WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 10, 2023

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 4:24pm Austin Rich: Good Hello
	7:54pm Mike Rogers: Hi Austin san!
	7:55pm Mike Rogers: Oh boy! Robots!
	🎸 ♥ 8:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @7:55 Mike Rogers! The early bot catches the new gear!
	8:44pm arvo: gluten tach!
	🎸 ♥ 8:59pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	🎸 ♥ 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ arvo @8:44 Arvo! Nice to see you in the chat!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:59 Imaginos! Always a pleasure.
	9:01pm Charles: Is this the christmas special?
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Webhamster Henry: Candy Matson in the house!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:01 Another one! There's at last four Christmas Specials for her.
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 A pleasure for me as well
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:01 Webhamster Henry! Hooray!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: Rembrandt and Mallard don't interact much on the show. I wonder if that line about not enjoying the same things as Rembrandt was a pointed reference to Rembrandt's... "orientation"?
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: There are only two more episodes of Candy Matson, on our "short run" program this Spring / Summer. Next week, we'll air the series finale of Candy Matson, where Candy's life changes dramatically. Then, the week after, we'll hear the pilot episode, from when they tried to re-launch the show, a few years later. (That time, with pre-recorded music cues and fully transcribed performances, rather than entirely live actors and music, like with the rest of the episodes.)
	9:08pm Charles: Time flies, we hardly knew ye Candy
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:08 If anyone can find scripts for other episodes, I will HAPPILY mount re-enactments.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: This particular episode of Candy Matson aired a week before Christmas. Interestingly, they did a Dickens spoof (according to broadcast records) on Christmas Day, and Candy takes a New Year's Vacation on Jan 1st this year. It's a bummer we don't have those episodes.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Getting hopeful about our project
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: While it doesn't seem to happen as much these days - except intentionally - I recall, in the 80's, that holiday episodes of syndicated shows would just air in order, even if they were not seasonal on the date the re-run aired. (Leading to accidental "Christmas in July" situations.) I think people started to notice more in the 90's, and I think by the 2000's, you didn't see that kind of thing happening anymore.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:15 Me too! I hope Heather will be good to record soon.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 As do i.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: Another reference to how much Candy likes to drink, and how much she likes bars.
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Austin Rich: I think they've referenced Candy smoking in the past, but this is probably the most pointed reference.
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Someone should do a radio series of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Austin Rich: This might be one of the few times someone gives Candy a hard time for doing her Detective work. ("A Lady cop!")
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:22 We could! If you did the scripts, I'm sure we could get actors together.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: That's at least the third time someone has fallen to their death on this show. Seems like a strange thing to keep bringing up in the show...
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm Austin Rich: I don't mind this story, but I would have liked the Father to work with Candy to solve the case. I think it would have been more interesting if he was a bit of a sleuth, too.
	🎸 ♥ 9:32pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:23 Let's first see how our current story works out.
	🎸 ♥ 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:32 Certainly.
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Austin Rich: King Moses doesn't usually get on the boat with Slate and Sailor. That's notable, for sure.
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Jade in the Yucatan? That almost sounds like the chamber where the Magna of Illusion was found
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Trying to imagine if Quipping Couple Coffee is the type that has passed through a cat.
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:47 It's a little better than that, for sure. But maybe not by much.
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 Lol!
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Speaking of cats
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: This Adventure / Treasure Hunt has a little bit of an Indiana Jones quality to it.
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I slept on a rock once.
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:57 "Help, I'm A Rock."
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: "How good do you have to be?"
	🎸 ♥ 10:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: We're at the verge of the Butlerian Jihad with the way things are going.
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Blackstone?
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:10 That could be fun! How many of those are there?
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:11 55
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Webhamster Henry: There's a somewhat weirder show called "Nightmare" from the experimental CBS show, CBSRadio Workshop: archive.org...
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:16 Hmmmmm. I'll have to re-listen... I'm only foggy on what the show was like.
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:16 Hurm... I'll have to listen, and see if I've heard it before.
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:08 Very possibly. It's been so long since I've read all the Dune books, I only vaguely remember that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Did you ever see Highway to Hell?
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:21 I don't think so. Early 90's comedy sort of thing?
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 Yes. The streets were paved by the Good Intentions Paving Company
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:24 Nice. It has Gilbert Godfried in it, and I have a soft spot for his ridiculousness.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Webhamster Henry: CBS Radio Workshop had a lot of experimental works and lots of William Conrad: web.archive.org...
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:26 Oh, right! I keep meaning to explore that show! Thanks for reminding me. Good resource for Halloween, maybe?
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: So rarely do they actually have an encounter between Roxor and Chandu.
