WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 4, 2023

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 6:30pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:27pm Charles: I've finally managed to catch War of the Worlds on the archives. Thanks for your work on it Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Imaginos: Ahoy!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @8:27 Ahhhh. That's sweet, Charles! Hopefully you get to enjoy our show tonight!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Webhamster Henry: I was so in danger of losing the holiday spirit.
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:01 Nice to see you in the chat, Imaginos! Hopefully you're ready for an Oz adventure!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:02 yerfriendpaul? Also: my friend Paul!
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:02 Webhamster Henry! Yay!
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Wizard of Oz"" by "Lux Radio Theater" I am in the camp that believes you should watch "Wizard of Oz" once a year... and if possible, why not around Christmas?
	9:04pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 accompanied by "Dark Side of the Moon"?
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:04 I've tried that. It sorta works...
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: As you can tell, they take a few liberties, as they try to keep the story a little shorter, and have it clock in at under an hour. You'll notice other changes and omissions... and things they keep the same, too.
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: ""The Wizard of Oz"" by "Lux Radio Theater" There used to be a feature in Vanity Fair or Esquire at the end of the year that counted up how many times Judy sang Over The Rainbow.
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 This movie is amazing but it messed me up as a kid. Lots of scary moments that freaked me out. I still have recurring tornado nightmares and I think this movie is to blame ha ha
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: You can sort of tell that Judy Garland is really trying to sound "younger" for this radio presentation.
	9:07pm Mr Fab: so this is def Judy Garland, then? Are the other actors the same from the film?
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:06 Yeah, I recall being terrified as a child, too. Nightmares, in particular about the Scarecrow getting torn apart. And then wanting to watch it again!
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:07 As I understand it, she is the only recurring actor.
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 It’s true! I always wanted to watch it again despite the scary stuff
	9:10pm Mr Fab: John Waters talks about how the ending makes no sense: why the hell would Dorothy be so happy to be back in the miserable black-and-white backwards farmland, when she could be in a fantastical world in living color with a gay lion friend?
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:10 TOTALLY! I agree! As a fan of the books, she goes back later... but why go home at all? Oz is cooler, for sure.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Mr Fab @9:10 At least stick around a little longer and enjoy the witch-free party
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: I love Frank Morgan, so I'm a little sad not to hear him in this role. But they do the best with what they have.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Webhamster Henry: There's no place like home, but also no place like Oz either.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm yerfriendpaul: I think that’s the voice of the guy from Mary Poppins
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: They keep the Professor Marvel scene very short, which is also a bummer, as I do find him HILARIOUS in the film.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm yerfriendpaul: Ed Wynn. That’s my guess
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Webhamster Henry: Hans Conried is supposedly in the cast.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:14 I suspect it's Hans.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Webhamster Henry: They have to radio-ize the movie action.
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Webhamster Henry: Hard to do the sepia to full Technicolor transition.
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:14 I sort of love the way she just narrates the action for us. It's an old radio drama trope that you don't need to do in movies... but I like how you just start to believe that it's normal for Dorthy to tell you what's happening.
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:16 Agree!
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:16 Yeah. Some gags just don't work on radio.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Imaginos: Wonder why they kept the ruby slippers for radio
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: As a kid, I loved the Munchkin City stuff, and always wanted to visit there, somehow.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Imaginos @9:18 Well, the movie brainwashed people into thinking the silver slippers were ruby, because: Technicolor.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:18 Don't get me started.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm yerfriendpaul: Interesting how Dorothy calls her out as Miss Gulch where in the movie she doesn’t seem to make the connection
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:18 I do think the movie was the better known version of the story by 1950. Certainly, I knew the movie better than the books as a kid... and quickly changed that, since I loved the movie so much. I should re-read those. I remember the first several being pretty good... and the later ones being... okay-ish...
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:19 Yeah... they do change a few things that are sort of interesting, in this same way.
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm yerfriendpaul: Was hoping to hear The Lollipop Guild song. Love that scene, This is great!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:22 YES! That song is solid gold!
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 As coroner, I must aver, I thoroughly examined her, and she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Webhamster Henry: Scarecrow is clearly Hans.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: I do love the Scarecrow, so I am sad not to hear Ray Bolger in this role. But again: they do what they can with what they have.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:23 Yes! That's such a good moment.
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:24 Ray Bolger did some OZ recordings that were just great. Not only an adaptation of the book where he does all the voices, but other Oz stories.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm yerfriendpaul: The music, melodies and lyrics are incredible.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:25 I seem to recall that! I should try to dig those up.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Webhamster Henry: I'm glad they snuck in the "deserve you" verse!
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:26 Agreed. This movie was the first movie I bought on DVD after I got a DVD player.
	9:26pm Mr Fab: "How can you speak without a brain?" "A lot of people without brains speak." ZING!
