Favoriting Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from August 1, 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 August 1, 2022: Episode #28

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Box 13  "Hare and Hounds"   Favoriting 27 February 1949  Mayfair Productions 
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The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen  "The Derelict and the Wandering Boy"   Favoriting 7 January 1948  Mutual 
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Tommy Dorsey 

Well Git It!   Favoriting

 

 

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Ben Brooks  The First Fifty Years Part 7   Favoriting The History of Radio  Group W: Westinghouse Broadcasting Company 
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Chandu The Magician  "Disappearing Ink"   Favoriting 4 August 1948  Mutual–Don Lee Network 
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Dimension X  "The Professor Was a Thief"   Favoriting 5 November 1950  NBC Radio 
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Listener comments!

  7/25 7:59pm
John R:

Thank you Austin!
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Austin Rich:

I haven't even started yet, and the accolades have begun! Thanks, John R!
  5:58pm
Listener Robert:

Maybe you've heard this before, but your opening chimes "translate" from the original to "BCN". Any implied connection to a current or former WBCN?
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Scott67:

G'day Austin & Audience!
☕😎🤙🎶📻🌻🌏
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Austin Rich:

Good Hello, Listener Robert and Scott67!

I didn't even think about that connection, Listener Robert! That's very clever. I was merely thinking of a way to re-arrange those chimes in an amusing way. But I should have thought of that!
  6:01pm
Ellen Lovebug:

I literally structure my Mondays around Box 13. Sorry I missed the set up....
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Mike Rogers:

Hi Austin san! Greetings from Japan!
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Austin Rich:

Good Hello, Ellen! And Mike!
  6:02pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Wow, konichi-wa
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Feldy:

Does ACME make a Ham-Strawberry soda?
  6:02pm
Ellen Lovebug:

I don't think asparagus soda is a think...but I have drunk celery soda, which is a thing in Jewish delis in the midwest (really)
  6:02pm
Charles:

Steak and Ketchup! Acme hits the mark again!
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spacebrother:

Hair and Hounds sounds like a great pub.
  6:02pm
John R:

Good afternoon Austin and gang!
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Mike Rogers:

こんにちは!
Konnichi ha!
  6:03pm
Ellen Lovebug:

www.seriouseats.com...
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Austin Rich:

Feldy: I'll recommend it at the next board meeting!
  6:03pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Susie, be safe!
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Austin Rich:

Good Hello, Charles & spacebrother!
  6:04pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Susie is all shaken up
  6:04pm
egould:

Goddammit Suzy. Not again. Smh
  6:04pm
Ellen Lovebug:

She was right! What a sweet thing to say
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 6:05pm
Austin Rich:

The "chimes" Listener Robert was talking about at the beginning of the show was a joke that I stole from myself: I made them for a 90 minute supernatural radio noir story I produced a few years ago:

marcuslittleadventures.com/
  6:05pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Prosaic! Great word
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Austin Rich:

Good Hello, egould!
  6:05pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Aw, a fan
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Austin Rich:

"One never can tell, can they."
  6:06pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Fun haha
  6:06pm
Ellen Lovebug:

The guy stole the letter! OY VEY
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Mike Rogers:

OK. Hate to sound dumb, but is that "Alan Ladd" talking for real?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 6:07pm
Austin Rich:

It really is! Alan Ladd had a very long radio career.
  6:07pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Oh my. Whatever that object is...I hope he gets it back
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Mike Rogers:

Wow!
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Mr Fab:

Yes, Mike - he's tall on the radio. They don't have to make any boxes for him to stand on.
  6:07pm
Ellen Lovebug:

He needs to get in touch with Holmes
  6:08pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Dramatic music cue!
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Austin Rich:

Alan Ladd even owned the production company that produced this show. If you like this, ALL of the Box 13 episodes are sort of like this.
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Mike Rogers:

Wow! Sounds from the end of an era!
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Mike Rogers:

Was Alan Ladd very short?
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Mr Fab:

Oh yeah. We're talking Tom Cruise short.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
Austin Rich:

