WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 3, 2022

Listener comments!
	👻 7:44pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:59pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	9:00pm Scott67: G'day Austin $& Airwaves Audience!📻🎶 🌏☀️💻🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, Imaginos and Scott67! Get ready to get scary!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: It took a while to get the Halloween voice back this year. It's cross between Ghoulardi and a vampire... but not a very good one.
	9:03pm Charles: I'm super ready for the halloween spooktacular, yeeeees!!
	9:03pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: If you ever want to stop a vampire, pour rice on he floor.
	9:04pm Scott67: ⬅️ I slipped into something more uncomfortable. In the spirit of the occasion. 🍻💀🤙💨🍺
	9:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I love The Weird Circle.
	9:05pm Charles: Like a coffin, Scott?
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: This show is an underrated gem of the early 40's. Glad to hear your are in the spirt, Scott67! Looking good!
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: While this is not exactly the story that people associate with Edgar Allen Poe, I have a sort of fondness for it, since it is a Seafaring story, and I'm sort of a sucker for the open sea.
	9:07pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: isn't this the one that came true?
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: A lot of Poe's stories had some element of truth, often. He ran with some odd folks.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: I'll say it in the chat: we are in the middle of our Hellraiser Fundraiser. We're already 38% of the way toward meeting the goal for Dimestore Radio Theater this month, so if you can afford it, click the "Pledge Now" banner at the top of this page, and you'll be able to make a donation in the amount that makes the most sense. It helps keep community radio available to the masses!
	9:11pm Scott67: Charles, it's Spring Hay Fever season in Australia. So I often have a coffin fit mate! 🍻🤧💨🌻
	9:12pm Charles: ahahah Scott
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: Scott67 is flush with jokes and sneezes!
	9:13pm Charles: 40 lashes? After you mate, after you!
	9:14pm Scott67: The rest of you shall run with Mucous!
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: As I get older, "Allergy" season lasts longer and longer for me. Fortunately: Bourbon cures all.
	9:15pm Mr Fab: Notice how much that one character sounds like Fred Flintstone?
	9:15pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Rum punch is a decent cure.
	9:16pm Scott67: Above is a Mel Brooks line from History Of The World Part Two.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: Is that the same actor, Mr. Fab? I didn't put that together!
	9:17pm Scott67: Beer beats back a blokes blossom blues buddies. 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: I haven't seen History of The World in ages... it's probably time to review that one again. I remember loving it as a teen.
	9:19pm Scott67: Roger Ramjet voices in there too.
	9:20pm Charles: I'm happy that halloween falls on a monday this year. It'll make the show extra special.
	9:20pm Scott67: "You look like the piss boy"!
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: I have a special Halloween treat, too!
	9:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: yeah. this is the one I was thinking of.
	9:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: it's good to be the king.
	9:21pm Scott67: _" And you look like a bucket of shit"!
	9:22pm Scott67: or something like that?
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: I remember my parents always shaking their heads when I would find some new comedy thing that they weren't that into themselves. Monty Python got a weird head-shake. Mel Brooks got a head shake. Steve Martin records got a head shake. Maybe my parents aren't into comedy?
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: The good thing about picking horror shows for Halloween is that I can pick an episode of a show that aired in March, or some other month, and it still works for Halloween.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: Is it 2022 already? Damn.
	9:27pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: What about Wes Harrison?
	9:28pm Charles: I like Count Ghoulardi. I hope he'll stick around for other special shows.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: Nice Organ music. Which seems to be uncredited, at least anywhere obvious.
	9:29pm Mr Fab: ‘Twas an actor named Alan Reed who was the voice of Fred Flintstone. Do you have a cast list for this show handy, Austin?
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: There's the best "regular cast" list I could find. But that doesn't mean Alan Reed didn't guest on an episode: Gladys Thornton Audrey Totter, Chester Stratton Eleanor Audley, Arnold Moss, Lawson Zerbe Walter Vaughn Regis Joyce Fred Barron
	9:30pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I'm picturing Betty Boop and Co doing a swing/jazz dance number with skeletons.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: That Halloween Stomp album, while it came out in 1990, is a collection of vintage spooky music from the 40's and 30's. It's a great collection for this time of year.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: "Count Ghoulardi" will certainly be with us all month. If I can keep the voice going.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: "The Price of Fear" is the most recent radio broadcast to appear on Dimestore Radio Theater. This show ran from 1973 to 1983, and since it was an English show, it only produced 22 episodes. In spite of the newer vintage, the BBC heritage, and the fact that these episodes are still aired on the BBC to this day around "the holiday season," the recording quality of all the episodes that are easy to find is not the best. I did some EQ, and noise reduction, but regardless, "The Price of Fear," still sounds a little funky.
