WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 29, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 6:04pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:58pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	👻 8:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:58 Greetings! Thanks for joining tonight!
	9:00pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:59 Always a pleasure
	9:01pm asheville jon: I remebered to show up on time tonight!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Blood On The Sand"" by "Rogue's Gallery" Our second installment of Rogue's Gallery, with Dick Powell!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @9:01 It's a Dimestore Miracle!
	9:01pm Imaginos: ↳ asheville jon @9:01 Nice to see you
	9:01pm Webhamster Henry: And now: the Crooner gets KO'd!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Blood On The Sand"" by "Rogue's Gallery" When we listened to "Candy Matson," she did a variation on this story, set on a dude ranch, as her "New Years" installment. This one takes some different turns here and there, but it's got a lot of the same tropes working for it.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:01 That's a great name!
	👻 9:03pm WR: Hi, had to restart the popup player to get the audio. Hi.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:03 Bummer! Hopefully it sounds good, otherwise?
	9:05pm Imaginos: Blood on the sand?!
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: We don't have all the episodes of this show that were aired, so it is hard to know if there was more continuity if you heard them all. But sometimes Rogue has a girlfriend. Sometimes he doesn't. Sometimes he woos someone during the episode, and sometimes he's trying to get back to a date he's already set up. If there are more scripts for this show floating around somewhere, I'd love to read them! But for now, I don't really know if there's anymore continuity to his dating life than "he likes girls."
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:05 Blood on the Saddle!
	9:08pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 Makes more sense.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: I'm on the hunt for other "dude ranch" / pseudo-western stories that feature detectives. I might do a whole show of thsoe stories, if I can find at least one or two more.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: I'm fairly certain that Mills is being played by Gerald Mohr, who popularized the role of Phillip Marlowe on the radio, but was also a very hard working character actor who appeared in hundreds of radio shows.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: en.wikipedia.org...
	9:17pm Maulydaft: Yes it's Gerald Mohr!! Love him in the Marlowe shows!
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:17 Yeah! Those Marlowe shows are EXCELLENT. I'll be running them on the show someday... but not right away.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: While he's always charming, I've noticed that Dick Powell blows lines occasionally, though only in small ways. We've heard a lot of other stars flub occasional lines, even in a syndicated, transcription disc show. I think, given how quickly these shows were cranked out, they just didn't go back to fix problems like that, unless it was REALLY bad.
	9:20pm Maulydaft: I've heard them three times already and was getting ready for a fourth! hahaha! Thanks for playing Rogue's Gallery! I haven't got around to those yet...
	9:21pm Maulydaft: It definitely attests to their professionalism - hours and hours of live broadcasting with little mistakes.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:20 I love Dick Powell on the radio. Hopefully I can track down more of his radio appearances, as I'd like to run them after this, before I run his other radio detective (who sings), Richard Diamond!
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: "See you next week!" Rogue also talks to, and interacts with, the announcer and the ad readers, so he might be the character that breaks the 4th Wall the most, in all our shows.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: I can only imagine what it was like to actually do these shows live, and what the stations / studios were like in those days. I know some movies have tried to recreate that, but I have a feeling it's only a fraction of the story.
	9:24pm Maulydaft: Richard Diamond is also great! I've listened to all of them a few times. They even bring that weird ass cloud 9 character into one or two - I was pretty confused when I first heard it, then I heard a Rogue and clued in to the joke!
	9:24pm Maulydaft: I'm a sucker for 4th wall breaking ;)
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: I love stuff like that!
	9:25pm Webhamster Henry: The bodies are falling fast!
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:24 One of my secret goals with this show is to actually listen to some of these shows that I haven't had a chance to hear very closely yet. I'm pretty famliar with Mid-Century radio... but I'd like to hear more.
	9:27pm Maulydaft: There is sooooo much! :o
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:25 Rogue's Gallery actually has a pretty high body count, and can get pretty grim. For a show that has a comedy "imp" character, and is fairly upbeat otherwise, I'm often shocked by the violence.
	9:27pm Webhamster Henry: Nobody grieves too long.
	9:28pm Maulydaft: ooooucch!
	9:28pm Webhamster Henry: Body shaming tag line
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: "You know what I mean?" is usually how Rogue ends the show, but it often follows something a little disparaging about the date that didn't go right. It is the one part of this show that is a little hard to take.
	9:29pm Maulydaft: I remember being rather shocked with Mike Hammer. I've avoided those ones :/
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: The Dick Powell movie mentioned: en.wikipedia.org... I've been meaning to see it. Maybe tonight...
