WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 2, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 7:00pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:52pm Imaginos: Ahoy, me hearties! Looking forward to tonight's awesome show
	9:01pm asheville jon: [lurking]
	9:02pm Webhamster Henry: Rocky Fortune gets Knocked out for Christmas.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: Lovely to see you, Imaginos and asheville jon! Hopefully these re-runs will treat you right!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:02 Webhamster Henry! Nice to see you in the Digital Salon!
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: Eugor is taking the holidays off.
	9:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 Pleasure to be here.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: I didn't just want to take the lazy route this week, so all three of these shows are re-mastered, with improved sound, and cleaned-up audio. In the case of all three, I wasn't yet re-mastering every episode, as I do now. So hopefully all three of these sound better than they did, the first time around.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:03 He put in notice for the month off AGES ago. I had to resepct it.
	9:04pm Imaginos: Hurry or it'll be gone! Not the cologne... The Walgreens
	9:05pm Webhamster Henry: haha He said "goniff"!
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:05 Rocky has a pretty good vocabulary, usually. He tends to use the "verbose street gent" trope, when the writers remember.
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: "How do they spell elf? O A F?"
	👻 9:09pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The Plot To Muder Santa Claus"" by "Rocky Fortune" A plot to murder Santa Claus? That’s even worse than when Lock, Shock and Barrel kidnapped him for Oogie Boogie!
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:09 Things can get pretty grim on Rocky Fortune. Nice to see you in the Digital Salon, David!
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: Rocky, always the ladies man.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: "She must be a lady wrestler or something." One can only dream...
	9:11pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 Roller Derby Queen
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:11 Now we're talkin'.
	9:16pm Maulydaft: Helllooo radio listeners... The more I listen to Rocky Fortune the more I'm charmed :D
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:16 Maulydaft! Wonderful to see you in the Digital Salon.
	9:20pm Webhamster Henry: That went a little to smoothly.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: This might be the only show we have previously heard during the holiday season.
	9:22pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy. Been up since 3am
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:22 Sleep well, Imaginos! We'll see you again, soon enough.
	9:26pm Webhamster Henry: Sinatra is pretty good with kids!
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:26 Well, Rocky really seems to be.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: Rocky usually manages to get the girl in the end.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The 15th Lama And The Wise Guy From The East"" b... When we originally aired this episode, we played it well out of season. (We play our shows in order, and occasionally, holiday shows fall WAY out of season. So here it is... DURING THE HOLIDAYS!"
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The 15th Lama And The Wise Guy From The East"" b... When we ran "The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen," I wasn't yet restoring old broadcasts. And this show has particularly murky recordings, many of which sound terrible. So I did as much as I could to make this one sound better. However, the original sound on this episode is so bad, that even with improvement, the consonants in all the dialog sounds a little "sanded off." It should still make sense, and you should be able to make it all out. But in restoring this one, it reveals how much sound has been lost over the years.
	👻 9:37pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The 15th Lama And The Wise Guy From The East"" b... That picture tells me this is a period drama. Do they say when it is set?
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: For those who don't quite recall "The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen," The Captain & The First Mate are sort of portrayed as a couple in subtle ways, and they often have trouble with a woman, and then they both re-affirm their love of "The Scarlet Queen" afterwards.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:37 It's a contemporary show, actually! Set in 1947 / 1948. But the captain prefers the open sea on a small boat, and does shipping / trading for a living.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: The crew of the Scarlet Queen is about 8, but it isn't clear if that is 8 INCLUDING the captain and the first mate, or if that is 8 plus them. (In the show, they don't name enough characters for us to know.) But the boat isn't large, and has a small crew, if that gives you a sense of the size of the boat.
	👻 9:42pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 I realized it was contemporary as soon as I heard the captain speak!
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:42 The story goes that a soldier in the Pacific Theater of WWII used his experiences traveling around during the war to inform the locations and story he wrote for the show. It is, unfortunately, somewhat racist in a number of ways, since it is a white guy writing from a very Western POV.
