WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 20, 2023

Listener comments!
	👻 6:07pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:01pm Charles: Congrats everyone for the successful marathon!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: There are only five more episodes of Box 13, including this one!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:01 Charles! Thanks to you, of course!
	9:03pm Charles: Dan's a swag for life member for sure.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:03 He can afford it, with the money he makes on his books.
	9:06pm Charles: Tonight's story is pretty funny.
	9:07pm Charles: One week he dismantles a stolen car racket. The other he's looking for a snake.
	👻 9:08pm WR: Box 13 same day service? I missed the first few minutes.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:07 Some weeks he's hired by a child, some weeks, an eccentric professor. That's the life of a writer.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:08 That is always my thought about this. Who "writes" to a box in the paper with a problem that's a little more... timely?
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: Suzy Gets Queasy Easy.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: Imagine not being able to throw a middle finger anymore? That seems rather tragic.
	9:13pm Cp304: Hey Rich and theatre goers
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:06 "The Biter Bitten" is a pretty funny title.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @9:13 Nice to see you in the chat, Cp304!
	9:15pm Cp304: ↳ Austin Rich @9:14 Good to be here
	9:15pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 That's Dimension X material right there
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: You can hear, in the background of the recording of this episode, a faint recording of a previous episode of Box 13. This has happened on a number of Old Radio shows, depending on who was archiving the show, and how they did it. Box 13 is usually very well preserved, but some of these episodes near the end of the run have these "ghost" recordings in the background.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:15 A true nightmare!
	9:19pm Charles: What's your favorite episode of Box 13 Austin?
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:19 I like the one with the kid who has the friend scientist at the telescope, who then sends Dan off to find out why the scientist hasn't contacted him.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:19 I'm also quite fond of the one with the two blind people, who leave a message for the other one in the library book.
	9:21pm Charles: Nice. I liked the one with the boxer myself. Don't know why exactly.
	👻 9:21pm WR: I hate snakes.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:19 I would say my "number three" would be the one were he ends up riding the bus for most of the episode, trying to figure out which other passenger is following him.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:21 I really liked that one, too!
	9:22pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 Oh yeah! That was great too.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:21 I'm not against them, but certainly I'm not gonna turn my back on a snake that might strike.
	9:24pm Charles: ↳ WR @9:21 WR, if you find yourself right in front of a snake ready to attack remember to write to Box 13 and wait for help to arrive.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:24 That's sound advice.
	👻 9:26pm WR: Play gypsy play!
	9:26pm Cp304: That's pretty good
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:26 That sounds a lot like when I used to have to play the Recorder in Middle School.
	9:28pm Charles: Ooh!
	👻 9:29pm WR: ↳ Song: ""The Biter Bitten"" by "Box 13" When I first looked at the title I thought it was about food: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: I do love it when records include the kind of dance on the same line as the title of the song. As if either piece of information is just as important.
	9:29pm Charles: ↳ WR @9:29 That would be pretty good right now..
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:29 I, too, thought this one might be about food, as I couldn't quite remember how these last few episodes went. But then I recalled there was a snake story, and larfed..
	9:33pm Charles: Adventure! Intrigue! Mystery! Romance! -- This needs to be a tattoo.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Blue Moon"" by "Bold Venture" The beginning of this episode - and quite a few epiosdes - is rather abrupt. I'm mentioned this before: Bold Venture did not seem to be "archived" as carefully as some of the other Old Radio shows, and the musical transitions, and beginnings / endings of shows, seems to be sort of hap-hazardly edited by someone in the past.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: "A New Point On My Desk Pen." I believe this implies that he is using a pen that draws ink, and requires a fresh point to write smoothly.
	9:36pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:33 I would have thought that a show featuring Bogie and Bacall would have been very carefully archived by someone somewhere.
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:36 I think, because "Santana Productions" was Bogart's own company, it was only as careful as the boss required. And radio, in those days, wasn't seen as something to archive, but something that would air and was then disposable. So often, transcription discs were found in dumpsters at the end of the week, to be scavenged by people who realized they might have value.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: I always wanted to get into the hobby of Transcription Disc collecting. I have three. When I worked at KPSU, they used to have at transcription disc player, and I was tempted to buy it from them and get into digitizing old discs. But that's the kind of hobby that becomes a full-time job, in and of itself.