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: You have to use "Fitch" as the advertiser, because the show's theme song is the Fitch Shampoo jingle, too.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: This is our second-to-last episode of "Bold Venture." I wish the sound was better, but... it is what it is.
	9:31pm Webhamster Henry: Your dandruff insurance policy: expired!
	9:31pm Maulydaft: I actually just watched It Happened Tomorrow earlier today... funny you played Rogue tonight!
	9:32pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:31 I can't believe Bold Venture is coming to an end
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:31 Ooooo! I don't know that one. Recommended?
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 At just under 90 minutes, it's hard to argue with the length.
	9:32pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 It was cute! Free on Kanopy :)
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:32 I know! I really love this show. I'm glad I got to listen to each episode closely this time.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:32 The only way to watch movies!
	9:33pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Maulydaft @9:32 Kanopy rules!
	9:33pm Imaginos: ↳ Maulydaft @9:32 Canopy has quite a range of entertainment
	9:34pm Maulydaft: Yeah Bogart and Bacall are so great together and we are lucky to have these radio shows extend their dashing duo preservation :)
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:34 Considering their film output was so slim!
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:33 4 reals!
	9:37pm Maulydaft: Wow some hilarious dialogue this episode :D
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: I think I mentioned this last week, but: I'll be curious to see if this Kickstarter actually delivers on a "complete" set of Bold Venture episodes. I would love to hear them, in high quality, and the more stories! www.kickstarter.com...
	9:39pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:38 Oh! Does that mean that the OTR group that posts things to archive.org didn't do it yet?
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:39 As I understand it: the currently floating around set of shows is incomplete, and as we have heard, not all of them sound very good. There was a theory that the "more episodes" was only a rumor, but this Kickstarter says they have discs for all of them, and will be issuing them someday. I'll be curious to hear them when they're out.
	9:42pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:40 Interesting!
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:42 Yes. Like a lot of things you read on the internet: we shall see.
	9:44pm Imaginos: ↳ Maulydaft @9:39 What about www.dumb.com...
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: My ultimate goal in life: somehow find a sinecure, and spend my days watching old movies and drinking fancy coffee.
	9:45pm Webhamster Henry: Good thing Sailor took out that dandruff insurance!
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:44 I pulled my set from archive.org, but I'm sure they are replicated all over the place.
	9:46pm Imaginos: How many?
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:46 I think I have 58. But I think there's supposedly 80, total.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: Slate is a jerk. Often. But... he's so charming!
	9:59pm Imaginos: I can't believe how many otr shows there are on dumb.com
	10:02pm Webhamster Henry: King got a few more lines this week.
	10:06pm Imaginos: Do you remember Mr Merlin? There was an episode where the apprentice copied money and got arrested for counterfeiting
	👻 10:09pm Heather: Hi everyone! Just wanted to pop in and say hello. My houseguest and I are tuned in from the patio fire and enjoying the show!
	10:09pm laurapanic: I am late so I missed the first hour. But I think Blue Beetle and X are my faves....
	10:10pm laurapanic: wow, interesting!
	10:13pm Webhamster Henry: I just discovered radio city playhouse in archive.org. They do repeat "long distance" a lot. Jan Miner, from last week's X-1
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:13 I need to hear more of that show. I don't think I've heard much.
	10:16pm Webhamster Henry: I just signed up to be a Nielsen listener. Just waitll they find out what I listen to!
	10:16pm Imaginos: Going to turn in, but will be back tomorrow
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: I think I'm going to have Obadiah Baird back on the show someday, who has been on before, as an expert in the Golden Age of Sci-Fi. We spoke at length about Dimension X, and the authors that wrote for that show. He has suggested that the difference between the era that Dimension X was made, and the era that X Minus One was made, is fairly huge, in the world of Science Fiction. (1950 for the first, and 1955 for the later.) So I might pick his brain about the world of Sci-Fi in 1955, to help set the stage for X-Minus One.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:16 Sleep well!
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:16 I love it! "WFMU, all day long? okay!"
	10:18pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 Thank you
	10:19pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 that sounds cool
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: "Tune In And Follow The Story," is a phrase I picked up from listening to, "The Adventures of Superman," many years ago.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:19 He also happens to be my boss, and we play music together sometimes. So it's easy to get him to go off about "Amazing Stories" magazine, or whatever.
