WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from September 16, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 7:10pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:54pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	9:01pm Imaginos: I'm giving him 7 minutes before he gets bonked
	9:02pm Webhamster Henry: save your hair.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:54 Nice to see you, Imaginos! Hopefully we have some choice stories for you this week. Have a seat in the digital salon, enjoy the blondies I baked, and listen to our first tale!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:01 Nice bet! Anyone else have a guess?
	9:02pm Eugor: Hi there, Roguie!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:02 Webhamster Henry! Wonderful to see you.
	👻 9:03pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone! Happy I can listen in full tonight. The last couple of Mondays have been full of distractions.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Redhaired Stranger"" by "Rogue's Gallery" Not the best sound this week, but I used a variety of tools to try and improve things as best I could. Hopefully the sound is a little better than the archived version.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:03 Wonderful to see you!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: Three minutes! Very quick this week!
	9:04pm Webhamster Henry: I've been listening to The Mysterious Traveller and Quiet Please, both have some interesting writing! often poor quality though.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: The Eugor / wedding storyline continues...
	👻 9:04pm WR: eugor's role is expanding.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:04 I LOVE Quiet Please, but the sound is GARBAGE. I wanna remaster that entire series someday.
	👻 9:05pm WR: ↳ Imaginos @9:01 Hah, bonked in the first minute!
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: WR! Lovely to have you around tonight.
	9:06pm Imaginos: ↳ WR @9:05 Indeed. Much faster than I thought
	👻 9:07pm WR: 1st minute, 1 dead, 1 bonked and eugor
	9:08pm Imaginos: If Eugor was allowed to get married would that represent multiple personalities being reintegrated?
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:07 Yeah. This show really doesn't mess around, sometimes.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: I should do a Willie Nelson / Richard Rogue mash-up someday.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:08 Sounds like a good idea for a Richard Rogue fanfic story.
	9:15pm Imaginos: I'm going to the Big E tomorrow morning
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:15 Is that the Multi-State fair they have out there?
	9:16pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:16 Yes, it is.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: Very cool. I enjoy a good state fair when I can squeeze one in.
	👻 9:17pm WR: Stevens must have wanted what was in the wallet.
	👻 9:18pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Imaginos @9:15 I remember going to the Big E when I was a kid! Nice!
	9:18pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 They have some strange food. E.g. chocolate covered burnt bacon ends.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:18 Oh, I love weird fair food. That's awesome! I can never eat much these days, but when I was younger, I would load up on weird fair food.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: I do appreciate that Rogue's Gallery really sticks to the Three Act structure through it's entire run. While the acts are a little imbalanced, in terms of action and drama, there's always three acts, with two cliffhangers that keep you listening.
	👻 9:23pm WR: ↳ Imaginos @9:18 mmm. chocolate & bacon sounds good.
	9:23pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 www.thebige.com...
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:23 I've never been, but we have a pretty good state fair, with pig races and weird rides and greasy food. I'm not good on rides anymore - too nervous that high off the ground. But I do like most of the other stuff.
	👻 9:25pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 I remember the Big E had a carnival barker/ circus sideshow that advertised a whale name Little Irvy. I was excited to see it , entered the trailer and of course it was a disappointment. It was a taxidermied whale. Poor Little Irvy.
	👻 9:25pm WR: they faded before we heard that the lady arrived by herself.
	9:25pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:24 I'm not fond of coasters either. I like my head exactly where it is.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: I embarrassed a "Smokey The Bear" costumed performer at the fair a few years ago. I'm a big Smokey fan, have been since I met him as a child, so I ran up and asked Smokey if I could get a pic. The performer nervously agreed, and it was then I realized it was a woman in the costume. I think they were nervous someone would call them out. I didn't say anything, but they seemed very nervous while I was around.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: I wonder how common the phrase, "You know what I mean?" was, before this radio show? This show was on for years, and was fairly popular. It might be a catch phrase because of this show.
	9:30pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:27 youtu.be...
	👻 9:31pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Imaginos @9:30 That unmasking is the stuff of nightmares!!
