WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 18, 2023

Listener comments!
	9:00pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: Good Hello!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: I have Fred McMurray forever in my mind as the dad on My Three Sons. So any time I see him in any other context, I immediately think of that theme song.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:00 I hope you enjoy the show!
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Radio fans! this is a great movie!
	9:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 I think I will
	9:04pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 I share a birthday with Fred McMurray (and R. Crumb)
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:03 I discovered it pretty recently, but it is a wonderfully weird Holiday Movie.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:04 Woah! That's a pretty good double whammy.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: I share a birthday with Willie Nelson.
	👻 9:06pm yerfriendpaul: Hi Austin, everyone!
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:06 Have a seat, yerfriendpaul! Enjoy the show!
	👻 9:07pm yerfriendpaul: Sterling Holloway - can’t wait to hear him!
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: I know this is incredibly common - both then and now - but I always find it weird when there's a story set at the holidays and it's on the radio in March. But it happens.
	9:07pm Barno in Akron: How do you do, fellow kids?
	9:07pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 I share mine with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
	👻 9:08pm WR: Hello Austin, Imaginos, WHH, Figured out dinner. With the potatoes I am having the foie gras paté left by my roommate who just moved out. Sauce is a reduction of end of a bottle of cheap South African red wine and grocery store balsamic vinegar.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Barno in Akron @9:07 Barno! Thanks for a great show the last hour. A nice set-up for me.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:08 Damn! Dinner at WR's house! Fantastic.
	9:08pm Barno in Akron: ↳ Austin Rich @9:08 Aw, shucks thanks :)
	9:11pm Imaginos: Sigh. Schizophrenia and hypnotism are not the same
	9:12pm Imaginos: And she just happened to walk into the pawn shop?
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:11 In 1940, I think that would be easy to convince a jury of nonsense.
	9:13pm maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 TOTALLY! I am the same! When I saw Double Indemnity for the first time I was like "WHAT the HECK!?" It was so weird to me :D
	9:13pm univac: Hello, all!
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ maulydaft @9:13 Yeah, that movie in particular is so weird to watch, because of the My Three Sons connection. But I LOVE that movie.
	9:14pm Webhamster Henry: OK I just repaired my FM transmitter and I'm listening to the show ON THE RADIO.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:13 univac! Thanks for tuning in.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:14 Rad! Now that is the way you should hear this!
	9:15pm Imaginos: Now him I believe was hypnotized
	9:16pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ maulydaft @9:13 Double indemnity is a great love story between Fred and Edward G.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: Sometimes, I think Fred McMurray is great... and also... not great. It's weird. It's like he's both at the same time?
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:16 The subtext in that movie is SO thick.
	9:17pm Webhamster Henry: MacMurray (Mac) was stupidly popular at one point!
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:16 (As an actor, I mean.)
	9:19pm maulydaft: I studied it in film school - of all places! It's amazing :D
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: I'm sort of in love with her, too. I could see why Fred would fall for her.
	9:20pm maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 totally!!
	9:20pm Imaginos: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:17 He was even good when his career went to the dogs
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ maulydaft @9:19 If you haven't read the novel, "Double Indemnity" is one of my favorte books, too. VERY well written.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:20 Zing.
	👻 9:21pm yerfriendpaul: Swell guy indeed!
	9:21pm maulydaft: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:16 Webhamster Henry you are so right :)
	👻 9:24pm WR: ↳ Song: ""Remember The Night"" by "Lux Radio Theater" Movie script by Preston Sturges
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:24 No wonder it's so good!
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: Sullivan's Travels alone is one of the greatest films EVER, and that's only ONE of the great movies he worked on. en.wikipedia.org...
	9:26pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 I had a girlfriend in high school that looked just like Barbara Stanwyck...
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:26 Va-Va-Voom! That's pretty rad.
	9:28pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:27 Yeah, she was pretty cute...
	9:29pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ univac @9:26 I have a young friend who also looks like Stanwyck when lit like that - and she's a model.
	9:31pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek is the craziest thing and many critics wonder how the basic plot point slipped by the censor board.
	9:31pm univac: Stanwyck had such an unusual beauty
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: I think, because I would channel surf a lot as a kid and watch a lot of weird old movies, that I find a lot of old movie stars to be particularly attractive.