	10:23pm laurapanic: imperfect invisible ink sounds problematic
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: The "friendly helpful scientist who helps a superhero" trope wasn't new in 1940, but it wasn't that old, either. But in previous generations, a helpful "mystic" or "Shamen" would usually advise a character that would be that era's superhero analog.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:23 Some of the tools The Blue Beetle uses seem to have one, very specific, strange usage.
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: The populist aspect of superhero stories from this era is sort of inspiring. "Our community isn't getting the help from cops or the government that we were promised. I better put on some armor and a costume and help out those who are being screwed."
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: In reality, the kind of person who thinks he can get to the bottom of any crime ring on his own without oversight, and then "beat up the right people" to stop it, sounds like a terrifying addition to any community.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: We are gonna go over this week by about 7 minutes. Hopefully all that talk about lost episodes doesn't cause this one to get lost, too. Sorry everyone!
	👻 10:34pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 That was Annette Zilinskas' band after she left the Bangles. I saw them in Scott Hall at Rutgers.
	👻 10:34pm WR: Bony Maronie did it?
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:34 I love that band! Never saw them, but I have two of those records. Very, very good cow-punk!
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:34 We'll find out next week!
	👻 10:35pm Arvo Zylo: Just popping in to say howdy!
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:35 Arvo! Thanks for visiting!
	👻 10:37pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @10:29 I recently got the 2014 box set of DVDs of the Batman TV series and Adam West discusses how extreme an idea of an anonymous vigilante really is.
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: L. Sprague de Camp was a writer who wrote in many genres, but I think some of his best stories are alternate histories, or sci-fi yarns. He was the man who coined the term, "Extra Terrestrial," and was even the first to shorten it to E.T. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:37 I should check that out. I am a sucker for that show, but my thoughts on "fighting crime" have changed since I was a kid.
	👻 10:40pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 He edited and continued the Conan saga after Robert E. Howard died.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:40 That's right! We have a biography for sale at my store, but I have yet to read it. But I do like his stories. (And I'm a sucker for those Conan books and comics.)
	👻 10:41pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 So far I've mostly watched the extras, those are very interesting.
	10:42pm Laura Panic: Mmmmm trophy hunting....
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @10:42 It's a good subject for sci-fi satire.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:41 If I'm not REALLY into a movie, often I just watch the extras and call it good. Those are usually pretty compelling to me, even if the movie is only so-so.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: This aggressive hunter character who demands to know how time machines work seems a little false to me. In my experience, he wouldn't care how it works, but would be more angry that he can't go back to last week and shoot a lion.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: Full disclosure: my grandfather did many things to make money, and taxidermy was one of them. He would mount the heads of game that people shot, and charge for it. There were always animal skins and horns on the wall and whatnot. He gifted us a bearskin rug that he made, that I recall sleeping on as a child. Its sort of horrible now, but he was very good at it. I wish I had one of his pieces, now.
	👻 10:52pm WR: Trophy hunting is very distasteful to me but I am finding it interesting as to how they are playing out the characters in this.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: My Dad, and my grandfather, would hunt and fish almost every year, and while there was a lot of taxidermy, it was also for sustenance. I would never hunt now, and even fishing seems a little beyond my interest. But I miss the venison and fresh fish we would have as a result. Still: I'm against hunting, and trophy hunting in particular, these days. Can't change the past, but I can make better choices, now.
	👻 10:55pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""A Gun For Dinosaur"" by "X-Minus One" This plot sounds like "Fresh Meat", a hilarious 3-part story Garth Ennis & John McCrea told in "Hitman" a quarter century ago. www.goodreads.com...
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:55 I keep meaning to read that. I heard it's good.
	10:56pm laurapanic: Let sleeping tyrannosauruses lie, for god's sake man!!!!
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:56 It's sort of a, "you will get what you deserve," story.
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: We've got about eight and a half minutes left. Thanks for listening! Remember: hunting Dinosaurs is bad. They have it bad enough, as they're gonna die off, anyway.
	11:04pm laurapanic: so he kinda just exploded in the present? Nice nice.
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: I had forgotten this story was set in late April. How funny.
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @11:04 Total jerk explodes. I wish it happened more often.
	👻 11:06pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @11:04 I keep hoping.... Thank you, Austin. Laters all.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 29, 2024

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April 29, 2024: Episode #92

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Rogue's Gallery	"Blood On The Sand"	13 December 1945	NBC		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Bold Venture	"Sailor Is A Wealthy Widow"	14 April 1952	Santana Productions		0:30:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Dick Hyman	Moritat (A Theme From "The Threepenny Opera")				0:59:29 (Pop-up)
Unpublished History	Radio in the 1920s (Part 7)	Radio In The 1920s	Self-Released	2024	1:13:29 (Pop-up)
The Blue Beetle	"The Frame-Up, Part 1"	12 June 1940	Mutual–Don Lee Network		1:19:04 (Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"A Gun For Dinosaur" ""A Gun For Dinosaur"" by "X-Minus One"	7 March 1956	NBC Radio		1:35:20 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 6:04pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:58pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	👻 8:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:58 Greetings! Thanks for joining tonight!
