WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 16, 2023

Listener comments!
	👻 7:17pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:02 Imaginos! Always a pleasure.
	9:02pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! I’m a captive audience as I spend my holiday evening sorting out old clothes and stuff. WFMU t-shirts: keep.
	9:03pm Charles: Feels so good to hear Box 13 again. I've been sick for the past weeks so I've been sleeping early. It's getting better.
	9:03pm Mr Fab: “On-line clown college,” haha, that’s great.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: I do love the idea that you used to, once upon a time, get a letter in the mail that would then offer you a chance to go on a trip and stay anywhere... any you could trust the letter might actually be telling the truth.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:03 Glad to hear you are on the mend! I'm glad to be back to Box 13, too. We're on the end-run! There's only a few more months of shows left.
	9:04pm Mr Fab: “I chuckle at your ignorance, Suzy! But I’ll be fine.”
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:02 Good choice. I have a few bins of t-shirts that I either need to make a quilt with, or get rid of. And I can't really sew...
	9:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: What kind of slogans?
	9:05pm Charles: I don't want Box 13 to end :(
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 I was thinking about you, and Heather and I are planning another show where we take callers. On Valentine's Day. We're gonna over advice on relationships...
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:05 Hopefully I can find something just as good to follow it. I'm leaning toward Candy Matson, a female gumshoe that I quite enjoy, and there weren't that many shows, unfortunately. But the one's that exist are great.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 offer advice, I mean...
	9:09pm Charles: Well I'm already sold on that Candy Matson show now.
	9:09pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: If you like The Twilight Zone, you might enjoy The Unexpected.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:09 Oh yeah, I've been meaning to check that one out. I've heard of it, but haven't listened yet.
	9:12pm Charles: "Then stop thinking about me!"
	9:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: They seem a bit old for short sheeting.
	👻 9:13pm WR: Hi Austin and folks. I hate snakes, too.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:13 Nice to see you in the chat, WR! Howdy!
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:13 I would be pretty annoyed by getting short-sheeted these days. But I would be excited that the bed was made, and there was a sheet on it, even.
	9:15pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Wondering what to add to my Max Headroom noir.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:15 A case of mistaken identity? A valuable MacGuffin that everyone is chasing after? Lot's of flashbacks?
	9:17pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I suspect Ruth.
	9:19pm Mr Fab: He was in high school only 15-16 years ago? He sounds pretty old for someone in their early 30s.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:19 I think 30-something was a lot "older" in 1949 than it is now, considering the life-expectancy wasn't a long then, either.
	9:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Mistaken identity could be interesting. Especially if tv Bryce was an imposter and he was hiding the real Bryce.
	9:21pm Mike Rogers: Austin san! Greetings from Japan!
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 Life-expectancy in 1949: 65.2 for men, 70.7 for women. in 2023, Life-expectancy for both genders is 82, which is DOWN the last few years, due to the Pandemic. We used to live longer five+ years ago.
	9:22pm Charles: We've lost the brakes Mike, help!
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @9:21 Nice to see you in the chat, Mike!
	9:23pm Mike Rogers: Love the show!
	9:23pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Always a great show.
	9:24pm Charles: That episode's pretty bonkers!
	9:25pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 64 was retirement age! Yet half the male population died before getting there. Wow, old dudes had a raw deal.
	9:25pm Mike Rogers: The current life expectancy for Japan in 2023 is 85.03 years, a 0.14% increase from 2022.: www.macrotrends.net...
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:25 I wonder what "retirement" age was in 1949? Was it 65?
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @9:25 I bet it's a little higher in Japan than in the US.
	9:29pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Hard to say for certain with so many people dealing with forced diets due to rationing.
	👻 9:30pm WR: Missing the first 10 minutes made the plot develop very quickly.
	9:30pm Mr Fab: “In 1950, the average age for men was 68.7.” Well that sucks.
