WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from February 7, 2022

Listener comments!
	👻 4:59pm Austin Rich: Good Hello!
	5:04pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Austin! I've been binging OTR broadcasts for years (archive.org's kind of goes on autoplay). I also get them from https;//cbsrmt.com, which does the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre shows from the 70s and early 80s, which have the added attraction of news, weather, and commercials and PSAs from that period right in the aircheck. This was Watergate, Ford, Carter & Reagan era, so there's lots of news that nobody cares abut anymore. Welcome to the Jungle Room!
	5:53pm DJ GeorgyGirl: Hi Austin! Hi Webmaster Henry! 🙂
	5:54pm DJ GeorgyGirl: I'm going to be listening in the kitchen pre-bedtime so no chat from me today but I am REALLY looking forward to this! 🙂
	👻 5:55pm Austin Rich: Wow! How cool, Webhaster Henry! Hopefully this lives up to your memories of old radio. I'm a big fan myself, but there's always new shows to discover.
	👻 6:01pm Austin Rich: BOX 13... BOX 13...
	👻 6:02pm Austin Rich: I used to drink a lot of Flavor X... but it was discontinued after some kid almost died after drinking three in a row.
	6:02pm spacebrother: Listening as I get ready for a meeting in an hour!
	6:02pm Mr Fab: Hey all! Thx for the tip, Henry - maybe some cool old ads or news stories I can sample for the sheena stream.
	6:03pm Scott67: Is flavour X beer???🍺 Flavour X is beer right... Can it be beer?? Fuckit! I'm getting a beer! 👍😎🍻
	👻 6:04pm Austin Rich: Go for it, Scott67!
	6:04pm spacebrother: What, is Susie homely or something? She's hot for ya!
	👻 6:04pm Austin Rich: Those Agatha Marsh mysteries were a fave of all my grandparents.
	👻 6:05pm Austin Rich: Yeah, I'm not sure why he's not more aware of how into him Susie is. Maybe he's dim?
	6:05pm Scott67: Sounds like Beer is better for you than Flavour-X Austin. 🍺👍😎💨🍺
	👻 6:07pm Austin Rich: I realize that in 1948 there was a lot of services that delivered mail quickly, and there were other ways to deliver messages... but the fact she wrote to him and he answered later the same day is pretty incredible.
	👻 6:08pm Austin Rich: I believe the two main characters in The Hudsucker Proxy were supposed to be from Muncie, Indiana, though only one of them actually was.
	👻 6:08pm Austin Rich: "And have him snitch to the desk clerk?"
	6:08pm Scott67: Now days the body would be bones by the time a letter arrived.
	👻 6:09pm Austin Rich: She could try sending an e-mail, but that might only speed things up by a week or so.
	6:09pm John R.: That’s Bea Benaderet.. I think.
	6:09pm Scott67: We can pretend it was email.
	6:09pm spacebrother: I think Lehrer said something about "snitching on a friend" during my show.
	👻 6:12pm Austin Rich: Sounds like it, John R, but I can't find anything online that corroborates it... yet.
	👻 6:13pm Austin Rich: "A little bird." Bea Benaderet did voices for Tweety Bird cartoons, so maybe that's a clue?
	6:14pm Mr Fab: i don't trust her. She's probably got a gat hidden in her Depends.
	👻 6:15pm Austin Rich: She does seem to be acting very erratically. Most old ladies I know are very predictable.
	👻 6:16pm Austin Rich: Dan and I have a lot in common: we're both writers, and we both can't sleep, and we both lie awake at 2 AM. Fortunately, I don't have an Agatha Marsh in my life.
	👻 6:17pm Austin Rich: Sounds like Dan was probably in the Scouts as a kid. And, Dan seemed to be into Origami as a kid.
	6:18pm Scott67: The old girl is playin him like a trout!🐟
	6:19pm Mr Fab: ha, love the tough guy talk. She goosed him!
	👻 6:20pm Austin Rich: Certainly, Agatha Christie had a career already, so I think the "old woman interested in solving crimes" trope was well established at this point.
	👻 6:20pm Austin Rich: I wanna sample a bunch of "wisecracks" from old radio shows and mix them all together for a song.
	👻 6:21pm Austin Rich: "A Whodunnit Happy."
	6:22pm Scott67: I know what I'm saying! They write it down for me!