	9:41pm Charles: That sounded like a karate chop.
	9:43pm Charles: YOU go through with it ?!? Great delivery.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:43 The delivery on this show is really what makes it fun.
	9:46pm Charles: Quipping couple coffee sounds like a fun thing to say out loud.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:46 It's funny: I trip over so many other things I record for my radio shows, but that phrase is surprisingly easy to say. I knew immediately I had sort of stumbled on something.
	👻 9:50pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 I very much enjoy the ads you do!! And I with QQC were a thing I could buy in stores!
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: King Moses has a "jalopy" that Sailor can borrow. I really love that image... and in 1951 I can only imagine what "jalopy" meant... Probably something from the 20's or 30's.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:50 Nice to see you in the chat! I have been considering getting some QQC stickers made, at least. If I could afford it: shirts.
	👻 9:53pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:51 I've been tuned in! Busy night here but I'm listening! Hmmmm.... got any local roasters who might want to actually make the brew?? Though I do also love stickers!
	9:54pm Charles: That's good, as for old timey radio promotion I already asked for my tombstone to have "After you mate, after you" engraved on it.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:53 That might be something I could get done in Portland or Eugene. But I don't know anyone local.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:54 Ahhh. That show is so good.
	👻 9:55pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:54 Might be worth looking into? Or I might be greedy! Or probably both?
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:55 If I had a little more capital to spend on a project like that, for sure! But for now, stickers are probably more affordable.
	9:56pm Charles: Hey what's the matter aaAAIIIYAAAaahh! -- I loved that so much.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: The whole gag about learning to pick a lock from a friend, and how he needs to "write to her," must be a reference to one of his movies. I should probably re-watch a bunch of his old movies.
	9:58pm Cp304: Slate is throwin down this episode
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @9:58 I'm sure Bogart had a requirement for x amount of action per episode.
	10:00pm Charles: I think I would have liked to do that back then. Be the character who screams as he gets knocked out or shot in radio plays.
	10:04pm Charles: Welcome back Chandu!
	10:07pm Charles: ADVENTURE WANTED! Will go anywhere. Do anything.
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @10:07 Yeah, I should re-create the Box 13 ad, and get THOSE stickers made.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: This Panda story has now been told a few times, from a couple different perspectives, in this documentary. It probably did happen, but it seems to have been more or less dramatic, depending on who you talk to.
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: In spite of all the clichés, "Casablanca" is still a really good movie. Even in 2023.
	10:18pm Cp304: ↳ Austin Rich @10:15 I have yet to watch it
	👻 10:19pm Heather Z: ↳ Cp304 @10:18 Same! I probably should since I like this here show so well!
	10:19pm Cp304: ↳ Heather Z @10:19 One of these days..
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @10:18 For a long time, it was the movie that all TV shows would eventually parody, and everyone would claim was "the best film ever." (There's even a Red Dwarf parody of it.) But when I finally sat down and watched it, it's a pretty good spy movie, set during WWII, in a sort of part of the world that's not often thought of during the war... and of course, there's a romance. It's almost the perfect movie, when you add Bogart.
	👻 10:22pm Heather Z: ↳ Cp304 @10:19 It may be in the public domain? Hmmm.... lmk if we should do a zoom watch party.
	10:23pm Cp304: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 That's cool, I never even knew what it was about.. only that phrase and photo is all I really knew about it
	10:24pm Cp304: I guess it has pretty much morphed into Bourne identity
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: There is a radio show that I'm quite fond of, "The Adventures of Rocky Jordan," that is an attempt to make a radio show out of that film, though heavily re-written since Bogart was not interested. In this radio show, "Rocky Jordan" runs a bar in an Egyptian city, sort of like Casablanca, and similar "adventures" happen in that show. I'm a big Rocky Jordan fan, and I'll probably run it on her at some point.
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: "Bold Venture" was the "compromise" show that Bogart made, instead of doing a Casablanca show. It's set in a bar that he runs, sort of like his Rick Character in Casablanca. And like the movie, Bogart's bar is located in an exotic location, with a trusted musician who he confides in. But he also mixes in a lot of stuff from "To Have and Have Not," which involved Bacall and a Boat, and has a lot of the other tropes at play.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @10:24 You're totally right!
