WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from June 6, 2022

Listener comments!
	👻 5:20pm Austin Rich: Good Hello
	6:00pm wenzo toad (it/it’s): Good day sits and man’s and Zerzz and hams!
	6:01pm Charles: Hello ladds!
	👻 6:01pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, wenzo toad! Strap in for some mid-century radio dramas!
	👻 6:01pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, Charles! (And thanks for the pun!)
	6:02pm spacebrother: Have to go, but have a great show!
	👻 6:03pm Austin Rich: On the "mean mother-in-laws" trope front: the dumb secretary stereotype.
	6:03pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Audiophiles! ☕😎🤙👣🎶📻🌏🎶🎙️
	👻 6:03pm Austin Rich: See ya next time, Spacebrother! Nice to see you, @Scott67!
	6:03pm Listener Robert: Was that a 4th wall break? "You do and you'll lose your job."?
	6:03pm egould: Every week, Susie. Every week. Try drinking some coffee before you go into work.
	👻 6:04pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, Listener Robert and egould! That could be, Listener Robert! The show does tend to do that. Though, what exactly that is referencing, I'm not sure. (Did the actor who plays Suzy botch lines a lot?)
	6:04pm Mr Fab: hi Austin, and fellow Dimestore customers!
	👻 6:05pm Austin Rich: Pleasure as always, Mr. Fab.
	6:06pm Listener Robert: No, I'm saying her function in Mr. Holiday's office couldn't be to pronounce things wrong and make other mistakes, but her function as a character on "Box 13" is
	👻 6:06pm Austin Rich: Ah! A better observation, for sure.
	6:06pm Charles: The premise of that episode is pretty neat.
	👻 6:07pm Austin Rich: Our story takes a "Most Dangerous Game" sort of turn.
	6:08pm egould: “Most Dangerous Game” or… “Most Delicious Meat”?!?
	👻 6:09pm Austin Rich: So, this rich guy is just like rich people now: I could help people, but I'd rather entertain myself...
	6:10pm Charles: Suzie saves the day. I love it!
	👻 6:11pm Austin Rich: As a kid, I saw, "Midnight Madness," and became obsessed with clue-based scavenger hunts. I always wanted to make one, but... I'm not rich. Suzy really is in love, isn't she?
	6:11pm SW: Hi Austin and everyone! Nice to listen live again 😁
	6:11pm egould: Don’t you mean you “perked on a wuzzle”, Suzy?
	👻 6:11pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, SW!
	👻 6:12pm Austin Rich: This is the first new episode of "Box 13" that was aired in 1949 (January 2nd).
	6:13pm Ellen Lovebug: Hi all :) I love constellations. And I grew up going to Alder Planetarium. Wow, a Hebrew reference (Sheckles as coins)
	👻 6:13pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, Ellen!
	👻 6:14pm Austin Rich: I love Planetariums! I would love to go to one again, soon. I remember the one down in Eugene being pretty fun.
	6:14pm Ellen Lovebug: Enjoyable to be here :) My favorite experience of tracking clues was reading The Westing Game as a kid.
	6:16pm Charles: Hehe nice commercial
	👻 6:16pm Austin Rich: It's really easy to edit, "Box 13," as the music cues that transition into and out of the breaks is always the same, and there's usually an announcer already added in. The other shows I run are not as well produced... or, at least, not as easy to edit.
	👻 6:17pm Austin Rich: "I'm not a dame, I'm a secretary!" One of my fave Suzy lines.
	6:19pm Ellen Lovebug: This is the best-produced radio serial I've encountered. Excellent choice. Also the many possibilities for a king to also be a captive -- could be a king card in a deck in some kind of game, could be a hostage, plus isn't that a plot of a movie, a king and a prisoner who look alike trade places?
	6:20pm Ellen Lovebug: A little zip -- hah. Lion in a zoo! Great answer.
