WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 13, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 4:54pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:54pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	👻 8:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:54 Nice to see you! Sit and stay a while.
	8:59pm Imaginos: I think I just might
	9:00pm Webhamster Henry: Time for that weird little KO imp, Eugor!
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Blondes Prefer Gentlemen"" by "Rogue's Gallery" The sound is a little rough on this one, compared to other "Rogue's Gallery" episodes we've heard. I did my best to clean this one up so it is more listenable. I even used "AI Tools" to help with this one. Can you guess what I did? (I'll reveal during "Revelations" in hour two.)
	👻 9:00pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:00 Webhamster Henry! Thanks for joining us. Yes, "Spot the Eugor" is the fun of "Rogue's Gallery."
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:00 yerfriendpaul! Now it's a party!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:59 You could even take off your shoes and stoke the fire if you want. But just don't take anything off the top shelf of the liquor cabinet. That's the good stuff.
	9:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 A simple cup of rum punch is all I require
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: I don't know why, but to my ear, the original recording of this episode sounds a tad slow. Before I did anything else to this show, I tried to get the speed corrected. But any faster sounded too fast, even by the tiniest fraction. So I decided to leave the speed as it. Maybe the quality of this recording is making me "think" it's a little slow, but it isn't?
	9:05pm Webhamster Henry: Here's what I think: tvtropes.org...
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:05 It's always wise to distrust old folks. They've seen too much, and they know too many tricks.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: Also: we are debuting a new show tonight! Stick around for the second slot in hour 1, for the first episode of, "The Adventures of Rocky Jordan!"
	9:08pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 Filling the Rocky quotient for the show.
	9:08pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 Hey, Old Time Austin! Not a ripoff of Rocky Fortune?
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:08 You gotta have at least one.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:08 Not at all! It's radio's attempt at "Casablanca" on the radio.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: "Correspondence School Pick Pocket." Now I'm curious what that would be.
	9:14pm Imaginos: Aren't they supposed to follow the cab?
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: I like the gag that, rather than in a lot of other shows, where cabs are the perfect get-away vehicle, in this episode, it just doesn't work for him... twice!
	9:16pm Maulydaft: I haven't heard a lot of Rogue's Gallery- these have been neat, thanks!
	9:17pm Webhamster Henry: $50 was a lot of dough back then!
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: Eagle-eared listeners will notice that this episode is "Blondes Prefer Gentlemen." I mis-identified an episode, two weeks ago, as this one. I double checked, and I'm pretty sure this one is the actual "Blondes Prefer Gentlemen." However... if I discover any news, I'll let ya'll know.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:16 Maulydaft! Thanks for joining. I do love Dick Powell, and I think he did some great radio. I'll be doing as much Dick Powell in this opening slot until I run out!
	9:19pm Maulydaft: Although Rocky Jordan has a lot of "yick" moments (A little more than most crime shows but a whole lot less than say Tarzan) it's written quite well and Jordan really grows on you...
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:17 I was thinking that! Once calculator online says that $50 is worth $877.34 in 2024.
	9:20pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 WOW!!!
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:19 Yes, I agree. Like a lot of Old Radio, some good shows have some... not great elements to them. I love Rocky Jordan, but I'm well aware that there are some elements of the show we will have to talk about.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:20 5k, in 1945, would be worth $87,733.71 in 2024 money.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: No Eugor!
	9:23pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 Awwwww
	9:23pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 He still gets paid, union rules!
	9:24pm Maulydaft: Something I noted in my radio book/zine (it's nearly done!) was that Richard Diamond was charging $100/day plus expenses, most other PIs were $50/day plus expenses and poor Jeff Reagan was making $10/ day plus expenses under the cheapskate Lyon! :D
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:23 I think the gag with the "voice in Rogue's head" was the replacement gag for Eugor this week. (I think the same actor did that voice, too.)
	9:24pm Webhamster Henry: Eugor is hanging out in a bar with King Moses.
	9:24pm Imaginos: I hope she doesn't run into the prop
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:24 Damn. Jeff needed an agent to negotiate for him. Thinking about running Jeff Regan as some point!
	9:25pm Maulydaft: Oh! And strangely, Johnny Dollar was ONLY on expense account? It never made sense! How did he make money to live off of?? :D
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:24 I'll need a copy for sure!
	9:25pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:24 It's freakin funny - those shows and Pat Novak!
