WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 18, 2022

Listener comments!
	👻 5:47pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	6:00pm MHLee: howdy
	6:01pm Charles: What's Holiday up to today?
	6:01pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Audio Rich's! 🍻😎🤙🎶📻☀️🌏🌻
	6:01pm John R.: A good afternoon to you as well Sir!
	👻 6:01pm Austin Rich: Much like our very own, "Will A Sound Man," the tag line says, "The Star of Paramount Pictures," but realistically, he is, "A Star of Paramount Pictures." So it goes.
	6:01pm Ellen Lovebug: Hi all. Ooh, interesting title. Like The Prisoner's Dilemna?
	👻 6:02pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, MHLee, Charles, Scott67, John R, and Ellen! Sounds like a pretty lively chat, already.
	6:02pm Ellen Lovebug: True enough. Smarmy hahaha
	6:02pm Ellen Lovebug: "Trust me, you need this...bad" is like every ad ever
	6:03pm Charles: .. featuring an employee of Paramount Pictures!
	👻 6:03pm Austin Rich: Hey, it took almost 10 years to develop just the right level of radio smarm. It takes practice!
	6:03pm Ellen Lovebug: Ooh that notorious "other side of the tracks"
	6:03pm Ellen Lovebug: Haha you're great at it
	6:04pm Ellen Lovebug: I didn't really believe there would be that much change in social class just by a railroad track bisecting a neighborhood until I moved to the north end of the Whit after years at the Icky's end of the Blair district
	👻 6:05pm Austin Rich: Much like the "other side of the tracks" trope, shows like Box 13 were often these tropes before they were "over-used." I'm sure a lot of people who were rich enough to own radios didn't realize there was a wrong side of the tracks to be on... because on that side, you wouldn't hear about it on the radio.
	👻 6:05pm Austin Rich: ... often using these tropes...
	6:07pm Ellen Lovebug: Fascinating. Wow this kid is rude and the slang seems false in his obnoxious voice
	👻 6:08pm Austin Rich: In all of the previous episodes, we've been accumulating evidence that Dan Holiday has been exposed to a lot of "hardened" street crime, but he himself is sort of a fuddy duddy. This episode really lays it on the line: "I don't go against the law." Dan hasn't yet learned about #ACAB.
	6:09pm Ellen Lovebug: He has circumvented law enforcement in episodes, gone against their warnings
	6:10pm Ellen Lovebug: I'd be charmed lol
	6:10pm Ellen Lovebug: HAHAH a cake baked
	6:10pm Ellen Lovebug: That was a great quip! "It's a virtue, and I take it you don't have many of them"
	👻 6:10pm Austin Rich: He has... but usually, with Kling sort of backing him up in the end, even after a warning. Almost like they have to go through the motions before they can do it "unofficially."
	👻 6:11pm Austin Rich: I love the dialog in this scene.
	6:11pm Ellen Lovebug: :) so romantic lol
	6:12pm Ellen Lovebug: turtle...played tag ... gosh these authors rock
	👻 6:13pm Austin Rich: One hallmark of "hardboiled conversation" that seems to carry over in a lot of media is a sort of "homoerotic subtext" to so many interactions. There's a lot of, "Thanks lover," and, "don't treat me rough," kinds of conversation, that sort of speaks to the tension of beautiful, tough men all working together often. I'm sure there's a few papers in there that I could write.
	6:13pm Ellen Lovebug: He's basically admitting he's innocent here
	6:13pm Ellen Lovebug: Absolutely. So. Much. Subtext. It's fun
	👻 6:14pm Austin Rich: That's why I think you are right about the interpretation of Biff (the slang doesn't work right). That's a character trait, not a mistake. The writers are good enough to know better, but wrote Biff a little "dim." It's very well done.
	6:14pm Ellen Lovebug: Rogues Gallery
	6:16pm Ellen Lovebug: I could live in this world with Dan as a defender and glorious intro outro music
	6:16pm Ellen Lovebug: Woah there, Tiger. <--I kinda want that as a ringtone
	👻 6:16pm Austin Rich: That music does feel pretty triumphant.
	6:16pm Ellen Lovebug: Lure that mate...continuing the sort of animalistic theme of the ad
	👻 6:16pm Austin Rich: I could send you that sample, Ellen.
