WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 17, 2022

Listener comments!
	👻 6:37pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:45pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	👻 8:46pm Austin Rich: Hey! Nice to see you.
	8:47pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I hope my cuts are satisfactory
	👻 8:49pm Austin Rich: Indeed! I sent you another message. I think it makes more sense to work another way.
	👻 8:49pm Austin Rich: Your pick is in today's show!
	8:49pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I noticed. Thank you
	8:52pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Silly ads? Sounds like a lot of fun. I think I can do that
	👻 8:53pm Austin Rich: I think that's more our speed. The editing is good, but it's also hard to coordinate, at a distance. It's almost more work to do it that way. Writing... that's easy to do at a distance.
	8:55pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I agree. Writing is much easier to coordinate at a distance
	👻 8:56pm Austin Rich: I'm trying to decide if the Monday before is reasonable for a Thanksgiving show. Maybe the ads can be Thanksgiving-ish, but the show can be regular format? I haven't decided.
	9:01pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Weirdos! 🌏☀️💻🎶🍻😎🤙💨🍺☠️
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: A stone cold classic here! Frankenstein is not only one of the first horror novels, but one of the first Science Fiction horror novels, too. An incredible accomplishment, and I think the story still holds up.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, Scott67!
	9:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Have you ever heard Stan Freberg's America? Pilgrim's Progress is hilarious, but very politically incorrect. Then again, it came out in the late 60s
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: There's a few Freberg bits that haven't aged very well. But he's got a few good bits here and there.
	9:03pm Charles: We're going through October so fast! I'll miss this pumpkin spice radio flavor.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: This is our final "Weird Circle" selection for the season, and for the ones that I chose this year were all "classics" of the genre. I may come back to "Weird Circle" for Halloween next year.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: I agree, Charles. I can't believe it's already the 17th!
	9:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The pumpkin is the spice, the spice is the pumpkin.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: Dimestore listeners have really stepped up, and we are already 46% of the way toward our goal! If you can, and haven't yet, you should click the "Pledge Now" button, and help us out! Every little bit helps, and we certainly could use those bits.
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: Here's a question for Dimestore chatroom folks: Thanksgiving this year (and every year) is on Thursday; our show is on Monday. Part of me thinks I should play all "Thanksgiving" stories that week. Another part of me says, "Well, it's not 'on the day,' so it doesn't count." Do ya'll want a Thanksgiving theme this year, or... regular show?
	9:13pm Charles: I think it would be a shame to miss seasonal shows for that reason. Unless you play them on mid-valley mutations instead?
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: (There's some good "detective" turkey day shows I could pull; there's lots of good content.)
	9:14pm Charles: Oops, thursday, not tuesday.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: "Men aren't so bad." Ha!
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: I'm not so sure we can actually say that.
	9:15pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: A mix perhaps, regular radio shows, but with clips from old holiday shows like its the great pumpkin
	9:16pm Charles: I've never took the time to read Frankenstein. The monster doesn't cone alive from lightning?
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: The sound of the "ocean" that this show uses is practically a harsh noise wall. It's only barely noticeable as an ocean sound.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: As I recall from the novel, the way the monster comes to life is actually sort of mysterious. I think the doctor himself can't precisely recall what he did, and suddenly, the monster has come to life. But I'm pretty sure that electricity is from the movie.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: I like the "serum" idea a little more, in terms of a practical solution that makes more sense for the era. But there are a few ideas of how the monster got his legs.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: The novel is sort of a nested story: A sea captain, sailing somewhere, meets this professor, who is going crazy. He tells the captain a story of: creating a monster. But it keeps going in and out of frame. There's one point where a family is talking, and Frankenstein is watching, and telling this story to the doctor, who then tells that story to the sea captain, who then tells it to us. It's an experiment in telling stories in multiple time frames, more than anything else.
	9:21pm Charles: Interesting. I should read this.
	9:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I wonder if the captain is the ancient mariner of legends
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: "Dracula" is all told in letters and journal entries; there is no "narrator." It's just a collection of documents. Both novels experiment in form in very cool ways. (And they work well as audiobooks, too.)
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: (My English Major / Radio-Writing-Film-Comics Minor pays off sometimes.)
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: Good theory, Imaginos! I do love stories of sailing a sea captains. Something about that career seems like it has adventure built in. Like exploring space.