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:25 He must have had a private inheritance, and just enjoyed the work because it offered free travel. But I have no evidence of this.
	9:26pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:25 I will send you a copy! Dimestore is in there of course!
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: Rogue mentions Thanksgiving. This episode aired in the middle of October, so a Thanksgiving meal is on his mind.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:26 Oh wow! That's very cool! (I might need two, then!)
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:24 I have been thinking about a one-shot zine, about some of my "Dimestore" thoughts that I've had, doing this show. Still haven't written it, but I made an outline the other day.
	9:29pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 Needs to happen for sure!
	9:29pm Webhamster Henry: Glad you left in this bizarre insurance-enhanced shampoo pitch.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: Now that you've heard it: I used "AI Tools" to improve that episode of "Rogue's Gallery." Any guesses as to what I did?
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:29 The theme song for Rogue's Gallery is the jingle for Fitch Shampoo. So you have to leave some of it in.
	9:31pm Webhamster Henry: I dunno, but I just got a cheap copy of Izotope RX 10, supposedly gets a free upgrade to RX 11.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Bartered Bridegroom"" by "The Adventures of ... "A Man Named Rocky Jordan" was the name of a short-run version of this show, from 1945. But this is the more well known, and better, show featuring the same character. But the phrase "A Man Named Jordan" will pop up pretty often, to reference that show.
	9:32pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:31 with all its superpowers, it is kind of confused by the amount of noise on old Discs and radio.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:32 That is my experience, too!
	9:32pm Maulydaft: I've noticed from listening to all these cigarette ads - they are all supposed to be "smooth" and "non-irritating". That's about all they were saying... and they ALL were saying it! :D
	9:33pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 That's why I'm interested in getting something that can be trained on these very special kinds of audio!
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Bartered Bridegroom"" by "The Adventures of ... This show debuted on "Halloween," which is pretty bold, as that is usually a night people are out, even back then. Still, a lot of people seemed to like this show, so enough people heard it.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:32 I think there were "rudimentary" laws in place (thought not many) that limited the things you could say about cigarettes. I think a lot of people ended up aping the same copy, as no one knew how to sell something that isn't good for you.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Bartered Bridegroom"" by "The Adventures of ... "The Adventures of Rocky Jordan," was produced by "Santana Productions," the studio that produced "Bold Venture," and owned by Bogart & Bacall. Bogart had been asked to do a version of "Casablanca" for the radio for years, and was not interested in turning the show into something that was serialized. But his production company was happy to do it with another actor, and re-tooled the older premise of "A Man Named Jordan" for this show, staring Jack Moyles in the lead (who was known for having a lot of range for voices on the radio). While not exactly a Bogart impression, it's as if the characters probably grew up in the same neighborhood.
	9:38pm Webhamster Henry: Paul Frees in the house!
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:38 Always happy to hear Paul Frees do voices! Wish he would get more direct credit; he pops up in our shows all the time.
	9:39pm Imaginos: They just killed the wrong mirror
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: There's some noise in the back of this episode, but try as I might, everything I did to remove it ruined the sound of the show, so I left it in. Most Old Time Radio shows were archived by fans on cassette (or in may cases, reel to reel). So many of the versions of these shows that survive into the modern age have the same sound limitations as the tape they were originally captured on.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:39 Seven years bad luck!
	9:44pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 Unless you're talking about the Magna of Illusion, then its much longer
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: While Rocky does get knocked out from time to time, it's not exactly a gimmick for him. Still... will it happen next time...? Who can say? That's often half the fun of these shows: who's going to suffer brain damage the most?
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: Jay Novello does the voice of Sam Sabaaya. Jay is American, as near as I can figure, and was known for his ability to do "impressions." (Often, voices of people from other countries.) So accents like this were sort of what he was known for... and it wasn't really cool then, either. Jay was in a million TV shows, movies, and radio shows... and was a very skilled actor. And he adds a lot of character to Sam, a character that could be a boring cop. Still, it's a little weird to hear this accent, given the person playing the character.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: We learn more and more about Rocky Jordan as the show goes on, but all we really know about him at this point is he's an American now living in Cario, runing the Cafe Tamborine. We'll add to that backstore as time goes on.
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: During Rocky's conversation with Sam, he implies that Sam has warned him about getting in trouble with cases like this before. (And this is the first episode.) A sly, "meta" reference to the previous version of this show, from 1945.
	9:56pm Webhamster Henry: More Paul Frees!
