WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 7, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 6:16pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:00pm Charles: YES!
	9:01pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the Digital Salon, Charles and Imaginos! It's time to turn off the lamps, light a few candles, and enjoy some SPOOKY radio!
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: Hi there! I listen to the Weird Circle, Sleep No More and Quiet, Please!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:03 Hopefully you are not sick of them! I do like The Weird Circle.
	9:03pm Imaginos: I love the Weird Circle
	9:03pm Charles: I'm usually in bed around this time but today I'll do my best to take in as much Dimestore halloween goodness as I can 🎃
	9:04pm Webhamster Henry: Price of Fear is fun, mixing up Vincent P. and the BBC.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The House And The Brain"" by "The Weird Circle" In the past, I've tried to connect all of the Weird Circle episodes, by having the same author behind all the stories, or something like that. This year, all of the Weird Circle stories involve Ghosts, in some way or another. Hopefully that isn't a spoiler...
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:04 Yeah, I really love that show. I really love to listen to Price this time of year.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:03 I really appreciate that, Charles! I really enjoy the shows I picked this time.
	9:08pm Imaginos: So much good stories tonight. I'm going to try to make it through the show,
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: My habit of restoring old radio shows STARTED with my Halloween shows, as a lot of the stories - in particular, "Quiet, Please" - just sound awful. Last year, I embarked on my first restoration efforts, to make last years Halloween shows sound better. In the year since then, my restoration skills have improved, and I have more tools at my disposal. I think the shows this year sound better than before, and I hope they are more enjoyable as a result.
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:08 It's gonna be a late night, but the archive will be there if you have to tap out at some point.
	9:11pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:08 I mostly catch the show on archives nowadays but here's a good time to say that your skills are super impressive. It makes for good listening.
	9:13pm Imaginos: ↳ Charles @9:11 indeed. Austin's a wonderful host.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: It sort of blows my mind that there were anthology horror radio shows on regular radio in the 40s. I love the idea of people staying up late, past their bedtime, to hear some TERRIFYING story on the radio. It happened to me, as a 10 or 11 year old: my first radio, and I found some radio drama, on late at night. (Probably an episode of Suspense, if I'm not mistaken.) It scared me, and it's been a high I've been chasing my whole life.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: The Ocean Waves as a transition device on "The Weird Circle" is a nod to the "premise": In a cave, by the edge of the sea, is where you go and hear these tales, told by some nameless narrator. The "premise" is pretty vague; a lot of episodes don't explain this, and the opening only sort of sets up the premise. The Ocean Waves - while interesting - seem like nonsequiters, unless you remember the vague premise of the show.
	9:20pm Imaginos: Dogs rarely fare well in haunted houses. Especially in the story "Me Tie Dough-ty Walker".
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:20 Horror stories are not kind to animals. Then again, animals in a lot of horror stories are pretty scary, too.
	9:22pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 indeed. Have you ever heard the song "Vampire Frogs"?
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:22 I have not.
	9:24pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:23 youtu.be...
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:24 Thanks! I'll check it out.
	9:25pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:25 btw, Happy Oct 7 to a fellow Max Headroom fan.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:25 That's right! If only we got the Bryce Lynch Six Episode Solo Show we all deserve.
	9:27pm Imaginos: Hypnosis to keep the dead alive? Why does that sound familiar coughcase of valdemarcough
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:27 If you're gonna steal, steal from the best!
	9:28pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Featuring Bryce in the Fringes on a steampunk motorcycle with Paradox as the theme song.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: Every once in a while, I try to imagine a store that carries all of the Acme Products that I write about.
	9:29pm David The Splatter: Late getting in to the Digital Salon. Took a left turn at Dead Man's Lane... :D
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:29 Nice to see you, David The Splatter! We're operating by candle light tonight, but, I think you can still find a seat. Just stay out of the cobwebs.
	9:30pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 Speaking of Acme. There was almost a movie called Wile E Coyote vs Acme.
	9:30pm David The Splatter: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 I remember going into the Acme supermarket as a kid and hoping they had the products I saw in the cartoons. I learned a lot that day.
	9:31pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Imaginos @9:30 It was done, apparently really funny, but needds to get picked up and distributed. en.wikipedia.org...
	9:32pm Imaginos: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:31 Have you ever seen the miniseries "Man Vs Cartoon"?
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Remains To Be Seen"" by "The Price of Fear" This is the first episode of The Price of Fear, and is often not re-run when the BBC re-airs this show, around the holidays. This is why it has TERRIBLE sound. I've done as much as I can to restore it. Unfortunately, on the "recording" that I restored, a lot of the voices are pretty buried behind "tape hiss and noise." Even on that original recording, the consonants of most of the speakers sound almost swallowed. No matter the efforts one makes, you can't restore sounds that aren't there. So hopefully the "swallowed consonants" aren't a problem. Otherwise, I think you can make out all the dialog, better than on the original version.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:30 Huh. I'll have to look into that.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:30 Ha! That sounds like the kind of thing that would happen to me as a kid.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:31 Oh, interesting. I'll have to read up on that.
