WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from August 8, 2022

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 4:23pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	6:00pm John R.: Good afternoon Austin and fellow listeners.
	🎸 ♥ 6:00pm Austin Rich: Greetings, John R!
	🎸 ♥ 6:01pm Austin Rich: Writing seems like a bad way of operating with only 48 hours to go... but... I guess you do a lot of weird things at the last minute when you're in prison.
	6:01pm Charles!: Hello everyone :)
	🎸 ♥ 6:02pm Austin Rich: Charles! Nice to see you.
	🎸 ♥ 6:03pm Asheville Jon: a bookmark? holy crap, please enlighten my kids. they insist on just rememebering which page number they are on. that works fine for one book i guess, but they often have 5 or 6 going at the same time!
	6:03pm John R.: Really love your advertisements Austin!
	6:03pm spacebrother: Sorry, got a phone meeting. Have a great show and thanks for being there in my chat, Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 6:03pm Austin Rich: See ya next time, spacebrother!
	🎸 ♥ 6:04pm Austin Rich: As someone who grew up in a bookstore, and who has an English Degree... bookmarks hold a very special space in my heart.
	6:05pm Mike Rogers: Hi Austin san!
	🎸 ♥ 6:05pm Austin Rich: Mike san! Nice to see you in the chat!
	6:06pm Ellen Lovebug: Hi all. Back to hear the dulcet tones of clarinets and Alan Ladd
	🎸 ♥ 6:06pm Austin Rich: This is sort of the plot to DOA, but projected onto a proxy, instead of having to solve the case for themselves.
	🎸 ♥ 6:06pm Austin Rich: Ellen! Always a pleasure!
	6:07pm Ellen Lovebug: Hi :) waves. I remember the movie Double Indemnity
	🎸 ♥ 6:07pm Austin Rich: Double Indemnity is also a very good movie! And the book, too!
	6:07pm Ellen Lovebug: "beyond doubt" is always a guarantee that it's too pat to be believable in these fictional cases
	6:08pm Ellen Lovebug: Malted milk...posies...2 of my favorite things
	🎸 ♥ 6:09pm Austin Rich: Some "dicks" or people who are solving cases outside of the law are met with a lot more static than Dan gets from Detective Kling. (Sometimes Kling seems to even be a friend to Dan.) It's an interesting dynamic, for a genre that usually has more tension between police and the leads in these kinds of shows. Sometimes I want to remind Dan: #ACAB.
	6:11pm Ellen Lovebug: Time to save an innocent man's life. I wonder if there was ever a tie-in book written ostensibly by Dan. I'd read it.
	6:12pm Ellen Lovebug: He's so unflappable
	🎸 ♥ 6:13pm Austin Rich: "Hunt And Peck" in modern parlance refers to someone who types slowly. (They have to "hunt" and "peck" for the keys.) But the phrase also had another meaning before that, and comes from the behavior of chickens eating seeds off of the ground. (They would "hunt" and "peck" for something to eat.) Prior to typewriters, to "hunt and peck" also had a "slang" in the detective world: to sort of try things out, and see if any of your "hunting" revealings a "clue" you can peck.
	🎸 ♥ 6:14pm Austin Rich: I don't know about any novels, Ellen, but there was definitely a graphic novel.
	6:14pm Ellen Lovebug: OOOOH. I did not know about that 3rd meaning of Hunt and Peck. I used to collect bookmarks
	6:16pm Ellen Lovebug: Chaos!
	🎸 ♥ 6:17pm Austin Rich: I like that both Dan and Kling can quote (and recognize) Shakespeare when appropriate.
	🎸 ♥ 6:18pm Austin Rich: I suspect that we can conclude that Kling went to college, too. (Or, is very into theater, at least.)
	6:19pm Ellen Lovebug: Have you seen Will, TNT's modern take on Shakespeare? It reimagines the crowd at The Globe as a mosh pit, for one. Jamie Campbell Bower as Marlowe is captivating
	🎸 ♥ 6:20pm Austin Rich: "With one arm?" Suzy is the best.