	9:35pm Charles: No problem Austin, I'm sure you'd be fine with some Acme brand throat surgery.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: I just use Bourbon. Works like a charm.
	9:36pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Is that ACME brand bourbon?
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: I've graduated to something on the shelf above the bottom shelf.
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: To me, listening to Vincent Price stories around Halloween seems like tradition. I remember listening to horror stories read by him as a kid, and I usually try to fit something in during October.
	9:39pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Vincent Price should be a traditional Halloween staple in all homes.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: Some put up images of Santa around Christmas. We try to put up images of Mr. Price, and watch those Hammerhorror films he did.
	9:40pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: What do you think of his more modern roles. Such as the post deliverer in Escapes?
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: He's pretty charming, all the way to the end. I'm trying to think of something I didn't like. Nothing comes to mind. I'm sure there's some drek in there somewhere; he made a LOT of movies.
	9:42pm Charles: Hearing Vincent Price during halloween season is good for the soul.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: (I'm sure that Scooby Doo cartoon he did isn't as good as I remember.)
	9:43pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo?
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: That's the one. I liked it as a youth, but I bet it's pretty corny now.
	9:45pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Yes. But in a good and fun way.
	9:46pm Mr Fab: He was always great, even if he was in a stinker. He ELEVATED that shit.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: This show really leans into the "cheapness," which was certainly a hallmark of BBC productions. The star, does 90% of the dialog, there's a minimum of music and SFX, and if you just make the dialog eerie, then it really works on the radio. But the... cheapness does stand out, compared to some of the other shows we've heard, that were made earlier.
	9:46pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: No matter how bad the role, he took it seriously and gave it his all.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: True. I think that's what's appealing; he's ALWAYS firing on all cylinders, even in small parts. He does the voice of, "The Saint," on the radio, a show where a playboy gets into adventures and has to solve problems for others. He's magnificent in that role, but the other voice actors that do it after him just never manage to nail it.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: Marla and I were talking about how we need to shift of programming to "halloween" fare, now that it is October, and the first movie we talked about was, "House on Haunted Hill," which is think is required Halloween viewing.
	9:54pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I have both versions of House on Haunted Hill, plus the Riff of the original.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: Oooof. My chat-room typeos are just awful. Many apologies. I guess that's how you know I'm not a bot.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: House on Haunted Hill is a stone-cold classic. And talk about a movie that hangs on Vincent's charm. Him and Elisha Cook Jr. are pretty much chewing all imaginable scenery in that mansion.
	9:57pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: speaking of chewing the scenery, I'm hoping you'll play Speciality of he House.
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: I'll take your recommendation! What is Halloween, if not a time to ask, "Trick or Treat," and see what you get.
	9:59pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: awesome!
	9:59pm Mr Fab: I literally did lol with that acne costume bit.
	10:09pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Sounds like a fun Halloween!
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: I tried to make it a little fun, anyway. Plus: there will be original commercials in all the shows, too.
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: Funny factoid about the show "Biography" that I learned today: this show began in 1961, and was originally hosted by Mike Wallace. The show has been re-launched by a number of people over the years, but didin't really last until A&E bought the property in 1987, and made Peter Graves the host. That's the version I saw a TON of in High School and just after.
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: But I never knew of the older version of the show, until today.
	10:16pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Peter Graves sounds like the person who did the audio book of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: Hmmmmmm. Maybe? I haven't read that book in ages.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: The backing music in this "Poe" biography show is VERY repetitive.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: Threatening someone from your deathbed with a cudgel really seams like and 19th Century thing. Like, I haven't heard of anyone doing that in a LONG time.
	10:23pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: One man died standing up and leaning on a fireplace.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: I could see that. I got out of bed once when I was a younger man, and immediately passed out. I was lucky I didn't hit my head on anything dangerous.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: (I might have been hungover that morning, which might have contributed to the problem.)
	10:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Could be
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: I did my best to clean up the recordings of "Front Page Drama," but they are pretty rough. They are from the early 30's, so it's impressive that they exist at all.
