WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 10, 2023

Listener comments!
	👻 8:40pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy
	👻 9:02pm WR: Hi,
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:01 Greetings & Salutations!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:02 WR! Now we are ready to dimestore!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Clay Pigeon"" by "Box 13" We only have ONE more Box 13, after this episode!
	9:04pm Charles: listenin'
	9:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 Awww. That was a great show
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:04 Charles! Party Time, Excellent.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:04 It has been fun to re-listen, and to space them out like I did. When I listened to them before, I plowed through all the episodes in a couple weeks. This leisurely pace is quite enjoyable.
	9:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Buzzardo approved
	9:07pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ever look up its addresses on Google maps?
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:07 Oh, I never thought to! Interesting.
	9:08pm Charles: Amazing show
	9:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Reminds me of The Old Ones
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:08 This episode is one of my faves. I like the way it unfolds.
	9:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Wonder when old style phone numbers stopped
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:13 It was before 1980; as long as I've had to memorize numbers, they've been at least seven digits.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: This offers and interesting timeline: en.wikipedia.org...
	9:16pm Webhamster Henry: I love how Paul Frees always plays Paul Frees.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:16 And he's EVERYWHERE! I love it when I spot him in something.
	9:17pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 Interesting stuff
	9:18pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:16 I'm actually catching this live for a change - I'm completely stuck on the Archive.org stockpile of OTR. and, it's nice to hear more recent radio drama too.
	👻 9:19pm WR: Knock out number one.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:18 Oh, excellent! I'm a sucker for OTR too, and this seemed like the best way to listen to shows - some I loved, some that are new to me. And it's been fun to make silly commercials and stuff, too.
	9:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I wish X Minus One or a similar show had done a version of ed comics Judgment Day
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:19 He recovered pretty well, too.
	9:21pm Webhamster Henry: I see you are doing one of the Bradburys from X-minus-1. Someone did a nice Bradbury radio collection here: archive.org...
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:21 Oh, wow! This is fantastic. I was just talking about how his stories appeared on other shows, but I was never always sure which ones. What an excellent resource.
	9:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Wild goose?
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: I'm gonna miss the music from this show. It really did use the music in cinematic ways.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:25 "You're cooking a wild goose? Invite me over. I meet the goose. I'll even eat the goose. I usually try to be polite like that." - Groucho, in another universe.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: Shot in the hand? Ouch!
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: "I've got to explain a few things to my secretary." That sounds like code if I've ever heard it.
	9:29pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:28 Unless you're Eric Draven.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:29 I was thinking about The Crow the other day. The movie version is almost like a film set in The Fringes.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: This episode aired on August 7th, originally. My sister's birthday.
	9:32pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 I could see that.
	9:34pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: ""The High Price of Treason"" by "Bold Venture" The foley in this show sounds like coconuts
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The High Price of Treason"" by "Bold Venture" I used one name when announcing this episode, but it is also known as, "The High Price of Treason," among other names. Bold Venture, as mentioned previously, would often retitle the same episode, seemingly "inflating" the number of episodes available. It's not clear if Santana Productions did this, as a way to offer more episodes than were recorded, or if stations did this, to make it seem like there was a new episode coming, when it was actually a repeat. Again, hard to know which was actually happening, but: multiple names have led to a lot of confusion with Bld Venture.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:34 Unfortunately, by comparison, Box 13 is such a high quality show, and Bold Venture is... just fine. Mayfair Productions clearly took a lot of care with their shows... and Santana was making shows, too.
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: Sailor mentions a kind of skiing in her joke quip: en.wiktionary.org...
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:38 I guess, not so much skiing, as a method of walking in skis, uphill. I've never actually been skiing, so I only know the word in association.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: I like his "hop, skip and jump," line. They usually give Slate some excellent lines.
	9:44pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Don't know how far you got reading my fic, but Desdinova had twins named Vega and Aquila.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:44 Both stars, yes? (In the sky, I mean.)
	9:46pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 A star and a constellation
	9:48pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Both related to birds
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:48 My boss is starting a Gene Wolf book club, so I'm gonna read "Shadow & Claw." I just got the book this weekend.