	6:18pm Ellen Lovebug: In a vise, great diction. I love that since Dan is an author, the writers don't have to mince words, they can break out the thesaurus for him
	6:18pm Ellen Lovebug: Yes, please :)
	6:19pm Ellen Lovebug: "to shake the shadow"
	👻 6:21pm Austin Rich: If you like the dialog in this show, I love watching, "Millers Crossing," for that same reason. The dialog in that movie is sort of on the same level as other noir-type stories, and it's a great movie, too. But I mostly love listening to the way people talk in that movie.
	6:22pm Ellen Lovebug: Thanks for the tip!
	6:23pm Listener Robert: I wonder how much of the audience then laughed along with me now at that line about when kids would learn what's obviously untrue about the police.
	👻 6:24pm Austin Rich: I was just thinking about that, Listener Robert.
	6:24pm Listener Robert: An individual policeman can be your friend. "The police", never.
	👻 6:24pm Austin Rich: I think most adults listening knew that was a joke. (Or, at least, untrue.)
	👻 6:27pm Austin Rich: In a way, detective / noir fiction is all based on the notion that the police are incompetent, and a real "hero" is needed to get to the bottom of things. Having police say lines like that can't be taken seriously, when Dan keeps saving the day.
	6:27pm Listener Robert: But it wouldn't surprise me if those involved in the making and airing of the show needed to score those points with the authorities. Like what came out a few decades ago about the consideration TV stations, networks, and producers received in trade for writing favorably about the government.
	6:28pm Listener Robert: What you wrote at 6:27 is true. Notice how the police and thugs talk exactly the same.
	👻 6:29pm Austin Rich: Of course Suzy likes the idea of being alone in the dark with a man. Oh that Suzy!
	6:29pm Ellen Lovebug: Thank you, that was fun. Back to work for me! I love Suzy
	6:30pm Charles: That was great! Later Ellen!
	👻 6:31pm Austin Rich: What I find fascinating about radio and more "pop culture" presentations of noir stories is that, in the end, the police "execute" the law that the detective gets to the bottom of. So on radio, the police are more functionaries, than "cops."
	6:31pm Charles: Merry christmas!
	👻 6:32pm Austin Rich: So, this is the the "Christmas" episode of the "The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen," and of course, they spend it on Christmas Island. Hilarity ensues...
	👻 6:33pm Austin Rich: Certainly, anyone listening to this show on Christmas Eve in 1947 was probably expecting some holiday content from the radio. I suspect this idea (Christmas on Christmas Island) was in the works from very near the beginning.
	👻 6:35pm Austin Rich: Not the worst sound this week, but I did a little EQ to help reduce the background hiss and up the mids. It doesn't sound as good as other episodes, but it's certainly better that some of the others.
	👻 6:36pm Austin Rich: I realize I should have promoted this episodes as, "Christmas In July on Dimestore Radio Theater."
	👻 6:38pm Austin Rich: Another encounter with Neilson, and this time, with a fair amount of dialog!
	👻 6:40pm Austin Rich: There was another character earlier that was sort of screaming, and it was unclear who that might be. So: still no new names of the other crew members. Yet.
	👻 6:45pm Austin Rich: We are in the end-run of our "Scarlet Queen" presentation. There's 10 more "proper" episodes, and then two "Pilot" recordings. (One, a different version of a story we've already heard, and another, with an imagined new version of the show, set in the late 50's. We'll run those after the primary episodes, and #37 will the the last time we'll get to enjoy Voyages on The Scarlet Queen.
	6:45pm Charles: That's not a baby, that's a crew mate crying.
	👻 6:45pm Austin Rich: Red just cut the food rations of someone, and they are sad.
	👻 6:50pm Austin Rich: A part of me thinks Red would actually make a good Nursemaid.
	6:56pm Charles: You're giving us a lot to think about, Christmas special of the Voyage of the Scarlet Queen!
	👻 6:56pm Austin Rich: I just realized that they referenced a "Cook" on the ship, which they haven't really made any references to in the past. That leaves four crew members "referenced" early on, but not directly referenced in the show anywhere so far. So our crew is, so far: Phil Carney - Captain Red Gallagher - First Mate Neilson - Crewmember Four - Cook. Five Six Seven. Eight.
	6:57pm Listener Robert: So there's a New Year's Eve show coming.
	👻 6:58pm Austin Rich: I think the show has depicted both Red and Gallagher yelling in these "before and after" bits of the show, so I haven't decided who it actually is, yet.