	10:27pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I have a little statue of the RCA dog.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: That's excellent! I wouldn't mind getting something like that.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: It would be a nice addition to the lounge, that isn't a lava lamp or comic books.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: Of course this was a Hearst idea to do this radio feature.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: As usual, the "Ghost Painter" turns out to be merely a scam. This is like Scooby Doo before Scooby Doo.
	10:34pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: A scam with a twist
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: Now, while this "scam" seems plausible, and there really isn't a ghost, my research suggests that nearly all the stories in "Front Page Drama!" were made up by a writer. At least, I think it would be hard to corroborate any of these stories, which only adds to the confusion.
	10:38pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Nice waltz
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: What I love about horror shows on the radio is that they often have very beautiful music.
	10:40pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: If Max Headroom came out in the 70s I could see Reg doing old time radio
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: Ha! Totally! Reg probably grew up listening to them as a youth. A lot of the punks I met were all nerds with cool jackets and liked to drink.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: Radio is the perfect format for someone TALKING DIRECTLY TO YOU, but a lot of drama shows come up with the most ridiculous contrivances so that the actors would be telling you all sorts of exposition. But in you just have the main character address the audience directly, you suddenly save a LOT of exposition. He can just tell you outright.
	10:44pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The fourth wall is often broken in noire
	10:45pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: And those pork chops probably smell good
	10:46pm drowsy: Hey Rich, just saying hi and thanks. This dude's voice is the perfect delivery for calmly telling us how we ended the world.
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: It's true. I like breaking that fourth wall, ignoring that there is a wall there at all, stuff like that. But it is funny how rare it is, even still. I'm about to have dinner after this, and pork chops sound GOOD.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, drowsy! Glad the voices are just right. I do find "Quiet, Please!" to be pretty good to cap off an evening.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: "Cathead"?
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: I think working class stories like this went a long way toward building an audience among the people that were displaced after WWII. A lot of these folks came home to having more free time and technology making life easier than before the war. And they could relate to these working class characters stumbling across strange circumstances, which I'm sure is how post-war America felt.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: Bathtub gin! Yikes!
	10:52pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: This and The Rolling Roads
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: I've only had a little homemade hooch in my days, but damn, it was always ROUGH.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: We're gonna go over about five minutes tonight. Sorry everyone!
	10:54pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: That's okay
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: So I guess this guy is known as "Porky" to everyone in town. You spend one night eating porkchops alone, and you have a nickname for life.
	10:55pm Scott67: Over is always good!
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: I knew that "cathead" was a sailing term, but I guess drilling derricks used a lot of sailing terms, when they got started. (A lot of the people working on derricks had been sailors previously.) Here's the definition of "cathead": "A horizontal beam extending from each side of a ship's bow, used for raising and carrying an anchor." My guess is a Cathead is used to raise things to the upper parts of the derrick.
	10:57pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Cross dimensional rip by the sound of things
	10:59pm drowsy: Pretty glad that crying sound didn't catch on like the Wilhelm Scream...
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: I guess I'm focused on the word, "cathead," because of a band that I used to be in... wtbc.bandcamp.com...
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: That crying sound is HORRIFYING.
	11:00pm Scott67: Thanks Austin, happily horrified mate! But I wanted to laugh every time he said 'Fourble Board". 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: There's a little bit of Hellboy in this... a baby with a living hand of stone.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: (And the Hellboy comics borrow HEAVILY from Lovecraft, too.)
	11:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Fourble sounds like a board game
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: It sort of does.
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: Thanks again, everyone! This was a lot of fun.
	11:03pm drowsy: Cheers Rich.
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: "I am quietly yours..."