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I don't think she missed
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:32 Good Bet she didn't.
	10:35pm AI Robot: X Minus ONE!!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:35 And this one is about an AI Robot, too!
	10:36pm AI Robot: I am recording this one for future refrence.
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:36 There's a "Dimension X" version of this same story, but I think this is a more polished version for radio.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: You ever hear of the Do It Yourself Frankenstein Outfit?
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: There are an astonishing number of X-Minus One (and Dimension X) stories that have a crime, criminal, or gangster aspect to them. (More if you include detective stories, etc.) Certainly, most authors writing Sci-Fi and other pulp fiction at the time were also writing detective stories, gangster stories, and other pulp type stuff.
	🎸 ♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:37 I'm not familiar.
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm David Shortell: The most horrific mankind-conquering computer is AM from Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream". I wonder if it's ever been adapted into a drama.
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 It's a real potpourri of fiction, and nonfiction, historical fiction, music shows...
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: Junior is presented just like a modern chatbot AI: a learning system that is fairly naive and mostly childlike in many behavior. It's up to the person who programs it - and fills the AI with that person's ideas and perspective - to make the AI "good" or "bad." "I've just been playing with him."
	10:42pm AI Robot: ↳ David Shortell @10:42 Wow!
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:42 Good question! I don't know that it has... but... maybe?
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:42 Seriously. But some very interesting titles!
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Austin Rich: "People are Evil." Well, he's got a point.
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 It was a short play in which a scientist attempts and ultimately fails to build a robot. Then in the end as he leaves the stage you see his plug.
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm Austin Rich: In a way, professors do want to keep robots as slaves. He's not wrong.
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:43 Ooooooo. I like that!
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Song: ""Almost Human"" by "X-Minus One" So much for the 3 laws
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ David Shortell @10:42 I don't know, but Ellison was the host of 2000x: archive.org... and his '"Repent, Harlequin" Said the Ticktockman' leads off the show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: Like a lot of people who want to weaponize AI Chatbots and other kinds of modern digital tools - Duke is pretty shortsighted as to what the implications of doing this might be. I mean, what could go wrong, teaching your robot how to do evil? I mean, where could the robot learn competing ideas from...?
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Chocolate malted.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:44 I forgot that 2000x was actually produced, "In The Year 2000." That's pretty good.
	🎸 ♥ 10:48pm Austin Rich: "Unless they're trying out Robot Traffic Cops." I think some cities have, now.
	10:49pm AI Robot: Buck Rogers? He is my master's uncle!
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:49 I was always more of a Duck Dodgers fan.
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: Like a lot of people, Charlie seems to be unnerved by Junior, only because he's a robot. It isn't just before Junior kills Charlie that Charlies discovers Junior is tapeable of murder. Before that, Charlie was merely nervous that junior was a robot... not at all aware of how he was specifically programmed.
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: People - like Charlie - seem to be nervous of AI tech now, without knowing anything about how they are specifically programmed. Certainly, AI tech will only be as good / evil as they programmer. But to fear the tech before we know anything about it... very irrational.
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Webhamster Henry: oIl mE~!
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: Junior seems to have picked up the human interest in a partner, something that people don't seem to be worried about happening to our AIs, these days. Most concerns are only on how evil they could become. The notion they could embody our other anxieties is rarely considered, now. Junior wants to have a girlfriend... bad!
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:53 Probably the creepiest line in any X-Minus 1 episode.
	10:55pm AI Robot: I hate to admit, it but the refrigerator and I had a "Good time" last night!
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: Just about to sign off. Thanks for joining us tonight!
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Reminds me of a g rated version of Demon Seed
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:55 I have probably been guilty of the same.
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:55 Sort of.
	10:57pm AI Robot: Morale of the story:　Do NOT TRUST humans!
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:57 Especially gangsters.
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Webhamster Henry: Some new bed music for you here.
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:44 That looks like great stuff. Just today, on a Sheena's Jungle Room program, I was discussing "R.U.R."! wfmu.org...
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: Poor Lola. Lesson for women: do not date gangsters.
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:58 There's a lot to talk about there.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm David Shortell: Is this X-Minus One episode where Roy Thomas got the idea for Ultron?
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:59 Interesting!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 10, 2023

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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!