	👻 6:58pm Austin Rich: True, Listener Robert!
	7:02pm Scott67: Still here mate!🍻😎🤙
	7:02pm Charles: There's only so much places we can discuss salt water!
	7:03pm Scott67: I tend to close my eyes & get carried away with my imaginings of the story. So don't chat much, of I lose the thread.
	7:04pm Scott67: or*
	7:06pm Charles: With a little vintage drink, perhaps.
	👻 7:06pm Austin Rich: They used to call that, "Theater of the Mind," Scott67.
	👻 7:07pm Austin Rich: Charles and I are going to meet up and "Knot-Tying Con" this year. It's gonna be dope.
	7:10pm Charles: That radio parody broadcasting had a little WFMU thing going on with it.
	👻 7:11pm Austin Rich: A little bit.
	7:13pm Charles: Those jingles are pretty good.
	👻 7:13pm Austin Rich: There's not a lot of samples of what radio was like in this era, so recordings like this Westinghouse record give you a little glimpse.
	👻 7:14pm Austin Rich: (I think we have five more parts of "The History of Radio: The First 50 Years.")
	7:15pm MHLee: It's very hard to find old radio singles
	7:16pm MHLee: The Kate Smith version of dream a little dream must exist but all the net will pull up is here preforming it 20 years later
	👻 7:19pm Austin Rich: Don Joyce ran a very good series of his program, "Over The Edge," called, "How Radio Was Done," and he does a in-depth re-presentation of old radio recordings, in chronological order. Each episode is between three and five hours long, and there's over 100 episodes. Lots of amazing raw recordings of old radio broadcasts.
	👻 7:20pm Austin Rich: Here's a link to the official OTE page, on archive.org: archive.org...
	👻 7:21pm Austin Rich: And here's a link to all 106 of the "How Radio Was Done" tagged episodes: archive.org...
	👻 7:22pm Austin Rich: The first four episodes cover up to WWII, and have the "oldest" radio recordings. (And some stuff about the development of the technology.) The pace of the show slows way down very quickly, as there is more stuff covering the 50's and 60's that's been archived.
	7:23pm Scott67: My mind is more a rundown VHS Era Video Rental Store Austin! 🍻😎🤙📼📺👾☠️
	👻 7:24pm Austin Rich: That's certainly when I grew up, Scott67. But over the years I've become fascinated by those early days of radio.
	7:27pm Scott67: Thanks to you Austin, so am I mate.🍻😎🤙🎶📻
	👻 7:28pm Austin Rich: A Ray Bradbury Story!
	7:28pm Charles: That was fun. I like Abdullah.
	👻 7:28pm Austin Rich: (From The Martian Chronicles.)
	👻 7:29pm Austin Rich: I think it's funny that they tried to make Abdullah "vaguely bad," even though he was always helping them. This was the episode where they finally had it out with them.
	7:29pm Charles: Can't believe I used to look at deep space with my own eyes like a chump.
	7:31pm Charles: One of them reminds me of Red, the way he talks.
	👻 7:32pm Austin Rich: You can really hear the crackle from the transcription disc that this recording came from. I thought about running click removal on the recording (I already did a fair amount of EQ and editing to help improve the sound for this one), but when I tried to do the click removal, it just mangled the sound badly. So a little noise comes with the territory.
	👻 7:32pm Austin Rich: Good point, Charles! I can kind of hear it.
	7:36pm Charles: Is the sound cutting just on my end? Well it's over now.
	7:37pm Listener Robert: Well, at least by dying from chicken pox, the Martians were spared of getting shingles later in life.
	👻 7:38pm Austin Rich: Sorry for the cut-out. If the archive is mangled, let me know. I have a pristine copy I can have uploaded to the archive.
	👻 7:43pm Austin Rich: That actor has an Elmer Fudd sound to his character.
	7:44pm Scott67: Archive the good copy just in case mate?
	👻 7:44pm Austin Rich: I've got a pristine copy, for sure!
	👻 7:45pm Austin Rich: I try to keep this website updated, too, but certainly the WFMU.org archive is cannon. dimestoreradiotheater.com
	7:46pm Listener Robert: Interesting possibilities regarding the cause of an Elmer Fudd voice. Did you hear Dave Emory before and after his surgery? And then slowly getting back toward normal over the years. Andy Breckman had surgery on his throat too, but not as severe consequences or reason.
