WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from September 9, 2024

Listener comments!
	7:57pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:54pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	9:00pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! Looks like a swell show tonight. Hope not too many of us get knocked unconscious.
	9:00pm Krys O.: Hey!
	9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:00 Fingers crossed!
	9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:54 Sit down and join us in the digital salon! Stay a spell.
	9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:00 Howdy!
	9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 But if Rogue doesn't get knocked out we won't have Eugor.
	9:02pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Austin: I've been listening to Quiet Please: Amazing stories, lousy transcriptions. A group has been reenacting them, but even that sound quality is bad. www.quietplease.org
	9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Blue Eyes"" by "Rogue's Gallery" We have another episode with just garbage sound. I did my best to clean this one up and make is a little more listenable, using the usual tools. Hopefully it sounds better to your ears.
	9:02pm laurapanic: hellooooo. I have hobbled into the salon. I shall be reclining on this chaise. I am so goddamned sick. Please make it stop. (flu).
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Imaginos @9:02 When Eugor gets knocked out, he sees Rouguie!
	9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:02 I do love that website, but yeah, that show is so poorly archived, and what we have is terrible. I'll be playing a few this October...
	9:04pm David The Splatter: We meet again, Mister Rich! :D I'll try and hang around as long as I can, I just took some Advil for this headache I have.
	9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:02 Oh no! Rest up, and get well soon. Flu is not fun!
	9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:03 Hmmm.... that's a good theory!
	9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:04 Sorry about the headache. It seems like a few folks are not feeling so good tonight.
	9:05pm Austin Rich: You'll notice there is no background noise when there are not music cues or SFX. I was able to isolate a fair amount of it on this one, but during the music bits, if I fade it out, the music just sounds awful. So I had to do some splicing.
	9:07pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 Artefacts?
	9:08pm Mr Fab: Is it me, or does the sound drop out for a second or two every now and then?
	9:08pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:04 hating it. Enjoying your editing notes, nice a geeky, thank you!
	9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:07 Sort of. When I tried to fade out the background noise on the music, all the music cues sounded "sanded off," just very flat and almost too soft. So I leave the "hum and rumble" in when there's music of SFX, so you can at least hear the music.
	9:09pm Maulydaft: Good lord it's Gerald Mohr again! :D
	9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:08 Hmmm. I'm monitoring on another device. Sounds okay to me? Anyone else experiencing that?
	9:10pm Maulydaft: I'm listening on a grace internet computer and it's fine!
	9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:09 I do love when Gerald Mohr gets to make an appearance. And when you do, too!
	9:10pm Maulydaft: sorry - grace internet radio!!!
	9:10pm David The Splatter: ↳ Austin Rich @9:09 I haven't noticed any drop-out yet. OK, as I typed that, there was a 1 or 2 second drop.
	9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:08 I try to keep the pocket protector and bow tie implied, even if you can't see them over the radio.
	9:11pm Mr Fab: ok, well, maybe it's my connection.
	9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:11 Fingers crossed that it isn't a sign of something worse...
	9:13pm Austin Rich: I guess Rogue could hear that conversation or something?
	9:15pm Austin Rich: Why would you drink anything if you knew someone had been in your room and you're already suspicious.
	9:15pm Austin Rich: More updates in the "Eugor's Girlfriend" storyline...
	9:16pm Maulydaft: hhhaaahaha Eugor's Girlfriend!!!!!!!
	9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:16 I think there's at least three times we meet her. She's been on once before, and i think there's one more...
	9:17pm Maulydaft: Freakin hilarious!
	9:17pm Austin Rich: And Eugor's Girlfriend sort of looks like Lana Turner? She sounds great!
	9:17pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 Indeed she does
	9:18pm Maulydaft: She sounded a little like June Foray but that would be just too good!
	9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:18 She shows up all over the place. (She was in an episode of Rocky Fortune, too.) You never know when she'll pop up on old radio shows.
	9:21pm laurapanic: *scribbles notes do not borrow sister's bathing suit
	9:21pm Austin Rich: I wish I had dramatic transition music, that signaled the change from Act II to Act III of any given evening. That would be VERY handy, to realize that something dramatic just happened, so I can shut up and sound like i know what's going on.
	9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:21 I have the same rule, but we're different sizes and she likes a one-piece, and I like a more modern two-piece. So it's more practical than life-saving.
	9:23pm Austin Rich: Gerald Mohr gets MAD.