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Kaleidoscope"" by "Dimension X" The sound quality of this episode is REALLY bad. It must have come from a fan home-recording. Since it is based on a Ray Bradbury story, I'm sure that's the main reason people are interested in this episode, quality be damned. I did some EQ to clean it up, and some noise reduction. But there's only so much I could do.
	👻 10:30pm Heather Z: Mind leeches?! Did I hear that right?!
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:30 Miss Martian says you need to be prepared for any emergency.
	👻 10:32pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 And here I was worried only about neti pot amoebae!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: Keen-eared listeners will notice that, last week, on Dimension X, the announcer said (at the end of the show) that Dimension X was "moving" to a new day and time. However, this episode - by all accounts - aired the same day of the week, one week later. I'm not sure what actually happened in 1951 that prevented the time change, but since there were only a few more episodes in the run, perhaps most program directors just let the show keep going in the same time slot. Who can say? I wish I knew some Dimension X fan from back in the day...
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:32 The TV show "Six Feet Under" scared me off of Neti Pots well before the recent amoebae scare.
	👻 10:35pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:34 Omg I haven't thought of that show in forever and it was so good! I've been afraid of the amoebae since I got a neti pot ages ago! Sigh.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:35 I certainly watched all of it as a way to avoid doing homework when I was in college. But it was hard to watch, because all the characters were sort of awful to each other, almost all the time.
	👻 10:39pm WR: Free floating in space suits. Must have amazing source of oxygen.
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Kaleidoscope"" by "Dimension X" Given that "Dimension X" was being canceled soon, and given that both Ray Bradbury and George Lefferts - who adapted this story - seemed to enjoy that bit where the astronaut tells off the captain of the ship, I can't help but think there's more to that scene than just the surface. I'm sure everyone working on this show wanted to "tell off" the superiors, when they knew this show was getting canceled.
	10:40pm Cp304: He must be space drunk
	👻 10:40pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:36 I feel like I watched that when Netflix still came in red envelopes!
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:39 Yeah, they don't really address that.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:40 That is absolutely how I watched it. The "by mail" era of "streaming."
	👻 10:40pm Heather Z: ↳ Cp304 @10:40 Space drunk is the best kind of drunk!
	👻 10:41pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 It was a wild era, really!
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: "Radical Honesty."
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: The last three episodes of Dimension X are all heavy hitters. A story by Ray Bradbury this week, Robert Heinlein next week, and Asimov to close it out. They certainly picked some big names, to go out with a bang.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: The phrase "slut of a wife" seems pretty extreme for 1951.
	👻 10:48pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:48 I meannnn
	👻 10:49pm WR: Interesting to hear how Bradbury / Lefferts play out the dissolution scenario of the captain vs. the other "types".
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: There's a lot of this episode that seems particularly grim, and very much pushing the envelope of what they have done before. (Even for this show.) There's a part of me that thinks, again, because they were getting canceled, they were sort of "going all out" with this one.
	10:49pm Cp304: ↳ Austin Rich @10:48 They had better delivery of the term back then.. even when they say "shut up!" It has more punch than nowadays
	👻 10:51pm WR: pretty spunky wife to be his hallucination.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: "Yes, but we never do." "I've been pointing toward this job..."
	👻 10:52pm WR: Oh, this is the memory of the last conversation with his wife.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:52 <taps side of nose>
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:52 The show is about to wrap. Thanks again everyone! I do love this show!
	👻 10:57pm Heather Z: Thanks for a great time, everyone!!
	10:57pm Cp304: Thanks Rich for the entertainment and insight, good hanging all
	👻 11:00pm WR: I've greatly enjoyed Dimension X. Thank you for this great program week after week. My donation was spread very thin among the many many great WFMU programs. Pennies for the many minutes / hours of great programming. Again, thank you. Onward y'all.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @11:00 I have too! And I love the little "Dimestore family" we've got going here.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 20, 2023

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March 20, 2023: Episode #48

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Box 13	"The Biter Bitten" ""The Biter Bitten"" by "Box 13"	17 July 1949	Mayfair Productions	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Erskine Hawkins	Tippin' In "Tippin' In" by "Erskine Hawkins"			0:28:19 (Pop-up)
Bold Venture	"The Blue Moon" ""The Blue Moon"" by "Bold Venture"	4 June 1951	Santana Productions	0:31:51 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Erskine Hawkins	Tippin' In "Tippin' In" by "Erskine Hawkins"			0:59:49 (Pop-up)
Biography Channel	Bogart & Bacall: Hollywood's Golden Age Part 14	Three Documentaries Edited Together.		1:07:11 (Pop-up)
Chandu The Magician	"Inquest Planned"	30 August 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Network	1:15:00 (Pop-up)
Dimension X	"The Kaleidoscope" ""The Kaleidoscope"" by "Dimension X"	15 September 1951	NBC Radio	1:28:42 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 6:07pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:01pm Charles: Congrats everyone for the successful marathon!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: There are only five more episodes of Box 13, including this one!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:01 Charles! Thanks to you, of course!
