WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 17, 2023

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 6:59pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: The show art this week is a photo of Alan Ladd and Sylvia Picker recording an episode of Box 13.
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:01 Greetings!
	9:02pm Charles: Oh no.. I've been dreading this day.
	♥ 9:03pm WR: Hi, will be listening while shuffling digital forms. Where did I put that 1099-SA...
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:02 Yeah. Unfortunately, this is the last episode of Box 13. Fortunately, with 52 episodes and evergreen content, this show was syndicated for YEARS after stopped making new episodes. In the 80's, when I was first listening to radio, Box 13 was still in rotation. They would just start over again, with episode one, after the last one would air. You wouldn't get a repeat for a full year.
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:03 Good luck!
	9:06pm Charles: Still playing in the 80s, crazy!
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: Suzy's line made me think there would be a little pay-off when we get to the end.
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:06 I'm not sure if it was always on, uninterrupted. But it was one of the first radio dramas I heard, after I got my radio when I was 10. And it was on for quite some time, afterwards.
	9:09pm Charles: Hey I got my first radio at 10 too, high five!
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: A hot potato I bet.
	🎸 ♥ 9:10pm Austin Rich: You still hear a fair amount of old radio dramas on AM radio, or in small towns. It's easy-to-find content, and can help fill the hours of a young station, or one that has trouble filling a full schedule.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:09 I got a radio that had a built in cassette deck. It could record the radio, or the air through a built in mic. And I got a box, that could hold 10 cassettes, and I got several tapes from my mom. with the promise I could copy some of her albums. That was a big birthday: I got my own room, too! (To listen to the radio as loud as I wanted.)
	9:12pm Charles: The english channels here have them but there's very few of those on the french ones. I only listened to a few english ones here and there before Dimestore.
	9:12pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 The very first Lava Lamp Lounge eh?
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:12 I suspect there must be some French radio dramas, and probably good ones! But I do have a slight language barrier, so I've never explored them.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Spec Op
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:12 Indeed! Though at the time I didn't have any lamps yet. And not much music.
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Thing about final episodes is the hero doesn't have to survive.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: I do feel a little silly about the "Bird Brain Beer" jokes, as I have come to discover that biologists no longer consider birds "dim." (It's a long story... there's a NOVA episode about it.) Suffice it to say: while the phrase "bird-brained" is still in use, it's not accurate, anymore. Regardless... I was looking for bird phrases, and... that one is quite common.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: Charles! You're in this episode!
	9:19pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 It did make me smile, this being the final episode :)
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: For the first time in the series, someone else has a Box near Dan's box... Box 18!
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Austin Rich: I do like the idea of detectives showing up in other detective-ish stories. Every detective story I've written usually has the "too many detectives" trope.
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: In the red... Blood red.
	9:22pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 I can't think of an animal that's actually dim. I guess you'll have to go with Human Brain Beer.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:22 Ha! I guess biologists used to think birds were dim, and that their brains were too small. Essentially: they were more instinct than thought and problem solving. However, most modern science has discovered that this was mostly based on some very biased observations, by a few biologists who were not really fond of birds.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm Austin Rich: "I always save the explanations for my secretary." Yeah, it's the last episode. Just phone it in...
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Birds make some very good homes.
	9:30pm Charles: Goodnight Suzy...
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Austin Rich: So, Box 13 fans: How should the show have "ended"? This is really just another installment, really. And even this ending suggests that there will be more next week... but, really, only re-runs. So: what should have happened?
	9:32pm Charles: Dan stops procrastinating and starts writing his book about all the stuff that happened to him in the last year.
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm Austin Rich: I always wanted Suzy to have gotten the bug for solving mysteries, and in reality... Dan's books aren't selling that well, anyway. I wanted her to suggest that they start a real detective business together, inspired by the other Dick they ran into.
	9:34pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:33 Setting up shop in that kid's tree house. Lower rent.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:32 Yeah. The idea that he's writing books about all his adventures is never actually shown, only implied. I like the idea that Dan is secretly rich, sold a couple books, but has had writers block, so the Box 13 is to try and help give him something to do until he has a new idea.
