WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 30, 2023

Listener comments!
	👻 6:59pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:01pm Charles: Alright I got all my Dimestore essentials at the ready! Wheaties, Roma Wine and Acme brand peanut butter (now with 20% more butter!).
	9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:01 "There's Never Enough... ACME Brand Peanut Butter!" I remember that slogan well.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:01 Greetings & Salutations!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: We're visiting the "wrong side of the tracks" this week on Box 13.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: "I'm Trumped." Maybe Suzy IS onto something...
	9:04pm Charles: We as all of us or the editorial "We"?
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:04 Probably not a good time to pull out one of the college papers I wrote analyzing the word "we" in 19th Century Novels.
	9:06pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Thawing some shrimp
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:06 "Suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly somebody will say like 'plate' or 'shrimp' or 'plate of shrimp', out of the blue, no explanation. No point in looking for one either; it's all part of the cosmic unconsciousness."
	9:07pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 Put it in audio form and you just might have a little something to play in an episode of Mid-valley Mutations!
	👻 9:08pm WR: hi
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:08 Howdy!
	9:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ WR @9:08 Ahoy
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:07 The essay on daguerreotypes might actually be a better piece of writing.
	9:10pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 As long as the shrimp is on my plate!
	9:10pm Charles: Is it me or it's been a while since we heard Lt. Cling?
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:10 I do like shrimp. I'm a fan of seafood, in general.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:10 You might be right. I feel like he was in a string of episodes, then... a gap. Perhaps the actor wasn't available for a while?
	9:11pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:10 As am i.
	9:12pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My BOC flag is coming along.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:11 I have often thought about the coast as a place to move to, like a retirement or something. The Oregon Coast is pretty amazing.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:12 I couldn't tell how you were making it. Is that crochet, or something else?
	9:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 Weaving. On a loom
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:13 Ahhh! Very cool. Are you familiar with Richard Meltzer's work?
	9:15pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Not yet.
	9:17pm Charles: Good job Holiday, it all went like planned..
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:15 He wrote a lot of BOC songs. And I think he introduced them to John Shirley, who has been writing their more recent lyrics.
	9:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I mostly follow the works of Sandy Pearlman.
	9:19pm Mr Fab: Watertown sounds like a sister city to Raymond Chandler's Bay City.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:19 I wonder if that was the inspiration? This is probably the most "noir" Box 13 episode.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:19 Sandy is pretty great.
	9:21pm Charles: I was starting to like Fatty...
	👻 9:22pm WR: Halliday is so clumsy in this episode.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:19 Anyway, I recommend Richard Meltzer's books. He writes mostly non-fiction, music reviews. But he's got a few novels that I adore. He wrote a great essay on wrestling that sort of made me like wrestling. And he also wrote a lot of BOC lyrics, so that makes him pretty cool. Rumor has it he invented using the umlat in your band name.
	9:22pm Mr Fab: sounds like Fred Flintstone.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:22 Sometimes, when you make more mistakes, it makes the story more fun.
	9:24pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 He sounds pretty interesting
	9:25pm Mr Fab: "those smelly Egyptian cigarettes"??
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:24 He's an art-school nerd. He wrote the first "scholarly" book on Rock 'n' Roll, in the early 60's. Between him, Lester Bangs, and Nick Tosches, they essentially invented rock music criticism.
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:25 Camels, probably.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: Dan, shot in the shoulder, but essentially not slowed down in the slightest.
	9:27pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Writer strong!
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:25 Wait! I just remembered, Camels are Turkish. Nevermind.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: This might yield an answer: en.wikipedia.org...
	9:29pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Can you imagine if Dan met Edison Carter?
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: Sounds like Egyptian Cigarettes were very popular in the late 1800's, but fell off around 1901, when most people seemed to prefer Turkish blends. So Egyptian Cigarettes were "cheap" in 1949, as they were out of favor.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:29 We should write that fan-fic.
	9:30pm Charles: If I got my ass kicked twice and then got shot I'd probably put an end to the whole Box 13 thing. Then again it might be why I'm not a good writer.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:30 Or, perhaps... why you are a smart writer.
