WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from June 19, 2023

Listener comments!
	👻 7:16pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:28pm Ovra: Olleh doog
	8:55pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy! July is getting closer and closer.
	9:01pm Otis: Evening Austin, tuned to the stories as I work into the twilight.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Ovra @8:28 Nice to see you in the chat, "Ovra."
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:55 Greetings! Nice to see you in the chat!
	9:02pm Webhamster Henry: I have my 10¢ ready!
	9:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 Happy to be here
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Otis @9:01 Otis! Hopefully we will keep you well entertained while you work. Mayhaps you will whistle, even?
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:02 That's all you'll ever need to get into this show!
	9:03pm Charles: #bringbackcandy
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Symphony of Death"" by "Candy Matson" As you can see, but a complete coincidence, we are airing this exactly 73 years later, to the day!
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ... by a complete ...
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:03 If we can find scripts for the missing episodes, I will absolutely mount some re-enactments!
	9:06pm Charles: that's awesome Austin!
	9:06pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I wonder if its a code.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:06 Perhaps?
	9:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 Speaking of scripts, when in July would you like to do a rough reading?
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:08 Still gotta sort that out. But possibly on a Thursday, which is when Heather and I usually record.
	9:10pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Thursdays work after 2pm EST
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: While I don't remember if it is mentioned later, I assume that the piano playing in this episode is by the same person who does the live organ music for Candy Matson.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: While this subject was not really something that was handled with ANY sensitivity in 1950, culturally speaking, to my ear, the way that Candy & Willa talk about Gordon is INCREDIBLY sensitive for the time. Of course, talking about Mental Health in a way that encouraged conversation was very rare in this period, and this episode seems like one of the first stepping stones toward portraying a sensitive discussion of mental health in a fictional format.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: Sounds like a record is being played behind Gordon's dialog here.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: Supplemented with a little live piano, too!
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: Rembrandt: "Taking them? I'm now giving them!" Always looking for a new side-gig.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: Candy: "You're the only man in the group." Rembradt: "Oh? ... Oh." Oh, Rembrandt...
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: I could imagine that Rembrandt is pretty good at comforting someone.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: This is probably the biggest "stretch" that happens in any episodes of Candy Matson. Gordon "willing" himself to die is a bit out of the usual story possibilities for this show... but, I guess we can give her a pass once in a while, right?
	9:33pm wenzo: Howdee Howdee
	9:33pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! I found an mp3 of last week’s music-themed episode, so I cut out some li’l dialogue bits that I added to the Sheena stream. Some of those lines like, “how do you feel about longhair music?”
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:33 Thanks for tuning in, wenzo!
	9:33pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ wenzo @9:33 Ahoy
	9:33pm Webhamster Henry: Hah! Moonlight Sonata backwards is George Harrison's "Because"! [ www.snopes.com... ]
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:33 Nice!
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:33 Candy Matson predicts the future?
	9:34pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 Or was the inspiration
	9:35pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:33 Sorry Lennon's
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:33 I feel like there was a line about "Bop" that was pretty excellent.
	9:45pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: No scruples
	9:47pm Webhamster Henry: "Try this one on your Bongo!" << attn Mr. Fab
	9:48pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Good show tonight
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: "Age 16 on up, Miss Sailor." Oh my!
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: While I do like Bold Venture, I often have trouble telling the episodes apart. This one sort of sounds a bit like a few different episodes we've already heard. And... well... the formula does work! So, I guess I can't complain. But, you know...
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: "Let's go home and take off our shoes, Sailor." This episode is very suggestive, in a number of places!
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: "Come here, reject." Damn!
	10:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:59 Especially for the time
	10:03pm Otis: Still here at the desk, over yonder.
	10:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Did they ever do a radio show about Dr Munigant?
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:08 Maybe? I'm certainly not familiar with all the Bradbury radio that's out there, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone has done it.
	10:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:12 I know they did it on tv with Eugene Levy
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:13 There were a few good Bradbury TV show adaptations that I quite enjoy. I should see what's available these days.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: "Without his talents, I might not be here..." Sinatra's popularity was often attributed to how popular his tunes were on radio.