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Passport For Vivi"" by "The Adventures of Rocky ... I did my usual tricks to clean up the sound on this one, and, as I have before, left in some of the tape hiss, as removing it really killed the overall robustness of the sound of the music and voices. This one didn't need as much help as other episodes, but still...
	9:34pm Imaginos: Going to turn in to store up some energy for tomorrow
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: I have never had access to an expense account, but I did travel a few times for work where I would get reimbursed for my expenses. It's not quite the same, because you can't really live any larger than you usually do, but it was nice to have my expenses covered. I've listened to plenty of Johnny Dollar, so I sort of have a bit of a romance for expense accounts.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:34 Sleep well, and have fun!
	9:35pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 Thank you
	👻 9:41pm WR: ↳ Imaginos @9:25 I used to go to Cony Island every summer. They have an old roller coaster called Cyclone. I lost a pair of glasses. Another year I rode this ride that turns you upside down. That was the last ride of that type for me.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: The only frustration I have with shows like this, where the lead has a police officer friend, is that the officer never trusts the lead, in spite of the fact the lead is always innocent in the end. I usually hope for some SLIGHTLY better writing, so they don't fall into that trap. But at least in the Mid-Century era of radio dramas, it was a very common trope.
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:41 I love places like that, but I don't really like the rides. Except maybe the really dull and boring ones.
	👻 9:48pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ WR @9:41 I had a funny experience with the Cyclone too! I was always a rule-following kid when it came to rollercoasters. Always kept my hands on the bars. Years later I was in Coney Island with my friends and I decided to try what everyone else seems to do when riding a coaster. I raised my arms up in the air. Little did I know that the cyclone would take sharp, fast turns and when it suddenly turned, the gravity forced my right arm to clobber the top of my head. Ouch! Ha ha. Lucky I didn’t knock myself out
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: Here's another sample of the kind of ads that Rocky Jordan had, with this Red Cross "read."
	👻 9:54pm yerfriendpaul: Love hearing the ads
	👻 9:54pm David Shortell: This past weekend in the county where I reside, two classic radio dramas were performed—Saturday at the Middletown Arts Center, then repeated Sunday at the Cross of Glory Church in Aberdeen (New Jersey, not Scotland). I missed both, alas. The first play was the "All American Menace" episode of “The Thin Man” radio series (that originally starred Dick Gothard and Claudia Morgan as Nick & Nora Charles). It was followed by a reenactment of the "Lonely Hearts" episode of “Richard Diamond, Private Detective” (that originally starred Dick Powell).
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: Depending on the run-time of Rocky Jordan, I don't always have time for an ad-spot in the back-half of the show. I will occasionally cut those out, in favor of the ones I make. But sometimes it helps pad out an episode that's running VERY short.
	👻 9:55pm WR: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:48 They've built some more big fancy rides but hope the Cyclone is repaired and put back in service.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:54 Oh, wow! That sounds great. I would have loved to see that.
	👻 9:56pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 By the way, it makes no sense that the “The Thin Man” movie sequels and radio/TV series also had “Thin Man” in their titles. The thin man actually died early in the first story! It would’ve been better to call the sequels and series “Nick & Nora”.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:56 I was confused by that at first, too. But I guess the "Thin Man" name was so popular that it was hard to stop using. Doesn't The Pink Panther series sort of suffer from that, too?
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: If you listen closely, you can sort of hear the vague sound of another episode of something, that was on the tape before this episode was recorded on it. (A common practice among radio archivists.)
	👻 10:00pm yerfriendpaul: I did hear that. Was wondering
	👻 10:02pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:57 Yes ("A Shot in the Dark" not withstanding), the pink panther jewel only appears in two of those films!
	👻 10:05pm David Shortell: ↳ David Shortell @10:02 I meant two of the Sellers "Pink Panther" films. I never saw the Steve Martin ones.
	👻 10:09pm Heather Z: Some years ago, I had ferns hanging on the front porch and a ...... complicated.... person in my life sighed and remarked, "how beautiful. Just like an old plantation." I...... (my house is also just a normal city house up north. It is nothing like a plantation.)
	👻 10:11pm yerfriendpaul: I’m curious if you’ve contacted the man who created the documentary. It’d be great if you interviewed him
	👻 10:13pm yerfriendpaul: I bet it’d be a great discussion considering both of your expertise and passion for radio in the 20s
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:11 That's a really good idea. Thanks!