	9:50pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: It's quiet tonight
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:50 Like, the sound of the show? I guess I could turn it up.
	👻 9:51pm WR: so he calls all Cuban males, Chico?
	9:51pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:51 I mean the chat
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:51 I was wondering that. Like, as in Chico Marx?
	👻 9:52pm WR: Chico is Spanish for boy...
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:52 Ahhhhh. I didn't realize. (I'm not familiar with Spanish. But that totally makes sense, now that I think about it.)
	9:54pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ WR @9:52 Like Chico and the Man?
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: His line about Kate being too old when she gets out of prison is similar to the last thing his character says to a similar female, in Bogart's, "The Maltese Falcon."
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: And, yet again, they make out at the end of the episode.
	👻 10:04pm WR: It is an exciting festival promo. I'm hyped!
	10:05pm Barno in Akron: Roll call!
	10:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The fifties was mainly about adventure dealing with traveling
	10:10pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: New frontier was the watchword of the day
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: Whoops! Looks like our show will go over by a few minutes this week. Hope no one minds.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:08 Certainly, that was very attractive to most people looking for entertainment. Travel was expensive, and hard. And hearing about it on the radio was exciting and fun.
	10:16pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Yacht races. Nowadays they have a boat race in New England called the Figawi race
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:16 Boat racing really does seem like something from another era. Like, isn't it easier to do with computers and stuff now?
	10:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 Too easy almost. Not as glorious as the days when Imaginos set sail from Lost Christobel.
	10:20pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Empire of The Air Part 3" by "Ken Burns" Relevant to this show: www.wfmu.org...
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:19 That's what I was thinking. I can only imagine using stars to navigate.
	10:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 With sextant and compass and telescope
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:20 Oh, yes. This documentary is from the 90's, and is very north American, in terms of it's narrative. I like the doc, because it's totally about how American's just steal stuff from each other. A more comprehensive story would only mention these folks, sort of in passing.
	10:24pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 With this radio-ified show, you have to imagine the "Ken Burns Effect"
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:24 Oh, totally! There's almost no footage, except in the interview clips with modern commentators. That 90s era of Burns Docs all look exactly the same... it's so weird.
	10:28pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Getting sleepy. Going to turn in. But will be around tomorrow.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: For the entire run of Chandu (that we have heard so far), the episodes have aired daily, beginning in the summer. We have now reached the period where the kids are no longer on Summer Break, and listening to Chandu will become harder and harder. (Chandu was on in the evenings as a family show, but because it was on in the evenings, often limited who could tune in.) Certainly this didn't stop most dedicated fans from still listening, but moving into the fall, they were starting to drop off.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:28 Sleep well! We'll see you again tomorrow.
	10:33pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: ""Chandu's Rescue"" by "Chandu The Magician" Ya big porcupine.
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:33 I love those kinds of comments.
	10:41pm swivs: Hotchy motchy! It’s ON!
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ swivs @10:41 Howdy swivs!
	👻 10:47pm Heather Z: Old fashioned chicken pox party was LIT!
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: As I understand it, this recording is actually an "audition" show, sort of like a pilot. It has a date of April, 22nd, and it's possible that it might have been broadcast on that date. But, more likely, this was just made as a proof of concept, to make sure that their debut episode - two days later - could be pulled off without a hitch. As I understand it, "No Contact" was the first new episode that listeners actually heard in 1955.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:47 This was totally what it was like when I went over to spend the week with my neighbor's kids, when I got it.
	👻 10:48pm WR: Very disciplined crew.
	👻 10:49pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:48 I think all our parents also had giant drunken brawls while the kids got the pox? I had a fever so my memory is fuzzy.
	👻 10:52pm WR: Quoting poetry to drunken marauders?
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: According to other records I've found, this particular audition recording was finally broadcast, for listeners to hear, later that year, in September. (As I understand it: they actually aired the audition recording.) That I know of, those are the only two instances of this exact story being duplicated anywhere in the X-Minus One line-up, but I do know that occasionally, local stations would re-air their fave episodes during any off-weeks. For our purposes, I will play it twice: now, and in the September slot, later in the running order.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:52 "Squwak. It's a living."