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:26 I think about that line a lot.
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Webhamster Henry: Sadly, only Judy gets to sing in her own voice. Hans sings just fine (5000 Fingers of Dr. T)
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:26 There's a few little bonuses in this version of the story.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:27 YES! Totally time to re-watch that.
	🎸 ♥ 9:29pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr Fab @9:26 They are called Congress
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:28 Another brain bending fantasy! I have the extended soundtrack with all the cut songs, put in the right order AND demo recordings! www.filmscoremonthly.com...
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Austin Rich: Again, sad not to hear Jack Haley in this role, but still, they do okay here.
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 I recently watched "Scared Stiff," with Jack Haley, which was delightful, and I recommend it: en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 9:32pm yerfriendpaul: I guess it makes sense to overexplain the connection with the Kansas family, since it’s radio
	9:33pm Mr Fab: Was it ever explained why the characters of OZ have analogs back in Kansas?
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm yerfriendpaul: Love the Cowardly Lion. He was definitely my favorite
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm Austin Rich: Okay, so Bert Lahr is a national treasure, and no one can do what he does. He's just... amazing. I love everything about him. This is a passably "cowardly lion" performance, is what I'll say, and leave it at that.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:33 I don't recall if they do. Now I HAVE to re-read.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm yerfriendpaul: Bassy!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Austin Rich: See, he botches the "Dandy-Lion" line. Sigh...
	🎸 ♥ 9:35pm Austin Rich: It sounds like I'm hating on this, but I do enjoy this show. Still... Bert Lahr is just the best and... those are hard shoes to fill.
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:35 If I only had the "NERVE"? how about "NOIVE"?
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Austin Rich: None of the Poppies stuff, unfortunately... but how would you do that on radio? I guess just play Sgt. Peppers?
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Webhamster Henry: They always cut to a commercial after the lion jumps through the wizard's window!
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:35 It’s definitely not coming across like you’re hating. The movie is just so good it’s hard not to gush about it
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:37 That's true! I do recall that. (And I also thought the Lion would be hurt in the next scene!)
	🎸 ♥ 9:38pm yerfriendpaul: I love the horse that keeps changing colors
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Webhamster Henry: The 1950 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz," written by Sandy Barnett, was the only time that Judy Garland ever recreated her most famous film role as Dorothy Gale. Additonal cast included Herbert Vigran (Hickory/Tin Woodman), Hans Conried (Hunk/Scarecrow), Edwin Max (Zeke/Cowardly Lion), Ruth Perrott (Auntie Em), William Johnstone (Uncle Henry), Betty Lou Gerson (Glinda the Good Witch), Noreen Gammill (Miss Gulch/Wicked Witch), Gil Stratton, Jr. (Mayor of Munchkinland), Charles Smith (Doctor), Herbert Butterfield (Professor/The Wizard), Charles Woolf (Lawyer), Jay Novello (Guard), Marian Richman (Woman), Eddie Marr (Man), Norman Field (Voice), and David Light (Toto, Dorothy's dog). Dorothy Lovett was Libby Collins. William Keighley was the host, John Milton Kennedy the announcer, and the Music Director was Rudy Schrager. Garland sang "We're Off to See the Wizard" and "Over the Rainbow." A contract for the show, with J. Walter Thompson Company dated December 18, 1950, states Judy was paid $5,000 for her appearance.
	🎸 ♥ 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:39 5k in 1950! That's a pretty good take for one night's work.
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy.
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Webhamster Henry: She was a star - and 28 years old! I bet they sold a lot of Lux Soap!
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:41 Sleep well, Imaginos! See ya next time!
	🎸 ♥ 9:42pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:41 You too
	🎸 ♥ 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:41 I will admit: I had a crush on Judy Garland for years, until I realized how she and I were just not even close to the same age.
	9:44pm Mr Fab: "an over-dressed Mr Fab" - Yep. Some guys wear three-piece suits? I wear a 48-piece suit.
	🎸 ♥ 9:44pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 Ha ha Did you ever see Judy’s daughter, Liza Minnelli’s character on Arrested Development? It was great
	🎸 ♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:44 But all 48 add up to the FULL FAB, as they say.
	🎸 ♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:44 I loved those first few seasons of Arrested Development. So freaking funny. I recall the Netflix years weren't as good... but at least those first two seasons are SOLID GOLD.
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Mr Fab @9:44 I imagine this costume: www.pinterest.co.uk...
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 Agree. It lost the magic when they brought it back
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: Witch: Poison! <Tom Waits "Little Drop of Poison" plays>
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:47 Yes!
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Webhamster Henry: The scene where the witch photo bombs the crystal ball is the scariest thing in the movie .. and the flying monkeys. And the trees throwing apples.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:48 Even the guards “ohh wee ohhh” song was scary
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:48 This movie had a lot of nightmare fuel. Theaters reported that they had to replace a lot of seats, from young kids peeing in their seats, from being terrified.