	9:36pm Arvo Zylo: Hi
	9:36pm David The Splatter: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:31 They were/are gonna shelf the movie for a "tax write off" despite great reviews from the people who screened it. It's insane what theses CEOs do for a buck.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:36 Arvo! Lovely to see you in the Digital Salon. Pull up a chesterfield, and enjoy the stories.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:36 It doesn't sound like they want to make movies. Just money.
	9:38pm Imaginos: This reminds me of the Crate from Creepshow with the chess game and Emily taking the role of "Billie".
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: Unfortunately, this story leans heavily on the "henpecked husband" trope, something that shows up in a lot of old fiction, and in a lot of radio horror. I find it to be a lazy trope, and I don't particularly like stories about unhappy husbands. But there's not that many "Price of Fear" episodes, so I had to dig up a few that are lesser heard...
	9:39pm Imaginos: Breughal painted some rather "interesting" items.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:39 True! And an obscure Headroom reference, too.
	9:41pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:40 now we just need a Mahler reference.
	9:43pm Arvo Zylo: I was watching that "American Scary" documentary last night, and wondered if Vincent Price ever did a horror host stint.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: A lot of the previous episodes of "Price of Fear" that I've aired have had Vincent as a much more "active" participant in the story. This one, he's merely the narrator, which I think he excels at.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:43 He must have! That seems like something he would have done, anyway.
	9:44pm Imaginos: What is the most obscure Price movie you've ever seen? For me it's "Escapes" where he plays a mailman.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:44 I'm not sure I've seen very many obscure ones. I really love, "Laura," which he's in. (A sort of "noir" moive.") And I love him in "House on Haunted Hill."
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: You can hear the thick "hiss and noise" creeping into the story, as this part rolls out.
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: As has been the case with a number of shows I've restored this way, when I tried to eliminate all of the background noise, it would kill the sound in a very bad way, and everything sounded worse. So I kept a fair amount in the mix, just to make sure the rest of the sound wasn't completely sanded off.
	9:49pm David The Splatter: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 It sounds fine to me, but my ear isn't all that finely tuned these days.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:49 Hopefully no one notices. But I do like to mention what I've done, as this isn't explicitly the show as it's been archived by fans.
	9:50pm Imaginos: Sounds good to me, too. But then again I grew up in the 60s,70s, 80s, etc so I'm used to a hiss here and there.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: I have a very high tolerance for noise and poor sound quality, and I don't mind myself. But I do like to try and clean things up as much as I can, so I can enjoy them at a slighter better quality.
	9:52pm Charles: Austin, fellow listeners, if you could get your hands on any model of radio. What would you use to listen to these shows?
	9:52pm Imaginos: DId you ever hear the joke where the neighbors tell the FBI that his neighbor has hidden a body/drugs/other contraband and they dig up the yard?
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:52 Oooooo. Good question. I love the design of those old Emerson Radios, and wouldn't mind having a nice tabletop model of one of those 30's or 40's designs.
	9:54pm Imaginos: I'm guessing he killed the cat first then killed his wife when she went mad with grief and attacked him.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 Here's a Google Image Search for Emerson Radios: www.google.com...
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: "Drinking Chocolate." That's such an English turn of phrase.
	9:56pm David The Splatter: ↳ Charles @9:52 I had an old GE multi-band radio (AM, FM, shortwave, TV), but the antenna broke and it would've cost more to fix it than to discard it. I'd love to have that back.
	👻 9:57pm WR: Hello Austin and folks. Have been listening with 'FMU in background. Foregrounding now.
	9:58pm David The Splatter: ↳ WR @9:57 Welcome to the foreground, WR.
	👻 9:58pm WR: ↳ Imaginos @9:52 Yes, have heard a few different versions of that.
	9:59pm Charles: Good stuff. I'd think I'd go with one of those furniture sized Zenith ones myself.
	10:00pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:44 I don't know about obscure, but I like his appearance with Peter Lorre in The Raven. I also like his appearance in The Twilight Zone. Movie bout to start. Gluten nacht
	👻 10:02pm David Shortell: Nice impression of Count Floyd, Austin.
	10:02pm Barno (from Akron): Lurking and driving
	10:03pm Imaginos: I want to stay up but I have to get up at 5
	10:03pm Arvo Zylo: There is a book called "1996" by Gloria Naylor about how she was gangstalked by the FBI because her neighbor was connected to the NSA, and had a bunch of feral cats that inevitably ate the neighbor's rat poison.