	11:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: That was fun
	11:04pm Scott67: ☠️👻
	👻 11:05pm Austin Rich: Ahhh... and then we transition to Andre Williams. Excellent!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 3, 2022

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October 3, 2022: Special Halloween Spook-tacular 2022! (Part 1)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
The Weird Circle	"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pam"	19 September 1943	Mutual		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Frankie Trumbauer & Orchestra	Shivery Stomp [Excerpt]	Halloween Stomp	Jass Records	1990	0:28:19 (Pop-up)
The Price of Fear	"Come As You Art"	6 April 1974	BBC Radio		0:29:56 (Pop-up)
Frankie Trumbauer & Orchestra	Shivery Stomp	Halloween Stomp	Jass Records	1990	1:09:57 (Pop-up)
Biography Channel	The Tragic Life of Edgar Allen Poe (Part 1)	The Tragic Life of Edgar Allen Poe	A & E Television	1994	1:09:58 (Pop-up)
Front Page Drama!	"The Ghost Painter"	05 September 1935	Hearst Radio Features		1:21:58 (Pop-up)
Quiet Please.	"The Thing on The Fourble Board"	9 August 1948	Mutual		1:37:58 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:44pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:59pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	9:00pm Scott67: G'day Austin $& Airwaves Audience!📻🎶 🌏☀️💻🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, Imaginos and Scott67! Get ready to get scary!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: It took a while to get the Halloween voice back this year. It's cross between Ghoulardi and a vampire... but not a very good one.
	9:03pm Charles: I'm super ready for the halloween spooktacular, yeeeees!!
	9:03pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: If you ever want to stop a vampire, pour rice on he floor.
	9:04pm Scott67: ⬅️ I slipped into something more uncomfortable. In the spirit of the occasion. 🍻💀🤙💨🍺
	9:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I love The Weird Circle.
	9:05pm Charles: Like a coffin, Scott?
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: This show is an underrated gem of the early 40's. Glad to hear your are in the spirt, Scott67! Looking good!
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: While this is not exactly the story that people associate with Edgar Allen Poe, I have a sort of fondness for it, since it is a Seafaring story, and I'm sort of a sucker for the open sea.
	9:07pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: isn't this the one that came true?
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: A lot of Poe's stories had some element of truth, often. He ran with some odd folks.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: I'll say it in the chat: we are in the middle of our Hellraiser Fundraiser. We're already 38% of the way toward meeting the goal for Dimestore Radio Theater this month, so if you can afford it, click the "Pledge Now" banner at the top of this page, and you'll be able to make a donation in the amount that makes the most sense. It helps keep community radio available to the masses!
	9:11pm Scott67: Charles, it's Spring Hay Fever season in Australia. So I often have a coffin fit mate! 🍻🤧💨🌻
	9:12pm Charles: ahahah Scott
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: Scott67 is flush with jokes and sneezes!
	9:13pm Charles: 40 lashes? After you mate, after you!
	9:14pm Scott67: The rest of you shall run with Mucous!
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: As I get older, "Allergy" season lasts longer and longer for me. Fortunately: Bourbon cures all.
	9:15pm Mr Fab: Notice how much that one character sounds like Fred Flintstone?
	9:15pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Rum punch is a decent cure.
	9:16pm Scott67: Above is a Mel Brooks line from History Of The World Part Two.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: Is that the same actor, Mr. Fab? I didn't put that together!
	9:17pm Scott67: Beer beats back a blokes blossom blues buddies. 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: I haven't seen History of The World in ages... it's probably time to review that one again. I remember loving it as a teen.
	9:19pm Scott67: Roger Ramjet voices in there too.
	9:20pm Charles: I'm happy that halloween falls on a monday this year. It'll make the show extra special.
	9:20pm Scott67: "You look like the piss boy"!
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: I have a special Halloween treat, too!
	9:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: yeah. this is the one I was thinking of.
	9:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: it's good to be the king.
	9:21pm Scott67: _" And you look like a bucket of shit"!
	9:22pm Scott67: or something like that?
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: I remember my parents always shaking their heads when I would find some new comedy thing that they weren't that into themselves. Monty Python got a weird head-shake. Mel Brooks got a head shake. Steve Martin records got a head shake. Maybe my parents aren't into comedy?
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: The good thing about picking horror shows for Halloween is that I can pick an episode of a show that aired in March, or some other month, and it still works for Halloween.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: Is it 2022 already? Damn.
	9:27pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: What about Wes Harrison?
	9:28pm Charles: I like Count Ghoulardi. I hope he'll stick around for other special shows.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: Nice Organ music. Which seems to be uncredited, at least anywhere obvious.
	9:29pm Mr Fab: ‘Twas an actor named Alan Reed who was the voice of Fred Flintstone. Do you have a cast list for this show handy, Austin?
