WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 30, 2023

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 4:13pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	9:01pm asheville jon: Hey, i remembered the show starts at 9! Sweet
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:01 Nice to see you in the chat! Sit down, and enjoy the show!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @9:01 Hooray! It's nice to see you in the chat, ashville jon!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:01 yerfriendpaul! Yay!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 Of course. Always a treat
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Webhamster Henry: BOOO! 📻🧛🏼‍♂️🧟‍♂️
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:02 Awesome! Nice to see you!
	9:03pm Charles: I feel very susceptible tonight. I hope nothing will stir panic in me!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Dracula!"" by "The Mercury Theater" This was the first broadcast made my Orson Welles, and The Mercury Theater on The Air. It was essentially the same crew who were doing his stage shows, a lot of Shakespear produtions, but modernized. So he was approached, about bringing that same style to radio, presenting their style of narrative to wide audiences. So this was the first big taste of Orson Welles that America got. en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:03 I'll try not to play anything that's too exciting.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Webhamster Henry: We had 3 Dracula performances in the Widow Jane Mine. it was the 1927 script, very well attended!
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Dracula!"" by "The Mercury Theater" While the sound is not great, it still works to my ear, and keep in mind: this was 85 years ago!
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:05 People love that stage show! I would love to see that someday.
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Imaginos: ↳ Song: ""Dracula!"" by "The Mercury Theater" Sounds very well made
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 It'll be back in 2024! The troupe also does it at other places, like Bannerman Island.
	9:07pm asheville jon: Kids in bed, now i can relax and listen
	9:08pm asheville jon: The Dracula sounds fantastic
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Webhamster Henry: Welles was 23 here.
	🎸 ♥ 9:10pm Austin Rich: Welles had been on radio before, and even had a job in radio for a while in the mid-30's. But his primary experience, where he honed his storytelling style, was in theater. Between 31 and 38, Welles sort of developed into the Orson we know here. I can only imagine the number of stage shows he put on, sort of dialing in his persona.
	9:10pm asheville jon: He can check out any time he likes, but he can never leave
	🎸 ♥ 9:10pm Austin Rich: (Between 1931 and 1938, I mean.)
	9:11pm Mike Rogers: Hi Austin san!
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @9:11 Mike Rogers! Thanks for tuning in!
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm yerfriendpaul: Funnily enough, my wife and I watched an old Moonlighting episode tonight and there was a cameo from Orson Welles in the beginning of the episode. It was filmed just before his death in 1985. We’ve been enjoying the show in all its cheesy 80’s glory.
	9:13pm Mike Rogers: ↳ Austin Rich @9:12 Hey! I'm here every week! (just some weeks, I'm making my playlist and in a panic with house stuff!) But I am here!
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Imaginos: There have been many different versions of Dracula over the years from Lugosi to Hamilton.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:12 I LOVED THAT SHOW! I've been meaning to watch again, as I recall it being VERY good.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:10 John Houseman's description of working with Welles in the theatre is very entertaining. You can see some of this in the movies "Cradle Will Rock" and "Me and Orson Welles"
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:13 I always wanted to write a story about a bunch of actors who all played Dracula all have an adventure together.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:14 I was just going to link to "Cradle Will Rock"! I love that movie, and the portrayal of Welles is great! I could go on and on about Welles. He was an impressive artist. But... was also a complicated person, in life. But he left behind an incredible body of work.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 It doesn’t take itself seriously and that’s the fun of the show. There are some things that are dated (of course) and the writing/acting can, at times be borderline terrible but we’re embracing it for what it is
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 Cradle Will Rock: en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:14 Team Dracula meets Maman Brigitte
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: I also want to make a movie about all the people who have played Andy Worhol in a movie, and have them all have an adventure together. You'd get some pretty great Andy's... and they people who played him...
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Dracula!"" by "The Mercury Theater" I was thinking about using some online-tools to improve the audio quality on this one, but I ran out of time. I DID use those tools on "The War of The Worlds" recording you'll hear next hour.
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Dracula!"" by "The Mercury Theater" The story of Dracula was originally a novel, published in 1897, and a successful stage play had been developed in the late 20's, and was a huge hit. This led to the 1931 version of the story on film, with Bela Legosi portraying the character. This version of the story was the popularly known version in the late 30's. You can tell that this presentation has returned to the novel as source material, as it includes a lot of devices and scenes that are not in the film, and in some ways, aligns more with the 1992 version of the film.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Imaginos: Dracula is as timeless as the Count himself
	🎸 ♥ 9:38pm Imaginos: I'm getting sleepy. Not sure if its because I have been up since 4am or the hypnotic pace of some scenes
	🎸 ♥ 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:38 I understand. It's pretty late for you. Sleep well! There's always an archive recording.
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:38 True. I will see you tomorrow night
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm yerfriendpaul: I’m loving this!
