WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 2, 2023

Listener comments!
	👻 8:23pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: We've heard the first installment of "The Thin Man" on Dimestore Radio Theater, sometime last year. This is the follow-up film, one that was also incredibly popular, too. The quality of the "Thin Man" films sort of drops off after the second one, but they are all pretty fun, once you are in love with these characters.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: "He's a very honest pick-pocket."
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: I may have mentioned this the last time we aired a, "Thin Man," story, but there is a podcast, The Thrilling Adventure Hour, which features a running story, "Beyond Belief." It is a "Thin Man" tribute, with the one change that the characters in "Beyond Belief" are needed to solve "supernatural" crimes, unlike Nick and Norah, who just solve regular crimes. The writer's of "Beyond Belief" have talked a lot about their love of the Thin Man movies.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: I once lived in an apartment where I would come home from work, and there would be a party happening. But none of the roommates who lived there would be there, just a bunch of people partying. This scene in "After The Thin Man" sort of speaks to that memory.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: Of course, I selected this particular story because it takes place on New Year's Eve / New Year's Day, but it was originally aired in the Summer. I have a very vivid memory of watching and listening to a lot of shows / stories / movies that were set during the holidays, but I was watching them in the Summer. A tried and true tradition... dating back to at least the 40's!
	9:17pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! There was a restaurant on the ship I was on last week called “Nick and Nora’s.” My wife and i wondered if we were the only ones on board who got the reference.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:17 Mr. Fab! Always a delight. It's possible you were the only ones. Or, there was a younger generation that thought it was a reference to that Michael Cera movie from 2008.
	9:21pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 I don’t know that film. Was it a Thin Man one?
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:21 I never saw it either, but it was called, "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist," which sort of says everything about 2008 that you need to know. (It was based on a novel, as I understand it.)
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: An example of a rich person dropping their name, hoping to get out of trouble because of their notoriety. I do appreciate that it doesn't work out for Norah.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: This scene, with them in bed and Norah harassing Nick while he's trying to sleep, is a re-hash of a scene from the first movie. There are a few bits that are sort of retreading their greatest hits from before, which was pretty common in movies that run multiple sequels. (Again... a tradition that dates back to the 40s, at least.)
	9:32pm Heather: That scene is also true to life in my experience! I liked it a lot! Happy New Year, all!
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:32 Heather! Nice to see you in the chat. I find a lot of Nick and Norah's relationship to be relatable.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: "Is that all?" "Isn't that enough?"
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: Dashiell Hammett created the characters of Nick and Norah, and wrote the first "Thin Man" novel. Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich adapted that novel into the screenplay for the first film, retaining much of the zip of the dialog from the book. For the second film, Dashiell Hammett gets a "story by" credit, but the real writing credit goes to the Hackett & Goodrich screenwriting team. I believe they go on to write the other Thin Man films, but as mentioned before, the quality goes downhill, unfortunately.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: Whoops! I stand corrected: the first three Thin Man movies were by Hackett & Goodrich. The last three were by three different writing teams, which probably explains why the quality drops.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: 10 years after the last "Thin Man" movie, a "Thin Man" TV show was launched, with Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk as Nick and Norah. The show ran 72 episodes, and re-situated Nick and Norah a couple decades, to make Greenwich Village and The Beat Generation part of the story.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: There have been a number of other "Thin Man" spin-offs in other media, but the last "film" version was made for TV in 1975. Johnny Depp attempted to make a version of the film in 2011, but it never went anywhere. The characters are much more popular on stage, who have been in different plays since the 40's, and as recently as 2018.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: William Powell - Nick - was very popular on Lux Radio Theater, and appeared in 12 different episodes. Only two of them were Thin Man stories.
	9:54pm Heather: Awwww!!
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:54 And there's four more movies after that. I don't remember the baby figuring into the stories, but it was MANY years ago I watched the other ones. Maybe the baby solves crimes?
	9:56pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:55 and the dog?
	9:56pm Heather: ↳ Mr Fab @9:56 I want to see the dog solve crimes!
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:56 I think think the dog is in all the movies. And it excellent in all of them.
	10:00pm Heather: And is a popular crossword clue answer!
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:00 How far can you get on the crosswords? Like I said: I have to tap out after Wednesday. They get too hard for me after that.
	10:11pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:08 I used to rock them! I was good! But now I play scrabble online and I think I lost my crossword edge.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: I love that they talk about the idea of re-enacting movies on the radio in this doc.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:11 There is a sort of "crossword language" that you have to keep at to remain good at.