	10:04pm David The Splatter: ↳ Imaginos @10:03 Me, too. I'm gonna have to check out soon as well. Well, maybe 15 more minutes. :D
	10:04pm laurapanic: sadly missed the first hour....it is school holidays here and I have been a mum taxi. Now seated at my desk , ready to be distracted from work
	👻 10:12pm David Shortell: ↳ Imaginos @9:22 What's that, an Alex Jones conspiracy theory?
	10:14pm David The Splatter: Oooohh... I'd love to hear some of the FMU Djs do a reading of a radio serial. Marathon time, maybe?
	10:16pm Webhamster Henry: I could produce one of those scripts...
	10:16pm laurapanic: wow, impressive spooky voice Austin!
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:16 Hey, when Dr. Sacrofiguy is also involved with your station, you really have to up your "creepy voice" game if you want to stand out.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:16 Oooooo! Now we're talkin'!
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: The best man at my wedding - the person I have known / lived with the most - lived in and studied Hungarian, and really had a great accent.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: I'm not sure if "bruising ribs" is the way you really wanna "make love" to a woman. But... Who am I to judge?
	👻 10:20pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:31 The movie's based on this 1990 New Yorker article (sorry about the paywall): newyorker.com...
	10:20pm Webhamster Henry: We had that 1927 Dracula script at the Widow Jane Mine
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:20 Ooooo. Very cool!
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:20 Yeah, I'll have to read up on that. I'm very curious.
	10:22pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ David Shortell @10:20 Yeah, I read it back then...it's very famous. As are Chuck Jones' rules for Coyote and Road Runner.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: I could imagine Conrad Veidt, but Paul Muni? I can't see that.
	10:24pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 It was very successful! widowjanemine.ticketspice.com...
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: More Ray Walston interview quotes!
	👻 10:26pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:22 8 years before the New Yorker piece, the same scenario was used in a three-part National Lampoon article: “Cliff-Hanger Justice” by Joey Green. I don't know if it's a coincidence or plagiarism.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: In the middle of every episode of "The Strange Dr. Weird" has a long ad for Adam Hats, the sponsor of this show. I have cut them out of this presentation, as they really slow the show down in a not-enjoyable way.
	10:30pm David The Splatter: OK, I've got to split. I'll catch the rest of the show on archive tomorrow. Thanks, Austin! Great spooky show.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @10:30 Take care, David The Splatter.
	👻 10:35pm WR: Sweet old man.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: Every "Strange Dr. Weird," ends the same, with the, "Oh, you have to go? Well, come back next time..."
	👻 10:36pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The House Where Death Lived"" by "The Strange Dr... I guess "Dr. Weird" was too subtle a title for this series. They had to call it "The Strange Dr. Weird".
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:36 Dr. Weird could mean anything! Maybe it's a family name? But wait... the Dr. is Strange... oh, that's probably not good.
	👻 10:39pm Heather Z: Been tuned in and enjoying the premium Halloween content while working on a spoooky diamond art of a haunted house! I hear there are still a couple hours of show?? That's the best news I've heard all day!
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:39 Thanks for tuning in, Heather.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: The author of this show, who wrote almost every episode of, "Quiet Please," as I understand it, is Wyllis Cooper, who was a bit of a student of Lovecraft.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:44pm David Shortell: ↳ Imaginos @9:44 Vincent said his personal favorite of all his movies is Samuel Fuller's "The Baron of Arizona", the true story of the 19th century property swindler James Reavis.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:44 I've never seen that. I've been meaning to check it out.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: Exploding with nostalgia...
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: I didn't time this well, so this story will run over into the next hour. But don't worry, we shouldn't need to cut anything to fit it all in tonight.
	👻 11:04pm David Shortell: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:00 Vincent was apparently never on "The Twilight Zone", but did appear in Rod Serling's next TV series "Night Gallery".
	👻 11:05pm Austin Rich: "My God... it's not full of stars."
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: Looks like we're already 8 minutes or so behind for hour three. Hopefully we can make that up during the next break.
	👻 11:10pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:24 I'd like to read the more comprehensive 1924 British play. The 1927 American version (made into the 1931 film) compressed it, removing characters like Mina Murray-Harker (Winona Ryder played her in the Coppola film, and Eva Green played her in the Showtime series "Penny Dreadful").
	👻 11:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Wooden Ghost"" by "The Weird Circle" Our second of two "Weird Circle" episodes tonight. While the sound isn't too bad on this show, I still did a fair amount of restoration, to make it sound all the better.
	👻 11:35pm Austin Rich: This is why I have never betrayed any of my partners. I really don't want some descendant to have to deal with a ghost that keeps getting told, "I'm not interested."
	👻 11:39pm WR: Thank you, Austin. Will come back to the archive for the last bits. Laters folks.
	👻 11:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @11:39 Take care, WR!