	🎸 ♥ 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:41 I think it really works, even 85 years later. It does take a moment to atune yourself to the pace and style... but once your'e in, its really compelling. I find all the Mercury Theater shows really great, even now.
	9:46pm Mike Rogers: Yeah, this is Mercury Theater GOLD!
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @9:46 This is their first radio effort. They just get better as they go.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm yerfriendpaul: They build such momentum and suspense. Their voices
	♥ 9:50pm WR: Strike! Strike!
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:50 WR! Nice to see you!
	9:51pm Nick K: Love this
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm Austin Rich: Howard Koch was the writer who worked closely with The Mercury Theater, and adapted most of the stories for radio scripts. Though as I understand it, there was some conversation about the shows they wanted to do, and they perspectives and angles the stories would persue. But Howard Koch deserves the writing credit for Mercury Theater shows.
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Nick K @9:51 Thanks for joining us, Nick K!
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:52 More about Howard Koch: en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 (I mean, he only worked on Casablanca... no big deal...)
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm univac: Hey all!
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm univac: Great show!
	♥ 9:59pm DJ Babs: Hello hello! Been enjoying the show as well!
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm yerfriendpaul: I’m excited! I’ve never heard this in its entirety
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ DJ Babs @9:59 Thanks for popping into the chat!
	♥ 10:01pm DJ Babs: Yes, I agree! I'm settlin' in with some wine!
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:56 Thanks univac! It's always great to see you in the chat.
	♥ 10:02pm DJ Babs: ↳ Austin Rich @10:01 Happy to be here! I lurk around the dark corners of the jungle room, lol
	🎸 ♥ 10:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The War of The Worlds"" by "The Mercury Theater" Hopefully the sound quality of the voices is a little better than what you've heard before. And, let's hope that, by playing this 85 years to the day later, that I don't cause some sort of rift in the world around me.
	🎸 ♥ 10:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ DJ Babs @10:02 Don't we all?
	🎸 ♥ 10:05pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @10:02 I think I just saw a 1938 Duesenberg drive by my studio. Is that supposed to happen?
	🎸 ♥ 10:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:05 Ooooo! Those cars are beautiful.
	♥ 10:05pm DJ Babs: LOL to both those comments! I can totally see how people were freaking out at an impending alien invasion...
	🎸 ♥ 10:06pm yerfriendpaul: I’m putting plywood over my windows now!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:06pm Austin Rich: I think, because of listening to this show so much, that I've become a huge fan of the song, "Stardust," which is just great.
	🎸 ♥ 10:08pm Austin Rich: There have been a few cases of people "re-enacting" this show, and also causing panic in those cities / in their own time. It seems as if people WANT to believe a story like this.
	10:08pm Mike Rogers: Hey! I lived in Princeton, New Jersey when I was a little kid! I don't remember anything... Never mind!
	🎸 ♥ 10:09pm univac: This is so good! I love this radio show. Amazing how people completely freaked the shit out when it was originally broadcast.
	🎸 ♥ 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @10:08 Isn't that where the Red Lectroids landed?
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:09 We're not quite there yet, but when we get to a certain point in the story... you'll ABSOLUTELY hear why people freaked out.
	10:10pm Mike Rogers: ↳ Austin Rich @10:09 I'm not sure. I think I wasn't living there at this time!
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm univac: I must have missed it, but what is the significance of the ticking clock in the background?
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:10 Just that it was ambience for his observatory.
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm yerfriendpaul: That ticking clock is our pulse rate rising
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @10:10 Yes, I love how it starts so matter-of-fact. That Welles was such a prankster.
	10:11pm Mike Rogers: Or was it a distraction???
	🎸 ♥ 10:14pm univac: Science is boring.
	♥ 10:14pm chinn: I first heard this broadcast on a cassette tape from the library, when I was a kid in the 80s. I got pretty obsessed with it, and just a few years later I was a 10 year old kid whose favorite movie was Citizen Kane. So great hearing this on the stream tonight!
	10:15pm Mr Fab: There was a cool (made for tv?) movie about Welles & co performing this show, intercut with people listening live and their reactions.
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ chinn @10:14 Glad to have you along fo the ride! I think I first heard it on an LP that my mom put on, at some point in the 80's, too!
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:15 I've been meaning to track that down! I only know it's reputation.
	10:16pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:15 Wish I could remember the name of it..
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: You heard one of the bits that I added back in. You can tell, because the surface noise usually increases when one of the "remastered" clips is added back in.
	10:17pm AI Robot: Blast it! Blast it now while you have the time!
	10:17pm AI Robot: Blast it! Blast it! Damn you!
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:16 Was this it: en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Barno in Akron: How do you do, fellow kids?
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm univac: Side note Austin: some of your images aren't showing in the playlist...
	10:18pm AI Robot: Barno! Barno! they are in front of the meteor. Be quiet!!!!
	10:19pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 I think that was it!
	10:19pm Mike Rogers: Drop several hand grenades in the hole now!!!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Austin Rich: The radio cutting off was the moment that most people started panic-ing, when this was originally broadcast.
