WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 7, 2022

Listener comments!
	👻 6:26pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:52pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	9:01pm Charles: Curious to hear that pilot.
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, Imaginos! I was just thinking about your Billy Idol question.
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: Charles! Nice to see you in the chat.
	9:02pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Audience! 🌏☀️💻🎶🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻
	9:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Cyberpunk is a great album.especially for Max Headroom fans.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: Scott67! Now you know it's a party.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: I know I sampled Cyberpunk at least once in a previous episode of the 20 Minutes podcast. But I'm actually only familiar with in from the last few years.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: I never had it back in the day.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: Charles: It's essentially the same story of the first episode, with a few extra bits, and re-written a bit.
	9:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The opening speech is interesting
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: That speech is the bit I've sampled! I always think that and the Bowie 90's cyberpunk album sort of got lost in the shuffle. Grunge was just a little too big at the time.
	9:06pm Charles: Feels weird to have the regular shows back. I keep expecting Vincent Price to pop in.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: Yeah. I go a little overboard for Halloween. We have one Thanksgiving show this month, and I'll do some Christmas programming in December. So our schedule will be a little strange for a while. And we're introducing a new show soon, once we play the two Scarlet Queen pilots.
	9:09pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Mother Dawn was a good song. Especially the poem at the end. And the 2001/2010 sampling.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: I'm a sucker for 2001 and 2010. I had a tape of both of those movies on it, and would watch it often as a youth.
	9:10pm Charles: No, no. Not overboard. It was great. I'm equally fond of the normal schedule as I am of the seasonal stuff.
	9:11pm Mr Fab: Austin! Wow, haven’t heard good ol’ “Box 13” in a while. Nice to hang with the gang again.
	9:11pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I love this episode of Box 13.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: Old Time Radio often slipped into seasonal stories and programming at the drop of a hat. So I feel like Dimestore should reflect that, a little.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: This episode of Box 13 sort of has a Hitchcock vibe to it.
	9:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Will you be playing A Miracle for Christmas from Grand Central Station in December?
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: I have some "Christmas movies on the radio" coming, with a few "light holiday detective" stories. It's my excuse to play some Damon Runyon Theater.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: I'm a big fan of the comic book, "The Spirit," and this story really has a bit of a certain Spirit story that I vaguely remember.
	9:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Makes me think of old EC comics.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: We got a huge EC Collection at work recently, and I'm really tempted to keep it for myself.
	9:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: If you buy it you can keep it and still make money for your store.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: True! But I've bought a lot of stuff recently, and Christmas is around the corner. If it is still there after Christmas, I think I'll get it.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: "Nobody Goes Anyplace." That line is very... now.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: Another reference to "radio" and how radio works in a Box 13 episode... I feel like they really love to break the 4th wall.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: It does make sense that the only possible adversary for Dan Holiday is another writer.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: That might have been the only time that the show ever tried to make us think that Dan was in true mortal danger... so far.
	9:28pm Charles: It worked. That was tense.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: This was the episode that made me fall in love with Box 13.
	9:29pm Charles: Good night Suzy!
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: It's a really simple story, and presented very simply. Very few characters... but it's a corker, for sure!
	9:31pm Charles: That's not Elliot Lewis right?
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: As I mentioned in the chat earlier, this is the "original" telling of what became the first episode of "The Voyage of The Scarlett Queen." This version has a different title, and has a few beats that are not in the first episode. The voices are different... and this version seems like it was leaning more into the possibility of it having more of a "noir" flavor. I think you're right... different lead actor, I'm pretty sure. (Maybe the credits will tell more?)
	9:34pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Nice Mad reference
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: I find it funny that we have two different pilot episodes for "The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen," and yet we are also missing two of the actual broadcast episodes. I would think it would be harder to find the pilots...
	9:35pm Mr Fab: The Scarlet Queen was only 78 feet long? With 8 people crammed in? Must have been mighty cozy.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: I was thinking that too, Mr. Fab.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: I found this, Charles: "The pilot starred Howard Duff as Captain Phil Karney, and Elliott Lewis as First Officer Red Gallagher. "
	9:36pm Charles: Switcheroo!
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: Howard Duff was one of the "Suspense" players, who would often appear on that show, and was the radio voice of Sam Spade, years later.
	9:37pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The sleeping quarters would have a hammock and a sink and be two feet wide.