	🎸 ♥ 6:20pm Austin Rich: I have not seen Will, but that sounds pretty good. I also love how quickly Suzy can type.
	🎸 ♥ 6:22pm Austin Rich: I wrote MANY papers for my Shakespeare classes in college, plus it's good to read a few more plays here and there for other classes. I prefer 19th Century novels, but I don't mind those plays.
	6:22pm Ellen Lovebug: There are a few plays I'm fond of. I've gone multiple times to the fest in Ashland. Took my developmentally disabled client one year
	🎸 ♥ 6:25pm Austin Rich: My grandfather on my dad's side was a High School substitute teacher, and taught a lot of classes. He was often the one putting on plays with the students, and led a few groups (some that included his own children, occasionally) for productions in Ashland. I wish I could have seen a play he directed. My grandfather was sort of an educated hillbilly, and had a really weird sense of humor.
	6:26pm Mike Rogers: That's 11:30. Be on time!
	6:26pm Ellen Lovebug: framing him for a robbery? oy.not going to work
	6:26pm Ellen Lovebug: Klink in a pinch
	6:27pm Ellen Lovebug: Aw....a lovely kinship there.
	🎸 ♥ 6:27pm Austin Rich: "I'm off duty." <musical sting!> One of my fave ends of a story on this show.
	6:27pm Mike Rogers: What? A cop working off duty? Impossible!
	🎸 ♥ 6:27pm Austin Rich: @Mike: Ha!
	🎸 ♥ 6:28pm Austin Rich: You found the flaw in the plot.
	6:30pm Mike Rogers: Austin! Did they have typewriters in Shakespeare's time?
	6:30pm Ellen Lovebug: Work time for me. Love y'all
	🎸 ♥ 6:31pm Austin Rich: I usually comment on the quality, and this week is fair-to-middlin', as my grandmother would say. There's certainly better sounding ones, but I did a little EQ, noise reduction and signal boost to get it to sound better. It's very listenable, but not as good as I'd like.
	6:31pm Mike Rogers: Yeah, I gotta go now too. Thanks Austin!!!!
	6:31pm John R.: Is that Red calling orders in the beginning of every episode?
	🎸 ♥ 6:32pm Austin Rich: Mike: not really. Typewriters are a 19th Century invention, but you didn't really see them in wide use until after WWII, when office jobs became common.
	🎸 ♥ 6:32pm Austin Rich: Goodnight, Ellen and Mike!
	🎸 ♥ 6:33pm Austin Rich: Sometimes it's Red, and sometimes it's Neilson, depending on the episodes. They sort of sound similar as characters, and I think they might even be the same voice actor, possibly. But it seems that Red would make the most sense, given his position on the crew. But logistically, there are times he is talking, and someone else is yelling, so...
	6:34pm John R.: Austin: 👍
	🎸 ♥ 6:35pm Austin Rich: Maybe someone else can speak to the authenticity of this Australian accent. My ear is not that finely tuned, but it sounds... bad?
	🎸 ♥ 6:36pm Austin Rich: I do like the idea of a "ship cat" on The Scarlet Queen. That seems like something that Red and Phil would HATE, but could offer a lot more fun story beats. The cat bits in this story speaks to a lot of cat interactions.
	6:39pm Charles!: I like that too.
	🎸 ♥ 6:39pm Austin Rich: The actor playing this part sort of has an "Ertha Kitt" vibe to her delivery.
	🎸 ♥ 6:42pm Austin Rich: One of the few ports where Phil has a friend on the police force. Need I remind Phil, too? (#ACAB).
	🎸 ♥ 6:44pm Austin Rich: A bit of a "reverse" of the "Tell-Tale Heart," there, for a moment.
	🎸 ♥ 6:46pm Austin Rich: "Old enough to get stupid."
	🎸 ♥ 6:47pm Austin Rich: "You read too much."
	6:54pm Charles!: Ooh! Aowwee!