	🎸 ♥ 9:50pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:49 It was so good that it was turned into the Oreo song in Wreck It Ralph!
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:50 Oh yeah, I forgot about that! That’s a fun movie
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: "Anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity."
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: Of course, this was airing on Christmas Day, so the whole family would be sitting around the radio, having opened their gifts, and listening to this show. That's a pretty great image.
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Webhamster Henry: Good thing they cut the erroneous hypotenuse line.
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: "Hearts will never be practical until they are unbreakable."
	🎸 ♥ 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:53 I do hope most kids don't turn to the Wizard of Oz movie for factual math representation.
	🎸 ♥ 9:54pm Austin Rich: They've known each other for about 48 hours, and they're all very quick to say, "I love you."
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:06 I prefer Vincent Price's rendition at the end of "Dr. Phibes Rises Again".
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm yerfriendpaul: I remember the final scene in Oz is stressful because Toto jumps out of the balloon
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm univac: Hey all! Yay! Wizard of Oz!
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:55 univac! Hooray!
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 Yeah, it wasn’t “just a dream”. She eventually moves there for good–with her parents! Toto starts to talk there, like the other animals.
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm univac: I've never heard this version. Thanks Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm yerfriendpaul: Why’d she have to pick favorites?
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:56 I thought that was the case. I do recall she went back a lot in the books.
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ David Shortell @9:55 ... and every Midnight Matinee radio show, now occasionally heard on the Inflatable Squirrel Carcass show.
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm univac: I used to do a regular Oz / Dark Side showing back in the 90s. Fun and sometimes uncanny.
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm univac: I've always wanted to read the books. Austin you said you read a few of them?
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:57 It took me many years before I could easily watch it myself, but it's pretty eerie.
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:58 I read the first four or five as a kid, and then again the first book in college. I can certainly recommend the first book, as it holds up VERY well. I think the other's are probably okay, but.. not as great, if I recall.
	🎸 ♥ 10:00pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ David Shortell @9:56 Actually, she asks Toto why he doesn't talk and he says he didn't feel like it. (in Tik-Tok of Oz)
	🎸 ♥ 10:00pm yerfriendpaul: That was great. Thanks for playing it, Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 10:00pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:59 Thx!
	🎸 ♥ 10:00pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 I don’t remember the film’s Kansas analogs being in the book.
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm Webhamster Henry: Liza cameo!
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm Webhamster Henry: Lorna didn't get that kind of love!
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm yerfriendpaul: Love how they have to plug product
	🎸 ♥ 10:04pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:36 In the book, it’s not snow that rescues them from the poppy field. They’re dragged out on a sort of big skateboard constructed and driven by mice.
	🎸 ♥ 10:04pm Barno in Akron: Lurking and enjoying the show!
	10:05pm Nick K: Hello everyone
	🎸 ♥ 10:08pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ David Shortell @10:04 The Mouse Queen helps them ! There are also more scary parts like the Kalidahs and the huge spidery thing in the forest that the Lion kills.
	🎸 ♥ 10:09pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:18 In the book, the magic slippers don’t wake Dorothy from a dream. She uses them to literally fly over the Deadly Desert that borders Oz from the rest of the world!
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:09 I seem to recall that they had a lot more to them than just "taking her home."
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ David Shortell @10:09 They fell off in the flight over, so Baum had to come up with lots of other ways to get around Oz and Ix and the outside world. At one point he wanted to stop writing Oz stories, but his fans wouldn't let him .
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:16 Sort of like a Sherlock Holmes situation?
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:15 There was a lot more plot in the book! the shoes and the magic cap and the monkeys were liberared and no longer antagonists! Weird people like hte china people and the armless guys whose heads shot out of their bodies..
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Thunder In The Valley"" by "Christmas Seals Reco... "Christmas Seals" were - and are - still a thing that people can buy, to help those who are less fortunate than others: en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 The American Lung Association is behind them.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:08 When I was a kid I read 11 of the 12 Oz books that L. Frank Baum wrote. My local library didn’t have “Rinkitink in Oz” unfortunately. In this internet age I could easily seek it out, but I fear I’m way too old for it now. You seem to recall the details better than I do. I almost forgot about the Kalidahs. Those creatures comprised equal parts of lions and tigers and bears. (Oh, my!)
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm univac: I bet this radio show sold a lot of Christmas Seals.
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:25 I was thinking we should write a parody of this for UB Radio.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm univac: Wow. They are really pushing it! $10 fine if you _don't_ buy Xmas Seals.
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:26 DYSTOPIAN CHRISTMAS SEALS. You WILL participate!
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @10:25 Maybe Xmas Seals in July? And the Seals are actually seals?
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:27 HA!