	👻 9:54pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:44 Kang seems to be a common Asian surname, yet American s-f writers have applied it to their villains. There’s Kang the Klingon, Kang the Avengers’ archenemy, and Kang the octopoid alien in the Simpsons’ non-canonical Halloween episodes.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: Every episode of "The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen" ends with the captain and the first mate having a drink, as they talk about sailing to their next destination. This show - in a rare turn for 1947 - had an on-going storyline, that lasted for most of the run. The last several episodes don't have the on-going story, and sort of loose steam, as a result.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:54 Very true! I hadn't thought of that.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 I should say, it was the only 30 minute show that had an on-going story like that. 15 Minute serials often had on-going stories.
	9:57pm Webhamster Henry: Quipping Couple Coffee doled out by Bacall & Bogart.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:57 Usually!
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: Some people think that the "Log Entry" gimmick from this show might have inspired Roddenberry to use it in his new show...
	10:00pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 I hadn't even HEARD of this show until you just played it!
	10:03pm wenzo: Howdeeee
	10:12pm Webhamster Henry: The songs were composed and sung by Tom Glazer in a manner akin to Woody Guthrie;
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "w/ Fibber McGee & Molly" by "Christmas Seals Reco... While I'm not a big fan of Fibber McGee and Molly, they were MASSIVELY popular in their time, and certainly some people love them. Every once in a while they make me laugh, but I will admit that I haven't done a deep dive or anything.
	👻 10:21pm Heather Z: Fingers crossed we'll hear a guest spot from some actual Christmas seals wearing Santa hats and singing jingle bells for haddock!
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:21 Not that kind of seals.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:21 Stamps were known as "seals" for many years.
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:21 en.wikipedia.org...
	10:23pm Webhamster Henry: If you ARE interested in entertaining seals (really sea lions), check out the book SHARKEY and his Pals! www.sharkeyandhispals.com
	👻 10:24pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 I know. But I still wanna see those actual seals!
	10:24pm Maulydaft: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:23 Good lord!!!
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: You'll have to settle for the Disney movie, Sammy The Way Out Seal.
	👻 10:25pm Heather Z: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:23 Aw amazing!!!
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:23 I need to see that. Thanks for the tip.
	👻 10:25pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:24 If there's Santa hats, I'm in!
	10:26pm Maulydaft: I've never heard of Christmas seals, but Easter Seals have been in my lexicon for 50 years: blog.easterseals.com...
	10:26pm Maulydaft: Is it just a Canadian thing??
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: This is not TOO far from us, and we could make a day to drive there and back. But again, they're not performing. We just watch them do their normal things.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:26 Oh yeah, we have Easter Seals. And Christmas Seals. But Americans are sort of confused by seals that look like stamps, so they are not very popular here.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:26 en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:26 (Sorry, forgot the link. Sea Lion Caves!)
	👻 10:30pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 And there's a gift shop! I'd love to see this place!! Adding it to my list of reasons to get back to the west coast!
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Green Hills of Earth"" by "Dimension X" This message from the President was not included the last time I aired this show.
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:30 The Oregon Coast is the most beautiful place on earth. That and the Grand Canyon.
	10:32pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 neat!
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: Our Christmas Re-Runs will continue next year, with THREE holiday episodes of Candy Matson, one of the best detective shows. (After Phillip Marlowe.)
	10:34pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 Oh that's exciting. It makes me think I've not heard all the Candy Matsons!
	👻 10:35pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:32 I would LOVE to see the coast of Oregon. And the rain forests. I'm scared of the Grand Canyon. I'm scared of Niagara Falls, too, and that's just around the corner from me, basically (90 mins by car).
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: "In answer to many thousand requests..." Dimension X is one of the first "shows" that was saved by a "write-in" campaign, where NBC actually continued to air it, only because of the mail they got. This proved to Sci-Fi fans that letter-campaigns worked, and would become a staple of how they would try to make more room for sci-fi in radio and TV.
	10:36pm Maulydaft: This is such an arty Dimension X!
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:35 The Oregon Coast is terrifying. I think that's why I love it; the pacific is dark.