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: There's the best "regular cast" list I could find. But that doesn't mean Alan Reed didn't guest on an episode: Gladys Thornton Audrey Totter, Chester Stratton Eleanor Audley, Arnold Moss, Lawson Zerbe Walter Vaughn Regis Joyce Fred Barron
	9:30pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I'm picturing Betty Boop and Co doing a swing/jazz dance number with skeletons.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: That Halloween Stomp album, while it came out in 1990, is a collection of vintage spooky music from the 40's and 30's. It's a great collection for this time of year.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: "Count Ghoulardi" will certainly be with us all month. If I can keep the voice going.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: "The Price of Fear" is the most recent radio broadcast to appear on Dimestore Radio Theater. This show ran from 1973 to 1983, and since it was an English show, it only produced 22 episodes. In spite of the newer vintage, the BBC heritage, and the fact that these episodes are still aired on the BBC to this day around "the holiday season," the recording quality of all the episodes that are easy to find is not the best. I did some EQ, and noise reduction, but regardless, "The Price of Fear," still sounds a little funky.
	9:35pm Charles: No problem Austin, I'm sure you'd be fine with some Acme brand throat surgery.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: I just use Bourbon. Works like a charm.
	9:36pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Is that ACME brand bourbon?
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: I've graduated to something on the shelf above the bottom shelf.
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: To me, listening to Vincent Price stories around Halloween seems like tradition. I remember listening to horror stories read by him as a kid, and I usually try to fit something in during October.
	9:39pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Vincent Price should be a traditional Halloween staple in all homes.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: Some put up images of Santa around Christmas. We try to put up images of Mr. Price, and watch those Hammerhorror films he did.
	9:40pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: What do you think of his more modern roles. Such as the post deliverer in Escapes?
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: He's pretty charming, all the way to the end. I'm trying to think of something I didn't like. Nothing comes to mind. I'm sure there's some drek in there somewhere; he made a LOT of movies.
	9:42pm Charles: Hearing Vincent Price during halloween season is good for the soul.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: (I'm sure that Scooby Doo cartoon he did isn't as good as I remember.)
	9:43pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo?
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: That's the one. I liked it as a youth, but I bet it's pretty corny now.
	9:45pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Yes. But in a good and fun way.
	9:46pm Mr Fab: He was always great, even if he was in a stinker. He ELEVATED that shit.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: This show really leans into the "cheapness," which was certainly a hallmark of BBC productions. The star, does 90% of the dialog, there's a minimum of music and SFX, and if you just make the dialog eerie, then it really works on the radio. But the... cheapness does stand out, compared to some of the other shows we've heard, that were made earlier.
	9:46pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: No matter how bad the role, he took it seriously and gave it his all.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: True. I think that's what's appealing; he's ALWAYS firing on all cylinders, even in small parts. He does the voice of, "The Saint," on the radio, a show where a playboy gets into adventures and has to solve problems for others. He's magnificent in that role, but the other voice actors that do it after him just never manage to nail it.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: Marla and I were talking about how we need to shift of programming to "halloween" fare, now that it is October, and the first movie we talked about was, "House on Haunted Hill," which is think is required Halloween viewing.
	9:54pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I have both versions of House on Haunted Hill, plus the Riff of the original.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: Oooof. My chat-room typeos are just awful. Many apologies. I guess that's how you know I'm not a bot.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: House on Haunted Hill is a stone-cold classic. And talk about a movie that hangs on Vincent's charm. Him and Elisha Cook Jr. are pretty much chewing all imaginable scenery in that mansion.
	9:57pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: speaking of chewing the scenery, I'm hoping you'll play Speciality of he House.
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: I'll take your recommendation! What is Halloween, if not a time to ask, "Trick or Treat," and see what you get.
	9:59pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: awesome!
	9:59pm Mr Fab: I literally did lol with that acne costume bit.
	10:09pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Sounds like a fun Halloween!
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: I tried to make it a little fun, anyway. Plus: there will be original commercials in all the shows, too.
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: Funny factoid about the show "Biography" that I learned today: this show began in 1961, and was originally hosted by Mike Wallace. The show has been re-launched by a number of people over the years, but didin't really last until A&E bought the property in 1987, and made Peter Graves the host. That's the version I saw a TON of in High School and just after.
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: But I never knew of the older version of the show, until today.
	10:16pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Peter Graves sounds like the person who did the audio book of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: Hmmmmmm. Maybe? I haven't read that book in ages.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: The backing music in this "Poe" biography show is VERY repetitive.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: Threatening someone from your deathbed with a cudgel really seams like and 19th Century thing. Like, I haven't heard of anyone doing that in a LONG time.