	9:23pm Imaginos: Sharp eyed enough to shoot someone s swimming at a distance, but blind enough to shoot the wrong person
	9:24pm Austin Rich: "I'm going to have a talk with your mother." <dramatic cue> Yeah, I get it. I totally get it.
	9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:23 Whoops!
	9:26pm Austin Rich: Chloral en.wikipedia.org...
	9:28pm Austin Rich: My zine that I will write about Rogue's Gallery will be titled, "You Know What I Mean: Dick Powell AS Richard Rogue!"
	9:29pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 I......I.....HAVE NO SISTER.......anymore..... <mysterious dramatic music>
	9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The St. Louis Blues"" by "The Adventures of Rock... Rocky and dropped several references to having come from St. Louis, and the show does like to leave references in the way Rocky talks about his past. That might inform what you can expect in this story...
	9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:29 It took some time, but... we'll, Thanksgiving is less strained, now.
	9:33pm Austin Rich: You can hear the "mechanical rhythmic surface noise" on this episode, which rears it's ugly head from time to time. I do my best to isolate and reduce the sound of it as best I can, but sometimes I had to balance the overall sound with the efforts to get rid of the noise. "Same as it ever was..."
	9:33pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Choral looks to be a pretty nasty sedative
	9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:33 Yeah. I can't imagine what it would be like to shake that off.
	9:34pm WR: Have a seat. Nice chair sound effects.
	9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:34 It sort of sounds like the chair SFX you hear on Judge John Hodgman.
	9:35pm Imaginos: Speaking of sound e, Austin, what other effects should we have in Lost Christobel?
	9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:35 I'm not sure yet. But I need to start thinking about that more.
	9:38pm Mr Fab: is that Groucho Marx in the fez?
	9:38pm Maulydaft: ↳ Mr Fab @9:38 Ha I know!? But is it... Gerald Mohr!???? :o
	9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:38 Ha! Groucho would have been great! But no, that's Jay Novello. en.wikipedia.org...
	9:39pm Webhamster Henry: Where is Eugor, Rocky?
	9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:39 Everyone gets knocked out, tonight!
	9:40pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 I think if some actual disks could be re-digitized, the current sound repair software could help.
	9:41pm Imaginos: Saunders? That you, Pooh?
	9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:40 Yeah, I would love to find discs to work with! And I'm very impressed with what I CAN do with free software. But I would love to work with original discs in a pro studio.
	9:46pm Austin Rich: A lot of Rocky Jordan stories feel like they echo The Adventures of Phillip Marlowe episodes, just in different settings, and with an everyman in this context, instead of a detective of Marlowe's show. I've been thinking about listening to those show back to back, to see if I can draw more parallels.
	9:48pm Austin Rich: Some of the random extras are also voiced by Jay Novello, so that explains why occasionally Rocky is beating up someone who sounds like Police Officer Sam Sabaaya.
	9:48pm Maulydaft: They are both often so complicated that if you zone out for a minute or two you lose the story! :D
	9:48pm Maulydaft: I swear that's Gerald Mohr!! :o
	9:49pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 Jay Novello popped up everywhere!
	9:49pm Krys O.: G'night, all!
	9:49pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 Yes I've noticed that. He's pretty good tho, you only notice if you are looking for it...
	9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:48 The hallmark of a show / movie I will inevitably love: Noir setting, nearly impenetrable plot, and plenty of cigarettes and great music.
	9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:49 Sleep well, Krys!
	9:54pm Maulydaft: I'm on my fourth listen of Philip Marlowe shows right now (I know it's rather nuts!)
	9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:54 I really love that show. I think it has some of the highest re-listenability of the shows I enjoy. Occasionally I will map out the story for a Marlowe episode, and then use that structure for a story I'm working on. Breaking down those plots is really helpful for writing your own stories.
	9:56pm Austin Rich: The impact of WWII on the world and people and relationships is still playing out, today.
	9:57pm Maulydaft: Wait!! Ted Saunders is played the actor who becomes Rocky Jordan's bartender...?? Did I get that right?
	9:57pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:55 Wow! Neat!
	9:57pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 My parents met in WWII
	9:57pm Maulydaft: ↳ Maulydaft @9:57 Oh sorry Ted Polansky
	9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:57 Chris is Rocky's regular bartender, but he appears mostly in references, and very rarely in voice.
	9:59pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:57 I think he gets more speaking lines and roles as the show progresses? It's been a while since I listened from start to finish :)
	9:59pm David The Splatter: Thanks, Austin. Heading to bed, have a great night.
	9:59pm Maulydaft: Oh yeah damn this show - they don't mention the other actors! grrrr
	10:00pm Webhamster Henry: That was kind of touching...