	9:37pm Heather: Hi all! I'm lurking and enjoying the show!
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: Heather! Nice to see you!
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: That's right! Duff is the lead in the film, "Naked City.' I was trying to remember where I knew him from.
	9:39pm Heather: I've never heard this program and I'm liking it a lot!
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: Howard Duff also made appearances in The Twilight Zone, Rockford Files, Bonanza, Murder She Wrote, Knotts Landing, etc.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: Howard Duff's last TV appearance was in The Golden Girls.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: My theory, as to why they re-did the pilot, was that this version really sounds more like a detective noir, and less like a sailing adventure show. I suspect the writers and producer heard the final version, and made some changes to the show that we have come to know. That's just my reading of the show; they could have changed things up for a lot of reasons.
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: I think the casting of Ed Max as Gallagher really changed the dynamic of the show. He's a great addition to the cast, and really makes the show in my mind.
	9:49pm Charles: I think so too.
	9:55pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Good action
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: Radio action often sounds bad, but this show usually delivered in a way that actually sounds good, and you can follow it.
	9:57pm Mr Fab: Cool episode, but I totally get what you mean about how it was basically Detective noir on a boat, instead of swashbuckling tales in exotic ports o’ call.
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: It's an interesting radio artifact, but imperfect.
	10:05pm Heather: I'm here for the Bold Announcer Voice! You nailed it!
	10:11pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My favorite Bradbury story is Embroidery.
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: That's a great Bradbury story. I really bonded hard with his books when I was a kid. We have a bunch of signed Bradbury stuff at work, and I'm really tempted to keep it all.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: You can hear the squeak of the cork and and the bottle of whiskey that we are pouring from.
	10:15pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: In my rare classic movies list I have Something Wicked This Way Comes
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: At work, we have a bunch of old Sci-Fi fanzines. The oldest ones we have are from the 40's, but there are some that were are in the 30's, even.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: Something Wicked This Way Comes is EXCELLENT.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: Big Finish does a lot of dramatized audio, mostly Dr. Who stories. www.bigfinish.com
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: Here's the Sandman audio stories we talked about. If you have an audible subscription, you can listen: www.audible.com...
	10:23pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I would but I spent my credit on Bored of the Rings.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: Ha! I haven't read that in decades. I remember there were a few scenes in that book that were pretty funny.
	10:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: There are indeed.
	10:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: That and an ebook of The Wobbit.
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: I don't know that one!
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: I'm just now learning that "Bored of The Rings" was written in 1969, which is a lot older than I thought it was. How funny.
	10:26pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I have to go, though. I have to be up at 6.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: Good night, Imaginos!
	10:27pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Good night
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: Let's see... we're 36 episodes in... and they're still looking for Robert, and they don't really have a real lead. This show is as slow as a soap.
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: We're gonna go three minutes over...
	10:38pm Heather: Yay for three bonus minutes!!
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: At this stage in Dimension X's run, it had been officially "off the air" in many markets. In some, there had been re-runs, but not many. Now that the show was back, it would run weekly, uninterrupted, until it's end with episode #50. (This one is episode #36, for those keeping track.)
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: The only reason the show came back at all was due to the letter-writing campaign Obadiah and I talked about. The fan interest would cause the show to come back again (with a different name) after Dimension X goes off the air.
	10:42pm wenzo toad: Howdy theatre people
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: Wenzo! Nice to see you in the chat.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: The paranoia that mid-century Americans had that "technology" would just suddenly turn against us is a pretty huge theme in a lot of sci-fi. I love it when this trope goes a little over the top: like, how is a cement mixer connected to a computer network, or have any parts that would be controllable by computers?
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: "The Golden Shish Kabob," is fancy, huh?
	10:45pm wenzo toad: I’m gonna check out those links tomorrow
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: The ENIAC computer was a real computer: en.wikipedia.org...
	10:46pm Mr Fab: Ooh, The Golden Shish-kabob! And I've only eaten meat and veggie ones. Unless it's the stick that's made of gold..?
	10:47pm wenzo toad: So you’re saying the cement mixer at the construction site around the corner from me’s NOT out to get me?
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: The ENIAC computer was first completed in 1945, and was the first programmable general purpose digital computer. It was MASSIVE, and took up the better part of a room.