	👻 7:47pm Austin Rich: I can only imagine. Just listening to different recordings and bands I've been in over the years, my voice has changed dramatically in ways I can't get back. Of well. Old age changes us all...
	👻 7:48pm Austin Rich: This episode has a bit of a body count, already. I forgot about that.
	👻 7:50pm Austin Rich: Hearing the thoughts of Martians in his head... and how he had always heard them, even when he was younger... I've wondered if that bit had an influence on Joe Dante's, "Explorers," which sort of has a bit in there about the kids (and kids of previous generations) getting dream-messages from aliens.
	👻 7:51pm Austin Rich: Getting close to the end fo the show. Thanks again everyone for joining in! Robot Radio Revolution begins tomorrow on Mid-Valley Mutations, and we'll be having a lot of sci-fi samples and songs about robots. Join us!
	7:52pm Charles: Well the episode is about chickenpox after all, we have to expect it to get messy!
	👻 7:53pm Austin Rich: Diseases killing everyone. What crazy fiction. Oh... right...
	7:54pm Listener Robert: Probably Frank O'Toole played that Martian music.
	👻 7:54pm Austin Rich: That seems likely.
	👻 7:56pm Austin Rich: It does look like there was a stream interruption about 20 minutes ago. I'll upload a fresh copy to the archive later.
	👻 7:57pm Austin Rich: The gun sound effect was so "mild" in the recording, I almost replaced it with a louder one. But I kept it as it.
	7:57pm Listener Robert: That's how a gunshot sounds in the Martian atmosphere.
	7:58pm Scott67: Thanks Austin! Always an audio adventure mate! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	👻 7:58pm Austin Rich: Ahhhh! You win the "No Prize" for this episode, Listener Robert.
	7:58pm Charles: Thanks Austin! Until next time radio friends!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 18, 2022

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July 18, 2022: Episode #26

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Box 13	"The Delinquent's Dilemma"	13 February 1949	Mayfair Productions	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Freddy Martin (Jack Fina, piano)	Grieg Piano Concerto [Excerpt]			0:29:06 (Pop-up)
The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen	"The 15th Lama And The Wise Guy From The East"	24 December 1947	Mutual	0:29:30 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Freddy Martin (Jack Fina, piano)	Grieg Piano Concerto			1:00:41 (Pop-up)
Ben Brooks	The First Fifty Years Part 5	The History of Radio	Group W: Westinghouse Broadcasting Company	1:05:56 (Pop-up)
Chandu The Magician	"Abdullah Disappears"	2 August 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Network	1:14:02 (Pop-up)
Dimension X	"And the Moon be Still as Bright"	29 September 1950	NBC Radio	1:27:45 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 5:47pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	6:00pm MHLee: howdy
	6:01pm Charles: What's Holiday up to today?
	6:01pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Audio Rich's! 🍻😎🤙🎶📻☀️🌏🌻
	6:01pm John R.: A good afternoon to you as well Sir!
	👻 6:01pm Austin Rich: Much like our very own, "Will A Sound Man," the tag line says, "The Star of Paramount Pictures," but realistically, he is, "A Star of Paramount Pictures." So it goes.
	6:01pm Ellen Lovebug: Hi all. Ooh, interesting title. Like The Prisoner's Dilemna?
	👻 6:02pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, MHLee, Charles, Scott67, John R, and Ellen! Sounds like a pretty lively chat, already.
	6:02pm Ellen Lovebug: True enough. Smarmy hahaha
	6:02pm Ellen Lovebug: "Trust me, you need this...bad" is like every ad ever
	6:03pm Charles: .. featuring an employee of Paramount Pictures!
	👻 6:03pm Austin Rich: Hey, it took almost 10 years to develop just the right level of radio smarm. It takes practice!
	6:03pm Ellen Lovebug: Ooh that notorious "other side of the tracks"
	6:03pm Ellen Lovebug: Haha you're great at it
	6:04pm Ellen Lovebug: I didn't really believe there would be that much change in social class just by a railroad track bisecting a neighborhood until I moved to the north end of the Whit after years at the Icky's end of the Blair district
	👻 6:05pm Austin Rich: Much like the "other side of the tracks" trope, shows like Box 13 were often these tropes before they were "over-used." I'm sure a lot of people who were rich enough to own radios didn't realize there was a wrong side of the tracks to be on... because on that side, you wouldn't hear about it on the radio.