	9:31pm Cp304: Hey peoples.. did Johnny get back with ol girl? I was carrying in groceries
	9:31pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 That would be fun
	👻 9:32pm WR: This Box 13 plot was fairly obvious but the flow of the performance was compelling.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @9:31 I don't think they said one way or another
	9:34pm Charles: I love that announcer.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:31 I could see the "Box 13" idea being plausible in the world of Network 23. He might even get a show on some network... maybe Big Time?
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:34 I do love the voices you hear on old radio.
	9:37pm Charles: Anytime I do that "two out of three" thing I know I already made my choice and I'm just lying to myself.
	9:38pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 I think Big Time would scoop up Dan in a heartbeat
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:37 "Hmmmm... what about three out of five?" Now I'm just made I'm not getting my way.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:38 I think Dan would like being independent, too. The Networks probably want too much control.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: Plenty of Cigarette talk in both our shows tonight. Makes this ex-smoker want to do something...
	9:40pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 Good point. I suspect Breughal would be involved
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:40 Dan probably knows people in both the Networks and all over The Fringes. Box 13 takes you all over the place...
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: Two shoulder injuries in both our episodes, too.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: I don't need gold to bow before Lauren Bacall.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: This episode sort of has the feel of an episode of The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen. But with a more sophisticated re-write.
	9:44pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I mixed rice with oriental five spice and it tastes pudding
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: Sleazy guy kidnapping Sailor probably has a very hard time ahead of him.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:44 That sounds like a meal we make around here every so often. Outstanding!
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: And, both our heroes in both shows knocked unconscious this week.
	9:49pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The bad guy has a gun and he hits people with it.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: Sailor quotes the song, "M.O.T.H.E.R.: (A Word That Means The World To Me)"
	9:53pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Remember the Twilight Zone episode the Rip Van Winkle Caper?
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: It's sort of unfair when she tries to manipulate men. She has an advantage.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:53 Oh.... vaguely. Not enough to remember anything specific.
	9:56pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:54 I just remember the end. They went into stasis for a hundred years to go past the statute and then gold was worthless.
	👻 9:56pm WR: Even that music didn't muffle my laughter at the wife's catharsis.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:56 Ha! There are some laugh lines, aren't there?
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:56 Oh... right. Time to re-watch! Michael Cassutt and I were talking about doing an interview with surviving members of the writing team for the 80's Twilight Zone, who he keeps in touch with. But the OG Twilight Zone is what I REALLY loved. Time for a rewatch.
	10:05pm Heather: I've probably mentioned to you, Austin, but Rod Serling has some big Rochester connections! He was the great uncle of a coworker, even, and she has a letter he wrote to her mom about how the new baby was so cute, he was going to steal her! Which... stealing babies is always wrong but still, she treasures the letter.
	10:06pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: You should look up Old Harry's Game. Its a BBC sitcom set in an unusual location.
	10:07pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Radio sitcom
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:06 Hmmmmm. Not familiar. I'll have to check it out.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:05 I mean, what would Rod actually do with a baby he stole? Like he knows how to take care of a baby. That baby would be smoking cigarettes in a week.
	10:15pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:14 I figure his baby shower gift was a carton of smokes! I had such a crush on him, too. Goodness.
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: "The Battlin' Bogarts." That's a crazy way to paint overt domestic violence.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:15 Rod was captivating. He's just fantastic to watch. Even old Serling is pretty captivating.
	10:16pm wenzo (listener #143834): Howdy AR & Radio aficionados
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: Her nickname from his was, "Sluggy." I think, because, she was... punchy.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo (listener #143834) @10:16 Wenzo! Thanks for joining us!
	10:18pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Sorry I'm not chatting much. Weaving.
	👻 10:19pm WR: Austin, I agree that the combination of it being a weekly schedule and you have an interesting format, which keeps me focused enough to be back week after week. There are lots of radio series reasonably available but helps to have a regular schedule to listen.
	10:19pm wenzo (listener #143834): My pleasure sirrr
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:18 Weaving is important. Listening is active enough.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:19 It's nice to have a story that you're invested in, to look forward to.