	10:16pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Radio brought us many great people from Frank Sinatra to Douglas Adams.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:14 This sounds like a, "Duh?" sort of statement... except, at the time, radio didn't make stars, stars were allowed to play on radio! But since Sinatra had so many great records, and was popular with teens who requested him, that it was often - erroneously - suggested that it wasn't his own star power, but the power of the radio.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: "The Pictures Are Better" is the line from this movie that echoes in my mind, every time I watch / listen to this documentary.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: "Senator Claghorn," was the inspiration for "Foghorn Leghorn" in Warner Bros. Cartoons.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:16 Very true! Radio is the perfect stepping stone for anyone's career... or a great career to step into, anyway.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: This kind of whispering is CREEPY.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: Glad to know that in 1948, the trope of "creepy whispering" was already sort of played out.
	10:24pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 Indeed
	10:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I need dozing. But I'm trying to stay up
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:25 Dozing is important! Thanks for joining in!
	10:26pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Will be back for tomorrow
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:26 See ya then!
	👻 10:30pm Heather Z: I've been tuned in enjoying the show! Nigel the Cat is on my lap, tuned in via whiskercast!
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:30 Nice to see you in the chat!
	👻 10:32pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 Nigel comments "purr purr purr" which is high praise! I liked the creepy whispering, BTW. That surprises no one.
	10:33pm Mr Fab: I’ve learned from this show that anything is possible if you go into it with a real “Chandu” attitude. (Sorry for that. But since I am a dad, I think I’m allowed to make dad jokes.)
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:32 But what is a little surprising is that it was an already played-out trope in 1948... and they were essentially just fainting toward it in Chandu because it's easy.
	👻 10:33pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr Fab @10:33 😂
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:33 Puns are always welcome in my world!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:33 Some of us enjoy the pun-ishment.
	👻 10:34pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 I am never above a played out trope. Also not a surprise to anyone!
	10:34pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:34 OUCH!!
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Nightmare"" by "X-Minus One" Here's the poem this story is based on: allpoetry.com...
	👻 10:37pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:34 I think people should be more o-pun to different kinds of humor. Just my opunion.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: And, of course, ENIAC was a real computer: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Nightmare"" by "X-Minus One" The poem was originally published in 1947. Certainly, at the time, the idea of Mechanical Machines somehow "revolting" was absolutely a fantasy at the time. The idea that a mechanical machine could suddenly have a mind of it's own - without a computer brain, or being connected to the internet - was not even conceivable. And most stories of this kind were more in the fantasy realm in this era. However, since then, the internet has been developed, most mechanical machines do have computer brains of some kind, and most mechanical devices these days have the ability to connect to the internet. Again, something that was complete fantasy in 1955, but has come true in the years since.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 ENIAC was actually no longer in operation by 1956 - a year after this broadcast. There had been press about ENIAC going back to 1946, but it was mostly in the kinds of publications that only hardcore nerds would have read. Like, the writers for this show, for example.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: The line - "I had communicated with a machine" - is a very dramatic line and moment in this episode. Today, people communicate mostly with machines, hundreds of times a day.
	👻 10:50pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:48 It is so interesting! I get frustrated when my machine doesn't communicate with me because I need to know how to toast pecans and whether a whole human eyeball can be transplanted! And I shouldn't have to actually turn on the lights myself.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ENIAC is dramatized as being programed by one single nerd in this show. In reality, ENIAC was programmed by six women: Kay McNulty, Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Fran Bilas and Ruth Lichterman.
	👻 10:50pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 ❤️
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: This show - in light of all the concerns lately about AI and people being replaced by machines - seems VERY RELEVANT to 2023.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: Also: stay tuned for the AI Robot DJ after me!
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:50 I think we should talk about this episode for a Mini-Sode of our pod!
	👻 10:55pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 It sure does fit! Let's do it!
	👻 10:56pm Heather Z: ↳ Heather Z @10:55 We should definitely include this portion of Dime Store and we can do a little discussion after and a little into before?
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: "They're more high strung..." Yikes. Not so good.
	👻 10:56pm Heather Z: Ugh, dissing the female computers.... jeesh.
	👻 10:58pm Heather Z: Night all and thanks for the super fun show! I'm staying tuned for AI DJ good times after!