	👻 11:40pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Goodie Two Shoes"" by "The Price of Fear" I used to think the uncredited actor voicing the Evil Scientist in Chuck Jones’ 1952 short “Water, Water Every Hare” was Vincent Price. It was actually an excellent imitation by voice actor John T. Smith.
	👻 11:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Goodie Two Shoes"" by "The Price of Fear" The sound on this one is pretty good. I did a little clean up, but unlike the other one we heard in the first hour, the sound here is VERY good.
	👻 11:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:40 Hmmm. I don't recall that one. I'll have to watch it later.
	👻 11:46pm Austin Rich: I am not a fan of couples, where one of them calls the other, "Idiot," or similar. It makes me very uncomfortable.
	👻 11:48pm Austin Rich: Alphabetically by Author! What an unusual way to organize your law books.
	👻 11:53pm Austin Rich: I've heard about this Goody Two Shoes before. They are very straight-laced in some ways, and less so in others. Apparently, she doesn't drink, and she doesn't smoke. Not even at parties. Now, you might wonder: "What does she do?" Well, that's where things get interesting...
	👻 11:57pm Austin Rich: I want a helpful chore ghost. That doesn't sound scary at all.
	12:01am laurapanic: I love the sounds of the BBC programs.
	👻 12:03am Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @12:01 Agreed. This show is pretty well produced, too. Those BBC producers really knew how to make their radio.
	👻 12:17am Austin Rich: In spite of my efforts to keep that last VO short, our show will still go over by three minutes. Sorry about that!
	👻 12:22am David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Bela Lugosi: Hollywood's Dark Prince Part 3" by "... Bela eventually did play the monster in "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" (1943).
	👻 12:22am Austin Rich: I hate it when I boop my last boop.
	👻 12:23am Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @12:22 I forgot about that. I don't think I've seen that one in 25 years or more.
	12:34am laurapanic: ↳ Song: ""The Summoning of Chandor"" by "The Strange Dr. W... this is nice and creeeeepy
	👻 12:35am Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @12:34 I'm trying to imagine, listening to this on Friday nights, in the 40's, as a kid. This must have been HORRIFYING.
	12:37am laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @12:35 heck yes!!!!
	👻 12:37am Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Camera Obscura"" by "Quiet Please" This one doesn't sound too bad, but still... it's not great. I did as much clean-up as I could, to get it a little better. Hopefully you can still enjoy it.
	12:39am laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @12:35 I remember watching old Doctor Who, it was 1978 and it was about an alien plant monster thing. My mum was in the shower and I remember running up the hallway tot he bathroom, absolutely TERRIFIED......by the BBC props of stuck on greenery on a shopping trolley (or whatever wizardry they used in their very lo fi effects back then). So what I mean is that its about setting the scene and writing....
	👻 12:41am Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @12:39 Absolutely. Raiders of the Lost Ark scared me as a kid, with the faces melting at the end. Now it looks pretty silly, but I tell you: I had nightmares of people's heads melting for YEARS.
	👻 12:44am Austin Rich: $200 in 1947 would have $2,823.28 in buying power in 2024.
	👻 12:45am Austin Rich: For context: I'm married to my partner, and I don't think I could ever get her to loan me $2,800, no matter what I promised her.
	👻 12:46am David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @12:22 I just looked up who played Betty Boop in that 1933 "Hollywood on Parade" short with Bela. It wasn't Helen Kane, the singer the character was based on. It was Bonnie Poe, one of the character's several voice actresses (though Mae Questel was the most prolific). She certainly looked the part!
	👻 12:47am Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @12:46 I should look at that. I didn't recognize the clip from the Biography Documentary. But I'm sure there are plenty of things I haven't seen.
	👻 12:49am Austin Rich: Some information about the Camera Obscura in question: smconservancy.org...
	👻 12:56am Austin Rich: We're getting close to the end. Thanks for joining me tonight! Make sure to donate to WFMU! And: Happy Holidays!
	👻 5:57am Arvo Zylo: ↳ David Shortell @11:04 For the record, in my head "The Last Man On Earth" was a TZ episode, mea culpa... www.imdb.com...