	9:31pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Cool music. You can actually dance to it.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:30 I'm sure a lot of disease that has since been cured is the result of those extra years.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:31 I do like Stan Kenton.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: Not super-great sound on this week's "Bold Venture," and there are several that have quality about like this. As usual, I've done my best to EQ the recording, and boost the signal. But you will have to listen through the years on this one.
	9:34pm Charles: Adventure, intrigue, mystery, romance! The tenets I try to live by.
	9:35pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Lol! Is that the same Apple juice that was in Little Monsters?
	9:35pm Arvo: good hello!
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:35 Avro! Wonderful to see you in the chat!
	9:38pm Charles: I've praised Box 13 and Scarlet Queen for the great fight noises becore but this one's pretty good too.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:38 Those foley artists did a thankless job sometimes, but it really only showed when it was really bad. On good shows, it's very seamless and fluid. It just... makes sense.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: For many years, a good number of "Bold Venture" episodes were thought to be lost, until fan recordings were discovered, and filled in the gaps in the broadcast history.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: I think I've talked about this before, but there are varying stories about how many episodes of "Bold Venture" there were. Most people agree that, because each episode had several titles (so they could be re-run to create the impression that there were more episodes than there were), the discrepancies in how many episodes were made come from those other episode titles.
	9:45pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Is Delores persona non grata?
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: "Nifty and dapper." I need to say that more often.
	9:49pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Remember that old doll Dapper Dan?
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:49 Oh yeah, from the early 70's. I only vaguely remember them; I'm sure my cousins had one.
	9:51pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: He and Dressy Beast were designed to teach kids how to button and tie clothes and shoes
	9:51pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Bessy I mean
	9:53pm Heather: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:51 Yeah but now I want a Dressy Beast doll! Dressy Bessy (Bessie?) Was also a cool girl group in the early oughts! I should see if they're still doing stuff!
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:53 I thought I remembered there was a band with that name.
	9:54pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Dressy Beast would be fun
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:53 Okay, someone quickly register dressybeast.com for our new online store. Before someone steals it.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: We just need to find someone who can sew, and likes to sew monsters, and Dressy Beast is on the way to success...
	9:55pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 I think they were Elephant 6 or Elephant 6 adjacent? Dressybeast.com here we come!
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: Some mornings, when I'm not really paying attention and I'm half-asleep, I feel like I'm a dressy beast, trying to remember how to put clothes on.
	9:57pm wenzo: Howdy AR & Errybuddy. How goes it?
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:57 Wenzo! It goes okay, in fact. For a Monday, anyway.
	9:58pm wenzo: Happy MLK Day…
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:58 I forgot to work in MLK Day gags for this show. For some reason, I thought it was next week... I got confused, since I don't get it off as a holiday anymore.
	10:00pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Makeship does various plus ties including an emotional support demon.
	10:01pm Heather: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:00 Omg! Love it!! If they have it bow style, I think Austin might need one!
	10:02pm wenzo: “Dressy beast,” “support demon”… I like this concepts! Also good names for a musical endeavor of some sort
	10:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: How do you separate static from roaring waves in sound cleanup?
	10:07pm Mr Fab: Are female gumshoes called “stiletto heels”?
	10:10pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I'm picturing Concetta Tormei as a lady gumshoe.
	👻 10:10pm WR: Coming to screen to note that I can think of no alcohol that 6 barrels would be worth 1/4 million $. Or I am hugely underestimating the size of a barrel. Also why can the character suddenly overcome the bad guys when the lady is there. My 2 cents, but it held my attention, I was titillated enough to be entertained.
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:10 She was in that Space Force show recently. She still acts. We should pitch a detective show for her to star in.
	10:12pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ WR @10:10 Not even Goldschlager
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:10 I give Bogart and Bacall plenty of leeway on some of these stories, but there do seem to be a lot of plot holes, if you think about it. I just love the dialog, and sort of forget that the stories don't always make sense.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: "We all have to get though our lives the way we get through them."
	10:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Plot holes are often full of bunnies
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: I like the idea of Lauren Bacall being giddy about dating and boys, well into her old age. Makes her a little more relatable.