	10:00pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy but going to hang on a bit longer
	10:01pm Maulydaft: ↳ Imaginos @10:00 You can do it Imaginos!!!
	10:03pm Imaginos: Would love to be a DJ but I'm not sure what kind of show I would do.
	10:04pm Maulydaft: Thank you Austin!!!! :)
	10:04pm Imaginos: ↳ Maulydaft @10:01 I think you are right
	10:06pm Maulydaft: Wow congrats Austin!
	10:06pm laurapanic: oooooh Miss Mei!!!
	10:07pm Maulydaft: Dang you are dedicated!
	10:08pm Austin Rich: wfmu.org...
	10:08pm David Shortell: I last saw Mike Watt 20 years ago, playing in the Stooges on Randall's Island. He wore a Curly Howard t-shirt.
	10:11pm Heather: That's so cool about these shows! I'm excited for you! I have a houseguest here and we're tuned in and crafting as we enjoy the show!
	10:12pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:08 ....in "Mike Watt Goes Fishin'!"
	10:12pm Imaginos: ↳ Imaginos @10:03 Blackstone was great
	10:12pm WR: ↳ David Shortell @10:08 Dang, I went to that show on Randall's Island. The Stooges and the Damned were part of that year's Lollapalooza and I was disappointed that they both had already played by the time that I got there.
	10:13pm Maulydaft: Wow, my husband all complains about all these old guys still sporting the punk look, I need to show him this poster Austin put a link to... Mike looks like some average senior citizen!
	10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:12 I do enjoy a good Blackstone episode.
	10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:13 It gets better: this is a jazz / free-improv show. Not very punk music AT ALL. But I do like Saccharine Trust too, and it'll be fun to see them play together. (And I'm a nerd for free-improv music too, so it works out.)
	10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:12 Old man fashion is pretty dope. I need to study, and I'll be 50 before long... yikes...
	10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Sabotage Inc., Part 1"" by "The Blue Beetle" There's a lot of noise on this one, and hopefully you can make out the voices and follow along. Some of these shows are in such poor shame, it's a pity.
	10:20pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 Oh wow I just made the connection. My husband use to really love Saccharine Trust. He'll get an extra kick from that poster!
	10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:20 I'm still blown away that he asked me to help book these shows. He's been playing our tunes on his show... but this is next level.
	10:22pm Austin Rich: Cops. They can't wait to do things right. They'll just break the door down instead. Typical. #ACAB.
	10:22pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 So cool! It's funny how life turns out eh? you just never know what's around the corner!
	10:23pm David Shortell: ↳ Maulydaft @10:13 A lot of those musicians didn't care about the fashions. Black Flag's music was known in the UK, but they puzzled British fans when they first toured there. "These Yanks are punk rockers? They look like hoboes!"
	10:23pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 I hate how I like the cops in Richard Diamond :D
	10:24pm laurapanic: male secretary. sigh. How it was.
	10:24pm Maulydaft: ↳ David Shortell @10:23 yeah that's true! Mike Watt and so many other HC people just wore band shirts and thrift store clothing :)
	10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:23 Yeah. I realize how "problematic" detective shows are these days. I had to tap out of the Wire because it felt like it was being apologetic for the bad cop behavior.
	10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:24 I was a secretary for a while, for the head of the IT Department at PSU. I was not good at it.
	10:26pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:24 I've never seen it. So many people were into it. Ishmael Reed, I believe, ranted a bit about it and he gave me the impression I didn't want to watch it!
	10:27pm Austin Rich: You can get a sense of how thick the background noise is on this episode, when you hear the music cues. I was excited that I could get that noise out of the scenes with the voices, without destroying the voices too badly.
	10:27pm Maulydaft: You always do a great job! Thanks for caring!
	10:27pm Imaginos: Just did a little painting. Sea and sky. On Friday in art period I will add the Mountain.
	10:28pm Heather Z: ↳ laurapanic @10:24 We assumed "male secretary" was the equivalent of "roommate," e.g., he never married but instead shared a home with his male secretary with whom he was inseparable.
	10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:26 It tries to play fair by giving equal time to the crooks as they do the cops, so at first it seems like it's doing something different. But after a few seasons, it feels like it is apologizing for both how bad the crooks are and how bad the cops are. It just felt... weird.
	10:29pm Maulydaft: Oh damn... I wasn't listening much to Blue Beetle, going in and out of the room... where are they going to blow up the bridge to Canada? HOpefully not Windsor! :o :D
	10:29pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 hmmm interesting...