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: I do love to interview people. But I'm sitting on more interviews than I have time to edit!
	👻 10:16pm yerfriendpaul: I can see how that would be a big undertaking
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:09 People can't help the things that remind them of other things. People see the world differently, and I try my hardest to see the world through as many eyes as makes sense.
	👻 10:17pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:15 Not to add more work but I think yerfriendpaul's idea is a great one!!
	👻 10:18pm David Shortell: ↳ David Shortell @10:02 I read the 1961-1962 Broadway play “A Shot in the Dark” (starring William Shatner, Julie Harris and Walter Matthau), itself based on the French play “L'Idiote”. It’s almost nothing like the movie! Blake Edwards transformed it into a farcical showcase for the Clouseau character.
	👻 10:18pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 I was nice. I didn't say anything snappy back. But it was a very ... odd ... comment that's stuck with me.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:18 I have never read / seen that Broadway Play, and I really love The Pink Panther movies, in spite of how "not great" most of them are.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: Even this simple idea of the connections between politics and radio seems a little Naive, considering how much impact radio would have on American Politics in the 30's and 40's.
	👻 10:23pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 I daresay Herbert Lom is as funny as Sellers in those films. The two previously acted together in "The Ladykillers".
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Sabotage Inc., Part 2"" by "The Blue Beetle" The sound on The Blue Beetle varies quite a bit from show to show, since it was not archived well in its day, and fans had to piece together a complete set of shows after the fact, trading with each other via the mail, etc. I used my usual tricks to clean this one up, but it certainly doesn't sound as good as some of the others.
	10:28pm wenzo: Howdeee AR & Radio Frenzzz
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: To my point made during "Dimestore Revelations!": please let me know if there's some kind of Old Radio Drama that you would like to hear, and we are not playing. It doesn't have to always be my boring stories.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:28 wenzo! Wonderful to see you.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: Whoops! We lost connection for a second. Sorry about that. I'll try to post a complete version to the archive ASAP!
	10:30pm Webhamster Henry: I wonder if there are some archive news and weather shows - not from "important" events, just a typical news cycle report. I love those when they pop up in CBS Mystery Theatre.
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:30 You can find some, but I mostly know stuff that has popped up in other shows. I have, on occasion, listened to a few "Complete Broadcast Days," and those always have "average" news stories and whatnot. There was a baseball game I listened to that was sort of compelling in a strange way.
	10:34pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:32 It's a real slice of life!
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:30 I wonder if I could find an archived news show, that would line up enough, where I could play "news" from exactly 50 years ago... or something like that. I'll have to do some digging.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Mr. Costello, Hero"" by "X-Minus One" While possibly unrelated to why this story was aired on this date, I do find it interesting that people heard this the night before the Fourth of July.
	👻 10:36pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Mr. Costello, Hero"" by "X-Minus One" “Mr. Costello, Hero” can be read here (I don’t think Bud Abbott is in it): archive.org...
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Mr. Costello, Hero"" by "X-Minus One" Not the worst sound, but not as good as we usually get on X-Minus One of this vintage. I used my usual tricks and whatnot on this one.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: As I mentioned in the "Dimestore Revelations" VO, this story seems very pointedly about one thing when it was written in 1953, and seems very pointedly about another thing now, in 2024.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 I should say: 1953 was when the story was written; 1956 was when it was adapted for radio.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: I do appreciate how quickly, and effectively, the creepiness of this story ramps up.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: Mr. Costello is into editing samples to make people sound terrible. Oh dear...
	👻 10:44pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:42 McCarthy was still powerful and dangerous in 1953. This story may have endangered Sturgeon the same way Walt Kelly was when he created his villain Simple J. Malarkey in "Pogo".
	👻 10:45pm yerfriendpaul: Being alone is evil? Ha ha
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:44 Certainly! I think in 1953, this was so much about how socialism might spread and ruin our cultures. In 2024, it seems like this story is about the invasion of privacy in some way.
	👻 10:48pm WR: ↳ Song: ""Mr. Costello, Hero"" by "X-Minus One" Space Hero is a name for the police?
