Favoriting Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 1, 2024 Favoriting

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

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Favoriting January 1, 2024: Holiday Film Fest!: "Bachelor Mother" & "The Whistler"

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Lux Radio Theater  "Bachelor Mother"   Favoriting 22 January 1940  CBS 
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Command Performance  [Excerpts]   Favoriting 2 January 1943   
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The Whistler  "First Year"   Favoriting 31 December 1947   
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Listener comments!

Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
Austin Rich:

Be forewarned: the story of "Bachelor Mother" is completely bonkers, and gets stranger and stranger as it goes!

Hopefully you are prepared.
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Imaginos:

Ahoy!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hi Dimestorers and Dimestore restorers!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:00
Nice to see you in the chat! Strap in... this one is odd.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:01
Webhamster Henry! Yay!
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Imaginos:

Fredric March? Death himself?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:02
Perhaps! I'm not as familiar with his career, actually.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
yerfriendpaul:

Hey Austin, everyone!
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Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:04
He played the title character in Death Takes a Holiday
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
Austin Rich:

↳ yerfriendpaul @9:05
Nice to see you, yerfriendpaul! Hopefully you enjoy this presentation.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:06pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:05
I'll have to check it out. I don't think I've seen that one yet.
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laurapanic:

here for it....
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:06pm
Austin Rich:

↳ laurapanic @9:06
laurapanic! Get ready... this one is really odd.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
WR:

Hello Austin and Dime Store Sheena Stalwarts!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
Austin Rich:

These days, I suspect you would end up going to jail if you left a baby on the steps of a church, especially in the depths of December.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @9:07
WR! Happy New Year, you and everyone else!
Avatar 9:08pm
laurapanic:

oh god
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:08pm
Austin Rich:

Of course, this story wouldn't work in an era when you could actually take a simple blood test.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:08pm
Austin Rich:

↳ laurapanic @9:08
Remember: this is supposed to be a comedy!
Avatar 9:08pm
laurapanic:

my feminisms are gonna get all spiky aren't they?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:08pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @9:07
I dunno, i just happened in Dr. Who (although "19 years ago")
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laurapanic:

↳ Austin Rich @9:08
I will do that
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
Austin Rich:

Yes, let's FORCE the mothers to take care of kids they gave up. That sounds like a brilliant idea.
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laurapanic:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:08
btw, did you enjoy the episode
Avatar 🎸 9:11pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:10
Yeah. Nothing could possibly go wrong
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:12pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ laurapanic @9:10
Well, Dr. Who needs to know who they are writing for. I'm not really a Who-head like my son, but I thought it was a bit of a shaggy dog tale. (that is, Xmas Special #4.. I thought #2 was more intriguing, SF plot wise, and of course, I'm a huge NPH fan, so #3 could basically do anything and I wouldn't care).
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:13pm
Austin Rich:

I do love it when two men decide the future of young women. They don't even think twice, do they.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
Austin Rich:

Yes, in case you were wondering: they ARE gonna force her to raise this kid.

And its a comedy!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
yerfriendpaul:

This is nuts!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
WR:

Going to try to enjoy this for humor their intent and not be too distracted by the social construct.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
Austin Rich:

↳ yerfriendpaul @9:14
It gets even more bonkers, too.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @9:15
It's a very interesting artifact, no matter how you slice it.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
Webhamster Henry:

Baby turns out to be Superboy...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:16pm
WR:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:15
LOL!
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Imaginos:

I hope it is alive
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:16pm
WR:

Live audience?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:16pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:15
He might be. It's not precisely addressed, so it's possible.
Avatar 9:17pm
laurapanic:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:12
#2 and #3 were my faves too. I'll go a long for the ride, you know?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:17pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @9:16
Yes! Lux Radio Theater was recorded in front of an audience.
Avatar 9:17pm
laurapanic:

now there is canned laughter so we know its funny
Avatar 🎸 9:18pm
Imaginos:

Nope no misunderstanding there
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:18pm
WR:

This bit of saying things that implies the baby is Mr Merlin's is more humor set up.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:18pm
Austin Rich:

In fact, a lot of radio shows were recorded in front of audiences. Radio was big entertainment, and some shows would let their audiences in for free.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ laurapanic @9:17
There's a Dr. Who themed restaurant, Pandorica, in Beacon NY in case you want to get your Who on.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
Austin Rich:

Mr. Merlin rescuing her at the last second is played for laughs, but... yikes!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @9:18
Even weirder is that those music breaks are by live musicians!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:21pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:19
I've seen a few shows like that, where actors are reading from scripts, and there's live music. It's impressive! The performers are operating on a very high level.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:21pm
yerfriendpaul:

Why is the audience laughing? Crazy
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:22pm
Austin Rich:

↳ yerfriendpaul @9:21
Yeah... those were... jokes?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:22pm
WR:

↳ yerfriendpaul @9:21
yes, bruise from coffee pot gets a laugh?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:22pm
Austin Rich:

I hope I adequately prepared everyone for how bonkers this story is!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:23pm
WR:

Must have been some slap stick involved in showing the bruise that amused the studio audience but no evident over radio. I hope...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:23pm
Austin Rich:

It is interesting that this story goes out of its way to shame her for dancing. How "old school religious" can you get?
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Imaginos:

Today it would be presented as a tragedy or drama
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:24pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:23
It would probably be a horror movie.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:24pm
WR:

What about child care during the day job. Oh, well, details.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:26pm
Austin Rich:

That landlady is the secret hero of this story.
  9:27pm
Laura Panic:

Its getting angery making
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:27pm
Austin Rich:

The men just can't seem to keep their noses out of her life. They just keep stopping in, telling her how to live her life.

Horror movie!
Avatar 🎸 9:28pm
Imaginos:

Gauze?!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:29pm
Austin Rich:

I feel like this scene is a specific critique of the up-and-coming world of "parenting" books, which were becoming much more common in the 40's and 50's. I have a feeling a lot of parents were of the opinion that there couldn't possibly be anything useful in a book that a parent couldn't figure out on their own.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:29pm
yerfriendpaul:

Pages must be stuck together
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:29pm
Austin Rich:

"You read very well."

Ooof. That seems like a backhanded compliment.
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Imaginos:

↳ yerfriendpaul @9:29
Yeah
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:30pm
yerfriendpaul:

Aha!! Bingo!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:30pm
Austin Rich:

The duck-winding joke is a little subtle in this version, but I love that she tells her boss to do what she does all day at work.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:31pm
Austin Rich:

"ha-ha"
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:31pm
Austin Rich:

I am IN LOVE with that laugh.
Avatar 🎸 9:32pm
Imaginos:

I love his accent
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:32pm
yerfriendpaul:

The first “Undercover Boss”
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:33pm
Austin Rich:

She takes all of this in stride, to my astonishment.

A commentary on how women are used to the worst possible circumstance anyway, and are non-plussed by these kinds of situations?

Yikes.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:33pm
Austin Rich:

A critique of the "receipt" in 1940.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:35pm
Austin Rich:

Celebrating New Year's in Times Square in 1940. Instead of watching it on TV, they used to listen on the radio.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:36pm
Austin Rich:

Ginger Rogers in a sweater and a skirt...?

Va-Va-Va-Voom!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:37pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:32
It's pretty good.
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Imaginos:

Baby spit on the coat right?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:39pm
Austin Rich:

Girls Supporting Girls.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:39pm
yerfriendpaul:

I love the baby noises . Wish I could see the person making them
Avatar 🎸 9:39pm
Imaginos:

Getting sleepy
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:40pm
Austin Rich:

The first time I listened to this, I essentially shook my head in disbelief the entire time.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:40pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:39
Sleep well! We'll see you next time.
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laurapanic:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:19
I"m in Australia but that is a TERRIFIC restaurant name
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:44pm
Austin Rich:

↳ laurapanic @9:42
I'm so behind on Who. I've seen a few of all these new chaps, but the last time I watched Who seriously, it was OG Who. Tom Baker and the like. (It was on public television all the time back in the day.)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:46pm
Austin Rich:

"Maybe I was to blame?"

Oooof. Yikes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:46pm
WR:

Ha, not Grandpa assumes his son is the dad.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:46pm
Austin Rich:

Dad's demanding grandchildren can sometimes be creepier than Mom's demanding grandchildren.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
WR:

now...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @9:46
Yeah. I did NOT expect this turn at all.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:48pm
Austin Rich:

I mean, he did assume that baby was hers. Turnabout IS fair play.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:48pm
yerfriendpaul:

A taste of his own medicine!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:48pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @9:44
I barely know any Dr. Who, no matter the face!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:49pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:48
I used to love staying up late and watching old Dr. Who.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:50pm
Austin Rich:

So, at this stage in the story, she's now DEDICATED to raising the kid. She's reached complete stockholm syndrome. The world they constructed for her is now something she's come to believe is true. She MUST raise the baby.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:51pm
WR:

LOL, But Mama!