	👻 6:05pm Austin Rich: ... often using these tropes...
	6:07pm Ellen Lovebug: Fascinating. Wow this kid is rude and the slang seems false in his obnoxious voice
	👻 6:08pm Austin Rich: In all of the previous episodes, we've been accumulating evidence that Dan Holiday has been exposed to a lot of "hardened" street crime, but he himself is sort of a fuddy duddy. This episode really lays it on the line: "I don't go against the law." Dan hasn't yet learned about #ACAB.
	6:09pm Ellen Lovebug: He has circumvented law enforcement in episodes, gone against their warnings
	6:10pm Ellen Lovebug: I'd be charmed lol
	6:10pm Ellen Lovebug: HAHAH a cake baked
	6:10pm Ellen Lovebug: That was a great quip! "It's a virtue, and I take it you don't have many of them"
	👻 6:10pm Austin Rich: He has... but usually, with Kling sort of backing him up in the end, even after a warning. Almost like they have to go through the motions before they can do it "unofficially."
	👻 6:11pm Austin Rich: I love the dialog in this scene.
	6:11pm Ellen Lovebug: :) so romantic lol
	6:12pm Ellen Lovebug: turtle...played tag ... gosh these authors rock
	👻 6:13pm Austin Rich: One hallmark of "hardboiled conversation" that seems to carry over in a lot of media is a sort of "homoerotic subtext" to so many interactions. There's a lot of, "Thanks lover," and, "don't treat me rough," kinds of conversation, that sort of speaks to the tension of beautiful, tough men all working together often. I'm sure there's a few papers in there that I could write.
	6:13pm Ellen Lovebug: He's basically admitting he's innocent here
	6:13pm Ellen Lovebug: Absolutely. So. Much. Subtext. It's fun
	👻 6:14pm Austin Rich: That's why I think you are right about the interpretation of Biff (the slang doesn't work right). That's a character trait, not a mistake. The writers are good enough to know better, but wrote Biff a little "dim." It's very well done.
	6:14pm Ellen Lovebug: Rogues Gallery
	6:16pm Ellen Lovebug: I could live in this world with Dan as a defender and glorious intro outro music
	6:16pm Ellen Lovebug: Woah there, Tiger. <--I kinda want that as a ringtone
	👻 6:16pm Austin Rich: That music does feel pretty triumphant.
	6:16pm Ellen Lovebug: Lure that mate...continuing the sort of animalistic theme of the ad
	👻 6:16pm Austin Rich: I could send you that sample, Ellen.
	6:18pm Ellen Lovebug: In a vise, great diction. I love that since Dan is an author, the writers don't have to mince words, they can break out the thesaurus for him
	6:18pm Ellen Lovebug: Yes, please :)
	6:19pm Ellen Lovebug: "to shake the shadow"
	👻 6:21pm Austin Rich: If you like the dialog in this show, I love watching, "Millers Crossing," for that same reason. The dialog in that movie is sort of on the same level as other noir-type stories, and it's a great movie, too. But I mostly love listening to the way people talk in that movie.
	6:22pm Ellen Lovebug: Thanks for the tip!
	6:23pm Listener Robert: I wonder how much of the audience then laughed along with me now at that line about when kids would learn what's obviously untrue about the police.
	👻 6:24pm Austin Rich: I was just thinking about that, Listener Robert.
	6:24pm Listener Robert: An individual policeman can be your friend. "The police", never.
	👻 6:24pm Austin Rich: I think most adults listening knew that was a joke. (Or, at least, untrue.)
	👻 6:27pm Austin Rich: In a way, detective / noir fiction is all based on the notion that the police are incompetent, and a real "hero" is needed to get to the bottom of things. Having police say lines like that can't be taken seriously, when Dan keeps saving the day.
	6:27pm Listener Robert: But it wouldn't surprise me if those involved in the making and airing of the show needed to score those points with the authorities. Like what came out a few decades ago about the consideration TV stations, networks, and producers received in trade for writing favorably about the government.
	6:28pm Listener Robert: What you wrote at 6:27 is true. Notice how the police and thugs talk exactly the same.
	👻 6:29pm Austin Rich: Of course Suzy likes the idea of being alone in the dark with a man. Oh that Suzy!
	6:29pm Ellen Lovebug: Thank you, that was fun. Back to work for me! I love Suzy
	6:30pm Charles: That was great! Later Ellen!
