WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from September 23, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 6:43pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:57pm Imaginos: Ahoy, me hearties!
	👻 8:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:57 Nice to see you in the Digital Salon, Imaginos!
	8:58pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:58 Glad to be here
	9:00pm Webhamster Eugor: Hehehehe hello Austie!
	👻 9:01pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Eugor @9:00 Webhamster Eugor!! Nice to see you in the Digital Salon, too!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Star of Savoy"" by "Rogue's Gallery" Dick Powell mentions a comedian - Cass Daley - who listeners might have "tuned in for." Cass Daley had a show in the time slot that Rogue's Gallery was moved to, displacing her show for a spell. Of course, Dick Powell likes to break the 4th wall with Richard's monologues, so of course he had to mention it in a round about way.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: Gerald Mohr shows up in the first three minutes! Not bad.
	👻 9:03pm WR: Audible conso consul conca con... awww, little chats with Eugor.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:03 Dick Powell often stumbles over lines, and he tries to roll with it, when they're recording. These shows were sent out on transcription discs, so it's interesting that they left that stuff in. They had to churn these shows out so quickly, and technology was so limited, it was too difficult to go back and re-record.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 Gerald Mohr dies in the first five mintues! Uhmm... that's sad.
	👻 9:06pm yerfriendpaul: I brought some chocolates with white nonpareils for sharing in the digital salon. Please help yourselves!
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: This episode has pretty good sound, given how bad some recordings / archival versions sound. I did do a little massaging to make it sound even better, but I didn't have to do much.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:06 Nice! I will help myself, thank you!
	👻 9:08pm WR: Another verbal stumble. Must have been a hectic day for Mr Powell.
	9:10pm Webhamster Eugor: Yeah I've been listening to those really bad sounding Quiet Pleases. But the scripts are so good!
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:08 Having listened to a lot of him on the radio, he seems to stumble over words often. I'm sure the pace of being a star in radio, combined with any hectic days he might be dealing with, only exacerbated the situation. It does sort of illustrate how good the actors on these shows, given that we don't always notice those kinds of things. I do hear other actors blow lines and make mistakes, too, so it's not just Dick. But he seems to do it more often, to my ear.
	9:11pm Arvo Zylo: Hi Hi Saying hello from the movie theater. Going to listen for a bit before another movie.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Eugor @9:10 Yeah, that show is SO GOOD, and SO POORLY archived.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: Who had 11 Minutes for Eugor's appearance?
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:11 Arvo! Thanks for tuning in!
	👻 9:12pm WR: 18th amendment = no booze
	9:14pm Arvo Zylo: Oh wow. Incidentally, I was resigned to watch The Blue Beetle movie just because of timing. I have a membership. Didn't want to wait an hour and a half for the more interesting movie. Maybe another day this week. Nice to return to some old time flavor in-between the modern hooey.
	👻 9:14pm yerfriendpaul: Eugor showed rogue some sympathy before letting out his maniacal laugh
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: You can hear the disc "switch" where the sound quality is slightly different, between the discs. The sound is still pretty good, but, different.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:14 Still haven't seen that. I'm a sucker for that comic book, so I was considering it...
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: Two bonks in one episode! Ouch!
	9:19pm Webhamster Eugor: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 Bonk supercut!
	9:19pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 I don't have great expectations for any comic book movies. They are grandiose excuses for special effects and usually lack a decent plot. But I like to keep my eye on the pulse of things, in the hopes of using all of my insights to write the great American screenplay one day. I already watched WHIPLASH, which was given a reprise in theaters. Great film. About a jazz drummer. But I don't mean to hijack. Will let you know how Blue Beetle is. Have no knowledge of the comic book. When I was a wee lad, it was mostly Punisher, Batman, and Wolverine. I dropped off the comic scene right around when girls stopped having cooties.
	9:20pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 Speaking of comic books... www.dekoentertainment.com...
	9:21pm Webhamster Eugor: Mr. Mohr ?
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:20 Oh yeah! I want to check that out.
	9:22pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:19 Back in the day it was Heavy Metal for me
	9:23pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:20 Wow man, that is wild.
	9:24pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:22 I wish I listened to more metal as a kid. I did see the Heavy Metal movie though. I remember that being fun.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:22 My mom - who is / was many things - was a Heavy Metal fan, and carried them at her record store / book store. She also made me watch the original film, after she taped it from cable one night. Later, when I worked at B. Dalton, I made sure we stocked Heavy Metal, and would try to buy issues when I could afford them.
