WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from June 17, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 7:31pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:52pm Imaginos: Ahoy! Almost 100. Awesome.
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:52 Next week, even!
	9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 Awesome
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: Hey! I hear Gerald Mohr, one of my fave radio character actors!
	9:02pm Maulydaft: Ha!!! I was just logging on to say "guess who again!" :D
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:02 Jinx!
	👻 9:03pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: Welcome, Imaginos, Maulydaft, and yerfriendpaul! (And, hopefully some lurkers!)
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: Special Thanks to Barno, who helps get the stream warmed up for me, as I get my ducks in a row. Thanks Barno!
	9:05pm laurapanic: I am also the kind of girl likely to be threatened.
	9:05pm Imaginos: Someone's sexist attitude is showing
	9:05pm Maulydaft: My favourite Gerald moment is when he plays a jazz guy in yellow pyjamas in an early Philip Marlowe episode, because they'd originally hired a different guy to play Marlowe (that dude wasn't half as good!) They redid the episode with Gerald as Marlowe!
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: Richard Rogue, as both laurapanic and Imaginos have noted, is a noted sexist, almost open about it.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:05 I think I remember reading that! I'll have to dig up that episode and re-listen.
	9:07pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 It's a lot more pronounced than most other detective shows...
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Little Old Lady"" by "Rogue's Gallery" The episode from a week previous - which would have aired on Thanksgiving Day - is missing. (There's no recording.) So this is the closest to Thanksgiving as we will get with this series, but it also sort of puts this episode at the beginning of the "Holiday" season, 1945. (So imagine listening to this as Christmas was "in the air.")
	9:10pm laurapanic: ladies beome harmless and less threatenable when old and wrinkly
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:07 I know I listened to all of the Philip Marlowe shows at one point, but by now, I have forgotten more than I once knew. But I do remember that Philip Marlowe was one of the better detective shows from my original radio survey. I used a random episode of Philip Marlowe as the "formula" that I deconstructed for my own Detective story, "The Adventures of Marcus Little."
	9:11pm univac: Hello, all!
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:10 Those poor old ladies. All that wisdom and experience just does them no good.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:11 univac! Nice to see you in the chat.
	9:14pm laurapanic: oooh I hope that tea is spiked!!
	9:14pm laurapanic: zing!!
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: Who had 14 after for Rogue passing out?
	9:14pm univac: Didn't see that coming...
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:14 I mean, he sort of deserved it.
	9:15pm univac: What's this voice? Conscience?
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:15 Eugor - Rogue, backwards - is the weird "voice" in his head when Richard Rogue gets knocked out, and visits "Cloud 8." It happens nearly every episode, and if it doesn't, they often reference that it didn't happen this time at the end.
	9:18pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 Weird.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 There's some "bit part" actor from the period who did strange voices, and was known as Eugor in 1945. I guess, since all detectives usually get knocked out in their stories, this writer wanted to make an elaborate gimmick out of it.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: Rogue sort of fits the style of a more "hardboiled" detective at the time, but the presentation of this show has a much more "light" tone than that. This show sort of walks a fine line that not a lot of other shows follow, which is part of why I like it.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: The cop constantly calling Richard by the condescending diminutive "Roguey" is such a cop move.
	👻 9:27pm yerfriendpaul: Excellent scream
	9:28pm wenzo: AR!
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:27 Yeah. I do love the way people lean into those voices on shows like this.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:28 wenzo!
	9:28pm Imaginos: Yup sexist
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Little Old Lady"" by "Rogue's Gallery" The sound wasn't great on this one near the end, and the "high end" register of those show is distorted. I did my best to improve things, but some recordings are just too damaged.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:28 A lot of old detectives were. It's very unfortunate.
	9:31pm univac: Shampoo that is backed by a large insurance company for dubious claims? What a time to be alive.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: "Cornered" is notable, in that four of the crew that worked on it would become blacklisted in Hollywood. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:31 Yeah... most companies now are completely innocent of such crimes.
	9:34pm Imaginos: Heading to the theatre tomorrow
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Up In Flames"" by "The Adventures of Rocky Jordan" For some reason, most of the "holiday" episodes of Rocky Jordan are missing. So the episode from the 26th is missing. The episode from the 2nd is the next one in the running, so this is the closest thing we have to a "Christmas" episode from 1948.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:34 Very cool! What are you seeing?