	10:48pm Mr Fab: Who wrote this one, Bradbury?
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: Well, that might still be true, wenzo... but it's unlikely that a computer is controlling it.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: This one is: Stephen Vincent Benét (based on the poem "The Revolt of the Machines"; adapted by George Lefferts)
	10:49pm wenzo toad: As I suspected then… it’s possessed by a demon
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: Again: I'm not sure how computers could make a lighter stop working.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: 1956 was five years in the future, when this originally aired.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: Humorously (and unrelated), on my show tomorrow I'm aired a story that I co-wrote with experimental artist, univac, who named himself after the UNIVAC computer, a follow-up to the ENIAC.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: I'm airing, I mean...
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: "Dumb Machines." "Smart Phones."
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: I forgot that this episode is a "post-Christmas, pre-New Year's story," in a way.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: Fool me once, shame on me... yell fool three times at your boss...
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: I also appreciate that Mid-Century America seems convinced that your boss can make sure that you get committed, so don't screw up and don't be late in the morning! The meeting starts at 10 AM.
	10:59pm wenzo toad: What ever happened to hospitals for the criminally insane
	10:59pm Scott67: Thanks Austin, most entertaining mate. 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: I think they got integrated into the regular hospitals.
	11:01pm Heather: That and, here in Rochester, simply put out on the street. We have a somewhat famous, locally, abandoned psych center not far from my house.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: Thanks Scott67!
	11:02pm wenzo toad: And don’t forget the staff at your local polling place also has the power to have you committed to the hospital for the criminally insane if you don’t show up to vote
	11:02pm Heather: Great show and evening, as always!
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: That happened nationally; there's many closed hospitals around here where that happened.
	11:04pm Mr Fab: Great to get another episode of Dimension…X…X…x…x…!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 7, 2022

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November 7, 2022: Episode #36

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Box 13	"Find Me, Find Death" ""Find Me, Find Death"" by "Box 13"	24 April 1949	Mayfair Productions	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen	"The Death of David Malone" (Pilot)	2 February 1947	BBC Radio	0:28:39 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Freddy Martin & Jack Fina	Warsaw Concerto			1:01:35 (Pop-up)
Austin Rich & Obadiah Baird	The Golden Age of Science Fiction Part 4	The Golden Age of Science Fiction (12 August 2022)	For This Program	1:08:34 (Pop-up)
Chandu The Magician	"Douglas Is an Imposter"	16 August 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Network	1:21:45 (Pop-up)
Dimension X	"Nightmare" ""Nightmare"" by "Dimension X"	10 June 1951	NBC Radio	1:35:20 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 6:26pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:52pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	9:01pm Charles: Curious to hear that pilot.
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat, Imaginos! I was just thinking about your Billy Idol question.
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: Charles! Nice to see you in the chat.
	9:02pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Audience! 🌏☀️💻🎶🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻
	9:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Cyberpunk is a great album.especially for Max Headroom fans.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: Scott67! Now you know it's a party.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: I know I sampled Cyberpunk at least once in a previous episode of the 20 Minutes podcast. But I'm actually only familiar with in from the last few years.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: I never had it back in the day.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: Charles: It's essentially the same story of the first episode, with a few extra bits, and re-written a bit.
	9:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The opening speech is interesting
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: That speech is the bit I've sampled! I always think that and the Bowie 90's cyberpunk album sort of got lost in the shuffle. Grunge was just a little too big at the time.
	9:06pm Charles: Feels weird to have the regular shows back. I keep expecting Vincent Price to pop in.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: Yeah. I go a little overboard for Halloween. We have one Thanksgiving show this month, and I'll do some Christmas programming in December. So our schedule will be a little strange for a while. And we're introducing a new show soon, once we play the two Scarlet Queen pilots.
	9:09pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Mother Dawn was a good song. Especially the poem at the end. And the 2001/2010 sampling.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: I'm a sucker for 2001 and 2010. I had a tape of both of those movies on it, and would watch it often as a youth.
	9:10pm Charles: No, no. Not overboard. It was great. I'm equally fond of the normal schedule as I am of the seasonal stuff.
	9:11pm Mr Fab: Austin! Wow, haven’t heard good ol’ “Box 13” in a while. Nice to hang with the gang again.
