
	6:27pm Ellen Lovebug: Wow I think this is my new favorite episode
	6:28pm Ellen Lovebug: Dan is rather chivalrous
	👻 6:28pm Austin Rich: This episode is pretty charming... but no real crime this week. Or, at least, nothing too wild.
	6:29pm Ellen Lovebug: I like the acting and the motivations in this one and Dan having more to talk about
	6:29pm Listener Robert: I'm LOL at that ad.
	6:29pm zivilars: Enjoying listening to those radio dramas in the middle of the night here ... perfect time for that
	6:29pm Feldy: Pencils! Write upside down, in all temperatures!
	👻 6:29pm Austin Rich: Come to think of it: I think I've heard a Drag Queen do a voice like Suzie, too.
	6:29pm Ellen Lovebug: Oh Susie with the silly quips
	👻 6:29pm Austin Rich: Glad to hear that, zivilars!
	6:29pm SW: Well I have to go already, that was indeed a good episode. Night Austin and everyone!
	👻 6:30pm Austin Rich: I do listen to these at night if I can't sleep, either.
	6:30pm Feldy: Also included with pencils: Eraser tip with ferrule
	6:30pm Ellen Lovebug: Ok, love you all, sorry that I have to go back to work and miss the rest. I always enjoy your little commercials
	👻 6:30pm Austin Rich: See ya next time, Ellen!
	6:30pm Charles: That was great even if I didn't get to hear those great sound effects of people getting punched.
	👻 6:32pm Austin Rich: Another "educational segment" crammed into Voyage of The Scarlet Queen. I relocated it to the break, as that makes more sense to me.
	6:33pm Listener Robert: I was sure that was going to end in a pun set up by all the BS.
	👻 6:34pm Austin Rich: (As a result, this week, Voyage of the Scarlet Queen is a little short.)
	👻 6:34pm Austin Rich: (Yeah, that "educational" spot was particularly... not educational.")
	👻 6:35pm Austin Rich: Not bad sound this week on Voyage of The Scarlet Queen... I did a little adjustment to get it a little more in-line with the rest of the show. Still... it sounds better than man others I've aired.
	👻 6:37pm Austin Rich: Gordon & Kohler! New crew members!
	👻 6:43pm Austin Rich: That gives us five of the eight crew members now named: Phil. Red Gordon Kohler Neilson Person 6 Person 7 Person 8!
	👻 6:44pm Austin Rich: I wonder if we'll get the last three crew members names before the end of the existing episodes.
	6:44pm Charles: I like Phil's exasperated Bonsoir's.
	👻 6:45pm Austin Rich: Now that the Kang storyline is over, this is sort of more representative of what the show is like for the remainder: Phil and Red, going from port to port, trying to do their regular work and getting into trouble.
	👻 6:47pm Austin Rich: Oh! This episode was broadcast on Thanksgiving, 1947. I can imagine a lot of people were probably listening to the radio after dinner with the family, passing the time before they had to drive home.
	6:59pm Charles: I liked that. I don't mind the "port of the week" format.
	👻 7:00pm Austin Rich: Me either. I think it works just as well. Wish the company that made it had kept going...
	7:01pm Scott67: Still listening!☕😎🤙
	7:03pm Feldy: Hey Scott! 🍻
	7:04pm John R.: Looking forward to hearing it Austin.
	7:09pm John R.: Doh, Sorry Austin I thought it was starting next week 😁
	👻 7:10pm Austin Rich: Whoops! Guess I wasn't very clear. So you get to hear it now!
	7:11pm Scott67: G'day Feldy! 🍻😎🤙
	7:12pm John R.: Austin: 👍😊
	7:14pm Charles: Boxes that make noises are my favorites.
	👻 7:15pm Austin Rich: I'm with you, Charles. I got my first radio when I was 10, and I've been turning the dials on weird sound making things ever since.
	7:15pm MHLee: Have to duck out, cheers
	👻 7:16pm Austin Rich: Thanks for listening, MHLee!
	7:17pm Charles: Hey I got my first radio as a gift at 10 too! Fun!
	👻 7:17pm Austin Rich: Mine came with a tape deck, so I could record the radio. It was all over from there...
	7:22pm Charles: I played with that a bit too but tapes were on their way out. We had Compact Discs now!
	👻 7:24pm Austin Rich: I got one of those in High School, but I couldn't record to CDs (not for a long time), so I was a tape guy until around 2004.
	👻 7:24pm Austin Rich: I still have hundred and hundreds of tapes.
	7:25pm Charles: How long tapes last?
	👻 7:26pm Austin Rich: Pretty long. I have some reel-to-reel tapes that my mom made in the 80's, and I think they will still play. (They look fine.) I have some tapes from High School... they still play fine.
	👻 7:27pm Austin Rich: (That was almost 30 years ago.)
	👻 7:28pm Austin Rich: I have some cds from 2003 that no longer read, sadly. But my tapes and records still play fine.
	7:30pm Charles: What do transcript discs look like? I suppose you have some?