	9:00pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:59 Always a pleasure
	9:01pm asheville jon: I remebered to show up on time tonight!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Blood On The Sand"" by "Rogue's Gallery" Our second installment of Rogue's Gallery, with Dick Powell!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @9:01 It's a Dimestore Miracle!
	9:01pm Imaginos: ↳ asheville jon @9:01 Nice to see you
	9:01pm Webhamster Henry: And now: the Crooner gets KO'd!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Blood On The Sand"" by "Rogue's Gallery" When we listened to "Candy Matson," she did a variation on this story, set on a dude ranch, as her "New Years" installment. This one takes some different turns here and there, but it's got a lot of the same tropes working for it.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:01 That's a great name!
	👻 9:03pm WR: Hi, had to restart the popup player to get the audio. Hi.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:03 Bummer! Hopefully it sounds good, otherwise?
	9:05pm Imaginos: Blood on the sand?!
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: We don't have all the episodes of this show that were aired, so it is hard to know if there was more continuity if you heard them all. But sometimes Rogue has a girlfriend. Sometimes he doesn't. Sometimes he woos someone during the episode, and sometimes he's trying to get back to a date he's already set up. If there are more scripts for this show floating around somewhere, I'd love to read them! But for now, I don't really know if there's anymore continuity to his dating life than "he likes girls."
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:05 Blood on the Saddle!
	9:08pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 Makes more sense.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: I'm on the hunt for other "dude ranch" / pseudo-western stories that feature detectives. I might do a whole show of thsoe stories, if I can find at least one or two more.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: I'm fairly certain that Mills is being played by Gerald Mohr, who popularized the role of Phillip Marlowe on the radio, but was also a very hard working character actor who appeared in hundreds of radio shows.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: en.wikipedia.org...
	9:17pm Maulydaft: Yes it's Gerald Mohr!! Love him in the Marlowe shows!
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:17 Yeah! Those Marlowe shows are EXCELLENT. I'll be running them on the show someday... but not right away.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: While he's always charming, I've noticed that Dick Powell blows lines occasionally, though only in small ways. We've heard a lot of other stars flub occasional lines, even in a syndicated, transcription disc show. I think, given how quickly these shows were cranked out, they just didn't go back to fix problems like that, unless it was REALLY bad.
	9:20pm Maulydaft: I've heard them three times already and was getting ready for a fourth! hahaha! Thanks for playing Rogue's Gallery! I haven't got around to those yet...
	9:21pm Maulydaft: It definitely attests to their professionalism - hours and hours of live broadcasting with little mistakes.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:20 I love Dick Powell on the radio. Hopefully I can track down more of his radio appearances, as I'd like to run them after this, before I run his other radio detective (who sings), Richard Diamond!
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: "See you next week!" Rogue also talks to, and interacts with, the announcer and the ad readers, so he might be the character that breaks the 4th Wall the most, in all our shows.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: I can only imagine what it was like to actually do these shows live, and what the stations / studios were like in those days. I know some movies have tried to recreate that, but I have a feeling it's only a fraction of the story.
	9:24pm Maulydaft: Richard Diamond is also great! I've listened to all of them a few times. They even bring that weird ass cloud 9 character into one or two - I was pretty confused when I first heard it, then I heard a Rogue and clued in to the joke!
	9:24pm Maulydaft: I'm a sucker for 4th wall breaking ;)
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: I love stuff like that!
	9:25pm Webhamster Henry: The bodies are falling fast!
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:24 One of my secret goals with this show is to actually listen to some of these shows that I haven't had a chance to hear very closely yet. I'm pretty famliar with Mid-Century radio... but I'd like to hear more.
	9:27pm Maulydaft: There is sooooo much! :o
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:25 Rogue's Gallery actually has a pretty high body count, and can get pretty grim. For a show that has a comedy "imp" character, and is fairly upbeat otherwise, I'm often shocked by the violence.
	9:27pm Webhamster Henry: Nobody grieves too long.
	9:28pm Maulydaft: ooooucch!