	10:18pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I wonder who would win in a battle of wits, Chandu or Blackstone.
	10:18pm Mr Fab: “Radio just like grandma used to make.” I’d love to hear airchecks of grandma’s old shows.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:18 I do like Blackstone. I found some Mandrake comics today at work.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:18 My grandma wasn't involved in radio, but she had a brother who was, and used to talk about going with him to the station, to watch him work. But that's about as close as she got. I'm sure there's plenty of Grandma DJs. We could probably use more Grandma DJs on the Sheena stream. Grandma usually knows what's up.
	10:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I love scrolls
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:20 Scrolls = Old and Magic, usually. When I play D&D, scrolls are usually invaluable.
	👻 10:23pm WR: Austin, your assembly of the Bogart / Bacall bio segment is excellent.
	10:23pm Mr Fab: Today I bought this Korla Pandit 45 at a record sale: www.discogs.com... Looks like it’s his first single from 1950, just a year or two after his work on “Chandu.” For only 25 cents!
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: My grandma on my Dad's side never really talked about music, but seemed to be pretty agreeable, provided the volume wasn't too loud, and you could dance to it. My Grandma on my Mom's side was into Elvis and Bob Wills, stuff like that.
	10:24pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: This reminds me of the Case of Mr Valdemar
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:23 Very good score! I'm jealous. I was thinking about trying to do a good "edit" of the Chandu theme, without announcer stuff around it. I'm sure I could edit together a good take.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:23 Thank you. It's fun to go through all these old documentaries, looking for stuff to use.
	10:29pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:24 If you have the time, yeah, that’d be a cool edit. Which reminds me: “Genie of the Keys” is a new Korla compilation LP “culled from the Fantasy vaults” that came out last November. a Limited Edition pressed on blue vinyl.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: This is another "Ray Bradbury / George Lefferts" collaboration. Ray wrote the short story that it's based on, and George adapted it for radio.
	10:33pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Terra incognita is always a good SF subject.
	10:33pm Mike Rogers: I'm back. What did I miss?
	10:34pm wenzo: Planet earth is a barren wasteland
	10:34pm Mr Fab: Bradbury stories got adapted quite a bit on this show, eh? Understandable - great stories, short enough for a half-hour radio slot, action, shocks, not the conceptual type sci-fi. Just right for radio.
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: At my work, where we sell rare book and sci-fi ephemera, my boss came into some letters, that Ray Bradbury received, from various radio shows that paid him for his stories. While I didn't see any Dimension X letters in the pile, I do know from other sources that Ray DID get paid by this show when they used his stories. Since Sci-Fi didn't pay well, Ray certainly could use every little payday.
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @10:33 Magic and Adventure!
	10:36pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Bradbury also got adapted in EC Comics a few times.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:34 I think, between Dimension X and X-Minus One, you could piece together audio versions of MOST of the Martian Chronicles. His stories have just as much Americana in them as they do Sci-Fi, so they're perfect for radio.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:36 I've heard that, but I haven't found the comics yet. I know there's some good EC reprints out that I've been meaning to get, but I just got a nice Akira reprint, and some Tarzan comics I haven't read before... so I'll be busy.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: June 18th, 1987. Everyone remembers when we had to leave and go to Mars in the late 80's?
	10:39pm Mr Fab: “Trepanning”? That’s drilling holes in your head. Not recommended.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:39 I feel like, every time I went into a piercing shop or a tattoo parlor in the 90's, there was always some guy in the lobby talking about how "Trepanning" was the secret to opening your mind to new experiences and potentials, and that he was gonna get it done, "one of these days..."
	10:41pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Home to Stay is a collection of Bradbury tales in EC.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:41 Good thing I work at a bookstore that collects rare Sci-Fi, and can just ask my boss to see what he can find. He can usually find it.
	10:42pm Heather: ↳ Mr Fab @10:39 I think of trepanning way more than I should. It always sounded kind of nice until I read Austin's mod shop comment above!