	👻 6:23pm Austin Rich: I don't get that reference.
	👻 6:25pm Austin Rich: Sounds like Scott67 was right!
	6:25pm Scott67: Back then, bodies bodies tended to stand up in closets a lot. Must've been been the starched trousers? 👖
	👻 6:26pm Austin Rich: Naming the character "Agatha" I think was an intentional mislead, so we would think that she was just into solving crime, instead of being inspired by Arsenic & Old Lace.
	6:27pm spacebrother: This sounds like a sucker deal.
	6:28pm Mr Fab: I knew you couldn't trust her! One of the first copycat killers?
	6:28pm Scott67: 💨🍭
	👻 6:28pm Austin Rich: The film version of Arsenic and Old Lace had been out for a few years by the time this story was written.
	👻 6:29pm Austin Rich: But certainly, the play version was probably more well known in the 40s.
	6:29pm spacebrother: Susie just shows up at his apartment? Nice.
	6:29pm Mr Fab: Suzie was the original Miss Moneypenny.
	👻 6:30pm Austin Rich: Yeah, no voice credits, John R. I think your guess is probably accurate, but I can't find a confirmation. Let's just say that Bea Benaderet was the guest that week.
	6:31pm Scott67: Underwear clean.
	👻 6:31pm Austin Rich: This is one of the better sounding episodes of The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen. Be thankful; some are VERY muddy.
	👻 6:31pm Austin Rich: The one challenge with this show is that the lead does seem to drop racial slurs without batting an eye. 1947 was a different time.
	6:33pm Scott67: Back when a bottle of whisky or a 45 ould solve anything! 🔫
	👻 6:34pm Austin Rich: As mentioned in the chat last week, I've been trying to get a confirmation of how many crew members The Scarlet Queen has. Clearly, there's our captain and our first mate, Gallager. There is also the person who calls out the various things the ship encounters at the beginning and end of the show. There's at least one other, as implied in the other two shows, but we have yet to get names or specific information. So I'm putting the bare minimum crew at four... so far.
	👻 6:39pm Austin Rich: He mentions 8 men!
	👻 6:40pm Austin Rich: Does that include himself and Gallager, or in addition to him and Gallager?
	6:41pm Mr Fab: 8 semen? Er, seamen!
	6:42pm Mr Fab: You're right, def better sound quality today.
	👻 6:42pm Austin Rich: I think we can assume that the count of "eight" must be the grand total, so unless we hear otherwise, I'll assume that number must include everyone. While I know The Scarlet Queen is a 78 foot ketch, and that isn't exactly a "small" boat, I'm still trying to imagine living in such tight quarters with seven other men. Yikes.
	6:43pm Scott67: Ohh my!
	👻 6:43pm Austin Rich: Another element of the show that seems to be repetitive (and a little tiresome) is the "women constantly throwing themselves at Phil." I mean, that's a trope of a lot of fiction, but knowing it was all written by one person makes it seem a little weird.
	6:44pm Scott67: Writing for the market.
	👻 6:45pm Austin Rich: I guess I can't deny that I haven't seen, "It's a floor wax! / It's a desert topping," at some point when I was a kid. But I swear I didn't think about that until after I wrote that ad.
	👻 6:52pm Austin Rich: That wind sounds like it is straight out of the Superman radio show.
	👻 6:56pm Austin Rich: The homoerotic subtext of the show continues...
	6:57pm Scott67: Red, in this light, I could really go for you!
	👻 6:58pm Austin Rich: And, they share a drink with each other at the end of each episode.
	6:59pm Scott67: How to get that many men on a small boat, share a bunk.
	7:01pm Mr Fab: Yes Alex, I was gonna say that it reminds me of the SNL skit of the ship the Raging Queen. John Belushi as the captain of the ship for men with men’s sailing alone… With men.
	7:02pm Mr Fab: Austin, not Alex! Sorry, I just wrote an email to an Alex.
	7:07pm Cp304: Heya people's! Gonna listen while prepping dinner
	7:09pm Listener Robert: So what you're saying is, Chandu is ripe for a new production. If not officially, then by a producer who rips off everything but the names.
	7:11pm Listener Robert: Maybe Jadoo if John Keel's estate permits.