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:49 Probably. I was too hypnotized by Cosmos to care.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: Norman Rose was the Dimension X announcer, and had the nickname, "The Voice of God," as he announced many other shows, too. While they got him for this audition recording, it was known that he couldn't do it in an on-going basis, and Fred Collins would take over the job moving forward. The "Minus One" referenced in the name of the show is Norman Rose, and the "X" referenced in the name is the proceeding show we already heard: Dimension X.
	👻 10:58pm David Shortell: Was this particular Martian Chronicle adapted in NBC's three-episode 1980 miniseries ?
	👻 10:58pm WR: The narration is very poetic.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: The reference to "hot dog stands" is in reference to a story from the Martian Chronicles, about a hot dog vendor that sets up on Mars.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:58 I don't recall that series! Maybe?
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:58 Agreed. Bradbury rules.
	👻 11:01pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:59 Thirded!
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: We have about four more minutes! Sorry for going over!
	👻 11:03pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @11:02 Yay for bonus radio time!
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @11:03 This audition tape is actually a couple minutes longer than the average X-Minus One episode, t'boot!
	👻 11:05pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @11:04 I'm here for it! I did, long ago, listen to a lot of X Minus One but so long ago, I've forgotten a lot. It's lovely to hear again.
	👻 11:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @11:05 We will hear them all, one week at a time!
	👻 11:06pm WR: Thank you! Austin!
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @11:06 Thank you, WR!
	👻 11:07pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @11:06 I'm excited!! Thanks for a great show, as always!!
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @11:07 Thank you.
	11:08pm Webhamster Henry: Have a happy Mid Valley Mutation Fest!
	👻 11:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @11:08 Thank you! Tune in and join us!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 10, 2023

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April 10, 2023: Episode #51

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Box 13	"The Clay Pigeon" ""The Clay Pigeon"" by "Box 13"	7 August 1949	Mayfair Productions	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Bold Venture	"The High Price of Treason"	25 June 1951	Santana Productions	0:30:14 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Stan Kenton	Intermission Riff "Intermission Riff" by "Stan Kenton"			1:12:56 (Pop-up)
Ken Burns	Empire of The Air Part 3	Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio	PBS DVD Video	1:12:51 (Pop-up)
Chandu The Magician	"Chandu's Rescue"	2 September 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Network	1:25:09 (Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"And The Moon Be Still As Bright"	22 April 1955	NBC Radio	1:38:38 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 8:40pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy
	👻 9:02pm WR: Hi,
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:01 Greetings & Salutations!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:02 WR! Now we are ready to dimestore!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Clay Pigeon"" by "Box 13" We only have ONE more Box 13, after this episode!
	9:04pm Charles: listenin'
	9:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 Awww. That was a great show
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:04 Charles! Party Time, Excellent.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:04 It has been fun to re-listen, and to space them out like I did. When I listened to them before, I plowed through all the episodes in a couple weeks. This leisurely pace is quite enjoyable.
	9:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Buzzardo approved
	9:07pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ever look up its addresses on Google maps?
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:07 Oh, I never thought to! Interesting.
	9:08pm Charles: Amazing show
	9:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Reminds me of The Old Ones
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:08 This episode is one of my faves. I like the way it unfolds.
	9:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Wonder when old style phone numbers stopped
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:13 It was before 1980; as long as I've had to memorize numbers, they've been at least seven digits.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: This offers and interesting timeline: en.wikipedia.org...
	9:16pm Webhamster Henry: I love how Paul Frees always plays Paul Frees.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:16 And he's EVERYWHERE! I love it when I spot him in something.
	9:17pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 Interesting stuff
	9:18pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:16 I'm actually catching this live for a change - I'm completely stuck on the Archive.org stockpile of OTR. and, it's nice to hear more recent radio drama too.
	👻 9:19pm WR: Knock out number one.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:18 Oh, excellent! I'm a sucker for OTR too, and this seemed like the best way to listen to shows - some I loved, some that are new to me. And it's been fun to make silly commercials and stuff, too.
	9:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I wish X Minus One or a similar show had done a version of ed comics Judgment Day
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:19 He recovered pretty well, too.