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:44 I do love Pogo, but like Finnigan's Wake, you almost need a major education to understand everything at work in that comic.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: "Loneliness is Evil." I keep getting told that living in isolation is a bad idea, and that I need to socialize to be a good, complete person. I think about this story when I think about that...
	👻 10:51pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @10:48 I enjoyed it as a kid without knowing about the many levels of references and meanings. Enjoy revisiting.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: "National Brotherhood Week"?
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:51 I agree. I think you don't need to know anything to love it. But I think as I get older, I like it more, for other reasons. It's like watching The Marx Brothers as a kid; it seems silly and funny as a kid, and brilliant and well written as an adult.
	👻 10:57pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Mr. Costello, Hero"" by "X-Minus One" The author Theodore Sturgeon is famous for coining the adage Sturgeon’s Law. He also wrote “Amok Time”, the Star Trek episode that displayed the planet Vulcan.
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:57 I have liked all the stories of his I've read. I've been meaning to read through his entire catalog.
	👻 10:59pm yerfriendpaul: Don’t do it!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: Edited tapes! Fake News!
	👻 11:03pm yerfriendpaul: Costello’s trouble to the very end
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: Thanks for listening, everyone.
	👻 11:03pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Mr. Costello, Hero"" by "X-Minus One" Lou and Elvis stressed the second syllable of their common surname--not the first, as in this show.
	👻 11:04pm yerfriendpaul: Thank you Austin! Good night all!
	👻 11:05pm WR: ↳ David Shortell @11:03 yes, was thinking I never heard that COS tel lo before.
	👻 11:05pm WR: Thank you, Austin. Laters folks.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from September 16, 2024

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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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September 16, 2024: Episode #110

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Rogue's Gallery	"The Redhaired Stranger"	13 June 1946	NBC		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Adventures of Rocky Jordan	"Passport For Vivi"	20 March 1949	Santana Productions		0:29:11 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Lenny Dee	Plantation Boogie "Plantation Boogie" by "Lenny Dee"				0:59:49 (Pop-up)
Unpublished History	Radio in the 1920s (Part 24)	Radio In The 1920s	Self-Released	2024	1:12:39 (Pop-up)
The Blue Beetle	"Sabotage Inc., Part 2"	26 July 1940	Mutual–Don Lee Network		1:21:38 (Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"Mr. Costello, Hero" ""Mr. Costello, Hero"" by "X-Minus One"	3 July 1956	NBC Radio		1:35:22 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:10pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:54pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	9:01pm Imaginos: I'm giving him 7 minutes before he gets bonked
	9:02pm Webhamster Henry: save your hair.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:54 Nice to see you, Imaginos! Hopefully we have some choice stories for you this week. Have a seat in the digital salon, enjoy the blondies I baked, and listen to our first tale!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:01 Nice bet! Anyone else have a guess?
	9:02pm Eugor: Hi there, Roguie!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:02 Webhamster Henry! Wonderful to see you.
	👻 9:03pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone! Happy I can listen in full tonight. The last couple of Mondays have been full of distractions.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Redhaired Stranger"" by "Rogue's Gallery" Not the best sound this week, but I used a variety of tools to try and improve things as best I could. Hopefully the sound is a little better than the archived version.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:03 Wonderful to see you!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: Three minutes! Very quick this week!
	9:04pm Webhamster Henry: I've been listening to The Mysterious Traveller and Quiet Please, both have some interesting writing! often poor quality though.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: The Eugor / wedding storyline continues...
	👻 9:04pm WR: eugor's role is expanding.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:04 I LOVE Quiet Please, but the sound is GARBAGE. I wanna remaster that entire series someday.
	👻 9:05pm WR: ↳ Imaginos @9:01 Hah, bonked in the first minute!
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: WR! Lovely to have you around tonight.
	9:06pm Imaginos: ↳ WR @9:05 Indeed. Much faster than I thought
	👻 9:07pm WR: 1st minute, 1 dead, 1 bonked and eugor
	9:08pm Imaginos: If Eugor was allowed to get married would that represent multiple personalities being reintegrated?