	👻 7:15pm Austin Rich: I agree, Listener Robert. But I think they should lean into the pulp angle if they do that, and make like a 30's serial... but produced today. I think that allows you to use the same kinds of pulp tropes without having to "modernize" the explanations that much.
	👻 7:15pm WR: Are these serials better with milk or yogurt?
	👻 7:16pm Austin Rich: That's okay, Mr. Fab. I think I knew who you were talking about. (You were trying to call Alexa, right?)
	7:17pm Scott67: Beer WR!🍺👍😎💨🍺
	👻 7:17pm Austin Rich: I find I like my serial better with a pair of headphones. But I need a pair of pairs, one phone for each side.
	7:17pm Cp304: "show me how the buddah works"
	👻 7:18pm Austin Rich: And Oriental Room in Egypt? Hmmmmm...
	👻 7:20pm Austin Rich: Roxor! Oh no! (Listeners to the old radio show, or anyone who has seen the movies, knows that Roxor is the primary villain of most Chandu stories. But it also works if you are hearing this for the first time, and you are unfamiliar with the backstory of the program.)
	7:21pm Webhamster Henry: @Mr. Fab - those PSAs and ads are insane and excellent Sheena material. Much material from KIXI, the Seattle "Good Music" station.
	7:24pm Listener Robert: Mr. Rich, I don't understand what you mean by "lean into the pulp angle". What difference would that make? How could it NOT lean that way, and how COULD it lean that way? Examples?
	👻 7:25pm Austin Rich: "School's out right now." These shows were being aired during the summer, so the kids were not only out of school, but kids at home also had more time to listen to the radio, so of course they are free for an Egypt Adventure.
	👻 7:26pm Austin Rich: I think a lot of Superhero fiction now goes a long way to "modernize" stories that were written in the 40's, in ways that seem to explain magic and supernatural stuff in ways that sort of bore me. I like the way that pulp fiction from the mid-century doesn't really want to explain things. They just want the story to move forward. So we don't know how Chandu's magic works. It just does, moving on.
	7:28pm Listener Robert: The show trades on the straddling of the line between conjurers and those who practice real magick -- magic vs. magick in the Crowleyan sense. Many magicians these days run away from that line.
	👻 7:28pm Austin Rich: This is our final feature for the evening. Grab your popcorn! This one is a goodie.
	7:28pm Webhamster Henry: Dimension X X X x x x x . . . .
	7:28pm Mr Fab: written by Kurt Vonnegut!
	7:31pm Mr Fab: report from George Clinton?! Well, he was the head of Parliament...
	👻 7:31pm Austin Rich: Now, the script was "adapted" from the short story by Vonnegut, by Clarice A Ross. I don't know much about them, except that they were one of the many people who worked on this show. So it's not exactly like Vonnegut. But it's more like Vonnegut than most stories on the show.
	7:31pm Cp304: George Clinton of parliament?
	👻 7:31pm Austin Rich: This interaction with the old professors reminds me of when I worked for universities... professors are difficult.
	7:32pm Listener Robert: Cute, making us thing "Barnhouse Effect" had something to do with barnhouses, then it turns out to be someone's name. Like when Heinlein introduced the "shipstone" and later revealed it was named for someone, not a description.
	👻 7:34pm Austin Rich: This story is set eight years in the future!
	👻 7:34pm Austin Rich: (From when it aired.)
	7:34pm Listener Robert: Also clever putting that probability fallacy before us.
	7:34pm Marshall Stacks: Later called Funkentelechy
	7:35pm Cp304: Haha
	7:36pm Marshall Stacks: Never say "shoot" to someone with telekinetic abilities
	7:36pm Marshall Stacks: See?
	7:37pm Scott67: 🔥_$$🔫
	👻 7:37pm Austin Rich: I do love the incidental music to these Dimension X shows.
	7:39pm Listener Robert: This is for real. I got to know Albert Stubblebine in the last years of his life. See "Crazy People Who Run the World".
	👻 7:40pm Austin Rich: "The Men Who Stare At Goats" Guy?
	7:40pm Listener Robert: Exactly, Mr. Rich.
	👻 7:41pm Austin Rich: Woah. Very weird.
	👻 7:42pm Austin Rich: One of my notes about today's show was that the idea of "psychic defense" like this does sound very much like "The Men Who Stare At Goats." But this is fiction, and not... real life.