	👻 10:36pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The Green Hills of Earth"" by "Dimension X" This is one of the 22 Future History stories collected in Robert Heinlein’s “The Past Through Tomorrow”. I read it too long ago to remember much of it.
	10:37pm Webhamster Henry: You may recall Tom Glazer's voice from the Singing Science Records - including Space Songs: www.youtube.com...
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:36 I like his short stories better than his novels. I think his short stories are sharp, where his novels sort of drag.
	10:37pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:36 I agree it's terrifying :D
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:37 Oh! Wow! I didn't make the connection.
	👻 10:39pm Heather Z: ↳ Maulydaft @10:37 I'm sure it is. Maybe I'd be scared of it, too! I'm also afraid of cliffs so if it's cliffy, my hands are sweating.
	10:39pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:38 I'm friends with his son!
	10:39pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:37 And WFMU's Irwin got the reissue rights.
	10:39pm Maulydaft: ↳ Heather Z @10:39 There are many points where it's not cliffy - so you could start there :D
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: The Grand Canyon was terrifying too. It was beautiful, too. That kind of nature doesn't mess around. It's very indifferent to people.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:39 Oh, cool! WFMU people know the coolest people.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: As someone who keeps getting older, it makes me sad to hear people not listen to the older, more experienced person.
	10:41pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 I went for the first and likely last time a couple years ago. Within 10 min of being there some woman fell onto a ledge. I have no idea how that happened. Selfie? There was some chaos and we couldn't leave (I don't know why) She was fine and they hoisted her back up...
	👻 10:42pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:35 That happened in 1968 when NBC announced Star Trek's cancelation. Enough objections were mailed for them to reconsider and give it a 3rd season. Unfortunately that final season proved to be abysmal.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:41 We didn't see anything like that! But I was impressed at how little safety there was. You could really just walk right off the edge if you wanted to. It was sort of magical.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:42 Yeah, most of that third season is just NOT GOOD. There's moments of fun, but... yeah...
	10:45pm Maulydaft: ↳ David Shortell @10:42 Huh! For some reason I figured Star Trek lasted way longer than three seasons!
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: The kinds of injuries that would happen to people who worked in boat and submarine engine rooms was a real problem for the military. If someone experienced gets injured, that's a major loss of institutional memory.
	👻 10:45pm Heather Z: ↳ Maulydaft @10:39 I'd love that! I'll find a guide for people who are scared of cliffs and, like Austin says, the kind of nature that doesn't mess around. Which is most of it, really. I'm getting vertigo reading these tales of the Canyon! I'm not sure I could do it.
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: "Reasoned Bleatings."
	10:47pm Maulydaft: ↳ Heather Z @10:45 Yes you'll NOT want to walk the see thru bridge which is at the entrance I went to ;)
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: I think about moments from this radio story all the time. This bit gets me.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: When I was a kid, I really wanted there to be remnants of ancient Martian Civilizations left on the surface of Mars. I think all the Sci-Fi I read as a kid sort of made me expect that Mars used to have cities that were now abandoned...
	👻 10:50pm Heather Z: ↳ Maulydaft @10:47 It is good I'm seated right now! I think I've seen pics of that and ahhh! I bet it was majestic, though.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: The Drinking Philosopher seems to be a popular trope in Sci-Fi.
	👻 10:51pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:43 I attended a Leonard Nimoy lecture where he mostly blamed that on Gene Roddenberry’s departure by that point. The first two seasons had scripts by Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, Norman Spinrad, Harlan Ellison and Fredric Brown (sort of). I look at the writing credits for Season 3 and think “Who are these nobodies?”
	👻 10:51pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 There may still be! We don't know yet!
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:51 I've been getting SUPER into Robert Bloch recently. (And Strugeon is just so excellent, too.)
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: "The Spacesuit Built For Two."
	👻 10:52pm David Shortell: ↳ Maulydaft @10:45 Because the opening credits speech said they were on a 5 year mission?
	10:52pm Maulydaft: ↳ Heather Z @10:50 It was pretty mind blowing! You might like Rockaway Beach in Oregon - pretty flat beach there
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:52 That beach is great. Oregon Beaches are so good.