	👻 6:20pm Austin Rich: You can hear the "crackle" on this recording a little more than you usually can on Box 13 this week. Which is odd, but still very listenable, compared to other radio dramas of the time.
	👻 6:21pm Austin Rich: Most likely, the original transcription disc for this episode has a little "noise" on it. At least, to my ears, that sounds like a needle encountering "static" rather than a problem with some other aspect of the recording.
	6:23pm Ellen Lovebug: I love the between-scenes interlude music
	👻 6:24pm Austin Rich: I'm with you, Ellen. The music and production on this show is just SO good, by comparison to a lot of other dramas of the era. I suspect that Alan Ladd would expect nothing less than the best, as this was HIS production company.
	6:25pm Ellen Lovebug: Is he a sadistic psychopath setting up a live snuff film? That's what it sounds like. Ugh.
	👻 6:26pm Austin Rich: Yeah. I think there's not a lot to recommend Winthrop.
	6:28pm Charles: Winthrop's the one who lost faith in humanity? That's funny.
	👻 6:28pm Austin Rich: Yeah... there's some nice dark comedy in this one, for sure.
	👻 6:29pm Austin Rich: "Good Night, Suzy," should be the name of a retrospective book about "Box 13."
	6:29pm Ellen Lovebug: That was an unexpected wrap! I'd read it! Back to work for me. Love you all
	👻 6:29pm Austin Rich: I quite adore this song.
	6:30pm Charles: Have a good day Ellen!
	👻 6:30pm Austin Rich: Good luck at work!
	6:30pm Charles: Yeah that song's great!
	6:32pm SW: A bee's trumpet would be tiny
	👻 6:33pm Austin Rich: I think it's a song about bubble bees, not by them? But I could be wrong. I think this particular episode of "The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen" is a little short... thus so much music this week.
	6:34pm Charles: Some of them even plays the clarhornet.
	👻 6:36pm Austin Rich: We are FINALLY getting to the end of the KANG storyline! This and one more episode...
	👻 6:37pm Austin Rich: Pretty great sound this week.
	👻 6:37pm Austin Rich: This episode suggests that Neilson - the only other named character we've found on the ship - is the person who does all the calling and announcements on the ship.
	👻 6:38pm Austin Rich: (Which means you hear his voice at the beginning and end of most episodes.)
	6:39pm Charles: Oh I thought it was Red for some reason.
	👻 6:39pm Austin Rich: I thought so too, but that's what this episodes seems to imply. Though, I suspect it is the same actor doing both voices...
	6:39pm Listener Robert: I'm just wondering how easy it is in practice to distinguish Acme beer from Acme shampoo.
	👻 6:40pm Austin Rich: You're right, Listener Robert; all Acme Products are made in the same factory, and there's probably not much quality control.
	6:41pm SW: viscosity
	👻 6:41pm Austin Rich: Well, I guess that was supposed to be Neilson and Red in the same scene, so different actor, even. Hmmmm....
	6:42pm Mr Fab: Best sound quality yet for a Scarlet Queen ep.
	👻 6:42pm Austin Rich: Likely that both Red and Neilson have to yell a lot of the Queen. I barely did any EQ this week, Mr. Fab. I suspect, since we are getting to the end, that these episodes were "cared for" more than the others.
	👻 6:43pm Austin Rich: I do appreciate that they are all sort of shocked that there's actually something there to retrieve.
	👻 6:45pm Austin Rich: Red calls Phil "cute."
	👻 6:46pm Austin Rich: A bit of a "Treasure Island" riff, here.
	👻 6:47pm Austin Rich: You might need Acme Brand Beer to see those mermaids that were mentioned.
	👻 6:47pm Austin Rich: And, of course, Phil has to reference Treasure Island, too. At least we've all read the same books.
	6:48pm Scott67: Tin of hash! That's mighty hospitable!
	6:48pm Listener Robert: No makeup man could've done as well, indeed -- that's why it's radio.