	9:24pm Webhamster Eugor: padding the script with car trips....
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:24 Metal is very appropriate for the young at heart.
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Eugor @9:24 Sometimes 30 minutes is a lot of time to fill.
	👻 9:26pm WR: ↳ Song: ""The Star of Savoy"" by "Rogue's Gallery" I swear we've heard this before, the plot.
	9:26pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:25 One word for the Metal at Heart: Transmaniacon.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:26 It is a little bit "Maltese Falcon," but revised. But it does seem like a lot of other stories we've also run before. I think - if I recall correctly - this might have been one of the early episodes of this series, too... under a different name.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:26 There was a lot of BOC in our house, growing up.
	👻 9:28pm yerfriendpaul: Rogue is a tool
	9:28pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:25 I have more and more appreciation for people who do anything with any limitations as time goes on, at least in theory. I mean, I like what I like, but I have a wider range of respect for the stuff I don't like and the things I know little about. I would love to see video of old time radio being made in real time, not too long ago Scorsese did a film that was ended with an old time radio style performance recap.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: I just checked: this was a "rehearsal recording" of this episode, which isn't the actual one that was "aired." (But we no longer have a recording of that one.) Since they had moved to a new network, I think they assumed they could recycle some scripts.
	9:30pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:28 My father had a minimal screenprint set up in the basement at the age of 15, made BOC shirts. I think "Veteran of The Psychic Wars" is my favorite by them, for personal reasons. I really don't remember my father listening to a lot of music, except the soundtrack to Animal House staying in the car tape deck for entirely too long.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:28 Threre's a TV Show from the 90's - Remember WENN - that shows what it was like to make radio in the 30's, in pretty accurate detail.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:30 That sounds like a dad, for sure.
	9:31pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:28 My parents were anti rock so I didn't have access to it until the 80s but that doesn't mean I didn't have good music. My sister introduced me to the Association which my mom didn't count as rock
	9:31pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 Nice! Ok. Movie starting. Good night!
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Everything Shipshape"" by "The Adventures of Roc... The sound on this one is pretty good, but there's a few spots where it is not so good, as you'll hear. I did a little clean-up, here and there.
	9:32pm Imaginos: Actually it was 79 when my mom accidentally introduced me to Alice Cooper on the Muppet Show
	9:32pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:31 I still need to familiarize myself with The Association.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:31 I don't really know them, but I remember seeing that album at the stores all the time. I should check them out.
	9:33pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:32 I have watched that on YouTube, good stuff!
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:32 That episode is legendary! We certainly watched a lot of Muppets when I was a kid.
	9:35pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:32 There's a song called Six Man Band which was my first Mondegreen. I used to sing "dirty laundry in my pimples makes French fries"
	9:38pm univac: Hello, all!
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:35 I didn't realize there was a name for that phenomena. I just called them "Misheard Lyrics," based on a book I had in the 90's by the same name.
	9:39pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 Score: Freakos 1*. Civilization0
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:38 univac! Lovely to see you in the Digital Salon.
	9:41pm univac: I see you were discussing the Heavy Metal movie... I went with a few friends when it first came out, had to "shoulder tap" people to finally find someone to buy for us. We slipped the dude the cash, and our teen minds were blown...
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:41 Ha! That's great! As a 20-something, I was asked by some 14 year olds to help them get into "Freddy vs. Jason," and I was happy to help return the favor, for all the older guys that used to do that for me as a kid.
	9:45pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 Awesome! Unfortunately I was never approached as an adult, but I'm sure I've contributed to the degeneration of the youth in some other ways along the line.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: You can hear some "surface noise" on this episode. I did my best to clean up what I could. I was able to improve the sound of the voices, but some of the background sounds still have the grit in them. It is what it is.
	9:46pm Imaginos: I just walked into the local 5&10 to buy the comic when I got the comic when I was 12
	9:47pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 Sounds like someone periodically rubbing fabric onto the mic. But, no worries! The story is unaffected!
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:45 I used to say, in my 20s, that you had to put in the same number of years that you were aided by older folks. I got tapped for a movie once, and for booze once. I suspect that, while not much, those contributions didn't do all that much to ruin our culture...
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:47 It's like ASMR, or something.
