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

Listener comments!
	👻 4:15pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	👻 6:02pm Austin Rich: Of course, Philanthropy is a popular pastime of rich folks in the United States, making this hobby completely appropriate for the July 4th Holiday.
	6:02pm Mr Fab: Hello Austin, To answer your question from spacebrothers show, the records I bought are some kind of groovy ‘60s Mexican a-gogo by the looks of them. Haven’t listened to them yet.
	6:02pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Intrigued! ☕😎🤙🎶📻☀️🌏🌻
	👻 6:03pm Austin Rich: Oooooo! That sounds like a score, Mr. Fab. And: Hello, Scott67!
	👻 6:03pm Austin Rich: You get the impression that Dan also enjoys making fun of Suzie, at this point in their relationship.
	6:04pm Charles: Hello, peanuts anyone?
	6:05pm spacebrother: "His red hair bounced out of his head like wires"?
	👻 6:05pm Austin Rich: I like how most people who write to Box 13 - who have already sort of agreed to hire him - always wanna know how Box 13 works, and why Dad does it. You would think they wouldn't care... except by way of offering exposition.
	👻 6:05pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, Charles!
	6:05pm spacebrother: @ Fab - SCORE!
	👻 6:07pm Austin Rich: Howdy spacebrother. Yeah, some of the analogies don't really land on this show. It's sort of charming that way... you can imagine they writer trying for a good line, and almost getting there.
	👻 6:07pm Austin Rich: "A Topper, a good guy."
	6:10pm Mr Fab: Going to the mission he says he pulled out his oldest suit - I like how even the homeless guys wear suits.
	6:11pm Charles: This guy's pushy. I feel like I'm supposed to eat soup too right now.
	👻 6:11pm Austin Rich: One ongoing theme that I appreciate on this show is that Dan really does go undercover to get the ins and outs of how different parts of society work. I'm sure in 1949, the average listener probably didn't know much about how sandhogs worked, or what life in a mission was like. The writers really do wanna show their work when they research this show.
	6:12pm spacebrother: The atmosphere seems authentic enough.
	👻 6:15pm Austin Rich: I've seen other critics point to the "realism" in this show, and that it does offer a glimpse into what life was really like at the time. I try to listen for the differences in what life what like then vs. now. I can usually find at least one thing in old shows and movies that is interesting to me, for that reason.
	👻 6:15pm Austin Rich: Whoa! Not sure what happened there. Sounded like a glitch or something. Sorry about that.
	👻 6:16pm Austin Rich: (Usually I try to edit out stuff like that. Sorry.)
	6:18pm spacebrother: This guy is fishy as....fish.
	6:20pm spacebrother: Sooky?!
	👻 6:20pm Austin Rich: Suki?
	👻 6:22pm Austin Rich: This weird scam where they get homeless men to do this works seems particularly American, and appropriate for the July 4th Holiday.
	👻 6:26pm Austin Rich: There's a part of me that remembers a Batman: The Animated Series episode that sort of had this same plot.
	6:26pm spacebrother: Precisely what this character did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Howe_Springer
	6:27pm spacebrother: Maybe it was the inspiration for this episode.
	👻 6:27pm Austin Rich: Seems very likely, spacebrother.
	6:28pm spacebrother: "Zzyzx's original encampment consisted of 20 tents, and he recruited homeless men from Los Angeles' Skid Row to build simple concrete buildings."
	👻 6:29pm Austin Rich: Unusually not great sound for a Box 13. Mostly just crackly. This seems to be a problem with the later episodes.
	6:29pm spacebrother: Damn wire recorder interference!
	6:30pm Charles: Well that was a creepy episode.
	👻 6:30pm Austin Rich: I was just wondering if these were from transcriptions, or private recordings? Probably transcriptions, but probably not good ones? If only someone left a chain of custody on these files.
	6:32pm Charles: Hehe I like that, "reason for trouble:"
	👻 6:32pm Austin Rich: There's often a good line up front to "hook" the listener.
	6:32pm Mr Fab: The Dean Martin parody of that song: “You made me love you I didn’t wanna do it you woke me up to do it“
	👻 6:33pm Austin Rich: You should take your Dean Martin parody act on the road!
	👻 6:34pm Austin Rich: The return of Ah Sin! While this era of The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen doesn't really have an ongoing storyline anymore, some of the old character from the Kang adventure pop up in new ways, from time to time.