	7:42pm Listener Robert: Of course this was a Heinlein story earlier too. Everything was a Heinlein story earlier.
	7:44pm Mr Fab: "as the first weapon with a conscience," haha. Now that sounded like Vonnegut.
	👻 7:45pm Austin Rich: Yeah. I suspect there was more dialog with Barnhouse like that in the short story. I should track it down and read it.
	👻 7:48pm Austin Rich: "He spent all his time in room, just thinkin'." <ominous music>
	👻 7:50pm WR: Jones Beach! When I was last there it was empty.
	7:50pm Listener Robert: Probably no coincidence. Barnhouse picked up his thought, and wanted to meet him there.
	👻 7:50pm Austin Rich: That was an incredibly helpful clerk at that motel.
	👻 7:51pm Austin Rich: "Taken Care of."
	👻 7:52pm Austin Rich: Well, there's only a few more minutes. Thanks again, everyone! Tune in next week for four more stories... maybe some will be about romance, as it will be valentine's day.
	7:53pm Listener Robert: You mean we have just a few more minutes before our world is destroyed?!?!
	👻 7:55pm WR: remember the ink wellllllll.......
	7:58pm Mr Fab: I thought that the part where Clinton was playing dice earlier meant that he was going to develop the powers...Foreshadowing!
	👻 7:59pm Austin Rich: Totally! A good story, of course. I love this one. Thanks for tuning in! Ya'll are great.
	7:59pm Mr Fab: Cool stories, Austin. Can't wait to travel to the futuristic world of 1986 next year.
	👻 8:00pm Austin Rich: Yeah. You know 1986 is gonna be lit, with all that neon, and people listening to walkmen.
	8:01pm Webhamster Henry: 👍🏼📻
	8:01pm Scott67: Thanks Austin, hadta get outa my blanket fort to comment. 👍😎🍻
	👻 8:07pm WR: Thank you Austin!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from February 7, 2022

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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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February 7, 2022: Episode #3

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Box 13	"Blackmail Is Murder" ""Blackmail Is Murder"" by "Box 13"	5 September 1948	Mayfair Productions	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen	"The Spaniard & the Lascar Pirates"	17 July 1947	Mutual	0:29:56 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Glen Gray	No Name Jive Parts 1 & 2
Chandu The Magician	"The Psychic Summons"	30 June 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Networ
Dimension X	"Report on the Barnhouse Effect"	22 April 1950	NBC Radio

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Listener comments!
	👻 4:59pm Austin Rich: Good Hello!
	5:04pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Austin! I've been binging OTR broadcasts for years (archive.org's kind of goes on autoplay). I also get them from https;//cbsrmt.com, which does the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre shows from the 70s and early 80s, which have the added attraction of news, weather, and commercials and PSAs from that period right in the aircheck. This was Watergate, Ford, Carter & Reagan era, so there's lots of news that nobody cares abut anymore. Welcome to the Jungle Room!
	5:53pm DJ GeorgyGirl: Hi Austin! Hi Webmaster Henry! 🙂
	5:54pm DJ GeorgyGirl: I'm going to be listening in the kitchen pre-bedtime so no chat from me today but I am REALLY looking forward to this! 🙂
	👻 5:55pm Austin Rich: Wow! How cool, Webhaster Henry! Hopefully this lives up to your memories of old radio. I'm a big fan myself, but there's always new shows to discover.
	👻 6:01pm Austin Rich: BOX 13... BOX 13...
	👻 6:02pm Austin Rich: I used to drink a lot of Flavor X... but it was discontinued after some kid almost died after drinking three in a row.
	6:02pm spacebrother: Listening as I get ready for a meeting in an hour!
	6:02pm Mr Fab: Hey all! Thx for the tip, Henry - maybe some cool old ads or news stories I can sample for the sheena stream.
	6:03pm Scott67: Is flavour X beer???🍺 Flavour X is beer right... Can it be beer?? Fuckit! I'm getting a beer! 👍😎🍻
	👻 6:04pm Austin Rich: Go for it, Scott67!
	6:04pm spacebrother: What, is Susie homely or something? She's hot for ya!
	👻 6:04pm Austin Rich: Those Agatha Marsh mysteries were a fave of all my grandparents.
	👻 6:05pm Austin Rich: Yeah, I'm not sure why he's not more aware of how into him Susie is. Maybe he's dim?