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 7, 2024

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
The Weird Circle	"The House And The Brain"	5 September 1943			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Price of Fear	"Remains To Be Seen"	1 September 1973			0:28:46 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Frankie Trumbauer & Orchestra	Shivery Stomp	Halloween Stomp	Jass Records	1990	0:59:48 (Pop-up)
Biography Channel	Bela Lugosi: Hollywood's Dark Prince Part 2	Bela Lugosi: Hollywood's Dark Prince	Biography Channel	1995	1:15:30 (Pop-up)
The Strange Dr. Weird	"The House Where Death Lived"	7 November 1944			1:24:50 (Pop-up)
Quiet Please	"Nothing Behind The Door"	8 June 1947			1:36:30 (Pop-up)
The Weird Circle	"The Wooden Ghost"	3 December 1944			2:09:10 (Pop-up)
The Price of Fear	"Goodie Two Shoes"	30 May 1983			2:38:34 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Bill Snyder	Bewitched "Bewitched" by "Bill Snyder"				3:09:09 (Pop-up)
Biography Channel	Bela Lugosi: Hollywood's Dark Prince Part 3	Bela Lugosi: Hollywood's Dark Prince	Biography Channel	1995	3:14:50 (Pop-up)
The Strange Dr. Weird	"The Summoning of Chandor"	14 November 1944			3:25:14 (Pop-up)
Quiet Please	"Camera Obscura" ""Camera Obscura"" by "Quiet Please"	13 October 1947			3:35:49 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 6:16pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:00pm Charles: YES!
	9:01pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the Digital Salon, Charles and Imaginos! It's time to turn off the lamps, light a few candles, and enjoy some SPOOKY radio!
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: Hi there! I listen to the Weird Circle, Sleep No More and Quiet, Please!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:03 Hopefully you are not sick of them! I do like The Weird Circle.
	9:03pm Imaginos: I love the Weird Circle
	9:03pm Charles: I'm usually in bed around this time but today I'll do my best to take in as much Dimestore halloween goodness as I can 🎃
	9:04pm Webhamster Henry: Price of Fear is fun, mixing up Vincent P. and the BBC.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The House And The Brain"" by "The Weird Circle" In the past, I've tried to connect all of the Weird Circle episodes, by having the same author behind all the stories, or something like that. This year, all of the Weird Circle stories involve Ghosts, in some way or another. Hopefully that isn't a spoiler...
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:04 Yeah, I really love that show. I really love to listen to Price this time of year.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:03 I really appreciate that, Charles! I really enjoy the shows I picked this time.
	9:08pm Imaginos: So much good stories tonight. I'm going to try to make it through the show,
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: My habit of restoring old radio shows STARTED with my Halloween shows, as a lot of the stories - in particular, "Quiet, Please" - just sound awful. Last year, I embarked on my first restoration efforts, to make last years Halloween shows sound better. In the year since then, my restoration skills have improved, and I have more tools at my disposal. I think the shows this year sound better than before, and I hope they are more enjoyable as a result.
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:08 It's gonna be a late night, but the archive will be there if you have to tap out at some point.
	9:11pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:08 I mostly catch the show on archives nowadays but here's a good time to say that your skills are super impressive. It makes for good listening.
	9:13pm Imaginos: ↳ Charles @9:11 indeed. Austin's a wonderful host.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: It sort of blows my mind that there were anthology horror radio shows on regular radio in the 40s. I love the idea of people staying up late, past their bedtime, to hear some TERRIFYING story on the radio. It happened to me, as a 10 or 11 year old: my first radio, and I found some radio drama, on late at night. (Probably an episode of Suspense, if I'm not mistaken.) It scared me, and it's been a high I've been chasing my whole life.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: The Ocean Waves as a transition device on "The Weird Circle" is a nod to the "premise": In a cave, by the edge of the sea, is where you go and hear these tales, told by some nameless narrator. The "premise" is pretty vague; a lot of episodes don't explain this, and the opening only sort of sets up the premise. The Ocean Waves - while interesting - seem like nonsequiters, unless you remember the vague premise of the show.
	9:20pm Imaginos: Dogs rarely fare well in haunted houses. Especially in the story "Me Tie Dough-ty Walker".
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:20 Horror stories are not kind to animals. Then again, animals in a lot of horror stories are pretty scary, too.
	9:22pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 indeed. Have you ever heard the song "Vampire Frogs"?
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:22 I have not.
	9:24pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:23 youtu.be...
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:24 Thanks! I'll check it out.
	9:25pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:25 btw, Happy Oct 7 to a fellow Max Headroom fan.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:25 That's right! If only we got the Bryce Lynch Six Episode Solo Show we all deserve.
	9:27pm Imaginos: Hypnosis to keep the dead alive? Why does that sound familiar coughcase of valdemarcough
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:27 If you're gonna steal, steal from the best!
	9:28pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Featuring Bryce in the Fringes on a steampunk motorcycle with Paradox as the theme song.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: Every once in a while, I try to imagine a store that carries all of the Acme Products that I write about.
	9:29pm David The Splatter: Late getting in to the Digital Salon. Took a left turn at Dead Man's Lane... :D
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:29 Nice to see you, David The Splatter! We're operating by candle light tonight, but, I think you can still find a seat. Just stay out of the cobwebs.
	9:30pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 Speaking of Acme. There was almost a movie called Wile E Coyote vs Acme.
	9:30pm David The Splatter: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 I remember going into the Acme supermarket as a kid and hoping they had the products I saw in the cartoons. I learned a lot that day.
