WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 23, 2022

Listener comments!
	👻 5:57pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	6:01pm Charles: SMACK!
	6:01pm Feldy: Hey Austin!
	6:01pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Riveted! ☕😎🤙👣🎶📻🌞🌏
	👻 6:01pm Austin Rich: As promised last week, we will continue our documentary presentation about the life story of Alan Ladd during "Dimestore Revelations," later in hour two! For now, settle in for a couple stories from the Mid-Century of radio broadcasting!
	6:02pm Feldy: G'day Scott
	👻 6:02pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, Charles, Feldy & Scott67! (And everyone else eating dinner while they listen!)
	6:02pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! Keeping things noir today.
	👻 6:02pm Austin Rich: @Mr. Fab! My partner in Noir.
	6:02pm Feldy: Instant coffee is gross unless you have no coffee, then it's g-o-l-d
	👻 6:03pm Austin Rich: We should do a back-to-back show for the Pledge Drive sometime, @Mr. Fab.
	6:03pm Scott67: G'day Feldy, just making my double espresso. Want one mate? Or are you on the suds now? ☕😎🤙💨☕🍺
	👻 6:04pm Austin Rich: I recently made the switch back to caffeinated coffee from several years of not drinking caffeinated beverages, and its has been a change, to be sure. But I don't feel like I need a nap anymore.
	6:05pm Scott67: Hah Feldy, I hadn't even read your coffee comment. Great minds mate! ☕😎🤙💨☕
	6:05pm spacebrother: OK, show wrapped! Enjoying DRT now.
	👻 6:06pm Austin Rich: @spacebrother! Always a pleasure.
	👻 6:09pm Austin Rich: Perhaps I have harped on this a bit, but here's another reminder: this episode was originally aired in December, six days before Christmas. This or the next episode would make sense to be the "holiday" episode of the show for 1948, but to my knowledge, there isn't a holiday episode, just evergreen stories. That's not surprising; an evergreen show has more function as a syndicated show. But holiday shows were also VERY common, and it wouldn't be odd to shoehorn one in. If anyone can make a "holiday" connection for this episode, I'd be curious to see what you come up with.
	6:09pm Charles: Intriguing!
	6:11pm Feldy: Coffee-fiend here, Scott
	6:12pm Feldy: LOL Scott @6:05 great minds for sure
	6:13pm Feldy: Austin, how long on the decaf for you?
	6:13pm spacebrother: "Shaved with a baseball bat" is both elegant and clumsy at the same time, as a metaphor.
	👻 6:13pm Austin Rich: Using a little bit of what we learned in the documentary about Alan Ladd last week, it is interesting to note how "clean cut" Dan Holiday is. For the most part, Dan has KNOWLEDGE of the underworld, but himself walks a pretty straight and narrow path. Aside from being able to turn a phrase pretty well, Dan doesn't really drink, doesn't really smoke, and seems to approach his writing with an almost 9 to 5 sort of attitude. He seems to know community members fairly well (even police officers), and people generally know who he is in public. (Like the kind of celebrity that Alan Ladd was.) While Dan talks more that Alan did, I suspect that Dan was supposed to be a little like Alan.
	6:13pm Scott67: Right with ya Feldy! Just made a fresh ground double with a perfect crema. ☕😎🤙
	👻 6:14pm Austin Rich: I was on tea and non-caffeinated beverages for at least three or four years. But the lure of real coffee is just too strong.
	6:15pm Mr Fab: and yet Ladd died at age 50 from booze and drugs. Guess he couldn't have been that clean-cut...
	👻 6:15pm Austin Rich: @spacebrother: what I like about lines like that is that is does sound like the kind of thing you would come up with on the fly, and then later revise to something better in your novel.
	👻 6:15pm Austin Rich: @Mr. Fab: you're spoiling the end of the documentary!
	👻 6:17pm Austin Rich: But yes, Mr. Fab, you can't hide the truth, even if you make up a clean-cut character to sort of cover the person you are underneath. I think he liked the idea of being clean-cut in the show, and seemed to cover up his behavior in public... but those things always take a toll.
	6:17pm Feldy: Scott, most afternoons I do an espresso shot with creme, following two in the morning
	6:19pm Charles: I love Jonesy.
