Favoriting Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from June 20, 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!

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Favoriting June 20, 2022: Episode #22

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Box 13  "The Dowager & Dan Holiday"   Favoriting 16 January 1949  Mayfair Productions 
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Duke Ellington  Take The "A" Train   Favoriting    
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The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen  "Huntsman's Quarry & the Dead Chinese"   Favoriting 27 November 1947  Mutual 
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Duke Ellington 

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Ben Brooks  The First Fifty Years Part 1   Favoriting The History of Radio  Group W: Westinghouse Broadcasting Company 
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Chandu The Magician  "Betty & Bob Disappear"   Favoriting 27 July 1948  Mutual–Don Lee Networ 
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Dimension X  "The Roads Must Roll"   Favoriting 1 September 1950  NBC Radio 
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Listener comments!

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Austin Rich:

Good Hello
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zivilars:

Hey Austin!
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Feldy:

What's up, Austin!
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Good Ol' Charles:

Will it be a violence-free day for Holiday? We'll find out!
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Austin Rich:

Good Hello, zivilars! And Feldy!
  6:01pm
SW:

Evening all!
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Scott67:

G'day Austin & Listeners!
☕😎🤙
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Austin Rich:

And Charles and SW!
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Austin Rich:

And Scott 67!
  6:03pm
SW:

Just have time to listen to Box 13 live today
  6:03pm
Listener Robert:

Nothing beats Acme pencils, but most of the others tie them.
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Austin Rich:

We have a great line-up for you tonight! With a Heinlein story for our Dimension X slot!
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MHLee:

Hello all
  6:03pm
SW:

But that's ok as it's my favourite series 😁
  6:04pm
Ellen Lovebug:

I missed Alan's dulcet tones
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Austin Rich:

Good Hello, Listener Robert! And MHLee: great show! Thanks for the set-up!
  6:04pm
John R.:

Good afternoon Austin and all!😊
  6:04pm
Ellen Lovebug:

That was a great line
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Austin Rich:

Ellen, great to see you in the chat!
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Good Ol' Charles:

So Dan has been contacted by a filthy rich man before and now one of the richest woman?
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Austin Rich:

And John R! The gang's all here!
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Mr Fab:

Hey Austin, I love dowagers! Do they exist anymore? They were always in old comedies, clutching their pearls, and gasping, "Well, I never! In all my life!"
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 6:05pm
Austin Rich:

And Mr. Fab! A dowager can be good for comedy... or drama!
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Feldy:

I need some ACME® Brand Pencils in a 2H lead. Everybody raves about the Blackwing pencils but they're super soft
  6:05pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Thank you, yes I recognize that dowager trope. This one sounds like Professor McGonagal
  6:06pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Forms her own opinions, I like her
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Charles:

Ahah I can hear it too now Ellen.
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Feldy:

Yes, same here Ellen
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Austin Rich:

And ACME might not stand up to the reputation of a Blackwing, but it'll certainly get you though college. And that's a promise!
  6:07pm
Ellen Lovebug:

<3 <3 Wow, she's presumptuous
  6:08pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Oh my goodness. Perhaps she's trying to break up her grandkid and a fiancee of his by pretending Dan had an affair with her or something?
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Austin Rich:

I do appreciate that almost every woman we meet in Box 13 isn't there for Dan to ogle. In fact, most of the women we meet aren't even Dan's age... except Suzie. It sort of helps maintain the tension between Suzie and Dan.
  6:10pm
Ellen Lovebug:

I get the sense that she's very nosy but that it might have to do with protecting her inheritance. Yep, now I'm certain with that twist it's about that
  6:11pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Oh my
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
Austin Rich:

I feel like I saw a Drag Queen do an old-woman impression, and sounded just like this old woman here.
  6:12pm
Ellen Lovebug:

I can understand her motivations
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Charles:

Let me finish.
  6:13pm
SW:

Sounds much like an old woman impersonating a drag queen too
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
Austin Rich:

During a pandemic: this story is VERY relatable.
  6:13pm
Ellen Lovebug:

I fully relate to agoraphobia
  6:14pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Today I made myself not wear a mask when in my own yard gardening. Wore a hat for the sun but not a mask. First time in months. I was always wearing a mask in my own yard while totally alone
  6:14pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Electric run-about
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Austin Rich:

Right now, it's more about doing what makes us feel safe. Sometimes it takes a long time.
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Austin Rich:

I think that was a reference to the old electric cars they used to have in the 30s and 40s, that were run out of business by gas car companies.
  6:15pm
Ellen Lovebug:

I love the orchestration of this show's various intros and outros and highlights
Gosh I remember #2s
  6:16pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Watch the documentary, "Who Killed the Electric Car". It was illuminating (pun intended)
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MHLee:

I like the idea you can only get 1 or 50
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Austin Rich:

It would be cool if there were and easy way to get the soundtrack to Box 13, so I could make my own. I have a few cues that have been isolated, but a lot have talking over them.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 6:17pm
Austin Rich:

The ACME company doesn't have the best sense of the kinds of quantities people actually buy.
  6:18pm
SW:

Some of the very early land speed record cars were electric.
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MHLee:

All the HB production music is online and the Ren and Stimpy stuff. I reckon I could put a show together with those.
  6:19pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Framed for theft?
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Charles:

Police? Hey what's up!
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Austin Rich:

I think, based on Dan's actions in the first half of this show, that Dan would just just go on a series of dates with almost anyone who writes to Box 13.