	🎸 ♥ 9:35pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Gaslighting.
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Russian Roulette"" by "Bold Venture" Bold Venture, like Box 13, doesn't really have stories connected to the time of year. Regardless, this episode aired a couple days before the Fourth of July, so I suspect listeners had that on their minds while they were listening.
	9:36pm Charles: Bogie and Bacall are there to cheer me up at least.
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:36 And our next show in the Box 13 slot is pretty great.
	9:37pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:37 Yes, that's the good thing about endings. New beginnings.
	🎸 ♥ 9:40pm Austin Rich: Slate's line about not wanting another girl around, because he already has Sailor puts into perspective the backstory that Sailor is the daughter of an old friend of his, and he has promised to take care of Sailor... and has also fallen for her. The idea that he has to "take care of another girl" is mostly a laugh line; Slate takes care of Sailor as much as she takes care of him.
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Very intriguing
	🎸 ♥ 9:42pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Fifteen minutes on the sea can mean miles
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: My biggest complaint about Bold Venture: while the boat is the namesake of the show, they often go many episodes without having any stories connected to the boat. This one sticks out because the boat actually figures into the story.
	🎸 ♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: I do love when radio shows listen to the radio.
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Austin Rich: Charles makes an appearance again, but using "Charlie" this time.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Starting to doze off. Going to bed.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:49 Sleep well. Until next time...
	9:53pm Charles: That episode's insane
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: "Always pass a gun butt first." I feel like there was joke left un-used with that line.
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:53 Yeah. This episode sort of goes bonkers at the half-way point.
	9:57pm Charles: Shannon has a lot in common with swiss cheese the more the show goes on.
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: "Lean on me Slate. I'll see you get home." That's the kind of romance you want in life.
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:57 Ha! Yeah, he is the definition of perforated.
	10:04pm Charles: Hello! Cheers!
	♥ 10:05pm Maulydaft: Candy Madson whoo hooo!
	10:07pm Charles: Congrats Austin! You should play some Slayer to celebrate.
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @10:07 That is a good idea! I do like some Slayer, and I've got a few albums. But at 2 AM, people who are requesting Slayer are just drunk and call 100 times in a row. It's sweet, but... O dear! A little "blip" there with the voice over. My bad!
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Austin Rich: At the end of the 19th Century, "Wireless" was the hot new technology that all the nerds were into, in the same way that "internet" was the hot new technology at the end of the 20th Century.
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Austin Rich: Both "wireless" / radio and the internet were "connecting" technologies, that allowed people to communicate in new ways, and in ways that transformed our culture, too.
	♥ 10:25pm WR: Many years ago I read the Erik Barnouw History of Broadcasting trilogy and another book, Mass Communication, I think, that was expanded to become Tube of Plenty. Very much shaped my view of mass media. Interesting to me to hear the interview and dramazation bits Burns pulled together for the series you are excerpting.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:25 Hmmmm. I should track those down. I'm always curious about what different people have to say about radio.
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: While we did roll out X-Minus One last week, that episode is considered the pilot, and this is considered the "first episode" of the show. It's unclear if the pilot aired before this episode did - probably not - but the pilot episode DID air later in the run, when they needed a filler between episodes. For our purposes here, I put the pilot first... but original listeners in 1955 heard THIS episode first.
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: Remember 1982, when the galactic barrier was discovered?
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: "No Contact" was used twice during the Dimension X run of the series, but this version is with different actors in different roles, with different sound FX, and some scenes are slightly different.
	♥ 10:37pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @10:26 The volume 1 and 2 will be of primary interest for radio. 1 being the development of the technology. Volume 2 the growth of networks. Volume 3 is more focused on the advent of TV.
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:37 Well, TV is still pretty interesting. Though, I loose interest in that subject quickly.
	🎸 ♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: "No Contact" was from a story by George Lefferts & Ernest Kinoy, and the script was by George Lefferts. Usually, that pair "adapted" well known short stories into radio scripts, so the fact that this is their original story is probably why it gets re-used so often. Still, both of these men were sci-fi writers in their own right. However, they were better known for their radio work.