	10:29pm Austin Rich: Have they named a city? I'm not sure they have...
	10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:27 Very cool! Painting is important.
	10:30pm Maulydaft: ↳ Heather Z @10:28 Very true!
	10:31pm Austin Rich: This is gonna blow some minds: but I might end early tonight! By a few minutes! I guess I should have talked more about Mike Watt during the break...
	10:31pm Imaginos: And the saboteurs don't try to unmask him
	10:32pm Austin Rich: My Grandma didn't make radio, but my mom did. And my grandmother's brother was a radio / phonograph nerd, so does that count?
	10:32pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 Doing my impression of the Mountain of Madness.
	10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:31 Maybe in Part II?
	10:33pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Wherever You Man Be"" by "X-Minus One" The Russians loved this story. They adapted it into TV and a movie.
	10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Wherever You Man Be"" by "X-Minus One" There are some real "touch and go" sexist moments in this episode that are pretty weird. Hopefully ya'll can hold out for the way it all wraps up.
	10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:33 Oh? I'd be curious to see that. I've seen a bunch of Russian movies that I quite loved, thanks to my film minor.
	10:35pm Imaginos: Bet she could do it in five
	10:35pm Austin Rich: There's a lot of "comedy" cues in this episode. Their budding relationship is "funny," right?
	10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:35 I reckon.
	10:36pm Imaginos: I can think of a more sadistic tire
	10:37pm Imaginos: Going to get some sleep
	10:37pm Austin Rich: So this guy is a Master's Student? And he calls this woman a "kid"?
	10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:37 Sleep well!
	10:39pm Austin Rich: "My name's Jenkins." <comedy cue> Huh?
	10:41pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Wherever You Man Be"" by "X-Minus One" I see this author also wrote a story that was the basis for a flop ABC-TV series called “The Immortal”, circa 1970.
	10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:41 Huh. I'll have to miss that.
	10:42pm Austin Rich: "Remind me never to see you again." <comedy cue>
	10:43pm Austin Rich: "Let me cook and clean for you." A sweet and pretty teenage Appalachian girl wants to cook and clean for you? What's the problem, again?
	10:45pm Austin Rich: Dead Twin Sister is her magical avatar? This story just became very weird fiction...
	10:46pm David Shortell: ↳ Maulydaft @10:20 When I saw Saccharine Trust open for Black Flag 40 years ago, I (and probably everyone else present) thought it was the worst noise in the universe. The audience was dumbstruck, so paralyzed with horrified disgust they couldn't even boo. I haven't heard them since and don't know what I'd think now.
	10:47pm Austin Rich: Maybe this is a secret Manly Wade Wellman story or something?
	10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:46 This is the problem with only knowing the records. I know them at their best, and never had to sit through a show like that.
	10:49pm Heather Z: Is it a good idea to seduce the telekinetic witch girl?
	10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:49 For your Master's Thesis?
	10:51pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 Or any reason besides you love her? Which this guy..... he's making some bad and insincere choices, I think.
	10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:51 Well, all men are always awful... particularly in the 1950's... but by 1950's standards of badness, using her entirely for research is pretty awful.
	10:52pm Austin Rich: Oh, I bet she'll be real awful to him, right?
	10:52pm WR: Always a bad idea for a guy to think that he could manipulate a young female.
	10:53pm Austin Rich: "Think about baseball." Ahem.
	10:53pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:52 Yup..... but I do believe she'll think of something....I hope she does anyway. Though... sigh. I'll find out.
	10:53pm Webhamster Henry: This is the old "monkey mind can't be read" trope!
	10:53pm Austin Rich: I do love that song, "Froggy Went A Courtin'"
	10:56pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:53 Especially Danny Dell's version.
	10:56pm Austin Rich: This story is bonkers crazy, even by X-Minus One Standards. Hopefully you enjoyed how weird it was?
	10:56pm Austin Rich: Sleep well. Thanks for listening!
	10:57pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:56 We loved it from craft central here! Thanks for a fun show as always!!! Good night, all!
	10:57pm Austin Rich: Ending early? What kind of monster am I?