	10:53pm Maulydaft: ↳ David Shortell @10:51 holy cow! I had no idea the gods of spec fiction were writing Star Trek scripts! :o
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:51 My boss recently bought a bunch of stuff from a storage locker, that contained a bunch of Robert Bloch letters and personal papers. It's been interesting to read his more casual style in letters.
	👻 10:54pm Heather Z: ↳ Maulydaft @10:52 I think I've heard of that, even!! One of these days, I'll get back west. I've only been to CA on the coast so far. So much more to see!
	10:54pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:52 I like Stregeon a lot, but can't get into Bloch. I just heard another today listening to my "dangerous Minds" collection audio book (I'm rather revolted by the stories I'm hearing so far LOL )
	10:55pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 Whoah! That's wild!
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:54 I could see how Bloch might be hard to get into. He's sort of horror adjacent.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: This bit where Rhysling has to beg to get a ride makes me cry every time. It's awful what they make him do.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:55 One of the personal papers was an offer to have him write an episode of, "Star Trek: TNG" when they were working on that, and it includes a package of information that changed before the final show was made. It's an interesting piece.
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: Some of the people who were dedicated to working in engine rooms really did give their lives to run those boats and submarines.
	👻 11:01pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:56 I see that the Apollo 15 astronauts named a moon crater "Rhysling" after him.
	11:01pm Maulydaft: So intense!
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: Thanks for sticking around everyone! See ya'll next week!
	11:01pm Maulydaft: Thanks as always! :D
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:01 He deserved better.
	11:02pm Webhamster Henry: Great production!
	11:02pm Webhamster Henry: G'nite!
	👻 11:03pm Heather Z: Good night all! Thanks for a great evening!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 2, 2024

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December 2, 2024: Holiday Re-Runs Week 1

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Rocky Fortune	"The Plot To Muder Santa Claus"	22 December 1953	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen	"The 15th Lama And The Wise Guy From The East"	24 December 1947	0:29:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Boston Pops	Sleigh Ride "Sleigh Ride" by "Boston Pops"		0:59:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Christmas Seals Recordings	w/ Fibber McGee & Molly	December 1951	1:15:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dimension X	"The Green Hills of Earth"	24 December 1950	1:29:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:00pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:52pm Imaginos: Ahoy, me hearties! Looking forward to tonight's awesome show
	9:01pm asheville jon: [lurking]
	9:02pm Webhamster Henry: Rocky Fortune gets Knocked out for Christmas.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: Lovely to see you, Imaginos and asheville jon! Hopefully these re-runs will treat you right!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:02 Webhamster Henry! Nice to see you in the Digital Salon!
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: Eugor is taking the holidays off.
	9:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 Pleasure to be here.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: I didn't just want to take the lazy route this week, so all three of these shows are re-mastered, with improved sound, and cleaned-up audio. In the case of all three, I wasn't yet re-mastering every episode, as I do now. So hopefully all three of these sound better than they did, the first time around.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:03 He put in notice for the month off AGES ago. I had to resepct it.
	9:04pm Imaginos: Hurry or it'll be gone! Not the cologne... The Walgreens
	9:05pm Webhamster Henry: haha He said "goniff"!
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:05 Rocky has a pretty good vocabulary, usually. He tends to use the "verbose street gent" trope, when the writers remember.
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: "How do they spell elf? O A F?"
	👻 9:09pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The Plot To Muder Santa Claus"" by "Rocky Fortune" A plot to murder Santa Claus? That’s even worse than when Lock, Shock and Barrel kidnapped him for Oogie Boogie!
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:09 Things can get pretty grim on Rocky Fortune. Nice to see you in the Digital Salon, David!
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: Rocky, always the ladies man.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: "She must be a lady wrestler or something." One can only dream...
	9:11pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 Roller Derby Queen
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:11 Now we're talkin'.
	9:16pm Maulydaft: Helllooo radio listeners... The more I listen to Rocky Fortune the more I'm charmed :D
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:16 Maulydaft! Wonderful to see you in the Digital Salon.