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm univac: You buy the seals for their fur, food, fat etc and donate to the needy.
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm univac: "When you think of Xmas, think Tuberculosis"
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ David Shortell @10:24 My kids took them all out of the library... a lot of them are kind of pointless, but have some great scenes. Also, the Oz Musical was a monster hit in 1902, and had little to do with the book, and had songs swapped in depending on who was in the show. The Woggle Bug was also made into a musical, but that was a flop.
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:29 Some of those silent films are sort of charming. I saw some of those in college.
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm univac: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:29 Wow! Thanks for all the history!
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:29 My favorite rock 'n' roll band to see live is Atlanta GA’s The Woggles. They’ve used John R. Neill’s illustration of H. M. Woggle-Bug, T.E. on their merch!
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm yerfriendpaul: I’m loving this already!
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Plot To Muder Santa Claus"" by "Rocky Fortune" I've probably mentioned this before, but the primary creative force behind Rocky Fortune was George Lefferts... in-between his gigs working on Dimension X and X-Minus One. So, while he did more Sci-Fi for radio than "noir," this was his attempt at writing a "noir" show. This was pretty common in the "pulp" era; writers would try their hand at any genre that they could "sell." So a lot of people writing sci-fi would also write detective stories when the sci-fi wasn't selling.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm univac: This is great! Frank as Santa!
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm yerfriendpaul: Santa loves his chowdah
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:37 Rocky Fortune is one of my fave radio shows. I love the dialog!
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:36 The Woggles are great! I've never seen them live, but those albums are great!
	🎸 ♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:37 Last week, Frank was hanging out with a Chimpanzee. This show rules.
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 Oh yeah, the chimp that sounded like a squeeking balloon.
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: Is a kiss a differently betting pool than the getting knocked out?
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Webhamster Henry: He's got to get knocked out pretty soon!
	🎸 ♥ 10:45pm yerfriendpaul: Ha ha! Great fight
	🎸 ♥ 10:45pm Austin Rich: That boss sounds very calm for having walked in on a fight. It must happen all the time.
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:45 Ha ha! Yes, he handled that skirmish brilliantly
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:00 Similarly, John Byrne wrote an infamous story which tried to establish that the Inhumans’ dog Lockjaw could always talk but just didn’t feel like it. It furthermore tried to establish that he was originally a normal human before being transformed into a monstrous dog! Fortunately, that nonsense got retconned null and void.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:46 When was that? It sounds like a very "80's" story idea.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Barno in Akron: Was just talking with Kreightoven about Peter Gabriel, and remembered I had seen him with Sinead O'Connor - That totally escaped my mind, that I have seen Sinead perform live - even at the time of her passing. I think I'm losing my mind... or maybe I've seen to many shows for my mental filing cabinet - Hahaha!
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Barno in Akron @10:49 It's hard to remember every little thing that happens in a full year, let along many, many of them.
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm univac: I've forgotten far more than I can remember.
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: That "Goodnight Rocky" was one of the coldest radio deliveries. Ouch.
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 Yes, 1983. marvel.fandom.com...
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Webhamster Henry: "6 year old kids don't know from the Wages and Hours Law!"
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:52 I thought so. Byrne could get really kooky sometimes. I feel like he did a few wild things like that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:52 LOVE the dialog in this show!
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: Getting close to the end of the show. Thanks everyone for joining me! Hopefully we'll see you next week?
	♥ 10:55pm WR: Hi Rich and folks, got distracted running errands, will be listening to this episode in the morning. Onwards.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:55 Enjoy it in the future, WR!
	♥ 10:55pm WR: Rich, Austin Rich.
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm yerfriendpaul: Nice throw, Rocky!
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:56 You start to imagine all the weird past lives Rocky probably had... High School Football, maybe?
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: Rocky is such a kid at heart. He's in the toy aisle, playing with space toys with a six year old. A Perfect Way to Spend the Holidays.
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:56 He can do it all that Rocky!
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm univac: Thanks Austin! Great show!
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: Like Dan Holiday, Rocky Fortune seems to take on a lot of cases where he helps kids.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: He gets kissed twice this episode! And he doesn't get knocked out! It's a holiday miracle!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm univac: lol
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm yerfriendpaul: Tremendous!! Rocky Fortune - I love it. Thanks Austin! Good night everyone
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: That's at least the second "From Here to Eternity" reference he's made.