	👻 6:20pm Austin Rich: I like this story, because the MacGuffin is actually seen and in the hands of the lead at the beginning, then looses it. Often in noir stories, the MacGuffin is missing at first, and then is recovered / found. I love Jonesy, too. Thinking about doing a Jonesy supercut, someday.
	6:21pm Charles: All the regulars are great. Suzie, Cling..
	👻 6:24pm Austin Rich: Cling, while antagonistic, does seem to like Dan a little more than some police characters in old Radio Shows. Still... #ACAB.
	👻 6:26pm Austin Rich: A subtle, but effective "radio version" of a "flashback," with Voice Over.
	👻 6:28pm Austin Rich: I also appreciate that we didn't have to listen to both the museum director and Dan tell that story. It works a little better when you just hear it the once.
	6:29pm Feldy: Austin, the commercials are great
	6:30pm Scott67: I'm a one a day man Feldy, but it's a double espresso, neat. Unless invited for coffee during the day. ☕😎🤙👣🌞🌏
	👻 6:30pm Austin Rich: More ads in the original broadcasts means: more Music in Dimestore Radio Theater!
	👻 6:30pm Austin Rich: @Feldy: I need to write a new batch of them. Been sort of putting it off, but I might re-run a couple, here and there.
	6:31pm Charles: It's good instant coffee music.
	👻 6:32pm Austin Rich: I know I've mentioned this before, but: I try to keep all the music I play for this show period for the era I'm re-playing the radio shows. So I don't got any later than the newest show, and usually, I tried to keep it to stuff that would be considered "hits" or "classics" in that period. Still, I fudge things now and then.
	👻 6:34pm Austin Rich: Not exactly the greatest sound this week for The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen. The originally recording was just garbage. While there are some digital artifacts periodically, as part of the clean-up, at least this version is much, MUCH more listenable.
	6:37pm Mr Fab: Ha, that greeting card bit is one of your best.
	👻 6:39pm Austin Rich: Hmmmm... there's a coffee bit in this episode. Forgot about that. Cheers, everyone!
	👻 6:40pm Austin Rich: @Mr. Fab: If I have to go shopping, and I walk past greeting cards, I have often thought, "How to Not Quite Say I Love You." Finally got to write that one down.
	👻 6:42pm Austin Rich: This is like one of those "Shore Leave" episodes of Star Trek, where you just keep waiting for the other shoe to drop...
	👻 6:43pm Austin Rich: We know Phil can take on passengers, so his choice to insist he can't is interesting.
	👻 6:48pm Austin Rich: "[She did] nice things to the wrong sized swimsuit."
	👻 6:50pm Austin Rich: Continuing to harp on the Holiday T-I-P, this episode aired the day before Halloween, 1947. Halloween was less celebrated on radio shows that Christmas was, so it's not exactly odd that this isn't a Halloween story... but the new characters do all seem to be wearing a lot of costumes and masks...
	6:53pm Charles: Well that's scary stuff right there. Dead bodies and all.
	👻 6:54pm Austin Rich: "So long as we got dead bodies on the deck, everything's fine." Red Gallagher yet again proves to be my fave character...
	👻 6:54pm Austin Rich: @Charles: True!
	👻 6:56pm Austin Rich: I wonder if listeners have a theory about what the two gunshots "hit."
	👻 6:58pm Austin Rich: Red suggests he wouldn't break a date with the Skipper...
	6:59pm Mr Fab: i'm glad that they're shouting so we can hear them better.
	7:01pm Scott67: cheers Austin!🍻😎🤙🎶📻
	7:05pm Listener Robert: At least you have dramas, as opposed to Judson Fountain style drammers.
	7:06pm Charles: This hereis the good kind of radio. Instead of having commercials replacing music we get music replacing commercials.
	7:07pm Charles: *Here is
	👻 7:07pm Austin Rich: @Charles: If we have to have commercials, by Earl, I'll write them myself! But yes, let's cut out the ads, if we can. That's always been my motto.
	7:08pm Mr Fab: Listener RobertL great idea! Judson Fountain's radio "drammers" are wonderful.
	7:09pm Listener Robert: Well, they're SOMEthing, that's for sure.
	👻 7:10pm Austin Rich: "Their male wits."
	7:10pm Charles: Was this man the same announcer as the Box 13 one?