	10:43pm Cathy: Jumping Jupiter! I'm blasted! Just got back from the store with some hot pockets. I am ready for some quality programming, doggone it!
	10:44pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I wonder if this is like the story about the actors in Torture Garden.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cathy @10:43 Singing: "Hot Pockets."
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: The thing I remember most about being evacuated from Earth in the Summer of 1987: it meant I was going to miss the new episodes of Max Headroom that were coming out that Fall. Man, that trip to Mars was rough...
	10:47pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: It was. But when they made Sandy Pearlman President of Mars it was almost worth it.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: If some humans grew up on Mars, and others were relocated, this kind of cultural divide would ABSOLUTELY exist.
	10:47pm Mike Rogers: I leave for just a minute and come back to you guys talking about Planting trees?
	10:49pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: In some worlds trees are used as spaceships.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @10:47 "You say 'tree planting,' I say, 'trepanning'..."
	10:50pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: It is like Torture Garden.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: I think this story suffers a little in that, on the whole, it seems pretty clear at each step of the story, what is happening. But the ending is really worth it.
	10:50pm Arvo: This talk about radiation reminds me of a certain character from the movie "Repo Man".
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:50 We should do a show where we sample a bunch of Repo Man, and play music that we think should have been on the soundtrack. Could be fun! I have most of the dialog in samples on my computer.
	10:53pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 NORMAL PEOPLE- I HATE 'EM!
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:53 "Let's get a drink."
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: @Heather: Cornelius?!
	10:54pm Arvo: I had a friend that actually did have a trepanation done but it's also because he had a car accident cause his brain fluid to leak, so he had a "brain drain" to get the excess fluid out. He said it helped. He's dead now.
	10:55pm Arvo: Let's go do some crimes! Let's go get sushi and not pay!
	10:56pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 I hang my head in shame. I don't know the ref! I am down for sushi, tho!
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:54 I have heard that there are genuine circumstances where it's needed. But I'm not sure the body-mod guys were right that it opened up your mind to new powers. Seemed like just another weird thing to do with your body to me.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:55 There's a lot of material to work with, for sure!
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:56 There's that one Max Headroom commercial, where he refers to himself as "Max Cornelius Headroom."
	10:57pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:56 Oh!! Yes of course I remember that!! Like David S Pumpkins! There's a middle name now??
	10:58pm Arvo: ↳ Heather @10:56 It's from the movie REPO MAN. A punxploitation cult classic with Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton. But yes I like sushi too!
	10:58pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Did you ever read Judgment Day in EC Comics?
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:58 I don't believe so. I read a bunch of EC stuff that a friend had, but that was years ago, and I'm not sure which stories I read.
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: The idea of these robots, with feelings and thoughts, alone on earth... this story gets me, every time.
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: Thanks again, everyone! Another great night, with a lively chat! Tune in tomorrow night, for Arvo Radio!
	11:01pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @11:00 😥
	11:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Good night
	11:01pm Heather: Night everyone! Great show as always, Austin! Time to go drill just a lil hole in my skull!
	👻 11:02pm WR: Thank you. 20 years & the planet is habitable again. Not too bad. Just need plenty of canned goods in the bunker.
	👻 11:02pm WR: Thank-you! Laters.
	11:02pm Mr Fab: As those announcers would say- thanks AUSTIN…Austin…austin..
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @11:02 Seemed like the story should have been set a lot further ahead in the future.