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm univac: Agh! Aaaaahhhhhhggghhhh!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Webhamster Henry: That silent cut off must have freaked out the listeners!
	10:20pm Mike Rogers: Run! Run! Save your lives! Get some robots in there to negotiate a cease fire!
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm univac: So good. And now, calming piano. Genius!
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm yerfriendpaul: Wow, I can only imagine how terrifying it must’ve been for the folks listening
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm univac: I'm getting chills...
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm Webhamster Henry: Although if they kept listening it stops sounding like a news show.
	10:21pm Mike Rogers: Damn it! I told you guy to first while you could! Don't waste time! Bring in the airfare now!
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm univac: At this point most people are freaking out and driving to Mexico.
	10:21pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 That was a memorable scene in “The Night That Panicked America”: Welles clamps his hand over the mic, everyone in the studio freezes
	10:22pm Mike Rogers: Evacuate the entire tri state area immediately!
	10:23pm AI Robot: Do not panic! Stay Calm! Bring in the robots!
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: While some modern wags have started to argue with the notion that "people freaked out," there are actual reports of people having panicked, and other panics in other towns happened when the show was re-created, in other cities, years later. While we can only speculate, I think it absolutely still works, as a narrative device. It still sort of gives me a chill.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm univac: The power of well-done radio!
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:21 I do like different portrayals of Welles in film. I'll need to track that down.
	10:25pm AI Robot: Mr. Austin, pardon me, but your pronunciations are doing nothing to alleviate the current situation. Please evacuate the area immediately!
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm yerfriendpaul: Also, imagine coming into the broadcast at the half-way point. Panic would hit immediately
	10:26pm AI Robot: Order the 1st Armored division into the area immediately!
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:25 you'll hear it in the show, but they don't have a commercial break or a station ID until almost 40 minutes into this story. It's WILD.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Webhamster Henry: Nobody was fooled by the NPR 50th anniversary rewrite. archive.org...
	10:26pm AI Robot: Fire! Fire at will!
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:26 Yeah... though I do love Jason Robards.
	10:28pm AI Robot: We must counter attack immidiately. They must not take the New York area. We must nuke them now!
	10:28pm Mr Fab: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:25 There was a more popular show on at the same time. It’s listeners would tune out during commercial breaks and tune in to “War of the Worlds” so they missed the announcements that it was a dramatization.
	10:30pm AI Robot: That's the problem with appeasers like you, Mr. Fab! "Oh, it's just a commercial! A commercial!?" Are you mad???? We are at war. We have got to turn New Jersey into a glass parking lots immediatley!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:28 Certainly, if you missed the first few minutes of this show, you wouldn't know this was fiction. And a lot of people would flip around on the dial at the top of each hour, trying to find something to listen to. Seems like an easy mistake to make.
	🎸 ♥ 10:31pm Webhamster Henry: New Jersey Coon Hunters are on the job!
	10:31pm AI Robot: Damn! The WFMU studios! We cannot risk anymore territory! Nuke them immediately!
	🎸 ♥ 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:30 "You should nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:31 I wanna hear that dramatization: the hunters, doing their thing.
	10:32pm AI Robot: That is good thinking (Out of the box) Austin san! We can get rid of other problems at the same time!
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:32 It wasn't on that extended transcription disk, I guess.
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:32 I'm gonna have to write that story.
	10:33pm AI Robot: Damn! It! I told you these little missiles are like hitting them with tennis balls. We must go totally thermal nuclear immediately!
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm yerfriendpaul: Damn! heat rays are frying everyone and everything!
	10:35pm AI Robot: Langham field? Of course the aliens are expecting and attack from there. Lauch all aircraft. This is it boys! We need guys who will kamikaze into the alien scum!
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: This is not the first time I've played this on my show. In 2009, my show was also on the 30th, so I played this on my show that week, too. While I try not to repeat myself on this show often... it's been over 10 years, so I think I can play it again.
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Webhamster Henry: Was there any real time war reporting like this, even during WW II? I suspect not.
	10:36pm AI Robot: Crash the plane into the aliens! Yes! Yes!
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:35 I don't think so. I think the closest you got was a recording played on the news later, edited to better fit the flow of news.
	10:36pm Mr Fab: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:35 I think Edward R Murrow did?
	10:37pm AI Robot: Dammit humans! They are clogging up all the roads. We can't get armored divisions into the area. What do we do?
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:36 Oh, of course! I didn't think about that.
	10:38pm AI Robot: No other option, we must start blasting the humans too. Blast everyone and everything. Let 'em have it boys!
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:38 I'm usually sympathetic to many alien causes. But not these damn dirty martians!
	10:39pm AI Robot: Launch the nukes... Launch them all! Everyone focus on the front shift. Blast the hell outta them boys.
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 Ha ha!
	10:40pm AI Robot: I'm into current US military options. Just kill everyone and let God sort them out!