	9:31pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Imaginos @9:30 It was done, apparently really funny, but needds to get picked up and distributed. en.wikipedia.org...
	9:32pm Imaginos: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:31 Have you ever seen the miniseries "Man Vs Cartoon"?
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Remains To Be Seen"" by "The Price of Fear" This is the first episode of The Price of Fear, and is often not re-run when the BBC re-airs this show, around the holidays. This is why it has TERRIBLE sound. I've done as much as I can to restore it. Unfortunately, on the "recording" that I restored, a lot of the voices are pretty buried behind "tape hiss and noise." Even on that original recording, the consonants of most of the speakers sound almost swallowed. No matter the efforts one makes, you can't restore sounds that aren't there. So hopefully the "swallowed consonants" aren't a problem. Otherwise, I think you can make out all the dialog, better than on the original version.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:30 Huh. I'll have to look into that.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:30 Ha! That sounds like the kind of thing that would happen to me as a kid.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:31 Oh, interesting. I'll have to read up on that.
	9:36pm Arvo Zylo: Hi
	9:36pm David The Splatter: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:31 They were/are gonna shelf the movie for a "tax write off" despite great reviews from the people who screened it. It's insane what theses CEOs do for a buck.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:36 Arvo! Lovely to see you in the Digital Salon. Pull up a chesterfield, and enjoy the stories.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:36 It doesn't sound like they want to make movies. Just money.
	9:38pm Imaginos: This reminds me of the Crate from Creepshow with the chess game and Emily taking the role of "Billie".
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: Unfortunately, this story leans heavily on the "henpecked husband" trope, something that shows up in a lot of old fiction, and in a lot of radio horror. I find it to be a lazy trope, and I don't particularly like stories about unhappy husbands. But there's not that many "Price of Fear" episodes, so I had to dig up a few that are lesser heard...
	9:39pm Imaginos: Breughal painted some rather "interesting" items.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:39 True! And an obscure Headroom reference, too.
	9:41pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:40 now we just need a Mahler reference.
	9:43pm Arvo Zylo: I was watching that "American Scary" documentary last night, and wondered if Vincent Price ever did a horror host stint.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: A lot of the previous episodes of "Price of Fear" that I've aired have had Vincent as a much more "active" participant in the story. This one, he's merely the narrator, which I think he excels at.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:43 He must have! That seems like something he would have done, anyway.
	9:44pm Imaginos: What is the most obscure Price movie you've ever seen? For me it's "Escapes" where he plays a mailman.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:44 I'm not sure I've seen very many obscure ones. I really love, "Laura," which he's in. (A sort of "noir" moive.") And I love him in "House on Haunted Hill."
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: You can hear the thick "hiss and noise" creeping into the story, as this part rolls out.
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: As has been the case with a number of shows I've restored this way, when I tried to eliminate all of the background noise, it would kill the sound in a very bad way, and everything sounded worse. So I kept a fair amount in the mix, just to make sure the rest of the sound wasn't completely sanded off.
	9:49pm David The Splatter: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 It sounds fine to me, but my ear isn't all that finely tuned these days.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:49 Hopefully no one notices. But I do like to mention what I've done, as this isn't explicitly the show as it's been archived by fans.
	9:50pm Imaginos: Sounds good to me, too. But then again I grew up in the 60s,70s, 80s, etc so I'm used to a hiss here and there.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: I have a very high tolerance for noise and poor sound quality, and I don't mind myself. But I do like to try and clean things up as much as I can, so I can enjoy them at a slighter better quality.
	9:52pm Charles: Austin, fellow listeners, if you could get your hands on any model of radio. What would you use to listen to these shows?
	9:52pm Imaginos: DId you ever hear the joke where the neighbors tell the FBI that his neighbor has hidden a body/drugs/other contraband and they dig up the yard?
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:52 Oooooo. Good question. I love the design of those old Emerson Radios, and wouldn't mind having a nice tabletop model of one of those 30's or 40's designs.
	9:54pm Imaginos: I'm guessing he killed the cat first then killed his wife when she went mad with grief and attacked him.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 Here's a Google Image Search for Emerson Radios: www.google.com...
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: "Drinking Chocolate." That's such an English turn of phrase.
	9:56pm David The Splatter: ↳ Charles @9:52 I had an old GE multi-band radio (AM, FM, shortwave, TV), but the antenna broke and it would've cost more to fix it than to discard it. I'd love to have that back.
	👻 9:57pm WR: Hello Austin and folks. Have been listening with 'FMU in background. Foregrounding now.
	9:58pm David The Splatter: ↳ WR @9:57 Welcome to the foreground, WR.
	👻 9:58pm WR: ↳ Imaginos @9:52 Yes, have heard a few different versions of that.
	9:59pm Charles: Good stuff. I'd think I'd go with one of those furniture sized Zenith ones myself.
