Favoriting Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from August 7, 2023 Favoriting

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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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Favoriting August 7, 2023: Movies On The Radio Double Feature: Errol Flynn!

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Lux Radio Theater  "Captain Blood"   Favoriting 22 February 1937  CBS 
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Lux Radio Theater  "Trade Winds"   Favoriting 04 March 1940  CBS 
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Listener comments!

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Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Ahoy
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WR:

Ahoy
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Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:01
Thanks for tuning in! Grab a chair, and some popcorn!
  9:02pm
Charles:

Classy-looking fellow.
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Webhamster Henry:

Cap'n Blood!
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Austin Rich:

↳ WR @9:01
Thanks for popping in! You ready for a little film?
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Austin Rich:

↳ Charles @9:02
Yeah, you gotta love a guy in a bow-tie.
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Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:02
It's the best way to enjoy a summer afternoon / evening, if you ask me.
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Austin Rich:

Herbert Marshall usually filled in on Lux Radio Theater, when Cecil was not available. He was a very well known actor himself. More info:

en.wikipedia.org...
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Have you ever heard The soap and the Bobcat by Nelson Eddy?
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:06
Owl not soap
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Austin Rich:

↳ Song: ""Captain Blood"" by "Lux Radio Theater"
"Captain Blood" had been a hit two years previously, so it was reasonable that Lux Radio Theater would want to put this on the air. Errol Flynn was a regular on Lux Radio, and was a sex symbol on air as well as on screen.
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Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:06
I'll have to look it up. I'm not familiar.
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Austin Rich:

↳ Song: ""Captain Blood"" by "Lux Radio Theater"
The 1935 version of "Captain Blood," was actually a remake of a film from 1924, of the same name. It had previously been popular as a silent film, with J. Warren Kerrigan as the sexy star of that version. A lot of films got re-made after the introduction of sound, particularly the popular ones.
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Mr Fab:

Avast, ye listeners!
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Mr Fab:

↳ Song: ""Captain Blood"" by "Lux Radio Theater"
I so wish there was a Lux Interior Theater.
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Austin Rich:

↳ Song: ""Captain Blood"" by "Lux Radio Theater"
The story of this film is loosely based on true events: The Monmouth Rebellion really was an effort to depose James the II, but I suspect that outside of the historic context being true, this specific story of "Captain Blood" is fiction, written in 1922 by Rafael Sabatini, a popular author of adventure fiction in the 20's. Yes, there were pirates at this time, and some rebels were sold into slavery. But as far as I understand, "Captain Blood's" life story is fiction.
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WR:

I've not seen Captain Blood, the score is famous, heard that a long time ago.
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Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @9:14
We should do that for a pledge drive sometime. I'm sure we could come up with a funny gimmick for that.
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AI Robot:

Hi Mr. Austin!
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Austin Rich:

↳ WR @9:16
I need to re-watch the film. It's been many years.
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AI Robot:

Hello all you radio theater goers!
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Austin Rich:

↳ AI Robot @9:16
Hello, Mr. Robot! I hope you enjoy a few pirate stories, when you're not thinking about space.
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AI Robot:

We have pirates in Space!
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AI Robot:

But they are not so friendly as Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean!
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ AI Robot @9:19
Ryoko.
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Austin Rich:

↳ AI Robot @9:19
I only know about those Ice Pirates. There were sort of famous on a thing we have here on earth, called "H B O."
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AI Robot:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:20
Who is Ryoko? I know of one!
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ AI Robot @9:21
From Tenchi
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AI Robot:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:21
Is this an anime? I'm sorry, I'm not so up on anime!
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ AI Robot @9:22
A few years ago.
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AI Robot:

I have research the subject. Seems, as most anime are, a bit confusing to me.
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AI Robot:

The Ryoko I know is a bit crazy... As it seems the one in Tenchi is.
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Austin Rich:

I do love the narration on this episode. Pretty over the top, in the right way.
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AI Robot:

This man's accent is difficult to understand.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