Is Dan really lonely? He really needs to figure out that Suzie is into him.
  6:20pm
Ellen Lovebug:

I hope the series ends with them together
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MHLee:

The quality of this recording is really good
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Austin Rich:

I honestly can't remember how the last episode goes.
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Austin Rich:

There's a little bit of "crackle" from the transcript disc, but otherwise: not bad! Box 13 is usually pretty well preserved, but I don't know the reason why. (Like: were these official "Mayfair Productions" copies, or fan copies... or... ?)
  6:23pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Maybe the emeralds have been replaced with fakes, and the dowager figured it out, and didn't want the blame to fall on her grandson
  6:24pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Maybe she pawned them to keep her estate and the grandson knew that
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Charles:

If Dan has to get physical with the butler he will. Don't doubt that for a second!
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Austin Rich:

I think we established that Dan was the service, and participated in the European theater of WWII. So I suspect he is well trained in a number of combat styles.
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Austin Rich:

Ellen! I think you called it!
  6:27pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Wow I think this is my new favorite episode
  6:28pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Dan is rather chivalrous
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Austin Rich:

This episode is pretty charming... but no real crime this week. Or, at least, nothing too wild.
  6:29pm
Ellen Lovebug:

I like the acting and the motivations in this one and Dan having more to talk about
  6:29pm
Listener Robert:

I'm LOL at that ad.
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zivilars:

Enjoying listening to those radio dramas in the middle of the night here ... perfect time for that
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Feldy:

Pencils! Write upside down, in all temperatures!
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Austin Rich:

Come to think of it: I think I've heard a Drag Queen do a voice like Suzie, too.
  6:29pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Oh Susie with the silly quips
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Austin Rich:

Glad to hear that, zivilars!
  6:29pm
SW:

Well I have to go already, that was indeed a good episode. Night Austin and everyone!
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Austin Rich:

I do listen to these at night if I can't sleep, either.
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Feldy:

Also included with pencils: Eraser tip with ferrule
  6:30pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Ok, love you all, sorry that I have to go back to work and miss the rest. I always enjoy your little commercials
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Austin Rich:

See ya next time, Ellen!
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Charles:

That was great even if I didn't get to hear those great sound effects of people getting punched.
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Austin Rich:

Another "educational segment" crammed into Voyage of The Scarlet Queen. I relocated it to the break, as that makes more sense to me.
  6:33pm
Listener Robert:

I was sure that was going to end in a pun set up by all the BS.
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Austin Rich:

(As a result, this week, Voyage of the Scarlet Queen is a little short.)
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 6:34pm
Austin Rich:

(Yeah, that "educational" spot was particularly... not educational.")
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Austin Rich:

Not bad sound this week on Voyage of The Scarlet Queen... I did a little adjustment to get it a little more in-line with the rest of the show. Still... it sounds better than man others I've aired.
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Austin Rich:

Gordon & Kohler! New crew members!
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Austin Rich:

That gives us five of the eight crew members now named:

Phil.
Red
Gordon
Kohler
Neilson
Person 6
Person 7
Person 8!
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Austin Rich:

I wonder if we'll get the last three crew members names before the end of the existing episodes.
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Charles:

I like Phil's exasperated Bonsoir's.
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Austin Rich:

Now that the Kang storyline is over, this is sort of more representative of what the show is like for the remainder: Phil and Red, going from port to port, trying to do their regular work and getting into trouble.
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Austin Rich:

Oh! This episode was broadcast on Thanksgiving, 1947. I can imagine a lot of people were probably listening to the radio after dinner with the family, passing the time before they had to drive home.
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Charles:

I liked that. I don't mind the "port of the week" format.
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Austin Rich:

Me either. I think it works just as well. Wish the company that made it had kept going...
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Scott67:

Still listening!☕😎🤙
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Feldy:

Hey Scott! 🍻
  7:04pm
John R.:

Looking forward to hearing it Austin.
  7:09pm
John R.:

Doh, Sorry Austin I thought it was starting next week 😁
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Austin Rich:

Whoops! Guess I wasn't very clear. So you get to hear it now!
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Scott67:

G'day Feldy! 🍻😎🤙
  7:12pm
John R.:

Austin: 👍😊
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Charles:

Boxes that make noises are my favorites.
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Austin Rich:

I'm with you, Charles. I got my first radio when I was 10, and I've been turning the dials on weird sound making things ever since.
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MHLee:

Have to duck out, cheers
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Austin Rich:

Thanks for listening, MHLee!
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Charles:

Hey I got my first radio as a gift at 10 too! Fun!
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Austin Rich:

Mine came with a tape deck, so I could record the radio. It was all over from there...
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Charles:

I played with that a bit too but tapes were on their way out. We had Compact Discs now!
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Austin Rich:

I got one of those in High School, but I couldn't record to CDs (not for a long time), so I was a tape guy until around 2004.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
Austin Rich:

I still have hundred and hundreds of tapes.
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Charles:

How long tapes last?
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Austin Rich:

Pretty long. I have some reel-to-reel tapes that my mom made in the 80's, and I think they will still play. (They look fine.)