	6:05pm Scott67: Sounds like Beer is better for you than Flavour-X Austin. 🍺👍😎💨🍺
	👻 6:07pm Austin Rich: I realize that in 1948 there was a lot of services that delivered mail quickly, and there were other ways to deliver messages... but the fact she wrote to him and he answered later the same day is pretty incredible.
	👻 6:08pm Austin Rich: I believe the two main characters in The Hudsucker Proxy were supposed to be from Muncie, Indiana, though only one of them actually was.
	👻 6:08pm Austin Rich: "And have him snitch to the desk clerk?"
	6:08pm Scott67: Now days the body would be bones by the time a letter arrived.
	👻 6:09pm Austin Rich: She could try sending an e-mail, but that might only speed things up by a week or so.
	6:09pm John R.: That’s Bea Benaderet.. I think.
	6:09pm Scott67: We can pretend it was email.
	6:09pm spacebrother: I think Lehrer said something about "snitching on a friend" during my show.
	👻 6:12pm Austin Rich: Sounds like it, John R, but I can't find anything online that corroborates it... yet.
	👻 6:13pm Austin Rich: "A little bird." Bea Benaderet did voices for Tweety Bird cartoons, so maybe that's a clue?
	6:14pm Mr Fab: i don't trust her. She's probably got a gat hidden in her Depends.
	👻 6:15pm Austin Rich: She does seem to be acting very erratically. Most old ladies I know are very predictable.
	👻 6:16pm Austin Rich: Dan and I have a lot in common: we're both writers, and we both can't sleep, and we both lie awake at 2 AM. Fortunately, I don't have an Agatha Marsh in my life.
	👻 6:17pm Austin Rich: Sounds like Dan was probably in the Scouts as a kid. And, Dan seemed to be into Origami as a kid.
	6:18pm Scott67: The old girl is playin him like a trout!🐟
	6:19pm Mr Fab: ha, love the tough guy talk. She goosed him!
	👻 6:20pm Austin Rich: Certainly, Agatha Christie had a career already, so I think the "old woman interested in solving crimes" trope was well established at this point.
	👻 6:20pm Austin Rich: I wanna sample a bunch of "wisecracks" from old radio shows and mix them all together for a song.
	👻 6:21pm Austin Rich: "A Whodunnit Happy."
	6:22pm Scott67: I know what I'm saying! They write it down for me!
	👻 6:23pm Austin Rich: I don't get that reference.
	👻 6:25pm Austin Rich: Sounds like Scott67 was right!
	6:25pm Scott67: Back then, bodies bodies tended to stand up in closets a lot. Must've been been the starched trousers? 👖
	👻 6:26pm Austin Rich: Naming the character "Agatha" I think was an intentional mislead, so we would think that she was just into solving crime, instead of being inspired by Arsenic & Old Lace.
	6:27pm spacebrother: This sounds like a sucker deal.
	6:28pm Mr Fab: I knew you couldn't trust her! One of the first copycat killers?
	6:28pm Scott67: 💨🍭
	👻 6:28pm Austin Rich: The film version of Arsenic and Old Lace had been out for a few years by the time this story was written.
	👻 6:29pm Austin Rich: But certainly, the play version was probably more well known in the 40s.
	6:29pm spacebrother: Susie just shows up at his apartment? Nice.
	6:29pm Mr Fab: Suzie was the original Miss Moneypenny.
	👻 6:30pm Austin Rich: Yeah, no voice credits, John R. I think your guess is probably accurate, but I can't find a confirmation. Let's just say that Bea Benaderet was the guest that week.
	6:31pm Scott67: Underwear clean.
	👻 6:31pm Austin Rich: This is one of the better sounding episodes of The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen. Be thankful; some are VERY muddy.
	👻 6:31pm Austin Rich: The one challenge with this show is that the lead does seem to drop racial slurs without batting an eye. 1947 was a different time.
	6:33pm Scott67: Back when a bottle of whisky or a 45 ould solve anything! 🔫
	👻 6:34pm Austin Rich: As mentioned in the chat last week, I've been trying to get a confirmation of how many crew members The Scarlet Queen has. Clearly, there's our captain and our first mate, Gallager. There is also the person who calls out the various things the ship encounters at the beginning and end of the show. There's at least one other, as implied in the other two shows, but we have yet to get names or specific information. So I'm putting the bare minimum crew at four... so far.