	10:58pm WR: Thank you! Austin!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from September 9, 2024

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September 9, 2024: Episode #109

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Rogue's Gallery	"Blue Eyes" ""Blue Eyes"" by "Rogue's Gallery"	30 May 1946	NBC		0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Adventures of Rocky Jordan	"The St. Louis Blues"	13 March 1949	Santana Productions		0:29:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Nelson Riddle	Lisbon Antigua "Lisbon Antigua" by "Nelson Riddle"				0:59:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Unpublished History	Radio in the 1920s (Part 23)	Radio In The 1920s	Self-Released	2024	1:15:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Blue Beetle	"Sabotage Inc., Part 1"	24 July 1940	Mutual–Don Lee Network		1:18:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"Wherever You Man Be"	26 June 1956	NBC Radio		1:32:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:57pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:54pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	9:00pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! Looks like a swell show tonight. Hope not too many of us get knocked unconscious.
	9:00pm Krys O.: Hey!
	9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:00 Fingers crossed!
	9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:54 Sit down and join us in the digital salon! Stay a spell.
	9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:00 Howdy!
	9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 But if Rogue doesn't get knocked out we won't have Eugor.
	9:02pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Austin: I've been listening to Quiet Please: Amazing stories, lousy transcriptions. A group has been reenacting them, but even that sound quality is bad. www.quietplease.org
	9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Blue Eyes"" by "Rogue's Gallery" We have another episode with just garbage sound. I did my best to clean this one up and make is a little more listenable, using the usual tools. Hopefully it sounds better to your ears.
	9:02pm laurapanic: hellooooo. I have hobbled into the salon. I shall be reclining on this chaise. I am so goddamned sick. Please make it stop. (flu).
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Imaginos @9:02 When Eugor gets knocked out, he sees Rouguie!
	9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:02 I do love that website, but yeah, that show is so poorly archived, and what we have is terrible. I'll be playing a few this October...
	9:04pm David The Splatter: We meet again, Mister Rich! :D I'll try and hang around as long as I can, I just took some Advil for this headache I have.
	9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:02 Oh no! Rest up, and get well soon. Flu is not fun!
	9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:03 Hmmm.... that's a good theory!
	9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:04 Sorry about the headache. It seems like a few folks are not feeling so good tonight.
	9:05pm Austin Rich: You'll notice there is no background noise when there are not music cues or SFX. I was able to isolate a fair amount of it on this one, but during the music bits, if I fade it out, the music just sounds awful. So I had to do some splicing.
	9:07pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 Artefacts?
	9:08pm Mr Fab: Is it me, or does the sound drop out for a second or two every now and then?
	9:08pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:04 hating it. Enjoying your editing notes, nice a geeky, thank you!
	9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:07 Sort of. When I tried to fade out the background noise on the music, all the music cues sounded "sanded off," just very flat and almost too soft. So I leave the "hum and rumble" in when there's music of SFX, so you can at least hear the music.
	9:09pm Maulydaft: Good lord it's Gerald Mohr again! :D
	9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:08 Hmmm. I'm monitoring on another device. Sounds okay to me? Anyone else experiencing that?
	9:10pm Maulydaft: I'm listening on a grace internet computer and it's fine!
	9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:09 I do love when Gerald Mohr gets to make an appearance. And when you do, too!
	9:10pm Maulydaft: sorry - grace internet radio!!!
	9:10pm David The Splatter: ↳ Austin Rich @9:09 I haven't noticed any drop-out yet. OK, as I typed that, there was a 1 or 2 second drop.
	9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:08 I try to keep the pocket protector and bow tie implied, even if you can't see them over the radio.
	9:11pm Mr Fab: ok, well, maybe it's my connection.
	9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:11 Fingers crossed that it isn't a sign of something worse...
	9:13pm Austin Rich: I guess Rogue could hear that conversation or something?
	9:15pm Austin Rich: Why would you drink anything if you knew someone had been in your room and you're already suspicious.
	9:15pm Austin Rich: More updates in the "Eugor's Girlfriend" storyline...
	9:16pm Maulydaft: hhhaaahaha Eugor's Girlfriend!!!!!!!
	9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:16 I think there's at least three times we meet her. She's been on once before, and i think there's one more...
	9:17pm Maulydaft: Freakin hilarious!
	9:17pm Austin Rich: And Eugor's Girlfriend sort of looks like Lana Turner? She sounds great!
	9:17pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 Indeed she does
	9:18pm Maulydaft: She sounded a little like June Foray but that would be just too good!
	9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:18 She shows up all over the place. (She was in an episode of Rocky Fortune, too.) You never know when she'll pop up on old radio shows.
	9:21pm laurapanic: *scribbles notes do not borrow sister's bathing suit
	9:21pm Austin Rich: I wish I had dramatic transition music, that signaled the change from Act II to Act III of any given evening. That would be VERY handy, to realize that something dramatic just happened, so I can shut up and sound like i know what's going on.