	👻 6:35pm Austin Rich: Not bad sound on Voyage of The Scarlet Queen this week... sort of bass-heavy, but otherwise passable. I did a little EQ, but this one wasn't bad to start with.
	👻 6:36pm Austin Rich: Ah Sin, doing a bad Charles Lawton impression, and his Texan sidekick, is just so American as to be 100% appropriate on the July 4th Holiday.
	6:36pm spacebrother: "The fat one who sweats a lot."
	6:37pm spacebrother: Reference to "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid."
	👻 6:38pm Austin Rich: Damn! I probably haven't seen that movie in 25 years or so. I'll be honest, aside from the premise, I sort of don't remember specific lines.
	6:38pm spacebrother: What Steve Martin called Laughton in the film.
	👻 6:39pm Austin Rich: I recall he had a pretty brilliant run of films there, that one included. I should probably re-watch his stuff later this summer.
	6:39pm Charles: I'm glad we're having a bit more Ah Sin.
	6:41pm spacebrother: Gotta go make BBQ food. Thanks for the shows and the always-brilliant ads!
	👻 6:42pm Austin Rich: My theory - without a lot of evidence to support it - is that the on-going storyline wasn't really appreciated by the network. And then, after they dropped that (supposedly), they did occasionally reference the ongoing storyline. (Like in this episode.) So I think this show was just too atypical, and led to it not getting renewed for more episodes. (That happened a lot with a lot of poor-performing shows.) Still, I'd like to know more. I'm so into the premise of "sea-fairing adventures" that I'm sad this didn't last longer.
	👻 6:42pm Austin Rich: Good night, spacebrother! See ya next week!
	👻 6:44pm Austin Rich: Since spacebrother mentioned them: the ads this week are based on my memories of some old Fred Meyer commercials that ran in the late 80's / early 90's. I think I have the basic "format" right, and they would change out little bits of dialog, and re-use an essentially similar ad. I figured that kind of cost-cutting measure was appropriate for a July 4th Program.
	👻 6:52pm Austin Rich: Ah Sin seems to really care about his Texan sidekick.
	👻 6:54pm Austin Rich: There's a tiny bit of a Nero Wolfe vibe to the relationship between Ah Sin and his companion. If Ah Sin solved more crimes, it would be a direct analog.
	👻 6:56pm Austin Rich: Another reference to Neilson!
	👻 6:57pm Austin Rich: I guess the relationship could be more a compared to the Fat Man and Lackey in, "The Big Sleep."
	7:02pm Scott67: I'm doing my 5th of July wake up ritual. ☕😎🤙🎶📻☀️🌏
	👻 7:10pm Austin Rich: Gotta love a William Jennings Bryan reference.
	👻 7:13pm Austin Rich: What I appreciate about this Ben Brooks documentary is that we're about 30 minutes into a 90 minute show and they're still only covering stuff in the 20's.
	👻 7:14pm Austin Rich: I love the idea of the unrestricted broadcasting of the roaring 20's. Would love to hear more samples of that stuff, but sadly, most of the radio recordings that do exist of the early days are VERY rare before the 30's.
	👻 7:15pm Austin Rich: A Lee de Forest reference, there at the end.
	👻 7:16pm Austin Rich: Pretty soon, the date of our program will come close to almost aligning with the date of these original Chandu broadcasts. I haven't precisely done the math, but I'd be curious how close we get.
	👻 7:22pm Austin Rich: Much like what Sheena's listeners do during the Summer, I can only imagine that the kids of 1948 - home for the summer, and their only entertainment being this new fangled radio in the house - would probably come back every night to hear another installment of an adventure show like this, with kids in some of the primary roles. Admittedly, the "adventure" seems to be happening mostly outside the dialog scenes in the show, which seem to largely recap the previous story and the relationships of the characters. Still, this probably would have caught my attention as a kid.
	7:23pm Charles: Same, because there's "magician" in the name.
	👻 7:23pm Austin Rich: This meeting between Roxor and Chandu has been brewing now for the last 20+ episodes. I can only imagine how fans of the show reacted to this which it first aired.
	👻 7:23pm Austin Rich: ...when it first aired...
	7:28pm Charles: Roxor's laugh sounded like a kid being proud of a prank hehe
	👻 7:28pm Austin Rich: A nice bonus at the beginning of this episode.
	👻 7:29pm Austin Rich: Yeah. The Roxor actor really leaned into that character.
	7:33pm Charles: I like that phone-thingy sound. Bloop bloop
	👻 7:34pm Austin Rich: Yeah. There's always some good SFX on this show.