	👻 6:48pm Austin Rich: @Scott67: that is pretty gourmet, compared to what he's been eating recently.
	👻 6:49pm Austin Rich: The best part of radio is that you can create the illusion of better FX than most cheap movies.
	👻 6:52pm Austin Rich: I suspect, if you are writing a sailing radio show, that you want to be careful with any "pirate" and "sea-faring" tropes that you may deploy.
	👻 6:56pm Austin Rich: But then, Red yells there. So perhaps they both share that responsibility? Hard to say...
	6:57pm Charles from Québec: You say that episode was shorter than the others? Felt longer (in a good way). Action packed!
	👻 6:57pm Austin Rich: Well, shorter by a few minutes. But a lot happens!
	👻 6:59pm Austin Rich: And the book about the Scarlet Queen should be called, "After You, Mate. After You."
	7:00pm SW: I like this show when it actually seems like something is happening instead of random stuff in the port of the week.
	7:07pm SW: 👋
	👻 7:09pm Austin Rich: At this time in radio drama history, a long on-going serial was more geared for children, or for the day-time soaps. So a 30 Minute Drama like this, where there was a sort of evolving storyline for 21 episodes, was sort of an anomaly. (And, not popular; after episode 21, the show switches to self-contained stories, which was the case for most dramas.) I'm always looking for more exceptions that are outside of kids serials and soaps.
	👻 7:11pm Austin Rich: One common thing at the time was that books were often serialized in short-runs. (Like a mini-series.) But, of course, they were never on-going.
	7:12pm Mr Fab: Really? Not just serialized in magazines? Interesting.
	👻 7:13pm Austin Rich: Well, usually they were well-known books, not usually new. So stuff like "Frankenstein" and "Dracula," other stuff like that. That would have been a good use of the medium, but I think that was pretty forward thinking in the 40's and 50's.
	7:16pm Charles from Québec: This is all very interesting.
	👻 7:18pm Austin Rich: Whoops! I usually edit out all references to the "daily" nature of Chandu for our purposes. Missed that one!
	7:18pm Charles from Québec: It's alright Austin. I guess the only way to fix this is to make Dimestore a daily show now :)
	7:19pm Mr Fab: a Korla track played on the Sheena stream earlier this morn. Reminded me that this show was on today.
	👻 7:19pm Austin Rich: "Sorry dear. I made a slip-up at work, and now the world demands my radio show go daily. I have no choice!"
	7:22pm SW: Well I've got to get to sleep. Was a cool show so far Austin. Night all!
	👻 7:22pm Austin Rich: That's my new greeting when I show up places. "What's up, Crystal Gazers?"
	👻 7:22pm Austin Rich: Goodnight, SW!
	👻 7:27pm Austin Rich: Dorthy's continued inability to believe magic explanations is one of the mysterious things about this show.
	7:32pm Charles from Québec: Was this a short story? I always thought The Martian Chronicles was a novel. I don't know where I got that.
	👻 7:32pm Austin Rich: 1999! A Period Piece!
	7:33pm Charles from Québec: Anyway I'm happy to finally hear it.
	7:33pm MHLee: Hello there
	👻 7:33pm Austin Rich: This is a collection of bits from the book "The Martian Chronicles." The original book is a collection of short stories that Bradbury had published in the years previous.
	👻 7:33pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, MHLee!
	👻 7:34pm Austin Rich: More 50's "Husband and Wife" distrust.
	7:34pm MHLee: Love the idea behind this show.
	👻 7:35pm Austin Rich: "...in a Silver Craft!" <cue Sonic Youth's, "Silver Rocket.">
	7:36pm Mr Fab: wow, hubbie's a real crab.
	👻 7:36pm Austin Rich: On Mars, it must be his time of the orbit.
	7:37pm Mr Fab: boom!
	👻 7:38pm Austin Rich: Captain York sounds pretty dreamy. Is is taken?