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm David Shortell: Frank’s Rocky Fortune period was during his career lull right before “From Here to Eternity” and signing with Capitol Records. I don’t know if there’s any truth to “The Godfather”’s horse head anecdote.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 4, 2023

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December 4, 2023: Holiday Film Fest!: "The Wizard of Oz" & "Rocky Fortune"

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Lux Radio Theater	"The Wizard of Oz"	25 December 1950	CBS	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Boston Pops	Sleigh Ride "Sleigh Ride" by "Boston Pops"			1:00:53 (Pop-up)
Christmas Seals Recordings	"Thunder In The Valley"	December 1950		1:13:44 (Pop-up)
Rocky Fortune	"The Plot To Muder Santa Claus"	22 December 1953	NBC	1:32:19 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 6:30pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:27pm Charles: I've finally managed to catch War of the Worlds on the archives. Thanks for your work on it Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Imaginos: Ahoy!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @8:27 Ahhhh. That's sweet, Charles! Hopefully you get to enjoy our show tonight!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Webhamster Henry: I was so in danger of losing the holiday spirit.
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:01 Nice to see you in the chat, Imaginos! Hopefully you're ready for an Oz adventure!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:02 yerfriendpaul? Also: my friend Paul!
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:02 Webhamster Henry! Yay!
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Wizard of Oz"" by "Lux Radio Theater" I am in the camp that believes you should watch "Wizard of Oz" once a year... and if possible, why not around Christmas?
	9:04pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 accompanied by "Dark Side of the Moon"?
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:04 I've tried that. It sorta works...
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: As you can tell, they take a few liberties, as they try to keep the story a little shorter, and have it clock in at under an hour. You'll notice other changes and omissions... and things they keep the same, too.
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: ""The Wizard of Oz"" by "Lux Radio Theater" There used to be a feature in Vanity Fair or Esquire at the end of the year that counted up how many times Judy sang Over The Rainbow.
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 This movie is amazing but it messed me up as a kid. Lots of scary moments that freaked me out. I still have recurring tornado nightmares and I think this movie is to blame ha ha
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: You can sort of tell that Judy Garland is really trying to sound "younger" for this radio presentation.
	9:07pm Mr Fab: so this is def Judy Garland, then? Are the other actors the same from the film?
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:06 Yeah, I recall being terrified as a child, too. Nightmares, in particular about the Scarecrow getting torn apart. And then wanting to watch it again!
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:07 As I understand it, she is the only recurring actor.
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 It’s true! I always wanted to watch it again despite the scary stuff
	9:10pm Mr Fab: John Waters talks about how the ending makes no sense: why the hell would Dorothy be so happy to be back in the miserable black-and-white backwards farmland, when she could be in a fantastical world in living color with a gay lion friend?
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:10 TOTALLY! I agree! As a fan of the books, she goes back later... but why go home at all? Oz is cooler, for sure.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Mr Fab @9:10 At least stick around a little longer and enjoy the witch-free party
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: I love Frank Morgan, so I'm a little sad not to hear him in this role. But they do the best with what they have.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Webhamster Henry: There's no place like home, but also no place like Oz either.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm yerfriendpaul: I think that’s the voice of the guy from Mary Poppins
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: They keep the Professor Marvel scene very short, which is also a bummer, as I do find him HILARIOUS in the film.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm yerfriendpaul: Ed Wynn. That’s my guess
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Webhamster Henry: Hans Conried is supposedly in the cast.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:14 I suspect it's Hans.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Webhamster Henry: They have to radio-ize the movie action.
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Webhamster Henry: Hard to do the sepia to full Technicolor transition.
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:14 I sort of love the way she just narrates the action for us. It's an old radio drama trope that you don't need to do in movies... but I like how you just start to believe that it's normal for Dorthy to tell you what's happening.
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:16 Agree!
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:16 Yeah. Some gags just don't work on radio.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Imaginos: Wonder why they kept the ruby slippers for radio
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: As a kid, I loved the Munchkin City stuff, and always wanted to visit there, somehow.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Imaginos @9:18 Well, the movie brainwashed people into thinking the silver slippers were ruby, because: Technicolor.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:18 Don't get me started.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm yerfriendpaul: Interesting how Dorothy calls her out as Miss Gulch where in the movie she doesn’t seem to make the connection
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:18 I do think the movie was the better known version of the story by 1950. Certainly, I knew the movie better than the books as a kid... and quickly changed that, since I loved the movie so much. I should re-read those. I remember the first several being pretty good... and the later ones being... okay-ish...
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:19 Yeah... they do change a few things that are sort of interesting, in this same way.
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm yerfriendpaul: Was hoping to hear The Lollipop Guild song. Love that scene, This is great!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:22 YES! That song is solid gold!
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 As coroner, I must aver, I thoroughly examined her, and she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Webhamster Henry: Scarecrow is clearly Hans.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: I do love the Scarecrow, so I am sad not to hear Ray Bolger in this role. But again: they do what they can with what they have.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:23 Yes! That's such a good moment.
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:24 Ray Bolger did some OZ recordings that were just great. Not only an adaptation of the book where he does all the voices, but other Oz stories.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm yerfriendpaul: The music, melodies and lyrics are incredible.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:25 I seem to recall that! I should try to dig those up.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Webhamster Henry: I'm glad they snuck in the "deserve you" verse!