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: First man to the moon in 1962? Interesting prediction...
	🎸 ♥ 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:42 The idea that they would be sending men on interstellar trips by 1987... as originally predicted in 1950... seems pretty rapid to me. When I think about the future now, from 2023, I still think interstellar travel like this is... quite a ways away.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Austin Rich: The SFX of that "condition red" alarm... the "Ar-oooga" sound... is really the main thing that has aged poorly in this show.
	♥ 10:51pm WR: I remember us hearing this story before. They used a script from the previous series? Funny, I cant remember the out come. I'm always like that.
	♥ 10:53pm WR: Ah, remember now, he's a Voltan.
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:51 This show will re-use almost all of the old scripts from Dimension X, but they will be updated / modified in small ways.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: We're getting close to the end. Thanks everyone for tuning in! Sad that Box 13 is over... but excited to see the show move on to something new.
	♥ 10:55pm WR: But like I said, I don't remember details, you can tell me a joke once a year and I will laugh just as much each time.
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:55 I'm the same. There's usually a point where it suddenly comes back to me... but I enjoy the journey each time, for some reason.
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: I've used that name - Starcloud - a number of times. It's one of my favorite "ship names."
	♥ 10:59pm WR: Ah, Charlie is a Voltan too?
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: This might be one of the most "cold war" stories I can think of.
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm Austin Rich: We're almost done... but... Don Pardo Announcer!
	♥ 11:01pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @11:00 Oh, right, didn't think of that, but Voltans = Commies. Reds instead of Blues. LOL.
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @11:01 Pretty on the nose.
	♥ 11:02pm WR: Thank you! Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @11:02 Thank you!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 17, 2023

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April 17, 2023: Episode #52

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Box 13	"Round Robin" ""Round Robin"" by "Box 13"	14 August 1949	Mayfair Productions	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Bold Venture	"Russian Roulette" ""Russian Roulette"" by "Bold Venture"	2 July 1951	Santana Productions	0:30:20 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ted Weems	Heartaches "Heartaches" by "Ted Weems"			1:08:00 (Pop-up)
Ken Burns	Empire of The Air Part 4	Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio	PBS DVD Video	1:08:02 (Pop-up)
Chandu The Magician	"Roxor Is Alive"	3 September 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Network	1:16:37 (Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"No Contact" ""No Contact"" by "X-Minus One"	24 April 1955	NBC Radio	1:30:12 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 6:59pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: The show art this week is a photo of Alan Ladd and Sylvia Picker recording an episode of Box 13.
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:01 Greetings!
	9:02pm Charles: Oh no.. I've been dreading this day.
	♥ 9:03pm WR: Hi, will be listening while shuffling digital forms. Where did I put that 1099-SA...
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:02 Yeah. Unfortunately, this is the last episode of Box 13. Fortunately, with 52 episodes and evergreen content, this show was syndicated for YEARS after stopped making new episodes. In the 80's, when I was first listening to radio, Box 13 was still in rotation. They would just start over again, with episode one, after the last one would air. You wouldn't get a repeat for a full year.
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:03 Good luck!
	9:06pm Charles: Still playing in the 80s, crazy!
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: Suzy's line made me think there would be a little pay-off when we get to the end.
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:06 I'm not sure if it was always on, uninterrupted. But it was one of the first radio dramas I heard, after I got my radio when I was 10. And it was on for quite some time, afterwards.
	9:09pm Charles: Hey I got my first radio at 10 too, high five!
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: A hot potato I bet.
	🎸 ♥ 9:10pm Austin Rich: You still hear a fair amount of old radio dramas on AM radio, or in small towns. It's easy-to-find content, and can help fill the hours of a young station, or one that has trouble filling a full schedule.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:09 I got a radio that had a built in cassette deck. It could record the radio, or the air through a built in mic. And I got a box, that could hold 10 cassettes, and I got several tapes from my mom. with the promise I could copy some of her albums. That was a big birthday: I got my own room, too! (To listen to the radio as loud as I wanted.)