	9:11pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I love this episode of Box 13.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: Old Time Radio often slipped into seasonal stories and programming at the drop of a hat. So I feel like Dimestore should reflect that, a little.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: This episode of Box 13 sort of has a Hitchcock vibe to it.
	9:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Will you be playing A Miracle for Christmas from Grand Central Station in December?
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: I have some "Christmas movies on the radio" coming, with a few "light holiday detective" stories. It's my excuse to play some Damon Runyon Theater.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: I'm a big fan of the comic book, "The Spirit," and this story really has a bit of a certain Spirit story that I vaguely remember.
	9:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Makes me think of old EC comics.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: We got a huge EC Collection at work recently, and I'm really tempted to keep it for myself.
	9:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: If you buy it you can keep it and still make money for your store.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: True! But I've bought a lot of stuff recently, and Christmas is around the corner. If it is still there after Christmas, I think I'll get it.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: "Nobody Goes Anyplace." That line is very... now.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: Another reference to "radio" and how radio works in a Box 13 episode... I feel like they really love to break the 4th wall.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: It does make sense that the only possible adversary for Dan Holiday is another writer.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: That might have been the only time that the show ever tried to make us think that Dan was in true mortal danger... so far.
	9:28pm Charles: It worked. That was tense.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: This was the episode that made me fall in love with Box 13.
	9:29pm Charles: Good night Suzy!
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: It's a really simple story, and presented very simply. Very few characters... but it's a corker, for sure!
	9:31pm Charles: That's not Elliot Lewis right?
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: As I mentioned in the chat earlier, this is the "original" telling of what became the first episode of "The Voyage of The Scarlett Queen." This version has a different title, and has a few beats that are not in the first episode. The voices are different... and this version seems like it was leaning more into the possibility of it having more of a "noir" flavor. I think you're right... different lead actor, I'm pretty sure. (Maybe the credits will tell more?)
	9:34pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Nice Mad reference
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: I find it funny that we have two different pilot episodes for "The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen," and yet we are also missing two of the actual broadcast episodes. I would think it would be harder to find the pilots...
	9:35pm Mr Fab: The Scarlet Queen was only 78 feet long? With 8 people crammed in? Must have been mighty cozy.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: I was thinking that too, Mr. Fab.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: I found this, Charles: "The pilot starred Howard Duff as Captain Phil Karney, and Elliott Lewis as First Officer Red Gallagher. "
	9:36pm Charles: Switcheroo!
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: Howard Duff was one of the "Suspense" players, who would often appear on that show, and was the radio voice of Sam Spade, years later.
	9:37pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The sleeping quarters would have a hammock and a sink and be two feet wide.
	9:37pm Heather: Hi all! I'm lurking and enjoying the show!
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: Heather! Nice to see you!
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: That's right! Duff is the lead in the film, "Naked City.' I was trying to remember where I knew him from.
	9:39pm Heather: I've never heard this program and I'm liking it a lot!
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: Howard Duff also made appearances in The Twilight Zone, Rockford Files, Bonanza, Murder She Wrote, Knotts Landing, etc.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: Howard Duff's last TV appearance was in The Golden Girls.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: My theory, as to why they re-did the pilot, was that this version really sounds more like a detective noir, and less like a sailing adventure show. I suspect the writers and producer heard the final version, and made some changes to the show that we have come to know. That's just my reading of the show; they could have changed things up for a lot of reasons.
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: I think the casting of Ed Max as Gallagher really changed the dynamic of the show. He's a great addition to the cast, and really makes the show in my mind.
	9:49pm Charles: I think so too.
	9:55pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Good action
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: Radio action often sounds bad, but this show usually delivered in a way that actually sounds good, and you can follow it.
	9:57pm Mr Fab: Cool episode, but I totally get what you mean about how it was basically Detective noir on a boat, instead of swashbuckling tales in exotic ports o’ call.
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: It's an interesting radio artifact, but imperfect.
	10:05pm Heather: I'm here for the Bold Announcer Voice! You nailed it!
	10:11pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My favorite Bradbury story is Embroidery.
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: That's a great Bradbury story. I really bonded hard with his books when I was a kid. We have a bunch of signed Bradbury stuff at work, and I'm really tempted to keep it all.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: You can hear the squeak of the cork and and the bottle of whiskey that we are pouring from.