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:07 Yeah. This show really doesn't mess around, sometimes.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: I should do a Willie Nelson / Richard Rogue mash-up someday.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:08 Sounds like a good idea for a Richard Rogue fanfic story.
	9:15pm Imaginos: I'm going to the Big E tomorrow morning
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:15 Is that the Multi-State fair they have out there?
	9:16pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:16 Yes, it is.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: Very cool. I enjoy a good state fair when I can squeeze one in.
	👻 9:17pm WR: Stevens must have wanted what was in the wallet.
	👻 9:18pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Imaginos @9:15 I remember going to the Big E when I was a kid! Nice!
	9:18pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 They have some strange food. E.g. chocolate covered burnt bacon ends.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:18 Oh, I love weird fair food. That's awesome! I can never eat much these days, but when I was younger, I would load up on weird fair food.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: I do appreciate that Rogue's Gallery really sticks to the Three Act structure through it's entire run. While the acts are a little imbalanced, in terms of action and drama, there's always three acts, with two cliffhangers that keep you listening.
	👻 9:23pm WR: ↳ Imaginos @9:18 mmm. chocolate & bacon sounds good.
	9:23pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 www.thebige.com...
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:23 I've never been, but we have a pretty good state fair, with pig races and weird rides and greasy food. I'm not good on rides anymore - too nervous that high off the ground. But I do like most of the other stuff.
	👻 9:25pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 I remember the Big E had a carnival barker/ circus sideshow that advertised a whale name Little Irvy. I was excited to see it , entered the trailer and of course it was a disappointment. It was a taxidermied whale. Poor Little Irvy.
	👻 9:25pm WR: they faded before we heard that the lady arrived by herself.
	9:25pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:24 I'm not fond of coasters either. I like my head exactly where it is.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: I embarrassed a "Smokey The Bear" costumed performer at the fair a few years ago. I'm a big Smokey fan, have been since I met him as a child, so I ran up and asked Smokey if I could get a pic. The performer nervously agreed, and it was then I realized it was a woman in the costume. I think they were nervous someone would call them out. I didn't say anything, but they seemed very nervous while I was around.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: I wonder how common the phrase, "You know what I mean?" was, before this radio show? This show was on for years, and was fairly popular. It might be a catch phrase because of this show.
	9:30pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:27 youtu.be...
	👻 9:31pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Imaginos @9:30 That unmasking is the stuff of nightmares!!
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Passport For Vivi"" by "The Adventures of Rocky ... I did my usual tricks to clean up the sound on this one, and, as I have before, left in some of the tape hiss, as removing it really killed the overall robustness of the sound of the music and voices. This one didn't need as much help as other episodes, but still...
	9:34pm Imaginos: Going to turn in to store up some energy for tomorrow
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: I have never had access to an expense account, but I did travel a few times for work where I would get reimbursed for my expenses. It's not quite the same, because you can't really live any larger than you usually do, but it was nice to have my expenses covered. I've listened to plenty of Johnny Dollar, so I sort of have a bit of a romance for expense accounts.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:34 Sleep well, and have fun!
	9:35pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 Thank you
	👻 9:41pm WR: ↳ Imaginos @9:25 I used to go to Cony Island every summer. They have an old roller coaster called Cyclone. I lost a pair of glasses. Another year I rode this ride that turns you upside down. That was the last ride of that type for me.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: The only frustration I have with shows like this, where the lead has a police officer friend, is that the officer never trusts the lead, in spite of the fact the lead is always innocent in the end. I usually hope for some SLIGHTLY better writing, so they don't fall into that trap. But at least in the Mid-Century era of radio dramas, it was a very common trope.
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:41 I love places like that, but I don't really like the rides. Except maybe the really dull and boring ones.
	👻 9:48pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ WR @9:41 I had a funny experience with the Cyclone too! I was always a rule-following kid when it came to rollercoasters. Always kept my hands on the bars. Years later I was in Coney Island with my friends and I decided to try what everyone else seems to do when riding a coaster. I raised my arms up in the air. Little did I know that the cyclone would take sharp, fast turns and when it suddenly turned, the gravity forced my right arm to clobber the top of my head. Ouch! Ha ha. Lucky I didn’t knock myself out
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: Here's another sample of the kind of ads that Rocky Jordan had, with this Red Cross "read."