If Captain Blood crossed paths with Desdinova, I would put my money on Desdinova. She has the power of Les Invisibles on her side.
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AI Robot:

What did he say?
  9:29pm
Hal:

If this show ceased to exist, I’d be so sad.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ AI Robot @9:27
He actually existed. And there is a treasure still unfound connected to A puzzle
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AI Robot:

What did he say?
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Austin Rich:

↳ Hal @9:29
Awww, that's sweet. I do have fun.
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Austin Rich:

↳ AI Robot @9:27
There are some difficult to understand accents, for sure.
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Austin Rich:

"A trifle skinny, perhaps."
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AI Robot:

↳ Austin Rich @9:35
That was the only part I understood.
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Austin Rich:

↳ AI Robot @9:36
Most pirate stories are just romances, when you get down to them.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @9:35
I understood a bit, but then I understood Gizmo in Gremlins
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @9:36
A man and his true love... The Sea.
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WR:

"Lord Willoughby" quickly faded in that scene.
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Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:37
It wasn't too far off Howie's stand-up voices, really.
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Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:38
A man and his true love... not being tied down to anything but his current whims!
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Heather Z:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:38
Poor Brandy.
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Austin Rich:

↳ WR @9:38
It's hard to hold a flame to Errol Flynn's charisma.
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Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @9:39
Heather! Nice to see you in the chat.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Heather Z @9:39
At least her mariner never led her on
  👻 9:42pm
Heather Z:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:40
She probably dodged a bullet, really.
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Austin Rich:

Olivia de Havilland, who is one of the stars in this story, lived to be 104 years old, and died at the beginning of the Covid epidemic. Her career was astounding, and she was in a bunch of things that you have probably seen, including "Gone With The Wind."
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

In one seafaring tale I wrote as a fanfic the maiden Maggie , aka Imaginos, took on the shape of a star-vulture and ate the eye of a man who tried to attack her.
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Mr Fab:

↳ Song: ""Captain Blood"" by "Lux Radio Theater"
from the days when Old Time Radio shows were reissued on vinyl. Usually one show per side. We had some growing up, e.g.: a "Lone Ranger" one.
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Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @9:44
That's how I first encountered a lot of shows: in the thrift store bins, on records as you describe, for usually a dollar.
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Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @9:46
I believe my dad had The Shadow on 8 track. And still does, I'm certain!
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Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:44
I do enjoy a good sailing story.
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Mr Fab:

This is it!
www.discogs.com...
Wow, hadn't thought of this record in years.
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Mr Fab:

↳ Heather Z @9:46
oh man well we have to play it off the 8-track!

(if we can find a working 8-track player...)
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Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @9:46
Woah! Nice. Seems like, even at $12, that would be a deal, just to relive the past.
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Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @9:46
That's pretty cool!
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @9:46
archiveofourown.org...
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Heather Z:

↳ Mr Fab @9:48
I bet the 8 track in my folks' basement still works and is still hooked up! I'll ask when next I talk to my dad!
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Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @9:48
You need to DJ with that 8 Track! That would be pretty great.
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Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @9:49
I'd love to! I'll write a note to remember to ask if the machine is still up and running. They never throw anything away, which is good and also not so good.
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Hal:

Thank you for the Olivia deH info. I grew up
Adoring her.
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Austin Rich:

↳ Hal @9:50
She is so great! I need to re-watch a bunch of movies, after reading through her wiki.
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Webhamster Henry:

On some other channel, Slate is getting konked on the head.
  👻 9:58pm
Heather Z:

Just emailed my dad to inquire about borrowing gear for my new endeavor.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:58
Business as usual with Slate.
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WR:

i need to learn how to tie a bow tie tie.
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Mr Fab:

DJing with an 8-track would be EPIC. Esp if we get to her that ka-Thonk sound when it goes to the next track.
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Austin Rich:

↳ WR @10:00
I am terrible at tying a bow tie. So I just leave them tied, and have a large collection of clip-ons.
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Austin Rich:

"Trade Winds" is a comedy / mystery, written by Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, and Frank R. Adams. Yes, THAT Dorothy Parker!
  10:04pm
Dean:

Motto should be "Summer sun fun in the summer fun sun," doncha think?