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:26 Agreed. This movie was the first movie I bought on DVD after I got a DVD player.
	9:26pm Mr Fab: "How can you speak without a brain?" "A lot of people without brains speak." ZING!
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:26 I think about that line a lot.
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Webhamster Henry: Sadly, only Judy gets to sing in her own voice. Hans sings just fine (5000 Fingers of Dr. T)
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:26 There's a few little bonuses in this version of the story.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:27 YES! Totally time to re-watch that.
	🎸 ♥ 9:29pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr Fab @9:26 They are called Congress
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:28 Another brain bending fantasy! I have the extended soundtrack with all the cut songs, put in the right order AND demo recordings! www.filmscoremonthly.com...
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Austin Rich: Again, sad not to hear Jack Haley in this role, but still, they do okay here.
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 I recently watched "Scared Stiff," with Jack Haley, which was delightful, and I recommend it: en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 9:32pm yerfriendpaul: I guess it makes sense to overexplain the connection with the Kansas family, since it’s radio
	9:33pm Mr Fab: Was it ever explained why the characters of OZ have analogs back in Kansas?
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm yerfriendpaul: Love the Cowardly Lion. He was definitely my favorite
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm Austin Rich: Okay, so Bert Lahr is a national treasure, and no one can do what he does. He's just... amazing. I love everything about him. This is a passably "cowardly lion" performance, is what I'll say, and leave it at that.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:33 I don't recall if they do. Now I HAVE to re-read.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm yerfriendpaul: Bassy!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Austin Rich: See, he botches the "Dandy-Lion" line. Sigh...
	🎸 ♥ 9:35pm Austin Rich: It sounds like I'm hating on this, but I do enjoy this show. Still... Bert Lahr is just the best and... those are hard shoes to fill.
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:35 If I only had the "NERVE"? how about "NOIVE"?
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Austin Rich: None of the Poppies stuff, unfortunately... but how would you do that on radio? I guess just play Sgt. Peppers?
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Webhamster Henry: They always cut to a commercial after the lion jumps through the wizard's window!
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:35 It’s definitely not coming across like you’re hating. The movie is just so good it’s hard not to gush about it
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:37 That's true! I do recall that. (And I also thought the Lion would be hurt in the next scene!)
	🎸 ♥ 9:38pm yerfriendpaul: I love the horse that keeps changing colors
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Webhamster Henry: The 1950 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz," written by Sandy Barnett, was the only time that Judy Garland ever recreated her most famous film role as Dorothy Gale. Additonal cast included Herbert Vigran (Hickory/Tin Woodman), Hans Conried (Hunk/Scarecrow), Edwin Max (Zeke/Cowardly Lion), Ruth Perrott (Auntie Em), William Johnstone (Uncle Henry), Betty Lou Gerson (Glinda the Good Witch), Noreen Gammill (Miss Gulch/Wicked Witch), Gil Stratton, Jr. (Mayor of Munchkinland), Charles Smith (Doctor), Herbert Butterfield (Professor/The Wizard), Charles Woolf (Lawyer), Jay Novello (Guard), Marian Richman (Woman), Eddie Marr (Man), Norman Field (Voice), and David Light (Toto, Dorothy's dog). Dorothy Lovett was Libby Collins. William Keighley was the host, John Milton Kennedy the announcer, and the Music Director was Rudy Schrager. Garland sang "We're Off to See the Wizard" and "Over the Rainbow." A contract for the show, with J. Walter Thompson Company dated December 18, 1950, states Judy was paid $5,000 for her appearance.
	🎸 ♥ 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:39 5k in 1950! That's a pretty good take for one night's work.
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy.
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Webhamster Henry: She was a star - and 28 years old! I bet they sold a lot of Lux Soap!
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:41 Sleep well, Imaginos! See ya next time!
	🎸 ♥ 9:42pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:41 You too
	🎸 ♥ 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:41 I will admit: I had a crush on Judy Garland for years, until I realized how she and I were just not even close to the same age.
	9:44pm Mr Fab: "an over-dressed Mr Fab" - Yep. Some guys wear three-piece suits? I wear a 48-piece suit.
	🎸 ♥ 9:44pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 Ha ha Did you ever see Judy’s daughter, Liza Minnelli’s character on Arrested Development? It was great
	🎸 ♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:44 But all 48 add up to the FULL FAB, as they say.
	🎸 ♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:44 I loved those first few seasons of Arrested Development. So freaking funny. I recall the Netflix years weren't as good... but at least those first two seasons are SOLID GOLD.
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Mr Fab @9:44 I imagine this costume: www.pinterest.co.uk...
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 Agree. It lost the magic when they brought it back
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: Witch: Poison! <Tom Waits "Little Drop of Poison" plays>
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:47 Yes!