	9:34pm maulydaft: I swear I just heard "I didn't even start in on that bottle of ecstasy you gave me last year!" :D
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ maulydaft @9:34 The secret underside of middle America.
	9:35pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:31 I agree. I'm sure much of the attraction was designed for that exact reason.
	9:36pm univac: I think the mother just flubbed her lines into "fart", but she recovered very quickly, but definitely had a smile in her voice for the next line.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: I guess the equivalent now would be how kids develop crushes on stars of 80's movies... as that would be 40 years ago.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:36 Since so many of these shows were live, you catch a lot of flubs like that. But they would just press on, which is admirable.
	9:38pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:37 Lux paid really well, and used the actual movie's actors mostly, so with luck, they knew some of their lines and direction. I'm popping corn.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: Meddling Mothers cause more trouble in movies and TV than almost any other character type.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:38 Lux was BIG MONEY in it's day.
	👻 9:39pm yerfriendpaul: Hmm. I thought the Mom was supportive until now. She tricked me
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:39 See, Moms can be tricky But they don't want you to know that.
	9:41pm Webhamster Henry: I have to say, it's so cool to hear this on an actual radio.
	9:41pm Imaginos: Working on another Imaginos fic with Imaginos falls in love with his female aspect Desdinova and wondering how the people of 1832 would view such a relationship
	9:41pm Barno in Akron: Cool! I'm sporting a cap!
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:41 I have thought about tinkering with LPFM stuff... just haven't gotten around to it. I really should. That would up my Nerd Cred quite a bit.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:41 That sounds very interesting!
	9:42pm univac: Austin: Yes, true. Ladies of the 80's! FlubLux: Yes, nice they had the $$ to do the radio shows right, getting the original cast, etc. Ah! When Radio was king! Meddling Mothers: Well, since most media was designed for males, the Meddling Mother was always there to save their little Johnny from the "bad girl".
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Barno in Akron @9:41 Sometimes, you just need something that helps fill the line out.
	9:43pm maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 Licence window just closed! They think it's going to be the last one
	👻 9:43pm WR: Even though I've just read the Wikipedia plot summary the pathos of that scene with Ma Sargent teared me up. I'm a sucker for a bad lady with a good heart.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ maulydaft @9:43 Curses. Foiled again.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: I think "Meddling Mothers" is a Heavy Metal Mothers of Invention Cover Band.
	9:45pm Mr Fab: What ho, chaps! Funny, I only know Fred McMurray from “Double Indemnity”, as a near lifelong noir fan, and strict avoider of what I assumed were corny family sitcoms. (Who knows, maybe “my 3 sons” is brilliant, but that was my youthful attitude)
	9:46pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:44 YES!
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:45 It was the combination of My Three Sons being on ALL the time, and me accidently not seeing Double Indemnity until I was 20-something. The weirdness of TV in small town Oregon.
	9:47pm univac: Triple Indemnity?
	9:47pm Barno in Akron: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 I'd be happy to sport a cap for you anytime :)
	9:47pm univac: Gotta go eat. See you in a while, perhaps. Thx Austin! Let's talk tonite about tomorrow.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: I like all of James M. Cain's novels that I have read. I think he's got a very great style.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:47 Indeed!
	9:51pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Mr Fab @9:45 I looked like Ernie enough to be teased for it quite a lot.
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:51 Kids are so mean.
	9:53pm Webhamster Henry: hoodlums and hop-heads!
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:53 Sounds like my people.
	👻 9:55pm yerfriendpaul: Is this the origin story of My 3 Sons? We never see the mother in the show, because she’s still in the slammer
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: Oh! Good Observation!
	9:58pm Webhamster Henry: Arthur Q. Bryan (Elmer Fudd) in a bit part
	10:05pm Mr Fab: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:58 So weird that Elmer Fudd was like the only voice Mel Blanc didn’t do on the WH cartoons. He certainly could have, it’s not a difficult voice. Wonder if there’s a reason why…
	10:07pm Imaginos: That's pretty bad coming from a Max Headroom fan
	10:11pm Imaginos: Battle of the Bands: Trans Siberian Orchestra vs Mannheim Steamroller
	10:14pm Imaginos: Is that the same Coroner that did the shorts found on RiffTrax?