I always like to point out the date: 27 February, 1949. While there's nothing significant about the date, and this show almost never does anything related to the time of year, I like to imagine people at home, on a cold night, huddled around the radio, listening to this story.
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Mike Rogers:

I didn't know. Is Tom Cruise short too?
  6:11pm
Listener Robert:

I love how certain characters can get so many concussions without brain damage.
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Austin Rich:

Alan Ladd was 5' 7", according to his wiki. But I think, compared to many of his contemporaries, who were often 6' and higher, he looked short.
Avatar 6:12pm
Mike Rogers:

That little Punk kid! Ha! Ha! ha!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
Austin Rich:

(Tom Cruise is also 5' 7". A lost of male actors are often over 6', so he's still considered short.)
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Austin Rich:

If I'm not mistaken, I'm only 5' 8".
  6:14pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Dan is so intrepid and quick on his feet. I love him
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Mike Rogers:

It must have been a pain in the butt to make these kinds of radio dramas. All the editing! Urgh!
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Mr Fab:

Funny story here about putting Alan Ladd on boxes, tall costars in ditches, so no one loomed over him:
www.theguardian.com...
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Feldy:

Hearing the show via your mic Austin
  6:14pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Wow. How funny
  6:14pm
Charles:

There's a sound issue similar to last week Austin
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Mike Rogers:

Ha! Austin san! I idenitfy as 7'8" and eat punks like Tom Cruise for breakfast! Ha Ha! Ha!
  6:15pm
Ellen Lovebug:

That rose to a triumphant swell :)
  6:16pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Baking soda is underrated. It can absorb refrigerator odors and be used in cleaning and in toothpaste, as well as in baking
  6:16pm
John R:

Austin, come in Austin….
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spacebrother:

Yeah, some tech issue. Sounds like it's back to the robot.
  6:16pm
Ellen Lovebug:

I'm confused, what's playing now?
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Feldy:

All better
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spacebrother:

You're back!
  6:16pm
Charles:

All good!
  6:16pm
Ellen Lovebug:

swell haha
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Austin Rich:

Damn. Hopefully I'm back now?
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Mike Rogers:

Kill him! Kill him now!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 6:17pm
Austin Rich:

Damn. I keep having such back luck streaming this show. If I can't get things right again next week, I might need to change my set-up.
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Mr Fab:

Sounds like the drama has returned.
  6:17pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Always with the grace under pressure
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Austin Rich:

Fortunately, I can upload a pristine copy to the archive later. Sorry everyone!
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Mike Rogers:

Jst kill him because it's more Gansta that way.
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Feldy:

Maybe it's foul-play. See if Suzy can find the man who sold you those cables
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Mike Rogers:

Austin san! It is cool!
  6:19pm
Ellen Lovebug:

So odd that Ring Around the Rosie even exists. It's about the plague!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 6:19pm
Austin Rich:

These internet broadcasts are as fragile as the early radio broadcasts, back in the day.
  6:19pm
John R:

No worries Austin!
  6:19pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Umbrella guy!
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Austin Rich:

I was gonna comment on that, Ellen! If you haven't looked into the history of that rhyme, it's pretty unnerving.
  6:20pm
Ellen Lovebug:

In general, nursery rhymes and faerie tales and some fables are terrifying
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Mike Rogers:

Kill the umbrella guy and Johnny! Kill everyone!!! Arrrghhhh!
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Mr Fab:

Mike, i don't know if they edited these much. Weren't they pretty much done live, Austin?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:21pm
Feldy:

"Charlie, you ever watch any movies about gladiators?"
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Mike Rogers:

I've done some dramas but they were pale compared to the old glory days of radio!
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spacebrother:

"Worker" was also a character in "We're All Bozos on this Bus."
Avatar 6:22pm
Mike Rogers:

Feldy san! Is that a comment referring to the movie Airplane?
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Feldy:

Bingo, Mike!
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Austin Rich:

Mr. Fab & Mike: Yeah, mostly! Probably 95% of all radio shows in those days were recorded to disc "live," with FX being performed live. I don't have any concrete evidence about the way Box 13 was made, but I know that they were made quickly, so I suspect no editing was done.
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Mike Rogers:

Oh! What do I win!? What do I win???
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 6:23pm
Austin Rich:

Since This show does have slightly higher sound quality than a lot of shows, and I hear fewer "flubs" on this show, I think there might have been SOME editing. But even still, less editing was even possible in 1949 than is possible now.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 6:24pm
Austin Rich:

spacebrother: Nice Catch! I didn't even think about that!
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Mike Rogers:

I've seen some old videos about radio dramas and they had a ton of staff and the SE people were experts.
  6:25pm
Ellen Lovebug:

That guy's sneer just screams villain
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 6:25pm
Austin Rich:

Yeah. A show like this would have an FX guy, a music guy (I think they are playing pre-recorded music cues), one person for each cast member, an engineer... probably several other crew members, too.
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Mike Rogers:

I have always wanted to be the guy who clumoed Coconuts on the table to imitate horses running. A big studio wanted to hire me but I could only do horses.
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Mike Rogers:

Shoot him now!!!
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Mr Fab:

yeah, he has a bad-guy accent.
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Austin Rich:

If they did live foley SFX, then you would have several SFX people, so you could have overlapping sounds.
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Mike Rogers:

We need more explosions too.
  6:26pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Scary
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
Austin Rich:

<bad guy accent>

</bad guy accent>
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Mike Rogers:

Nice place you have here. Be a shame if something happened to it.
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Austin Rich:

This is the major plothole here: the cops are efficient on the counterfeiting case. That seems a little suspect.
Avatar 6:28pm
Mr Fab:

I saw a cool movie dramatizing Orson Welles' radio version of "War of the Worlds," where we see them making the show in the radio studio.
  6:28pm
Charles:

I don't know how this week's episode will play out but I think you'd like The Voyage of the Scarlet Queen Mike, lots of people get their ass kicked in it usually.
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Mike Rogers:

How else will they get a Christmas bonus?
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Austin Rich:

That's a very cool movie, Mr. Fab! I've heard it was pretty well researched.
  6:28pm
Listener Robert:

Think his story to Suzy about how he got those bogus $5 was phony? If so, how'd he know this was coming?
  6:29pm
Charles:

lol Suzy
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Austin Rich:

"Goodnight Suzy: The Dan Holiday Story."
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Mike Rogers:

@Charles... And does it have lots of explosions and shooting, and bombs and buildings getting kicked over by a giant lizard?
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Mike Rogers:

What!? Dan Holiday? That's a fake name.
  6:30pm
Listener Robert:

Does that mean Suzy has experience opening charge accounts under stolen identities?
  6:30pm
Listener Robert:

This whole episode raises more questions than answers.
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Mike Rogers:

@Robert! I suspect that her real name isn't even "Suzy"
  6:30pm
Ellen Lovebug:

Sorry I was distracted by some health appointment-related phone calls. I will see you all next week if I can!
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Mike Rogers:

Wait! What? Is "Lovebug" your real name? OK. have a good day!
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Austin Rich:

This episode of The Voyage of the Scarlet Queen would be the first episode they aired during the 1948 year. They just had two weeks of holiday episodes, and I appreciate that they are dealing with a cold storm up front. A nice start to the new year.
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Austin Rich:

See ya next time, Ellen!
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Austin Rich:

Not terrible sound this week, either.
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Mike Rogers:

OK. Guys, I gotta drive my kid to school now. Thanks so much Austin san!
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Austin Rich:

See ya next time, Mike!
  6:33pm
Charles:

Nice seeing you Mike!
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Austin Rich:

Neilson gets a lot more action in these later episodes.
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Austin Rich:

"That sounds interesting." She sounds fun.
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spacebrother:

OK. Gotta get back to work. Seeya soon!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
Austin Rich:

See ya next time, spacebrother.
  6:43pm
spacebrother:

Thanks Austin!
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Feldy:

You can pick your friends, you can pick your gravy...
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Austin Rich:

ACME needs to hire Feldy to write some of their copy!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 6:45pm
Austin Rich:

The characters seem to be pronouncing "buoy" as "boy," which was a little confusing for me at first.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:47pm
Feldy:

I'll submit some ideas I have to position their old pens as new & improved pens
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Austin Rich:

See! I think they would love to hire you. You work for free, right?
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Feldy:

Pretty close, Austin :)
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Austin Rich:

Perfect. ACME prefers to exploit their staff.
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Mr Fab:

Now that I think about it, maybe you could run that orson Welles "War of the Worlds" Austin. Should you run out of material. I forgot how long it is.
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Austin Rich:

I think it was about an hour-ish, in my memory. But perhaps I'm wrong?
  6:52pm
Listener Robert:

Huh. So the comparative of "sober" is "soberer".
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Austin Rich:

Indeed. (According to the dictionary, Listener Robert.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
Feldy:

ACME® Gravy. Now with NO lead additives.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
Austin Rich:

(Just like our Paint.)
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Austin Rich:

"Passengers will cause more trouble than cargo."
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Austin Rich:

Red just got jealous of another first mate...
  6:58pm
Listener Robert:

"We aren't exactly unattached" sure plays into the, uh, theme that's been discussed here.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
Austin Rich:

I think so.
  7:04pm
Charles:

That's a good idea Austin, the interview.
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Austin Rich:

Obadiah not only has an incredible collection of rare books, ephemera, and letters back and forth between early sci-fi pioneers, he also edits a great "lovecraft zine," which original fiction and poetry by current "weird fiction" writers. He's the perfect nerd to talk about the intersection of Sci-Fi and radio.
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Austin Rich:

theaudientvoid.bigcartel.com
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Austin Rich:

Given that this episode was aired 4 August 1948, this was aired almost exactly 74 years ago.
  7:17pm
Charles:

Are you ideas for Mid-valley Mutations coming from weird messages from the Yogi Austin?
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Austin Rich:

Hmmmmm. I'm not sure, Charles. I mean, I don't think they are, but I can't speak for what happens to me when I'm asleep.
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Austin Rich:

"A Dud in Technicolor."
  7:22pm
Charles:

That scene was awesome and also very funny
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Austin Rich:

Finally, some action!
  7:25pm
Charles:

I love Roxor, he looks more mischievious than a real threat and that's funny to me.
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Austin Rich:

Roxor is not exactly a major threat.
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Austin Rich:

After a couple months of re-runs, listeners at home are finally getting a new episode of Dimension X. I'm sure this was a big deal at the time.
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Mr Fab:

Yes! Dimension...X...X...x...x...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
Austin Rich:

An L. Ron Hubbard story!
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Feldy:

I gotta go sober-up at a Turkish bath sometime
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Mr Fab:

Damn Thetans, going around stealing buildings!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
Austin Rich:

I want the scene in "The Master" where they satirize L. Ron cashing his "radio royalty" check.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
Feldy:

28 pt. type on that paper's headline!
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Austin Rich:

Speaking of Orson Welles!
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Austin Rich:

He's so old. 54!
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Austin Rich:

He's 54. But the voice actor plays him closer to 73.
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Mr Fab:

in 1950, 54 was the new 74.
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Feldy:

I talk like this guy after a root canal
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Mr Fab:

Haha, poor Mr Acme.
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Feldy:

If you're not satisfied, you can keep your hands, no questions asked
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Mr Fab:

Hey, is that Suzie?!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
Austin Rich:

Good ear, Mr. Fab. Might be? I'll see if I can find anything.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
Feldy:

Linotype machines is photo-typesetting
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
Austin Rich:

I can't specifically find a cast list, so it could be?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
Feldy:

Correction; Linotype is metal typesetting
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
Austin Rich:

"Double the size of the front page!"
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Scott67:

Thanks Austin! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
Austin Rich:

See ya'll next week!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Feldy:

I guess the people who typeset the paper were called the Composition Dept
  7:58pm
Charles:

Thanks Austin, later everyone!
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Feldy:

Thanks, Austin!
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Austin Rich:

The women were uncredited...
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Mr Fab:

Great stuff today Austin. THANKS!..Thanks!..Thanks...thanks...
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