	10:09pm wenzo: Howdeeeee
	10:09pm Imaginos: Can these tools be used to add background sounds?
	10:12pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Imaginos @10:09 Well normal editors can do that, but there are some AI tools that claim they can make up foley effects for you, which I suspect are not too good.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: Radio correspondence school classes? I guess they had remote learning solved in the 20s... what happened?
	10:14pm Maulydaft: I never noticed the first time I listened, but Paul Frees did TWO characters in that RJ show! :D
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:09 I already have tools to add sounds. This one is really only good for taking sounds apart.
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:14 Two for one Frees!
	10:15pm Maulydaft: ha!
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:09 wenzo! Thanks for tuning in.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: I think we'll go about six or so minutes over tonight. Sorry everyone!
	10:19pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:19 Sleep well! There's always another show, next time.
	10:21pm wenzo: No apology necessary… bonus minutes!
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:21 I like to tell people what's up. Sometimes, I worry that someone will get scheduled after me, and I'll have to learn how to be a good show-neighbor again.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: I sold a Blue Beetle book at work the other day, and should have bought it before this customer could have. Apparently, there was something in it about the radio show. Guess I'll have to order one from the publisher.
	10:26pm Maulydaft: Hey Austin - we need a Dimestore Radio Theatre shirt! I told myself i wouldnt buy anymore WFMU shirts but Dimestore would be the exception :)
	👻 10:26pm Heather: Chiming in with a hello from the birthplace of The Fox Sisters and hotbed of Spiritualism, Rochester, NY!
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:26 That would be very cool! I should think about some designs. Shirts are expensive to make, but cool to have.
	10:27pm Maulydaft: Nice Heather! I lived in Rochester for 9 months. Had no idea Spiritualism was a big thing there!
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:26 Nice to see you in the chat, Heather.
	👻 10:28pm yerfriendpaul: Imagine actually connecting with your deceased son and talking finances with him!
	👻 10:28pm Heather: ↳ Maulydaft @10:27 Wow what brought you here?! Yes, we're, I think, the birthplace of Spiritualism and not at all far from the town of mediums called Lilydale!
	10:28pm Maulydaft: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:28 hahaha!
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:28 "Son? What account did you have the phone bill under? I can't figure it out without you!"
	👻 10:29pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:29 Ha ha! What’s the password ?
	10:29pm Maulydaft: ↳ Heather @10:28 I took the film archiving course at Eastman - that was a looong time ago :) I never made it to Lillydale! So interesting!
	10:30pm Maulydaft: "Poppycock" - always a good word :D
	👻 10:31pm Heather: ↳ Maulydaft @10:29 Oh that's awesome. The Eastman house is a pretty great institution! Lilydale is neat. I've only been once but got a reading and had a good time. The reading was.... hm. I have the recording..I should listen back.
	10:32pm Maulydaft: ↳ Heather @10:31 Oh neat - you have a recording. I've never had a reading... been sort of ... afraid?? ??
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: As the saying goes, when I was younger, I really wanted to believe, and I spent a lot of time reading about mind reading, telekinesis, magic and spiritualism. As the decades wear on, and I have not experienced anything to back up any kind of magic no matter how hard I try... I have come to the conclusion that it's not real. Or some force is trying to hide it from me on purpose.
	10:33pm Webhamster Henry: My X-Ray camera ....
	10:34pm Maulydaft: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:33 I was going to mention that... love the tech from those times :D
	👻 10:34pm Heather: ↳ Maulydaft @10:32 If you want one, I'd say don't be afraid. I kind of looked at it as, oh, we're doing the Lilydale thing, here's what I'm willing to spend on this vacation trip. I'm not even skeptical. I'm woo woo as all get go. But I took it with a grain of salt.
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:30 I try to replace my own vocabulary with as much dialog from old radio shows as possible.
	10:34pm Webhamster Henry: Ah a voice cloning episode! Something I'm doing a lot these days!
	10:36pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:34 I was reading Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis last month and the vocab was amazing. "Corking" was one of my favs :)
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:36 Hell yeah! I wanna talk like some erudite background character from a Lux Radio Theater production of some 30's movie SO BAD.
	10:37pm Maulydaft: ↳ Heather @10:34 Seems like you shouldn't go to Lilydale WITHOUT getting a reading :D Glad you had a good time!
	👻 10:37pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 I heard that the Amazing Randi publicly debunked Uri Geller on Johnny Carson's show in 1973.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:37 I love Amazing Randi. He seemed to genuinely want to be fooled, and never was.