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Gift of The Magi by O. Henry"" by "The Coron... Another example of the many, short, 15 minute programs that tried to engage the literary aspect of radio entertainment. There were a ton of shows like this, and it's funny to think that America might have an accidental, passing relationship with short fiction, because they listened to the radio. I'm not sure that's true, anymore.
	10:14pm Imaginos: ↳ Imaginos @10:14 Coronet I mean
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:14 I think it was named after the theater, but I could be wrong.
	10:16pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:14 Back in the day, fresh, illustrated short stories were available in magazines like Colliers, Saturday Evening Post, and many others! Not just the New Yorker!
	10:17pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:15 You're probably right
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:16 Very true! There's just so fewer ways short fiction is pushed on people.
	10:18pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Mr Fab @10:05 He did do it for a few cartoons after Bryan died. And weirdly, I heard him try it out in a commercial I heard in another archived radio show (CBS Mystery Theater, from 1976 or so) a few nights ago.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:16 I have a few old issues of Colliers that I inherited from my Grandmother.
	10:20pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 There are zines and podcasts (and I do very short fiction on my blog site when I remember to )
	10:20pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 Piles of old magazines used to be the super feature of summer rentals!
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:20 True! And podcasts are really innovative with the ways they deliver stories.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:20 Every so often, if you stay in a cabin, it seems like people always leave behind magazines. But they're often not that interesting.
	10:24pm Imaginos: Going to get some sleep
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:17 Oh! It's named after Coronet Magainze!
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:24 Sleep well!
	10:24pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:24 Maybe all three?
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: I am not familiar with Coronet Magazine. I learned something new!
	10:29pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: ""The Gift of The Magi by O. Henry"" by "The Coron... The coronet theater was next to a place called “house of samples“? Cool, I’ll swing by to pick up some James Brown breakbeats.
	10:30pm Webhamster Henry: I'm associated with an intense science fiction (aliens)/horror(transformational body horror and gore) well produced podcast. Look up Mandible Judy and its spin-off Under Dead Water!
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: Many old time radio nerds say that the end of, "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar," was the official end of Old Time Radio.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:30 I will check those out! A good horror show is always worth checking out.
	10:31pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 Johnny Dollar, based in Hartford, CT, "America's Filecabinet"
	10:32pm Webhamster Henry: I've done that Hartford to NYC ride many a time. (I'm from Hartford)
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: Johnny Dollar was on the air for 13 years, performed by four different actors, and had over 800 original episodes made in that time. There were movie spin-offs, magazines, and the character occasionally comes back in other forms, here and there. Johnny Dollar used to be a lot more popular in the 50's and 60's, and it's a shame that the kids don't know about this character.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:32 I've always wondered about Hartford, because of this show.
	10:34pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 Obviously needs a 2020s reboot.
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:34 I have thought about it. I think the "frugal / count every penny" aspect of his character could translate to a number of eras and interpretations.
	10:36pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 Hartford has a number of things to recommend it, if you know where to look. But mostly, you don't know where to look.
	10:36pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:36 It's like a lot of sad-sack US Capitol cities.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:36 It's like a lot of cities. I live is the Oregon State Capitol, so I know what you mean.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: Old sweaters and underwear. I think that's what I'm getting for Christmas.
	👻 10:40pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 I grew up near Hartford. Visited my friend there a couple months ago. Went to The Wadsworth Athenium, a great museum. Then walked around Bushnell Park
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: Asking Santa for an Air Rifle. This sounds a little like something Jean Sheppard might have borrowed later.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:40 My partner and I love to find Museums and wander around. That's usually our "out of town" thing to do. (And always educational!)
	👻 10:42pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 It’s a great way to spend time, no doubt.
	10:43pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:40 Yes, that's one of the good spots. not just their collection, but the special shows ( we saw a big Ed Gorey exhibit a few years ago) and their movie series (if they still have it..)
	👻 10:44pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:43 There was a great special show dedicated to Frederick Douglas when we were there. It was excellent
	10:46pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:43 Also of note is the Mark Twain house, always fun, usually decked out for Christmas. The Harriet Beecher Stowe house is also in "Nook Farm", right across the way from the Twain house .
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: Maybe having guns easily available in a department store wasn't a great idea.
	👻 10:49pm yerfriendpaul: My niece goes to college at Trinity College in Hartford. I invited her to tour the Mark Twain House on Farmington Ave. I went there on a school field trip when I was young so it was so great returning and seeing it again with more appreciative eyes. My niece loved the tour as well
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:49 I do want to see the Twain house someday. I do love his writing.