	11:05pm Arvo: Good luck Heather! Be sure to report back to us on your um, progress!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 16, 2023

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January 16, 2023: Episode #40

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Box 13	"Death Is No Joke" ""Death Is No Joke"" by "Box 13"	22 May 1949	Mayfair Productions	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Stan Kenton	Eager Beaver "Eager Beaver" by "Stan Kenton"			0:28:06 (Pop-up)
Bold Venture	"Forged Bill of Lading"	9 April 1951	Santana Productions	0:32:25 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Stan Kenton	Eager Beaver "Eager Beaver" by "Stan Kenton"			1:08:37 (Pop-up)
Biography Channel	Bogart & Bacall: Hollywood's Golden Age Part 8	Three Documentaries Edited Together.		1:12:32 (Pop-up)
Chandu The Magician	"Manuscript Found"	20 August 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Network	1:15:56 (Pop-up)
Dimension X	"Dwellers In Silence"	19 July 1951	NBC Radio	1:29:37 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:17pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:02 Imaginos! Always a pleasure.
	9:02pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! I’m a captive audience as I spend my holiday evening sorting out old clothes and stuff. WFMU t-shirts: keep.
	9:03pm Charles: Feels so good to hear Box 13 again. I've been sick for the past weeks so I've been sleeping early. It's getting better.
	9:03pm Mr Fab: “On-line clown college,” haha, that’s great.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: I do love the idea that you used to, once upon a time, get a letter in the mail that would then offer you a chance to go on a trip and stay anywhere... any you could trust the letter might actually be telling the truth.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:03 Glad to hear you are on the mend! I'm glad to be back to Box 13, too. We're on the end-run! There's only a few more months of shows left.
	9:04pm Mr Fab: “I chuckle at your ignorance, Suzy! But I’ll be fine.”
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:02 Good choice. I have a few bins of t-shirts that I either need to make a quilt with, or get rid of. And I can't really sew...
	9:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: What kind of slogans?
	9:05pm Charles: I don't want Box 13 to end :(
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 I was thinking about you, and Heather and I are planning another show where we take callers. On Valentine's Day. We're gonna over advice on relationships...
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:05 Hopefully I can find something just as good to follow it. I'm leaning toward Candy Matson, a female gumshoe that I quite enjoy, and there weren't that many shows, unfortunately. But the one's that exist are great.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 offer advice, I mean...
	9:09pm Charles: Well I'm already sold on that Candy Matson show now.
	9:09pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: If you like The Twilight Zone, you might enjoy The Unexpected.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:09 Oh yeah, I've been meaning to check that one out. I've heard of it, but haven't listened yet.
	9:12pm Charles: "Then stop thinking about me!"
	9:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: They seem a bit old for short sheeting.
	👻 9:13pm WR: Hi Austin and folks. I hate snakes, too.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:13 Nice to see you in the chat, WR! Howdy!
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:13 I would be pretty annoyed by getting short-sheeted these days. But I would be excited that the bed was made, and there was a sheet on it, even.
	9:15pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Wondering what to add to my Max Headroom noir.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:15 A case of mistaken identity? A valuable MacGuffin that everyone is chasing after? Lot's of flashbacks?
	9:17pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I suspect Ruth.
	9:19pm Mr Fab: He was in high school only 15-16 years ago? He sounds pretty old for someone in their early 30s.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:19 I think 30-something was a lot "older" in 1949 than it is now, considering the life-expectancy wasn't a long then, either.
	9:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Mistaken identity could be interesting. Especially if tv Bryce was an imposter and he was hiding the real Bryce.
	9:21pm Mike Rogers: Austin san! Greetings from Japan!
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 Life-expectancy in 1949: 65.2 for men, 70.7 for women. in 2023, Life-expectancy for both genders is 82, which is DOWN the last few years, due to the Pandemic. We used to live longer five+ years ago.
	9:22pm Charles: We've lost the brakes Mike, help!
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @9:21 Nice to see you in the chat, Mike!
	9:23pm Mike Rogers: Love the show!
	9:23pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Always a great show.
	9:24pm Charles: That episode's pretty bonkers!
	9:25pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 64 was retirement age! Yet half the male population died before getting there. Wow, old dudes had a raw deal.
	9:25pm Mike Rogers: The current life expectancy for Japan in 2023 is 85.03 years, a 0.14% increase from 2022.: www.macrotrends.net...
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:25 I wonder what "retirement" age was in 1949? Was it 65?