	👻 6:31pm Austin Rich: What I find fascinating about radio and more "pop culture" presentations of noir stories is that, in the end, the police "execute" the law that the detective gets to the bottom of. So on radio, the police are more functionaries, than "cops."
	6:31pm Charles: Merry christmas!
	👻 6:32pm Austin Rich: So, this is the the "Christmas" episode of the "The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen," and of course, they spend it on Christmas Island. Hilarity ensues...
	👻 6:33pm Austin Rich: Certainly, anyone listening to this show on Christmas Eve in 1947 was probably expecting some holiday content from the radio. I suspect this idea (Christmas on Christmas Island) was in the works from very near the beginning.
	👻 6:35pm Austin Rich: Not the worst sound this week, but I did a little EQ to help reduce the background hiss and up the mids. It doesn't sound as good as other episodes, but it's certainly better that some of the others.
	👻 6:36pm Austin Rich: I realize I should have promoted this episodes as, "Christmas In July on Dimestore Radio Theater."
	👻 6:38pm Austin Rich: Another encounter with Neilson, and this time, with a fair amount of dialog!
	👻 6:40pm Austin Rich: There was another character earlier that was sort of screaming, and it was unclear who that might be. So: still no new names of the other crew members. Yet.
	👻 6:45pm Austin Rich: We are in the end-run of our "Scarlet Queen" presentation. There's 10 more "proper" episodes, and then two "Pilot" recordings. (One, a different version of a story we've already heard, and another, with an imagined new version of the show, set in the late 50's. We'll run those after the primary episodes, and #37 will the the last time we'll get to enjoy Voyages on The Scarlet Queen.
	6:45pm Charles: That's not a baby, that's a crew mate crying.
	👻 6:45pm Austin Rich: Red just cut the food rations of someone, and they are sad.
	👻 6:50pm Austin Rich: A part of me thinks Red would actually make a good Nursemaid.
	6:56pm Charles: You're giving us a lot to think about, Christmas special of the Voyage of the Scarlet Queen!
	👻 6:56pm Austin Rich: I just realized that they referenced a "Cook" on the ship, which they haven't really made any references to in the past. That leaves four crew members "referenced" early on, but not directly referenced in the show anywhere so far. So our crew is, so far: Phil Carney - Captain Red Gallagher - First Mate Neilson - Crewmember Four - Cook. Five Six Seven. Eight.
	6:57pm Listener Robert: So there's a New Year's Eve show coming.
	👻 6:58pm Austin Rich: I think the show has depicted both Red and Gallagher yelling in these "before and after" bits of the show, so I haven't decided who it actually is, yet.
	👻 6:58pm Austin Rich: True, Listener Robert!
	7:02pm Scott67: Still here mate!🍻😎🤙
	7:02pm Charles: There's only so much places we can discuss salt water!
	7:03pm Scott67: I tend to close my eyes & get carried away with my imaginings of the story. So don't chat much, of I lose the thread.
	7:04pm Scott67: or*
	7:06pm Charles: With a little vintage drink, perhaps.
	👻 7:06pm Austin Rich: They used to call that, "Theater of the Mind," Scott67.
	👻 7:07pm Austin Rich: Charles and I are going to meet up and "Knot-Tying Con" this year. It's gonna be dope.
	7:10pm Charles: That radio parody broadcasting had a little WFMU thing going on with it.
	👻 7:11pm Austin Rich: A little bit.
	7:13pm Charles: Those jingles are pretty good.
	👻 7:13pm Austin Rich: There's not a lot of samples of what radio was like in this era, so recordings like this Westinghouse record give you a little glimpse.
	👻 7:14pm Austin Rich: (I think we have five more parts of "The History of Radio: The First 50 Years.")
	7:15pm MHLee: It's very hard to find old radio singles
	7:16pm MHLee: The Kate Smith version of dream a little dream must exist but all the net will pull up is here preforming it 20 years later
	👻 7:19pm Austin Rich: Don Joyce ran a very good series of his program, "Over The Edge," called, "How Radio Was Done," and he does a in-depth re-presentation of old radio recordings, in chronological order. Each episode is between three and five hours long, and there's over 100 episodes. Lots of amazing raw recordings of old radio broadcasts.
	👻 7:20pm Austin Rich: Here's a link to the official OTE page, on archive.org: archive.org...
	👻 7:21pm Austin Rich: And here's a link to all 106 of the "How Radio Was Done" tagged episodes: archive.org...