	👻 10:52pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 I was shocked to see ammunition on open shelves like boxes of candy in a Walmart in Oklahoma.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:52 I think it used to be like that almost everywhere, in 1949. But it does seem like folly in the modern age.
	10:53pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:49 I'm a Trin Graduate. They've built a few buildings since I was there! But: Cinestudio is still the best movie experience for about 50 miles in any direction. Maybe more.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: Someday I might consider trying to run Johnny Dollar on this show... but when I do, it'll run for YEARS afterwards. So that'll be a "long haul" committment.
	👻 10:55pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:53 That’s so great! We just visited there a couple weeks ago for my niece’s play. Such a nice campus.
	10:56pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:55 It's Trin's 200th anniversary (2023 that is). Its original campus was where the Capitol is now.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: Thanks for listening, everyone! See ya'll next time!
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: Fourth Wall Breakage!
	👻 10:57pm WR: Sent to the penn without a trial.
	10:57pm Webhamster Henry: Something I didn't mention is that the radio I'm listening to the show on is an "emergency radio" that I have to crank every once in a while.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:57 That's sort of amazing!
	👻 10:58pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 Thank you Austin! Love your show! Good night all! Webmaster Henry - I didn’t know that. That’s a beautiful building too, the Capitol
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: I love that ending theme of Johnny Dollar.
	👻 11:00pm WR: Thank you! Austin!
	11:00pm Webhamster Henry: Well that was fun and I hope Johnny got repaid in a timely fashion!
	11:01pm univac: Just catching the end!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 18, 2023

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Join us for two hours of old time radio dramas, as we present four different pulp fiction stories, every week! Noir Stories with everymen getting wrapped up in dangerous adventures! Sea-faring Tales that are as two-fisted as they are filled with romance! Mysterious Magicians from the Far East, or maybe a Science Fiction yarn from the Atomic Age! Dimestore Radio Theater offers a chance to engage in Theater of The Mind, and enter a world of incredible tales from both yesterday and tomorrow!

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December 18, 2023: Holiday Film Fest!: "Remember The Night" & "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar."

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Lux Radio Theater	"Remember The Night"	25 March 1940	CBS	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Boston Pops	Sleigh Ride "Sleigh Ride" by "Boston Pops"			0:56:57 (Pop-up)
The Coronet Little Show	"The Gift of The Magi by O. Henry"	19 December 1943	Mutual	1:11:59 (Pop-up)
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar	"How I Played Santa Claus"	24 December 1949	Santana Productions	1:28:34 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:00pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: Good Hello!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: I have Fred McMurray forever in my mind as the dad on My Three Sons. So any time I see him in any other context, I immediately think of that theme song.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:00 I hope you enjoy the show!
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Radio fans! this is a great movie!
	9:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 I think I will
	9:04pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 I share a birthday with Fred McMurray (and R. Crumb)
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:03 I discovered it pretty recently, but it is a wonderfully weird Holiday Movie.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:04 Woah! That's a pretty good double whammy.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: I share a birthday with Willie Nelson.
	👻 9:06pm yerfriendpaul: Hi Austin, everyone!
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:06 Have a seat, yerfriendpaul! Enjoy the show!
	👻 9:07pm yerfriendpaul: Sterling Holloway - can’t wait to hear him!
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: I know this is incredibly common - both then and now - but I always find it weird when there's a story set at the holidays and it's on the radio in March. But it happens.
	9:07pm Barno in Akron: How do you do, fellow kids?
	9:07pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 I share mine with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
	👻 9:08pm WR: Hello Austin, Imaginos, WHH, Figured out dinner. With the potatoes I am having the foie gras paté left by my roommate who just moved out. Sauce is a reduction of end of a bottle of cheap South African red wine and grocery store balsamic vinegar.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Barno in Akron @9:07 Barno! Thanks for a great show the last hour. A nice set-up for me.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:08 Damn! Dinner at WR's house! Fantastic.
	9:08pm Barno in Akron: ↳ Austin Rich @9:08 Aw, shucks thanks :)
	9:11pm Imaginos: Sigh. Schizophrenia and hypnotism are not the same
	9:12pm Imaginos: And she just happened to walk into the pawn shop?