	10:15pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:14 Exactly. I'm so out of practice! My mom is a total crossword guru. Does em all the time. We mostly get her crossword books for holidays now.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:15 It's certainly a lifestyle. I used to do more puzzles, but life is too much of a puzzle anyway.
	10:18pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:16 Yes! I'm sure I could and should start crossword apps but I already do enough puzzle stuff, I think. Maybe too much even!
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:18 I know Hodgman works for them, but he really pushes the NYT Puzzle app, with a number of the games on there. I should probably cave in, but I'm trying to use my phone less anyway.
	10:20pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 I do still do the wordle! I think Ross is big on the NYT puzzle app or at least was for a while!
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:20 I can't get into Wordle. I think the hipster gene in me just recoils right now. I'm sure in a few years I'll make some comment about how Wordle isn't appreciated nearly as much as it should be.
	10:23pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 Honestly, I think the sheen is off Wordle. There are only so many five letters words, you know? I just stick with things for too long!
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:23 I don't know. It's too new. It hasn't even a year and a half since it was released.
	10:26pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:25 I don't see anyone post their scores anymore or anything! But you could be right. Maybe I've just lost my real zest for it.
	10:27pm David in California: Hello, Austin. I'm looking forward to "The Adventures of Philip Marlowe". Gerald Mohr had one of the great radio voices.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ David in California @10:27 David! Lovely to see you in the chat. I do love Gerald Mohr's voice, and he's in so many shows, you start to recognize him when he's a guest on other shows. I love his Marlowe.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:26 I see people post scores on discord, but that's the only place I'm usually hanging out anymore.
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:32 (Reference for the "Arthur Murray" joke.)
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: The format for "The Adventures of Philip Marlowe" was the guide that I used for the format for my own radio noir, "The Adventures of Marcus Little."
	10:54pm David in California: Thank you, Austin. I've enjoyed the show from beginning to end.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ David in California @10:54 Thanks David! Always a pleasure to do a little Sheena's broadcasting.
	10:57pm Heather: Awesome fun show as always!! Happy New Year!!
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! See ya next time!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 2, 2023

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January 2, 2023: Holiday Film Fest!: "After Thin Man" & "The Adventures of Philip Marlowe"

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Lux Radio Theater	"After The Thin Man"	17 June 1940	NBC	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
John Kirby and is Orchestra	Bounce Of The Sugar Plum Fairy			0:59:00 (Pop-up)
Biography Channel	Bogart & Bacall: Hollywood's Golden Age Part 6	Three Documentaries Edited Together.		1:07:13 (Pop-up)
Command Performance	"The Christmas Eve Show" Excerpt 5	24 December 1942	AFRS	1:22:03 (Pop-up)
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe	"The Old Acquaintance"	26 December 1948	Mayfair Productions	1:25:35 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 8:23pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: We've heard the first installment of "The Thin Man" on Dimestore Radio Theater, sometime last year. This is the follow-up film, one that was also incredibly popular, too. The quality of the "Thin Man" films sort of drops off after the second one, but they are all pretty fun, once you are in love with these characters.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: "He's a very honest pick-pocket."
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: I may have mentioned this the last time we aired a, "Thin Man," story, but there is a podcast, The Thrilling Adventure Hour, which features a running story, "Beyond Belief." It is a "Thin Man" tribute, with the one change that the characters in "Beyond Belief" are needed to solve "supernatural" crimes, unlike Nick and Norah, who just solve regular crimes. The writer's of "Beyond Belief" have talked a lot about their love of the Thin Man movies.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: I once lived in an apartment where I would come home from work, and there would be a party happening. But none of the roommates who lived there would be there, just a bunch of people partying. This scene in "After The Thin Man" sort of speaks to that memory.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: Of course, I selected this particular story because it takes place on New Year's Eve / New Year's Day, but it was originally aired in the Summer. I have a very vivid memory of watching and listening to a lot of shows / stories / movies that were set during the holidays, but I was watching them in the Summer. A tried and true tradition... dating back to at least the 40's!
	9:17pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! There was a restaurant on the ship I was on last week called “Nick and Nora’s.” My wife and i wondered if we were the only ones on board who got the reference.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:17 Mr. Fab! Always a delight. It's possible you were the only ones. Or, there was a younger generation that thought it was a reference to that Michael Cera movie from 2008.
	9:21pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 I don’t know that film. Was it a Thin Man one?
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:21 I never saw it either, but it was called, "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist," which sort of says everything about 2008 that you need to know. (It was based on a novel, as I understand it.)