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Webhamster Henry: The scene where the witch photo bombs the crystal ball is the scariest thing in the movie .. and the flying monkeys. And the trees throwing apples.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:48 Even the guards “ohh wee ohhh” song was scary
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:48 This movie had a lot of nightmare fuel. Theaters reported that they had to replace a lot of seats, from young kids peeing in their seats, from being terrified.
	🎸 ♥ 9:50pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:49 It was so good that it was turned into the Oreo song in Wreck It Ralph!
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:50 Oh yeah, I forgot about that! That’s a fun movie
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: "Anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity."
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: Of course, this was airing on Christmas Day, so the whole family would be sitting around the radio, having opened their gifts, and listening to this show. That's a pretty great image.
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Webhamster Henry: Good thing they cut the erroneous hypotenuse line.
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: "Hearts will never be practical until they are unbreakable."
	🎸 ♥ 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:53 I do hope most kids don't turn to the Wizard of Oz movie for factual math representation.
	🎸 ♥ 9:54pm Austin Rich: They've known each other for about 48 hours, and they're all very quick to say, "I love you."
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:06 I prefer Vincent Price's rendition at the end of "Dr. Phibes Rises Again".
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm yerfriendpaul: I remember the final scene in Oz is stressful because Toto jumps out of the balloon
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm univac: Hey all! Yay! Wizard of Oz!
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:55 univac! Hooray!
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 Yeah, it wasn’t “just a dream”. She eventually moves there for good–with her parents! Toto starts to talk there, like the other animals.
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm univac: I've never heard this version. Thanks Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm yerfriendpaul: Why’d she have to pick favorites?
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:56 I thought that was the case. I do recall she went back a lot in the books.
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ David Shortell @9:55 ... and every Midnight Matinee radio show, now occasionally heard on the Inflatable Squirrel Carcass show.
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm univac: I used to do a regular Oz / Dark Side showing back in the 90s. Fun and sometimes uncanny.
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm univac: I've always wanted to read the books. Austin you said you read a few of them?
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:57 It took me many years before I could easily watch it myself, but it's pretty eerie.
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:58 I read the first four or five as a kid, and then again the first book in college. I can certainly recommend the first book, as it holds up VERY well. I think the other's are probably okay, but.. not as great, if I recall.
	🎸 ♥ 10:00pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ David Shortell @9:56 Actually, she asks Toto why he doesn't talk and he says he didn't feel like it. (in Tik-Tok of Oz)
	🎸 ♥ 10:00pm yerfriendpaul: That was great. Thanks for playing it, Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 10:00pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:59 Thx!
	🎸 ♥ 10:00pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 I don’t remember the film’s Kansas analogs being in the book.
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm Webhamster Henry: Liza cameo!
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm Webhamster Henry: Lorna didn't get that kind of love!
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm yerfriendpaul: Love how they have to plug product
	🎸 ♥ 10:04pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:36 In the book, it’s not snow that rescues them from the poppy field. They’re dragged out on a sort of big skateboard constructed and driven by mice.
	🎸 ♥ 10:04pm Barno in Akron: Lurking and enjoying the show!
	10:05pm Nick K: Hello everyone
	🎸 ♥ 10:08pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ David Shortell @10:04 The Mouse Queen helps them ! There are also more scary parts like the Kalidahs and the huge spidery thing in the forest that the Lion kills.
	🎸 ♥ 10:09pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:18 In the book, the magic slippers don’t wake Dorothy from a dream. She uses them to literally fly over the Deadly Desert that borders Oz from the rest of the world!
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:09 I seem to recall that they had a lot more to them than just "taking her home."
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ David Shortell @10:09 They fell off in the flight over, so Baum had to come up with lots of other ways to get around Oz and Ix and the outside world. At one point he wanted to stop writing Oz stories, but his fans wouldn't let him .
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:16 Sort of like a Sherlock Holmes situation?
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:15 There was a lot more plot in the book! the shoes and the magic cap and the monkeys were liberared and no longer antagonists! Weird people like hte china people and the armless guys whose heads shot out of their bodies..
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Thunder In The Valley"" by "Christmas Seals Reco... "Christmas Seals" were - and are - still a thing that people can buy, to help those who are less fortunate than others: en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 The American Lung Association is behind them.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:08 When I was a kid I read 11 of the 12 Oz books that L. Frank Baum wrote. My local library didn’t have “Rinkitink in Oz” unfortunately. In this internet age I could easily seek it out, but I fear I’m way too old for it now. You seem to recall the details better than I do. I almost forgot about the Kalidahs. Those creatures comprised equal parts of lions and tigers and bears. (Oh, my!)
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm univac: I bet this radio show sold a lot of Christmas Seals.
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:25 I was thinking we should write a parody of this for UB Radio.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm univac: Wow. They are really pushing it! $10 fine if you _don't_ buy Xmas Seals.