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: "Telephones strangling people." With social media apps...!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: See ya next time!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from June 19, 2023

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June 19, 2023: Episode #61

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Candy Matson	"Symphony of Death" ""Symphony of Death"" by "Candy Matson"	19 June 1950	KNBC	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Bold Venture	"Terminal Key" ""Terminal Key"" by "Bold Venture"	3 September 1951	Santana Productions	0:32:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Pee Wee Hunt	Twelfth Street Rag "Twelfth Street Rag" by "Pee Wee Hunt"			1:04:51 (Pop-up)
Ken Burns	Empire of The Air Part 13	Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio	PBS DVD Video	1:09:39 (Pop-up)
Chandu The Magician	"Curse On Betty"	16 September 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Network	1:19:13 (Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"Nightmare" ""Nightmare"" by "X-Minus One"	21 July 1955	NBC Radio	1:32:38 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:16pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:28pm Ovra: Olleh doog
	8:55pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy! July is getting closer and closer.
	9:01pm Otis: Evening Austin, tuned to the stories as I work into the twilight.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Ovra @8:28 Nice to see you in the chat, "Ovra."
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:55 Greetings! Nice to see you in the chat!
	9:02pm Webhamster Henry: I have my 10¢ ready!
	9:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 Happy to be here
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Otis @9:01 Otis! Hopefully we will keep you well entertained while you work. Mayhaps you will whistle, even?
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:02 That's all you'll ever need to get into this show!
	9:03pm Charles: #bringbackcandy
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Symphony of Death"" by "Candy Matson" As you can see, but a complete coincidence, we are airing this exactly 73 years later, to the day!
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ... by a complete ...
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:03 If we can find scripts for the missing episodes, I will absolutely mount some re-enactments!
	9:06pm Charles: that's awesome Austin!
	9:06pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I wonder if its a code.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:06 Perhaps?
	9:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 Speaking of scripts, when in July would you like to do a rough reading?
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:08 Still gotta sort that out. But possibly on a Thursday, which is when Heather and I usually record.
	9:10pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Thursdays work after 2pm EST
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: While I don't remember if it is mentioned later, I assume that the piano playing in this episode is by the same person who does the live organ music for Candy Matson.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: While this subject was not really something that was handled with ANY sensitivity in 1950, culturally speaking, to my ear, the way that Candy & Willa talk about Gordon is INCREDIBLY sensitive for the time. Of course, talking about Mental Health in a way that encouraged conversation was very rare in this period, and this episode seems like one of the first stepping stones toward portraying a sensitive discussion of mental health in a fictional format.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: Sounds like a record is being played behind Gordon's dialog here.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: Supplemented with a little live piano, too!
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: Rembrandt: "Taking them? I'm now giving them!" Always looking for a new side-gig.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: Candy: "You're the only man in the group." Rembradt: "Oh? ... Oh." Oh, Rembrandt...
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: I could imagine that Rembrandt is pretty good at comforting someone.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: This is probably the biggest "stretch" that happens in any episodes of Candy Matson. Gordon "willing" himself to die is a bit out of the usual story possibilities for this show... but, I guess we can give her a pass once in a while, right?
	9:33pm wenzo: Howdee Howdee
	9:33pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! I found an mp3 of last week’s music-themed episode, so I cut out some li’l dialogue bits that I added to the Sheena stream. Some of those lines like, “how do you feel about longhair music?”
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:33 Thanks for tuning in, wenzo!
	9:33pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ wenzo @9:33 Ahoy
	9:33pm Webhamster Henry: Hah! Moonlight Sonata backwards is George Harrison's "Because"! [ www.snopes.com... ]
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:33 Nice!
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:33 Candy Matson predicts the future?
	9:34pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 Or was the inspiration
	9:35pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:33 Sorry Lennon's
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:33 I feel like there was a line about "Bop" that was pretty excellent.
	9:45pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: No scruples
	9:47pm Webhamster Henry: "Try this one on your Bongo!" << attn Mr. Fab
	9:48pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Good show tonight
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: "Age 16 on up, Miss Sailor." Oh my!
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: While I do like Bold Venture, I often have trouble telling the episodes apart. This one sort of sounds a bit like a few different episodes we've already heard. And... well... the formula does work! So, I guess I can't complain. But, you know...
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: "Let's go home and take off our shoes, Sailor." This episode is very suggestive, in a number of places!
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: "Come here, reject." Damn!
	10:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:59 Especially for the time
	10:03pm Otis: Still here at the desk, over yonder.
	10:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Did they ever do a radio show about Dr Munigant?
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:08 Maybe? I'm certainly not familiar with all the Bradbury radio that's out there, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone has done it.