	👻 7:12pm Austin Rich: @Charles: Yeah. Alan Ladd is the star of Box 13. He started the radio production company with some of his movie earnings, to start a show of which he could be the lead.
	7:13pm Charles: No I meant that man promoting the movie just now. My english is failing me, sorry I can't explain more clearly.
	👻 7:14pm Austin Rich: Ahhhh! Yeah, in this documentary, Alan isn't interviewed. They do have clips of his films, and his son. But this is mostly just people remembering Alan Ladd.
	7:16pm Listener Robert: Ah, just as Nachum said, "Misremember the past, fabricate the present, fuck the future."
	👻 7:16pm Austin Rich: This story about his insecurity about his height sounds a little like the way Danzig insists on having raised sections of the stage, so when he's performing, he's the same height as the band. (Or taller.)
	7:18pm Mr Fab: the internet says he was 5'6" Veronica Lake was several inches shorter.
	👻 7:19pm Austin Rich: 5' 6" doesn't seem that short to me, but then again, people are insecure about a lot of things.
	👻 7:20pm Austin Rich: It's been so nice here in the Mid-Valley, I've been keeping the windows open in the Lava Lamp Lounge. I almost forgot to close them for the voice over!
	7:20pm Mr Fab: it's an inch shorter than Tom Cruise!
	👻 7:21pm Austin Rich: I wonder if Tom Cruise used that when he was coming up. "I'm an inch taller than Alan Ladd, and HE was a Star."
	👻 7:23pm Austin Rich: I can't remember how tall I am these days, but I think I"m more concerned with my waist, so maybe height doesn't seem so important to me.
	👻 7:26pm Austin Rich: For anyone who is keeping track: there are at least two more installments of the "Alan Ladd" documentary, before we'll be back to regular "Dimestore Revelations" installments. I might try to find similar material on some of the other radio stars on DRT, but for now, this is the only one I have plans to use.
	7:27pm Mr Fab: Creepy episode! Wonder why thou does speaketh in Middle English just because things get weird.
	👻 7:28pm Austin Rich: Good Question, @Mr. Fab. Maybe I should have a segment on Dimestore Revelations where we speculate on unanswered questions from our programs...
	7:28pm Listener Robert: From Penn Jillette I've learned another magician's use of the term "black arts": the camouflaging of operations against a black background -- black clothing, black drapes. Works a lot better than a white background, which I've tried.
	👻 7:30pm Austin Rich: There's a lot to learn from those two.
	👻 7:31pm Austin Rich: Creepy, indeed! Not a holiday episode, but would have made a good Halloween story...
	7:33pm Ellen Lovebug: Hi everyone!
	👻 7:33pm Austin Rich: @Ellen! Always a pleasure to see you in the chat.
	7:33pm Ellen Lovebug: Sorry that I am arriving so late today. I hadn't driven my car in months because of agoraphobia, the battery went dead, I had to have someone pry it out of the car and bring it in to a mechanic to charge
	7:34pm Mr Fab: i don't see anything on discogs prior to 1950 for Korla Pandit. Yet those shows were from 1948.
	7:34pm Ellen Lovebug: I really wanted to be home in time for the Alan Ladd documentary!
	👻 7:34pm Austin Rich: That's terrible, Ellen. Hopefully it is sorted out, now.
	7:35pm Ellen Lovebug: It's going to sit on a trickle charger for 24 hours and hopefully will revive
	👻 7:35pm Austin Rich: @Mr. Fab: I suspect those HAVE to be collected on some release somewhere, but perhaps that was well after the show aired? That's probably worth looking into.
	7:36pm Ellen Lovebug: I recorded an audio file yesterday of a poem of Chris's yesterday, it's going to be our next Bast Awaking song, stay tuned! Oooh, the music would keep me away for sure
	7:36pm Ellen Lovebug: And Thank you Austin, great to be here
	👻 7:36pm Austin Rich: This particular episode shares a few qualities with some previous stories we've heard on "Dimnesion X." There is a sort of "house style" to the show, and a lot of stories sort of blend together in my mind. So I'm often surprised by the end of the stories.
	👻 7:37pm Austin Rich: Bast Awakening returns! I love it!
	7:37pm Ellen Lovebug: What a horribly creepy song
	👻 7:37pm Austin Rich: Sort of like renting the mechanicals?