	9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:21 I have the same rule, but we're different sizes and she likes a one-piece, and I like a more modern two-piece. So it's more practical than life-saving.
	9:23pm Austin Rich: Gerald Mohr gets MAD.
	9:23pm Imaginos: Sharp eyed enough to shoot someone s swimming at a distance, but blind enough to shoot the wrong person
	9:24pm Austin Rich: "I'm going to have a talk with your mother." <dramatic cue> Yeah, I get it. I totally get it.
	9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:23 Whoops!
	9:26pm Austin Rich: Chloral en.wikipedia.org...
	9:28pm Austin Rich: My zine that I will write about Rogue's Gallery will be titled, "You Know What I Mean: Dick Powell AS Richard Rogue!"
	9:29pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 I......I.....HAVE NO SISTER.......anymore..... <mysterious dramatic music>
	9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The St. Louis Blues"" by "The Adventures of Rock... Rocky and dropped several references to having come from St. Louis, and the show does like to leave references in the way Rocky talks about his past. That might inform what you can expect in this story...
	9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:29 It took some time, but... we'll, Thanksgiving is less strained, now.
	9:33pm Austin Rich: You can hear the "mechanical rhythmic surface noise" on this episode, which rears it's ugly head from time to time. I do my best to isolate and reduce the sound of it as best I can, but sometimes I had to balance the overall sound with the efforts to get rid of the noise. "Same as it ever was..."
	9:33pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Choral looks to be a pretty nasty sedative
	9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:33 Yeah. I can't imagine what it would be like to shake that off.
	9:34pm WR: Have a seat. Nice chair sound effects.
	9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:34 It sort of sounds like the chair SFX you hear on Judge John Hodgman.
	9:35pm Imaginos: Speaking of sound e, Austin, what other effects should we have in Lost Christobel?
	9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:35 I'm not sure yet. But I need to start thinking about that more.
	9:38pm Mr Fab: is that Groucho Marx in the fez?
	9:38pm Maulydaft: ↳ Mr Fab @9:38 Ha I know!? But is it... Gerald Mohr!???? :o
	9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:38 Ha! Groucho would have been great! But no, that's Jay Novello. en.wikipedia.org...
	9:39pm Webhamster Henry: Where is Eugor, Rocky?
	9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:39 Everyone gets knocked out, tonight!
	9:40pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 I think if some actual disks could be re-digitized, the current sound repair software could help.
	9:41pm Imaginos: Saunders? That you, Pooh?
	9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:40 Yeah, I would love to find discs to work with! And I'm very impressed with what I CAN do with free software. But I would love to work with original discs in a pro studio.
	9:46pm Austin Rich: A lot of Rocky Jordan stories feel like they echo The Adventures of Phillip Marlowe episodes, just in different settings, and with an everyman in this context, instead of a detective of Marlowe's show. I've been thinking about listening to those show back to back, to see if I can draw more parallels.
	9:48pm Austin Rich: Some of the random extras are also voiced by Jay Novello, so that explains why occasionally Rocky is beating up someone who sounds like Police Officer Sam Sabaaya.
	9:48pm Maulydaft: They are both often so complicated that if you zone out for a minute or two you lose the story! :D
	9:48pm Maulydaft: I swear that's Gerald Mohr!! :o
	9:49pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 Jay Novello popped up everywhere!
	9:49pm Krys O.: G'night, all!
	9:49pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 Yes I've noticed that. He's pretty good tho, you only notice if you are looking for it...
	9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:48 The hallmark of a show / movie I will inevitably love: Noir setting, nearly impenetrable plot, and plenty of cigarettes and great music.
	9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:49 Sleep well, Krys!
	9:54pm Maulydaft: I'm on my fourth listen of Philip Marlowe shows right now (I know it's rather nuts!)
	9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:54 I really love that show. I think it has some of the highest re-listenability of the shows I enjoy. Occasionally I will map out the story for a Marlowe episode, and then use that structure for a story I'm working on. Breaking down those plots is really helpful for writing your own stories.
	9:56pm Austin Rich: The impact of WWII on the world and people and relationships is still playing out, today.
	9:57pm Maulydaft: Wait!! Ted Saunders is played the actor who becomes Rocky Jordan's bartender...?? Did I get that right?
	9:57pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:55 Wow! Neat!
	9:57pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 My parents met in WWII
	9:57pm Maulydaft: ↳ Maulydaft @9:57 Oh sorry Ted Polansky
	9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:57 Chris is Rocky's regular bartender, but he appears mostly in references, and very rarely in voice.