	🎸 ♥ 6:55pm Austin Rich: Time for the Casablanca ending...
	🎸 ♥ 6:58pm Austin Rich: Red abhors marriage...
	🎸 ♥ 7:01pm Asheville Jon: i'm still here, just working thanks for the shoutout
	🎸 ♥ 7:02pm Asheville Jon: oooh, horror october sounds great!
	7:03pm Charles!: Looking forward to that october mood!
	🎸 ♥ 7:04pm Asheville Jon: i always liked Gangbusters
	🎸 ♥ 7:07pm Austin Rich: Gangbusters is pretty good, but I haven't listened to that many of them. Maybe I should give them a shot? I found a show that features both sailing, adventure, and celebrity leads... who sort of solve crimes! It's like Box 13 meets Voyage of The Scarlet Queen. So I think that will be the show that takes over after Box 13.
	7:10pm Charles!: What's your take on OTR comedy Austin? I'm guessing there's not much of those on the horizon for Dimestore?
	🎸 ♥ 7:11pm Austin Rich: Mr. Fab suggested that, and I think I should probably institute an "April 1st" comedy ritual. (That makes the most sense, for the format.) But There's a LOT of great comedies from over the years. Mayhaps someday I'll have to sneak in a comedy show for a spell. Orson Welles Radio Almanac (a sort of "Welles does Jack Benny's show") is HILARIOUS.
	7:12pm Charles!: Good to know!
	🎸 ♥ 7:13pm Austin Rich: There's a podcast that rarely updates, but I love, called "Orson Welles: On The Air," that just plays old radio appearances of Orson Welles. I've learned a lot of weird radio history from that show. (And all the old episodes are available to hear, which are great.)
	♥ 7:14pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Listeners! 🌏☀️☕😎🤙🎶📻
	🎸 ♥ 7:15pm Austin Rich: Scott67! Thanks for droppin' in!
	7:16pm Charles!: I listen to Chandu for the premium camel sounds.
	🎸 ♥ 7:16pm Austin Rich: As a "kids" show, they have to make sure you know that there are kids in the show, even if they aren't really in the first scene. I almost made a "camel SFX provided by" joke!
	🎸 ♥ 7:18pm Austin Rich: This episode originally aired almost exactly 84 years ago! (Off by 3 days.)
	7:18pm Charles!: Nice!
	🎸 ♥ 7:19pm Austin Rich: (Chandu started airing as a "summer" show, and since it was "daily," even though it began in the summer, and we've been listening all year, we're still listening to summer episodes.)
	7:23pm John R.: Have to go , thank you Austin, all the best!
	🎸 ♥ 7:24pm Austin Rich: Thanks John R!
	🎸 ♥ 7:26pm Austin Rich: Korla only gets credited every few episodes or so, but I should snip that out, and just add it to every episode. Korla is the best.
	7:27pm Charles: Going by that logic you should add it after all four shows because he's that good.
	🎸 ♥ 7:28pm Austin Rich: 1987! Remember these interstellar, multi-year journeys?
	7:29pm Kitschy Mama: Diggin the show!
	🎸 ♥ 7:30pm Austin Rich: Hey! Thanks for joining us in the chat, Kitschy Mama!
	7:30pm Charles: That's fun bar music.
	🎸 ♥ 7:31pm Austin Rich: In keeping with the "Dimension X" theme (and a lot of other old radio shows from this era), there is a healthy distrust of marriage, and it's often used as the butt of many jokes. Or in this case: as the butt of the joke of the plot of this episode.
	7:33pm Charles: Nice seeing you Kitschy Mama!
	🎸 ♥ 7:41pm Austin Rich: Of course, the idea for this story is based on a real behavior that old merchant ships used to participate in: kidnapping people to work on a long-haul sailing vessel. Transferring the idea to a deep space is a stroke of genius.
	7:42pm Charles: That was a thing? Wow..
	🎸 ♥ 7:42pm Austin Rich: Oh yeah, in the old sailing / pirate days.