	9:35pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 La Cage
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:35 Hmmmm. I'm not familiar. I hope it's good!
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: It seems as if "Arson" is a sub-theme in tonight's Dimestore line-up. Our Blue Beetle episode is also on this subject.
	9:36pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:36 I heard good things
	9:38pm Imaginos: Money laundering?
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: Most shows that have a "noir" angle to them usually have a recurring role for a police officer, much like Sam Sabaaya in this show. The relationship between the various cops and the protagonists varies from show to show. In this one, Sam sort of waffles between being friendly to Rocky, and at other times, being antagonistic to him. (Sam's fellow cop, who's name escapes me, is usually always mean to Rocky.) I think most shows try to create the sense that our "cop" friend could be friend or foe.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: Desert Rose Dog is a bit of a play on Joe Camel. My parents, who were smokers during the Joe Camel years, totally bought into the game, and had a ton of Joe Camel swag around the house in those years.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: Announcer making a comment about the upcoming "Rose Bowl" game on New Year's Day: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: A lot of men picked up radio skills during WWII, as radios were used heavily in communication, and the military needed soldiers to know how to use them. When I was caregiving for George, he had a lot of stories of learning how to use the radio as part of his time on the various boats he served on in the Pacific Theater.
	10:01pm univac: Thx for great old tyme radio, Austin! Catch you next time!
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: Another Rose Bowl mention. I usually cut all of the announcer bits, as he's usually reading ads, and I want to do that. But the time-sensitive stuff like that seems worth leaving in.
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:01 Thanks univac! Talk to you soon!
	10:01pm Imaginos: Austin, should we come up with 1800s ads to air during Lost Christobel?
	👻 10:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:01 That's a very funny idea! Maybe.
	👻 10:03pm Austin Rich: A little "race track" riff from the soundtrack at the end...
	10:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:02 I'm thinking an ad for a fictional haberdasher?
	👻 10:05pm yerfriendpaul: Nice to be mentioned twice!
	👻 10:06pm yerfriendpaul: Just the facts, Austin
	10:07pm Imaginos: Managed to find an audio book about the Op.
	10:08pm Maulydaft: Oooo love Carey Grant!! Fun!
	👻 10:09pm David Shortell: "To Catch a Thief"
	10:09pm Imaginos: I am. Dashiel
	👻 10:09pm David Shortell: Hammet wrote the Continental Op.
	10:11pm Imaginos: There's too much to remember. Our heads are far too full.
	10:13pm Imaginos: Heading to bed soon. Have to get up early to feed the cat
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: I took a "Detective Fiction" course in college, and read so many authors all in a row, that I often forget who wrote what, and what movie had what gimmick in it. It was a great class, but unless you keep up with the names / titles / ephemera, it all quickly leaves your mind. I'm so deep into my "Max Headroom" notes and whatnot, that sometimes I'm surprised I remember anything that isn't Headroom related.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:13 Sleep well, Imaginos! We'll see you next time.
	10:14pm Imaginos: See you tomorrow night
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: "The storm of prosperity."
	👻 10:19pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:14 Like that time years ago, when I splurged on every Ingmar Bergman movie that Blockbuster had in such a brief period that I can recall no details about any particular one of the films.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:19 Oh, damn! I feel seen. I totally did this in college, too.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: I have a film minor, and so I would sign up for any film class my college offered. I would often just watch the movies as soon as I could, so I could process them a bit. I think Antonioni has suffered the most, as I don't really remember anything about what was in which film, only that I really liked his "work." I should return to his movies and watch them without having to write papers about all of them.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: Mostly: I just remember falling in love with Monica Vitti. But I think everyone goes through that.
	👻 10:23pm yerfriendpaul: I gotta find that bar. Sounds like a good time
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: I like has this gal saw right through the Blue Beetle's gimmick. You gotta watch out! The Blue Beetle is vulnerable to... observant women.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:23 Yeah! I do love a bar where the patrons will join in sing-a-longs!
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: How exactly do you get the name "Stumpy"? There's gotta be a story about that. I'm not sure that's the kind of name you get a birth.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: It's 1940, and the Blue Beetle has a cell phone. Superheroes are lucky. Now he can voice his opinion about "Love Is Blind" on X while he's getting buried alive.