	9:59pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @9:57 I think he gets more speaking lines and roles as the show progresses? It's been a while since I listened from start to finish :)
	9:59pm David The Splatter: Thanks, Austin. Heading to bed, have a great night.
	9:59pm Maulydaft: Oh yeah damn this show - they don't mention the other actors! grrrr
	10:00pm Webhamster Henry: That was kind of touching...
	10:00pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy but going to hang on a bit longer
	10:01pm Maulydaft: ↳ Imaginos @10:00 You can do it Imaginos!!!
	10:03pm Imaginos: Would love to be a DJ but I'm not sure what kind of show I would do.
	10:04pm Maulydaft: Thank you Austin!!!! :)
	10:04pm Imaginos: ↳ Maulydaft @10:01 I think you are right
	10:06pm Maulydaft: Wow congrats Austin!
	10:06pm laurapanic: oooooh Miss Mei!!!
	10:07pm Maulydaft: Dang you are dedicated!
	10:08pm Austin Rich: wfmu.org...
	10:08pm David Shortell: I last saw Mike Watt 20 years ago, playing in the Stooges on Randall's Island. He wore a Curly Howard t-shirt.
	10:11pm Heather: That's so cool about these shows! I'm excited for you! I have a houseguest here and we're tuned in and crafting as we enjoy the show!
	10:12pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:08 ....in "Mike Watt Goes Fishin'!"
	10:12pm Imaginos: ↳ Imaginos @10:03 Blackstone was great
	10:12pm WR: ↳ David Shortell @10:08 Dang, I went to that show on Randall's Island. The Stooges and the Damned were part of that year's Lollapalooza and I was disappointed that they both had already played by the time that I got there.
	10:13pm Maulydaft: Wow, my husband all complains about all these old guys still sporting the punk look, I need to show him this poster Austin put a link to... Mike looks like some average senior citizen!
	10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:12 I do enjoy a good Blackstone episode.
	10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:13 It gets better: this is a jazz / free-improv show. Not very punk music AT ALL. But I do like Saccharine Trust too, and it'll be fun to see them play together. (And I'm a nerd for free-improv music too, so it works out.)
	10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:12 Old man fashion is pretty dope. I need to study, and I'll be 50 before long... yikes...
	10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Sabotage Inc., Part 1"" by "The Blue Beetle" There's a lot of noise on this one, and hopefully you can make out the voices and follow along. Some of these shows are in such poor shame, it's a pity.
	10:20pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 Oh wow I just made the connection. My husband use to really love Saccharine Trust. He'll get an extra kick from that poster!
	10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:20 I'm still blown away that he asked me to help book these shows. He's been playing our tunes on his show... but this is next level.
	10:22pm Austin Rich: Cops. They can't wait to do things right. They'll just break the door down instead. Typical. #ACAB.
	10:22pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 So cool! It's funny how life turns out eh? you just never know what's around the corner!
	10:23pm David Shortell: ↳ Maulydaft @10:13 A lot of those musicians didn't care about the fashions. Black Flag's music was known in the UK, but they puzzled British fans when they first toured there. "These Yanks are punk rockers? They look like hoboes!"
	10:23pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 I hate how I like the cops in Richard Diamond :D
	10:24pm laurapanic: male secretary. sigh. How it was.
	10:24pm Maulydaft: ↳ David Shortell @10:23 yeah that's true! Mike Watt and so many other HC people just wore band shirts and thrift store clothing :)
	10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:23 Yeah. I realize how "problematic" detective shows are these days. I had to tap out of the Wire because it felt like it was being apologetic for the bad cop behavior.
	10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:24 I was a secretary for a while, for the head of the IT Department at PSU. I was not good at it.
	10:26pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:24 I've never seen it. So many people were into it. Ishmael Reed, I believe, ranted a bit about it and he gave me the impression I didn't want to watch it!
	10:27pm Austin Rich: You can get a sense of how thick the background noise is on this episode, when you hear the music cues. I was excited that I could get that noise out of the scenes with the voices, without destroying the voices too badly.
	10:27pm Maulydaft: You always do a great job! Thanks for caring!
	10:27pm Imaginos: Just did a little painting. Sea and sky. On Friday in art period I will add the Mountain.
	10:28pm Heather Z: ↳ laurapanic @10:24 We assumed "male secretary" was the equivalent of "roommate," e.g., he never married but instead shared a home with his male secretary with whom he was inseparable.