I wish I were more tuned in to this show's schedule. Radio theater, like stage theater, is simply engrossing.
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Austin Rich:

Errol Flynn is NOT in the original of "Trade Winds." Lux Radio Theater often had other stars come in and play roles that they COULD have been cast for. It's a nice way to get another take on a story, with another popular star. These shows WERE controversial, as people often love to argue that the original are better, no matter what. Still... it's fun to have shows like this, where you get to do a little fantasy casting.
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Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @10:03
Campbell was Parker's husband.
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Austin Rich:

↳ Dean @10:04
You are right, Dean! If only you were there to help me write these.

Hopefully you'll join us next week! That will be more representative of what we're like, week to week.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Why do Hollywood gumshoes all have that same accent?
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WR:

↳ Austin Rich @10:07
oh, ok, I was looking and saw a 1938 Trade Winds with Frederic March.
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Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:08
Oh! Thanks for the tip. I figured there was some connection.
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Mr Fab:

Ah, Hawaii wasn’t a state yet. Still subject to foreign laws.
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Dean:

Was that last bit about a puppy with muddy feet Dorothy's?
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Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @10:10
That's right! Good point.
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Austin Rich:

↳ Dean @10:10
Hard to say, but seems likely.
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wenzo:

Howdee Austin & Radio Frenzz
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Austin Rich:

↳ wenzo @10:11
Wenzo! Thanks for dropping in.
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WR:

I only paste this from the Flynn Wikipedia because Flynn mentioned something about going to Spain in the outro interview:

"Journalist George Seldes, who disliked Flynn intensely, wrote in his 1987 memoir that Flynn did not travel to Spain in 1937 to report on its civil war as announced, or to deliver cash, medicine, supplies and food for the Republican soldiers, as promised. His purpose, according to Seldes, was to perpetrate a hoax that he triggered by sending an "apparently harmless" telegram from Madrid to Paris. The following day, American newspapers published an erroneous report that Flynn had been killed at the Spanish front. "The next day he left Spain ... . There were no ambulances, no medical supplies, no food for the Spanish Republic, and not one cent of money. The war correspondents said bitterly that it was the cruelest hoax of the time," Seldes wrote. "Flynn... had used a terrible war just to advertise one of his cheap movies.""
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Austin Rich:

↳ WR @10:11
Woah! Very interesting.
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Austin Rich:

↳ WR @10:11
I'll be curious what the Seldes / Flynn beef was all about. I'll have to look that up later.
  10:16pm
Dean:

Hawaii was annexed to the US in the late 19th century, so not quite a foreign jurisdiction.
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Austin Rich:

Here is a fairly famous contemporary review of, "Trade Winds":

"It is not exactly a travelogue. As a mystery film it's a bit on the porous side. We hesitate to call it a romantic comedy, beginning as it does with a suicide, adding a murder and ending with a third body on the floor. And certainly it's not a straight drama. Maybe a new word is in order—a travestery comiromance, or a dramalogue of travesty."
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Dean:

Parker quips stick out a bit.
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Austin Rich:

↳ Dean @10:19
When I realized she wrote this, I HAD to listen.
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Austin Rich:

"Spaulding & Merrick" made cigarettes until sometime in the 20s, but I can't find a "Merrick Cigarettes" that would have been contemporary to this film or radio production. I have to wonder if it was some regional brand, or perhaps, created for this movie?
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Austin Rich:

"That, I believe, is known as a line."
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Austin, how would you categorize Lost Christobel?
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Mr Fab:

↳ Austin Rich @10:24
Ha, picking out the lines Dorothy Parker probably wrote
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Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:27
Adventure / Romance?
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WR:

The Wiki page says that the director of Trade Winds shot film in various locations around the Pacific and then they strung together a plot around it. Now I'm interested in seeing what it looks like.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @10:29
Sounds about right. And what might seem average to some may be an adventure to others
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Austin Rich:

↳ WR @10:29
Yeah, I was completely unfamiliar with this film before this, and now I really wanna watch it.
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Austin Rich:

"That's just what I've been telling myself all day."
  10:33pm
Dean:

I can't enjoy film, but I'm a sucker for radio theater. OTOH, I would be interested in seeing how a film version of "Trade Winds" or what have you pans out.
  10:35pm
Dean:

Bad Chopin...
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Austin Rich:

↳ Dean @10:35
He's only a detective. He can't be good at everything.
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Mr Fab:

↳ Dean @10:35
Sounds like that should have been an episode for Dan Akroyd’s Leonard
Pinth-Garnel character:

“Hello, and welcome…Bad Chopin”
  👻 10:37pm
Heather Z:

I'm sorry, did I just hear them SHOOT A SNAKE?
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @10:35
He's certainly not a holistic detective
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Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @10:37
Yes. You did not imagine that.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Heather Z @10:37
A cobra. The hood probably made it easier
  10:39pm
Dean:

If I had to vote for the very best SNL bit--of which to my mind there are none--I would say it's Aykroyd's art critic, E. Buzz Miller.
  👻 10:40pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @10:38
And, like, that was just what people did back then? My aim isn't good, not that I know from experience, but I'd be better off packing a mongoose than trying to SHOOT A SNAKE.
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Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @10:40
When you don't have a mongoose, and you do have a gun, and more importantly, you're sort of making things up as you go... why not have a scene where she shoots a snake? I'm sure there's symbolism there that Freud would love.
  10:42pm
Dean:

(That's right. There are no "best" SNL bits, because there are no good ones!)
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Austin Rich:

↳ Dean @10:42
The me at 13 who watched re-runs relentlessly would like to argue with you about the relative merits of floor waxes and dessert toppings, but the 48 year old in me will refrain.
  👻 10:43pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @10:41
You know, that's fair. Seems like overkill both literally and figuratively but not everyone can pack a mongoose at all times, I suppose.
  10:44pm
Dean:

HAY-nee-us?!
  👻 10:45pm
Heather Z:

↳ Dean @10:44
That's how I'll say it from now on.
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Mr Fab:

Love this hard boiled cop: “And they was guilty of da most hee-nee-ous crimes.”
  10:46pm
Dean:

If the glove fits, you must acquit.
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Austin Rich:

↳ Dean @10:46
All of my legal training came to me in rhyme. It was the only way I could remember all of that stuff.
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AI Robot:

X-Minus 1
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Austin Rich:

↳ AI Robot @10:49
Next week! We'll be back on track next week.
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AI Robot:

???
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @10:43
Floor wax and topping? Sounds like Dr Ducks Super-Secret All-Purpose Sauce
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Chris Ianuzzi:

↳ AI Robot @10:49
AI Robot san!!!
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Austin Rich:

↳ AI Robot @10:50
We took two weeks off for summer, to have Movies on The Radio.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Great show
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Austin Rich:

Thanks for tuning in, everyone!
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @10:53
Looking forward to tomorrow, too
  👻 10:55pm
Heather Z:

Great show!! I'm sticking around for Sounds From Space!! Have a lovely evening, everyone!!
  10:55pm
Dean:

Thank you. Marvelous.
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AI Robot:

Hi Chris!
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Mr Fab:

↳ Heather Z @10:55
Me too!

Much thx for the swashbuckling sounds, Austin!
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AI Robot:

Thanks Austin san!
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Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @10:57
Gotta love a good pirate story!
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Webhamster Henry:

Thanks - A double feature !
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Chris Ianuzzi:

↳ AI Robot @10:57
how are you tonight AI san?
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AI Robot:

Batteries running low
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Chris Ianuzzi:

Charge will come from music
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WR:

Thank you! Austin! These LUX Radio Theatre programs were gems, great selections.
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