	👻 7:38pm Austin Rich: Certainly the voice of the doll, and the song, and everything about the way the doll sounds, is endlessly creepy.
	7:38pm Ellen Lovebug: That laugh is horrifying
	7:38pm Charles: The Dimension X episodes with kids are something else. The one with the kids befriending alien invaders was the creepiest one for me to date.
	7:39pm Charles: To compensate for the Scarlet Queen, this episode is VERY halloween!
	7:40pm Listener Robert: Glad you're getting out again, Lovebug. I have a kind of agoraphobia when it comes to driving too; I get scared at speed on multi-lane highways, so I avoid them.
	👻 7:40pm Austin Rich: I'm really astonished that "scary dolls" still persists as a genre, as I have only met people who are horrified by scary dolls. There must be people who like scary dolls... but who are they?
	7:40pm Ellen Lovebug: That's rather unsettling
	7:40pm Ellen Lovebug: Nice analysis of Dan Halliday, Austin
	👻 7:41pm Austin Rich: @Charles: I find a lot of sci-fi with children in them to be particularly scary. I think that was indicative of the authors of these stories: they were probably middle-aged fathers who were a little estranged from their children, and didn't know how to relate to them.
	7:41pm Ellen Lovebug: Poor Blister. That's sad
	7:42pm Ellen Lovebug: I don't like any dolls honestly. Never have really
	👻 7:42pm Austin Rich: This story was sort of re-done on The Twilight Zone, which was also parodied on The Simpsons. And I think Buffy did a version of this... it's a very well-trod trope.
	👻 7:43pm Austin Rich: Talking Tina: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 7:44pm Austin Rich: Treehouse of Horror III: en.wikipedia.org...
	7:44pm Ellen Lovebug: I just remember Miss Edith who was Drusilla's doll she talked to
	👻 7:44pm Austin Rich: As the Minutemen used to say: E. T. C.
	👻 7:45pm Austin Rich: Wasn't there a detective dummy / doll episode, that sort of starts like this story, then the dummy switches sides and joins them? Maybe I'm mis-remembering that one.
	👻 7:47pm Austin Rich: This, of course, is a uniquely "Dimension X" style turn. And I think this sort of happened on the Mechanicals episodes, too.
	7:48pm Ellen Lovebug: On Buffy there was a ventriloquist dummy named Sid that encased a demon hunter
	👻 7:49pm Austin Rich: That's the one. The first part of the episode, starts as if the doll is evil, and I think the first cliffhanger is Sid trying to kill Buffy. (Or one of the gang.) But after that, Sid joins the gang to help out.
	👻 7:50pm Austin Rich: I think they even refer to Sid as "Talking Tina" (a reference to the Twilight Zone episode).
	👻 7:51pm Austin Rich: The Cold War undercurrent of Dimension X continues...
	👻 7:52pm Austin Rich: The show's almost over this week. Thanks for listening, everyone. Any last questions?
	👻 7:53pm Austin Rich: And, I think Angel also did this "the Doll is actually a person, and the person is actually a Doll" in the puppet episode of Angel.
	👻 7:57pm Austin Rich: The number of episodes of Dimension X that end with one character being deemed "insane" while an invasion is actually happening is... astonishing.
	7:58pm Charles: Thanks for the show Austin!
	👻 7:58pm Austin Rich: Thanks @Charles!
	7:59pm Ellen Lovebug: I loved the puppet episode of Angel! Smile Time!
	8:00pm Ellen Lovebug: I miss Buffy. Might be time for a rewatch
	8:00pm Ellen Lovebug: I think Buffy was the first show where I ever deliberately sat and watched every single episode
	8:00pm Scott67: Thanks Austin, always entertaining mate. 🍻😎🤙🎶📻
	👻 8:00pm Austin Rich: And that's the end of the show, everyone! Thanks again!