	9:48pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 But did make some kids' night amazing!
	9:48pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 You should separate out everything but the rhythmic anomaly.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: I'm fairly sure - since transcription discs were not stored very will in many cases - that these Rocky Jordan shows were just stacked in a pile somewhere in some radio station, and left to rot until some fan rescued them. So I'm sure the surface noise is a result of that.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:48 Ha! It does make me want to create some sort of Christian Marclay sort of collage. www.discogs.com...
	9:50pm Imaginos: ↳ univac @9:48 And maybe because those kids were indoors watching a cool movie and not out on the street they avoided a deadly incident.
	9:50pm univac: ↳ Imaginos @9:50 Indeed!
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: I was not much of a delinquent as a youth, even though I'm sure now that I could have gotten away with more than I did. Most of my "bad" years were after I graduated from High School, and lived on my own. Seems to coincide with the time I joined my first band...
	9:52pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:49 Yeah, so sad. Think of all the stuff that was broadcast once, then either never recorded, or later thrown away. While dumpster diving in the 90s I used to find dumpsters full of 16mm films behind libraries...I could only carry so much!
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:52 I've heard similar stories about transcription discs! The worst is that Joe Dante dumpster dove for the models of "Rosebud" from Citizen Kane, after he saw that the studio was throwing out all of Orson Welles Props to make room in the warehouse.
	9:55pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:52 I wasn't much of a hoodlum either when young, but did instigate/participate in my share of questionable activities.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: "Don't ask questions, just come right over." The kind of thing people say in fiction often, but rarely in real life.
	9:55pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:54 AGH!!! That happened all the time.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:55 I did drink here and there, and I snuck out when I could. I might have lied a few times. But 99% of the time I was just listening to the radio and reading comics. Keeping lies straight was too complicated.
	9:58pm wenzo: Hellooooo
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:58 wenzo! We love when you can drop by the Digital Salon.
	9:58pm Imaginos: ↳ wenzo @9:58 Ahoy
	10:02pm Imaginos: Saw the new Beetlejuice movie
	10:07pm Imaginos: Oct 7. Almost holy for Max Headroom fans
	10:09pm Imaginos: ↳ Imaginos @10:07 Bryce 7/10/88
	10:10pm Imaginos: Mind=sieve=Earache my eye
	10:11pm Imaginos: We are
	10:12pm Imaginos: Going to get some sleep. But back tomorrow
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:12 Sleep well!
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: The crankiness of this guy - combined with the fact that some of his critiques are still valid - makes me sort of love the angry person who wrote this essay.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: This person - who made these 1920's Radio Documentaries - has a YouTube channel, where they discuss all manner of 1920's culture. I only aired the stuff about radio. If you wanna see a lot more of their videos, and learn more about the 1920's in general, then you should check out their channel: www.youtube.com...
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: It seems particularly interesting to discuss the 1920's now, 100 years later. I feel like we're going through some interesting parallels.
	10:36pm Webhamster Eugor: That bulletproof shirt had better be fireproof.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: I have noticed that 99% of all criminals make the choice to go with an elaborate death - I will start a fire that will kill my opponent - rather than going with an easy death, which is how real crime is usually perpetrated. Certainly, I shouldn't critique a genre for not being realistic, but it is convenient that most villains are: overly dramatic, and more interested in Rube Goldberg deaths than anything simple and guaranteed.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Eugor @10:36 Something tells me it just might be...
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Bad Medicine"" by "X-Minus One" There was minimal need to do much improvement to help the sound on this one. Still, I ran a couple filters / tools to help soften a few rough spots.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: Robot Therapists! It's like a story torn from the headlines.
	👻 10:45pm yerfriendpaul: I’m loving this!
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Bad Medicine"" by "X-Minus One" The thing I don't like about this story is that it sort of makes slight light of mental health concerns. While I'm not comfortable with that, I do think - if you can put that aside - there are some interesting social critiques going on here.
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: (See... there are some comedy music cues, that seem... inappropriate.)
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:45 I like this one, too. But like a lot of things from this era, I have to take them in stride. Not every part of every show has aged very well.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: "Some new Laugh Records." Comedy records were sort of new in the 50's. Certainly there was plenty of recorded comedy before the 50's, but the kinds of comedy records that we think of started to become popular in a mainstream way in the 50's.