	9:20pm Webhamster Henry: That went a little to smoothly.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: This might be the only show we have previously heard during the holiday season.
	9:22pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy. Been up since 3am
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:22 Sleep well, Imaginos! We'll see you again, soon enough.
	9:26pm Webhamster Henry: Sinatra is pretty good with kids!
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:26 Well, Rocky really seems to be.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: Rocky usually manages to get the girl in the end.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The 15th Lama And The Wise Guy From The East"" b... When we originally aired this episode, we played it well out of season. (We play our shows in order, and occasionally, holiday shows fall WAY out of season. So here it is... DURING THE HOLIDAYS!"
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The 15th Lama And The Wise Guy From The East"" b... When we ran "The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen," I wasn't yet restoring old broadcasts. And this show has particularly murky recordings, many of which sound terrible. So I did as much as I could to make this one sound better. However, the original sound on this episode is so bad, that even with improvement, the consonants in all the dialog sounds a little "sanded off." It should still make sense, and you should be able to make it all out. But in restoring this one, it reveals how much sound has been lost over the years.
	👻 9:37pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The 15th Lama And The Wise Guy From The East"" b... That picture tells me this is a period drama. Do they say when it is set?
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: For those who don't quite recall "The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen," The Captain & The First Mate are sort of portrayed as a couple in subtle ways, and they often have trouble with a woman, and then they both re-affirm their love of "The Scarlet Queen" afterwards.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:37 It's a contemporary show, actually! Set in 1947 / 1948. But the captain prefers the open sea on a small boat, and does shipping / trading for a living.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: The crew of the Scarlet Queen is about 8, but it isn't clear if that is 8 INCLUDING the captain and the first mate, or if that is 8 plus them. (In the show, they don't name enough characters for us to know.) But the boat isn't large, and has a small crew, if that gives you a sense of the size of the boat.
	👻 9:42pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 I realized it was contemporary as soon as I heard the captain speak!
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:42 The story goes that a soldier in the Pacific Theater of WWII used his experiences traveling around during the war to inform the locations and story he wrote for the show. It is, unfortunately, somewhat racist in a number of ways, since it is a white guy writing from a very Western POV.
	👻 9:54pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:44 Kang seems to be a common Asian surname, yet American s-f writers have applied it to their villains. There’s Kang the Klingon, Kang the Avengers’ archenemy, and Kang the octopoid alien in the Simpsons’ non-canonical Halloween episodes.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: Every episode of "The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen" ends with the captain and the first mate having a drink, as they talk about sailing to their next destination. This show - in a rare turn for 1947 - had an on-going storyline, that lasted for most of the run. The last several episodes don't have the on-going story, and sort of loose steam, as a result.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:54 Very true! I hadn't thought of that.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 I should say, it was the only 30 minute show that had an on-going story like that. 15 Minute serials often had on-going stories.
	9:57pm Webhamster Henry: Quipping Couple Coffee doled out by Bacall & Bogart.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:57 Usually!
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: Some people think that the "Log Entry" gimmick from this show might have inspired Roddenberry to use it in his new show...
	10:00pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 I hadn't even HEARD of this show until you just played it!
	10:03pm wenzo: Howdeeee
	10:12pm Webhamster Henry: The songs were composed and sung by Tom Glazer in a manner akin to Woody Guthrie;
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "w/ Fibber McGee & Molly" by "Christmas Seals Reco... While I'm not a big fan of Fibber McGee and Molly, they were MASSIVELY popular in their time, and certainly some people love them. Every once in a while they make me laugh, but I will admit that I haven't done a deep dive or anything.
	👻 10:21pm Heather Z: Fingers crossed we'll hear a guest spot from some actual Christmas seals wearing Santa hats and singing jingle bells for haddock!
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:21 Not that kind of seals.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:21 Stamps were known as "seals" for many years.
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:21 en.wikipedia.org...
	10:23pm Webhamster Henry: If you ARE interested in entertaining seals (really sea lions), check out the book SHARKEY and his Pals! www.sharkeyandhispals.com
	👻 10:24pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 I know. But I still wanna see those actual seals!