	👻 10:38pm Heather: ↳ Maulydaft @10:37 It's the thing to do! That and the weird little junk shop where they have some really nice treasures! Got a resin statue of a bear beholding itself, smaller, trapped in a snow globe there. I still love that thing!
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: I have become obsessed with the idea of finding a disc of the music cues from NBC Radio in the 50's, which would allow me to find the source sounds that appear in the background of X-Minus One episodes. Such a thing probably existed, but finding one seems challenging.
	👻 10:43pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""A Thousand Dollars A Plate"" by "X-Minus One" This short story was first published in the October 1954 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. Read it here: gutenberg.org...
	👻 10:43pm Heather: Marsigras! I love it!
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: I've used the same tools I mentioned earlier to try and isolate the sounds from certain X-Minus one episodes, and while it does work, they don't sound a good as I'd like. Some are better than others... it just depends on the show and how good the recording of the original show is.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:43 Nice! Thanks for the link.
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: Something tells me this is based on a true story in our real world, but I can't put my finger to a specific example. I know a lot of scientists were angry that light pollution from cities were making it hard to look at stars, but I think that's been a historic problem since there was electricity.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: There seems to be a fair number of X-Minus One stories that involve gambling, or casinos. There was something in the air, I guess.
	10:49pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:42 I don't know if this is any help to you but back in the 90s when I was sound editing and there wasn't really internet I was using sound effects on CD and I got the impression that these were effects that had been used for decades (and I could recognize some of them in other productions) But I don't know if NBC would have these copyrighted and therefore not on the sound effect CDs. Pretty much all sound houses used the same CD library back then...
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:49 I know exactly what you're talking about! I have some SFX records that have sounds on them I've heard in a bunch of old shows. I keep hoping I can find one of Music Cues, but haven't yet.
	10:51pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 No doubt the records you have are the same as the CDs I used!
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: They are really leaning into the "whimsical" cues on this one.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: "For a bunch of scientists, they're pretty smart."
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: "The only one playing is an elderly masochist who likes to loose." This show is sort of hilarious.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: "Let's shoot or get off the power line." I'm sort of not sure what that image is supposed to imply.
	10:55pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 I was thinking the same!
	10:56pm Maulydaft: Just found this on NBC sound effects! www.richsamuels.com...
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: "Can I look through the telescope?" I feel seen. Though I have looked through one.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:56 Ooooo! Time to dig in after the show! Thanks!
	👻 10:58pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:10 "Casablanca" has been radio-adapted a few times. I heard the first one (broadcast in 1943, condensed to a half-hour) repeated on CHML (900 AM) not long ago. Bogart, Bergman and Henreid reprised their film roles!
	10:59pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 That was just an interesting 1 pager. But then I found out there's a Museum of TV Production Music!? Who knew!? www.facebook.com...
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:58 Oh, yes, that's true! I should revise my comments, since he did do the story again. He was just not interested in a serialized version of the story, as he sort of saw it as a one-and-done idea.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: We're getting close to the end. Thanks again, everyone! We'll see ya'll again next week.
	11:01pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:59 As opposed to the Lives of Harry Lime, which I don't think Welles liked doing too much.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @11:01 I think that one paid the bills for him, so he liked it that much. But I'm certainly a bigger fan of that show than he is.
	👻 11:02pm yerfriendpaul: Thank you Austin!
	👻 11:03pm Heather: Thanks for a great show, Austin! Anyone headed to this part of NY, let me know and we can go get some readings! Night all!
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: I need a pair of flunkies that I can refer to as, "you apes."
	👻 11:05pm Austin Rich: I don't recall a "Harvey's Comet" anywhere in my schooling, but maybe I'm wrong?
	👻 11:06pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:25 Who published the book you sold-- Fox, Charlton or DC?
	👻 11:06pm Austin Rich: See ya'll next time!
	👻 11:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:06 Some indie-company, doing an overview of the character. I'll have to dig up the info.