	9:12pm Charles: The english channels here have them but there's very few of those on the french ones. I only listened to a few english ones here and there before Dimestore.
	9:12pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 The very first Lava Lamp Lounge eh?
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:12 I suspect there must be some French radio dramas, and probably good ones! But I do have a slight language barrier, so I've never explored them.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Spec Op
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:12 Indeed! Though at the time I didn't have any lamps yet. And not much music.
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Thing about final episodes is the hero doesn't have to survive.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: I do feel a little silly about the "Bird Brain Beer" jokes, as I have come to discover that biologists no longer consider birds "dim." (It's a long story... there's a NOVA episode about it.) Suffice it to say: while the phrase "bird-brained" is still in use, it's not accurate, anymore. Regardless... I was looking for bird phrases, and... that one is quite common.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: Charles! You're in this episode!
	9:19pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 It did make me smile, this being the final episode :)
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: For the first time in the series, someone else has a Box near Dan's box... Box 18!
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Austin Rich: I do like the idea of detectives showing up in other detective-ish stories. Every detective story I've written usually has the "too many detectives" trope.
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: In the red... Blood red.
	9:22pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 I can't think of an animal that's actually dim. I guess you'll have to go with Human Brain Beer.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:22 Ha! I guess biologists used to think birds were dim, and that their brains were too small. Essentially: they were more instinct than thought and problem solving. However, most modern science has discovered that this was mostly based on some very biased observations, by a few biologists who were not really fond of birds.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm Austin Rich: "I always save the explanations for my secretary." Yeah, it's the last episode. Just phone it in...
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Birds make some very good homes.
	9:30pm Charles: Goodnight Suzy...
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Austin Rich: So, Box 13 fans: How should the show have "ended"? This is really just another installment, really. And even this ending suggests that there will be more next week... but, really, only re-runs. So: what should have happened?
	9:32pm Charles: Dan stops procrastinating and starts writing his book about all the stuff that happened to him in the last year.
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm Austin Rich: I always wanted Suzy to have gotten the bug for solving mysteries, and in reality... Dan's books aren't selling that well, anyway. I wanted her to suggest that they start a real detective business together, inspired by the other Dick they ran into.
	9:34pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:33 Setting up shop in that kid's tree house. Lower rent.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:32 Yeah. The idea that he's writing books about all his adventures is never actually shown, only implied. I like the idea that Dan is secretly rich, sold a couple books, but has had writers block, so the Box 13 is to try and help give him something to do until he has a new idea.
	🎸 ♥ 9:35pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Gaslighting.
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Russian Roulette"" by "Bold Venture" Bold Venture, like Box 13, doesn't really have stories connected to the time of year. Regardless, this episode aired a couple days before the Fourth of July, so I suspect listeners had that on their minds while they were listening.
	9:36pm Charles: Bogie and Bacall are there to cheer me up at least.
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:36 And our next show in the Box 13 slot is pretty great.
	9:37pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:37 Yes, that's the good thing about endings. New beginnings.
	🎸 ♥ 9:40pm Austin Rich: Slate's line about not wanting another girl around, because he already has Sailor puts into perspective the backstory that Sailor is the daughter of an old friend of his, and he has promised to take care of Sailor... and has also fallen for her. The idea that he has to "take care of another girl" is mostly a laugh line; Slate takes care of Sailor as much as she takes care of him.
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Very intriguing
	🎸 ♥ 9:42pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Fifteen minutes on the sea can mean miles
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: My biggest complaint about Bold Venture: while the boat is the namesake of the show, they often go many episodes without having any stories connected to the boat. This one sticks out because the boat actually figures into the story.
	🎸 ♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: I do love when radio shows listen to the radio.
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Austin Rich: Charles makes an appearance again, but using "Charlie" this time.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Starting to doze off. Going to bed.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:49 Sleep well. Until next time...
	9:53pm Charles: That episode's insane
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: "Always pass a gun butt first." I feel like there was joke left un-used with that line.
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:53 Yeah. This episode sort of goes bonkers at the half-way point.
	9:57pm Charles: Shannon has a lot in common with swiss cheese the more the show goes on.