	🎸 ♥ 7:43pm Austin Rich: They would get you nice and drunk, and then... you'd wake up out on a boat.
	🎸 ♥ 7:44pm Austin Rich: en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 7:44pm Austin Rich: (A lesser known pirate novel by Robert Louis Stevenson that also had a child narrator and is pretty fun.)
	🎸 ♥ 7:46pm Austin Rich: "Hull Watch" is sort of like getting Keel Hauled, I suspect?
	🎸 ♥ 7:47pm Austin Rich: en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 7:51pm Austin Rich: Some of this feels like "The Company" from Alien / Aliens.
	🎸 ♥ 7:53pm Austin Rich: Thanks for tuning in, everyone. We're almost done for the week!
	♥ 7:55pm Scott67: Thanks for the entertaining time Austin! 📻🎶☕😎🤙💨☕
	🎸 ♥ 7:56pm Austin Rich: Any time, Scott67!
	🎸 ♥ 7:57pm Austin Rich: Ha ha. Make fun of the impending wedding...
	7:57pm Charles: Thanks Austin, until next time friends!
	🎸 ♥ 7:58pm Austin Rich: See ya next time Charles!
	10:37am Listener Robert: (Listening on archive because I coach football at that hour.) Holiday says only two people knew he'd be where he specified on that phone call -- forgetting about Suzy!
	10:41am Listener Robert: She's a touch typist too. Things not looking so good for her at this point if I'm on the case!
	10:56am Listener Robert: And the man Holiday is trying to finger was a typewriter sales demonstrator, who would surely have known you can't tell one touch-typist's output from another's.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from August 8, 2022

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August 8, 2022: Episode #29

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Box 13	"Hunt and Peck" ""Hunt and Peck"" by "Box 13"	6 March 1949	Mayfair Productions	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen	"Fang Rubies and the Black Siamese"	14 January 1948	Mutual	0:29:39 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Harry James	Sleepy Lagoon "Sleepy Lagoon" by "Harry James"			1:01:29 (Pop-up)
Ben Brooks	The First Fifty Years Part 8	The History of Radio	Group W: Westinghouse Broadcasting Company	1:06:09 (Pop-up)
Chandu The Magician	"Looking For Casket"	5 August 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Network	1:13:56 (Pop-up)
Dimension X	"Shanghaied" ""Shanghaied"" by "Dimension X"	12 November 1950	NBC Radio	1:26:52 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 4:23pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	6:00pm John R.: Good afternoon Austin and fellow listeners.
	🎸 ♥ 6:00pm Austin Rich: Greetings, John R!
	🎸 ♥ 6:01pm Austin Rich: Writing seems like a bad way of operating with only 48 hours to go... but... I guess you do a lot of weird things at the last minute when you're in prison.
	6:01pm Charles!: Hello everyone :)
	🎸 ♥ 6:02pm Austin Rich: Charles! Nice to see you.
	🎸 ♥ 6:03pm Asheville Jon: a bookmark? holy crap, please enlighten my kids. they insist on just rememebering which page number they are on. that works fine for one book i guess, but they often have 5 or 6 going at the same time!
	6:03pm John R.: Really love your advertisements Austin!
	6:03pm spacebrother: Sorry, got a phone meeting. Have a great show and thanks for being there in my chat, Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 6:03pm Austin Rich: See ya next time, spacebrother!
	🎸 ♥ 6:04pm Austin Rich: As someone who grew up in a bookstore, and who has an English Degree... bookmarks hold a very special space in my heart.
	6:05pm Mike Rogers: Hi Austin san!
	🎸 ♥ 6:05pm Austin Rich: Mike san! Nice to see you in the chat!
	6:06pm Ellen Lovebug: Hi all. Back to hear the dulcet tones of clarinets and Alan Ladd
	🎸 ♥ 6:06pm Austin Rich: This is sort of the plot to DOA, but projected onto a proxy, instead of having to solve the case for themselves.
	🎸 ♥ 6:06pm Austin Rich: Ellen! Always a pleasure!