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:11 In 1940, I think that would be easy to convince a jury of nonsense.
	9:13pm maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 TOTALLY! I am the same! When I saw Double Indemnity for the first time I was like "WHAT the HECK!?" It was so weird to me :D
	9:13pm univac: Hello, all!
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ maulydaft @9:13 Yeah, that movie in particular is so weird to watch, because of the My Three Sons connection. But I LOVE that movie.
	9:14pm Webhamster Henry: OK I just repaired my FM transmitter and I'm listening to the show ON THE RADIO.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:13 univac! Thanks for tuning in.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:14 Rad! Now that is the way you should hear this!
	9:15pm Imaginos: Now him I believe was hypnotized
	9:16pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ maulydaft @9:13 Double indemnity is a great love story between Fred and Edward G.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: Sometimes, I think Fred McMurray is great... and also... not great. It's weird. It's like he's both at the same time?
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:16 The subtext in that movie is SO thick.
	9:17pm Webhamster Henry: MacMurray (Mac) was stupidly popular at one point!
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:16 (As an actor, I mean.)
	9:19pm maulydaft: I studied it in film school - of all places! It's amazing :D
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: I'm sort of in love with her, too. I could see why Fred would fall for her.
	9:20pm maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 totally!!
	9:20pm Imaginos: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:17 He was even good when his career went to the dogs
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ maulydaft @9:19 If you haven't read the novel, "Double Indemnity" is one of my favorte books, too. VERY well written.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:20 Zing.
	👻 9:21pm yerfriendpaul: Swell guy indeed!
	9:21pm maulydaft: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:16 Webhamster Henry you are so right :)
	👻 9:24pm WR: ↳ Song: ""Remember The Night"" by "Lux Radio Theater" Movie script by Preston Sturges
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:24 No wonder it's so good!
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: Sullivan's Travels alone is one of the greatest films EVER, and that's only ONE of the great movies he worked on. en.wikipedia.org...
	9:26pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 I had a girlfriend in high school that looked just like Barbara Stanwyck...
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:26 Va-Va-Voom! That's pretty rad.
	9:28pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:27 Yeah, she was pretty cute...
	9:29pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ univac @9:26 I have a young friend who also looks like Stanwyck when lit like that - and she's a model.
	9:31pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek is the craziest thing and many critics wonder how the basic plot point slipped by the censor board.
	9:31pm univac: Stanwyck had such an unusual beauty
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: I think, because I would channel surf a lot as a kid and watch a lot of weird old movies, that I find a lot of old movie stars to be particularly attractive.
	9:34pm maulydaft: I swear I just heard "I didn't even start in on that bottle of ecstasy you gave me last year!" :D
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ maulydaft @9:34 The secret underside of middle America.
	9:35pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:31 I agree. I'm sure much of the attraction was designed for that exact reason.
	9:36pm univac: I think the mother just flubbed her lines into "fart", but she recovered very quickly, but definitely had a smile in her voice for the next line.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: I guess the equivalent now would be how kids develop crushes on stars of 80's movies... as that would be 40 years ago.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:36 Since so many of these shows were live, you catch a lot of flubs like that. But they would just press on, which is admirable.
	9:38pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:37 Lux paid really well, and used the actual movie's actors mostly, so with luck, they knew some of their lines and direction. I'm popping corn.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: Meddling Mothers cause more trouble in movies and TV than almost any other character type.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:38 Lux was BIG MONEY in it's day.
	👻 9:39pm yerfriendpaul: Hmm. I thought the Mom was supportive until now. She tricked me
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:39 See, Moms can be tricky But they don't want you to know that.
	9:41pm Webhamster Henry: I have to say, it's so cool to hear this on an actual radio.
	9:41pm Imaginos: Working on another Imaginos fic with Imaginos falls in love with his female aspect Desdinova and wondering how the people of 1832 would view such a relationship
	9:41pm Barno in Akron: Cool! I'm sporting a cap!
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:41 I have thought about tinkering with LPFM stuff... just haven't gotten around to it. I really should. That would up my Nerd Cred quite a bit.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:41 That sounds very interesting!
	9:42pm univac: Austin: Yes, true. Ladies of the 80's! FlubLux: Yes, nice they had the $$ to do the radio shows right, getting the original cast, etc. Ah! When Radio was king! Meddling Mothers: Well, since most media was designed for males, the Meddling Mother was always there to save their little Johnny from the "bad girl".