	👻 10:52pm yerfriendpaul: Yeah, they are making light of mental health stuff for sure but to your point, they clearly didn’t think about that stuff back then. I think they’re playing it for laughs and it works on that dark comedy level
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: For example, some historians consider 1958 to be the year the first "Modern" Comedy album was released (Mort Sahl's "The Future Lies Ahead"). So the idea that "Laugh Records" would be common in the future - as predicted in this radio show from 1956 - is 100% accurate.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:52 Agreed. And this show often uses a lot of horror themes.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: While it is complete nonsense, I do appreciate that they try to come up with the fictional Martian Psychology. I would love to read that book.
	11:00pm Webhamster Eugor: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 Laugh records are a particular genre, going back to the dusty shellac and wax of the past. Ask DJ MAC!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: While those who spread horror stories about what AI tools can do would like you to think that a Robot Psychiatrist could convince you that you are a Martian, I just think that's over-reacting. However, I have a feeling that is just pure nonsense. Maybe a Venusian. But Martian? That's too complicated.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Eugor @11:00 I thought I remembered something like that. I knew comedy was on wax in the older days. But I don't think they had the same kind of wide appeal as they reached in the late 50's.
	👻 11:02pm yerfriendpaul: Thank you Austin! Nutty episode - I loved it. Enjoyed the show as always! Good night all!
	👻 11:03pm WR: No one expects to be dworked! Thank you Austin!
	11:03pm Webhamster Eugor: the laugh records were just people laughing hysterically. Comedy records were made by such as Uncle Josh , and vaudeville stars.
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @11:03 Not in a flendish manner!
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Eugor @11:03 Oh, yes! I remember him playing those. Weren't there crying records, too? I feel like MAC had a lot of stuff like that.
	👻 11:44pm WR: was driving me nuts, the duplicate episode is called "McDonald Murder Case". you streamed it in Dimestore episode 091. Laters.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from September 23, 2024

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September 23, 2024: Episode #111

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Rogue's Gallery	"The Star of Savoy"	23 June 1946	NBC		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Adventures of Rocky Jordan	"Everything Shipshape"	27 March 1949	Santana Productions		0:30:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Les Baxter	The Poor People of Paris				1:00:03 (Pop-up)
Unpublished History	Radio in the 1920s (Part 25)	Radio In The 1920s	Self-Released	2024	1:12:17 (Pop-up)
The Blue Beetle	"Smashing the Restaurant Racket, Part 1"	31 July 1940	Mutual–Don Lee Network		1:25:22 (Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"Bad Medicine" ""Bad Medicine"" by "X-Minus One"	10 July 1956	NBC Radio		1:38:41 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 6:43pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:57pm Imaginos: Ahoy, me hearties!
	👻 8:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:57 Nice to see you in the Digital Salon, Imaginos!
	8:58pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:58 Glad to be here
	9:00pm Webhamster Eugor: Hehehehe hello Austie!
	👻 9:01pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Eugor @9:00 Webhamster Eugor!! Nice to see you in the Digital Salon, too!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Star of Savoy"" by "Rogue's Gallery" Dick Powell mentions a comedian - Cass Daley - who listeners might have "tuned in for." Cass Daley had a show in the time slot that Rogue's Gallery was moved to, displacing her show for a spell. Of course, Dick Powell likes to break the 4th wall with Richard's monologues, so of course he had to mention it in a round about way.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: Gerald Mohr shows up in the first three minutes! Not bad.
	👻 9:03pm WR: Audible conso consul conca con... awww, little chats with Eugor.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:03 Dick Powell often stumbles over lines, and he tries to roll with it, when they're recording. These shows were sent out on transcription discs, so it's interesting that they left that stuff in. They had to churn these shows out so quickly, and technology was so limited, it was too difficult to go back and re-record.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 Gerald Mohr dies in the first five mintues! Uhmm... that's sad.
	👻 9:06pm yerfriendpaul: I brought some chocolates with white nonpareils for sharing in the digital salon. Please help yourselves!
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: This episode has pretty good sound, given how bad some recordings / archival versions sound. I did do a little massaging to make it sound even better, but I didn't have to do much.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:06 Nice! I will help myself, thank you!
	👻 9:08pm WR: Another verbal stumble. Must have been a hectic day for Mr Powell.
	9:10pm Webhamster Eugor: Yeah I've been listening to those really bad sounding Quiet Pleases. But the scripts are so good!