	8:02pm Mr Fab: Great stuff today, Austin!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 23, 2022

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May 23, 2022: Episode #18

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Box 13	"The Sad Night" ""The Sad Night"" by "Box 13"	19 December 1948	Mayfair Productions	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Harry James	Music Makers "Music Makers" by "Harry James"			0:29:12 (Pop-up)
The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen	"King Ascot And The Maid In Waiting"	30 October 1947	Mutual	0:32:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Harry James	Music Makers "Music Makers" by "Harry James"			1:04:53 (Pop-up)
The Hollywood Collection	Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man (Part 2)	Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man	Wombat Productions	1:06:34 (Pop-up)
Chandu The Magician	"Spell of The Ancient Statue"	21 July 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Networ	1:21:21 (Pop-up)
Dimension X	"Perigi's Wonderful Dolls"	4 August 1950	NBC Radio	1:32:17 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 5:57pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	6:01pm Charles: SMACK!
	6:01pm Feldy: Hey Austin!
	6:01pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Riveted! ☕😎🤙👣🎶📻🌞🌏
	👻 6:01pm Austin Rich: As promised last week, we will continue our documentary presentation about the life story of Alan Ladd during "Dimestore Revelations," later in hour two! For now, settle in for a couple stories from the Mid-Century of radio broadcasting!
	6:02pm Feldy: G'day Scott
	👻 6:02pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, Charles, Feldy & Scott67! (And everyone else eating dinner while they listen!)
	6:02pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! Keeping things noir today.
	👻 6:02pm Austin Rich: @Mr. Fab! My partner in Noir.
	6:02pm Feldy: Instant coffee is gross unless you have no coffee, then it's g-o-l-d
	👻 6:03pm Austin Rich: We should do a back-to-back show for the Pledge Drive sometime, @Mr. Fab.
	6:03pm Scott67: G'day Feldy, just making my double espresso. Want one mate? Or are you on the suds now? ☕😎🤙💨☕🍺
	👻 6:04pm Austin Rich: I recently made the switch back to caffeinated coffee from several years of not drinking caffeinated beverages, and its has been a change, to be sure. But I don't feel like I need a nap anymore.
	6:05pm Scott67: Hah Feldy, I hadn't even read your coffee comment. Great minds mate! ☕😎🤙💨☕
	6:05pm spacebrother: OK, show wrapped! Enjoying DRT now.
	👻 6:06pm Austin Rich: @spacebrother! Always a pleasure.
	👻 6:09pm Austin Rich: Perhaps I have harped on this a bit, but here's another reminder: this episode was originally aired in December, six days before Christmas. This or the next episode would make sense to be the "holiday" episode of the show for 1948, but to my knowledge, there isn't a holiday episode, just evergreen stories. That's not surprising; an evergreen show has more function as a syndicated show. But holiday shows were also VERY common, and it wouldn't be odd to shoehorn one in. If anyone can make a "holiday" connection for this episode, I'd be curious to see what you come up with.
	6:09pm Charles: Intriguing!
	6:11pm Feldy: Coffee-fiend here, Scott
	6:12pm Feldy: LOL Scott @6:05 great minds for sure
	6:13pm Feldy: Austin, how long on the decaf for you?
	6:13pm spacebrother: "Shaved with a baseball bat" is both elegant and clumsy at the same time, as a metaphor.
	👻 6:13pm Austin Rich: Using a little bit of what we learned in the documentary about Alan Ladd last week, it is interesting to note how "clean cut" Dan Holiday is. For the most part, Dan has KNOWLEDGE of the underworld, but himself walks a pretty straight and narrow path. Aside from being able to turn a phrase pretty well, Dan doesn't really drink, doesn't really smoke, and seems to approach his writing with an almost 9 to 5 sort of attitude. He seems to know community members fairly well (even police officers), and people generally know who he is in public. (Like the kind of celebrity that Alan Ladd was.) While Dan talks more that Alan did, I suspect that Dan was supposed to be a little like Alan.
	6:13pm Scott67: Right with ya Feldy! Just made a fresh ground double with a perfect crema. ☕😎🤙
	👻 6:14pm Austin Rich: I was on tea and non-caffeinated beverages for at least three or four years. But the lure of real coffee is just too strong.
	6:15pm Mr Fab: and yet Ladd died at age 50 from booze and drugs. Guess he couldn't have been that clean-cut...
	👻 6:15pm Austin Rich: @spacebrother: what I like about lines like that is that is does sound like the kind of thing you would come up with on the fly, and then later revise to something better in your novel.
	👻 6:15pm Austin Rich: @Mr. Fab: you're spoiling the end of the documentary!
