Favoriting Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from June 19, 2023 Favoriting

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Join us for two hours of old time radio dramas, as we present four different pulp fiction stories, every week! Noir Stories with everymen getting wrapped up in dangerous adventures! Sea-faring Tales that are as two-fisted as they are filled with romance! Mysterious Magicians from the Far East, or maybe a Science Fiction yarn from the Atomic Age! Dimestore Radio Theater offers a chance to engage in Theater of The Mind, and enter a world of incredible tales from both yesterday and tomorrow!

Monday 9 - 11pm (EDT) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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Favoriting June 19, 2023: Episode #61

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Candy Matson  "Symphony of Death"   Favoriting 19 June 1950  KNBC 
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Bold Venture  "Terminal Key"   Favoriting 3 September 1951  Santana Productions 
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Music behind DJ:
Pee Wee Hunt 

Twelfth Street Rag   Favoriting

 

 

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Ken Burns  Empire of The Air Part 13   Favoriting Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio  PBS DVD Video 
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Chandu The Magician  "Curse On Betty"   Favoriting 16 September 1948  Mutual–Don Lee Network 
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X-Minus One  "Nightmare"   Favoriting 21 July 1955  NBC Radio 
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Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
  8:28pm
Ovra:

Olleh doog
Avatar 🎸 8:55pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Ahoy! July is getting closer and closer.
Avatar 9:01pm
Otis:

Evening Austin, tuned to the stories as I work into the twilight.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Ovra @8:28
Nice to see you in the chat, "Ovra."
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:55
Greetings! Nice to see you in the chat!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Webhamster Henry:

I have my 10¢ ready!
Avatar 🎸 9:02pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @9:02
Happy to be here
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Otis @9:01
Otis! Hopefully we will keep you well entertained while you work. Mayhaps you will whistle, even?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:02
That's all you'll ever need to get into this show!
  9:03pm
Charles:

#bringbackcandy
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: ""Symphony of Death"" by "Candy Matson"
As you can see, but a complete coincidence, we are airing this exactly 73 years later, to the day!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
Austin Rich:

... by a complete ...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Charles @9:03
If we can find scripts for the missing episodes, I will absolutely mount some re-enactments!
  9:06pm
Charles:

that's awesome Austin!
Avatar 🎸 9:06pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

I wonder if its a code.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:06
Perhaps?
Avatar 🎸 9:08pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @9:05
Speaking of scripts, when in July would you like to do a rough reading?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:09pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:08
Still gotta sort that out. But possibly on a Thursday, which is when Heather and I usually record.
Avatar 🎸 9:10pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Thursdays work after 2pm EST
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:12pm
Austin Rich:

While I don't remember if it is mentioned later, I assume that the piano playing in this episode is by the same person who does the live organ music for Candy Matson.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:18pm
Austin Rich:

While this subject was not really something that was handled with ANY sensitivity in 1950, culturally speaking, to my ear, the way that Candy & Willa talk about Gordon is INCREDIBLY sensitive for the time.

Of course, talking about Mental Health in a way that encouraged conversation was very rare in this period, and this episode seems like one of the first stepping stones toward portraying a sensitive discussion of mental health in a fictional format.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
Austin Rich:

Sounds like a record is being played behind Gordon's dialog here.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:20pm
Austin Rich:

Supplemented with a little live piano, too!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:23pm
Austin Rich:

Rembrandt: "Taking them? I'm now giving them!"

Always looking for a new side-gig.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:26pm
Austin Rich:

Candy: "You're the only man in the group."

Rembradt: "Oh? ... Oh."

Oh, Rembrandt...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:29pm
Austin Rich:

I could imagine that Rembrandt is pretty good at comforting someone.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:31pm
Austin Rich:

This is probably the biggest "stretch" that happens in any episodes of Candy Matson. Gordon "willing" himself to die is a bit out of the usual story possibilities for this show... but, I guess we can give her a pass once in a while, right?
  9:33pm
wenzo:

Howdee Howdee
Avatar 9:33pm
Mr Fab:

Hey Austin! I found an mp3 of last week’s music-themed episode, so I cut out some li’l dialogue bits that I added to the Sheena stream. Some of those lines like, “how do you feel about longhair music?”
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:33pm
Austin Rich:

↳ wenzo @9:33
Thanks for tuning in, wenzo!
Avatar 🎸 9:33pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ wenzo @9:33
Ahoy
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:33pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hah! Moonlight Sonata backwards is George Harrison's "Because"! [ www.snopes.com... ]
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @9:33
Nice!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:33
Candy Matson predicts the future?
Avatar 🎸 9:34pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @9:34
Or was the inspiration
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:35pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:33
Sorry Lennon's
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:38pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @9:33
I feel like there was a line about "Bop" that was pretty excellent.
Avatar 🎸 9:45pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

No scruples
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
Webhamster Henry:

"Try this one on your Bongo!" << attn Mr. Fab
Avatar 🎸 9:48pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Good show tonight
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:49pm
Austin Rich:

"Age 16 on up, Miss Sailor." Oh my!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:59pm
Austin Rich:

While I do like Bold Venture, I often have trouble telling the episodes apart. This one sort of sounds a bit like a few different episodes we've already heard.

And... well... the formula does work! So, I guess I can't complain. But, you know...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:59pm
Austin Rich:

"Let's go home and take off our shoes, Sailor."

