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

Monday 9 - 11pm (EDT) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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Favoriting February 7, 2022: Episode #3

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Box 13  "Blackmail Is Murder"   Favoriting 5 September 1948  Mayfair Productions 
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The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen  "The Spaniard & the Lascar Pirates"   Favoriting 17 July 1947  Mutual 
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Glen Gray 

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Chandu The Magician  "The Psychic Summons"   Favoriting 30 June 1948  Mutual–Don Lee Networ 
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Dimension X  "Report on the Barnhouse Effect"   Favoriting 22 April 1950  NBC Radio 
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Listener comments!

Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:59pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:53pm
DJ GeorgyGirl:

Hi Austin! Hi Webmaster Henry! πŸ™‚
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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! πŸ™‚
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:01pm
Austin Rich:

BOX 13... BOX 13...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 6:02pm
spacebrother:

Listening as I get ready for a meeting in an hour!
Avatar 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
Scott67:

Is flavour X beer???🍺
Flavour X is beer right... Can it be beer??
Fuckit! I'm getting a beer!
πŸ‘πŸ˜ŽπŸ»
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:04pm
Austin Rich:

Go for it, Scott67!
Avatar 6:04pm
spacebrother:

What, is Susie homely or something? She's hot for ya!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:04pm
Austin Rich:

Those Agatha Marsh mysteries were a fave of all my grandparents.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:05pm
Scott67:

Sounds like Beer is better for you than Flavour-X Austin.
πŸΊπŸ‘πŸ˜ŽπŸ’¨πŸΊ
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
Austin Rich:

"And have him snitch to the desk clerk?"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
Scott67:

Now days the body would be bones by the time a letter arrived.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
Austin Rich:

Sounds like it, John R, but I can't find anything online that corroborates it... yet.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
Austin Rich:

"A little bird." Bea Benaderet did voices for Tweety Bird cartoons, so maybe that's a clue?
Avatar 6:14pm
Mr Fab:

i don't trust her. She's probably got a gat hidden in her Depends.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:15pm
Austin Rich:

She does seem to be acting very erratically. Most old ladies I know are very predictable.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:18pm
Scott67:

The old girl is playin him like a trout!🐟
Avatar 6:19pm
Mr Fab:

ha, love the tough guy talk.

She goosed him!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:20pm
Austin Rich:

I wanna sample a bunch of "wisecracks" from old radio shows and mix them all together for a song.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:21pm
Austin Rich:

"A Whodunnit Happy."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
Scott67:

I know what I'm saying! They write it down for me!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:23pm
Austin Rich:

I don't get that reference.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:25pm
Austin Rich:

Sounds like Scott67 was right!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:25pm
Scott67:

Back then, bodies bodies tended to stand up in closets a lot.
Must've been been the starched trousers? πŸ‘–
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 6:28pm
Mr Fab:

I knew you couldn't trust her!

One of the first copycat killers?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:28pm
Scott67:

πŸ’¨πŸ­
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 6:29pm
Mr Fab:

Suzie was the original Miss Moneypenny.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:31pm
Scott67:

Underwear clean.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:33pm
Scott67:

Back when a bottle of whisky or a 45 ould solve anything!
πŸ”«
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:39pm
Austin Rich:

He mentions 8 men!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
Austin Rich:

Does that include himself and Gallager, or in addition to him and Gallager?
Avatar 6:41pm
Mr Fab:

8 semen? Er, seamen!
Avatar 6:42pm
Mr Fab:

You're right, def better sound quality today.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
Scott67:

Ohh my!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:44pm
Scott67:

Writing for the market.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:52pm
Austin Rich:

That wind sounds like it is straight out of the Superman radio show.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
Austin Rich:

The homoerotic subtext of the show continues...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
Scott67:

Red, in this light, I could really go for you!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
Austin Rich:

And, they share a drink with each other at the end of each episode.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
Scott67:

How to get that many men on a small boat, share a bunk.
Avatar 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.
Avatar 7:02pm
Mr Fab:

Austin, not Alex! Sorry, I just wrote an email to an Alex.
Avatar 🎸 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.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
WR:

Are these serials better with milk or yogurt?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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?)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
Scott67:

Beer WR!πŸΊπŸ‘πŸ˜ŽπŸ’¨πŸΊ
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 🎸 7:17pm
Cp304:

"show me how the buddah works"
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:18pm
Austin Rich:

And Oriental Room in Egypt? Hmmmmm...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:28pm
Austin Rich:

This is our final feature for the evening. Grab your popcorn! This one is a goodie.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:28pm
Webhamster Henry:

Dimension X X X x x x x . . . .
Avatar 7:28pm
Mr Fab:

written by Kurt Vonnegut!
Avatar 7:31pm
Mr Fab:

report from George Clinton?!

Well, he was the head of Parliament...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 🎸 7:31pm
Cp304:

George Clinton of parliament?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
Austin Rich:

This story is set eight years in the future!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
Austin Rich:

(From when it aired.)
  7:34pm
Listener Robert:

Also clever putting that probability fallacy before us.
Avatar 7:34pm
Marshall Stacks:

Later called Funkentelechy
Avatar 🎸 7:35pm
Cp304:

Haha
Avatar 7:36pm
Marshall Stacks:

Never say "shoot" to someone with telekinetic abilities
Avatar 7:36pm
Marshall Stacks:

See?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
Scott67:

πŸ”₯_$$πŸ”«
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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".
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
Austin Rich:

"The Men Who Stare At Goats" Guy?
  7:40pm
Listener Robert:

Exactly, Mr. Rich.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
Austin Rich:

Woah. Very weird.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 7:44pm
Mr Fab:

"as the first weapon with a conscience," haha. Now that sounded like Vonnegut.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
Austin Rich:

"He spent all his time in room, just thinkin'." <ominous music>
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
Austin Rich:

That was an incredibly helpful clerk at that motel.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
Austin Rich:

"Taken Care of."
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 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?!?!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
WR:

remember the ink wellllllll.......
Avatar 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!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
Austin Rich:

Totally! A good story, of course. I love this one. Thanks for tuning in! Ya'll are great.
Avatar 7:59pm
Mr Fab:

Cool stories, Austin. Can't wait to travel to the futuristic world of 1986 next year.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Austin Rich:

Yeah. You know 1986 is gonna be lit, with all that neon, and people listening to walkmen.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
Webhamster Henry:

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Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
Scott67:

Thanks Austin, hadta get outa my blanket fort to comment.
πŸ‘πŸ˜ŽπŸ»
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
WR:

Thank you Austin!
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