	👻 6:17pm Austin Rich: But yes, Mr. Fab, you can't hide the truth, even if you make up a clean-cut character to sort of cover the person you are underneath. I think he liked the idea of being clean-cut in the show, and seemed to cover up his behavior in public... but those things always take a toll.
	6:17pm Feldy: Scott, most afternoons I do an espresso shot with creme, following two in the morning
	6:19pm Charles: I love Jonesy.
	👻 6:20pm Austin Rich: I like this story, because the MacGuffin is actually seen and in the hands of the lead at the beginning, then looses it. Often in noir stories, the MacGuffin is missing at first, and then is recovered / found. I love Jonesy, too. Thinking about doing a Jonesy supercut, someday.
	6:21pm Charles: All the regulars are great. Suzie, Cling..
	👻 6:24pm Austin Rich: Cling, while antagonistic, does seem to like Dan a little more than some police characters in old Radio Shows. Still... #ACAB.
	👻 6:26pm Austin Rich: A subtle, but effective "radio version" of a "flashback," with Voice Over.
	👻 6:28pm Austin Rich: I also appreciate that we didn't have to listen to both the museum director and Dan tell that story. It works a little better when you just hear it the once.
	6:29pm Feldy: Austin, the commercials are great
	6:30pm Scott67: I'm a one a day man Feldy, but it's a double espresso, neat. Unless invited for coffee during the day. ☕😎🤙👣🌞🌏
	👻 6:30pm Austin Rich: More ads in the original broadcasts means: more Music in Dimestore Radio Theater!
	👻 6:30pm Austin Rich: @Feldy: I need to write a new batch of them. Been sort of putting it off, but I might re-run a couple, here and there.
	6:31pm Charles: It's good instant coffee music.
	👻 6:32pm Austin Rich: I know I've mentioned this before, but: I try to keep all the music I play for this show period for the era I'm re-playing the radio shows. So I don't got any later than the newest show, and usually, I tried to keep it to stuff that would be considered "hits" or "classics" in that period. Still, I fudge things now and then.
	👻 6:34pm Austin Rich: Not exactly the greatest sound this week for The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen. The originally recording was just garbage. While there are some digital artifacts periodically, as part of the clean-up, at least this version is much, MUCH more listenable.
	6:37pm Mr Fab: Ha, that greeting card bit is one of your best.
	👻 6:39pm Austin Rich: Hmmmm... there's a coffee bit in this episode. Forgot about that. Cheers, everyone!
	👻 6:40pm Austin Rich: @Mr. Fab: If I have to go shopping, and I walk past greeting cards, I have often thought, "How to Not Quite Say I Love You." Finally got to write that one down.
	👻 6:42pm Austin Rich: This is like one of those "Shore Leave" episodes of Star Trek, where you just keep waiting for the other shoe to drop...
	👻 6:43pm Austin Rich: We know Phil can take on passengers, so his choice to insist he can't is interesting.
	👻 6:48pm Austin Rich: "[She did] nice things to the wrong sized swimsuit."
	👻 6:50pm Austin Rich: Continuing to harp on the Holiday T-I-P, this episode aired the day before Halloween, 1947. Halloween was less celebrated on radio shows that Christmas was, so it's not exactly odd that this isn't a Halloween story... but the new characters do all seem to be wearing a lot of costumes and masks...
	6:53pm Charles: Well that's scary stuff right there. Dead bodies and all.
	👻 6:54pm Austin Rich: "So long as we got dead bodies on the deck, everything's fine." Red Gallagher yet again proves to be my fave character...
	👻 6:54pm Austin Rich: @Charles: True!
	👻 6:56pm Austin Rich: I wonder if listeners have a theory about what the two gunshots "hit."
	👻 6:58pm Austin Rich: Red suggests he wouldn't break a date with the Skipper...
	6:59pm Mr Fab: i'm glad that they're shouting so we can hear them better.
	7:01pm Scott67: cheers Austin!🍻😎🤙🎶📻
	7:05pm Listener Robert: At least you have dramas, as opposed to Judson Fountain style drammers.
	7:06pm Charles: This hereis the good kind of radio. Instead of having commercials replacing music we get music replacing commercials.
	7:07pm Charles: *Here is
	👻 7:07pm Austin Rich: @Charles: If we have to have commercials, by Earl, I'll write them myself! But yes, let's cut out the ads, if we can. That's always been my motto.