	👻 7:38pm Austin Rich: Is he taken, I mean...
	7:39pm MHLee: I've read a bunch of Shadow Comics
	👻 7:40pm Austin Rich: I do love The Shadow. I have some Shadow comics, too.
	7:40pm MHLee: Need to dig into the radio stuff
	👻 7:41pm Austin Rich: Unfortunately, that "gun" SFX didn't sound like a Martian Gun to me...
	👻 7:41pm Austin Rich: The Shadow shows with Orson Welles doing the voices are AMAZING. The others are pretty good, too.
	7:43pm MHLee: Love Welles in what I've seen him in,
	👻 7:44pm Austin Rich: Welles is pretty great, but he's done some real crap, too. (On the radio and in film.) I've sort of come to enjoy the crappier stuff, just because it's such an anomaly. (Especially some of his drunk radio performances... strangely magical, in a sort of uneasy way.)
	👻 7:45pm Austin Rich: This podcast is dedicated to the better Welles radio performances: www.relicradio.com...
	7:45pm MHLee: His direction in the Trial is very good. He also appeared in a Yugo partisan film I watched as a Chetnik
	👻 7:46pm Austin Rich: My fave is the prequel series that Welles recorded, of Harry Lime from The Third Man running around Europe, engaging in charming con games.
	👻 7:46pm Austin Rich: The Trial is pretty great!
	👻 7:48pm Austin Rich: 2020! Another Period Piece!
	7:49pm Charles from Québec: This is a nice alarm.
	👻 7:49pm Austin Rich: This is, I believe, the second time this story has made an appearance on this show?
	👻 7:49pm Austin Rich: Oh, now we shift to 2026! The Future!
	7:50pm MHLee: Speaking of pirates and sailors, I just finished putting together my playlist with those two things
	👻 7:50pm Austin Rich: Oooo! I need more pirates and sailors in my life, for sure.
	7:51pm MHLee: Oh shoot I read an old comment... didn't realize I scrolled up so high
	👻 7:52pm Austin Rich: It happens. We still followed.
	👻 7:53pm Austin Rich: About to wrap up the show! Thanks again everyone! Any final comments?
	7:55pm Mr Fab: I'm glad we have a vaccine for chicken pox now, so we don't wipe put the Martians.
	👻 7:55pm Austin Rich: Yeah. It would probably take something stronger than that to wipe out the Martians.
	7:56pm Doug in MP: Damn, this is depressing
	👻 7:56pm Austin Rich: Twist!
	7:56pm StringOFperils: Awww. They blew up Ohio.
	👻 7:56pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you the in the cat, Doug and StringOfperils.
	7:57pm Mr Fab: Dimension X is DARK.
	👻 7:57pm Austin Rich: Dimension X is the precursor to The Twilight Zone.
	7:57pm Mr Fab: Good thing we have a show of silly music coming up next.
	👻 7:58pm Austin Rich: Well... stylistically, anyway.
	7:58pm Scott67: Hopefully not a prescient date!
	7:58pm StringOFperils: Yeah. Being on Earth is swell. Thanks AR.
	7:59pm Scott67: Thanks Austin! Heading to my bunker now mate! 🍻😎🤙🩴🩴
	8:00pm Mr Fab: thanks again, Austin, and all the Acme sponsors!
	11:36am Sarcofiguy: This is really cool. I love these radio productions. I have a Green Hornet in my collection. I wish I still had my Shadow radio broadcasts, with Blue Star Coal as an advertiser!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from June 6, 2022

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June 6, 2022: Episode #20

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Box 13	"The Better Man" ""The Better Man"" by "Box 13"	2 January 1949	Mayfair Productions	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Harry James	The Flight of The Bumble Bee			0:29:28 (Pop-up)
The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen	"Kang's Treasure and the Ghost of Tangolan Bay"	13 November 1947	Mutual	0:34:50 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Harry James	The Flight of The Bumble Bee			1:03:46 (Pop-up)
The Hollywood Collection	Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man (Part 4)	Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man	Wombat Productions	1:07:20 (Pop-up)
Chandu The Magician	"The Statue's Secret"	25 July 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Network	1:16:53 (Pop-up)
Dimension X	"The Martian Chronicles"	18 August 1950	NBC Radio	1:30:39 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 5:20pm Austin Rich: Good Hello
	6:00pm wenzo toad (it/it’s): Good day sits and man’s and Zerzz and hams!