	11:07pm wenzo: Thanks

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May 13, 2024: Episode #94

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Rogue's Gallery	"Blondes Prefer Gentlemen"	18 October 1945	NBC		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Adventures of Rocky Jordan	"The Bartered Bridegroom"	31 October 1948	Santana Productions		0:31:12 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Jerry Murad	The Story of Three Loves				1:02:40 (Pop-up)
Unpublished History	Radio in the 1920s (Part 9)	Radio In The 1920s	Self-Released	2024	1:14:43 (Pop-up)
The Blue Beetle	"Spirits Don't Talk, Part 1"	14 June 1940	Mutual–Don Lee Network		1:21:44 (Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"A Thousand Dollars A Plate"	21 March 1956	NBC Radio		1:38:18 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 4:54pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:54pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	👻 8:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:54 Nice to see you! Sit and stay a while.
	8:59pm Imaginos: I think I just might
	9:00pm Webhamster Henry: Time for that weird little KO imp, Eugor!
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Blondes Prefer Gentlemen"" by "Rogue's Gallery" The sound is a little rough on this one, compared to other "Rogue's Gallery" episodes we've heard. I did my best to clean this one up so it is more listenable. I even used "AI Tools" to help with this one. Can you guess what I did? (I'll reveal during "Revelations" in hour two.)
	👻 9:00pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:00 Webhamster Henry! Thanks for joining us. Yes, "Spot the Eugor" is the fun of "Rogue's Gallery."
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:00 yerfriendpaul! Now it's a party!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:59 You could even take off your shoes and stoke the fire if you want. But just don't take anything off the top shelf of the liquor cabinet. That's the good stuff.
	9:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 A simple cup of rum punch is all I require
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: I don't know why, but to my ear, the original recording of this episode sounds a tad slow. Before I did anything else to this show, I tried to get the speed corrected. But any faster sounded too fast, even by the tiniest fraction. So I decided to leave the speed as it. Maybe the quality of this recording is making me "think" it's a little slow, but it isn't?
	9:05pm Webhamster Henry: Here's what I think: tvtropes.org...
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:05 It's always wise to distrust old folks. They've seen too much, and they know too many tricks.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: Also: we are debuting a new show tonight! Stick around for the second slot in hour 1, for the first episode of, "The Adventures of Rocky Jordan!"
	9:08pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 Filling the Rocky quotient for the show.
	9:08pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 Hey, Old Time Austin! Not a ripoff of Rocky Fortune?
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:08 You gotta have at least one.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:08 Not at all! It's radio's attempt at "Casablanca" on the radio.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: "Correspondence School Pick Pocket." Now I'm curious what that would be.
	9:14pm Imaginos: Aren't they supposed to follow the cab?
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: I like the gag that, rather than in a lot of other shows, where cabs are the perfect get-away vehicle, in this episode, it just doesn't work for him... twice!
	9:16pm Maulydaft: I haven't heard a lot of Rogue's Gallery- these have been neat, thanks!
	9:17pm Webhamster Henry: $50 was a lot of dough back then!
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: Eagle-eared listeners will notice that this episode is "Blondes Prefer Gentlemen." I mis-identified an episode, two weeks ago, as this one. I double checked, and I'm pretty sure this one is the actual "Blondes Prefer Gentlemen." However... if I discover any news, I'll let ya'll know.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:16 Maulydaft! Thanks for joining. I do love Dick Powell, and I think he did some great radio. I'll be doing as much Dick Powell in this opening slot until I run out!
	9:19pm Maulydaft: Although Rocky Jordan has a lot of "yick" moments (A little more than most crime shows but a whole lot less than say Tarzan) it's written quite well and Jordan really grows on you...
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:17 I was thinking that! Once calculator online says that $50 is worth $877.34 in 2024.
	9:20pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 WOW!!!
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:19 Yes, I agree. Like a lot of Old Radio, some good shows have some... not great elements to them. I love Rocky Jordan, but I'm well aware that there are some elements of the show we will have to talk about.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:20 5k, in 1945, would be worth $87,733.71 in 2024 money.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: No Eugor!
	9:23pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 Awwwww
	9:23pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 He still gets paid, union rules!
	9:24pm Maulydaft: Something I noted in my radio book/zine (it's nearly done!) was that Richard Diamond was charging $100/day plus expenses, most other PIs were $50/day plus expenses and poor Jeff Reagan was making $10/ day plus expenses under the cheapskate Lyon! :D
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:23 I think the gag with the "voice in Rogue's head" was the replacement gag for Eugor this week. (I think the same actor did that voice, too.)
	9:24pm Webhamster Henry: Eugor is hanging out in a bar with King Moses.
	9:24pm Imaginos: I hope she doesn't run into the prop
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:24 Damn. Jeff needed an agent to negotiate for him. Thinking about running Jeff Regan as some point!