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: "Lean on me Slate. I'll see you get home." That's the kind of romance you want in life.
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:57 Ha! Yeah, he is the definition of perforated.
	10:04pm Charles: Hello! Cheers!
	♥ 10:05pm Maulydaft: Candy Madson whoo hooo!
	10:07pm Charles: Congrats Austin! You should play some Slayer to celebrate.
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @10:07 That is a good idea! I do like some Slayer, and I've got a few albums. But at 2 AM, people who are requesting Slayer are just drunk and call 100 times in a row. It's sweet, but... O dear! A little "blip" there with the voice over. My bad!
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Austin Rich: At the end of the 19th Century, "Wireless" was the hot new technology that all the nerds were into, in the same way that "internet" was the hot new technology at the end of the 20th Century.
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Austin Rich: Both "wireless" / radio and the internet were "connecting" technologies, that allowed people to communicate in new ways, and in ways that transformed our culture, too.
	♥ 10:25pm WR: Many years ago I read the Erik Barnouw History of Broadcasting trilogy and another book, Mass Communication, I think, that was expanded to become Tube of Plenty. Very much shaped my view of mass media. Interesting to me to hear the interview and dramazation bits Burns pulled together for the series you are excerpting.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:25 Hmmmm. I should track those down. I'm always curious about what different people have to say about radio.
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: While we did roll out X-Minus One last week, that episode is considered the pilot, and this is considered the "first episode" of the show. It's unclear if the pilot aired before this episode did - probably not - but the pilot episode DID air later in the run, when they needed a filler between episodes. For our purposes here, I put the pilot first... but original listeners in 1955 heard THIS episode first.
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: Remember 1982, when the galactic barrier was discovered?
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: "No Contact" was used twice during the Dimension X run of the series, but this version is with different actors in different roles, with different sound FX, and some scenes are slightly different.
	♥ 10:37pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @10:26 The volume 1 and 2 will be of primary interest for radio. 1 being the development of the technology. Volume 2 the growth of networks. Volume 3 is more focused on the advent of TV.
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:37 Well, TV is still pretty interesting. Though, I loose interest in that subject quickly.
	🎸 ♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: "No Contact" was from a story by George Lefferts & Ernest Kinoy, and the script was by George Lefferts. Usually, that pair "adapted" well known short stories into radio scripts, so the fact that this is their original story is probably why it gets re-used so often. Still, both of these men were sci-fi writers in their own right. However, they were better known for their radio work.
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: First man to the moon in 1962? Interesting prediction...
	🎸 ♥ 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:42 The idea that they would be sending men on interstellar trips by 1987... as originally predicted in 1950... seems pretty rapid to me. When I think about the future now, from 2023, I still think interstellar travel like this is... quite a ways away.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Austin Rich: The SFX of that "condition red" alarm... the "Ar-oooga" sound... is really the main thing that has aged poorly in this show.
	♥ 10:51pm WR: I remember us hearing this story before. They used a script from the previous series? Funny, I cant remember the out come. I'm always like that.
	♥ 10:53pm WR: Ah, remember now, he's a Voltan.
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:51 This show will re-use almost all of the old scripts from Dimension X, but they will be updated / modified in small ways.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: We're getting close to the end. Thanks everyone for tuning in! Sad that Box 13 is over... but excited to see the show move on to something new.
	♥ 10:55pm WR: But like I said, I don't remember details, you can tell me a joke once a year and I will laugh just as much each time.
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:55 I'm the same. There's usually a point where it suddenly comes back to me... but I enjoy the journey each time, for some reason.
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: I've used that name - Starcloud - a number of times. It's one of my favorite "ship names."
	♥ 10:59pm WR: Ah, Charlie is a Voltan too?
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: This might be one of the most "cold war" stories I can think of.
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm Austin Rich: We're almost done... but... Don Pardo Announcer!
	♥ 11:01pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @11:00 Oh, right, didn't think of that, but Voltans = Commies. Reds instead of Blues. LOL.
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @11:01 Pretty on the nose.
	♥ 11:02pm WR: Thank you! Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @11:02 Thank you!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 17, 2023

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