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:08 Having listened to a lot of him on the radio, he seems to stumble over words often. I'm sure the pace of being a star in radio, combined with any hectic days he might be dealing with, only exacerbated the situation. It does sort of illustrate how good the actors on these shows, given that we don't always notice those kinds of things. I do hear other actors blow lines and make mistakes, too, so it's not just Dick. But he seems to do it more often, to my ear.
	9:11pm Arvo Zylo: Hi Hi Saying hello from the movie theater. Going to listen for a bit before another movie.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Eugor @9:10 Yeah, that show is SO GOOD, and SO POORLY archived.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: Who had 11 Minutes for Eugor's appearance?
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:11 Arvo! Thanks for tuning in!
	👻 9:12pm WR: 18th amendment = no booze
	9:14pm Arvo Zylo: Oh wow. Incidentally, I was resigned to watch The Blue Beetle movie just because of timing. I have a membership. Didn't want to wait an hour and a half for the more interesting movie. Maybe another day this week. Nice to return to some old time flavor in-between the modern hooey.
	👻 9:14pm yerfriendpaul: Eugor showed rogue some sympathy before letting out his maniacal laugh
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: You can hear the disc "switch" where the sound quality is slightly different, between the discs. The sound is still pretty good, but, different.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:14 Still haven't seen that. I'm a sucker for that comic book, so I was considering it...
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: Two bonks in one episode! Ouch!
	9:19pm Webhamster Eugor: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 Bonk supercut!
	9:19pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 I don't have great expectations for any comic book movies. They are grandiose excuses for special effects and usually lack a decent plot. But I like to keep my eye on the pulse of things, in the hopes of using all of my insights to write the great American screenplay one day. I already watched WHIPLASH, which was given a reprise in theaters. Great film. About a jazz drummer. But I don't mean to hijack. Will let you know how Blue Beetle is. Have no knowledge of the comic book. When I was a wee lad, it was mostly Punisher, Batman, and Wolverine. I dropped off the comic scene right around when girls stopped having cooties.
	9:20pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 Speaking of comic books... www.dekoentertainment.com...
	9:21pm Webhamster Eugor: Mr. Mohr ?
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:20 Oh yeah! I want to check that out.
	9:22pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:19 Back in the day it was Heavy Metal for me
	9:23pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:20 Wow man, that is wild.
	9:24pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:22 I wish I listened to more metal as a kid. I did see the Heavy Metal movie though. I remember that being fun.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:22 My mom - who is / was many things - was a Heavy Metal fan, and carried them at her record store / book store. She also made me watch the original film, after she taped it from cable one night. Later, when I worked at B. Dalton, I made sure we stocked Heavy Metal, and would try to buy issues when I could afford them.
	9:24pm Webhamster Eugor: padding the script with car trips....
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:24 Metal is very appropriate for the young at heart.
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Eugor @9:24 Sometimes 30 minutes is a lot of time to fill.
	👻 9:26pm WR: ↳ Song: ""The Star of Savoy"" by "Rogue's Gallery" I swear we've heard this before, the plot.
	9:26pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:25 One word for the Metal at Heart: Transmaniacon.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:26 It is a little bit "Maltese Falcon," but revised. But it does seem like a lot of other stories we've also run before. I think - if I recall correctly - this might have been one of the early episodes of this series, too... under a different name.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:26 There was a lot of BOC in our house, growing up.
	👻 9:28pm yerfriendpaul: Rogue is a tool
	9:28pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:25 I have more and more appreciation for people who do anything with any limitations as time goes on, at least in theory. I mean, I like what I like, but I have a wider range of respect for the stuff I don't like and the things I know little about. I would love to see video of old time radio being made in real time, not too long ago Scorsese did a film that was ended with an old time radio style performance recap.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: I just checked: this was a "rehearsal recording" of this episode, which isn't the actual one that was "aired." (But we no longer have a recording of that one.) Since they had moved to a new network, I think they assumed they could recycle some scripts.
	9:30pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:28 My father had a minimal screenprint set up in the basement at the age of 15, made BOC shirts. I think "Veteran of The Psychic Wars" is my favorite by them, for personal reasons. I really don't remember my father listening to a lot of music, except the soundtrack to Animal House staying in the car tape deck for entirely too long.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:28 Threre's a TV Show from the 90's - Remember WENN - that shows what it was like to make radio in the 30's, in pretty accurate detail.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:30 That sounds like a dad, for sure.