	6:07pm Ellen Lovebug: Hi :) waves. I remember the movie Double Indemnity
	🎸 ♥ 6:07pm Austin Rich: Double Indemnity is also a very good movie! And the book, too!
	6:07pm Ellen Lovebug: "beyond doubt" is always a guarantee that it's too pat to be believable in these fictional cases
	6:08pm Ellen Lovebug: Malted milk...posies...2 of my favorite things
	🎸 ♥ 6:09pm Austin Rich: Some "dicks" or people who are solving cases outside of the law are met with a lot more static than Dan gets from Detective Kling. (Sometimes Kling seems to even be a friend to Dan.) It's an interesting dynamic, for a genre that usually has more tension between police and the leads in these kinds of shows. Sometimes I want to remind Dan: #ACAB.
	6:11pm Ellen Lovebug: Time to save an innocent man's life. I wonder if there was ever a tie-in book written ostensibly by Dan. I'd read it.
	6:12pm Ellen Lovebug: He's so unflappable
	🎸 ♥ 6:13pm Austin Rich: "Hunt And Peck" in modern parlance refers to someone who types slowly. (They have to "hunt" and "peck" for the keys.) But the phrase also had another meaning before that, and comes from the behavior of chickens eating seeds off of the ground. (They would "hunt" and "peck" for something to eat.) Prior to typewriters, to "hunt and peck" also had a "slang" in the detective world: to sort of try things out, and see if any of your "hunting" revealings a "clue" you can peck.
	🎸 ♥ 6:14pm Austin Rich: I don't know about any novels, Ellen, but there was definitely a graphic novel.
	6:14pm Ellen Lovebug: OOOOH. I did not know about that 3rd meaning of Hunt and Peck. I used to collect bookmarks
	6:16pm Ellen Lovebug: Chaos!
	🎸 ♥ 6:17pm Austin Rich: I like that both Dan and Kling can quote (and recognize) Shakespeare when appropriate.
	🎸 ♥ 6:18pm Austin Rich: I suspect that we can conclude that Kling went to college, too. (Or, is very into theater, at least.)
	6:19pm Ellen Lovebug: Have you seen Will, TNT's modern take on Shakespeare? It reimagines the crowd at The Globe as a mosh pit, for one. Jamie Campbell Bower as Marlowe is captivating
	🎸 ♥ 6:20pm Austin Rich: "With one arm?" Suzy is the best.
	🎸 ♥ 6:20pm Austin Rich: I have not seen Will, but that sounds pretty good. I also love how quickly Suzy can type.
	🎸 ♥ 6:22pm Austin Rich: I wrote MANY papers for my Shakespeare classes in college, plus it's good to read a few more plays here and there for other classes. I prefer 19th Century novels, but I don't mind those plays.
	6:22pm Ellen Lovebug: There are a few plays I'm fond of. I've gone multiple times to the fest in Ashland. Took my developmentally disabled client one year
	🎸 ♥ 6:25pm Austin Rich: My grandfather on my dad's side was a High School substitute teacher, and taught a lot of classes. He was often the one putting on plays with the students, and led a few groups (some that included his own children, occasionally) for productions in Ashland. I wish I could have seen a play he directed. My grandfather was sort of an educated hillbilly, and had a really weird sense of humor.
	6:26pm Mike Rogers: That's 11:30. Be on time!
	6:26pm Ellen Lovebug: framing him for a robbery? oy.not going to work
	6:26pm Ellen Lovebug: Klink in a pinch
	6:27pm Ellen Lovebug: Aw....a lovely kinship there.
	🎸 ♥ 6:27pm Austin Rich: "I'm off duty." <musical sting!> One of my fave ends of a story on this show.
	6:27pm Mike Rogers: What? A cop working off duty? Impossible!
	🎸 ♥ 6:27pm Austin Rich: @Mike: Ha!
	🎸 ♥ 6:28pm Austin Rich: You found the flaw in the plot.