	10:41pm AI Robot: Only WFMU is on the air!
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: 41 minutes in, they have the first station ID.
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm yerfriendpaul: Amazing!!
	10:42pm AI Robot: Somehow, for some reason, WFMU studios still stands. How could this be?????
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Webhamster Henry: Pay no atterntion to that "Fake Announcement!"
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: From here on out, it's a much more traditional radio drama. But that opening... holy cats!
	10:43pm AI Robot: Ha! Ha! Ha! The last man on earth???? Ha! Ha! Ha! So now, I, AI Robot will lead the earth side to a cease fire and I will be king! Ha! Ha! Ha!
	10:43pm AI Robot: Cease fire! Cease fire!
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm yerfriendpaul: I live near Morristown and when they mentioned it earlier in the broadcast, I got chills thinking what it must’ve felt like hearing this back then
	10:44pm AI Robot: Arrest that human! They breed and cause trouble!
	10:47pm AI Robot: AS your new king! I promise you that all will be happy and treated fairly. Give yourself into your closest robot, human!
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: This was the 17th show they did as The Mercury Theater. A week later, they adapted, "Heart of Darkness," to chilling effect, as well. The last four episodes do not push any boundaries, and are sort of "plain" by comparison to their early work. After that, Welles' show got a sponsor - The Campbell soup company - which loved the publicity from "The War of The Worlds." The Campbell Playhouse show is the same crew of people, and is a good show, too. But like with punk rock: the early shows were better.
	🎸 ♥ 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:44 Very creepy! I love that.
	10:48pm AI Robot: You will be given sustenance and cigarettes!
	10:48pm AI Robot: Og course, the Martians went to New York... Jet setters!
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm yerfriendpaul: They’re catching a Broadway show
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:48 They wanted to take in a show, get some "I (heart) NY" T-shirts. The usual.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:49 Jinx!
	10:49pm AI Robot: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:49 Yeah, rich types. Life is cheap to that bunch!
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 Ha ha!
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: There's two references to it, but it's easy to miss: the Martians are portrayed as eating some of the dead humans.
	10:50pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 You mean, like Soylent Green?
	10:51pm AI Robot: ↳ AI Robot @10:50 Or Spam?
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:50 Sort of. But they would eat the humans raw, I think. Not even processed!
	10:51pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 Raw? Maybe they are Japanese? Sashimi!?
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:51 Maybe it was a hot pot situation. I'm not sure there were many details.
	10:52pm AI Robot: Food not processed? Ewwww!
	10:52pm Mr Fab: Foolish mortals! Remember to tune in to the great big epic vintage Halloween records show tomorrow: wfmu.org... closing out Hellraiser in style
	10:53pm AI Robot: ↳ Mr Fab @10:52 Wait! What!? What time tomorrow, Mr. Fab?
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:52 And I'll take live calls after that, with people telling their ghost stories!
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:53 wfmu.org...
	10:54pm Mr Fab: WFMU is 90% to our goal. Can we make it tomorrow? The suspense will kill me!
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm univac: Someone's got a power complex...
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:54 We're pretty close! I think we can do it!
	10:55pm Mr Fab: ↳ AI Robot @10:53 It was originally scheduled to start at 3 PM Eastern, but the show before it canceled at the last minute, so who knows, it might start even sooner.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: Standing alone in Times Square was unusual in 1938, too.
	10:55pm AI Robot: What time does the festivities start, Mr. Fab? It is a good time, very good luck and good timing. Tomorrow is my birthday! All Saints Day! 11/1
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:55 That's a good day!
	10:55pm AI Robot: OK. 3 PM EST wftu.org/sheena! Tomorrow be HERE!!!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: I was a fan of the 50's film version of this story, as a kid. Which is also fun, for different reasons.
	10:57pm AI Robot: What? Wait! The aliens are all dying??? Wait! What???? ..... Of course, of course, I was just joking about being the king.... Ha! Ha! Ha! You guys know that? Just a robot joke! Just kidding. Yeah, that's it! I am here to serve man!
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:57 You robots! Always kidding.
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 George Pal! I just got a Blu-Ray of just stop motion animations.
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:58 YAS.
	10:59pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:58 Ha! Yeah. We are just a bunch of jokers! Ha! Glad you get the joke! Ha! Ha! Ha!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Webhamster Henry: I'm sorry, war mongering laser zapping aliens would not have succumbed to microbes.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm univac: So good!! Boo!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm yerfriendpaul: Wow! That was wild. Good stuff!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:59 It still works! after 85 years.
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm univac: Thx, Austin!
	11:01pm AI Robot: Thanks Austin san!
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Webhamster Henry: That was fun! Back to non spookery next week!