	👻 10:28pm yerfriendpaul: Funny how he said he’s not in danger at the moment. Being buried alive qualifies as danger to me
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:28 I guess the Blue Beetle is INVULNERABLE to being buried alive, but vulnerable to observant women. Is there a wiki where we can see all of this laid out?
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: A Cell phone and a ray gun? Maybe I wanna be a superhero, now, too...
	👻 10:30pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:29 Ha ha
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: I think we'll go over by three minutes. Sorry everyone!
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: "I'm gonna get some sleep!" What a catchphrase!
	👻 10:34pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 It's one I can get behind, that's for sure! Been tuned in and crafting! Just wanted to say hi!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: Notice there's a scene at the beginning of the show, before the intro music. They did this last episode, too. X-Minus One is starting to experiment with their format more.
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:34 Thanks for chiming in, Heather.
	10:35pm Barno (from Akron): How do you do, fellow kids?
	10:36pm Webhamster Henry: Chiming in from Stockholm where the sun is shining at 4:30 AM
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Barno (from Akron) @10:35 Barno! Thanks for setting up the airwaves for me earlier.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:36 Webhamster Henry! Hooray!
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Sense of Wonder"" by "X-Minus One" Milton Lesser later went by Stephen Marlowe: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: This story has a fair amount in common with the story, "The Universe," which was also adapted by X-Minus One. I have a feeling that Lesser was doing "his version" of Heinlein's story.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 Apparently, Stephen Marlowe had six other pen names. Apparently, he really liked aliases.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: "I have a strange feeling toward you." Uhm, that is not the best thing to say to anyone you've only just met. But I guess this ship has a lot of weird social customs.
	👻 10:44pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Smashing The Arson Ring, Part 2"" by "The Blue B... I think Dan Garrett is dead in the Blue Beetle movie, while Ted Kord is long missing. When Ted’s daughter shows the secret Kord lab to the movie’s protagonist and his radical uncle, the protagonist observes, “It’s like Batman’s stuff but—like if he had ADHD or something.” The protagonist ‘s uncle replies, “Batman’s a fascist. The Blue Beetle, he had a sense of humor!”
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:44 Ha! Oh, now I need to see it, just for that joke. That's excellent. Yes, Ted seemed to have a sense of humor that was largely informed by Monty Python and British comedy references.
	👻 10:47pm yerfriendpaul: I love X-Minus One
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:47 I've been working on an essay about it. The two gents who adapted almost all the scripts - George Lefferts and Ernest Kinoy - really created a sort of "house style" by having all these different stories filtered through their pens.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: I feel like Dimension X / X-Minus One is the precursor to "The Twilight Zone." I could be wrong, but it feels like Rod Serling must have listened to these shows.
	👻 10:51pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 Absolutely. I can see how this must’ve been an influence
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: Well, I should add: I don't think you can undersell the overall sense of Cold-War paranoia that we were soaking in then, too.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: We're getting close to the end, everyone. Thanks again for joining me on this one! I do love old time radio.
	10:56pm Barno (from Akron): Thank Austin!
	👻 10:58pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 I read “Universe” and its sequel "Common Sense". The 2 novellas are combined into the book “Orphans of the Sky”. Other shorter stories from Heinlein’s so-called Future History are collected in “The Past Through Tomorrow”.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: A lot of ray guns and arson tonight! "Ray Guns and Arson" is the name of my sad sci-fi country album, too.
	👻 10:59pm yerfriendpaul: Thanks Austin! Enjoyed the show. Praise The Ship!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:58 I'm not the biggest Heinlein fan, but I feel like his short stories were better than his novels (in my memory).
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:59 Absolutely!
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: Of course, what are they gonna to do survive on Earth? That sounds pretty terrifying to me... an essentially new planet?
	👻 11:02pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:59 I think the "Orphans of the Sky" novellas were ripped off in "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky", an episode from Star Trek's lame third season.
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:02 Ooooooo! Interesting.
	👻 11:04pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @11:02 "Quest!" (in John Byrne's "Fantastic Four") also concerned a generation ship.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from June 17, 2024

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June 17, 2024: Episode #99

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Rogue's Gallery	"Little Old Lady"	29 November 1945	NBC		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Adventures of Rocky Jordan	"Up In Flames"	19 December 1948	Santana Productions		0:30:55 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ray Anthony	Dragnet "Dragnet" by "Ray Anthony"				1:03:31 (Pop-up)
Unpublished History	Radio in the 1920s (Part 14)	Radio In The 1920s	Self-Released	2024	1:12:01 (Pop-up)
The Blue Beetle	"Smashing The Arson Ring, Part 2"	21 June 1940	Mutual–Don Lee Network		1:18:46 (Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"The Sense of Wonder"	24 April 1956	NBC Radio		1:33:50 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:31pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:52pm Imaginos: Ahoy! Almost 100. Awesome.