	👻 9:54pm yerfriendpaul: Love hearing the ads
	👻 9:54pm David Shortell: This past weekend in the county where I reside, two classic radio dramas were performed—Saturday at the Middletown Arts Center, then repeated Sunday at the Cross of Glory Church in Aberdeen (New Jersey, not Scotland). I missed both, alas. The first play was the "All American Menace" episode of “The Thin Man” radio series (that originally starred Dick Gothard and Claudia Morgan as Nick & Nora Charles). It was followed by a reenactment of the "Lonely Hearts" episode of “Richard Diamond, Private Detective” (that originally starred Dick Powell).
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: Depending on the run-time of Rocky Jordan, I don't always have time for an ad-spot in the back-half of the show. I will occasionally cut those out, in favor of the ones I make. But sometimes it helps pad out an episode that's running VERY short.
	👻 9:55pm WR: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:48 They've built some more big fancy rides but hope the Cyclone is repaired and put back in service.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:54 Oh, wow! That sounds great. I would have loved to see that.
	👻 9:56pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 By the way, it makes no sense that the “The Thin Man” movie sequels and radio/TV series also had “Thin Man” in their titles. The thin man actually died early in the first story! It would’ve been better to call the sequels and series “Nick & Nora”.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:56 I was confused by that at first, too. But I guess the "Thin Man" name was so popular that it was hard to stop using. Doesn't The Pink Panther series sort of suffer from that, too?
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: If you listen closely, you can sort of hear the vague sound of another episode of something, that was on the tape before this episode was recorded on it. (A common practice among radio archivists.)
	👻 10:00pm yerfriendpaul: I did hear that. Was wondering
	👻 10:02pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:57 Yes ("A Shot in the Dark" not withstanding), the pink panther jewel only appears in two of those films!
	👻 10:05pm David Shortell: ↳ David Shortell @10:02 I meant two of the Sellers "Pink Panther" films. I never saw the Steve Martin ones.
	👻 10:09pm Heather Z: Some years ago, I had ferns hanging on the front porch and a ...... complicated.... person in my life sighed and remarked, "how beautiful. Just like an old plantation." I...... (my house is also just a normal city house up north. It is nothing like a plantation.)
	👻 10:11pm yerfriendpaul: I’m curious if you’ve contacted the man who created the documentary. It’d be great if you interviewed him
	👻 10:13pm yerfriendpaul: I bet it’d be a great discussion considering both of your expertise and passion for radio in the 20s
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:11 That's a really good idea. Thanks!
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: I do love to interview people. But I'm sitting on more interviews than I have time to edit!
	👻 10:16pm yerfriendpaul: I can see how that would be a big undertaking
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:09 People can't help the things that remind them of other things. People see the world differently, and I try my hardest to see the world through as many eyes as makes sense.
	👻 10:17pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:15 Not to add more work but I think yerfriendpaul's idea is a great one!!
	👻 10:18pm David Shortell: ↳ David Shortell @10:02 I read the 1961-1962 Broadway play “A Shot in the Dark” (starring William Shatner, Julie Harris and Walter Matthau), itself based on the French play “L'Idiote”. It’s almost nothing like the movie! Blake Edwards transformed it into a farcical showcase for the Clouseau character.
	👻 10:18pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 I was nice. I didn't say anything snappy back. But it was a very ... odd ... comment that's stuck with me.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:18 I have never read / seen that Broadway Play, and I really love The Pink Panther movies, in spite of how "not great" most of them are.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: Even this simple idea of the connections between politics and radio seems a little Naive, considering how much impact radio would have on American Politics in the 30's and 40's.
	👻 10:23pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 I daresay Herbert Lom is as funny as Sellers in those films. The two previously acted together in "The Ladykillers".
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Sabotage Inc., Part 2"" by "The Blue Beetle" The sound on The Blue Beetle varies quite a bit from show to show, since it was not archived well in its day, and fans had to piece together a complete set of shows after the fact, trading with each other via the mail, etc. I used my usual tricks to clean this one up, but it certainly doesn't sound as good as some of the others.