	9:25pm Maulydaft: Oh! And strangely, Johnny Dollar was ONLY on expense account? It never made sense! How did he make money to live off of?? :D
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:24 I'll need a copy for sure!
	9:25pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:24 It's freakin funny - those shows and Pat Novak!
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:25 He must have had a private inheritance, and just enjoyed the work because it offered free travel. But I have no evidence of this.
	9:26pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:25 I will send you a copy! Dimestore is in there of course!
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: Rogue mentions Thanksgiving. This episode aired in the middle of October, so a Thanksgiving meal is on his mind.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:26 Oh wow! That's very cool! (I might need two, then!)
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:24 I have been thinking about a one-shot zine, about some of my "Dimestore" thoughts that I've had, doing this show. Still haven't written it, but I made an outline the other day.
	9:29pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 Needs to happen for sure!
	9:29pm Webhamster Henry: Glad you left in this bizarre insurance-enhanced shampoo pitch.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: Now that you've heard it: I used "AI Tools" to improve that episode of "Rogue's Gallery." Any guesses as to what I did?
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:29 The theme song for Rogue's Gallery is the jingle for Fitch Shampoo. So you have to leave some of it in.
	9:31pm Webhamster Henry: I dunno, but I just got a cheap copy of Izotope RX 10, supposedly gets a free upgrade to RX 11.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Bartered Bridegroom"" by "The Adventures of ... "A Man Named Rocky Jordan" was the name of a short-run version of this show, from 1945. But this is the more well known, and better, show featuring the same character. But the phrase "A Man Named Jordan" will pop up pretty often, to reference that show.
	9:32pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:31 with all its superpowers, it is kind of confused by the amount of noise on old Discs and radio.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:32 That is my experience, too!
	9:32pm Maulydaft: I've noticed from listening to all these cigarette ads - they are all supposed to be "smooth" and "non-irritating". That's about all they were saying... and they ALL were saying it! :D
	9:33pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 That's why I'm interested in getting something that can be trained on these very special kinds of audio!
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Bartered Bridegroom"" by "The Adventures of ... This show debuted on "Halloween," which is pretty bold, as that is usually a night people are out, even back then. Still, a lot of people seemed to like this show, so enough people heard it.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:32 I think there were "rudimentary" laws in place (thought not many) that limited the things you could say about cigarettes. I think a lot of people ended up aping the same copy, as no one knew how to sell something that isn't good for you.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Bartered Bridegroom"" by "The Adventures of ... "The Adventures of Rocky Jordan," was produced by "Santana Productions," the studio that produced "Bold Venture," and owned by Bogart & Bacall. Bogart had been asked to do a version of "Casablanca" for the radio for years, and was not interested in turning the show into something that was serialized. But his production company was happy to do it with another actor, and re-tooled the older premise of "A Man Named Jordan" for this show, staring Jack Moyles in the lead (who was known for having a lot of range for voices on the radio). While not exactly a Bogart impression, it's as if the characters probably grew up in the same neighborhood.
	9:38pm Webhamster Henry: Paul Frees in the house!
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:38 Always happy to hear Paul Frees do voices! Wish he would get more direct credit; he pops up in our shows all the time.
	9:39pm Imaginos: They just killed the wrong mirror
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: There's some noise in the back of this episode, but try as I might, everything I did to remove it ruined the sound of the show, so I left it in. Most Old Time Radio shows were archived by fans on cassette (or in may cases, reel to reel). So many of the versions of these shows that survive into the modern age have the same sound limitations as the tape they were originally captured on.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:39 Seven years bad luck!
	9:44pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 Unless you're talking about the Magna of Illusion, then its much longer
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: While Rocky does get knocked out from time to time, it's not exactly a gimmick for him. Still... will it happen next time...? Who can say? That's often half the fun of these shows: who's going to suffer brain damage the most?
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: Jay Novello does the voice of Sam Sabaaya. Jay is American, as near as I can figure, and was known for his ability to do "impressions." (Often, voices of people from other countries.) So accents like this were sort of what he was known for... and it wasn't really cool then, either. Jay was in a million TV shows, movies, and radio shows... and was a very skilled actor. And he adds a lot of character to Sam, a character that could be a boring cop. Still, it's a little weird to hear this accent, given the person playing the character.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: We learn more and more about Rocky Jordan as the show goes on, but all we really know about him at this point is he's an American now living in Cario, runing the Cafe Tamborine. We'll add to that backstore as time goes on.