	9:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: You should look up the Soft Doctrines
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: I like the choice to make the monster's voice just like another person. A lot of films and portrayals try to make him sound more "monstrous." But in the book, I always imagined the monster sounding like a person, but very confused. The Karloff version is great, too. But a little dramatic. But then again, so was Karloff.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: I also recommend "Young Frankenstein," which is still hilarious to me, and is more faithful to the original films than almost any other parody / satire Mel Brooks does.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: This episode of "The Price of Fear" was a request!
	9:30pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: A delectable delight
	9:31pm Charles: Igor casually lightning up a cigarette will never not be funny to me.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: Far too late, I discovered a cache of "The Price of Fear" episodes that were of a much higher quality. So this episode sounds better than the other two we've heard. So it goes.
	9:31pm Charles: I love Vincent Price so much :)
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: I-gor, Charles. I-gor.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: It doesn't feel like Halloween without Vincent. I think it was his appearance on the Muppets when I was a kid that sealed the deal. I just assumed he would be there every Halloween.
	9:33pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I've got a Ouija
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: You wanna do some Ouija board stuff on the show tomorrow? Heather and I are taking calls again.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: I do like the stories where Vincent Price is a character. Vincent in real life seems more like a character in a movie than almost more than the real people I've met in my own life.
	9:36pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Might not be a good idea. And I am not sure where the planchet is
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: No problem. We've got your poem anyway.
	9:37pm Charles: Agreed. Great choice Imaginos!
	9:37pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: True.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: Vincent's personal obsession with food seemed to spill over into his work a fair amount. I found this article interesting: www.seriouseats.com...
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: "How Horror Star Vincent Price Eerily Predicted America's Culinary Future"
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: I can't imagine a "plump" Vincent. I'm sure there's some fan art out there somewhere because the internet is the internet. But it just doesn't seem right.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: Ahh, this is a "Just So" story, I see.
	9:45pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: What else indeed.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: The world that the "fictional" Vincent Price inhabits is so wonderful. He only dines out. He's attending plays and museum openings nearly constantly. And he's instantly recognizable, incredibly knowledgeable, and a wonderful conversationalist. Just like the real Vincent, too.
	9:51pm Heather: Chiming in late re Ouija! I have a board and know exactly where the planchet is. Trouble is I annoy the ghost in my house so I'm not sure they'll be in a mood to play along.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: I don't want anyone to anger anything that you then have to live with afterwards. But I'm not sure you've talked about the ghost in your house before. That might make good content...
	9:54pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My cat likes to play with the demon who lives in the corner.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: Cats always know something we don't.
	9:56pm Heather: I have a ouija story about that and a few others I could share about whatever is here. We get along fine so I'm not worried they'll be mad. If they were going to be, they would be already. Yes! Imaginos! Nigel (aka Ouij) sees the entity! He never seems scared. Only interested. "What do you see, buddy? Who's there?" He's not talking.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: One of my favorite recordings is Diamonda Galas reading Edgar Allen Poe's, "The Black Cat." It's beautiful, and I love her voice.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: "So Humorous." Is that the original version of that Internet meme I used to see.
	10:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: You're welcome
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: Around the time that this version of the "Biography" show was relaunched, my family got cable. I must have seen HOURS of this show, where it was just talking heads telling you about some person's life story. I sort of have an irrational love of this style of documentary.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: Because I was that kind of nerd, and because I ran with those kinds of kids, in Jr. High and High School, our particular friend group would try to outdo each other with who could memorize more of "The Raven." I could never do the whole thing from memory, but I got pretty far. I did know a few guys who could easily do it from memory, and it always blue my mind.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: Looks like we're gonna go 8 1/2 minutes over this week. Sorry everyone! Hopefully that's not too late for some of you.
	10:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I'm trying to stay awake, but I'm nodding off.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: I think Poe's "hallucinations" and "insanity" may have since been proved (in the years since this doc was made) to be symptoms of undiagnosed (then) illnesses. I mean, I know the legend of "pink elephants" and whatnot, but I've known a lot of cronic drunks, and they don't really hallucinate.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: Good night, Imaginos! Take care!
	10:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Good night
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: Even people who use acid and mushrooms (and other hallucinogens and psychedelics) regularly talk about how hallucinations are not really common. Not in the way people used to imagine them, anyway.