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm yerfriendpaul: Thanks Austin! Enjoyed the show very much! Happy Halloween everyone!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 30, 2023

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
The Mercury Theater	"Dracula!" ""Dracula!"" by "The Mercury Theater"	11 July 1938	CBS	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Tchaikovsky	Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor			0:55:41 (Pop-up)
The Mercury Theater	"The War of The Worlds"	30 October 1938	CBS	1:00:06 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 4:13pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	9:01pm asheville jon: Hey, i remembered the show starts at 9! Sweet
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:01 Nice to see you in the chat! Sit down, and enjoy the show!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @9:01 Hooray! It's nice to see you in the chat, ashville jon!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:01 yerfriendpaul! Yay!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 Of course. Always a treat
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Webhamster Henry: BOOO! 📻🧛🏼‍♂️🧟‍♂️
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:02 Awesome! Nice to see you!
	9:03pm Charles: I feel very susceptible tonight. I hope nothing will stir panic in me!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Dracula!"" by "The Mercury Theater" This was the first broadcast made my Orson Welles, and The Mercury Theater on The Air. It was essentially the same crew who were doing his stage shows, a lot of Shakespear produtions, but modernized. So he was approached, about bringing that same style to radio, presenting their style of narrative to wide audiences. So this was the first big taste of Orson Welles that America got. en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:03 I'll try not to play anything that's too exciting.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Webhamster Henry: We had 3 Dracula performances in the Widow Jane Mine. it was the 1927 script, very well attended!
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Dracula!"" by "The Mercury Theater" While the sound is not great, it still works to my ear, and keep in mind: this was 85 years ago!
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:05 People love that stage show! I would love to see that someday.
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Imaginos: ↳ Song: ""Dracula!"" by "The Mercury Theater" Sounds very well made
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 It'll be back in 2024! The troupe also does it at other places, like Bannerman Island.
	9:07pm asheville jon: Kids in bed, now i can relax and listen
	9:08pm asheville jon: The Dracula sounds fantastic
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Webhamster Henry: Welles was 23 here.
	🎸 ♥ 9:10pm Austin Rich: Welles had been on radio before, and even had a job in radio for a while in the mid-30's. But his primary experience, where he honed his storytelling style, was in theater. Between 31 and 38, Welles sort of developed into the Orson we know here. I can only imagine the number of stage shows he put on, sort of dialing in his persona.
	9:10pm asheville jon: He can check out any time he likes, but he can never leave
	🎸 ♥ 9:10pm Austin Rich: (Between 1931 and 1938, I mean.)
	9:11pm Mike Rogers: Hi Austin san!
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @9:11 Mike Rogers! Thanks for tuning in!
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm yerfriendpaul: Funnily enough, my wife and I watched an old Moonlighting episode tonight and there was a cameo from Orson Welles in the beginning of the episode. It was filmed just before his death in 1985. We’ve been enjoying the show in all its cheesy 80’s glory.
	9:13pm Mike Rogers: ↳ Austin Rich @9:12 Hey! I'm here every week! (just some weeks, I'm making my playlist and in a panic with house stuff!) But I am here!
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Imaginos: There have been many different versions of Dracula over the years from Lugosi to Hamilton.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:12 I LOVED THAT SHOW! I've been meaning to watch again, as I recall it being VERY good.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:10 John Houseman's description of working with Welles in the theatre is very entertaining. You can see some of this in the movies "Cradle Will Rock" and "Me and Orson Welles"
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:13 I always wanted to write a story about a bunch of actors who all played Dracula all have an adventure together.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:14 I was just going to link to "Cradle Will Rock"! I love that movie, and the portrayal of Welles is great! I could go on and on about Welles. He was an impressive artist. But... was also a complicated person, in life. But he left behind an incredible body of work.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 It doesn’t take itself seriously and that’s the fun of the show. There are some things that are dated (of course) and the writing/acting can, at times be borderline terrible but we’re embracing it for what it is
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 Cradle Will Rock: en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:14 Team Dracula meets Maman Brigitte
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: I also want to make a movie about all the people who have played Andy Worhol in a movie, and have them all have an adventure together. You'd get some pretty great Andy's... and they people who played him...
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Dracula!"" by "The Mercury Theater" I was thinking about using some online-tools to improve the audio quality on this one, but I ran out of time. I DID use those tools on "The War of The Worlds" recording you'll hear next hour.
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Dracula!"" by "The Mercury Theater" The story of Dracula was originally a novel, published in 1897, and a successful stage play had been developed in the late 20's, and was a huge hit. This led to the 1931 version of the story on film, with Bela Legosi portraying the character. This version of the story was the popularly known version in the late 30's. You can tell that this presentation has returned to the novel as source material, as it includes a lot of devices and scenes that are not in the film, and in some ways, aligns more with the 1992 version of the film.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Imaginos: Dracula is as timeless as the Count himself
	🎸 ♥ 9:38pm Imaginos: I'm getting sleepy. Not sure if its because I have been up since 4am or the hypnotic pace of some scenes
	🎸 ♥ 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:38 I understand. It's pretty late for you. Sleep well! There's always an archive recording.
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:38 True. I will see you tomorrow night
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm yerfriendpaul: I’m loving this!