	👻 6:39pm Austin Rich: He mentions 8 men!
	👻 6:40pm Austin Rich: Does that include himself and Gallager, or in addition to him and Gallager?
	6:41pm Mr Fab: 8 semen? Er, seamen!
	6:42pm Mr Fab: You're right, def better sound quality today.
	👻 6:42pm Austin Rich: I think we can assume that the count of "eight" must be the grand total, so unless we hear otherwise, I'll assume that number must include everyone. While I know The Scarlet Queen is a 78 foot ketch, and that isn't exactly a "small" boat, I'm still trying to imagine living in such tight quarters with seven other men. Yikes.
	6:43pm Scott67: Ohh my!
	👻 6:43pm Austin Rich: Another element of the show that seems to be repetitive (and a little tiresome) is the "women constantly throwing themselves at Phil." I mean, that's a trope of a lot of fiction, but knowing it was all written by one person makes it seem a little weird.
	6:44pm Scott67: Writing for the market.
	👻 6:45pm Austin Rich: I guess I can't deny that I haven't seen, "It's a floor wax! / It's a desert topping," at some point when I was a kid. But I swear I didn't think about that until after I wrote that ad.
	👻 6:52pm Austin Rich: That wind sounds like it is straight out of the Superman radio show.
	👻 6:56pm Austin Rich: The homoerotic subtext of the show continues...
	6:57pm Scott67: Red, in this light, I could really go for you!
	👻 6:58pm Austin Rich: And, they share a drink with each other at the end of each episode.
	6:59pm Scott67: How to get that many men on a small boat, share a bunk.
	7:01pm Mr Fab: Yes Alex, I was gonna say that it reminds me of the SNL skit of the ship the Raging Queen. John Belushi as the captain of the ship for men with men’s sailing alone… With men.
	7:02pm Mr Fab: Austin, not Alex! Sorry, I just wrote an email to an Alex.
	7:07pm Cp304: Heya people's! Gonna listen while prepping dinner
	7:09pm Listener Robert: So what you're saying is, Chandu is ripe for a new production. If not officially, then by a producer who rips off everything but the names.
	7:11pm Listener Robert: Maybe Jadoo if John Keel's estate permits.
	👻 7:15pm Austin Rich: I agree, Listener Robert. But I think they should lean into the pulp angle if they do that, and make like a 30's serial... but produced today. I think that allows you to use the same kinds of pulp tropes without having to "modernize" the explanations that much.
	👻 7:15pm WR: Are these serials better with milk or yogurt?
	👻 7:16pm Austin Rich: That's okay, Mr. Fab. I think I knew who you were talking about. (You were trying to call Alexa, right?)
	7:17pm Scott67: Beer WR!🍺👍😎💨🍺
	👻 7:17pm Austin Rich: I find I like my serial better with a pair of headphones. But I need a pair of pairs, one phone for each side.
	7:17pm Cp304: "show me how the buddah works"
	👻 7:18pm Austin Rich: And Oriental Room in Egypt? Hmmmmm...
	👻 7:20pm Austin Rich: Roxor! Oh no! (Listeners to the old radio show, or anyone who has seen the movies, knows that Roxor is the primary villain of most Chandu stories. But it also works if you are hearing this for the first time, and you are unfamiliar with the backstory of the program.)
	7:21pm Webhamster Henry: @Mr. Fab - those PSAs and ads are insane and excellent Sheena material. Much material from KIXI, the Seattle "Good Music" station.
	7:24pm Listener Robert: Mr. Rich, I don't understand what you mean by "lean into the pulp angle". What difference would that make? How could it NOT lean that way, and how COULD it lean that way? Examples?
	👻 7:25pm Austin Rich: "School's out right now." These shows were being aired during the summer, so the kids were not only out of school, but kids at home also had more time to listen to the radio, so of course they are free for an Egypt Adventure.
	👻 7:26pm Austin Rich: I think a lot of Superhero fiction now goes a long way to "modernize" stories that were written in the 40's, in ways that seem to explain magic and supernatural stuff in ways that sort of bore me. I like the way that pulp fiction from the mid-century doesn't really want to explain things. They just want the story to move forward. So we don't know how Chandu's magic works. It just does, moving on.