	10:00pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:44 I don't know about obscure, but I like his appearance with Peter Lorre in The Raven. I also like his appearance in The Twilight Zone. Movie bout to start. Gluten nacht
	👻 10:02pm David Shortell: Nice impression of Count Floyd, Austin.
	10:02pm Barno (from Akron): Lurking and driving
	10:03pm Imaginos: I want to stay up but I have to get up at 5
	10:03pm Arvo Zylo: There is a book called "1996" by Gloria Naylor about how she was gangstalked by the FBI because her neighbor was connected to the NSA, and had a bunch of feral cats that inevitably ate the neighbor's rat poison.
	10:04pm David The Splatter: ↳ Imaginos @10:03 Me, too. I'm gonna have to check out soon as well. Well, maybe 15 more minutes. :D
	10:04pm laurapanic: sadly missed the first hour....it is school holidays here and I have been a mum taxi. Now seated at my desk , ready to be distracted from work
	👻 10:12pm David Shortell: ↳ Imaginos @9:22 What's that, an Alex Jones conspiracy theory?
	10:14pm David The Splatter: Oooohh... I'd love to hear some of the FMU Djs do a reading of a radio serial. Marathon time, maybe?
	10:16pm Webhamster Henry: I could produce one of those scripts...
	10:16pm laurapanic: wow, impressive spooky voice Austin!
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:16 Hey, when Dr. Sacrofiguy is also involved with your station, you really have to up your "creepy voice" game if you want to stand out.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:16 Oooooo! Now we're talkin'!
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: The best man at my wedding - the person I have known / lived with the most - lived in and studied Hungarian, and really had a great accent.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: I'm not sure if "bruising ribs" is the way you really wanna "make love" to a woman. But... Who am I to judge?
	👻 10:20pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:31 The movie's based on this 1990 New Yorker article (sorry about the paywall): newyorker.com...
	10:20pm Webhamster Henry: We had that 1927 Dracula script at the Widow Jane Mine
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:20 Ooooo. Very cool!
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:20 Yeah, I'll have to read up on that. I'm very curious.
	10:22pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ David Shortell @10:20 Yeah, I read it back then...it's very famous. As are Chuck Jones' rules for Coyote and Road Runner.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: I could imagine Conrad Veidt, but Paul Muni? I can't see that.
	10:24pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 It was very successful! widowjanemine.ticketspice.com...
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: More Ray Walston interview quotes!
	👻 10:26pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:22 8 years before the New Yorker piece, the same scenario was used in a three-part National Lampoon article: “Cliff-Hanger Justice” by Joey Green. I don't know if it's a coincidence or plagiarism.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: In the middle of every episode of "The Strange Dr. Weird" has a long ad for Adam Hats, the sponsor of this show. I have cut them out of this presentation, as they really slow the show down in a not-enjoyable way.
	10:30pm David The Splatter: OK, I've got to split. I'll catch the rest of the show on archive tomorrow. Thanks, Austin! Great spooky show.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @10:30 Take care, David The Splatter.
	👻 10:35pm WR: Sweet old man.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: Every "Strange Dr. Weird," ends the same, with the, "Oh, you have to go? Well, come back next time..."
	👻 10:36pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The House Where Death Lived"" by "The Strange Dr... I guess "Dr. Weird" was too subtle a title for this series. They had to call it "The Strange Dr. Weird".
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:36 Dr. Weird could mean anything! Maybe it's a family name? But wait... the Dr. is Strange... oh, that's probably not good.
	👻 10:39pm Heather Z: Been tuned in and enjoying the premium Halloween content while working on a spoooky diamond art of a haunted house! I hear there are still a couple hours of show?? That's the best news I've heard all day!
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:39 Thanks for tuning in, Heather.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: The author of this show, who wrote almost every episode of, "Quiet Please," as I understand it, is Wyllis Cooper, who was a bit of a student of Lovecraft.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:44pm David Shortell: ↳ Imaginos @9:44 Vincent said his personal favorite of all his movies is Samuel Fuller's "The Baron of Arizona", the true story of the 19th century property swindler James Reavis.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:44 I've never seen that. I've been meaning to check it out.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: Exploding with nostalgia...
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: I didn't time this well, so this story will run over into the next hour. But don't worry, we shouldn't need to cut anything to fit it all in tonight.
	👻 11:04pm David Shortell: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:00 Vincent was apparently never on "The Twilight Zone", but did appear in Rod Serling's next TV series "Night Gallery".
	👻 11:05pm Austin Rich: "My God... it's not full of stars."
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: Looks like we're already 8 minutes or so behind for hour three. Hopefully we can make that up during the next break.