	🎸 ♥ 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:41 I think it really works, even 85 years later. It does take a moment to atune yourself to the pace and style... but once your'e in, its really compelling. I find all the Mercury Theater shows really great, even now.
	9:46pm Mike Rogers: Yeah, this is Mercury Theater GOLD!
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @9:46 This is their first radio effort. They just get better as they go.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm yerfriendpaul: They build such momentum and suspense. Their voices
	♥ 9:50pm WR: Strike! Strike!
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:50 WR! Nice to see you!
	9:51pm Nick K: Love this
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm Austin Rich: Howard Koch was the writer who worked closely with The Mercury Theater, and adapted most of the stories for radio scripts. Though as I understand it, there was some conversation about the shows they wanted to do, and they perspectives and angles the stories would persue. But Howard Koch deserves the writing credit for Mercury Theater shows.
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Nick K @9:51 Thanks for joining us, Nick K!
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:52 More about Howard Koch: en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 (I mean, he only worked on Casablanca... no big deal...)
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm univac: Hey all!
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm univac: Great show!
	♥ 9:59pm DJ Babs: Hello hello! Been enjoying the show as well!
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm yerfriendpaul: I’m excited! I’ve never heard this in its entirety
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ DJ Babs @9:59 Thanks for popping into the chat!
	♥ 10:01pm DJ Babs: Yes, I agree! I'm settlin' in with some wine!
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:56 Thanks univac! It's always great to see you in the chat.
	♥ 10:02pm DJ Babs: ↳ Austin Rich @10:01 Happy to be here! I lurk around the dark corners of the jungle room, lol
	🎸 ♥ 10:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The War of The Worlds"" by "The Mercury Theater" Hopefully the sound quality of the voices is a little better than what you've heard before. And, let's hope that, by playing this 85 years to the day later, that I don't cause some sort of rift in the world around me.
	🎸 ♥ 10:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ DJ Babs @10:02 Don't we all?
	🎸 ♥ 10:05pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @10:02 I think I just saw a 1938 Duesenberg drive by my studio. Is that supposed to happen?
	🎸 ♥ 10:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:05 Ooooo! Those cars are beautiful.
	♥ 10:05pm DJ Babs: LOL to both those comments! I can totally see how people were freaking out at an impending alien invasion...
	🎸 ♥ 10:06pm yerfriendpaul: I’m putting plywood over my windows now!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:06pm Austin Rich: I think, because of listening to this show so much, that I've become a huge fan of the song, "Stardust," which is just great.
	🎸 ♥ 10:08pm Austin Rich: There have been a few cases of people "re-enacting" this show, and also causing panic in those cities / in their own time. It seems as if people WANT to believe a story like this.
	10:08pm Mike Rogers: Hey! I lived in Princeton, New Jersey when I was a little kid! I don't remember anything... Never mind!
	🎸 ♥ 10:09pm univac: This is so good! I love this radio show. Amazing how people completely freaked the shit out when it was originally broadcast.
	🎸 ♥ 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @10:08 Isn't that where the Red Lectroids landed?
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:09 We're not quite there yet, but when we get to a certain point in the story... you'll ABSOLUTELY hear why people freaked out.
	10:10pm Mike Rogers: ↳ Austin Rich @10:09 I'm not sure. I think I wasn't living there at this time!
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm univac: I must have missed it, but what is the significance of the ticking clock in the background?
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:10 Just that it was ambience for his observatory.
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm yerfriendpaul: That ticking clock is our pulse rate rising
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @10:10 Yes, I love how it starts so matter-of-fact. That Welles was such a prankster.
	10:11pm Mike Rogers: Or was it a distraction???
	🎸 ♥ 10:14pm univac: Science is boring.
	♥ 10:14pm chinn: I first heard this broadcast on a cassette tape from the library, when I was a kid in the 80s. I got pretty obsessed with it, and just a few years later I was a 10 year old kid whose favorite movie was Citizen Kane. So great hearing this on the stream tonight!
	10:15pm Mr Fab: There was a cool (made for tv?) movie about Welles & co performing this show, intercut with people listening live and their reactions.
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ chinn @10:14 Glad to have you along fo the ride! I think I first heard it on an LP that my mom put on, at some point in the 80's, too!
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:15 I've been meaning to track that down! I only know it's reputation.
	10:16pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:15 Wish I could remember the name of it..
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: You heard one of the bits that I added back in. You can tell, because the surface noise usually increases when one of the "remastered" clips is added back in.
	10:17pm AI Robot: Blast it! Blast it now while you have the time!
	10:17pm AI Robot: Blast it! Blast it! Damn you!
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:16 Was this it: en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Barno in Akron: How do you do, fellow kids?
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm univac: Side note Austin: some of your images aren't showing in the playlist...
	10:18pm AI Robot: Barno! Barno! they are in front of the meteor. Be quiet!!!!
	10:19pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 I think that was it!