	9:03pm Charles: Dan's a swag for life member for sure.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:03 He can afford it, with the money he makes on his books.
	9:06pm Charles: Tonight's story is pretty funny.
	9:07pm Charles: One week he dismantles a stolen car racket. The other he's looking for a snake.
	👻 9:08pm WR: Box 13 same day service? I missed the first few minutes.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:07 Some weeks he's hired by a child, some weeks, an eccentric professor. That's the life of a writer.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:08 That is always my thought about this. Who "writes" to a box in the paper with a problem that's a little more... timely?
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: Suzy Gets Queasy Easy.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: Imagine not being able to throw a middle finger anymore? That seems rather tragic.
	9:13pm Cp304: Hey Rich and theatre goers
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:06 "The Biter Bitten" is a pretty funny title.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @9:13 Nice to see you in the chat, Cp304!
	9:15pm Cp304: ↳ Austin Rich @9:14 Good to be here
	9:15pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 That's Dimension X material right there
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: You can hear, in the background of the recording of this episode, a faint recording of a previous episode of Box 13. This has happened on a number of Old Radio shows, depending on who was archiving the show, and how they did it. Box 13 is usually very well preserved, but some of these episodes near the end of the run have these "ghost" recordings in the background.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:15 A true nightmare!
	9:19pm Charles: What's your favorite episode of Box 13 Austin?
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:19 I like the one with the kid who has the friend scientist at the telescope, who then sends Dan off to find out why the scientist hasn't contacted him.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:19 I'm also quite fond of the one with the two blind people, who leave a message for the other one in the library book.
	9:21pm Charles: Nice. I liked the one with the boxer myself. Don't know why exactly.
	👻 9:21pm WR: I hate snakes.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:19 I would say my "number three" would be the one were he ends up riding the bus for most of the episode, trying to figure out which other passenger is following him.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:21 I really liked that one, too!
	9:22pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 Oh yeah! That was great too.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:21 I'm not against them, but certainly I'm not gonna turn my back on a snake that might strike.
	9:24pm Charles: ↳ WR @9:21 WR, if you find yourself right in front of a snake ready to attack remember to write to Box 13 and wait for help to arrive.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:24 That's sound advice.
	👻 9:26pm WR: Play gypsy play!
	9:26pm Cp304: That's pretty good
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:26 That sounds a lot like when I used to have to play the Recorder in Middle School.
	9:28pm Charles: Ooh!
	👻 9:29pm WR: ↳ Song: ""The Biter Bitten"" by "Box 13" When I first looked at the title I thought it was about food: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: I do love it when records include the kind of dance on the same line as the title of the song. As if either piece of information is just as important.
	9:29pm Charles: ↳ WR @9:29 That would be pretty good right now..
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:29 I, too, thought this one might be about food, as I couldn't quite remember how these last few episodes went. But then I recalled there was a snake story, and larfed..
	9:33pm Charles: Adventure! Intrigue! Mystery! Romance! -- This needs to be a tattoo.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Blue Moon"" by "Bold Venture" The beginning of this episode - and quite a few epiosdes - is rather abrupt. I'm mentioned this before: Bold Venture did not seem to be "archived" as carefully as some of the other Old Radio shows, and the musical transitions, and beginnings / endings of shows, seems to be sort of hap-hazardly edited by someone in the past.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: "A New Point On My Desk Pen." I believe this implies that he is using a pen that draws ink, and requires a fresh point to write smoothly.
	9:36pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:33 I would have thought that a show featuring Bogie and Bacall would have been very carefully archived by someone somewhere.