	7:28pm Listener Robert: The show trades on the straddling of the line between conjurers and those who practice real magick -- magic vs. magick in the Crowleyan sense. Many magicians these days run away from that line.
	👻 7:28pm Austin Rich: This is our final feature for the evening. Grab your popcorn! This one is a goodie.
	7:28pm Webhamster Henry: Dimension X X X x x x x . . . .
	7:28pm Mr Fab: written by Kurt Vonnegut!
	7:31pm Mr Fab: report from George Clinton?! Well, he was the head of Parliament...
	👻 7:31pm Austin Rich: Now, the script was "adapted" from the short story by Vonnegut, by Clarice A Ross. I don't know much about them, except that they were one of the many people who worked on this show. So it's not exactly like Vonnegut. But it's more like Vonnegut than most stories on the show.
	7:31pm Cp304: George Clinton of parliament?
	👻 7:31pm Austin Rich: This interaction with the old professors reminds me of when I worked for universities... professors are difficult.
	7:32pm Listener Robert: Cute, making us thing "Barnhouse Effect" had something to do with barnhouses, then it turns out to be someone's name. Like when Heinlein introduced the "shipstone" and later revealed it was named for someone, not a description.
	👻 7:34pm Austin Rich: This story is set eight years in the future!
	👻 7:34pm Austin Rich: (From when it aired.)
	7:34pm Listener Robert: Also clever putting that probability fallacy before us.
	7:34pm Marshall Stacks: Later called Funkentelechy
	7:35pm Cp304: Haha
	7:36pm Marshall Stacks: Never say "shoot" to someone with telekinetic abilities
	7:36pm Marshall Stacks: See?
	7:37pm Scott67: 🔥_$$🔫
	👻 7:37pm Austin Rich: I do love the incidental music to these Dimension X shows.
	7:39pm Listener Robert: This is for real. I got to know Albert Stubblebine in the last years of his life. See "Crazy People Who Run the World".
	👻 7:40pm Austin Rich: "The Men Who Stare At Goats" Guy?
	7:40pm Listener Robert: Exactly, Mr. Rich.
	👻 7:41pm Austin Rich: Woah. Very weird.
	👻 7:42pm Austin Rich: One of my notes about today's show was that the idea of "psychic defense" like this does sound very much like "The Men Who Stare At Goats." But this is fiction, and not... real life.
	7:42pm Listener Robert: Of course this was a Heinlein story earlier too. Everything was a Heinlein story earlier.
	7:44pm Mr Fab: "as the first weapon with a conscience," haha. Now that sounded like Vonnegut.
	👻 7:45pm Austin Rich: Yeah. I suspect there was more dialog with Barnhouse like that in the short story. I should track it down and read it.
	👻 7:48pm Austin Rich: "He spent all his time in room, just thinkin'." <ominous music>
	👻 7:50pm WR: Jones Beach! When I was last there it was empty.
	7:50pm Listener Robert: Probably no coincidence. Barnhouse picked up his thought, and wanted to meet him there.
	👻 7:50pm Austin Rich: That was an incredibly helpful clerk at that motel.
	👻 7:51pm Austin Rich: "Taken Care of."
	👻 7:52pm Austin Rich: Well, there's only a few more minutes. Thanks again, everyone! Tune in next week for four more stories... maybe some will be about romance, as it will be valentine's day.
	7:53pm Listener Robert: You mean we have just a few more minutes before our world is destroyed?!?!
	👻 7:55pm WR: remember the ink wellllllll.......
	7:58pm Mr Fab: I thought that the part where Clinton was playing dice earlier meant that he was going to develop the powers...Foreshadowing!
	👻 7:59pm Austin Rich: Totally! A good story, of course. I love this one. Thanks for tuning in! Ya'll are great.
	7:59pm Mr Fab: Cool stories, Austin. Can't wait to travel to the futuristic world of 1986 next year.
	👻 8:00pm Austin Rich: Yeah. You know 1986 is gonna be lit, with all that neon, and people listening to walkmen.
	8:01pm Webhamster Henry: 👍🏼📻
	8:01pm Scott67: Thanks Austin, hadta get outa my blanket fort to comment. 👍😎🍻
	👻 8:07pm WR: Thank you Austin!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from February 7, 2022

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