	7:08pm Mr Fab: Listener RobertL great idea! Judson Fountain's radio "drammers" are wonderful.
	7:09pm Listener Robert: Well, they're SOMEthing, that's for sure.
	👻 7:10pm Austin Rich: "Their male wits."
	7:10pm Charles: Was this man the same announcer as the Box 13 one?
	👻 7:12pm Austin Rich: @Charles: Yeah. Alan Ladd is the star of Box 13. He started the radio production company with some of his movie earnings, to start a show of which he could be the lead.
	7:13pm Charles: No I meant that man promoting the movie just now. My english is failing me, sorry I can't explain more clearly.
	👻 7:14pm Austin Rich: Ahhhh! Yeah, in this documentary, Alan isn't interviewed. They do have clips of his films, and his son. But this is mostly just people remembering Alan Ladd.
	7:16pm Listener Robert: Ah, just as Nachum said, "Misremember the past, fabricate the present, fuck the future."
	👻 7:16pm Austin Rich: This story about his insecurity about his height sounds a little like the way Danzig insists on having raised sections of the stage, so when he's performing, he's the same height as the band. (Or taller.)
	7:18pm Mr Fab: the internet says he was 5'6" Veronica Lake was several inches shorter.
	👻 7:19pm Austin Rich: 5' 6" doesn't seem that short to me, but then again, people are insecure about a lot of things.
	👻 7:20pm Austin Rich: It's been so nice here in the Mid-Valley, I've been keeping the windows open in the Lava Lamp Lounge. I almost forgot to close them for the voice over!
	7:20pm Mr Fab: it's an inch shorter than Tom Cruise!
	👻 7:21pm Austin Rich: I wonder if Tom Cruise used that when he was coming up. "I'm an inch taller than Alan Ladd, and HE was a Star."
	👻 7:23pm Austin Rich: I can't remember how tall I am these days, but I think I"m more concerned with my waist, so maybe height doesn't seem so important to me.
	👻 7:26pm Austin Rich: For anyone who is keeping track: there are at least two more installments of the "Alan Ladd" documentary, before we'll be back to regular "Dimestore Revelations" installments. I might try to find similar material on some of the other radio stars on DRT, but for now, this is the only one I have plans to use.
	7:27pm Mr Fab: Creepy episode! Wonder why thou does speaketh in Middle English just because things get weird.
	👻 7:28pm Austin Rich: Good Question, @Mr. Fab. Maybe I should have a segment on Dimestore Revelations where we speculate on unanswered questions from our programs...
	7:28pm Listener Robert: From Penn Jillette I've learned another magician's use of the term "black arts": the camouflaging of operations against a black background -- black clothing, black drapes. Works a lot better than a white background, which I've tried.
	👻 7:30pm Austin Rich: There's a lot to learn from those two.
	👻 7:31pm Austin Rich: Creepy, indeed! Not a holiday episode, but would have made a good Halloween story...
	7:33pm Ellen Lovebug: Hi everyone!
	👻 7:33pm Austin Rich: @Ellen! Always a pleasure to see you in the chat.
	7:33pm Ellen Lovebug: Sorry that I am arriving so late today. I hadn't driven my car in months because of agoraphobia, the battery went dead, I had to have someone pry it out of the car and bring it in to a mechanic to charge
	7:34pm Mr Fab: i don't see anything on discogs prior to 1950 for Korla Pandit. Yet those shows were from 1948.
	7:34pm Ellen Lovebug: I really wanted to be home in time for the Alan Ladd documentary!
	👻 7:34pm Austin Rich: That's terrible, Ellen. Hopefully it is sorted out, now.
	7:35pm Ellen Lovebug: It's going to sit on a trickle charger for 24 hours and hopefully will revive
	👻 7:35pm Austin Rich: @Mr. Fab: I suspect those HAVE to be collected on some release somewhere, but perhaps that was well after the show aired? That's probably worth looking into.
	7:36pm Ellen Lovebug: I recorded an audio file yesterday of a poem of Chris's yesterday, it's going to be our next Bast Awaking song, stay tuned! Oooh, the music would keep me away for sure
	7:36pm Ellen Lovebug: And Thank you Austin, great to be here
	👻 7:36pm Austin Rich: This particular episode shares a few qualities with some previous stories we've heard on "Dimnesion X." There is a sort of "house style" to the show, and a lot of stories sort of blend together in my mind. So I'm often surprised by the end of the stories.