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: Originally aired in 1933, this is officially the oldest radio recording that we've featured on Dimestore Radio Theater. There's not a whole lot of recordings from 1933 out there, but as one of the few, it's an interesting artifact.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: This is sort of a relic of the (not very old) history of American Spiritualism, something that dominated the popular culture of the US from the 1840s to the 1920s. Mediums and others who could talk to ghosts were very common in those days, and most Americans in that era suddenly showed a lot of interest in speaking with ghosts, or relatives, via mediums. It almost became another religion, to some. Seances and performances like this were common in those days, and this show sort of recreates them.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: Harry Houdini, a stage magician who longed for there to be a supernatural world but was always disappointed that there was no evidence, spent a lot of time finding mediums in the hopes of communicating with his dead mother. However, he often ended up revealing that they were frauds when he would do so, a sort of controversial period of his life that has sort of be overblown for those who want to imagine Houdini as a sort of supernatural investigator.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: When Houdini himself died unexpectedly on Halloween, 1926, he and his wife had made a deal, where Houdini would do all in his power to communicate with his wife from beyond the grave, with a very specific signal that they had worked out when he was still alive. She made efforts to contact him for 10 years after his death, culminating in a huge event that occurred on the roof of the Knickerbocker Hotel on Halloween, 1936. She was unsuccessful, which sort of put an end to spiritualism and mediums publicly. (Fewer and fewer of them were around, after that.) A partial recording / recreation of the Hordini Seance was released on an LP in the 50's, which sort of renewed interest in the idea of communicating with Houdini on Halloween. The Magic Castle began doing Houdini seances on Halloween, and soon other events happened, elsewhere. Now, contacting Houdini on Halloween is a bit of a tradition, in magic circles.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: (In case it wasn't obvious, I'm a Houdini nerd, too.)
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: As mentioned earlier, this one will go about 8 and 1/2 minutes over this week. Sorry about that!
	10:58pm Scott67: Thanks Austin! I've been laying on the couch listening like I was a kid again. But with beer! 💻🎶🛋️👣😎🤙🍻
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: That sounds about right!
	11:08pm Scott67: 🖖👽🍻
	👻 11:09pm Austin Rich: Night!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 17, 2022

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October 17, 2022: Special Halloween Spook-tacular 2022! (Part 3)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
The Weird Circle	"Frankenstein" ""Frankenstein"" by "The Weird Circle"	20 February 1944	Mutual		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Price of Fear	"Specialty of The House"	13 April 1974	BBC Radio		0:29:17 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Glen Gray & Casa Loma Orchestra	The Goblin Band	Halloween Stomp	Jass Records	1990	0:59:56 (Pop-up)
Biography Channel	The Tragic Life of Edgar Allen Poe (Part 3)	The Tragic Life of Edgar Allen Poe	A & E Television	1994	1:10:18 (Pop-up)
Front Page Drama!	"The Ghost of the Catacombs"	01 October 1933	Hearst Radio Features		1:24:01 (Pop-up)
Quiet Please.	"The Other Side of The Stars"	8 May 1949	Mutual		1:37:31 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 6:37pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:45pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	👻 8:46pm Austin Rich: Hey! Nice to see you.
	8:47pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I hope my cuts are satisfactory
	👻 8:49pm Austin Rich: Indeed! I sent you another message. I think it makes more sense to work another way.
	👻 8:49pm Austin Rich: Your pick is in today's show!
	8:49pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I noticed. Thank you
	8:52pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Silly ads? Sounds like a lot of fun. I think I can do that
	👻 8:53pm Austin Rich: I think that's more our speed. The editing is good, but it's also hard to coordinate, at a distance. It's almost more work to do it that way. Writing... that's easy to do at a distance.
	8:55pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I agree. Writing is much easier to coordinate at a distance
	👻 8:56pm Austin Rich: I'm trying to decide if the Monday before is reasonable for a Thanksgiving show. Maybe the ads can be Thanksgiving-ish, but the show can be regular format? I haven't decided.
	9:01pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Weirdos! 🌏☀️💻🎶🍻😎🤙💨🍺☠️
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: A stone cold classic here! Frankenstein is not only one of the first horror novels, but one of the first Science Fiction horror novels, too. An incredible accomplishment, and I think the story still holds up.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, Scott67!
	9:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Have you ever heard Stan Freberg's America? Pilgrim's Progress is hilarious, but very politically incorrect. Then again, it came out in the late 60s
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: There's a few Freberg bits that haven't aged very well. But he's got a few good bits here and there.
	9:03pm Charles: We're going through October so fast! I'll miss this pumpkin spice radio flavor.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: This is our final "Weird Circle" selection for the season, and for the ones that I chose this year were all "classics" of the genre. I may come back to "Weird Circle" for Halloween next year.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: I agree, Charles. I can't believe it's already the 17th!