	9:31pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:28 My parents were anti rock so I didn't have access to it until the 80s but that doesn't mean I didn't have good music. My sister introduced me to the Association which my mom didn't count as rock
	9:31pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 Nice! Ok. Movie starting. Good night!
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Everything Shipshape"" by "The Adventures of Roc... The sound on this one is pretty good, but there's a few spots where it is not so good, as you'll hear. I did a little clean-up, here and there.
	9:32pm Imaginos: Actually it was 79 when my mom accidentally introduced me to Alice Cooper on the Muppet Show
	9:32pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:31 I still need to familiarize myself with The Association.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:31 I don't really know them, but I remember seeing that album at the stores all the time. I should check them out.
	9:33pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:32 I have watched that on YouTube, good stuff!
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:32 That episode is legendary! We certainly watched a lot of Muppets when I was a kid.
	9:35pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:32 There's a song called Six Man Band which was my first Mondegreen. I used to sing "dirty laundry in my pimples makes French fries"
	9:38pm univac: Hello, all!
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:35 I didn't realize there was a name for that phenomena. I just called them "Misheard Lyrics," based on a book I had in the 90's by the same name.
	9:39pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 Score: Freakos 1*. Civilization0
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:38 univac! Lovely to see you in the Digital Salon.
	9:41pm univac: I see you were discussing the Heavy Metal movie... I went with a few friends when it first came out, had to "shoulder tap" people to finally find someone to buy for us. We slipped the dude the cash, and our teen minds were blown...
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:41 Ha! That's great! As a 20-something, I was asked by some 14 year olds to help them get into "Freddy vs. Jason," and I was happy to help return the favor, for all the older guys that used to do that for me as a kid.
	9:45pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 Awesome! Unfortunately I was never approached as an adult, but I'm sure I've contributed to the degeneration of the youth in some other ways along the line.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: You can hear some "surface noise" on this episode. I did my best to clean up what I could. I was able to improve the sound of the voices, but some of the background sounds still have the grit in them. It is what it is.
	9:46pm Imaginos: I just walked into the local 5&10 to buy the comic when I got the comic when I was 12
	9:47pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 Sounds like someone periodically rubbing fabric onto the mic. But, no worries! The story is unaffected!
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:45 I used to say, in my 20s, that you had to put in the same number of years that you were aided by older folks. I got tapped for a movie once, and for booze once. I suspect that, while not much, those contributions didn't do all that much to ruin our culture...
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:47 It's like ASMR, or something.
	9:48pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 But did make some kids' night amazing!
	9:48pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 You should separate out everything but the rhythmic anomaly.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: I'm fairly sure - since transcription discs were not stored very will in many cases - that these Rocky Jordan shows were just stacked in a pile somewhere in some radio station, and left to rot until some fan rescued them. So I'm sure the surface noise is a result of that.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:48 Ha! It does make me want to create some sort of Christian Marclay sort of collage. www.discogs.com...
	9:50pm Imaginos: ↳ univac @9:48 And maybe because those kids were indoors watching a cool movie and not out on the street they avoided a deadly incident.
	9:50pm univac: ↳ Imaginos @9:50 Indeed!
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: I was not much of a delinquent as a youth, even though I'm sure now that I could have gotten away with more than I did. Most of my "bad" years were after I graduated from High School, and lived on my own. Seems to coincide with the time I joined my first band...
	9:52pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:49 Yeah, so sad. Think of all the stuff that was broadcast once, then either never recorded, or later thrown away. While dumpster diving in the 90s I used to find dumpsters full of 16mm films behind libraries...I could only carry so much!
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:52 I've heard similar stories about transcription discs! The worst is that Joe Dante dumpster dove for the models of "Rosebud" from Citizen Kane, after he saw that the studio was throwing out all of Orson Welles Props to make room in the warehouse.
	9:55pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:52 I wasn't much of a hoodlum either when young, but did instigate/participate in my share of questionable activities.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: "Don't ask questions, just come right over." The kind of thing people say in fiction often, but rarely in real life.
	9:55pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:54 AGH!!! That happened all the time.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:55 I did drink here and there, and I snuck out when I could. I might have lied a few times. But 99% of the time I was just listening to the radio and reading comics. Keeping lies straight was too complicated.
	9:58pm wenzo: Hellooooo
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:58 wenzo! We love when you can drop by the Digital Salon.