	👻 7:31pm Austin Rich: But a professionally duplicated CD can last quite some time. And I even have some Burned CDRs that are over 20 years old that still read just fine. Like with anything, care and proper storage is the key to keeping old media working well.
	👻 7:32pm Austin Rich: I have a few transcript discs. They looks just like vinyl LPs, but they are 16"s in diameter, for the most part. (Sometimes smaller.) They often have a metal core and and plastic or shellac outer portion, where the information is etched in. During WWII, they were made of a much more fragile material (metal was precious), so most of the discs that have survived into the modern age are from after WWII.
	👻 7:35pm Austin Rich: But really, radio shows were distributed on just about any format. For the longest time, 10" discs were the standard for commercial and radio use, mostly before WWII, in the earliest days of radio. Well, in the earliest days: all radio was live. But later, transcription discs allowed at least 15 minute bursts where you didn't have to have a live person on the mic.
	👻 7:37pm Austin Rich: You can sort of hear a "ghost" recording of this show in the background of the proper recording. Whoever archived this show originally didn't do the best job of keeping the audio pristine, and I suspect at one point in this recordings life, it was transferred onto a tape that had another recording already on it, and then that tape became the "master" that this digital file was made from. Unfortunate, but I've heard much worse.
	👻 7:39pm Austin Rich: This has got such an "early 50's" sci-fi vibe to it. It seems like authors then loved to imagine that all the "luxuries" of the 50's would persist forever, and even the sci-fi concept is one tied desperately to the notion that commuting is the future of all life.
	7:40pm Charles: And no one has transcript discs of those shows? They were only for radio uses? Otherwise I'd think it would be easier to archive shows from those than recording them live. My english is failing me a bit. Sorry if I'm not making sense right now.
	👻 7:41pm Austin Rich: You are making sense, don't worry.
	👻 7:42pm Austin Rich: If a radio show was broadcast live, then there was never a transcription disc. Unless a listener at home recorded the show themselves, and saved it for the future. (Which did happen.)
	👻 7:42pm Austin Rich: And, to many fans horror, a lot of shows were "thrown away" once they were aired, as a lot of stations didn't think to save things.
	👻 7:43pm Austin Rich: Discs that were made of metal were scrapped for the war effort in WWII, so we don't have much from before then.
	👻 7:43pm Austin Rich: "Tape" was not really commercially available until after WWII.
	7:44pm Charles: Oooh I understand a bit better now. Makes sense.
	7:44pm John R.: Thank you for the info Austin.
	👻 7:44pm Austin Rich: So there's a lot of factors that were working against there being a lot of recordings of old radio shows. But there are still an astonishing number of shows that are still available, in the modern age, thanks to fans who took on preservation efforts.
	👻 7:45pm Austin Rich: archive.org is my primary resource. I search, "Old Radio Shows." Thousands of recordings come up.
	👻 7:46pm Austin Rich: Still, I dream of a radio that could tune into the past, so I could listen to radio the way it used to be. There's only so much that I can learn from books and the recordings that do exist.
	👻 7:49pm Austin Rich: The "terrorist" angle of this story was certainly not expected when I first heard this.
	7:50pm Listener Robert: Not one of Heinlein's better stories. I'm among those who suspect it was written just to fill in details in his History of the Future, since the "later" stories had already been published making reference to the by-then abandoned rolling roads.
	7:51pm Charles: That was a great "ooouuuuuuh".
	👻 7:52pm Austin Rich: I'm with you, Listener Robert. It's not the best story, but it was good "filler" for that particular effort. I think some of his other stories are better for radio purposes.
	7:53pm Listener Robert: No, Mr. Rich, Heinlein's History of the Future did NOT assume those things would go on forever. Look at the stories "later' in the history that refer glancingly to the then-abandoned "road cities" as a kind of short-lived folly.
	👻 7:55pm Austin Rich: Within the context of this story, though, the idea that a Steak is still a luxury item in their future is a very "50's" vision of the future.
	7:55pm Listener Robert: In fact his History of the Future imagined all sorts of trends that would come and go.
	👻 7:55pm Austin Rich: "Steak will always be the best meal." Welll... until meat runs out.
	7:56pm Listener Robert: On my budget it's still a luxury item.
	👻 7:57pm Austin Rich: Unfortunately, this was the best recording of this story I could find. Did a little clean-up, but it's still not great. Like my dream of the past radio, I would basically tune in to get good recordings of these old shows.
	👻 7:57pm Austin Rich: Another Dimension X trope: the wife that gets left in the lurch...
	7:58pm Charles: Thanks Austin! Later everyone!
	👻 7:58pm Austin Rich: Thanks Charles! See ya'll next week!
	8:00pm Scott67: Thanks Austin! Scintillating stuff mate! 🍻😎🤙🎶📻
	👻 8:00pm Austin Rich: Thanks Scott67! See ya next time!
	8:00pm Feldy: Thanks Austin!
	👻 8:01pm Austin Rich: Thanks Feldy!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from June 20, 2022

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