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July 10, 2023: Episode #64

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Candy Matson	"San Juan Bautista" ""San Juan Bautista"" by "Candy Matson"	18 December 1950	KNBC		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Bold Venture	"Murder In The Yucatan"	24 September 1951	Santana Productions		0:32:19 (Pop-up)
Anton Karas	The Third Man Theme "The Third Man Theme" by "Anton Karas"				1:01:11 (Pop-up)
Heather, Brian & Austin	Our Recurring Nightmare (Part 1)	Our Recurring Nightmare	Dimestore Revelations	2023	1:11:15 (Pop-up)
Chandu The Magician	"Sonya Shoots Nagi"	21 September 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Network		1:20:39 (Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"Almost Human" ""Almost Human"" by "X-Minus One"	11 August 1955	NBC Radio		1:33:38 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 4:24pm Austin Rich: Good Hello
	7:54pm Mike Rogers: Hi Austin san!
	7:55pm Mike Rogers: Oh boy! Robots!
	🎸 ♥ 8:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @7:55 Mike Rogers! The early bot catches the new gear!
	8:44pm arvo: gluten tach!
	🎸 ♥ 8:59pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	🎸 ♥ 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ arvo @8:44 Arvo! Nice to see you in the chat!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:59 Imaginos! Always a pleasure.
	9:01pm Charles: Is this the christmas special?
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Webhamster Henry: Candy Matson in the house!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:01 Another one! There's at last four Christmas Specials for her.
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 A pleasure for me as well
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:01 Webhamster Henry! Hooray!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: Rembrandt and Mallard don't interact much on the show. I wonder if that line about not enjoying the same things as Rembrandt was a pointed reference to Rembrandt's... "orientation"?
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: There are only two more episodes of Candy Matson, on our "short run" program this Spring / Summer. Next week, we'll air the series finale of Candy Matson, where Candy's life changes dramatically. Then, the week after, we'll hear the pilot episode, from when they tried to re-launch the show, a few years later. (That time, with pre-recorded music cues and fully transcribed performances, rather than entirely live actors and music, like with the rest of the episodes.)
	9:08pm Charles: Time flies, we hardly knew ye Candy
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:08 If anyone can find scripts for other episodes, I will HAPPILY mount re-enactments.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: This particular episode of Candy Matson aired a week before Christmas. Interestingly, they did a Dickens spoof (according to broadcast records) on Christmas Day, and Candy takes a New Year's Vacation on Jan 1st this year. It's a bummer we don't have those episodes.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Getting hopeful about our project
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: While it doesn't seem to happen as much these days - except intentionally - I recall, in the 80's, that holiday episodes of syndicated shows would just air in order, even if they were not seasonal on the date the re-run aired. (Leading to accidental "Christmas in July" situations.) I think people started to notice more in the 90's, and I think by the 2000's, you didn't see that kind of thing happening anymore.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:15 Me too! I hope Heather will be good to record soon.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 As do i.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: Another reference to how much Candy likes to drink, and how much she likes bars.
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Austin Rich: I think they've referenced Candy smoking in the past, but this is probably the most pointed reference.
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Someone should do a radio series of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Austin Rich: This might be one of the few times someone gives Candy a hard time for doing her Detective work. ("A Lady cop!")
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:22 We could! If you did the scripts, I'm sure we could get actors together.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: That's at least the third time someone has fallen to their death on this show. Seems like a strange thing to keep bringing up in the show...
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm Austin Rich: I don't mind this story, but I would have liked the Father to work with Candy to solve the case. I think it would have been more interesting if he was a bit of a sleuth, too.
	🎸 ♥ 9:32pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:23 Let's first see how our current story works out.
	🎸 ♥ 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:32 Certainly.
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Austin Rich: King Moses doesn't usually get on the boat with Slate and Sailor. That's notable, for sure.
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Jade in the Yucatan? That almost sounds like the chamber where the Magna of Illusion was found
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Trying to imagine if Quipping Couple Coffee is the type that has passed through a cat.
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:47 It's a little better than that, for sure. But maybe not by much.
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 Lol!
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Speaking of cats
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: This Adventure / Treasure Hunt has a little bit of an Indiana Jones quality to it.
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I slept on a rock once.
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:57 "Help, I'm A Rock."
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: "How good do you have to be?"
	🎸 ♥ 10:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: We're at the verge of the Butlerian Jihad with the way things are going.
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Blackstone?
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:10 That could be fun! How many of those are there?
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:11 55
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Webhamster Henry: There's a somewhat weirder show called "Nightmare" from the experimental CBS show, CBSRadio Workshop: archive.org...
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:16 Hmmmmm. I'll have to re-listen... I'm only foggy on what the show was like.
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:16 Hurm... I'll have to listen, and see if I've heard it before.
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:08 Very possibly. It's been so long since I've read all the Dune books, I only vaguely remember that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Did you ever see Highway to Hell?
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:21 I don't think so. Early 90's comedy sort of thing?