	9:58pm Imaginos: ↳ wenzo @9:58 Ahoy
	10:02pm Imaginos: Saw the new Beetlejuice movie
	10:07pm Imaginos: Oct 7. Almost holy for Max Headroom fans
	10:09pm Imaginos: ↳ Imaginos @10:07 Bryce 7/10/88
	10:10pm Imaginos: Mind=sieve=Earache my eye
	10:11pm Imaginos: We are
	10:12pm Imaginos: Going to get some sleep. But back tomorrow
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:12 Sleep well!
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: The crankiness of this guy - combined with the fact that some of his critiques are still valid - makes me sort of love the angry person who wrote this essay.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: This person - who made these 1920's Radio Documentaries - has a YouTube channel, where they discuss all manner of 1920's culture. I only aired the stuff about radio. If you wanna see a lot more of their videos, and learn more about the 1920's in general, then you should check out their channel: www.youtube.com...
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: It seems particularly interesting to discuss the 1920's now, 100 years later. I feel like we're going through some interesting parallels.
	10:36pm Webhamster Eugor: That bulletproof shirt had better be fireproof.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: I have noticed that 99% of all criminals make the choice to go with an elaborate death - I will start a fire that will kill my opponent - rather than going with an easy death, which is how real crime is usually perpetrated. Certainly, I shouldn't critique a genre for not being realistic, but it is convenient that most villains are: overly dramatic, and more interested in Rube Goldberg deaths than anything simple and guaranteed.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Eugor @10:36 Something tells me it just might be...
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Bad Medicine"" by "X-Minus One" There was minimal need to do much improvement to help the sound on this one. Still, I ran a couple filters / tools to help soften a few rough spots.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: Robot Therapists! It's like a story torn from the headlines.
	👻 10:45pm yerfriendpaul: I’m loving this!
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Bad Medicine"" by "X-Minus One" The thing I don't like about this story is that it sort of makes slight light of mental health concerns. While I'm not comfortable with that, I do think - if you can put that aside - there are some interesting social critiques going on here.
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: (See... there are some comedy music cues, that seem... inappropriate.)
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:45 I like this one, too. But like a lot of things from this era, I have to take them in stride. Not every part of every show has aged very well.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: "Some new Laugh Records." Comedy records were sort of new in the 50's. Certainly there was plenty of recorded comedy before the 50's, but the kinds of comedy records that we think of started to become popular in a mainstream way in the 50's.
	👻 10:52pm yerfriendpaul: Yeah, they are making light of mental health stuff for sure but to your point, they clearly didn’t think about that stuff back then. I think they’re playing it for laughs and it works on that dark comedy level
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: For example, some historians consider 1958 to be the year the first "Modern" Comedy album was released (Mort Sahl's "The Future Lies Ahead"). So the idea that "Laugh Records" would be common in the future - as predicted in this radio show from 1956 - is 100% accurate.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:52 Agreed. And this show often uses a lot of horror themes.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: While it is complete nonsense, I do appreciate that they try to come up with the fictional Martian Psychology. I would love to read that book.
	11:00pm Webhamster Eugor: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 Laugh records are a particular genre, going back to the dusty shellac and wax of the past. Ask DJ MAC!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: While those who spread horror stories about what AI tools can do would like you to think that a Robot Psychiatrist could convince you that you are a Martian, I just think that's over-reacting. However, I have a feeling that is just pure nonsense. Maybe a Venusian. But Martian? That's too complicated.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Eugor @11:00 I thought I remembered something like that. I knew comedy was on wax in the older days. But I don't think they had the same kind of wide appeal as they reached in the late 50's.
	👻 11:02pm yerfriendpaul: Thank you Austin! Nutty episode - I loved it. Enjoyed the show as always! Good night all!
	👻 11:03pm WR: No one expects to be dworked! Thank you Austin!
	11:03pm Webhamster Eugor: the laugh records were just people laughing hysterically. Comedy records were made by such as Uncle Josh , and vaudeville stars.
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @11:03 Not in a flendish manner!
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Eugor @11:03 Oh, yes! I remember him playing those. Weren't there crying records, too? I feel like MAC had a lot of stuff like that.
	👻 11:44pm WR: was driving me nuts, the duplicate episode is called "McDonald Murder Case". you streamed it in Dimestore episode 091. Laters.

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