	9:21pm Webhamster Henry: I see you are doing one of the Bradburys from X-minus-1. Someone did a nice Bradbury radio collection here: archive.org...
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:21 Oh, wow! This is fantastic. I was just talking about how his stories appeared on other shows, but I was never always sure which ones. What an excellent resource.
	9:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Wild goose?
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: I'm gonna miss the music from this show. It really did use the music in cinematic ways.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:25 "You're cooking a wild goose? Invite me over. I meet the goose. I'll even eat the goose. I usually try to be polite like that." - Groucho, in another universe.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: Shot in the hand? Ouch!
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: "I've got to explain a few things to my secretary." That sounds like code if I've ever heard it.
	9:29pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:28 Unless you're Eric Draven.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:29 I was thinking about The Crow the other day. The movie version is almost like a film set in The Fringes.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: This episode aired on August 7th, originally. My sister's birthday.
	9:32pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 I could see that.
	9:34pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: ""The High Price of Treason"" by "Bold Venture" The foley in this show sounds like coconuts
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The High Price of Treason"" by "Bold Venture" I used one name when announcing this episode, but it is also known as, "The High Price of Treason," among other names. Bold Venture, as mentioned previously, would often retitle the same episode, seemingly "inflating" the number of episodes available. It's not clear if Santana Productions did this, as a way to offer more episodes than were recorded, or if stations did this, to make it seem like there was a new episode coming, when it was actually a repeat. Again, hard to know which was actually happening, but: multiple names have led to a lot of confusion with Bld Venture.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:34 Unfortunately, by comparison, Box 13 is such a high quality show, and Bold Venture is... just fine. Mayfair Productions clearly took a lot of care with their shows... and Santana was making shows, too.
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: Sailor mentions a kind of skiing in her joke quip: en.wiktionary.org...
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:38 I guess, not so much skiing, as a method of walking in skis, uphill. I've never actually been skiing, so I only know the word in association.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: I like his "hop, skip and jump," line. They usually give Slate some excellent lines.
	9:44pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Don't know how far you got reading my fic, but Desdinova had twins named Vega and Aquila.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:44 Both stars, yes? (In the sky, I mean.)
	9:46pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 A star and a constellation
	9:48pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Both related to birds
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:48 My boss is starting a Gene Wolf book club, so I'm gonna read "Shadow & Claw." I just got the book this weekend.
	9:50pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: It's quiet tonight
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:50 Like, the sound of the show? I guess I could turn it up.
	👻 9:51pm WR: so he calls all Cuban males, Chico?
	9:51pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:51 I mean the chat
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:51 I was wondering that. Like, as in Chico Marx?
	👻 9:52pm WR: Chico is Spanish for boy...
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:52 Ahhhhh. I didn't realize. (I'm not familiar with Spanish. But that totally makes sense, now that I think about it.)
	9:54pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ WR @9:52 Like Chico and the Man?
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: His line about Kate being too old when she gets out of prison is similar to the last thing his character says to a similar female, in Bogart's, "The Maltese Falcon."
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: And, yet again, they make out at the end of the episode.
	👻 10:04pm WR: It is an exciting festival promo. I'm hyped!
	10:05pm Barno in Akron: Roll call!
	10:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The fifties was mainly about adventure dealing with traveling
	10:10pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: New frontier was the watchword of the day
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: Whoops! Looks like our show will go over by a few minutes this week. Hope no one minds.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:08 Certainly, that was very attractive to most people looking for entertainment. Travel was expensive, and hard. And hearing about it on the radio was exciting and fun.
	10:16pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Yacht races. Nowadays they have a boat race in New England called the Figawi race
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:16 Boat racing really does seem like something from another era. Like, isn't it easier to do with computers and stuff now?
	10:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 Too easy almost. Not as glorious as the days when Imaginos set sail from Lost Christobel.
	10:20pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Empire of The Air Part 3" by "Ken Burns" Relevant to this show: www.wfmu.org...
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:19 That's what I was thinking. I can only imagine using stars to navigate.