	9:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The pumpkin is the spice, the spice is the pumpkin.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: Dimestore listeners have really stepped up, and we are already 46% of the way toward our goal! If you can, and haven't yet, you should click the "Pledge Now" button, and help us out! Every little bit helps, and we certainly could use those bits.
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: Here's a question for Dimestore chatroom folks: Thanksgiving this year (and every year) is on Thursday; our show is on Monday. Part of me thinks I should play all "Thanksgiving" stories that week. Another part of me says, "Well, it's not 'on the day,' so it doesn't count." Do ya'll want a Thanksgiving theme this year, or... regular show?
	9:13pm Charles: I think it would be a shame to miss seasonal shows for that reason. Unless you play them on mid-valley mutations instead?
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: (There's some good "detective" turkey day shows I could pull; there's lots of good content.)
	9:14pm Charles: Oops, thursday, not tuesday.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: "Men aren't so bad." Ha!
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: I'm not so sure we can actually say that.
	9:15pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: A mix perhaps, regular radio shows, but with clips from old holiday shows like its the great pumpkin
	9:16pm Charles: I've never took the time to read Frankenstein. The monster doesn't cone alive from lightning?
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: The sound of the "ocean" that this show uses is practically a harsh noise wall. It's only barely noticeable as an ocean sound.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: As I recall from the novel, the way the monster comes to life is actually sort of mysterious. I think the doctor himself can't precisely recall what he did, and suddenly, the monster has come to life. But I'm pretty sure that electricity is from the movie.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: I like the "serum" idea a little more, in terms of a practical solution that makes more sense for the era. But there are a few ideas of how the monster got his legs.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: The novel is sort of a nested story: A sea captain, sailing somewhere, meets this professor, who is going crazy. He tells the captain a story of: creating a monster. But it keeps going in and out of frame. There's one point where a family is talking, and Frankenstein is watching, and telling this story to the doctor, who then tells that story to the sea captain, who then tells it to us. It's an experiment in telling stories in multiple time frames, more than anything else.
	9:21pm Charles: Interesting. I should read this.
	9:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I wonder if the captain is the ancient mariner of legends
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: "Dracula" is all told in letters and journal entries; there is no "narrator." It's just a collection of documents. Both novels experiment in form in very cool ways. (And they work well as audiobooks, too.)
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: (My English Major / Radio-Writing-Film-Comics Minor pays off sometimes.)
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: Good theory, Imaginos! I do love stories of sailing a sea captains. Something about that career seems like it has adventure built in. Like exploring space.
	9:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: You should look up the Soft Doctrines
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: I like the choice to make the monster's voice just like another person. A lot of films and portrayals try to make him sound more "monstrous." But in the book, I always imagined the monster sounding like a person, but very confused. The Karloff version is great, too. But a little dramatic. But then again, so was Karloff.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: I also recommend "Young Frankenstein," which is still hilarious to me, and is more faithful to the original films than almost any other parody / satire Mel Brooks does.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: This episode of "The Price of Fear" was a request!
	9:30pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: A delectable delight
	9:31pm Charles: Igor casually lightning up a cigarette will never not be funny to me.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: Far too late, I discovered a cache of "The Price of Fear" episodes that were of a much higher quality. So this episode sounds better than the other two we've heard. So it goes.
	9:31pm Charles: I love Vincent Price so much :)
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: I-gor, Charles. I-gor.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: It doesn't feel like Halloween without Vincent. I think it was his appearance on the Muppets when I was a kid that sealed the deal. I just assumed he would be there every Halloween.
	9:33pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I've got a Ouija
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: You wanna do some Ouija board stuff on the show tomorrow? Heather and I are taking calls again.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: I do like the stories where Vincent Price is a character. Vincent in real life seems more like a character in a movie than almost more than the real people I've met in my own life.
	9:36pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Might not be a good idea. And I am not sure where the planchet is
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: No problem. We've got your poem anyway.
	9:37pm Charles: Agreed. Great choice Imaginos!
	9:37pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: True.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: Vincent's personal obsession with food seemed to spill over into his work a fair amount. I found this article interesting: www.seriouseats.com...
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: "How Horror Star Vincent Price Eerily Predicted America's Culinary Future"
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: I can't imagine a "plump" Vincent. I'm sure there's some fan art out there somewhere because the internet is the internet. But it just doesn't seem right.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: Ahh, this is a "Just So" story, I see.