	10:19pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:16 He was truly dreamy.... sigh. Imaginos, weaving is good! I was tuned in at 9 but doing a paint by numbers until my eyes were, like, stahhhppp!
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:19 What're ya painting?
	10:21pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 It's a really pretty paint by numbers kit that's a skeleton with plants and flowers entwined in it! I'll text you a pic!
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:21 Very cool. I do not paint. I just do graphic design. But I do like to take pictures.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:19 We should probably do an episode of our podcast where we watch a few Twilight Zone episodes. For... research.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: Coming up we have one of my favorite Dimension X stories, which we have heard on the show once before. This is the last re-run that Dimension X intentionally aired during their initial run.
	10:28pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:24 It's a plan!!
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: The same team went on to make X Minus One four years later. They will re-make - sometimes with the same cast, sometimes with new actors and new FX - nearly all the stories they did on Dimension X. And, in some cases, with changes. As per the rule with Dimension X, I will air "official" re-broadcasts, when the show itself sent out the same story again to their affiliate stations. However, individual stations would often re-run their favorite stories, and would sometimes air shows out of order, or skip controversial episodes. So I will using the official broadcast log for the show, not really deviating from that order.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:28 I get to look at Theora so often. You should at least get to see a little Serling now and then.
	10:29pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 Ah, my heart. And I do just love The Twilight Zone!
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:29 They are pretty timeless.
	10:31pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 My dad used to tape them on VHS for me in the early 2000s and they totally hold up so well. It's amazingly cool!
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: Woah! Will we finally get to find out where Frank Chandler is? They've only been looking for him since the first episode.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: Whoops. I accidentally left in that "tomorrow" line in Chandu, when it will actually be next week. Sorry! Chandu was a daily show, so they say that a lot in the credits for that show.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:31 I think Obadiah and I talked about this during the interview with him, but Dimension X is the pre-cursor to Twilight Zone. It's almost the same format, has a host's voice that is the same every episode, but with a different story each week. And most of the Dimension X stories have a sort of darkness to them, much like Twilight Zone. We know that Serling worked in radio before and after Twlight Zone. It's VERY likely that he listened to Dimension X, and a few years later, developed his own version.
	10:39pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:36 I don't know Dimension X, or not well, but I always appreciated the darkness in X Minus One. There are some very early SoT eps where Jimmy Spaceboy reminds you was a clip from X Minus One. Back when we were actually kind of Sci fi/comedy.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:36 There's a great Radio Series from the 70's that Serling did, "Zero Hour," which was sort of Twilight Zone for radio, but with a 70's vibe. I'm quite a fan, and was thinking about it for Dimestore... someday... But Serling did a lot of radio, so I could probably just run through his entire catalog, and no one would mind, I'm sure.
	10:40pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Completed the central symbol and circle. Now I just have the red part.
	10:41pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 I'd love to hear any and all of that!!
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:39 Same show / same team, even. Dimension X was just "proto-X Minus One."
	10:41pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I think this episode is the basis for Druuna Morbus Gravis.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:40 Congratulations!
	10:41pm Heather: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:40 Awesome!! Send us a pic when you're done??
	10:42pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Heather @10:41 Sure
	10:42pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 i remember "Zero Hour" from when i was a kid! from what i recall it was more mystery, and not as sci-fi horrific as "Twilight Zone." But that was a long time ago...
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:41 Maybe. I'm not familiar with that game, but that would be cool.
	10:43pm Cp304: Oh, he hit em with a cymbal
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:42 You are right, there's not as much sci-fi in Zero Hour. But it still had a lot of the same presentation / vibe as Twilight Zone, to me.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @10:43 Or a symbol.
	10:45pm Mr Fab: Heather, Mrs Fab also thought Rod was so handsome and cool in those "Twilight Zone" reruns. I can certainly vouch for his coolness.
	10:47pm Heather: ↳ Mr Fab @10:45 Truly, so dreamy. Probably didn't hurt that the show itself was also really cool but not too scary for me when I was a kid and it aired in syndication!
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:47 To me, when I was a kid, it was the show that was almost always on, somewhere, when I would flip around late at night.