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: During Rocky's conversation with Sam, he implies that Sam has warned him about getting in trouble with cases like this before. (And this is the first episode.) A sly, "meta" reference to the previous version of this show, from 1945.
	9:56pm Webhamster Henry: More Paul Frees!
	10:09pm wenzo: Howdeeeee
	10:09pm Imaginos: Can these tools be used to add background sounds?
	10:12pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Imaginos @10:09 Well normal editors can do that, but there are some AI tools that claim they can make up foley effects for you, which I suspect are not too good.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: Radio correspondence school classes? I guess they had remote learning solved in the 20s... what happened?
	10:14pm Maulydaft: I never noticed the first time I listened, but Paul Frees did TWO characters in that RJ show! :D
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:09 I already have tools to add sounds. This one is really only good for taking sounds apart.
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:14 Two for one Frees!
	10:15pm Maulydaft: ha!
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:09 wenzo! Thanks for tuning in.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: I think we'll go about six or so minutes over tonight. Sorry everyone!
	10:19pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:19 Sleep well! There's always another show, next time.
	10:21pm wenzo: No apology necessary… bonus minutes!
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:21 I like to tell people what's up. Sometimes, I worry that someone will get scheduled after me, and I'll have to learn how to be a good show-neighbor again.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: I sold a Blue Beetle book at work the other day, and should have bought it before this customer could have. Apparently, there was something in it about the radio show. Guess I'll have to order one from the publisher.
	10:26pm Maulydaft: Hey Austin - we need a Dimestore Radio Theatre shirt! I told myself i wouldnt buy anymore WFMU shirts but Dimestore would be the exception :)
	👻 10:26pm Heather: Chiming in with a hello from the birthplace of The Fox Sisters and hotbed of Spiritualism, Rochester, NY!
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:26 That would be very cool! I should think about some designs. Shirts are expensive to make, but cool to have.
	10:27pm Maulydaft: Nice Heather! I lived in Rochester for 9 months. Had no idea Spiritualism was a big thing there!
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:26 Nice to see you in the chat, Heather.
	👻 10:28pm yerfriendpaul: Imagine actually connecting with your deceased son and talking finances with him!
	👻 10:28pm Heather: ↳ Maulydaft @10:27 Wow what brought you here?! Yes, we're, I think, the birthplace of Spiritualism and not at all far from the town of mediums called Lilydale!
	10:28pm Maulydaft: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:28 hahaha!
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:28 "Son? What account did you have the phone bill under? I can't figure it out without you!"
	👻 10:29pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:29 Ha ha! What’s the password ?
	10:29pm Maulydaft: ↳ Heather @10:28 I took the film archiving course at Eastman - that was a looong time ago :) I never made it to Lillydale! So interesting!
	10:30pm Maulydaft: "Poppycock" - always a good word :D
	👻 10:31pm Heather: ↳ Maulydaft @10:29 Oh that's awesome. The Eastman house is a pretty great institution! Lilydale is neat. I've only been once but got a reading and had a good time. The reading was.... hm. I have the recording..I should listen back.
	10:32pm Maulydaft: ↳ Heather @10:31 Oh neat - you have a recording. I've never had a reading... been sort of ... afraid?? ??
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: As the saying goes, when I was younger, I really wanted to believe, and I spent a lot of time reading about mind reading, telekinesis, magic and spiritualism. As the decades wear on, and I have not experienced anything to back up any kind of magic no matter how hard I try... I have come to the conclusion that it's not real. Or some force is trying to hide it from me on purpose.
	10:33pm Webhamster Henry: My X-Ray camera ....
	10:34pm Maulydaft: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:33 I was going to mention that... love the tech from those times :D
	👻 10:34pm Heather: ↳ Maulydaft @10:32 If you want one, I'd say don't be afraid. I kind of looked at it as, oh, we're doing the Lilydale thing, here's what I'm willing to spend on this vacation trip. I'm not even skeptical. I'm woo woo as all get go. But I took it with a grain of salt.
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:30 I try to replace my own vocabulary with as much dialog from old radio shows as possible.
	10:34pm Webhamster Henry: Ah a voice cloning episode! Something I'm doing a lot these days!
	10:36pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:34 I was reading Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis last month and the vocab was amazing. "Corking" was one of my favs :)
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:36 Hell yeah! I wanna talk like some erudite background character from a Lux Radio Theater production of some 30's movie SO BAD.