What could go wrong with that.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
Austin Rich:

"This is your chance to do a good deed."

So much of this story is about parallels unfolding.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
Webhamster Henry:

The joke is a "white" baby will have a "Jew" for the father..
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:54pm
Austin Rich:

"I don't care who the father is. I'm the grandfather."
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:54pm
Austin Rich:

SO WEIRD.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:54pm
yerfriendpaul:

Run Polly run!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:57pm
yerfriendpaul:

Crazy story!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:57pm
WR:

Well written played even for the time.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:01pm
WR:

Interesting, the male lead played by Lou Merrill (new to me). From Wikipedia:
"Merrill began working in radio in 1928.[1] He performed in Lux Radio Theater as a utility supporting player in nearly every broadcast from 1937 to 1939 (notably as Sleepy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), and also served as an assistant director handling the crowd scenes during that time. He continued to work the show sporadically until 1953."
en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
WR:

A possible final twist to that script: Her final "ha ha" could be interpreted as foretelling of the lead's surprise at finding out she is a virgin.
Avatar 10:13pm
laurapanic:

OK I feel seen about the Christmas decorations
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laurapanic:

↳ Song: "[Excerpts]" by "Command Performance"
yay yay!!!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
Austin Rich:

↳ laurapanic @10:13
We haven't even tried to take ours down. Maybe next week.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
yerfriendpaul:

Java Jive! Fantastic!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:14pm
WR:

Taking a look at the Wikipedia page for the movie, it was adopted for radio multiple times with many different well know actors.

en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:14pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @10:14
Interesting! I'll have to compare some of them.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Austin Rich:

I do love coffee.

"Shoot the juice to me, loose."

I wonder if that is what the song "Transfusion" is riffing on?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Austin Rich:

I think that was The Inkspots?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @10:15
"Shoot the crimson to me, Jimson!"
I think it may have been someone's catchphrase.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:17
I'll have to re-listen to "Transfusion," but I feel like he does a few similar riffs.

That guy had some excellently weird songs.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
Webhamster Henry:

There was a nice picture on Facebook of the transcription device setup for recording radio shows for delayed broadcast, over dedicated phone lines!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Webhamster Henry:

"Third base!"
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:19
Oh! Very cool!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Austin Rich:

This is one of those moments where you realize how good they were, live. Abbot & Costello were very good in front of an audience.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
yerfriendpaul:

I think they made the song famous, yes.

My Dad got a chance to play piano for the Inkspots one night in Hartford in the early 60s. He remembered he played with them on the day we landed on the moon. Only just recently I’ve learned the Inkspots had many incarnations, some with none of the original members - so I’ll never know which version of the Inkspots Dad played with. Still, I love that he played with them (whoever they were)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:22pm
yerfriendpaul:

↳ Austin Rich @10:20
So great! Brilliant!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:22pm
yerfriendpaul:

↳ yerfriendpaul @10:21
Actually it was the late 60s
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:23pm
Austin Rich:

↳ yerfriendpaul @10:21
That's so great! I love stories like that.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
Austin Rich:

Command Performance really was such a great variety show. Stars from such different parts of entertainment, all together on one show. That's pretty cool.
  🎸 10:26pm
Heather Z:

Happy New Year, all! I'm starting the year off right, tuned in and enjoying the show!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:26pm
Austin Rich:

If anyone is looking for something fun to listen to, Bob Barth's show last night was fantastic! Six hours of "countdowns" for various time zones, and tons of cool songs. You can put it on after this and enjoy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:26pm
WR:

That was a great extended version of the Abbott / Costello Who's on first. And makes me wonder if that, at least for a while, they were probably performing that routine at nearly every live performance they did.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @10:26
Nice to see you in the chat, Heather!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @10:26
Probably. And they probably counted on the fact that people hadn't seen them a bunch of times, or had a recording of it, and that they could wow people every time with something that seemed so off the cuff, but was so well rehearsed.
  🎸 10:28pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @10:27
Great stuff, as always. I'm almost over the panic of a baby being foisted on a lady who is entirely not its mom but then just gives in and takes it on.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:29pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @10:28
Obligatory, actually even better version: www.patheos.com...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @10:28
Don't worry. Just start thinking about the therapy that kid is gonna need, after years of being raised like that, and the panic will come right back.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:29
Nice!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:31pm
WR:

↳ yerfriendpaul @10:21
Yes, if it was the first Apollo moon landing, July 20, 1969.
  🎸 10:31pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @10:30
I meannnnnm that was WILD. Phew.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:32pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @10:31
No, it's a comedy. You are supposed to laugh at all of it! The abuse jokes! The gaslighting! It's all jokes!