	👻 7:37pm Austin Rich: Bast Awakening returns! I love it!
	7:37pm Ellen Lovebug: What a horribly creepy song
	👻 7:37pm Austin Rich: Sort of like renting the mechanicals?
	👻 7:38pm Austin Rich: Certainly the voice of the doll, and the song, and everything about the way the doll sounds, is endlessly creepy.
	7:38pm Ellen Lovebug: That laugh is horrifying
	7:38pm Charles: The Dimension X episodes with kids are something else. The one with the kids befriending alien invaders was the creepiest one for me to date.
	7:39pm Charles: To compensate for the Scarlet Queen, this episode is VERY halloween!
	7:40pm Listener Robert: Glad you're getting out again, Lovebug. I have a kind of agoraphobia when it comes to driving too; I get scared at speed on multi-lane highways, so I avoid them.
	👻 7:40pm Austin Rich: I'm really astonished that "scary dolls" still persists as a genre, as I have only met people who are horrified by scary dolls. There must be people who like scary dolls... but who are they?
	7:40pm Ellen Lovebug: That's rather unsettling
	7:40pm Ellen Lovebug: Nice analysis of Dan Halliday, Austin
	👻 7:41pm Austin Rich: @Charles: I find a lot of sci-fi with children in them to be particularly scary. I think that was indicative of the authors of these stories: they were probably middle-aged fathers who were a little estranged from their children, and didn't know how to relate to them.
	7:41pm Ellen Lovebug: Poor Blister. That's sad
	7:42pm Ellen Lovebug: I don't like any dolls honestly. Never have really
	👻 7:42pm Austin Rich: This story was sort of re-done on The Twilight Zone, which was also parodied on The Simpsons. And I think Buffy did a version of this... it's a very well-trod trope.
	👻 7:43pm Austin Rich: Talking Tina: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 7:44pm Austin Rich: Treehouse of Horror III: en.wikipedia.org...
	7:44pm Ellen Lovebug: I just remember Miss Edith who was Drusilla's doll she talked to
	👻 7:44pm Austin Rich: As the Minutemen used to say: E. T. C.
	👻 7:45pm Austin Rich: Wasn't there a detective dummy / doll episode, that sort of starts like this story, then the dummy switches sides and joins them? Maybe I'm mis-remembering that one.
	👻 7:47pm Austin Rich: This, of course, is a uniquely "Dimension X" style turn. And I think this sort of happened on the Mechanicals episodes, too.
	7:48pm Ellen Lovebug: On Buffy there was a ventriloquist dummy named Sid that encased a demon hunter
	👻 7:49pm Austin Rich: That's the one. The first part of the episode, starts as if the doll is evil, and I think the first cliffhanger is Sid trying to kill Buffy. (Or one of the gang.) But after that, Sid joins the gang to help out.
	👻 7:50pm Austin Rich: I think they even refer to Sid as "Talking Tina" (a reference to the Twilight Zone episode).
	👻 7:51pm Austin Rich: The Cold War undercurrent of Dimension X continues...
	👻 7:52pm Austin Rich: The show's almost over this week. Thanks for listening, everyone. Any last questions?
	👻 7:53pm Austin Rich: And, I think Angel also did this "the Doll is actually a person, and the person is actually a Doll" in the puppet episode of Angel.
	👻 7:57pm Austin Rich: The number of episodes of Dimension X that end with one character being deemed "insane" while an invasion is actually happening is... astonishing.
	7:58pm Charles: Thanks for the show Austin!
	👻 7:58pm Austin Rich: Thanks @Charles!
	7:59pm Ellen Lovebug: I loved the puppet episode of Angel! Smile Time!
	8:00pm Ellen Lovebug: I miss Buffy. Might be time for a rewatch
	8:00pm Ellen Lovebug: I think Buffy was the first show where I ever deliberately sat and watched every single episode
	8:00pm Scott67: Thanks Austin, always entertaining mate. 🍻😎🤙🎶📻
	👻 8:00pm Austin Rich: And that's the end of the show, everyone! Thanks again!
	8:02pm Mr Fab: Great stuff today, Austin!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 23, 2022

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