	6:30pm Mike Rogers: Austin! Did they have typewriters in Shakespeare's time?
	6:30pm Ellen Lovebug: Work time for me. Love y'all
	🎸 ♥ 6:31pm Austin Rich: I usually comment on the quality, and this week is fair-to-middlin', as my grandmother would say. There's certainly better sounding ones, but I did a little EQ, noise reduction and signal boost to get it to sound better. It's very listenable, but not as good as I'd like.
	6:31pm Mike Rogers: Yeah, I gotta go now too. Thanks Austin!!!!
	6:31pm John R.: Is that Red calling orders in the beginning of every episode?
	🎸 ♥ 6:32pm Austin Rich: Mike: not really. Typewriters are a 19th Century invention, but you didn't really see them in wide use until after WWII, when office jobs became common.
	🎸 ♥ 6:32pm Austin Rich: Goodnight, Ellen and Mike!
	🎸 ♥ 6:33pm Austin Rich: Sometimes it's Red, and sometimes it's Neilson, depending on the episodes. They sort of sound similar as characters, and I think they might even be the same voice actor, possibly. But it seems that Red would make the most sense, given his position on the crew. But logistically, there are times he is talking, and someone else is yelling, so...
	6:34pm John R.: Austin: 👍
	🎸 ♥ 6:35pm Austin Rich: Maybe someone else can speak to the authenticity of this Australian accent. My ear is not that finely tuned, but it sounds... bad?
	🎸 ♥ 6:36pm Austin Rich: I do like the idea of a "ship cat" on The Scarlet Queen. That seems like something that Red and Phil would HATE, but could offer a lot more fun story beats. The cat bits in this story speaks to a lot of cat interactions.
	6:39pm Charles!: I like that too.
	🎸 ♥ 6:39pm Austin Rich: The actor playing this part sort of has an "Ertha Kitt" vibe to her delivery.
	🎸 ♥ 6:42pm Austin Rich: One of the few ports where Phil has a friend on the police force. Need I remind Phil, too? (#ACAB).
	🎸 ♥ 6:44pm Austin Rich: A bit of a "reverse" of the "Tell-Tale Heart," there, for a moment.
	🎸 ♥ 6:46pm Austin Rich: "Old enough to get stupid."
	🎸 ♥ 6:47pm Austin Rich: "You read too much."
	6:54pm Charles!: Ooh! Aowwee!
	🎸 ♥ 6:55pm Austin Rich: Time for the Casablanca ending...
	🎸 ♥ 6:58pm Austin Rich: Red abhors marriage...
	🎸 ♥ 7:01pm Asheville Jon: i'm still here, just working thanks for the shoutout
	🎸 ♥ 7:02pm Asheville Jon: oooh, horror october sounds great!
	7:03pm Charles!: Looking forward to that october mood!
	🎸 ♥ 7:04pm Asheville Jon: i always liked Gangbusters
	🎸 ♥ 7:07pm Austin Rich: Gangbusters is pretty good, but I haven't listened to that many of them. Maybe I should give them a shot? I found a show that features both sailing, adventure, and celebrity leads... who sort of solve crimes! It's like Box 13 meets Voyage of The Scarlet Queen. So I think that will be the show that takes over after Box 13.
	7:10pm Charles!: What's your take on OTR comedy Austin? I'm guessing there's not much of those on the horizon for Dimestore?
	🎸 ♥ 7:11pm Austin Rich: Mr. Fab suggested that, and I think I should probably institute an "April 1st" comedy ritual. (That makes the most sense, for the format.) But There's a LOT of great comedies from over the years. Mayhaps someday I'll have to sneak in a comedy show for a spell. Orson Welles Radio Almanac (a sort of "Welles does Jack Benny's show") is HILARIOUS.
	7:12pm Charles!: Good to know!
	🎸 ♥ 7:13pm Austin Rich: There's a podcast that rarely updates, but I love, called "Orson Welles: On The Air," that just plays old radio appearances of Orson Welles. I've learned a lot of weird radio history from that show. (And all the old episodes are available to hear, which are great.)