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:52 Next week, even!
	9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 Awesome
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: Hey! I hear Gerald Mohr, one of my fave radio character actors!
	9:02pm Maulydaft: Ha!!! I was just logging on to say "guess who again!" :D
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:02 Jinx!
	👻 9:03pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: Welcome, Imaginos, Maulydaft, and yerfriendpaul! (And, hopefully some lurkers!)
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: Special Thanks to Barno, who helps get the stream warmed up for me, as I get my ducks in a row. Thanks Barno!
	9:05pm laurapanic: I am also the kind of girl likely to be threatened.
	9:05pm Imaginos: Someone's sexist attitude is showing
	9:05pm Maulydaft: My favourite Gerald moment is when he plays a jazz guy in yellow pyjamas in an early Philip Marlowe episode, because they'd originally hired a different guy to play Marlowe (that dude wasn't half as good!) They redid the episode with Gerald as Marlowe!
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: Richard Rogue, as both laurapanic and Imaginos have noted, is a noted sexist, almost open about it.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:05 I think I remember reading that! I'll have to dig up that episode and re-listen.
	9:07pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 It's a lot more pronounced than most other detective shows...
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Little Old Lady"" by "Rogue's Gallery" The episode from a week previous - which would have aired on Thanksgiving Day - is missing. (There's no recording.) So this is the closest to Thanksgiving as we will get with this series, but it also sort of puts this episode at the beginning of the "Holiday" season, 1945. (So imagine listening to this as Christmas was "in the air.")
	9:10pm laurapanic: ladies beome harmless and less threatenable when old and wrinkly
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:07 I know I listened to all of the Philip Marlowe shows at one point, but by now, I have forgotten more than I once knew. But I do remember that Philip Marlowe was one of the better detective shows from my original radio survey. I used a random episode of Philip Marlowe as the "formula" that I deconstructed for my own Detective story, "The Adventures of Marcus Little."
	9:11pm univac: Hello, all!
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:10 Those poor old ladies. All that wisdom and experience just does them no good.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:11 univac! Nice to see you in the chat.
	9:14pm laurapanic: oooh I hope that tea is spiked!!
	9:14pm laurapanic: zing!!
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: Who had 14 after for Rogue passing out?
	9:14pm univac: Didn't see that coming...
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:14 I mean, he sort of deserved it.
	9:15pm univac: What's this voice? Conscience?
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:15 Eugor - Rogue, backwards - is the weird "voice" in his head when Richard Rogue gets knocked out, and visits "Cloud 8." It happens nearly every episode, and if it doesn't, they often reference that it didn't happen this time at the end.
	9:18pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 Weird.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 There's some "bit part" actor from the period who did strange voices, and was known as Eugor in 1945. I guess, since all detectives usually get knocked out in their stories, this writer wanted to make an elaborate gimmick out of it.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: Rogue sort of fits the style of a more "hardboiled" detective at the time, but the presentation of this show has a much more "light" tone than that. This show sort of walks a fine line that not a lot of other shows follow, which is part of why I like it.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: The cop constantly calling Richard by the condescending diminutive "Roguey" is such a cop move.
	👻 9:27pm yerfriendpaul: Excellent scream
	9:28pm wenzo: AR!
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:27 Yeah. I do love the way people lean into those voices on shows like this.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:28 wenzo!
	9:28pm Imaginos: Yup sexist
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Little Old Lady"" by "Rogue's Gallery" The sound wasn't great on this one near the end, and the "high end" register of those show is distorted. I did my best to improve things, but some recordings are just too damaged.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:28 A lot of old detectives were. It's very unfortunate.
	9:31pm univac: Shampoo that is backed by a large insurance company for dubious claims? What a time to be alive.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: "Cornered" is notable, in that four of the crew that worked on it would become blacklisted in Hollywood. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:31 Yeah... most companies now are completely innocent of such crimes.