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @9:25 I bet it's a little higher in Japan than in the US.
	9:29pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Hard to say for certain with so many people dealing with forced diets due to rationing.
	👻 9:30pm WR: Missing the first 10 minutes made the plot develop very quickly.
	9:30pm Mr Fab: “In 1950, the average age for men was 68.7.” Well that sucks.
	9:31pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Cool music. You can actually dance to it.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:30 I'm sure a lot of disease that has since been cured is the result of those extra years.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:31 I do like Stan Kenton.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: Not super-great sound on this week's "Bold Venture," and there are several that have quality about like this. As usual, I've done my best to EQ the recording, and boost the signal. But you will have to listen through the years on this one.
	9:34pm Charles: Adventure, intrigue, mystery, romance! The tenets I try to live by.
	9:35pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Lol! Is that the same Apple juice that was in Little Monsters?
	9:35pm Arvo: good hello!
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:35 Avro! Wonderful to see you in the chat!
	9:38pm Charles: I've praised Box 13 and Scarlet Queen for the great fight noises becore but this one's pretty good too.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:38 Those foley artists did a thankless job sometimes, but it really only showed when it was really bad. On good shows, it's very seamless and fluid. It just... makes sense.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: For many years, a good number of "Bold Venture" episodes were thought to be lost, until fan recordings were discovered, and filled in the gaps in the broadcast history.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: I think I've talked about this before, but there are varying stories about how many episodes of "Bold Venture" there were. Most people agree that, because each episode had several titles (so they could be re-run to create the impression that there were more episodes than there were), the discrepancies in how many episodes were made come from those other episode titles.
	9:45pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Is Delores persona non grata?
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: "Nifty and dapper." I need to say that more often.
	9:49pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Remember that old doll Dapper Dan?
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:49 Oh yeah, from the early 70's. I only vaguely remember them; I'm sure my cousins had one.
	9:51pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: He and Dressy Beast were designed to teach kids how to button and tie clothes and shoes
	9:51pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Bessy I mean
	9:53pm Heather: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:51 Yeah but now I want a Dressy Beast doll! Dressy Bessy (Bessie?) Was also a cool girl group in the early oughts! I should see if they're still doing stuff!
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:53 I thought I remembered there was a band with that name.
	9:54pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Dressy Beast would be fun
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:53 Okay, someone quickly register dressybeast.com for our new online store. Before someone steals it.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: We just need to find someone who can sew, and likes to sew monsters, and Dressy Beast is on the way to success...
	9:55pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 I think they were Elephant 6 or Elephant 6 adjacent? Dressybeast.com here we come!
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: Some mornings, when I'm not really paying attention and I'm half-asleep, I feel like I'm a dressy beast, trying to remember how to put clothes on.
	9:57pm wenzo: Howdy AR & Errybuddy. How goes it?
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:57 Wenzo! It goes okay, in fact. For a Monday, anyway.
	9:58pm wenzo: Happy MLK Day…
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:58 I forgot to work in MLK Day gags for this show. For some reason, I thought it was next week... I got confused, since I don't get it off as a holiday anymore.
	10:00pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Makeship does various plus ties including an emotional support demon.
	10:01pm Heather: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:00 Omg! Love it!! If they have it bow style, I think Austin might need one!
	10:02pm wenzo: “Dressy beast,” “support demon”… I like this concepts! Also good names for a musical endeavor of some sort
	10:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: How do you separate static from roaring waves in sound cleanup?
	10:07pm Mr Fab: Are female gumshoes called “stiletto heels”?
	10:10pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I'm picturing Concetta Tormei as a lady gumshoe.
	👻 10:10pm WR: Coming to screen to note that I can think of no alcohol that 6 barrels would be worth 1/4 million $. Or I am hugely underestimating the size of a barrel. Also why can the character suddenly overcome the bad guys when the lady is there. My 2 cents, but it held my attention, I was titillated enough to be entertained.
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:10 She was in that Space Force show recently. She still acts. We should pitch a detective show for her to star in.