	10:24pm Maulydaft: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:23 Good lord!!!
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: You'll have to settle for the Disney movie, Sammy The Way Out Seal.
	👻 10:25pm Heather Z: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:23 Aw amazing!!!
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:23 I need to see that. Thanks for the tip.
	👻 10:25pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:24 If there's Santa hats, I'm in!
	10:26pm Maulydaft: I've never heard of Christmas seals, but Easter Seals have been in my lexicon for 50 years: blog.easterseals.com...
	10:26pm Maulydaft: Is it just a Canadian thing??
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: This is not TOO far from us, and we could make a day to drive there and back. But again, they're not performing. We just watch them do their normal things.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:26 Oh yeah, we have Easter Seals. And Christmas Seals. But Americans are sort of confused by seals that look like stamps, so they are not very popular here.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:26 en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:26 (Sorry, forgot the link. Sea Lion Caves!)
	👻 10:30pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 And there's a gift shop! I'd love to see this place!! Adding it to my list of reasons to get back to the west coast!
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Green Hills of Earth"" by "Dimension X" This message from the President was not included the last time I aired this show.
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:30 The Oregon Coast is the most beautiful place on earth. That and the Grand Canyon.
	10:32pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 neat!
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: Our Christmas Re-Runs will continue next year, with THREE holiday episodes of Candy Matson, one of the best detective shows. (After Phillip Marlowe.)
	10:34pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 Oh that's exciting. It makes me think I've not heard all the Candy Matsons!
	👻 10:35pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:32 I would LOVE to see the coast of Oregon. And the rain forests. I'm scared of the Grand Canyon. I'm scared of Niagara Falls, too, and that's just around the corner from me, basically (90 mins by car).
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: "In answer to many thousand requests..." Dimension X is one of the first "shows" that was saved by a "write-in" campaign, where NBC actually continued to air it, only because of the mail they got. This proved to Sci-Fi fans that letter-campaigns worked, and would become a staple of how they would try to make more room for sci-fi in radio and TV.
	10:36pm Maulydaft: This is such an arty Dimension X!
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:35 The Oregon Coast is terrifying. I think that's why I love it; the pacific is dark.
	👻 10:36pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The Green Hills of Earth"" by "Dimension X" This is one of the 22 Future History stories collected in Robert Heinlein’s “The Past Through Tomorrow”. I read it too long ago to remember much of it.
	10:37pm Webhamster Henry: You may recall Tom Glazer's voice from the Singing Science Records - including Space Songs: www.youtube.com...
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:36 I like his short stories better than his novels. I think his short stories are sharp, where his novels sort of drag.
	10:37pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:36 I agree it's terrifying :D
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:37 Oh! Wow! I didn't make the connection.
	👻 10:39pm Heather Z: ↳ Maulydaft @10:37 I'm sure it is. Maybe I'd be scared of it, too! I'm also afraid of cliffs so if it's cliffy, my hands are sweating.
	10:39pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:38 I'm friends with his son!
	10:39pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:37 And WFMU's Irwin got the reissue rights.
	10:39pm Maulydaft: ↳ Heather Z @10:39 There are many points where it's not cliffy - so you could start there :D
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: The Grand Canyon was terrifying too. It was beautiful, too. That kind of nature doesn't mess around. It's very indifferent to people.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:39 Oh, cool! WFMU people know the coolest people.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: As someone who keeps getting older, it makes me sad to hear people not listen to the older, more experienced person.
	10:41pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 I went for the first and likely last time a couple years ago. Within 10 min of being there some woman fell onto a ledge. I have no idea how that happened. Selfie? There was some chaos and we couldn't leave (I don't know why) She was fine and they hoisted her back up...
	👻 10:42pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:35 That happened in 1968 when NBC announced Star Trek's cancelation. Enough objections were mailed for them to reconsider and give it a 3rd season. Unfortunately that final season proved to be abysmal.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:41 We didn't see anything like that! But I was impressed at how little safety there was. You could really just walk right off the edge if you wanted to. It was sort of magical.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:42 Yeah, most of that third season is just NOT GOOD. There's moments of fun, but... yeah...