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:36 I think, because "Santana Productions" was Bogart's own company, it was only as careful as the boss required. And radio, in those days, wasn't seen as something to archive, but something that would air and was then disposable. So often, transcription discs were found in dumpsters at the end of the week, to be scavenged by people who realized they might have value.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: I always wanted to get into the hobby of Transcription Disc collecting. I have three. When I worked at KPSU, they used to have at transcription disc player, and I was tempted to buy it from them and get into digitizing old discs. But that's the kind of hobby that becomes a full-time job, in and of itself.
	9:41pm Charles: That sounded like a karate chop.
	9:43pm Charles: YOU go through with it ?!? Great delivery.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:43 The delivery on this show is really what makes it fun.
	9:46pm Charles: Quipping couple coffee sounds like a fun thing to say out loud.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:46 It's funny: I trip over so many other things I record for my radio shows, but that phrase is surprisingly easy to say. I knew immediately I had sort of stumbled on something.
	👻 9:50pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 I very much enjoy the ads you do!! And I with QQC were a thing I could buy in stores!
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: King Moses has a "jalopy" that Sailor can borrow. I really love that image... and in 1951 I can only imagine what "jalopy" meant... Probably something from the 20's or 30's.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:50 Nice to see you in the chat! I have been considering getting some QQC stickers made, at least. If I could afford it: shirts.
	👻 9:53pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:51 I've been tuned in! Busy night here but I'm listening! Hmmmm.... got any local roasters who might want to actually make the brew?? Though I do also love stickers!
	9:54pm Charles: That's good, as for old timey radio promotion I already asked for my tombstone to have "After you mate, after you" engraved on it.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:53 That might be something I could get done in Portland or Eugene. But I don't know anyone local.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:54 Ahhh. That show is so good.
	👻 9:55pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:54 Might be worth looking into? Or I might be greedy! Or probably both?
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:55 If I had a little more capital to spend on a project like that, for sure! But for now, stickers are probably more affordable.
	9:56pm Charles: Hey what's the matter aaAAIIIYAAAaahh! -- I loved that so much.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: The whole gag about learning to pick a lock from a friend, and how he needs to "write to her," must be a reference to one of his movies. I should probably re-watch a bunch of his old movies.
	9:58pm Cp304: Slate is throwin down this episode
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @9:58 I'm sure Bogart had a requirement for x amount of action per episode.
	10:00pm Charles: I think I would have liked to do that back then. Be the character who screams as he gets knocked out or shot in radio plays.
	10:04pm Charles: Welcome back Chandu!
	10:07pm Charles: ADVENTURE WANTED! Will go anywhere. Do anything.
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @10:07 Yeah, I should re-create the Box 13 ad, and get THOSE stickers made.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: This Panda story has now been told a few times, from a couple different perspectives, in this documentary. It probably did happen, but it seems to have been more or less dramatic, depending on who you talk to.
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: In spite of all the clichés, "Casablanca" is still a really good movie. Even in 2023.
	10:18pm Cp304: ↳ Austin Rich @10:15 I have yet to watch it
	👻 10:19pm Heather Z: ↳ Cp304 @10:18 Same! I probably should since I like this here show so well!
	10:19pm Cp304: ↳ Heather Z @10:19 One of these days..
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @10:18 For a long time, it was the movie that all TV shows would eventually parody, and everyone would claim was "the best film ever." (There's even a Red Dwarf parody of it.) But when I finally sat down and watched it, it's a pretty good spy movie, set during WWII, in a sort of part of the world that's not often thought of during the war... and of course, there's a romance. It's almost the perfect movie, when you add Bogart.
	👻 10:22pm Heather Z: ↳ Cp304 @10:19 It may be in the public domain? Hmmm.... lmk if we should do a zoom watch party.
	10:23pm Cp304: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 That's cool, I never even knew what it was about.. only that phrase and photo is all I really knew about it
	10:24pm Cp304: I guess it has pretty much morphed into Bourne identity
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: There is a radio show that I'm quite fond of, "The Adventures of Rocky Jordan," that is an attempt to make a radio show out of that film, though heavily re-written since Bogart was not interested. In this radio show, "Rocky Jordan" runs a bar in an Egyptian city, sort of like Casablanca, and similar "adventures" happen in that show. I'm a big Rocky Jordan fan, and I'll probably run it on her at some point.