	10:50pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:48 It was always on and, as a closely monitored kit, it had a stamp of parental approval for being smart so I never got yelled at for watching TV if it was Twilight Zone.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:50 Parental Approval is key, especially if you want to watch it more than once.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 I had slightly different viewing privileges, depending on who I was living with as a kid. My parents divorce sort of changed the TV calendar a lot growing up, and before that, we were often left to be watched by the TV.
	10:55pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 Any time I wasn't getting yelled at was a good time! We did a 5th grade play in school that was Twilight Zone based. It's neat how that show simply endures. I wonder if the kids know about it now? I'll ask around!
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:55 Oh yeah, they do. Jordan Peele made a version of The Twilight Zone.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:56 en.wikipedia.org...
	10:57pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 That's right! I never watched that and forgot it was a thing!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:57 I have heard, mostly from Michael Cassutt, that there hasn't really been a version of The Twilight Zone since the original that was any good, including the one he worked on, so I'm not sure we can trust him...
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: Looks like we'll go about four minutes over. Sorry!
	11:00pm Heather: Oo, it's getting to be that time so I'll say goodnight all! As always, thanks for the fun chat and, Austin, thanks for the awesome show! Looking forward to MVM tomorrow! Austin, maybe we need to watch a sampling of all of em? Just to find out for ourselves?
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @11:00 Good Idea.
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: Story by Robert Heinlein.
	👻 11:04pm WR: Nice one. Thank you, Austin.
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: Good Night Everyone! Thanks for listening.
	11:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Good night

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 30, 2023

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January 30, 2023: Episode #42

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Box 13	"Design For Danger" ""Design For Danger"" by "Box 13"	4 June 1949	Mayfair Productions	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Stan Kenton	Artistry In Rhythm "Artistry In Rhythm" by "Stan Kenton"			0:28:20 (Pop-up)
Bold Venture	"Spanish Gold" ""Spanish Gold"" by "Bold Venture"	23 April 1951	Santana Productions	0:31:49 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Stan Kenton	Artistry In Rhythm "Artistry In Rhythm" by "Stan Kenton"			1:00:20 (Pop-up)
Biography Channel	Bogart & Bacall: Hollywood's Golden Age Part 10	Three Documentaries Edited Together.		1:10:23 (Pop-up)
Chandu The Magician	"Letter Arrives"	24 August 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Network	1:17:53 (Pop-up)
Dimension X	"Universe" ""Universe"" by "Dimension X"	2 August 1951	NBC Radio	1:45:23 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 6:59pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:01pm Charles: Alright I got all my Dimestore essentials at the ready! Wheaties, Roma Wine and Acme brand peanut butter (now with 20% more butter!).
	9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:01 "There's Never Enough... ACME Brand Peanut Butter!" I remember that slogan well.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:01 Greetings & Salutations!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: We're visiting the "wrong side of the tracks" this week on Box 13.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: "I'm Trumped." Maybe Suzy IS onto something...
	9:04pm Charles: We as all of us or the editorial "We"?
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:04 Probably not a good time to pull out one of the college papers I wrote analyzing the word "we" in 19th Century Novels.
	9:06pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Thawing some shrimp
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:06 "Suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly somebody will say like 'plate' or 'shrimp' or 'plate of shrimp', out of the blue, no explanation. No point in looking for one either; it's all part of the cosmic unconsciousness."
	9:07pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 Put it in audio form and you just might have a little something to play in an episode of Mid-valley Mutations!
	👻 9:08pm WR: hi
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:08 Howdy!
	9:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ WR @9:08 Ahoy
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:07 The essay on daguerreotypes might actually be a better piece of writing.
	9:10pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 As long as the shrimp is on my plate!
	9:10pm Charles: Is it me or it's been a while since we heard Lt. Cling?
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:10 I do like shrimp. I'm a fan of seafood, in general.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:10 You might be right. I feel like he was in a string of episodes, then... a gap. Perhaps the actor wasn't available for a while?
	9:11pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:10 As am i.