	10:12pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ WR @10:10 Not even Goldschlager
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:10 I give Bogart and Bacall plenty of leeway on some of these stories, but there do seem to be a lot of plot holes, if you think about it. I just love the dialog, and sort of forget that the stories don't always make sense.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: "We all have to get though our lives the way we get through them."
	10:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Plot holes are often full of bunnies
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: I like the idea of Lauren Bacall being giddy about dating and boys, well into her old age. Makes her a little more relatable.
	10:18pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I wonder who would win in a battle of wits, Chandu or Blackstone.
	10:18pm Mr Fab: “Radio just like grandma used to make.” I’d love to hear airchecks of grandma’s old shows.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:18 I do like Blackstone. I found some Mandrake comics today at work.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:18 My grandma wasn't involved in radio, but she had a brother who was, and used to talk about going with him to the station, to watch him work. But that's about as close as she got. I'm sure there's plenty of Grandma DJs. We could probably use more Grandma DJs on the Sheena stream. Grandma usually knows what's up.
	10:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I love scrolls
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:20 Scrolls = Old and Magic, usually. When I play D&D, scrolls are usually invaluable.
	👻 10:23pm WR: Austin, your assembly of the Bogart / Bacall bio segment is excellent.
	10:23pm Mr Fab: Today I bought this Korla Pandit 45 at a record sale: www.discogs.com... Looks like it’s his first single from 1950, just a year or two after his work on “Chandu.” For only 25 cents!
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: My grandma on my Dad's side never really talked about music, but seemed to be pretty agreeable, provided the volume wasn't too loud, and you could dance to it. My Grandma on my Mom's side was into Elvis and Bob Wills, stuff like that.
	10:24pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: This reminds me of the Case of Mr Valdemar
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:23 Very good score! I'm jealous. I was thinking about trying to do a good "edit" of the Chandu theme, without announcer stuff around it. I'm sure I could edit together a good take.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:23 Thank you. It's fun to go through all these old documentaries, looking for stuff to use.
	10:29pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:24 If you have the time, yeah, that’d be a cool edit. Which reminds me: “Genie of the Keys” is a new Korla compilation LP “culled from the Fantasy vaults” that came out last November. a Limited Edition pressed on blue vinyl.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: This is another "Ray Bradbury / George Lefferts" collaboration. Ray wrote the short story that it's based on, and George adapted it for radio.
	10:33pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Terra incognita is always a good SF subject.
	10:33pm Mike Rogers: I'm back. What did I miss?
	10:34pm wenzo: Planet earth is a barren wasteland
	10:34pm Mr Fab: Bradbury stories got adapted quite a bit on this show, eh? Understandable - great stories, short enough for a half-hour radio slot, action, shocks, not the conceptual type sci-fi. Just right for radio.
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: At my work, where we sell rare book and sci-fi ephemera, my boss came into some letters, that Ray Bradbury received, from various radio shows that paid him for his stories. While I didn't see any Dimension X letters in the pile, I do know from other sources that Ray DID get paid by this show when they used his stories. Since Sci-Fi didn't pay well, Ray certainly could use every little payday.
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @10:33 Magic and Adventure!
	10:36pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Bradbury also got adapted in EC Comics a few times.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:34 I think, between Dimension X and X-Minus One, you could piece together audio versions of MOST of the Martian Chronicles. His stories have just as much Americana in them as they do Sci-Fi, so they're perfect for radio.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:36 I've heard that, but I haven't found the comics yet. I know there's some good EC reprints out that I've been meaning to get, but I just got a nice Akira reprint, and some Tarzan comics I haven't read before... so I'll be busy.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: June 18th, 1987. Everyone remembers when we had to leave and go to Mars in the late 80's?
	10:39pm Mr Fab: “Trepanning”? That’s drilling holes in your head. Not recommended.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:39 I feel like, every time I went into a piercing shop or a tattoo parlor in the 90's, there was always some guy in the lobby talking about how "Trepanning" was the secret to opening your mind to new experiences and potentials, and that he was gonna get it done, "one of these days..."