	9:34pm Imaginos: Heading to the theatre tomorrow
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Up In Flames"" by "The Adventures of Rocky Jordan" For some reason, most of the "holiday" episodes of Rocky Jordan are missing. So the episode from the 26th is missing. The episode from the 2nd is the next one in the running, so this is the closest thing we have to a "Christmas" episode from 1948.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:34 Very cool! What are you seeing?
	9:35pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 La Cage
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:35 Hmmmm. I'm not familiar. I hope it's good!
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: It seems as if "Arson" is a sub-theme in tonight's Dimestore line-up. Our Blue Beetle episode is also on this subject.
	9:36pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:36 I heard good things
	9:38pm Imaginos: Money laundering?
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: Most shows that have a "noir" angle to them usually have a recurring role for a police officer, much like Sam Sabaaya in this show. The relationship between the various cops and the protagonists varies from show to show. In this one, Sam sort of waffles between being friendly to Rocky, and at other times, being antagonistic to him. (Sam's fellow cop, who's name escapes me, is usually always mean to Rocky.) I think most shows try to create the sense that our "cop" friend could be friend or foe.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: Desert Rose Dog is a bit of a play on Joe Camel. My parents, who were smokers during the Joe Camel years, totally bought into the game, and had a ton of Joe Camel swag around the house in those years.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: Announcer making a comment about the upcoming "Rose Bowl" game on New Year's Day: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: A lot of men picked up radio skills during WWII, as radios were used heavily in communication, and the military needed soldiers to know how to use them. When I was caregiving for George, he had a lot of stories of learning how to use the radio as part of his time on the various boats he served on in the Pacific Theater.
	10:01pm univac: Thx for great old tyme radio, Austin! Catch you next time!
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: Another Rose Bowl mention. I usually cut all of the announcer bits, as he's usually reading ads, and I want to do that. But the time-sensitive stuff like that seems worth leaving in.
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:01 Thanks univac! Talk to you soon!
	10:01pm Imaginos: Austin, should we come up with 1800s ads to air during Lost Christobel?
	👻 10:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:01 That's a very funny idea! Maybe.
	👻 10:03pm Austin Rich: A little "race track" riff from the soundtrack at the end...
	10:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:02 I'm thinking an ad for a fictional haberdasher?
	👻 10:05pm yerfriendpaul: Nice to be mentioned twice!
	👻 10:06pm yerfriendpaul: Just the facts, Austin
	10:07pm Imaginos: Managed to find an audio book about the Op.
	10:08pm Maulydaft: Oooo love Carey Grant!! Fun!
	👻 10:09pm David Shortell: "To Catch a Thief"
	10:09pm Imaginos: I am. Dashiel
	👻 10:09pm David Shortell: Hammet wrote the Continental Op.
	10:11pm Imaginos: There's too much to remember. Our heads are far too full.
	10:13pm Imaginos: Heading to bed soon. Have to get up early to feed the cat
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: I took a "Detective Fiction" course in college, and read so many authors all in a row, that I often forget who wrote what, and what movie had what gimmick in it. It was a great class, but unless you keep up with the names / titles / ephemera, it all quickly leaves your mind. I'm so deep into my "Max Headroom" notes and whatnot, that sometimes I'm surprised I remember anything that isn't Headroom related.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:13 Sleep well, Imaginos! We'll see you next time.
	10:14pm Imaginos: See you tomorrow night
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: "The storm of prosperity."
	👻 10:19pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:14 Like that time years ago, when I splurged on every Ingmar Bergman movie that Blockbuster had in such a brief period that I can recall no details about any particular one of the films.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:19 Oh, damn! I feel seen. I totally did this in college, too.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: I have a film minor, and so I would sign up for any film class my college offered. I would often just watch the movies as soon as I could, so I could process them a bit. I think Antonioni has suffered the most, as I don't really remember anything about what was in which film, only that I really liked his "work." I should return to his movies and watch them without having to write papers about all of them.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: Mostly: I just remember falling in love with Monica Vitti. But I think everyone goes through that.
	👻 10:23pm yerfriendpaul: I gotta find that bar. Sounds like a good time
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: I like has this gal saw right through the Blue Beetle's gimmick. You gotta watch out! The Blue Beetle is vulnerable to... observant women.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:23 Yeah! I do love a bar where the patrons will join in sing-a-longs!