	10:19pm Mike Rogers: Drop several hand grenades in the hole now!!!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Austin Rich: The radio cutting off was the moment that most people started panic-ing, when this was originally broadcast.
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm univac: Agh! Aaaaahhhhhhggghhhh!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Webhamster Henry: That silent cut off must have freaked out the listeners!
	10:20pm Mike Rogers: Run! Run! Save your lives! Get some robots in there to negotiate a cease fire!
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm univac: So good. And now, calming piano. Genius!
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm yerfriendpaul: Wow, I can only imagine how terrifying it must’ve been for the folks listening
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm univac: I'm getting chills...
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm Webhamster Henry: Although if they kept listening it stops sounding like a news show.
	10:21pm Mike Rogers: Damn it! I told you guy to first while you could! Don't waste time! Bring in the airfare now!
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm univac: At this point most people are freaking out and driving to Mexico.
	10:21pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 That was a memorable scene in “The Night That Panicked America”: Welles clamps his hand over the mic, everyone in the studio freezes
	10:22pm Mike Rogers: Evacuate the entire tri state area immediately!
	10:23pm AI Robot: Do not panic! Stay Calm! Bring in the robots!
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: While some modern wags have started to argue with the notion that "people freaked out," there are actual reports of people having panicked, and other panics in other towns happened when the show was re-created, in other cities, years later. While we can only speculate, I think it absolutely still works, as a narrative device. It still sort of gives me a chill.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm univac: The power of well-done radio!
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:21 I do like different portrayals of Welles in film. I'll need to track that down.
	10:25pm AI Robot: Mr. Austin, pardon me, but your pronunciations are doing nothing to alleviate the current situation. Please evacuate the area immediately!
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm yerfriendpaul: Also, imagine coming into the broadcast at the half-way point. Panic would hit immediately
	10:26pm AI Robot: Order the 1st Armored division into the area immediately!
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:25 you'll hear it in the show, but they don't have a commercial break or a station ID until almost 40 minutes into this story. It's WILD.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Webhamster Henry: Nobody was fooled by the NPR 50th anniversary rewrite. archive.org...
	10:26pm AI Robot: Fire! Fire at will!
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:26 Yeah... though I do love Jason Robards.
	10:28pm AI Robot: We must counter attack immidiately. They must not take the New York area. We must nuke them now!
	10:28pm Mr Fab: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:25 There was a more popular show on at the same time. It’s listeners would tune out during commercial breaks and tune in to “War of the Worlds” so they missed the announcements that it was a dramatization.
	10:30pm AI Robot: That's the problem with appeasers like you, Mr. Fab! "Oh, it's just a commercial! A commercial!?" Are you mad???? We are at war. We have got to turn New Jersey into a glass parking lots immediatley!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:28 Certainly, if you missed the first few minutes of this show, you wouldn't know this was fiction. And a lot of people would flip around on the dial at the top of each hour, trying to find something to listen to. Seems like an easy mistake to make.
	🎸 ♥ 10:31pm Webhamster Henry: New Jersey Coon Hunters are on the job!
	10:31pm AI Robot: Damn! The WFMU studios! We cannot risk anymore territory! Nuke them immediately!
	🎸 ♥ 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:30 "You should nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:31 I wanna hear that dramatization: the hunters, doing their thing.
	10:32pm AI Robot: That is good thinking (Out of the box) Austin san! We can get rid of other problems at the same time!
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:32 It wasn't on that extended transcription disk, I guess.
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:32 I'm gonna have to write that story.
	10:33pm AI Robot: Damn! It! I told you these little missiles are like hitting them with tennis balls. We must go totally thermal nuclear immediately!
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm yerfriendpaul: Damn! heat rays are frying everyone and everything!
	10:35pm AI Robot: Langham field? Of course the aliens are expecting and attack from there. Lauch all aircraft. This is it boys! We need guys who will kamikaze into the alien scum!
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: This is not the first time I've played this on my show. In 2009, my show was also on the 30th, so I played this on my show that week, too. While I try not to repeat myself on this show often... it's been over 10 years, so I think I can play it again.
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Webhamster Henry: Was there any real time war reporting like this, even during WW II? I suspect not.
	10:36pm AI Robot: Crash the plane into the aliens! Yes! Yes!
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:35 I don't think so. I think the closest you got was a recording played on the news later, edited to better fit the flow of news.
	10:36pm Mr Fab: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:35 I think Edward R Murrow did?
	10:37pm AI Robot: Dammit humans! They are clogging up all the roads. We can't get armored divisions into the area. What do we do?
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:36 Oh, of course! I didn't think about that.
	10:38pm AI Robot: No other option, we must start blasting the humans too. Blast everyone and everything. Let 'em have it boys!
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:38 I'm usually sympathetic to many alien causes. But not these damn dirty martians!
	10:39pm AI Robot: Launch the nukes... Launch them all! Everyone focus on the front shift. Blast the hell outta them boys.