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Barno in Akron @9:41 Sometimes, you just need something that helps fill the line out.
	9:43pm maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 Licence window just closed! They think it's going to be the last one
	👻 9:43pm WR: Even though I've just read the Wikipedia plot summary the pathos of that scene with Ma Sargent teared me up. I'm a sucker for a bad lady with a good heart.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ maulydaft @9:43 Curses. Foiled again.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: I think "Meddling Mothers" is a Heavy Metal Mothers of Invention Cover Band.
	9:45pm Mr Fab: What ho, chaps! Funny, I only know Fred McMurray from “Double Indemnity”, as a near lifelong noir fan, and strict avoider of what I assumed were corny family sitcoms. (Who knows, maybe “my 3 sons” is brilliant, but that was my youthful attitude)
	9:46pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:44 YES!
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:45 It was the combination of My Three Sons being on ALL the time, and me accidently not seeing Double Indemnity until I was 20-something. The weirdness of TV in small town Oregon.
	9:47pm univac: Triple Indemnity?
	9:47pm Barno in Akron: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 I'd be happy to sport a cap for you anytime :)
	9:47pm univac: Gotta go eat. See you in a while, perhaps. Thx Austin! Let's talk tonite about tomorrow.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: I like all of James M. Cain's novels that I have read. I think he's got a very great style.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:47 Indeed!
	9:51pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Mr Fab @9:45 I looked like Ernie enough to be teased for it quite a lot.
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:51 Kids are so mean.
	9:53pm Webhamster Henry: hoodlums and hop-heads!
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:53 Sounds like my people.
	👻 9:55pm yerfriendpaul: Is this the origin story of My 3 Sons? We never see the mother in the show, because she’s still in the slammer
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: Oh! Good Observation!
	9:58pm Webhamster Henry: Arthur Q. Bryan (Elmer Fudd) in a bit part
	10:05pm Mr Fab: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:58 So weird that Elmer Fudd was like the only voice Mel Blanc didn’t do on the WH cartoons. He certainly could have, it’s not a difficult voice. Wonder if there’s a reason why…
	10:07pm Imaginos: That's pretty bad coming from a Max Headroom fan
	10:11pm Imaginos: Battle of the Bands: Trans Siberian Orchestra vs Mannheim Steamroller
	10:14pm Imaginos: Is that the same Coroner that did the shorts found on RiffTrax?
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Gift of The Magi by O. Henry"" by "The Coron... Another example of the many, short, 15 minute programs that tried to engage the literary aspect of radio entertainment. There were a ton of shows like this, and it's funny to think that America might have an accidental, passing relationship with short fiction, because they listened to the radio. I'm not sure that's true, anymore.
	10:14pm Imaginos: ↳ Imaginos @10:14 Coronet I mean
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:14 I think it was named after the theater, but I could be wrong.
	10:16pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:14 Back in the day, fresh, illustrated short stories were available in magazines like Colliers, Saturday Evening Post, and many others! Not just the New Yorker!
	10:17pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:15 You're probably right
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:16 Very true! There's just so fewer ways short fiction is pushed on people.
	10:18pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Mr Fab @10:05 He did do it for a few cartoons after Bryan died. And weirdly, I heard him try it out in a commercial I heard in another archived radio show (CBS Mystery Theater, from 1976 or so) a few nights ago.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:16 I have a few old issues of Colliers that I inherited from my Grandmother.
	10:20pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 There are zines and podcasts (and I do very short fiction on my blog site when I remember to )
	10:20pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 Piles of old magazines used to be the super feature of summer rentals!
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:20 True! And podcasts are really innovative with the ways they deliver stories.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:20 Every so often, if you stay in a cabin, it seems like people always leave behind magazines. But they're often not that interesting.
	10:24pm Imaginos: Going to get some sleep
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:17 Oh! It's named after Coronet Magainze!
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:24 Sleep well!
	10:24pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:24 Maybe all three?
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: I am not familiar with Coronet Magazine. I learned something new!
	10:29pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: ""The Gift of The Magi by O. Henry"" by "The Coron... The coronet theater was next to a place called “house of samples“? Cool, I’ll swing by to pick up some James Brown breakbeats.