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: How exactly do you get the name "Stumpy"? There's gotta be a story about that. I'm not sure that's the kind of name you get a birth.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: It's 1940, and the Blue Beetle has a cell phone. Superheroes are lucky. Now he can voice his opinion about "Love Is Blind" on X while he's getting buried alive.
	👻 10:28pm yerfriendpaul: Funny how he said he’s not in danger at the moment. Being buried alive qualifies as danger to me
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:28 I guess the Blue Beetle is INVULNERABLE to being buried alive, but vulnerable to observant women. Is there a wiki where we can see all of this laid out?
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: A Cell phone and a ray gun? Maybe I wanna be a superhero, now, too...
	👻 10:30pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:29 Ha ha
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: I think we'll go over by three minutes. Sorry everyone!
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: "I'm gonna get some sleep!" What a catchphrase!
	👻 10:34pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 It's one I can get behind, that's for sure! Been tuned in and crafting! Just wanted to say hi!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: Notice there's a scene at the beginning of the show, before the intro music. They did this last episode, too. X-Minus One is starting to experiment with their format more.
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:34 Thanks for chiming in, Heather.
	10:35pm Barno (from Akron): How do you do, fellow kids?
	10:36pm Webhamster Henry: Chiming in from Stockholm where the sun is shining at 4:30 AM
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Barno (from Akron) @10:35 Barno! Thanks for setting up the airwaves for me earlier.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:36 Webhamster Henry! Hooray!
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Sense of Wonder"" by "X-Minus One" Milton Lesser later went by Stephen Marlowe: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: This story has a fair amount in common with the story, "The Universe," which was also adapted by X-Minus One. I have a feeling that Lesser was doing "his version" of Heinlein's story.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 Apparently, Stephen Marlowe had six other pen names. Apparently, he really liked aliases.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: "I have a strange feeling toward you." Uhm, that is not the best thing to say to anyone you've only just met. But I guess this ship has a lot of weird social customs.
	👻 10:44pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Smashing The Arson Ring, Part 2"" by "The Blue B... I think Dan Garrett is dead in the Blue Beetle movie, while Ted Kord is long missing. When Ted’s daughter shows the secret Kord lab to the movie’s protagonist and his radical uncle, the protagonist observes, “It’s like Batman’s stuff but—like if he had ADHD or something.” The protagonist ‘s uncle replies, “Batman’s a fascist. The Blue Beetle, he had a sense of humor!”
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:44 Ha! Oh, now I need to see it, just for that joke. That's excellent. Yes, Ted seemed to have a sense of humor that was largely informed by Monty Python and British comedy references.
	👻 10:47pm yerfriendpaul: I love X-Minus One
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:47 I've been working on an essay about it. The two gents who adapted almost all the scripts - George Lefferts and Ernest Kinoy - really created a sort of "house style" by having all these different stories filtered through their pens.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: I feel like Dimension X / X-Minus One is the precursor to "The Twilight Zone." I could be wrong, but it feels like Rod Serling must have listened to these shows.
	👻 10:51pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 Absolutely. I can see how this must’ve been an influence
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: Well, I should add: I don't think you can undersell the overall sense of Cold-War paranoia that we were soaking in then, too.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: We're getting close to the end, everyone. Thanks again for joining me on this one! I do love old time radio.
	10:56pm Barno (from Akron): Thank Austin!
	👻 10:58pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 I read “Universe” and its sequel "Common Sense". The 2 novellas are combined into the book “Orphans of the Sky”. Other shorter stories from Heinlein’s so-called Future History are collected in “The Past Through Tomorrow”.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: A lot of ray guns and arson tonight! "Ray Guns and Arson" is the name of my sad sci-fi country album, too.
	👻 10:59pm yerfriendpaul: Thanks Austin! Enjoyed the show. Praise The Ship!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:58 I'm not the biggest Heinlein fan, but I feel like his short stories were better than his novels (in my memory).
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:59 Absolutely!
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: Of course, what are they gonna to do survive on Earth? That sounds pretty terrifying to me... an essentially new planet?
	👻 11:02pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:59 I think the "Orphans of the Sky" novellas were ripped off in "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky", an episode from Star Trek's lame third season.
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:02 Ooooooo! Interesting.
	👻 11:04pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @11:02 "Quest!" (in John Byrne's "Fantastic Four") also concerned a generation ship.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from June 17, 2024

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