	7:36pm Scott67: Cop that!
	👻 7:38pm Austin Rich: Specimen XJ-12.
	👻 7:39pm Austin Rich: This story seems to be astonishingly relevant, in 2022. The more things etc., the more they cliché.
	👻 7:41pm Austin Rich: Orin?
	7:44pm Charles: Aurin Rich
	👻 7:44pm Specimen XJ-12 (Aurin Rich): Of course!
	7:45pm Charles: Hehehe
	👻 7:45pm Specimen XJ-12 (Aurin Rich): You can tell that they had to turn the transcription disc over right there, and the sound quality slightly changed. Normally you don't notice it, but for this recording it's pretty noticeable.
	👻 7:49pm Specimen XJ-12 (Aurin Rich): The show is about to wrap up. Any last comments or questions, Charles. (And anyone else out there in the chat.)
	7:50pm Charles: Just wanna wish a good night/day to everyone, it's always a pleasure!
	👻 7:51pm Specimen XJ-12 (Aurin Rich): Hopefully everyone sticks around for the rest of Sheena, tonight! Some great Holiday Programming, I'm sure.
	👻 7:58pm Austin Rich: Yeah, of course it's a nuclear war parable in the very end.
	👻 7:59pm Austin Rich: So THAT'S where the title comes from...
	👻 7:59pm Austin Rich: See ya'll next week! Thanks for listening.
	8:01pm Scott67: Thanks Austin!🍻😎🤙🎶📻☀️🌏

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

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Join us for two hours of old time radio dramas, as we present four different pulp fiction stories, every week! Noir Stories with everymen getting wrapped up in dangerous adventures! Sea-faring Tales that are as two-fisted as they are filled with romance! Mysterious Magicians from the Far East, or maybe a Science Fiction yarn from the Atomic Age! Dimestore Radio Theater offers a chance to engage in Theater of The Mind, and enter a world of incredible tales from both yesterday and tomorrow!

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July 4, 2022: Episode #24: Fourth of July Special!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Box 13	"The Philanthropist" ""The Philanthropist"" by "Box 13"	30 January 1949	Mayfair Productions	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Harry James	You Made Me Love You (Excerpt)			0:29:41 (Pop-up)
The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen	"The Wandering Master and the Warlord at Rest"	10 December 1947	Mutual	0:30:21 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Harry James	You Made Me Love You "You Made Me Love You" by "Harry James"			1:00:08 (Pop-up)
Ben Brooks	The First Fifty Years Part 3	The History of Radio	Group W: Westinghouse Broadcasting Company	1:06:08 (Pop-up)
Chandu The Magician	"Roxor Threatens Death"	29 July 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Network	1:15:04 (Pop-up)
Dimension X	"Hello Tomorrow" ""Hello Tomorrow"" by "Dimension X"	15 September 1950	NBC Radio	1:28:15 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 4:15pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	👻 6:02pm Austin Rich: Of course, Philanthropy is a popular pastime of rich folks in the United States, making this hobby completely appropriate for the July 4th Holiday.
	6:02pm Mr Fab: Hello Austin, To answer your question from spacebrothers show, the records I bought are some kind of groovy ‘60s Mexican a-gogo by the looks of them. Haven’t listened to them yet.
	6:02pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Intrigued! ☕😎🤙🎶📻☀️🌏🌻
	👻 6:03pm Austin Rich: Oooooo! That sounds like a score, Mr. Fab. And: Hello, Scott67!
	👻 6:03pm Austin Rich: You get the impression that Dan also enjoys making fun of Suzie, at this point in their relationship.
	6:04pm Charles: Hello, peanuts anyone?
	6:05pm spacebrother: "His red hair bounced out of his head like wires"?
	👻 6:05pm Austin Rich: I like how most people who write to Box 13 - who have already sort of agreed to hire him - always wanna know how Box 13 works, and why Dad does it. You would think they wouldn't care... except by way of offering exposition.
	👻 6:05pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, Charles!
	6:05pm spacebrother: @ Fab - SCORE!
	👻 6:07pm Austin Rich: Howdy spacebrother. Yeah, some of the analogies don't really land on this show. It's sort of charming that way... you can imagine they writer trying for a good line, and almost getting there.
	👻 6:07pm Austin Rich: "A Topper, a good guy."
	6:10pm Mr Fab: Going to the mission he says he pulled out his oldest suit - I like how even the homeless guys wear suits.