	👻 7:22pm Austin Rich: The first four episodes cover up to WWII, and have the "oldest" radio recordings. (And some stuff about the development of the technology.) The pace of the show slows way down very quickly, as there is more stuff covering the 50's and 60's that's been archived.
	7:23pm Scott67: My mind is more a rundown VHS Era Video Rental Store Austin! 🍻😎🤙📼📺👾☠️
	👻 7:24pm Austin Rich: That's certainly when I grew up, Scott67. But over the years I've become fascinated by those early days of radio.
	7:27pm Scott67: Thanks to you Austin, so am I mate.🍻😎🤙🎶📻
	👻 7:28pm Austin Rich: A Ray Bradbury Story!
	7:28pm Charles: That was fun. I like Abdullah.
	👻 7:28pm Austin Rich: (From The Martian Chronicles.)
	👻 7:29pm Austin Rich: I think it's funny that they tried to make Abdullah "vaguely bad," even though he was always helping them. This was the episode where they finally had it out with them.
	7:29pm Charles: Can't believe I used to look at deep space with my own eyes like a chump.
	7:31pm Charles: One of them reminds me of Red, the way he talks.
	👻 7:32pm Austin Rich: You can really hear the crackle from the transcription disc that this recording came from. I thought about running click removal on the recording (I already did a fair amount of EQ and editing to help improve the sound for this one), but when I tried to do the click removal, it just mangled the sound badly. So a little noise comes with the territory.
	👻 7:32pm Austin Rich: Good point, Charles! I can kind of hear it.
	7:36pm Charles: Is the sound cutting just on my end? Well it's over now.
	7:37pm Listener Robert: Well, at least by dying from chicken pox, the Martians were spared of getting shingles later in life.
	👻 7:38pm Austin Rich: Sorry for the cut-out. If the archive is mangled, let me know. I have a pristine copy I can have uploaded to the archive.
	👻 7:43pm Austin Rich: That actor has an Elmer Fudd sound to his character.
	7:44pm Scott67: Archive the good copy just in case mate?
	👻 7:44pm Austin Rich: I've got a pristine copy, for sure!
	👻 7:45pm Austin Rich: I try to keep this website updated, too, but certainly the WFMU.org archive is cannon. dimestoreradiotheater.com
	7:46pm Listener Robert: Interesting possibilities regarding the cause of an Elmer Fudd voice. Did you hear Dave Emory before and after his surgery? And then slowly getting back toward normal over the years. Andy Breckman had surgery on his throat too, but not as severe consequences or reason.
	👻 7:47pm Austin Rich: I can only imagine. Just listening to different recordings and bands I've been in over the years, my voice has changed dramatically in ways I can't get back. Of well. Old age changes us all...
	👻 7:48pm Austin Rich: This episode has a bit of a body count, already. I forgot about that.
	👻 7:50pm Austin Rich: Hearing the thoughts of Martians in his head... and how he had always heard them, even when he was younger... I've wondered if that bit had an influence on Joe Dante's, "Explorers," which sort of has a bit in there about the kids (and kids of previous generations) getting dream-messages from aliens.
	👻 7:51pm Austin Rich: Getting close to the end fo the show. Thanks again everyone for joining in! Robot Radio Revolution begins tomorrow on Mid-Valley Mutations, and we'll be having a lot of sci-fi samples and songs about robots. Join us!
	7:52pm Charles: Well the episode is about chickenpox after all, we have to expect it to get messy!
	👻 7:53pm Austin Rich: Diseases killing everyone. What crazy fiction. Oh... right...
	7:54pm Listener Robert: Probably Frank O'Toole played that Martian music.
	👻 7:54pm Austin Rich: That seems likely.
	👻 7:56pm Austin Rich: It does look like there was a stream interruption about 20 minutes ago. I'll upload a fresh copy to the archive later.
	👻 7:57pm Austin Rich: The gun sound effect was so "mild" in the recording, I almost replaced it with a louder one. But I kept it as it.
	7:57pm Listener Robert: That's how a gunshot sounds in the Martian atmosphere.
	7:58pm Scott67: Thanks Austin! Always an audio adventure mate! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	👻 7:58pm Austin Rich: Ahhhh! You win the "No Prize" for this episode, Listener Robert.
	7:58pm Charles: Thanks Austin! Until next time radio friends!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 18, 2022

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