	10:45pm Maulydaft: ↳ David Shortell @10:42 Huh! For some reason I figured Star Trek lasted way longer than three seasons!
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: The kinds of injuries that would happen to people who worked in boat and submarine engine rooms was a real problem for the military. If someone experienced gets injured, that's a major loss of institutional memory.
	👻 10:45pm Heather Z: ↳ Maulydaft @10:39 I'd love that! I'll find a guide for people who are scared of cliffs and, like Austin says, the kind of nature that doesn't mess around. Which is most of it, really. I'm getting vertigo reading these tales of the Canyon! I'm not sure I could do it.
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: "Reasoned Bleatings."
	10:47pm Maulydaft: ↳ Heather Z @10:45 Yes you'll NOT want to walk the see thru bridge which is at the entrance I went to ;)
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: I think about moments from this radio story all the time. This bit gets me.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: When I was a kid, I really wanted there to be remnants of ancient Martian Civilizations left on the surface of Mars. I think all the Sci-Fi I read as a kid sort of made me expect that Mars used to have cities that were now abandoned...
	👻 10:50pm Heather Z: ↳ Maulydaft @10:47 It is good I'm seated right now! I think I've seen pics of that and ahhh! I bet it was majestic, though.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: The Drinking Philosopher seems to be a popular trope in Sci-Fi.
	👻 10:51pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:43 I attended a Leonard Nimoy lecture where he mostly blamed that on Gene Roddenberry’s departure by that point. The first two seasons had scripts by Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, Norman Spinrad, Harlan Ellison and Fredric Brown (sort of). I look at the writing credits for Season 3 and think “Who are these nobodies?”
	👻 10:51pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 There may still be! We don't know yet!
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:51 I've been getting SUPER into Robert Bloch recently. (And Strugeon is just so excellent, too.)
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: "The Spacesuit Built For Two."
	👻 10:52pm David Shortell: ↳ Maulydaft @10:45 Because the opening credits speech said they were on a 5 year mission?
	10:52pm Maulydaft: ↳ Heather Z @10:50 It was pretty mind blowing! You might like Rockaway Beach in Oregon - pretty flat beach there
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:52 That beach is great. Oregon Beaches are so good.
	10:53pm Maulydaft: ↳ David Shortell @10:51 holy cow! I had no idea the gods of spec fiction were writing Star Trek scripts! :o
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:51 My boss recently bought a bunch of stuff from a storage locker, that contained a bunch of Robert Bloch letters and personal papers. It's been interesting to read his more casual style in letters.
	👻 10:54pm Heather Z: ↳ Maulydaft @10:52 I think I've heard of that, even!! One of these days, I'll get back west. I've only been to CA on the coast so far. So much more to see!
	10:54pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:52 I like Stregeon a lot, but can't get into Bloch. I just heard another today listening to my "dangerous Minds" collection audio book (I'm rather revolted by the stories I'm hearing so far LOL )
	10:55pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 Whoah! That's wild!
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:54 I could see how Bloch might be hard to get into. He's sort of horror adjacent.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: This bit where Rhysling has to beg to get a ride makes me cry every time. It's awful what they make him do.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:55 One of the personal papers was an offer to have him write an episode of, "Star Trek: TNG" when they were working on that, and it includes a package of information that changed before the final show was made. It's an interesting piece.
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: Some of the people who were dedicated to working in engine rooms really did give their lives to run those boats and submarines.
	👻 11:01pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:56 I see that the Apollo 15 astronauts named a moon crater "Rhysling" after him.
	11:01pm Maulydaft: So intense!
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: Thanks for sticking around everyone! See ya'll next week!
	11:01pm Maulydaft: Thanks as always! :D
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:01 He deserved better.
	11:02pm Webhamster Henry: Great production!
	11:02pm Webhamster Henry: G'nite!
	👻 11:03pm Heather Z: Good night all! Thanks for a great evening!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 2, 2024

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