	10:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 With sextant and compass and telescope
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:20 Oh, yes. This documentary is from the 90's, and is very north American, in terms of it's narrative. I like the doc, because it's totally about how American's just steal stuff from each other. A more comprehensive story would only mention these folks, sort of in passing.
	10:24pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 With this radio-ified show, you have to imagine the "Ken Burns Effect"
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:24 Oh, totally! There's almost no footage, except in the interview clips with modern commentators. That 90s era of Burns Docs all look exactly the same... it's so weird.
	10:28pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Getting sleepy. Going to turn in. But will be around tomorrow.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: For the entire run of Chandu (that we have heard so far), the episodes have aired daily, beginning in the summer. We have now reached the period where the kids are no longer on Summer Break, and listening to Chandu will become harder and harder. (Chandu was on in the evenings as a family show, but because it was on in the evenings, often limited who could tune in.) Certainly this didn't stop most dedicated fans from still listening, but moving into the fall, they were starting to drop off.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:28 Sleep well! We'll see you again tomorrow.
	10:33pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: ""Chandu's Rescue"" by "Chandu The Magician" Ya big porcupine.
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:33 I love those kinds of comments.
	10:41pm swivs: Hotchy motchy! It’s ON!
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ swivs @10:41 Howdy swivs!
	👻 10:47pm Heather Z: Old fashioned chicken pox party was LIT!
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: As I understand it, this recording is actually an "audition" show, sort of like a pilot. It has a date of April, 22nd, and it's possible that it might have been broadcast on that date. But, more likely, this was just made as a proof of concept, to make sure that their debut episode - two days later - could be pulled off without a hitch. As I understand it, "No Contact" was the first new episode that listeners actually heard in 1955.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:47 This was totally what it was like when I went over to spend the week with my neighbor's kids, when I got it.
	👻 10:48pm WR: Very disciplined crew.
	👻 10:49pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:48 I think all our parents also had giant drunken brawls while the kids got the pox? I had a fever so my memory is fuzzy.
	👻 10:52pm WR: Quoting poetry to drunken marauders?
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: According to other records I've found, this particular audition recording was finally broadcast, for listeners to hear, later that year, in September. (As I understand it: they actually aired the audition recording.) That I know of, those are the only two instances of this exact story being duplicated anywhere in the X-Minus One line-up, but I do know that occasionally, local stations would re-air their fave episodes during any off-weeks. For our purposes, I will play it twice: now, and in the September slot, later in the running order.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:52 "Squwak. It's a living."
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:49 Probably. I was too hypnotized by Cosmos to care.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: Norman Rose was the Dimension X announcer, and had the nickname, "The Voice of God," as he announced many other shows, too. While they got him for this audition recording, it was known that he couldn't do it in an on-going basis, and Fred Collins would take over the job moving forward. The "Minus One" referenced in the name of the show is Norman Rose, and the "X" referenced in the name is the proceeding show we already heard: Dimension X.
	👻 10:58pm David Shortell: Was this particular Martian Chronicle adapted in NBC's three-episode 1980 miniseries ?
	👻 10:58pm WR: The narration is very poetic.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: The reference to "hot dog stands" is in reference to a story from the Martian Chronicles, about a hot dog vendor that sets up on Mars.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:58 I don't recall that series! Maybe?
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:58 Agreed. Bradbury rules.
	👻 11:01pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:59 Thirded!
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: We have about four more minutes! Sorry for going over!
	👻 11:03pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @11:02 Yay for bonus radio time!
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @11:03 This audition tape is actually a couple minutes longer than the average X-Minus One episode, t'boot!
	👻 11:05pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @11:04 I'm here for it! I did, long ago, listen to a lot of X Minus One but so long ago, I've forgotten a lot. It's lovely to hear again.
	👻 11:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @11:05 We will hear them all, one week at a time!
	👻 11:06pm WR: Thank you! Austin!
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @11:06 Thank you, WR!
	👻 11:07pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @11:06 I'm excited!! Thanks for a great show, as always!!
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @11:07 Thank you.
	11:08pm Webhamster Henry: Have a happy Mid Valley Mutation Fest!
	👻 11:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @11:08 Thank you! Tune in and join us!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 10, 2023

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