	👻 11:10pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:24 I'd like to read the more comprehensive 1924 British play. The 1927 American version (made into the 1931 film) compressed it, removing characters like Mina Murray-Harker (Winona Ryder played her in the Coppola film, and Eva Green played her in the Showtime series "Penny Dreadful").
	👻 11:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Wooden Ghost"" by "The Weird Circle" Our second of two "Weird Circle" episodes tonight. While the sound isn't too bad on this show, I still did a fair amount of restoration, to make it sound all the better.
	👻 11:35pm Austin Rich: This is why I have never betrayed any of my partners. I really don't want some descendant to have to deal with a ghost that keeps getting told, "I'm not interested."
	👻 11:39pm WR: Thank you, Austin. Will come back to the archive for the last bits. Laters folks.
	👻 11:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @11:39 Take care, WR!
	👻 11:40pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Goodie Two Shoes"" by "The Price of Fear" I used to think the uncredited actor voicing the Evil Scientist in Chuck Jones’ 1952 short “Water, Water Every Hare” was Vincent Price. It was actually an excellent imitation by voice actor John T. Smith.
	👻 11:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Goodie Two Shoes"" by "The Price of Fear" The sound on this one is pretty good. I did a little clean up, but unlike the other one we heard in the first hour, the sound here is VERY good.
	👻 11:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:40 Hmmm. I don't recall that one. I'll have to watch it later.
	👻 11:46pm Austin Rich: I am not a fan of couples, where one of them calls the other, "Idiot," or similar. It makes me very uncomfortable.
	👻 11:48pm Austin Rich: Alphabetically by Author! What an unusual way to organize your law books.
	👻 11:53pm Austin Rich: I've heard about this Goody Two Shoes before. They are very straight-laced in some ways, and less so in others. Apparently, she doesn't drink, and she doesn't smoke. Not even at parties. Now, you might wonder: "What does she do?" Well, that's where things get interesting...
	👻 11:57pm Austin Rich: I want a helpful chore ghost. That doesn't sound scary at all.
	12:01am laurapanic: I love the sounds of the BBC programs.
	👻 12:03am Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @12:01 Agreed. This show is pretty well produced, too. Those BBC producers really knew how to make their radio.
	👻 12:17am Austin Rich: In spite of my efforts to keep that last VO short, our show will still go over by three minutes. Sorry about that!
	👻 12:22am David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Bela Lugosi: Hollywood's Dark Prince Part 3" by "... Bela eventually did play the monster in "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" (1943).
	👻 12:22am Austin Rich: I hate it when I boop my last boop.
	👻 12:23am Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @12:22 I forgot about that. I don't think I've seen that one in 25 years or more.
	12:34am laurapanic: ↳ Song: ""The Summoning of Chandor"" by "The Strange Dr. W... this is nice and creeeeepy
	👻 12:35am Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @12:34 I'm trying to imagine, listening to this on Friday nights, in the 40's, as a kid. This must have been HORRIFYING.
	12:37am laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @12:35 heck yes!!!!
	👻 12:37am Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Camera Obscura"" by "Quiet Please" This one doesn't sound too bad, but still... it's not great. I did as much clean-up as I could, to get it a little better. Hopefully you can still enjoy it.
	12:39am laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @12:35 I remember watching old Doctor Who, it was 1978 and it was about an alien plant monster thing. My mum was in the shower and I remember running up the hallway tot he bathroom, absolutely TERRIFIED......by the BBC props of stuck on greenery on a shopping trolley (or whatever wizardry they used in their very lo fi effects back then). So what I mean is that its about setting the scene and writing....
	👻 12:41am Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @12:39 Absolutely. Raiders of the Lost Ark scared me as a kid, with the faces melting at the end. Now it looks pretty silly, but I tell you: I had nightmares of people's heads melting for YEARS.
	👻 12:44am Austin Rich: $200 in 1947 would have $2,823.28 in buying power in 2024.
	👻 12:45am Austin Rich: For context: I'm married to my partner, and I don't think I could ever get her to loan me $2,800, no matter what I promised her.
	👻 12:46am David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @12:22 I just looked up who played Betty Boop in that 1933 "Hollywood on Parade" short with Bela. It wasn't Helen Kane, the singer the character was based on. It was Bonnie Poe, one of the character's several voice actresses (though Mae Questel was the most prolific). She certainly looked the part!
	👻 12:47am Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @12:46 I should look at that. I didn't recognize the clip from the Biography Documentary. But I'm sure there are plenty of things I haven't seen.
	👻 12:49am Austin Rich: Some information about the Camera Obscura in question: smconservancy.org...
	👻 12:56am Austin Rich: We're getting close to the end. Thanks for joining me tonight! Make sure to donate to WFMU! And: Happy Holidays!
	👻 5:57am Arvo Zylo: ↳ David Shortell @11:04 For the record, in my head "The Last Man On Earth" was a TZ episode, mea culpa... www.imdb.com...

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