	9:12pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My BOC flag is coming along.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:11 I have often thought about the coast as a place to move to, like a retirement or something. The Oregon Coast is pretty amazing.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:12 I couldn't tell how you were making it. Is that crochet, or something else?
	9:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 Weaving. On a loom
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:13 Ahhh! Very cool. Are you familiar with Richard Meltzer's work?
	9:15pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Not yet.
	9:17pm Charles: Good job Holiday, it all went like planned..
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:15 He wrote a lot of BOC songs. And I think he introduced them to John Shirley, who has been writing their more recent lyrics.
	9:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I mostly follow the works of Sandy Pearlman.
	9:19pm Mr Fab: Watertown sounds like a sister city to Raymond Chandler's Bay City.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:19 I wonder if that was the inspiration? This is probably the most "noir" Box 13 episode.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:19 Sandy is pretty great.
	9:21pm Charles: I was starting to like Fatty...
	👻 9:22pm WR: Halliday is so clumsy in this episode.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:19 Anyway, I recommend Richard Meltzer's books. He writes mostly non-fiction, music reviews. But he's got a few novels that I adore. He wrote a great essay on wrestling that sort of made me like wrestling. And he also wrote a lot of BOC lyrics, so that makes him pretty cool. Rumor has it he invented using the umlat in your band name.
	9:22pm Mr Fab: sounds like Fred Flintstone.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:22 Sometimes, when you make more mistakes, it makes the story more fun.
	9:24pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 He sounds pretty interesting
	9:25pm Mr Fab: "those smelly Egyptian cigarettes"??
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:24 He's an art-school nerd. He wrote the first "scholarly" book on Rock 'n' Roll, in the early 60's. Between him, Lester Bangs, and Nick Tosches, they essentially invented rock music criticism.
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:25 Camels, probably.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: Dan, shot in the shoulder, but essentially not slowed down in the slightest.
	9:27pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Writer strong!
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:25 Wait! I just remembered, Camels are Turkish. Nevermind.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: This might yield an answer: en.wikipedia.org...
	9:29pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Can you imagine if Dan met Edison Carter?
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: Sounds like Egyptian Cigarettes were very popular in the late 1800's, but fell off around 1901, when most people seemed to prefer Turkish blends. So Egyptian Cigarettes were "cheap" in 1949, as they were out of favor.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:29 We should write that fan-fic.
	9:30pm Charles: If I got my ass kicked twice and then got shot I'd probably put an end to the whole Box 13 thing. Then again it might be why I'm not a good writer.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:30 Or, perhaps... why you are a smart writer.
	9:31pm Cp304: Hey peoples.. did Johnny get back with ol girl? I was carrying in groceries
	9:31pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 That would be fun
	👻 9:32pm WR: This Box 13 plot was fairly obvious but the flow of the performance was compelling.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @9:31 I don't think they said one way or another
	9:34pm Charles: I love that announcer.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:31 I could see the "Box 13" idea being plausible in the world of Network 23. He might even get a show on some network... maybe Big Time?
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:34 I do love the voices you hear on old radio.
	9:37pm Charles: Anytime I do that "two out of three" thing I know I already made my choice and I'm just lying to myself.
	9:38pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 I think Big Time would scoop up Dan in a heartbeat
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:37 "Hmmmm... what about three out of five?" Now I'm just made I'm not getting my way.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:38 I think Dan would like being independent, too. The Networks probably want too much control.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: Plenty of Cigarette talk in both our shows tonight. Makes this ex-smoker want to do something...
	9:40pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 Good point. I suspect Breughal would be involved
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:40 Dan probably knows people in both the Networks and all over The Fringes. Box 13 takes you all over the place...
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: Two shoulder injuries in both our episodes, too.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: I don't need gold to bow before Lauren Bacall.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: This episode sort of has the feel of an episode of The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen. But with a more sophisticated re-write.
	9:44pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I mixed rice with oriental five spice and it tastes pudding
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: Sleazy guy kidnapping Sailor probably has a very hard time ahead of him.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:44 That sounds like a meal we make around here every so often. Outstanding!
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: And, both our heroes in both shows knocked unconscious this week.