Sigh.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:33pm
yerfriendpaul:

↳ WR @10:31
Yeah, my memory got hazy there trying to recall the story. But yes, he played with them in 1969
  🎸 10:33pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @10:32
I'm a woman! Everyone knows we can't take jokes!

*shudder*
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Webhamster Henry:

Radio people get married at the drop of a hat.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:36pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: ""First Year"" by "The Whistler"
I believe the man's voice is Gerald Mohr, none other than Philip Marlowe himself!

Gerald Mohr had a very active career playing bit-parts on the radio, and he pops up all over the place. He played Phillip Marlowe in "The Adventures of Phillip Marlowe" for almost three years.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @10:33
She does get her revenge by forcing him to live with her and raise the child with her, supposedly so she can abandon them both and move to Europe one night. She's poor. He's rich. He wants the kid anyway. Everyone wins.

And if she takes him for a few grand first, then is that really that bad?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:39pm
Austin Rich:

Among the many other things that Gerald Mohr is known for: Orson Welles recruited him to be a part of the Mercury Theater.

en.wikipedia.org...
  🎸 10:40pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @10:37
It did sound like she actually maybe liked him, too. And, credit where due, I didn't pick up on any single mom shaming. There was nothing wrong with her being a single mom (which.... way to assume). The shaming was just for dropping off the kid. It could have gotten way worse. For jokes, of course.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
Austin Rich:

In my on life, I would know Gerald Mohr as an occasional guest player on "Perry Mason," and as the voice of Green Lantern in the 1968 cartoon.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
yerfriendpaul:

Jeez, they both turned quick!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:46pm
WR:

↳ Heather Z @10:40
I agree, and I'm starting to think that Austin is right, that that movie / radio show would be worth fully unpacking.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:47pm
Austin Rich:

The Whistler ran for 13 years, and hundreds of episodes were made. It was incredibly popular, so much so that it was adapted into a series of films, too. (Sort of hard to do, as they only recurring character in the show is the narrator.) Regardless, they made 8 Whistler movies, and it re-ran on a number of stations for years. Apparently, you can hear part of an episode in the movie, "The Two Jakes," as Jack Nicolson is driving around, listening to the radio.
  🎸 10:49pm
Heather Z:

↳ WR @10:46
I'd read that paper! There was a ton to think about. It's often interesting to realize, "omg that could have gotten so much worse," too. Phew.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
Austin Rich:

772 Episodes of "The Whistler" were broadcast. Only around 493 exist today.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:50pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @10:49
Being forced to raise a baby by a church seems pretty bad. They did threaten her with watching her every day, to make sure she stays the course.
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laurapanic:

↳ Austin Rich @10:49
lost media is fascinating
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
Austin Rich:

↳ laurapanic @10:51
Agreed. Sometimes, when I'm listening to radio, I think I can feel the sounds disappearing into the past.
  🎸 10:52pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @10:50
Oh, it's super bad. And the gaslighting was horrifying. But! It could have been worse....
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
Webhamster Henry:

Paul Frees cameo!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:54pm
Austin Rich:

The way that the announcer talks to the characters, BY NAME, is sort of a trademark of The Whistler. Sooner or later, the narrator starts talking directly to ONE character.

Gotta love a Paul Frees cameo! He's come up a few times on Dimestore.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
yerfriendpaul:

Which character was Paul Frees? I must’ve missed it
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ yerfriendpaul @10:55
The radio announcer!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:56pm
Austin Rich:

We're almost done for the night. Thanks again, everyone, for enjoying the show! Back to our regularly scheduled programming, starting next week! See you then!
  🎸 10:56pm
Heather Z:

Happy new year to all!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:56pm
yerfriendpaul:

Darn it, I missed it
Avatar 🎸 10:58pm
univac:

Hello, all! Happy New Year. Been lurking...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
Austin Rich:

↳ univac @10:58
univac, you old lurker you!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
yerfriendpaul:

Thanks Austin! Enjoyed the show!! Take care, everyone!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
Austin Rich:

He believes she wasn't going to try and kill him! That's the twist!
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laurapanic:

nighty night
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Austin Rich:

↳ laurapanic @11:00
See ya next time, laurapanic!
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WR:

thank you, Austin. Laters all.

Onward.
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Webhamster Henry:

Happy New Year and drive at a sensible speed!
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univac:

Nice!
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