	10:37pm Maulydaft: ↳ Heather @10:34 Seems like you shouldn't go to Lilydale WITHOUT getting a reading :D Glad you had a good time!
	👻 10:37pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 I heard that the Amazing Randi publicly debunked Uri Geller on Johnny Carson's show in 1973.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:37 I love Amazing Randi. He seemed to genuinely want to be fooled, and never was.
	👻 10:38pm Heather: ↳ Maulydaft @10:37 It's the thing to do! That and the weird little junk shop where they have some really nice treasures! Got a resin statue of a bear beholding itself, smaller, trapped in a snow globe there. I still love that thing!
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: I have become obsessed with the idea of finding a disc of the music cues from NBC Radio in the 50's, which would allow me to find the source sounds that appear in the background of X-Minus One episodes. Such a thing probably existed, but finding one seems challenging.
	👻 10:43pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""A Thousand Dollars A Plate"" by "X-Minus One" This short story was first published in the October 1954 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. Read it here: gutenberg.org...
	👻 10:43pm Heather: Marsigras! I love it!
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: I've used the same tools I mentioned earlier to try and isolate the sounds from certain X-Minus one episodes, and while it does work, they don't sound a good as I'd like. Some are better than others... it just depends on the show and how good the recording of the original show is.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:43 Nice! Thanks for the link.
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: Something tells me this is based on a true story in our real world, but I can't put my finger to a specific example. I know a lot of scientists were angry that light pollution from cities were making it hard to look at stars, but I think that's been a historic problem since there was electricity.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: There seems to be a fair number of X-Minus One stories that involve gambling, or casinos. There was something in the air, I guess.
	10:49pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:42 I don't know if this is any help to you but back in the 90s when I was sound editing and there wasn't really internet I was using sound effects on CD and I got the impression that these were effects that had been used for decades (and I could recognize some of them in other productions) But I don't know if NBC would have these copyrighted and therefore not on the sound effect CDs. Pretty much all sound houses used the same CD library back then...
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:49 I know exactly what you're talking about! I have some SFX records that have sounds on them I've heard in a bunch of old shows. I keep hoping I can find one of Music Cues, but haven't yet.
	10:51pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 No doubt the records you have are the same as the CDs I used!
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: They are really leaning into the "whimsical" cues on this one.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: "For a bunch of scientists, they're pretty smart."
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: "The only one playing is an elderly masochist who likes to loose." This show is sort of hilarious.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: "Let's shoot or get off the power line." I'm sort of not sure what that image is supposed to imply.
	10:55pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 I was thinking the same!
	10:56pm Maulydaft: Just found this on NBC sound effects! www.richsamuels.com...
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: "Can I look through the telescope?" I feel seen. Though I have looked through one.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:56 Ooooo! Time to dig in after the show! Thanks!
	👻 10:58pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:10 "Casablanca" has been radio-adapted a few times. I heard the first one (broadcast in 1943, condensed to a half-hour) repeated on CHML (900 AM) not long ago. Bogart, Bergman and Henreid reprised their film roles!
	10:59pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 That was just an interesting 1 pager. But then I found out there's a Museum of TV Production Music!? Who knew!? www.facebook.com...
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:58 Oh, yes, that's true! I should revise my comments, since he did do the story again. He was just not interested in a serialized version of the story, as he sort of saw it as a one-and-done idea.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: We're getting close to the end. Thanks again, everyone! We'll see ya'll again next week.
	11:01pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:59 As opposed to the Lives of Harry Lime, which I don't think Welles liked doing too much.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @11:01 I think that one paid the bills for him, so he liked it that much. But I'm certainly a bigger fan of that show than he is.
	👻 11:02pm yerfriendpaul: Thank you Austin!
	👻 11:03pm Heather: Thanks for a great show, Austin! Anyone headed to this part of NY, let me know and we can go get some readings! Night all!
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: I need a pair of flunkies that I can refer to as, "you apes."
	👻 11:05pm Austin Rich: I don't recall a "Harvey's Comet" anywhere in my schooling, but maybe I'm wrong?
	👻 11:06pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:25 Who published the book you sold-- Fox, Charlton or DC?
	👻 11:06pm Austin Rich: See ya'll next time!
	👻 11:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:06 Some indie-company, doing an overview of the character. I'll have to dig up the info.
	11:07pm wenzo: Thanks

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