	♥ 7:14pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Listeners! 🌏☀️☕😎🤙🎶📻
	🎸 ♥ 7:15pm Austin Rich: Scott67! Thanks for droppin' in!
	7:16pm Charles!: I listen to Chandu for the premium camel sounds.
	🎸 ♥ 7:16pm Austin Rich: As a "kids" show, they have to make sure you know that there are kids in the show, even if they aren't really in the first scene. I almost made a "camel SFX provided by" joke!
	🎸 ♥ 7:18pm Austin Rich: This episode originally aired almost exactly 84 years ago! (Off by 3 days.)
	7:18pm Charles!: Nice!
	🎸 ♥ 7:19pm Austin Rich: (Chandu started airing as a "summer" show, and since it was "daily," even though it began in the summer, and we've been listening all year, we're still listening to summer episodes.)
	7:23pm John R.: Have to go , thank you Austin, all the best!
	🎸 ♥ 7:24pm Austin Rich: Thanks John R!
	🎸 ♥ 7:26pm Austin Rich: Korla only gets credited every few episodes or so, but I should snip that out, and just add it to every episode. Korla is the best.
	7:27pm Charles: Going by that logic you should add it after all four shows because he's that good.
	🎸 ♥ 7:28pm Austin Rich: 1987! Remember these interstellar, multi-year journeys?
	7:29pm Kitschy Mama: Diggin the show!
	🎸 ♥ 7:30pm Austin Rich: Hey! Thanks for joining us in the chat, Kitschy Mama!
	7:30pm Charles: That's fun bar music.
	🎸 ♥ 7:31pm Austin Rich: In keeping with the "Dimension X" theme (and a lot of other old radio shows from this era), there is a healthy distrust of marriage, and it's often used as the butt of many jokes. Or in this case: as the butt of the joke of the plot of this episode.
	7:33pm Charles: Nice seeing you Kitschy Mama!
	🎸 ♥ 7:41pm Austin Rich: Of course, the idea for this story is based on a real behavior that old merchant ships used to participate in: kidnapping people to work on a long-haul sailing vessel. Transferring the idea to a deep space is a stroke of genius.
	7:42pm Charles: That was a thing? Wow..
	🎸 ♥ 7:42pm Austin Rich: Oh yeah, in the old sailing / pirate days.
	🎸 ♥ 7:43pm Austin Rich: They would get you nice and drunk, and then... you'd wake up out on a boat.
	🎸 ♥ 7:44pm Austin Rich: en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 7:44pm Austin Rich: (A lesser known pirate novel by Robert Louis Stevenson that also had a child narrator and is pretty fun.)
	🎸 ♥ 7:46pm Austin Rich: "Hull Watch" is sort of like getting Keel Hauled, I suspect?
	🎸 ♥ 7:47pm Austin Rich: en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 7:51pm Austin Rich: Some of this feels like "The Company" from Alien / Aliens.
	🎸 ♥ 7:53pm Austin Rich: Thanks for tuning in, everyone. We're almost done for the week!
	♥ 7:55pm Scott67: Thanks for the entertaining time Austin! 📻🎶☕😎🤙💨☕
	🎸 ♥ 7:56pm Austin Rich: Any time, Scott67!
	🎸 ♥ 7:57pm Austin Rich: Ha ha. Make fun of the impending wedding...
	7:57pm Charles: Thanks Austin, until next time friends!
	🎸 ♥ 7:58pm Austin Rich: See ya next time Charles!
	10:37am Listener Robert: (Listening on archive because I coach football at that hour.) Holiday says only two people knew he'd be where he specified on that phone call -- forgetting about Suzy!
	10:41am Listener Robert: She's a touch typist too. Things not looking so good for her at this point if I'm on the case!
	10:56am Listener Robert: And the man Holiday is trying to finger was a typewriter sales demonstrator, who would surely have known you can't tell one touch-typist's output from another's.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from August 8, 2022

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