I have some tapes from High School... they still play fine.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
Austin Rich:

(That was almost 30 years ago.)
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Austin Rich:

I have some cds from 2003 that no longer read, sadly. But my tapes and records still play fine.
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Charles:

What do transcript discs look like? I suppose you have some?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
Austin Rich:

But a professionally duplicated CD can last quite some time. And I even have some Burned CDRs that are over 20 years old that still read just fine. Like with anything, care and proper storage is the key to keeping old media working well.
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Austin Rich:

I have a few transcript discs. They looks just like vinyl LPs, but they are 16"s in diameter, for the most part. (Sometimes smaller.) They often have a metal core and and plastic or shellac outer portion, where the information is etched in. During WWII, they were made of a much more fragile material (metal was precious), so most of the discs that have survived into the modern age are from after WWII.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
Austin Rich:

But really, radio shows were distributed on just about any format. For the longest time, 10" discs were the standard for commercial and radio use, mostly before WWII, in the earliest days of radio.

Well, in the earliest days: all radio was live. But later, transcription discs allowed at least 15 minute bursts where you didn't have to have a live person on the mic.
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Austin Rich:

You can sort of hear a "ghost" recording of this show in the background of the proper recording. Whoever archived this show originally didn't do the best job of keeping the audio pristine, and I suspect at one point in this recordings life, it was transferred onto a tape that had another recording already on it, and then that tape became the "master" that this digital file was made from. Unfortunate, but I've heard much worse.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
Austin Rich:

This has got such an "early 50's" sci-fi vibe to it. It seems like authors then loved to imagine that all the "luxuries" of the 50's would persist forever, and even the sci-fi concept is one tied desperately to the notion that commuting is the future of all life.
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Charles:

And no one has transcript discs of those shows? They were only for radio uses?

Otherwise I'd think it would be easier to archive shows from those than recording them live.

My english is failing me a bit. Sorry if I'm not making sense right now.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
Austin Rich:

You are making sense, don't worry.
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Austin Rich:

If a radio show was broadcast live, then there was never a transcription disc. Unless a listener at home recorded the show themselves, and saved it for the future. (Which did happen.)
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
Austin Rich:

And, to many fans horror, a lot of shows were "thrown away" once they were aired, as a lot of stations didn't think to save things.
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Austin Rich:

Discs that were made of metal were scrapped for the war effort in WWII, so we don't have much from before then.
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Austin Rich:

"Tape" was not really commercially available until after WWII.
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Charles:

Oooh I understand a bit better now. Makes sense.
  7:44pm
John R.:

Thank you for the info Austin.
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Austin Rich:

So there's a lot of factors that were working against there being a lot of recordings of old radio shows. But there are still an astonishing number of shows that are still available, in the modern age, thanks to fans who took on preservation efforts.
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Austin Rich:

archive.org is my primary resource. I search, "Old Radio Shows." Thousands of recordings come up.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
Austin Rich:

Still, I dream of a radio that could tune into the past, so I could listen to radio the way it used to be. There's only so much that I can learn from books and the recordings that do exist.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
Austin Rich:

The "terrorist" angle of this story was certainly not expected when I first heard this.
  7:50pm
Listener Robert:

Not one of Heinlein's better stories. I'm among those who suspect it was written just to fill in details in his History of the Future, since the "later" stories had already been published making reference to the by-then abandoned rolling roads.
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Charles:

That was a great "ooouuuuuuh".
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Austin Rich:

I'm with you, Listener Robert. It's not the best story, but it was good "filler" for that particular effort. I think some of his other stories are better for radio purposes.
  7:53pm
Listener Robert:

No, Mr. Rich, Heinlein's History of the Future did NOT assume those things would go on forever. Look at the stories "later' in the history that refer glancingly to the then-abandoned "road cities" as a kind of short-lived folly.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
Austin Rich:

Within the context of this story, though, the idea that a Steak is still a luxury item in their future is a very "50's" vision of the future.
  7:55pm
Listener Robert:

In fact his History of the Future imagined all sorts of trends that would come and go.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
Austin Rich:

"Steak will always be the best meal." Welll... until meat runs out.
  7:56pm
Listener Robert:

On my budget it's still a luxury item.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
Austin Rich:

Unfortunately, this was the best recording of this story I could find. Did a little clean-up, but it's still not great. Like my dream of the past radio, I would basically tune in to get good recordings of these old shows.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
Austin Rich:

Another Dimension X trope: the wife that gets left in the lurch...
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Charles:

Thanks Austin! Later everyone!
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Austin Rich:

Thanks Charles! See ya'll next week!
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Scott67:

Thanks Austin! Scintillating stuff mate!
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Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Austin Rich:

Thanks Scott67! See ya next time!
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Feldy:

Thanks Austin!
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Austin Rich:

Thanks Feldy!
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