	10:28pm wenzo: Howdeee AR & Radio Frenzzz
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: To my point made during "Dimestore Revelations!": please let me know if there's some kind of Old Radio Drama that you would like to hear, and we are not playing. It doesn't have to always be my boring stories.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:28 wenzo! Wonderful to see you.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: Whoops! We lost connection for a second. Sorry about that. I'll try to post a complete version to the archive ASAP!
	10:30pm Webhamster Henry: I wonder if there are some archive news and weather shows - not from "important" events, just a typical news cycle report. I love those when they pop up in CBS Mystery Theatre.
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:30 You can find some, but I mostly know stuff that has popped up in other shows. I have, on occasion, listened to a few "Complete Broadcast Days," and those always have "average" news stories and whatnot. There was a baseball game I listened to that was sort of compelling in a strange way.
	10:34pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:32 It's a real slice of life!
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:30 I wonder if I could find an archived news show, that would line up enough, where I could play "news" from exactly 50 years ago... or something like that. I'll have to do some digging.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Mr. Costello, Hero"" by "X-Minus One" While possibly unrelated to why this story was aired on this date, I do find it interesting that people heard this the night before the Fourth of July.
	👻 10:36pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Mr. Costello, Hero"" by "X-Minus One" “Mr. Costello, Hero” can be read here (I don’t think Bud Abbott is in it): archive.org...
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Mr. Costello, Hero"" by "X-Minus One" Not the worst sound, but not as good as we usually get on X-Minus One of this vintage. I used my usual tricks and whatnot on this one.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: As I mentioned in the "Dimestore Revelations" VO, this story seems very pointedly about one thing when it was written in 1953, and seems very pointedly about another thing now, in 2024.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 I should say: 1953 was when the story was written; 1956 was when it was adapted for radio.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: I do appreciate how quickly, and effectively, the creepiness of this story ramps up.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: Mr. Costello is into editing samples to make people sound terrible. Oh dear...
	👻 10:44pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:42 McCarthy was still powerful and dangerous in 1953. This story may have endangered Sturgeon the same way Walt Kelly was when he created his villain Simple J. Malarkey in "Pogo".
	👻 10:45pm yerfriendpaul: Being alone is evil? Ha ha
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:44 Certainly! I think in 1953, this was so much about how socialism might spread and ruin our cultures. In 2024, it seems like this story is about the invasion of privacy in some way.
	👻 10:48pm WR: ↳ Song: ""Mr. Costello, Hero"" by "X-Minus One" Space Hero is a name for the police?
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:44 I do love Pogo, but like Finnigan's Wake, you almost need a major education to understand everything at work in that comic.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: "Loneliness is Evil." I keep getting told that living in isolation is a bad idea, and that I need to socialize to be a good, complete person. I think about this story when I think about that...
	👻 10:51pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @10:48 I enjoyed it as a kid without knowing about the many levels of references and meanings. Enjoy revisiting.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: "National Brotherhood Week"?
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:51 I agree. I think you don't need to know anything to love it. But I think as I get older, I like it more, for other reasons. It's like watching The Marx Brothers as a kid; it seems silly and funny as a kid, and brilliant and well written as an adult.
	👻 10:57pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Mr. Costello, Hero"" by "X-Minus One" The author Theodore Sturgeon is famous for coining the adage Sturgeon’s Law. He also wrote “Amok Time”, the Star Trek episode that displayed the planet Vulcan.
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:57 I have liked all the stories of his I've read. I've been meaning to read through his entire catalog.
	👻 10:59pm yerfriendpaul: Don’t do it!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: Edited tapes! Fake News!
	👻 11:03pm yerfriendpaul: Costello’s trouble to the very end
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: Thanks for listening, everyone.
	👻 11:03pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Mr. Costello, Hero"" by "X-Minus One" Lou and Elvis stressed the second syllable of their common surname--not the first, as in this show.
	👻 11:04pm yerfriendpaul: Thank you Austin! Good night all!
	👻 11:05pm WR: ↳ David Shortell @11:03 yes, was thinking I never heard that COS tel lo before.
	👻 11:05pm WR: Thank you, Austin. Laters folks.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from September 16, 2024

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