This episode is very suggestive, in a number of places!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:01pm
Austin Rich:

"Come here, reject." Damn!
Avatar 🎸 10:01pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @9:59
Especially for the time
Avatar 10:03pm
Otis:

Still here at the desk, over yonder.
Avatar 🎸 10:08pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Did they ever do a radio show about Dr Munigant?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:08
Maybe? I'm certainly not familiar with all the Bradbury radio that's out there, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone has done it.
Avatar 🎸 10:13pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @10:12
I know they did it on tv with Eugene Levy
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:13
There were a few good Bradbury TV show adaptations that I quite enjoy. I should see what's available these days.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:14pm
Austin Rich:

"Without his talents, I might not be here..." Sinatra's popularity was often attributed to how popular his tunes were on radio.
Avatar 🎸 10:16pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Radio brought us many great people from Frank Sinatra to Douglas Adams.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Austin Rich @10:14
This sounds like a, "Duh?" sort of statement... except, at the time, radio didn't make stars, stars were allowed to play on radio! But since Sinatra had so many great records, and was popular with teens who requested him, that it was often - erroneously - suggested that it wasn't his own star power, but the power of the radio.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
Austin Rich:

"The Pictures Are Better" is the line from this movie that echoes in my mind, every time I watch / listen to this documentary.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
Austin Rich:

"Senator Claghorn," was the inspiration for "Foghorn Leghorn" in Warner Bros. Cartoons.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:16
Very true! Radio is the perfect stepping stone for anyone's career... or a great career to step into, anyway.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Austin Rich:

This kind of whispering is CREEPY.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Austin Rich:

Glad to know that in 1948, the trope of "creepy whispering" was already sort of played out.
Avatar 🎸 10:24pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @10:21
Indeed
Avatar 🎸 10:25pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

I need dozing. But I'm trying to stay up
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Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:25
Dozing is important! Thanks for joining in!
Avatar 🎸 10:26pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Will be back for tomorrow
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:26
See ya then!
  🎸 10:30pm
Heather Z:

I've been tuned in enjoying the show! Nigel the Cat is on my lap, tuned in via whiskercast!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @10:30
Nice to see you in the chat!
  🎸 10:32pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @10:30
Nigel comments "purr purr purr" which is high praise! I liked the creepy whispering, BTW. That surprises no one.
Avatar 10:33pm
Mr Fab:

I’ve learned from this show that anything is possible if you go into it with a real “Chandu” attitude.

(Sorry for that. But since I am a dad, I think I’m allowed to make dad jokes.)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:33pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @10:32
But what is a little surprising is that it was an already played-out trope in 1948... and they were essentially just fainting toward it in Chandu because it's easy.
  🎸 10:33pm
Heather Z:

↳ Mr Fab @10:33
😂
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:33pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @10:33
Puns are always welcome in my world!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:34pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @10:33
Some of us enjoy the pun-ishment.
  🎸 10:34pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @10:33
I am never above a played out trope. Also not a surprise to anyone!
Avatar 10:34pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Austin Rich @10:34
OUCH!!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:36pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: ""Nightmare"" by "X-Minus One"
Here's the poem this story is based on:

allpoetry.com...
  🎸 10:37pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @10:34
I think people should be more o-pun to different kinds of humor. Just my opunion.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
Austin Rich:

And, of course, ENIAC was a real computer:

en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: ""Nightmare"" by "X-Minus One"
The poem was originally published in 1947. Certainly, at the time, the idea of Mechanical Machines somehow "revolting" was absolutely a fantasy at the time. The idea that a mechanical machine could suddenly have a mind of it's own - without a computer brain, or being connected to the internet - was not even conceivable. And most stories of this kind were more in the fantasy realm in this era.

However, since then, the internet has been developed, most mechanical machines do have computer brains of some kind, and most mechanical devices these days have the ability to connect to the internet.

Again, something that was complete fantasy in 1955, but has come true in the years since.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:47pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Austin Rich @10:37
ENIAC was actually no longer in operation by 1956 - a year after this broadcast. There had been press about ENIAC going back to 1946, but it was mostly in the kinds of publications that only hardcore nerds would have read.

Like, the writers for this show, for example.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:48pm
Austin Rich:

The line - "I had communicated with a machine" - is a very dramatic line and moment in this episode.

Today, people communicate mostly with machines, hundreds of times a day.
  🎸 10:50pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @10:48
It is so interesting! I get frustrated when my machine doesn't communicate with me because I need to know how to toast pecans and whether a whole human eyeball can be transplanted! And I shouldn't have to actually turn on the lights myself.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:50pm
Austin Rich:

ENIAC is dramatized as being programed by one single nerd in this show. In reality, ENIAC was programmed by six women:

Kay McNulty, Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Fran Bilas and Ruth Lichterman.
  🎸 10:50pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @10:50
❤️
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
Austin Rich:

This show - in light of all the concerns lately about AI and people being replaced by machines - seems VERY RELEVANT to 2023.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:52pm
Austin Rich:

Also: stay tuned for the AI Robot DJ after me!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:54pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @10:50
I think we should talk about this episode for a Mini-Sode of our pod!
  🎸 10:55pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @10:54
It sure does fit! Let's do it!
  🎸 10:56pm
Heather Z:

↳ Heather Z @10:55
We should definitely include this portion of Dime Store and we can do a little discussion after and a little into before?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:56pm
Austin Rich:

"They're more high strung..." Yikes. Not so good.
  🎸 10:56pm
Heather Z:

Ugh, dissing the female computers.... jeesh.
  🎸 10:58pm
Heather Z:

Night all and thanks for the super fun show! I'm staying tuned for AI DJ good times after!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
Austin Rich:

"Telephones strangling people."

With social media apps...!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
Austin Rich:

See ya next time!
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