	10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:26 It tries to play fair by giving equal time to the crooks as they do the cops, so at first it seems like it's doing something different. But after a few seasons, it feels like it is apologizing for both how bad the crooks are and how bad the cops are. It just felt... weird.
	10:29pm Maulydaft: Oh damn... I wasn't listening much to Blue Beetle, going in and out of the room... where are they going to blow up the bridge to Canada? HOpefully not Windsor! :o :D
	10:29pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 hmmm interesting...
	10:29pm Austin Rich: Have they named a city? I'm not sure they have...
	10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:27 Very cool! Painting is important.
	10:30pm Maulydaft: ↳ Heather Z @10:28 Very true!
	10:31pm Austin Rich: This is gonna blow some minds: but I might end early tonight! By a few minutes! I guess I should have talked more about Mike Watt during the break...
	10:31pm Imaginos: And the saboteurs don't try to unmask him
	10:32pm Austin Rich: My Grandma didn't make radio, but my mom did. And my grandmother's brother was a radio / phonograph nerd, so does that count?
	10:32pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 Doing my impression of the Mountain of Madness.
	10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:31 Maybe in Part II?
	10:33pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Wherever You Man Be"" by "X-Minus One" The Russians loved this story. They adapted it into TV and a movie.
	10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Wherever You Man Be"" by "X-Minus One" There are some real "touch and go" sexist moments in this episode that are pretty weird. Hopefully ya'll can hold out for the way it all wraps up.
	10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:33 Oh? I'd be curious to see that. I've seen a bunch of Russian movies that I quite loved, thanks to my film minor.
	10:35pm Imaginos: Bet she could do it in five
	10:35pm Austin Rich: There's a lot of "comedy" cues in this episode. Their budding relationship is "funny," right?
	10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:35 I reckon.
	10:36pm Imaginos: I can think of a more sadistic tire
	10:37pm Imaginos: Going to get some sleep
	10:37pm Austin Rich: So this guy is a Master's Student? And he calls this woman a "kid"?
	10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:37 Sleep well!
	10:39pm Austin Rich: "My name's Jenkins." <comedy cue> Huh?
	10:41pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Wherever You Man Be"" by "X-Minus One" I see this author also wrote a story that was the basis for a flop ABC-TV series called “The Immortal”, circa 1970.
	10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:41 Huh. I'll have to miss that.
	10:42pm Austin Rich: "Remind me never to see you again." <comedy cue>
	10:43pm Austin Rich: "Let me cook and clean for you." A sweet and pretty teenage Appalachian girl wants to cook and clean for you? What's the problem, again?
	10:45pm Austin Rich: Dead Twin Sister is her magical avatar? This story just became very weird fiction...
	10:46pm David Shortell: ↳ Maulydaft @10:20 When I saw Saccharine Trust open for Black Flag 40 years ago, I (and probably everyone else present) thought it was the worst noise in the universe. The audience was dumbstruck, so paralyzed with horrified disgust they couldn't even boo. I haven't heard them since and don't know what I'd think now.
	10:47pm Austin Rich: Maybe this is a secret Manly Wade Wellman story or something?
	10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:46 This is the problem with only knowing the records. I know them at their best, and never had to sit through a show like that.
	10:49pm Heather Z: Is it a good idea to seduce the telekinetic witch girl?
	10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:49 For your Master's Thesis?
	10:51pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 Or any reason besides you love her? Which this guy..... he's making some bad and insincere choices, I think.
	10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:51 Well, all men are always awful... particularly in the 1950's... but by 1950's standards of badness, using her entirely for research is pretty awful.
	10:52pm Austin Rich: Oh, I bet she'll be real awful to him, right?
	10:52pm WR: Always a bad idea for a guy to think that he could manipulate a young female.
	10:53pm Austin Rich: "Think about baseball." Ahem.
	10:53pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:52 Yup..... but I do believe she'll think of something....I hope she does anyway. Though... sigh. I'll find out.
	10:53pm Webhamster Henry: This is the old "monkey mind can't be read" trope!
	10:53pm Austin Rich: I do love that song, "Froggy Went A Courtin'"
	10:56pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:53 Especially Danny Dell's version.
	10:56pm Austin Rich: This story is bonkers crazy, even by X-Minus One Standards. Hopefully you enjoyed how weird it was?
	10:56pm Austin Rich: Sleep well. Thanks for listening!
	10:57pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:56 We loved it from craft central here! Thanks for a fun show as always!!! Good night, all!
	10:57pm Austin Rich: Ending early? What kind of monster am I?
	10:58pm WR: Thank you! Austin!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from September 9, 2024

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