	6:01pm Charles: Hello ladds!
	👻 6:01pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, wenzo toad! Strap in for some mid-century radio dramas!
	👻 6:01pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, Charles! (And thanks for the pun!)
	6:02pm spacebrother: Have to go, but have a great show!
	👻 6:03pm Austin Rich: On the "mean mother-in-laws" trope front: the dumb secretary stereotype.
	6:03pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Audiophiles! ☕😎🤙👣🎶📻🌏🎶🎙️
	👻 6:03pm Austin Rich: See ya next time, Spacebrother! Nice to see you, @Scott67!
	6:03pm Listener Robert: Was that a 4th wall break? "You do and you'll lose your job."?
	6:03pm egould: Every week, Susie. Every week. Try drinking some coffee before you go into work.
	👻 6:04pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, Listener Robert and egould! That could be, Listener Robert! The show does tend to do that. Though, what exactly that is referencing, I'm not sure. (Did the actor who plays Suzy botch lines a lot?)
	6:04pm Mr Fab: hi Austin, and fellow Dimestore customers!
	👻 6:05pm Austin Rich: Pleasure as always, Mr. Fab.
	6:06pm Listener Robert: No, I'm saying her function in Mr. Holiday's office couldn't be to pronounce things wrong and make other mistakes, but her function as a character on "Box 13" is
	👻 6:06pm Austin Rich: Ah! A better observation, for sure.
	6:06pm Charles: The premise of that episode is pretty neat.
	👻 6:07pm Austin Rich: Our story takes a "Most Dangerous Game" sort of turn.
	6:08pm egould: “Most Dangerous Game” or… “Most Delicious Meat”?!?
	👻 6:09pm Austin Rich: So, this rich guy is just like rich people now: I could help people, but I'd rather entertain myself...
	6:10pm Charles: Suzie saves the day. I love it!
	👻 6:11pm Austin Rich: As a kid, I saw, "Midnight Madness," and became obsessed with clue-based scavenger hunts. I always wanted to make one, but... I'm not rich. Suzy really is in love, isn't she?
	6:11pm SW: Hi Austin and everyone! Nice to listen live again 😁
	6:11pm egould: Don’t you mean you “perked on a wuzzle”, Suzy?
	👻 6:11pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, SW!
	👻 6:12pm Austin Rich: This is the first new episode of "Box 13" that was aired in 1949 (January 2nd).
	6:13pm Ellen Lovebug: Hi all :) I love constellations. And I grew up going to Alder Planetarium. Wow, a Hebrew reference (Sheckles as coins)
	👻 6:13pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, Ellen!
	👻 6:14pm Austin Rich: I love Planetariums! I would love to go to one again, soon. I remember the one down in Eugene being pretty fun.
	6:14pm Ellen Lovebug: Enjoyable to be here :) My favorite experience of tracking clues was reading The Westing Game as a kid.
	6:16pm Charles: Hehe nice commercial
	👻 6:16pm Austin Rich: It's really easy to edit, "Box 13," as the music cues that transition into and out of the breaks is always the same, and there's usually an announcer already added in. The other shows I run are not as well produced... or, at least, not as easy to edit.
	👻 6:17pm Austin Rich: "I'm not a dame, I'm a secretary!" One of my fave Suzy lines.