	9:28pm Webhamster Henry: Body shaming tag line
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: "You know what I mean?" is usually how Rogue ends the show, but it often follows something a little disparaging about the date that didn't go right. It is the one part of this show that is a little hard to take.
	9:29pm Maulydaft: I remember being rather shocked with Mike Hammer. I've avoided those ones :/
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: The Dick Powell movie mentioned: en.wikipedia.org... I've been meaning to see it. Maybe tonight...
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: You have to use "Fitch" as the advertiser, because the show's theme song is the Fitch Shampoo jingle, too.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: This is our second-to-last episode of "Bold Venture." I wish the sound was better, but... it is what it is.
	9:31pm Webhamster Henry: Your dandruff insurance policy: expired!
	9:31pm Maulydaft: I actually just watched It Happened Tomorrow earlier today... funny you played Rogue tonight!
	9:32pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:31 I can't believe Bold Venture is coming to an end
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:31 Ooooo! I don't know that one. Recommended?
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 At just under 90 minutes, it's hard to argue with the length.
	9:32pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 It was cute! Free on Kanopy :)
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:32 I know! I really love this show. I'm glad I got to listen to each episode closely this time.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:32 The only way to watch movies!
	9:33pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Maulydaft @9:32 Kanopy rules!
	9:33pm Imaginos: ↳ Maulydaft @9:32 Canopy has quite a range of entertainment
	9:34pm Maulydaft: Yeah Bogart and Bacall are so great together and we are lucky to have these radio shows extend their dashing duo preservation :)
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:34 Considering their film output was so slim!
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:33 4 reals!
	9:37pm Maulydaft: Wow some hilarious dialogue this episode :D
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: I think I mentioned this last week, but: I'll be curious to see if this Kickstarter actually delivers on a "complete" set of Bold Venture episodes. I would love to hear them, in high quality, and the more stories! www.kickstarter.com...
	9:39pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:38 Oh! Does that mean that the OTR group that posts things to archive.org didn't do it yet?
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:39 As I understand it: the currently floating around set of shows is incomplete, and as we have heard, not all of them sound very good. There was a theory that the "more episodes" was only a rumor, but this Kickstarter says they have discs for all of them, and will be issuing them someday. I'll be curious to hear them when they're out.
	9:42pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:40 Interesting!
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:42 Yes. Like a lot of things you read on the internet: we shall see.
	9:44pm Imaginos: ↳ Maulydaft @9:39 What about www.dumb.com...
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: My ultimate goal in life: somehow find a sinecure, and spend my days watching old movies and drinking fancy coffee.
	9:45pm Webhamster Henry: Good thing Sailor took out that dandruff insurance!
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:44 I pulled my set from archive.org, but I'm sure they are replicated all over the place.
	9:46pm Imaginos: How many?
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:46 I think I have 58. But I think there's supposedly 80, total.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: Slate is a jerk. Often. But... he's so charming!
	9:59pm Imaginos: I can't believe how many otr shows there are on dumb.com
	10:02pm Webhamster Henry: King got a few more lines this week.
	10:06pm Imaginos: Do you remember Mr Merlin? There was an episode where the apprentice copied money and got arrested for counterfeiting
	👻 10:09pm Heather: Hi everyone! Just wanted to pop in and say hello. My houseguest and I are tuned in from the patio fire and enjoying the show!
	10:09pm laurapanic: I am late so I missed the first hour. But I think Blue Beetle and X are my faves....
	10:10pm laurapanic: wow, interesting!
	10:13pm Webhamster Henry: I just discovered radio city playhouse in archive.org. They do repeat "long distance" a lot. Jan Miner, from last week's X-1
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:13 I need to hear more of that show. I don't think I've heard much.
	10:16pm Webhamster Henry: I just signed up to be a Nielsen listener. Just waitll they find out what I listen to!
	10:16pm Imaginos: Going to turn in, but will be back tomorrow
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: I think I'm going to have Obadiah Baird back on the show someday, who has been on before, as an expert in the Golden Age of Sci-Fi. We spoke at length about Dimension X, and the authors that wrote for that show. He has suggested that the difference between the era that Dimension X was made, and the era that X Minus One was made, is fairly huge, in the world of Science Fiction. (1950 for the first, and 1955 for the later.) So I might pick his brain about the world of Sci-Fi in 1955, to help set the stage for X-Minus One.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:16 Sleep well!
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:16 I love it! "WFMU, all day long? okay!"