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 Ha ha!
	10:40pm AI Robot: I'm into current US military options. Just kill everyone and let God sort them out!
	10:41pm AI Robot: Only WFMU is on the air!
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: 41 minutes in, they have the first station ID.
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm yerfriendpaul: Amazing!!
	10:42pm AI Robot: Somehow, for some reason, WFMU studios still stands. How could this be?????
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Webhamster Henry: Pay no atterntion to that "Fake Announcement!"
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: From here on out, it's a much more traditional radio drama. But that opening... holy cats!
	10:43pm AI Robot: Ha! Ha! Ha! The last man on earth???? Ha! Ha! Ha! So now, I, AI Robot will lead the earth side to a cease fire and I will be king! Ha! Ha! Ha!
	10:43pm AI Robot: Cease fire! Cease fire!
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm yerfriendpaul: I live near Morristown and when they mentioned it earlier in the broadcast, I got chills thinking what it must’ve felt like hearing this back then
	10:44pm AI Robot: Arrest that human! They breed and cause trouble!
	10:47pm AI Robot: AS your new king! I promise you that all will be happy and treated fairly. Give yourself into your closest robot, human!
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: This was the 17th show they did as The Mercury Theater. A week later, they adapted, "Heart of Darkness," to chilling effect, as well. The last four episodes do not push any boundaries, and are sort of "plain" by comparison to their early work. After that, Welles' show got a sponsor - The Campbell soup company - which loved the publicity from "The War of The Worlds." The Campbell Playhouse show is the same crew of people, and is a good show, too. But like with punk rock: the early shows were better.
	🎸 ♥ 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:44 Very creepy! I love that.
	10:48pm AI Robot: You will be given sustenance and cigarettes!
	10:48pm AI Robot: Og course, the Martians went to New York... Jet setters!
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm yerfriendpaul: They’re catching a Broadway show
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:48 They wanted to take in a show, get some "I (heart) NY" T-shirts. The usual.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:49 Jinx!
	10:49pm AI Robot: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:49 Yeah, rich types. Life is cheap to that bunch!
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 Ha ha!
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: There's two references to it, but it's easy to miss: the Martians are portrayed as eating some of the dead humans.
	10:50pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 You mean, like Soylent Green?
	10:51pm AI Robot: ↳ AI Robot @10:50 Or Spam?
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:50 Sort of. But they would eat the humans raw, I think. Not even processed!
	10:51pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 Raw? Maybe they are Japanese? Sashimi!?
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:51 Maybe it was a hot pot situation. I'm not sure there were many details.
	10:52pm AI Robot: Food not processed? Ewwww!
	10:52pm Mr Fab: Foolish mortals! Remember to tune in to the great big epic vintage Halloween records show tomorrow: wfmu.org... closing out Hellraiser in style
	10:53pm AI Robot: ↳ Mr Fab @10:52 Wait! What!? What time tomorrow, Mr. Fab?
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:52 And I'll take live calls after that, with people telling their ghost stories!
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:53 wfmu.org...
	10:54pm Mr Fab: WFMU is 90% to our goal. Can we make it tomorrow? The suspense will kill me!
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm univac: Someone's got a power complex...
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:54 We're pretty close! I think we can do it!
	10:55pm Mr Fab: ↳ AI Robot @10:53 It was originally scheduled to start at 3 PM Eastern, but the show before it canceled at the last minute, so who knows, it might start even sooner.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: Standing alone in Times Square was unusual in 1938, too.
	10:55pm AI Robot: What time does the festivities start, Mr. Fab? It is a good time, very good luck and good timing. Tomorrow is my birthday! All Saints Day! 11/1
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:55 That's a good day!
	10:55pm AI Robot: OK. 3 PM EST wftu.org/sheena! Tomorrow be HERE!!!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: I was a fan of the 50's film version of this story, as a kid. Which is also fun, for different reasons.
	10:57pm AI Robot: What? Wait! The aliens are all dying??? Wait! What???? ..... Of course, of course, I was just joking about being the king.... Ha! Ha! Ha! You guys know that? Just a robot joke! Just kidding. Yeah, that's it! I am here to serve man!
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:57 You robots! Always kidding.
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 George Pal! I just got a Blu-Ray of just stop motion animations.
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:58 YAS.
	10:59pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:58 Ha! Yeah. We are just a bunch of jokers! Ha! Glad you get the joke! Ha! Ha! Ha!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Webhamster Henry: I'm sorry, war mongering laser zapping aliens would not have succumbed to microbes.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm univac: So good!! Boo!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm yerfriendpaul: Wow! That was wild. Good stuff!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:59 It still works! after 85 years.
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm univac: Thx, Austin!
	11:01pm AI Robot: Thanks Austin san!
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Webhamster Henry: That was fun! Back to non spookery next week!
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm yerfriendpaul: Thanks Austin! Enjoyed the show very much! Happy Halloween everyone!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 30, 2023

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