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 Yes. The streets were paved by the Good Intentions Paving Company
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:24 Nice. It has Gilbert Godfried in it, and I have a soft spot for his ridiculousness.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Webhamster Henry: CBS Radio Workshop had a lot of experimental works and lots of William Conrad: web.archive.org...
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:26 Oh, right! I keep meaning to explore that show! Thanks for reminding me. Good resource for Halloween, maybe?
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: So rarely do they actually have an encounter between Roxor and Chandu.
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I don't think she missed
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:32 Good Bet she didn't.
	10:35pm AI Robot: X Minus ONE!!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:35 And this one is about an AI Robot, too!
	10:36pm AI Robot: I am recording this one for future refrence.
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:36 There's a "Dimension X" version of this same story, but I think this is a more polished version for radio.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: You ever hear of the Do It Yourself Frankenstein Outfit?
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: There are an astonishing number of X-Minus One (and Dimension X) stories that have a crime, criminal, or gangster aspect to them. (More if you include detective stories, etc.) Certainly, most authors writing Sci-Fi and other pulp fiction at the time were also writing detective stories, gangster stories, and other pulp type stuff.
	🎸 ♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:37 I'm not familiar.
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm David Shortell: The most horrific mankind-conquering computer is AM from Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream". I wonder if it's ever been adapted into a drama.
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 It's a real potpourri of fiction, and nonfiction, historical fiction, music shows...
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: Junior is presented just like a modern chatbot AI: a learning system that is fairly naive and mostly childlike in many behavior. It's up to the person who programs it - and fills the AI with that person's ideas and perspective - to make the AI "good" or "bad." "I've just been playing with him."
	10:42pm AI Robot: ↳ David Shortell @10:42 Wow!
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:42 Good question! I don't know that it has... but... maybe?
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:42 Seriously. But some very interesting titles!
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Austin Rich: "People are Evil." Well, he's got a point.
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 It was a short play in which a scientist attempts and ultimately fails to build a robot. Then in the end as he leaves the stage you see his plug.
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm Austin Rich: In a way, professors do want to keep robots as slaves. He's not wrong.
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:43 Ooooooo. I like that!
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Song: ""Almost Human"" by "X-Minus One" So much for the 3 laws
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ David Shortell @10:42 I don't know, but Ellison was the host of 2000x: archive.org... and his '"Repent, Harlequin" Said the Ticktockman' leads off the show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: Like a lot of people who want to weaponize AI Chatbots and other kinds of modern digital tools - Duke is pretty shortsighted as to what the implications of doing this might be. I mean, what could go wrong, teaching your robot how to do evil? I mean, where could the robot learn competing ideas from...?
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Chocolate malted.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:44 I forgot that 2000x was actually produced, "In The Year 2000." That's pretty good.
	🎸 ♥ 10:48pm Austin Rich: "Unless they're trying out Robot Traffic Cops." I think some cities have, now.
	10:49pm AI Robot: Buck Rogers? He is my master's uncle!
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:49 I was always more of a Duck Dodgers fan.
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: Like a lot of people, Charlie seems to be unnerved by Junior, only because he's a robot. It isn't just before Junior kills Charlie that Charlies discovers Junior is tapeable of murder. Before that, Charlie was merely nervous that junior was a robot... not at all aware of how he was specifically programmed.
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: People - like Charlie - seem to be nervous of AI tech now, without knowing anything about how they are specifically programmed. Certainly, AI tech will only be as good / evil as they programmer. But to fear the tech before we know anything about it... very irrational.
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Webhamster Henry: oIl mE~!
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: Junior seems to have picked up the human interest in a partner, something that people don't seem to be worried about happening to our AIs, these days. Most concerns are only on how evil they could become. The notion they could embody our other anxieties is rarely considered, now. Junior wants to have a girlfriend... bad!
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:53 Probably the creepiest line in any X-Minus 1 episode.
	10:55pm AI Robot: I hate to admit, it but the refrigerator and I had a "Good time" last night!
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: Just about to sign off. Thanks for joining us tonight!
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Reminds me of a g rated version of Demon Seed
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:55 I have probably been guilty of the same.
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:55 Sort of.
	10:57pm AI Robot: Morale of the story:　Do NOT TRUST humans!
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:57 Especially gangsters.
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Webhamster Henry: Some new bed music for you here.
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:44 That looks like great stuff. Just today, on a Sheena's Jungle Room program, I was discussing "R.U.R."! wfmu.org...
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: Poor Lola. Lesson for women: do not date gangsters.
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:58 There's a lot to talk about there.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm David Shortell: Is this X-Minus One episode where Roy Thomas got the idea for Ultron?
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:59 Interesting!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 10, 2023

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