	6:11pm Charles: This guy's pushy. I feel like I'm supposed to eat soup too right now.
	👻 6:11pm Austin Rich: One ongoing theme that I appreciate on this show is that Dan really does go undercover to get the ins and outs of how different parts of society work. I'm sure in 1949, the average listener probably didn't know much about how sandhogs worked, or what life in a mission was like. The writers really do wanna show their work when they research this show.
	6:12pm spacebrother: The atmosphere seems authentic enough.
	👻 6:15pm Austin Rich: I've seen other critics point to the "realism" in this show, and that it does offer a glimpse into what life was really like at the time. I try to listen for the differences in what life what like then vs. now. I can usually find at least one thing in old shows and movies that is interesting to me, for that reason.
	👻 6:15pm Austin Rich: Whoa! Not sure what happened there. Sounded like a glitch or something. Sorry about that.
	👻 6:16pm Austin Rich: (Usually I try to edit out stuff like that. Sorry.)
	6:18pm spacebrother: This guy is fishy as....fish.
	6:20pm spacebrother: Sooky?!
	👻 6:20pm Austin Rich: Suki?
	👻 6:22pm Austin Rich: This weird scam where they get homeless men to do this works seems particularly American, and appropriate for the July 4th Holiday.
	👻 6:26pm Austin Rich: There's a part of me that remembers a Batman: The Animated Series episode that sort of had this same plot.
	6:26pm spacebrother: Precisely what this character did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Howe_Springer
	6:27pm spacebrother: Maybe it was the inspiration for this episode.
	👻 6:27pm Austin Rich: Seems very likely, spacebrother.
	6:28pm spacebrother: "Zzyzx's original encampment consisted of 20 tents, and he recruited homeless men from Los Angeles' Skid Row to build simple concrete buildings."
	👻 6:29pm Austin Rich: Unusually not great sound for a Box 13. Mostly just crackly. This seems to be a problem with the later episodes.
	6:29pm spacebrother: Damn wire recorder interference!
	6:30pm Charles: Well that was a creepy episode.
	👻 6:30pm Austin Rich: I was just wondering if these were from transcriptions, or private recordings? Probably transcriptions, but probably not good ones? If only someone left a chain of custody on these files.
	6:32pm Charles: Hehe I like that, "reason for trouble:"
	👻 6:32pm Austin Rich: There's often a good line up front to "hook" the listener.
	6:32pm Mr Fab: The Dean Martin parody of that song: “You made me love you I didn’t wanna do it you woke me up to do it“
	👻 6:33pm Austin Rich: You should take your Dean Martin parody act on the road!
	👻 6:34pm Austin Rich: The return of Ah Sin! While this era of The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen doesn't really have an ongoing storyline anymore, some of the old character from the Kang adventure pop up in new ways, from time to time.
	👻 6:35pm Austin Rich: Not bad sound on Voyage of The Scarlet Queen this week... sort of bass-heavy, but otherwise passable. I did a little EQ, but this one wasn't bad to start with.
	👻 6:36pm Austin Rich: Ah Sin, doing a bad Charles Lawton impression, and his Texan sidekick, is just so American as to be 100% appropriate on the July 4th Holiday.
	6:36pm spacebrother: "The fat one who sweats a lot."
	6:37pm spacebrother: Reference to "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid."
	👻 6:38pm Austin Rich: Damn! I probably haven't seen that movie in 25 years or so. I'll be honest, aside from the premise, I sort of don't remember specific lines.
	6:38pm spacebrother: What Steve Martin called Laughton in the film.
	👻 6:39pm Austin Rich: I recall he had a pretty brilliant run of films there, that one included. I should probably re-watch his stuff later this summer.
	6:39pm Charles: I'm glad we're having a bit more Ah Sin.
	6:41pm spacebrother: Gotta go make BBQ food. Thanks for the shows and the always-brilliant ads!
	👻 6:42pm Austin Rich: My theory - without a lot of evidence to support it - is that the on-going storyline wasn't really appreciated by the network. And then, after they dropped that (supposedly), they did occasionally reference the ongoing storyline. (Like in this episode.) So I think this show was just too atypical, and led to it not getting renewed for more episodes. (That happened a lot with a lot of poor-performing shows.) Still, I'd like to know more. I'm so into the premise of "sea-fairing adventures" that I'm sad this didn't last longer.
	👻 6:42pm Austin Rich: Good night, spacebrother! See ya next week!