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: "Bold Venture" was the "compromise" show that Bogart made, instead of doing a Casablanca show. It's set in a bar that he runs, sort of like his Rick Character in Casablanca. And like the movie, Bogart's bar is located in an exotic location, with a trusted musician who he confides in. But he also mixes in a lot of stuff from "To Have and Have Not," which involved Bacall and a Boat, and has a lot of the other tropes at play.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @10:24 You're totally right!
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Kaleidoscope"" by "Dimension X" The sound quality of this episode is REALLY bad. It must have come from a fan home-recording. Since it is based on a Ray Bradbury story, I'm sure that's the main reason people are interested in this episode, quality be damned. I did some EQ to clean it up, and some noise reduction. But there's only so much I could do.
	👻 10:30pm Heather Z: Mind leeches?! Did I hear that right?!
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:30 Miss Martian says you need to be prepared for any emergency.
	👻 10:32pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 And here I was worried only about neti pot amoebae!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: Keen-eared listeners will notice that, last week, on Dimension X, the announcer said (at the end of the show) that Dimension X was "moving" to a new day and time. However, this episode - by all accounts - aired the same day of the week, one week later. I'm not sure what actually happened in 1951 that prevented the time change, but since there were only a few more episodes in the run, perhaps most program directors just let the show keep going in the same time slot. Who can say? I wish I knew some Dimension X fan from back in the day...
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:32 The TV show "Six Feet Under" scared me off of Neti Pots well before the recent amoebae scare.
	👻 10:35pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:34 Omg I haven't thought of that show in forever and it was so good! I've been afraid of the amoebae since I got a neti pot ages ago! Sigh.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:35 I certainly watched all of it as a way to avoid doing homework when I was in college. But it was hard to watch, because all the characters were sort of awful to each other, almost all the time.
	👻 10:39pm WR: Free floating in space suits. Must have amazing source of oxygen.
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Kaleidoscope"" by "Dimension X" Given that "Dimension X" was being canceled soon, and given that both Ray Bradbury and George Lefferts - who adapted this story - seemed to enjoy that bit where the astronaut tells off the captain of the ship, I can't help but think there's more to that scene than just the surface. I'm sure everyone working on this show wanted to "tell off" the superiors, when they knew this show was getting canceled.
	10:40pm Cp304: He must be space drunk
	👻 10:40pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:36 I feel like I watched that when Netflix still came in red envelopes!
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:39 Yeah, they don't really address that.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:40 That is absolutely how I watched it. The "by mail" era of "streaming."
	👻 10:40pm Heather Z: ↳ Cp304 @10:40 Space drunk is the best kind of drunk!
	👻 10:41pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 It was a wild era, really!
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: "Radical Honesty."
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: The last three episodes of Dimension X are all heavy hitters. A story by Ray Bradbury this week, Robert Heinlein next week, and Asimov to close it out. They certainly picked some big names, to go out with a bang.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: The phrase "slut of a wife" seems pretty extreme for 1951.
	👻 10:48pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:48 I meannnn
	👻 10:49pm WR: Interesting to hear how Bradbury / Lefferts play out the dissolution scenario of the captain vs. the other "types".
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: There's a lot of this episode that seems particularly grim, and very much pushing the envelope of what they have done before. (Even for this show.) There's a part of me that thinks, again, because they were getting canceled, they were sort of "going all out" with this one.
	10:49pm Cp304: ↳ Austin Rich @10:48 They had better delivery of the term back then.. even when they say "shut up!" It has more punch than nowadays
	👻 10:51pm WR: pretty spunky wife to be his hallucination.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: "Yes, but we never do." "I've been pointing toward this job..."
	👻 10:52pm WR: Oh, this is the memory of the last conversation with his wife.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:52 <taps side of nose>
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:52 The show is about to wrap. Thanks again everyone! I do love this show!
	👻 10:57pm Heather Z: Thanks for a great time, everyone!!
	10:57pm Cp304: Thanks Rich for the entertainment and insight, good hanging all
	👻 11:00pm WR: I've greatly enjoyed Dimension X. Thank you for this great program week after week. My donation was spread very thin among the many many great WFMU programs. Pennies for the many minutes / hours of great programming. Again, thank you. Onward y'all.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @11:00 I have too! And I love the little "Dimestore family" we've got going here.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 20, 2023

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