	10:30pm Webhamster Henry: I'm associated with an intense science fiction (aliens)/horror(transformational body horror and gore) well produced podcast. Look up Mandible Judy and its spin-off Under Dead Water!
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: Many old time radio nerds say that the end of, "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar," was the official end of Old Time Radio.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:30 I will check those out! A good horror show is always worth checking out.
	10:31pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 Johnny Dollar, based in Hartford, CT, "America's Filecabinet"
	10:32pm Webhamster Henry: I've done that Hartford to NYC ride many a time. (I'm from Hartford)
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: Johnny Dollar was on the air for 13 years, performed by four different actors, and had over 800 original episodes made in that time. There were movie spin-offs, magazines, and the character occasionally comes back in other forms, here and there. Johnny Dollar used to be a lot more popular in the 50's and 60's, and it's a shame that the kids don't know about this character.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:32 I've always wondered about Hartford, because of this show.
	10:34pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 Obviously needs a 2020s reboot.
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:34 I have thought about it. I think the "frugal / count every penny" aspect of his character could translate to a number of eras and interpretations.
	10:36pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 Hartford has a number of things to recommend it, if you know where to look. But mostly, you don't know where to look.
	10:36pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:36 It's like a lot of sad-sack US Capitol cities.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:36 It's like a lot of cities. I live is the Oregon State Capitol, so I know what you mean.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: Old sweaters and underwear. I think that's what I'm getting for Christmas.
	👻 10:40pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 I grew up near Hartford. Visited my friend there a couple months ago. Went to The Wadsworth Athenium, a great museum. Then walked around Bushnell Park
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: Asking Santa for an Air Rifle. This sounds a little like something Jean Sheppard might have borrowed later.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:40 My partner and I love to find Museums and wander around. That's usually our "out of town" thing to do. (And always educational!)
	👻 10:42pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 It’s a great way to spend time, no doubt.
	10:43pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:40 Yes, that's one of the good spots. not just their collection, but the special shows ( we saw a big Ed Gorey exhibit a few years ago) and their movie series (if they still have it..)
	👻 10:44pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:43 There was a great special show dedicated to Frederick Douglas when we were there. It was excellent
	10:46pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:43 Also of note is the Mark Twain house, always fun, usually decked out for Christmas. The Harriet Beecher Stowe house is also in "Nook Farm", right across the way from the Twain house .
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: Maybe having guns easily available in a department store wasn't a great idea.
	👻 10:49pm yerfriendpaul: My niece goes to college at Trinity College in Hartford. I invited her to tour the Mark Twain House on Farmington Ave. I went there on a school field trip when I was young so it was so great returning and seeing it again with more appreciative eyes. My niece loved the tour as well
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:49 I do want to see the Twain house someday. I do love his writing.
	👻 10:52pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 I was shocked to see ammunition on open shelves like boxes of candy in a Walmart in Oklahoma.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:52 I think it used to be like that almost everywhere, in 1949. But it does seem like folly in the modern age.
	10:53pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:49 I'm a Trin Graduate. They've built a few buildings since I was there! But: Cinestudio is still the best movie experience for about 50 miles in any direction. Maybe more.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: Someday I might consider trying to run Johnny Dollar on this show... but when I do, it'll run for YEARS afterwards. So that'll be a "long haul" committment.
	👻 10:55pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:53 That’s so great! We just visited there a couple weeks ago for my niece’s play. Such a nice campus.
	10:56pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:55 It's Trin's 200th anniversary (2023 that is). Its original campus was where the Capitol is now.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: Thanks for listening, everyone! See ya'll next time!
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: Fourth Wall Breakage!
	👻 10:57pm WR: Sent to the penn without a trial.
	10:57pm Webhamster Henry: Something I didn't mention is that the radio I'm listening to the show on is an "emergency radio" that I have to crank every once in a while.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:57 That's sort of amazing!
	👻 10:58pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 Thank you Austin! Love your show! Good night all! Webmaster Henry - I didn’t know that. That’s a beautiful building too, the Capitol
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: I love that ending theme of Johnny Dollar.
	👻 11:00pm WR: Thank you! Austin!
	11:00pm Webhamster Henry: Well that was fun and I hope Johnny got repaid in a timely fashion!
	11:01pm univac: Just catching the end!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 18, 2023

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