	6:19pm Ellen Lovebug: This is the best-produced radio serial I've encountered. Excellent choice. Also the many possibilities for a king to also be a captive -- could be a king card in a deck in some kind of game, could be a hostage, plus isn't that a plot of a movie, a king and a prisoner who look alike trade places?
	6:20pm Ellen Lovebug: A little zip -- hah. Lion in a zoo! Great answer.
	👻 6:20pm Austin Rich: You can hear the "crackle" on this recording a little more than you usually can on Box 13 this week. Which is odd, but still very listenable, compared to other radio dramas of the time.
	👻 6:21pm Austin Rich: Most likely, the original transcription disc for this episode has a little "noise" on it. At least, to my ears, that sounds like a needle encountering "static" rather than a problem with some other aspect of the recording.
	6:23pm Ellen Lovebug: I love the between-scenes interlude music
	👻 6:24pm Austin Rich: I'm with you, Ellen. The music and production on this show is just SO good, by comparison to a lot of other dramas of the era. I suspect that Alan Ladd would expect nothing less than the best, as this was HIS production company.
	6:25pm Ellen Lovebug: Is he a sadistic psychopath setting up a live snuff film? That's what it sounds like. Ugh.
	👻 6:26pm Austin Rich: Yeah. I think there's not a lot to recommend Winthrop.
	6:28pm Charles: Winthrop's the one who lost faith in humanity? That's funny.
	👻 6:28pm Austin Rich: Yeah... there's some nice dark comedy in this one, for sure.
	👻 6:29pm Austin Rich: "Good Night, Suzy," should be the name of a retrospective book about "Box 13."
	6:29pm Ellen Lovebug: That was an unexpected wrap! I'd read it! Back to work for me. Love you all
	👻 6:29pm Austin Rich: I quite adore this song.
	6:30pm Charles: Have a good day Ellen!
	👻 6:30pm Austin Rich: Good luck at work!
	6:30pm Charles: Yeah that song's great!
	6:32pm SW: A bee's trumpet would be tiny
	👻 6:33pm Austin Rich: I think it's a song about bubble bees, not by them? But I could be wrong. I think this particular episode of "The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen" is a little short... thus so much music this week.
	6:34pm Charles: Some of them even plays the clarhornet.
	👻 6:36pm Austin Rich: We are FINALLY getting to the end of the KANG storyline! This and one more episode...
	👻 6:37pm Austin Rich: Pretty great sound this week.
	👻 6:37pm Austin Rich: This episode suggests that Neilson - the only other named character we've found on the ship - is the person who does all the calling and announcements on the ship.
	👻 6:38pm Austin Rich: (Which means you hear his voice at the beginning and end of most episodes.)
	6:39pm Charles: Oh I thought it was Red for some reason.
	👻 6:39pm Austin Rich: I thought so too, but that's what this episodes seems to imply. Though, I suspect it is the same actor doing both voices...
	6:39pm Listener Robert: I'm just wondering how easy it is in practice to distinguish Acme beer from Acme shampoo.
	👻 6:40pm Austin Rich: You're right, Listener Robert; all Acme Products are made in the same factory, and there's probably not much quality control.
	6:41pm SW: viscosity
	👻 6:41pm Austin Rich: Well, I guess that was supposed to be Neilson and Red in the same scene, so different actor, even. Hmmmm....
	6:42pm Mr Fab: Best sound quality yet for a Scarlet Queen ep.
	👻 6:42pm Austin Rich: Likely that both Red and Neilson have to yell a lot of the Queen. I barely did any EQ this week, Mr. Fab. I suspect, since we are getting to the end, that these episodes were "cared for" more than the others.
	👻 6:43pm Austin Rich: I do appreciate that they are all sort of shocked that there's actually something there to retrieve.
	👻 6:45pm Austin Rich: Red calls Phil "cute."
	👻 6:46pm Austin Rich: A bit of a "Treasure Island" riff, here.