	10:18pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 Thank you
	10:19pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 that sounds cool
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: "Tune In And Follow The Story," is a phrase I picked up from listening to, "The Adventures of Superman," many years ago.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:19 He also happens to be my boss, and we play music together sometimes. So it's easy to get him to go off about "Amazing Stories" magazine, or whatever.
	10:23pm laurapanic: imperfect invisible ink sounds problematic
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: The "friendly helpful scientist who helps a superhero" trope wasn't new in 1940, but it wasn't that old, either. But in previous generations, a helpful "mystic" or "Shamen" would usually advise a character that would be that era's superhero analog.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:23 Some of the tools The Blue Beetle uses seem to have one, very specific, strange usage.
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: The populist aspect of superhero stories from this era is sort of inspiring. "Our community isn't getting the help from cops or the government that we were promised. I better put on some armor and a costume and help out those who are being screwed."
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: In reality, the kind of person who thinks he can get to the bottom of any crime ring on his own without oversight, and then "beat up the right people" to stop it, sounds like a terrifying addition to any community.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: We are gonna go over this week by about 7 minutes. Hopefully all that talk about lost episodes doesn't cause this one to get lost, too. Sorry everyone!
	👻 10:34pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 That was Annette Zilinskas' band after she left the Bangles. I saw them in Scott Hall at Rutgers.
	👻 10:34pm WR: Bony Maronie did it?
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:34 I love that band! Never saw them, but I have two of those records. Very, very good cow-punk!
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:34 We'll find out next week!
	👻 10:35pm Arvo Zylo: Just popping in to say howdy!
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:35 Arvo! Thanks for visiting!
	👻 10:37pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @10:29 I recently got the 2014 box set of DVDs of the Batman TV series and Adam West discusses how extreme an idea of an anonymous vigilante really is.
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: L. Sprague de Camp was a writer who wrote in many genres, but I think some of his best stories are alternate histories, or sci-fi yarns. He was the man who coined the term, "Extra Terrestrial," and was even the first to shorten it to E.T. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:37 I should check that out. I am a sucker for that show, but my thoughts on "fighting crime" have changed since I was a kid.
	👻 10:40pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 He edited and continued the Conan saga after Robert E. Howard died.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:40 That's right! We have a biography for sale at my store, but I have yet to read it. But I do like his stories. (And I'm a sucker for those Conan books and comics.)
	👻 10:41pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 So far I've mostly watched the extras, those are very interesting.
	10:42pm Laura Panic: Mmmmm trophy hunting....
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @10:42 It's a good subject for sci-fi satire.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:41 If I'm not REALLY into a movie, often I just watch the extras and call it good. Those are usually pretty compelling to me, even if the movie is only so-so.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: This aggressive hunter character who demands to know how time machines work seems a little false to me. In my experience, he wouldn't care how it works, but would be more angry that he can't go back to last week and shoot a lion.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: Full disclosure: my grandfather did many things to make money, and taxidermy was one of them. He would mount the heads of game that people shot, and charge for it. There were always animal skins and horns on the wall and whatnot. He gifted us a bearskin rug that he made, that I recall sleeping on as a child. Its sort of horrible now, but he was very good at it. I wish I had one of his pieces, now.
	👻 10:52pm WR: Trophy hunting is very distasteful to me but I am finding it interesting as to how they are playing out the characters in this.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: My Dad, and my grandfather, would hunt and fish almost every year, and while there was a lot of taxidermy, it was also for sustenance. I would never hunt now, and even fishing seems a little beyond my interest. But I miss the venison and fresh fish we would have as a result. Still: I'm against hunting, and trophy hunting in particular, these days. Can't change the past, but I can make better choices, now.
	👻 10:55pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""A Gun For Dinosaur"" by "X-Minus One" This plot sounds like "Fresh Meat", a hilarious 3-part story Garth Ennis & John McCrea told in "Hitman" a quarter century ago. www.goodreads.com...
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:55 I keep meaning to read that. I heard it's good.
	10:56pm laurapanic: Let sleeping tyrannosauruses lie, for god's sake man!!!!
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:56 It's sort of a, "you will get what you deserve," story.
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: We've got about eight and a half minutes left. Thanks for listening! Remember: hunting Dinosaurs is bad. They have it bad enough, as they're gonna die off, anyway.
	11:04pm laurapanic: so he kinda just exploded in the present? Nice nice.
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: I had forgotten this story was set in late April. How funny.
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @11:04 Total jerk explodes. I wish it happened more often.
	👻 11:06pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @11:04 I keep hoping.... Thank you, Austin. Laters all.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 29, 2024

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