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: An example of a rich person dropping their name, hoping to get out of trouble because of their notoriety. I do appreciate that it doesn't work out for Norah.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: This scene, with them in bed and Norah harassing Nick while he's trying to sleep, is a re-hash of a scene from the first movie. There are a few bits that are sort of retreading their greatest hits from before, which was pretty common in movies that run multiple sequels. (Again... a tradition that dates back to the 40s, at least.)
	9:32pm Heather: That scene is also true to life in my experience! I liked it a lot! Happy New Year, all!
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:32 Heather! Nice to see you in the chat. I find a lot of Nick and Norah's relationship to be relatable.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: "Is that all?" "Isn't that enough?"
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: Dashiell Hammett created the characters of Nick and Norah, and wrote the first "Thin Man" novel. Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich adapted that novel into the screenplay for the first film, retaining much of the zip of the dialog from the book. For the second film, Dashiell Hammett gets a "story by" credit, but the real writing credit goes to the Hackett & Goodrich screenwriting team. I believe they go on to write the other Thin Man films, but as mentioned before, the quality goes downhill, unfortunately.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: Whoops! I stand corrected: the first three Thin Man movies were by Hackett & Goodrich. The last three were by three different writing teams, which probably explains why the quality drops.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: 10 years after the last "Thin Man" movie, a "Thin Man" TV show was launched, with Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk as Nick and Norah. The show ran 72 episodes, and re-situated Nick and Norah a couple decades, to make Greenwich Village and The Beat Generation part of the story.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: There have been a number of other "Thin Man" spin-offs in other media, but the last "film" version was made for TV in 1975. Johnny Depp attempted to make a version of the film in 2011, but it never went anywhere. The characters are much more popular on stage, who have been in different plays since the 40's, and as recently as 2018.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: William Powell - Nick - was very popular on Lux Radio Theater, and appeared in 12 different episodes. Only two of them were Thin Man stories.
	9:54pm Heather: Awwww!!
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:54 And there's four more movies after that. I don't remember the baby figuring into the stories, but it was MANY years ago I watched the other ones. Maybe the baby solves crimes?
	9:56pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:55 and the dog?
	9:56pm Heather: ↳ Mr Fab @9:56 I want to see the dog solve crimes!
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:56 I think think the dog is in all the movies. And it excellent in all of them.
	10:00pm Heather: And is a popular crossword clue answer!
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:00 How far can you get on the crosswords? Like I said: I have to tap out after Wednesday. They get too hard for me after that.
	10:11pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:08 I used to rock them! I was good! But now I play scrabble online and I think I lost my crossword edge.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: I love that they talk about the idea of re-enacting movies on the radio in this doc.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:11 There is a sort of "crossword language" that you have to keep at to remain good at.
	10:15pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:14 Exactly. I'm so out of practice! My mom is a total crossword guru. Does em all the time. We mostly get her crossword books for holidays now.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:15 It's certainly a lifestyle. I used to do more puzzles, but life is too much of a puzzle anyway.
	10:18pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:16 Yes! I'm sure I could and should start crossword apps but I already do enough puzzle stuff, I think. Maybe too much even!
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:18 I know Hodgman works for them, but he really pushes the NYT Puzzle app, with a number of the games on there. I should probably cave in, but I'm trying to use my phone less anyway.
	10:20pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 I do still do the wordle! I think Ross is big on the NYT puzzle app or at least was for a while!
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:20 I can't get into Wordle. I think the hipster gene in me just recoils right now. I'm sure in a few years I'll make some comment about how Wordle isn't appreciated nearly as much as it should be.
	10:23pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 Honestly, I think the sheen is off Wordle. There are only so many five letters words, you know? I just stick with things for too long!
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:23 I don't know. It's too new. It hasn't even a year and a half since it was released.
	10:26pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:25 I don't see anyone post their scores anymore or anything! But you could be right. Maybe I've just lost my real zest for it.
	10:27pm David in California: Hello, Austin. I'm looking forward to "The Adventures of Philip Marlowe". Gerald Mohr had one of the great radio voices.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ David in California @10:27 David! Lovely to see you in the chat. I do love Gerald Mohr's voice, and he's in so many shows, you start to recognize him when he's a guest on other shows. I love his Marlowe.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:26 I see people post scores on discord, but that's the only place I'm usually hanging out anymore.
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:32 (Reference for the "Arthur Murray" joke.)
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: The format for "The Adventures of Philip Marlowe" was the guide that I used for the format for my own radio noir, "The Adventures of Marcus Little."
	10:54pm David in California: Thank you, Austin. I've enjoyed the show from beginning to end.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ David in California @10:54 Thanks David! Always a pleasure to do a little Sheena's broadcasting.
	10:57pm Heather: Awesome fun show as always!! Happy New Year!!
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! See ya next time!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 2, 2023

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