	👻 6:47pm Austin Rich: You might need Acme Brand Beer to see those mermaids that were mentioned.
	👻 6:47pm Austin Rich: And, of course, Phil has to reference Treasure Island, too. At least we've all read the same books.
	6:48pm Scott67: Tin of hash! That's mighty hospitable!
	6:48pm Listener Robert: No makeup man could've done as well, indeed -- that's why it's radio.
	👻 6:48pm Austin Rich: @Scott67: that is pretty gourmet, compared to what he's been eating recently.
	👻 6:49pm Austin Rich: The best part of radio is that you can create the illusion of better FX than most cheap movies.
	👻 6:52pm Austin Rich: I suspect, if you are writing a sailing radio show, that you want to be careful with any "pirate" and "sea-faring" tropes that you may deploy.
	👻 6:56pm Austin Rich: But then, Red yells there. So perhaps they both share that responsibility? Hard to say...
	6:57pm Charles from Québec: You say that episode was shorter than the others? Felt longer (in a good way). Action packed!
	👻 6:57pm Austin Rich: Well, shorter by a few minutes. But a lot happens!
	👻 6:59pm Austin Rich: And the book about the Scarlet Queen should be called, "After You, Mate. After You."
	7:00pm SW: I like this show when it actually seems like something is happening instead of random stuff in the port of the week.
	7:07pm SW: 👋
	👻 7:09pm Austin Rich: At this time in radio drama history, a long on-going serial was more geared for children, or for the day-time soaps. So a 30 Minute Drama like this, where there was a sort of evolving storyline for 21 episodes, was sort of an anomaly. (And, not popular; after episode 21, the show switches to self-contained stories, which was the case for most dramas.) I'm always looking for more exceptions that are outside of kids serials and soaps.
	👻 7:11pm Austin Rich: One common thing at the time was that books were often serialized in short-runs. (Like a mini-series.) But, of course, they were never on-going.
	7:12pm Mr Fab: Really? Not just serialized in magazines? Interesting.
	👻 7:13pm Austin Rich: Well, usually they were well-known books, not usually new. So stuff like "Frankenstein" and "Dracula," other stuff like that. That would have been a good use of the medium, but I think that was pretty forward thinking in the 40's and 50's.
	7:16pm Charles from Québec: This is all very interesting.
	👻 7:18pm Austin Rich: Whoops! I usually edit out all references to the "daily" nature of Chandu for our purposes. Missed that one!
	7:18pm Charles from Québec: It's alright Austin. I guess the only way to fix this is to make Dimestore a daily show now :)
	7:19pm Mr Fab: a Korla track played on the Sheena stream earlier this morn. Reminded me that this show was on today.
	👻 7:19pm Austin Rich: "Sorry dear. I made a slip-up at work, and now the world demands my radio show go daily. I have no choice!"
	7:22pm SW: Well I've got to get to sleep. Was a cool show so far Austin. Night all!
	👻 7:22pm Austin Rich: That's my new greeting when I show up places. "What's up, Crystal Gazers?"
	👻 7:22pm Austin Rich: Goodnight, SW!
	👻 7:27pm Austin Rich: Dorthy's continued inability to believe magic explanations is one of the mysterious things about this show.
	7:32pm Charles from Québec: Was this a short story? I always thought The Martian Chronicles was a novel. I don't know where I got that.
	👻 7:32pm Austin Rich: 1999! A Period Piece!
	7:33pm Charles from Québec: Anyway I'm happy to finally hear it.
	7:33pm MHLee: Hello there
	👻 7:33pm Austin Rich: This is a collection of bits from the book "The Martian Chronicles." The original book is a collection of short stories that Bradbury had published in the years previous.
	👻 7:33pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, MHLee!
	👻 7:34pm Austin Rich: More 50's "Husband and Wife" distrust.
	7:34pm MHLee: Love the idea behind this show.