	10:15pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: In my rare classic movies list I have Something Wicked This Way Comes
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: At work, we have a bunch of old Sci-Fi fanzines. The oldest ones we have are from the 40's, but there are some that were are in the 30's, even.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: Something Wicked This Way Comes is EXCELLENT.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: Big Finish does a lot of dramatized audio, mostly Dr. Who stories. www.bigfinish.com
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: Here's the Sandman audio stories we talked about. If you have an audible subscription, you can listen: www.audible.com...
	10:23pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I would but I spent my credit on Bored of the Rings.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: Ha! I haven't read that in decades. I remember there were a few scenes in that book that were pretty funny.
	10:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: There are indeed.
	10:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: That and an ebook of The Wobbit.
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: I don't know that one!
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: I'm just now learning that "Bored of The Rings" was written in 1969, which is a lot older than I thought it was. How funny.
	10:26pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I have to go, though. I have to be up at 6.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: Good night, Imaginos!
	10:27pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Good night
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: Let's see... we're 36 episodes in... and they're still looking for Robert, and they don't really have a real lead. This show is as slow as a soap.
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: We're gonna go three minutes over...
	10:38pm Heather: Yay for three bonus minutes!!
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: At this stage in Dimension X's run, it had been officially "off the air" in many markets. In some, there had been re-runs, but not many. Now that the show was back, it would run weekly, uninterrupted, until it's end with episode #50. (This one is episode #36, for those keeping track.)
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: The only reason the show came back at all was due to the letter-writing campaign Obadiah and I talked about. The fan interest would cause the show to come back again (with a different name) after Dimension X goes off the air.
	10:42pm wenzo toad: Howdy theatre people
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: Wenzo! Nice to see you in the chat.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: The paranoia that mid-century Americans had that "technology" would just suddenly turn against us is a pretty huge theme in a lot of sci-fi. I love it when this trope goes a little over the top: like, how is a cement mixer connected to a computer network, or have any parts that would be controllable by computers?
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: "The Golden Shish Kabob," is fancy, huh?
	10:45pm wenzo toad: I’m gonna check out those links tomorrow
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: The ENIAC computer was a real computer: en.wikipedia.org...
	10:46pm Mr Fab: Ooh, The Golden Shish-kabob! And I've only eaten meat and veggie ones. Unless it's the stick that's made of gold..?
	10:47pm wenzo toad: So you’re saying the cement mixer at the construction site around the corner from me’s NOT out to get me?
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: The ENIAC computer was first completed in 1945, and was the first programmable general purpose digital computer. It was MASSIVE, and took up the better part of a room.
	10:48pm Mr Fab: Who wrote this one, Bradbury?
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: Well, that might still be true, wenzo... but it's unlikely that a computer is controlling it.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: This one is: Stephen Vincent Benét (based on the poem "The Revolt of the Machines"; adapted by George Lefferts)
	10:49pm wenzo toad: As I suspected then… it’s possessed by a demon
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: Again: I'm not sure how computers could make a lighter stop working.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: 1956 was five years in the future, when this originally aired.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: Humorously (and unrelated), on my show tomorrow I'm aired a story that I co-wrote with experimental artist, univac, who named himself after the UNIVAC computer, a follow-up to the ENIAC.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: I'm airing, I mean...
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: "Dumb Machines." "Smart Phones."
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: I forgot that this episode is a "post-Christmas, pre-New Year's story," in a way.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: Fool me once, shame on me... yell fool three times at your boss...
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: I also appreciate that Mid-Century America seems convinced that your boss can make sure that you get committed, so don't screw up and don't be late in the morning! The meeting starts at 10 AM.
	10:59pm wenzo toad: What ever happened to hospitals for the criminally insane
	10:59pm Scott67: Thanks Austin, most entertaining mate. 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: I think they got integrated into the regular hospitals.
	11:01pm Heather: That and, here in Rochester, simply put out on the street. We have a somewhat famous, locally, abandoned psych center not far from my house.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: Thanks Scott67!
	11:02pm wenzo toad: And don’t forget the staff at your local polling place also has the power to have you committed to the hospital for the criminally insane if you don’t show up to vote
	11:02pm Heather: Great show and evening, as always!
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: That happened nationally; there's many closed hospitals around here where that happened.
	11:04pm Mr Fab: Great to get another episode of Dimension…X…X…x…x…!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 7, 2022

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