	10:41pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Home to Stay is a collection of Bradbury tales in EC.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:41 Good thing I work at a bookstore that collects rare Sci-Fi, and can just ask my boss to see what he can find. He can usually find it.
	10:42pm Heather: ↳ Mr Fab @10:39 I think of trepanning way more than I should. It always sounded kind of nice until I read Austin's mod shop comment above!
	10:43pm Cathy: Jumping Jupiter! I'm blasted! Just got back from the store with some hot pockets. I am ready for some quality programming, doggone it!
	10:44pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I wonder if this is like the story about the actors in Torture Garden.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cathy @10:43 Singing: "Hot Pockets."
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: The thing I remember most about being evacuated from Earth in the Summer of 1987: it meant I was going to miss the new episodes of Max Headroom that were coming out that Fall. Man, that trip to Mars was rough...
	10:47pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: It was. But when they made Sandy Pearlman President of Mars it was almost worth it.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: If some humans grew up on Mars, and others were relocated, this kind of cultural divide would ABSOLUTELY exist.
	10:47pm Mike Rogers: I leave for just a minute and come back to you guys talking about Planting trees?
	10:49pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: In some worlds trees are used as spaceships.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @10:47 "You say 'tree planting,' I say, 'trepanning'..."
	10:50pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: It is like Torture Garden.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: I think this story suffers a little in that, on the whole, it seems pretty clear at each step of the story, what is happening. But the ending is really worth it.
	10:50pm Arvo: This talk about radiation reminds me of a certain character from the movie "Repo Man".
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:50 We should do a show where we sample a bunch of Repo Man, and play music that we think should have been on the soundtrack. Could be fun! I have most of the dialog in samples on my computer.
	10:53pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 NORMAL PEOPLE- I HATE 'EM!
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:53 "Let's get a drink."
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: @Heather: Cornelius?!
	10:54pm Arvo: I had a friend that actually did have a trepanation done but it's also because he had a car accident cause his brain fluid to leak, so he had a "brain drain" to get the excess fluid out. He said it helped. He's dead now.
	10:55pm Arvo: Let's go do some crimes! Let's go get sushi and not pay!
	10:56pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 I hang my head in shame. I don't know the ref! I am down for sushi, tho!
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:54 I have heard that there are genuine circumstances where it's needed. But I'm not sure the body-mod guys were right that it opened up your mind to new powers. Seemed like just another weird thing to do with your body to me.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:55 There's a lot of material to work with, for sure!
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:56 There's that one Max Headroom commercial, where he refers to himself as "Max Cornelius Headroom."
	10:57pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:56 Oh!! Yes of course I remember that!! Like David S Pumpkins! There's a middle name now??
	10:58pm Arvo: ↳ Heather @10:56 It's from the movie REPO MAN. A punxploitation cult classic with Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton. But yes I like sushi too!
	10:58pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Did you ever read Judgment Day in EC Comics?
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:58 I don't believe so. I read a bunch of EC stuff that a friend had, but that was years ago, and I'm not sure which stories I read.
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: The idea of these robots, with feelings and thoughts, alone on earth... this story gets me, every time.
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: Thanks again, everyone! Another great night, with a lively chat! Tune in tomorrow night, for Arvo Radio!
	11:01pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @11:00 😥
	11:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Good night
	11:01pm Heather: Night everyone! Great show as always, Austin! Time to go drill just a lil hole in my skull!
	👻 11:02pm WR: Thank you. 20 years & the planet is habitable again. Not too bad. Just need plenty of canned goods in the bunker.
	👻 11:02pm WR: Thank-you! Laters.
	11:02pm Mr Fab: As those announcers would say- thanks AUSTIN…Austin…austin..
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @11:02 Seemed like the story should have been set a lot further ahead in the future.
	11:05pm Arvo: Good luck Heather! Be sure to report back to us on your um, progress!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 16, 2023

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