	10:23pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: One man died standing up and leaning on a fireplace.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: I could see that. I got out of bed once when I was a younger man, and immediately passed out. I was lucky I didn't hit my head on anything dangerous.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: (I might have been hungover that morning, which might have contributed to the problem.)
	10:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Could be
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: I did my best to clean up the recordings of "Front Page Drama," but they are pretty rough. They are from the early 30's, so it's impressive that they exist at all.
	10:27pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I have a little statue of the RCA dog.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: That's excellent! I wouldn't mind getting something like that.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: It would be a nice addition to the lounge, that isn't a lava lamp or comic books.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: Of course this was a Hearst idea to do this radio feature.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: As usual, the "Ghost Painter" turns out to be merely a scam. This is like Scooby Doo before Scooby Doo.
	10:34pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: A scam with a twist
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: Now, while this "scam" seems plausible, and there really isn't a ghost, my research suggests that nearly all the stories in "Front Page Drama!" were made up by a writer. At least, I think it would be hard to corroborate any of these stories, which only adds to the confusion.
	10:38pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Nice waltz
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: What I love about horror shows on the radio is that they often have very beautiful music.
	10:40pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: If Max Headroom came out in the 70s I could see Reg doing old time radio
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: Ha! Totally! Reg probably grew up listening to them as a youth. A lot of the punks I met were all nerds with cool jackets and liked to drink.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: Radio is the perfect format for someone TALKING DIRECTLY TO YOU, but a lot of drama shows come up with the most ridiculous contrivances so that the actors would be telling you all sorts of exposition. But in you just have the main character address the audience directly, you suddenly save a LOT of exposition. He can just tell you outright.
	10:44pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The fourth wall is often broken in noire
	10:45pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: And those pork chops probably smell good
	10:46pm drowsy: Hey Rich, just saying hi and thanks. This dude's voice is the perfect delivery for calmly telling us how we ended the world.
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: It's true. I like breaking that fourth wall, ignoring that there is a wall there at all, stuff like that. But it is funny how rare it is, even still. I'm about to have dinner after this, and pork chops sound GOOD.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, drowsy! Glad the voices are just right. I do find "Quiet, Please!" to be pretty good to cap off an evening.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: "Cathead"?
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: I think working class stories like this went a long way toward building an audience among the people that were displaced after WWII. A lot of these folks came home to having more free time and technology making life easier than before the war. And they could relate to these working class characters stumbling across strange circumstances, which I'm sure is how post-war America felt.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: Bathtub gin! Yikes!
	10:52pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: This and The Rolling Roads
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: I've only had a little homemade hooch in my days, but damn, it was always ROUGH.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: We're gonna go over about five minutes tonight. Sorry everyone!
	10:54pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: That's okay
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: So I guess this guy is known as "Porky" to everyone in town. You spend one night eating porkchops alone, and you have a nickname for life.
	10:55pm Scott67: Over is always good!
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: I knew that "cathead" was a sailing term, but I guess drilling derricks used a lot of sailing terms, when they got started. (A lot of the people working on derricks had been sailors previously.) Here's the definition of "cathead": "A horizontal beam extending from each side of a ship's bow, used for raising and carrying an anchor." My guess is a Cathead is used to raise things to the upper parts of the derrick.
	10:57pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Cross dimensional rip by the sound of things
	10:59pm drowsy: Pretty glad that crying sound didn't catch on like the Wilhelm Scream...
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: I guess I'm focused on the word, "cathead," because of a band that I used to be in... wtbc.bandcamp.com...
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: That crying sound is HORRIFYING.
	11:00pm Scott67: Thanks Austin, happily horrified mate! But I wanted to laugh every time he said 'Fourble Board". 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: There's a little bit of Hellboy in this... a baby with a living hand of stone.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: (And the Hellboy comics borrow HEAVILY from Lovecraft, too.)
	11:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Fourble sounds like a board game
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: It sort of does.
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: Thanks again, everyone! This was a lot of fun.
	11:03pm drowsy: Cheers Rich.
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: "I am quietly yours..."
	11:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: That was fun
	11:04pm Scott67: ☠️👻
	👻 11:05pm Austin Rich: Ahhh... and then we transition to Andre Williams. Excellent!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 3, 2022

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