	👻 7:35pm Austin Rich: "...in a Silver Craft!" <cue Sonic Youth's, "Silver Rocket.">
	7:36pm Mr Fab: wow, hubbie's a real crab.
	👻 7:36pm Austin Rich: On Mars, it must be his time of the orbit.
	7:37pm Mr Fab: boom!
	👻 7:38pm Austin Rich: Captain York sounds pretty dreamy. Is is taken?
	👻 7:38pm Austin Rich: Is he taken, I mean...
	7:39pm MHLee: I've read a bunch of Shadow Comics
	👻 7:40pm Austin Rich: I do love The Shadow. I have some Shadow comics, too.
	7:40pm MHLee: Need to dig into the radio stuff
	👻 7:41pm Austin Rich: Unfortunately, that "gun" SFX didn't sound like a Martian Gun to me...
	👻 7:41pm Austin Rich: The Shadow shows with Orson Welles doing the voices are AMAZING. The others are pretty good, too.
	7:43pm MHLee: Love Welles in what I've seen him in,
	👻 7:44pm Austin Rich: Welles is pretty great, but he's done some real crap, too. (On the radio and in film.) I've sort of come to enjoy the crappier stuff, just because it's such an anomaly. (Especially some of his drunk radio performances... strangely magical, in a sort of uneasy way.)
	👻 7:45pm Austin Rich: This podcast is dedicated to the better Welles radio performances: www.relicradio.com...
	7:45pm MHLee: His direction in the Trial is very good. He also appeared in a Yugo partisan film I watched as a Chetnik
	👻 7:46pm Austin Rich: My fave is the prequel series that Welles recorded, of Harry Lime from The Third Man running around Europe, engaging in charming con games.
	👻 7:46pm Austin Rich: The Trial is pretty great!
	👻 7:48pm Austin Rich: 2020! Another Period Piece!
	7:49pm Charles from Québec: This is a nice alarm.
	👻 7:49pm Austin Rich: This is, I believe, the second time this story has made an appearance on this show?
	👻 7:49pm Austin Rich: Oh, now we shift to 2026! The Future!
	7:50pm MHLee: Speaking of pirates and sailors, I just finished putting together my playlist with those two things
	👻 7:50pm Austin Rich: Oooo! I need more pirates and sailors in my life, for sure.
	7:51pm MHLee: Oh shoot I read an old comment... didn't realize I scrolled up so high
	👻 7:52pm Austin Rich: It happens. We still followed.
	👻 7:53pm Austin Rich: About to wrap up the show! Thanks again everyone! Any final comments?
	7:55pm Mr Fab: I'm glad we have a vaccine for chicken pox now, so we don't wipe put the Martians.
	👻 7:55pm Austin Rich: Yeah. It would probably take something stronger than that to wipe out the Martians.
	7:56pm Doug in MP: Damn, this is depressing
	👻 7:56pm Austin Rich: Twist!
	7:56pm StringOFperils: Awww. They blew up Ohio.
	👻 7:56pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you the in the cat, Doug and StringOfperils.
	7:57pm Mr Fab: Dimension X is DARK.
	👻 7:57pm Austin Rich: Dimension X is the precursor to The Twilight Zone.
	7:57pm Mr Fab: Good thing we have a show of silly music coming up next.
	👻 7:58pm Austin Rich: Well... stylistically, anyway.
	7:58pm Scott67: Hopefully not a prescient date!
	7:58pm StringOFperils: Yeah. Being on Earth is swell. Thanks AR.
	7:59pm Scott67: Thanks Austin! Heading to my bunker now mate! 🍻😎🤙🩴🩴
	8:00pm Mr Fab: thanks again, Austin, and all the Acme sponsors!
	11:36am Sarcofiguy: This is really cool. I love these radio productions. I have a Green Hornet in my collection. I wish I still had my Shadow radio broadcasts, with Blue Star Coal as an advertiser!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from June 6, 2022

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