	9:45pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: What else indeed.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: The world that the "fictional" Vincent Price inhabits is so wonderful. He only dines out. He's attending plays and museum openings nearly constantly. And he's instantly recognizable, incredibly knowledgeable, and a wonderful conversationalist. Just like the real Vincent, too.
	9:51pm Heather: Chiming in late re Ouija! I have a board and know exactly where the planchet is. Trouble is I annoy the ghost in my house so I'm not sure they'll be in a mood to play along.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: I don't want anyone to anger anything that you then have to live with afterwards. But I'm not sure you've talked about the ghost in your house before. That might make good content...
	9:54pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My cat likes to play with the demon who lives in the corner.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: Cats always know something we don't.
	9:56pm Heather: I have a ouija story about that and a few others I could share about whatever is here. We get along fine so I'm not worried they'll be mad. If they were going to be, they would be already. Yes! Imaginos! Nigel (aka Ouij) sees the entity! He never seems scared. Only interested. "What do you see, buddy? Who's there?" He's not talking.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: One of my favorite recordings is Diamonda Galas reading Edgar Allen Poe's, "The Black Cat." It's beautiful, and I love her voice.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: "So Humorous." Is that the original version of that Internet meme I used to see.
	10:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: You're welcome
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: Around the time that this version of the "Biography" show was relaunched, my family got cable. I must have seen HOURS of this show, where it was just talking heads telling you about some person's life story. I sort of have an irrational love of this style of documentary.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: Because I was that kind of nerd, and because I ran with those kinds of kids, in Jr. High and High School, our particular friend group would try to outdo each other with who could memorize more of "The Raven." I could never do the whole thing from memory, but I got pretty far. I did know a few guys who could easily do it from memory, and it always blue my mind.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: Looks like we're gonna go 8 1/2 minutes over this week. Sorry everyone! Hopefully that's not too late for some of you.
	10:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I'm trying to stay awake, but I'm nodding off.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: I think Poe's "hallucinations" and "insanity" may have since been proved (in the years since this doc was made) to be symptoms of undiagnosed (then) illnesses. I mean, I know the legend of "pink elephants" and whatnot, but I've known a lot of cronic drunks, and they don't really hallucinate.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: Good night, Imaginos! Take care!
	10:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Good night
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: Even people who use acid and mushrooms (and other hallucinogens and psychedelics) regularly talk about how hallucinations are not really common. Not in the way people used to imagine them, anyway.
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: Originally aired in 1933, this is officially the oldest radio recording that we've featured on Dimestore Radio Theater. There's not a whole lot of recordings from 1933 out there, but as one of the few, it's an interesting artifact.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: This is sort of a relic of the (not very old) history of American Spiritualism, something that dominated the popular culture of the US from the 1840s to the 1920s. Mediums and others who could talk to ghosts were very common in those days, and most Americans in that era suddenly showed a lot of interest in speaking with ghosts, or relatives, via mediums. It almost became another religion, to some. Seances and performances like this were common in those days, and this show sort of recreates them.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: Harry Houdini, a stage magician who longed for there to be a supernatural world but was always disappointed that there was no evidence, spent a lot of time finding mediums in the hopes of communicating with his dead mother. However, he often ended up revealing that they were frauds when he would do so, a sort of controversial period of his life that has sort of be overblown for those who want to imagine Houdini as a sort of supernatural investigator.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: When Houdini himself died unexpectedly on Halloween, 1926, he and his wife had made a deal, where Houdini would do all in his power to communicate with his wife from beyond the grave, with a very specific signal that they had worked out when he was still alive. She made efforts to contact him for 10 years after his death, culminating in a huge event that occurred on the roof of the Knickerbocker Hotel on Halloween, 1936. She was unsuccessful, which sort of put an end to spiritualism and mediums publicly. (Fewer and fewer of them were around, after that.) A partial recording / recreation of the Hordini Seance was released on an LP in the 50's, which sort of renewed interest in the idea of communicating with Houdini on Halloween. The Magic Castle began doing Houdini seances on Halloween, and soon other events happened, elsewhere. Now, contacting Houdini on Halloween is a bit of a tradition, in magic circles.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: (In case it wasn't obvious, I'm a Houdini nerd, too.)
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: As mentioned earlier, this one will go about 8 and 1/2 minutes over this week. Sorry about that!
	10:58pm Scott67: Thanks Austin! I've been laying on the couch listening like I was a kid again. But with beer! 💻🎶🛋️👣😎🤙🍻
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: That sounds about right!
	11:08pm Scott67: 🖖👽🍻
	👻 11:09pm Austin Rich: Night!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 17, 2022

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