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:26 DYSTOPIAN CHRISTMAS SEALS. You WILL participate!
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @10:25 Maybe Xmas Seals in July? And the Seals are actually seals?
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:27 HA!
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm univac: You buy the seals for their fur, food, fat etc and donate to the needy.
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm univac: "When you think of Xmas, think Tuberculosis"
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ David Shortell @10:24 My kids took them all out of the library... a lot of them are kind of pointless, but have some great scenes. Also, the Oz Musical was a monster hit in 1902, and had little to do with the book, and had songs swapped in depending on who was in the show. The Woggle Bug was also made into a musical, but that was a flop.
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:29 Some of those silent films are sort of charming. I saw some of those in college.
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm univac: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:29 Wow! Thanks for all the history!
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:29 My favorite rock 'n' roll band to see live is Atlanta GA’s The Woggles. They’ve used John R. Neill’s illustration of H. M. Woggle-Bug, T.E. on their merch!
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm yerfriendpaul: I’m loving this already!
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Plot To Muder Santa Claus"" by "Rocky Fortune" I've probably mentioned this before, but the primary creative force behind Rocky Fortune was George Lefferts... in-between his gigs working on Dimension X and X-Minus One. So, while he did more Sci-Fi for radio than "noir," this was his attempt at writing a "noir" show. This was pretty common in the "pulp" era; writers would try their hand at any genre that they could "sell." So a lot of people writing sci-fi would also write detective stories when the sci-fi wasn't selling.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm univac: This is great! Frank as Santa!
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm yerfriendpaul: Santa loves his chowdah
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:37 Rocky Fortune is one of my fave radio shows. I love the dialog!
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:36 The Woggles are great! I've never seen them live, but those albums are great!
	🎸 ♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:37 Last week, Frank was hanging out with a Chimpanzee. This show rules.
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 Oh yeah, the chimp that sounded like a squeeking balloon.
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: Is a kiss a differently betting pool than the getting knocked out?
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Webhamster Henry: He's got to get knocked out pretty soon!
	🎸 ♥ 10:45pm yerfriendpaul: Ha ha! Great fight
	🎸 ♥ 10:45pm Austin Rich: That boss sounds very calm for having walked in on a fight. It must happen all the time.
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:45 Ha ha! Yes, he handled that skirmish brilliantly
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:00 Similarly, John Byrne wrote an infamous story which tried to establish that the Inhumans’ dog Lockjaw could always talk but just didn’t feel like it. It furthermore tried to establish that he was originally a normal human before being transformed into a monstrous dog! Fortunately, that nonsense got retconned null and void.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:46 When was that? It sounds like a very "80's" story idea.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Barno in Akron: Was just talking with Kreightoven about Peter Gabriel, and remembered I had seen him with Sinead O'Connor - That totally escaped my mind, that I have seen Sinead perform live - even at the time of her passing. I think I'm losing my mind... or maybe I've seen to many shows for my mental filing cabinet - Hahaha!
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Barno in Akron @10:49 It's hard to remember every little thing that happens in a full year, let along many, many of them.
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm univac: I've forgotten far more than I can remember.
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: That "Goodnight Rocky" was one of the coldest radio deliveries. Ouch.
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 Yes, 1983. marvel.fandom.com...
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Webhamster Henry: "6 year old kids don't know from the Wages and Hours Law!"
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:52 I thought so. Byrne could get really kooky sometimes. I feel like he did a few wild things like that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:52 LOVE the dialog in this show!
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: Getting close to the end of the show. Thanks everyone for joining me! Hopefully we'll see you next week?
	♥ 10:55pm WR: Hi Rich and folks, got distracted running errands, will be listening to this episode in the morning. Onwards.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:55 Enjoy it in the future, WR!
	♥ 10:55pm WR: Rich, Austin Rich.
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm yerfriendpaul: Nice throw, Rocky!
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:56 You start to imagine all the weird past lives Rocky probably had... High School Football, maybe?
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: Rocky is such a kid at heart. He's in the toy aisle, playing with space toys with a six year old. A Perfect Way to Spend the Holidays.
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:56 He can do it all that Rocky!
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm univac: Thanks Austin! Great show!
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: Like Dan Holiday, Rocky Fortune seems to take on a lot of cases where he helps kids.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: He gets kissed twice this episode! And he doesn't get knocked out! It's a holiday miracle!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm univac: lol
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm yerfriendpaul: Tremendous!! Rocky Fortune - I love it. Thanks Austin! Good night everyone
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: That's at least the second "From Here to Eternity" reference he's made.
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm David Shortell: Frank’s Rocky Fortune period was during his career lull right before “From Here to Eternity” and signing with Capitol Records. I don’t know if there’s any truth to “The Godfather”’s horse head anecdote.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 4, 2023

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