	9:49pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The bad guy has a gun and he hits people with it.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: Sailor quotes the song, "M.O.T.H.E.R.: (A Word That Means The World To Me)"
	9:53pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Remember the Twilight Zone episode the Rip Van Winkle Caper?
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: It's sort of unfair when she tries to manipulate men. She has an advantage.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:53 Oh.... vaguely. Not enough to remember anything specific.
	9:56pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:54 I just remember the end. They went into stasis for a hundred years to go past the statute and then gold was worthless.
	👻 9:56pm WR: Even that music didn't muffle my laughter at the wife's catharsis.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:56 Ha! There are some laugh lines, aren't there?
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:56 Oh... right. Time to re-watch! Michael Cassutt and I were talking about doing an interview with surviving members of the writing team for the 80's Twilight Zone, who he keeps in touch with. But the OG Twilight Zone is what I REALLY loved. Time for a rewatch.
	10:05pm Heather: I've probably mentioned to you, Austin, but Rod Serling has some big Rochester connections! He was the great uncle of a coworker, even, and she has a letter he wrote to her mom about how the new baby was so cute, he was going to steal her! Which... stealing babies is always wrong but still, she treasures the letter.
	10:06pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: You should look up Old Harry's Game. Its a BBC sitcom set in an unusual location.
	10:07pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Radio sitcom
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:06 Hmmmmm. Not familiar. I'll have to check it out.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:05 I mean, what would Rod actually do with a baby he stole? Like he knows how to take care of a baby. That baby would be smoking cigarettes in a week.
	10:15pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:14 I figure his baby shower gift was a carton of smokes! I had such a crush on him, too. Goodness.
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: "The Battlin' Bogarts." That's a crazy way to paint overt domestic violence.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:15 Rod was captivating. He's just fantastic to watch. Even old Serling is pretty captivating.
	10:16pm wenzo (listener #143834): Howdy AR & Radio aficionados
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: Her nickname from his was, "Sluggy." I think, because, she was... punchy.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo (listener #143834) @10:16 Wenzo! Thanks for joining us!
	10:18pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Sorry I'm not chatting much. Weaving.
	👻 10:19pm WR: Austin, I agree that the combination of it being a weekly schedule and you have an interesting format, which keeps me focused enough to be back week after week. There are lots of radio series reasonably available but helps to have a regular schedule to listen.
	10:19pm wenzo (listener #143834): My pleasure sirrr
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:18 Weaving is important. Listening is active enough.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:19 It's nice to have a story that you're invested in, to look forward to.
	10:19pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:16 He was truly dreamy.... sigh. Imaginos, weaving is good! I was tuned in at 9 but doing a paint by numbers until my eyes were, like, stahhhppp!
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:19 What're ya painting?
	10:21pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 It's a really pretty paint by numbers kit that's a skeleton with plants and flowers entwined in it! I'll text you a pic!
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:21 Very cool. I do not paint. I just do graphic design. But I do like to take pictures.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:19 We should probably do an episode of our podcast where we watch a few Twilight Zone episodes. For... research.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: Coming up we have one of my favorite Dimension X stories, which we have heard on the show once before. This is the last re-run that Dimension X intentionally aired during their initial run.
	10:28pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:24 It's a plan!!
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: The same team went on to make X Minus One four years later. They will re-make - sometimes with the same cast, sometimes with new actors and new FX - nearly all the stories they did on Dimension X. And, in some cases, with changes. As per the rule with Dimension X, I will air "official" re-broadcasts, when the show itself sent out the same story again to their affiliate stations. However, individual stations would often re-run their favorite stories, and would sometimes air shows out of order, or skip controversial episodes. So I will using the official broadcast log for the show, not really deviating from that order.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:28 I get to look at Theora so often. You should at least get to see a little Serling now and then.
	10:29pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 Ah, my heart. And I do just love The Twilight Zone!
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:29 They are pretty timeless.
	10:31pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 My dad used to tape them on VHS for me in the early 2000s and they totally hold up so well. It's amazingly cool!