	👻 6:44pm Austin Rich: Since spacebrother mentioned them: the ads this week are based on my memories of some old Fred Meyer commercials that ran in the late 80's / early 90's. I think I have the basic "format" right, and they would change out little bits of dialog, and re-use an essentially similar ad. I figured that kind of cost-cutting measure was appropriate for a July 4th Program.
	👻 6:52pm Austin Rich: Ah Sin seems to really care about his Texan sidekick.
	👻 6:54pm Austin Rich: There's a tiny bit of a Nero Wolfe vibe to the relationship between Ah Sin and his companion. If Ah Sin solved more crimes, it would be a direct analog.
	👻 6:56pm Austin Rich: Another reference to Neilson!
	👻 6:57pm Austin Rich: I guess the relationship could be more a compared to the Fat Man and Lackey in, "The Big Sleep."
	7:02pm Scott67: I'm doing my 5th of July wake up ritual. ☕😎🤙🎶📻☀️🌏
	👻 7:10pm Austin Rich: Gotta love a William Jennings Bryan reference.
	👻 7:13pm Austin Rich: What I appreciate about this Ben Brooks documentary is that we're about 30 minutes into a 90 minute show and they're still only covering stuff in the 20's.
	👻 7:14pm Austin Rich: I love the idea of the unrestricted broadcasting of the roaring 20's. Would love to hear more samples of that stuff, but sadly, most of the radio recordings that do exist of the early days are VERY rare before the 30's.
	👻 7:15pm Austin Rich: A Lee de Forest reference, there at the end.
	👻 7:16pm Austin Rich: Pretty soon, the date of our program will come close to almost aligning with the date of these original Chandu broadcasts. I haven't precisely done the math, but I'd be curious how close we get.
	👻 7:22pm Austin Rich: Much like what Sheena's listeners do during the Summer, I can only imagine that the kids of 1948 - home for the summer, and their only entertainment being this new fangled radio in the house - would probably come back every night to hear another installment of an adventure show like this, with kids in some of the primary roles. Admittedly, the "adventure" seems to be happening mostly outside the dialog scenes in the show, which seem to largely recap the previous story and the relationships of the characters. Still, this probably would have caught my attention as a kid.
	7:23pm Charles: Same, because there's "magician" in the name.
	👻 7:23pm Austin Rich: This meeting between Roxor and Chandu has been brewing now for the last 20+ episodes. I can only imagine how fans of the show reacted to this which it first aired.
	👻 7:23pm Austin Rich: ...when it first aired...
	7:28pm Charles: Roxor's laugh sounded like a kid being proud of a prank hehe
	👻 7:28pm Austin Rich: A nice bonus at the beginning of this episode.
	👻 7:29pm Austin Rich: Yeah. The Roxor actor really leaned into that character.
	7:33pm Charles: I like that phone-thingy sound. Bloop bloop
	👻 7:34pm Austin Rich: Yeah. There's always some good SFX on this show.
	7:36pm Scott67: Cop that!
	👻 7:38pm Austin Rich: Specimen XJ-12.
	👻 7:39pm Austin Rich: This story seems to be astonishingly relevant, in 2022. The more things etc., the more they cliché.
	👻 7:41pm Austin Rich: Orin?
	7:44pm Charles: Aurin Rich
	👻 7:44pm Specimen XJ-12 (Aurin Rich): Of course!
	7:45pm Charles: Hehehe
	👻 7:45pm Specimen XJ-12 (Aurin Rich): You can tell that they had to turn the transcription disc over right there, and the sound quality slightly changed. Normally you don't notice it, but for this recording it's pretty noticeable.
	👻 7:49pm Specimen XJ-12 (Aurin Rich): The show is about to wrap up. Any last comments or questions, Charles. (And anyone else out there in the chat.)
	7:50pm Charles: Just wanna wish a good night/day to everyone, it's always a pleasure!
	👻 7:51pm Specimen XJ-12 (Aurin Rich): Hopefully everyone sticks around for the rest of Sheena, tonight! Some great Holiday Programming, I'm sure.
	👻 7:58pm Austin Rich: Yeah, of course it's a nuclear war parable in the very end.
	👻 7:59pm Austin Rich: So THAT'S where the title comes from...
	👻 7:59pm Austin Rich: See ya'll next week! Thanks for listening.
	8:01pm Scott67: Thanks Austin!🍻😎🤙🎶📻☀️🌏

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

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