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: Woah! Will we finally get to find out where Frank Chandler is? They've only been looking for him since the first episode.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: Whoops. I accidentally left in that "tomorrow" line in Chandu, when it will actually be next week. Sorry! Chandu was a daily show, so they say that a lot in the credits for that show.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:31 I think Obadiah and I talked about this during the interview with him, but Dimension X is the pre-cursor to Twilight Zone. It's almost the same format, has a host's voice that is the same every episode, but with a different story each week. And most of the Dimension X stories have a sort of darkness to them, much like Twilight Zone. We know that Serling worked in radio before and after Twlight Zone. It's VERY likely that he listened to Dimension X, and a few years later, developed his own version.
	10:39pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:36 I don't know Dimension X, or not well, but I always appreciated the darkness in X Minus One. There are some very early SoT eps where Jimmy Spaceboy reminds you was a clip from X Minus One. Back when we were actually kind of Sci fi/comedy.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:36 There's a great Radio Series from the 70's that Serling did, "Zero Hour," which was sort of Twilight Zone for radio, but with a 70's vibe. I'm quite a fan, and was thinking about it for Dimestore... someday... But Serling did a lot of radio, so I could probably just run through his entire catalog, and no one would mind, I'm sure.
	10:40pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Completed the central symbol and circle. Now I just have the red part.
	10:41pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 I'd love to hear any and all of that!!
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:39 Same show / same team, even. Dimension X was just "proto-X Minus One."
	10:41pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I think this episode is the basis for Druuna Morbus Gravis.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:40 Congratulations!
	10:41pm Heather: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:40 Awesome!! Send us a pic when you're done??
	10:42pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Heather @10:41 Sure
	10:42pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 i remember "Zero Hour" from when i was a kid! from what i recall it was more mystery, and not as sci-fi horrific as "Twilight Zone." But that was a long time ago...
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:41 Maybe. I'm not familiar with that game, but that would be cool.
	10:43pm Cp304: Oh, he hit em with a cymbal
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:42 You are right, there's not as much sci-fi in Zero Hour. But it still had a lot of the same presentation / vibe as Twilight Zone, to me.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Cp304 @10:43 Or a symbol.
	10:45pm Mr Fab: Heather, Mrs Fab also thought Rod was so handsome and cool in those "Twilight Zone" reruns. I can certainly vouch for his coolness.
	10:47pm Heather: ↳ Mr Fab @10:45 Truly, so dreamy. Probably didn't hurt that the show itself was also really cool but not too scary for me when I was a kid and it aired in syndication!
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:47 To me, when I was a kid, it was the show that was almost always on, somewhere, when I would flip around late at night.
	10:50pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:48 It was always on and, as a closely monitored kit, it had a stamp of parental approval for being smart so I never got yelled at for watching TV if it was Twilight Zone.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:50 Parental Approval is key, especially if you want to watch it more than once.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 I had slightly different viewing privileges, depending on who I was living with as a kid. My parents divorce sort of changed the TV calendar a lot growing up, and before that, we were often left to be watched by the TV.
	10:55pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 Any time I wasn't getting yelled at was a good time! We did a 5th grade play in school that was Twilight Zone based. It's neat how that show simply endures. I wonder if the kids know about it now? I'll ask around!
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:55 Oh yeah, they do. Jordan Peele made a version of The Twilight Zone.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:56 en.wikipedia.org...
	10:57pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 That's right! I never watched that and forgot it was a thing!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:57 I have heard, mostly from Michael Cassutt, that there hasn't really been a version of The Twilight Zone since the original that was any good, including the one he worked on, so I'm not sure we can trust him...
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: Looks like we'll go about four minutes over. Sorry!
	11:00pm Heather: Oo, it's getting to be that time so I'll say goodnight all! As always, thanks for the fun chat and, Austin, thanks for the awesome show! Looking forward to MVM tomorrow! Austin, maybe we need to watch a sampling of all of em? Just to find out for ourselves?
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @11:00 Good Idea.
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: Story by Robert Heinlein.
	👻 11:04pm WR: Nice one. Thank you, Austin.
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: Good Night Everyone! Thanks for listening.
	11:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Good night

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 30, 2023

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