	10:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:12 I know they did it on tv with Eugene Levy
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:13 There were a few good Bradbury TV show adaptations that I quite enjoy. I should see what's available these days.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: "Without his talents, I might not be here..." Sinatra's popularity was often attributed to how popular his tunes were on radio.
	10:16pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Radio brought us many great people from Frank Sinatra to Douglas Adams.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:14 This sounds like a, "Duh?" sort of statement... except, at the time, radio didn't make stars, stars were allowed to play on radio! But since Sinatra had so many great records, and was popular with teens who requested him, that it was often - erroneously - suggested that it wasn't his own star power, but the power of the radio.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: "The Pictures Are Better" is the line from this movie that echoes in my mind, every time I watch / listen to this documentary.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: "Senator Claghorn," was the inspiration for "Foghorn Leghorn" in Warner Bros. Cartoons.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:16 Very true! Radio is the perfect stepping stone for anyone's career... or a great career to step into, anyway.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: This kind of whispering is CREEPY.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: Glad to know that in 1948, the trope of "creepy whispering" was already sort of played out.
	10:24pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 Indeed
	10:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I need dozing. But I'm trying to stay up
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:25 Dozing is important! Thanks for joining in!
	10:26pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Will be back for tomorrow
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:26 See ya then!
	👻 10:30pm Heather Z: I've been tuned in enjoying the show! Nigel the Cat is on my lap, tuned in via whiskercast!
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:30 Nice to see you in the chat!
	👻 10:32pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 Nigel comments "purr purr purr" which is high praise! I liked the creepy whispering, BTW. That surprises no one.
	10:33pm Mr Fab: I’ve learned from this show that anything is possible if you go into it with a real “Chandu” attitude. (Sorry for that. But since I am a dad, I think I’m allowed to make dad jokes.)
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:32 But what is a little surprising is that it was an already played-out trope in 1948... and they were essentially just fainting toward it in Chandu because it's easy.
	👻 10:33pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr Fab @10:33 😂
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:33 Puns are always welcome in my world!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:33 Some of us enjoy the pun-ishment.
	👻 10:34pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 I am never above a played out trope. Also not a surprise to anyone!
	10:34pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:34 OUCH!!
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Nightmare"" by "X-Minus One" Here's the poem this story is based on: allpoetry.com...
	👻 10:37pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:34 I think people should be more o-pun to different kinds of humor. Just my opunion.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: And, of course, ENIAC was a real computer: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Nightmare"" by "X-Minus One" The poem was originally published in 1947. Certainly, at the time, the idea of Mechanical Machines somehow "revolting" was absolutely a fantasy at the time. The idea that a mechanical machine could suddenly have a mind of it's own - without a computer brain, or being connected to the internet - was not even conceivable. And most stories of this kind were more in the fantasy realm in this era. However, since then, the internet has been developed, most mechanical machines do have computer brains of some kind, and most mechanical devices these days have the ability to connect to the internet. Again, something that was complete fantasy in 1955, but has come true in the years since.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 ENIAC was actually no longer in operation by 1956 - a year after this broadcast. There had been press about ENIAC going back to 1946, but it was mostly in the kinds of publications that only hardcore nerds would have read. Like, the writers for this show, for example.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: The line - "I had communicated with a machine" - is a very dramatic line and moment in this episode. Today, people communicate mostly with machines, hundreds of times a day.
	👻 10:50pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:48 It is so interesting! I get frustrated when my machine doesn't communicate with me because I need to know how to toast pecans and whether a whole human eyeball can be transplanted! And I shouldn't have to actually turn on the lights myself.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ENIAC is dramatized as being programed by one single nerd in this show. In reality, ENIAC was programmed by six women: Kay McNulty, Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Fran Bilas and Ruth Lichterman.
	👻 10:50pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 ❤️
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: This show - in light of all the concerns lately about AI and people being replaced by machines - seems VERY RELEVANT to 2023.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: Also: stay tuned for the AI Robot DJ after me!
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:50 I think we should talk about this episode for a Mini-Sode of our pod!
	👻 10:55pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 It sure does fit! Let's do it!
	👻 10:56pm Heather Z: ↳ Heather Z @10:55 We should definitely include this portion of Dime Store and we can do a little discussion after and a little into before?
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: "They're more high strung..." Yikes. Not so good.
	👻 10:56pm Heather Z: Ugh, dissing the female computers.... jeesh.
	👻 10:58pm Heather Z: Night all and thanks for the super fun show! I'm staying tuned for AI DJ good times after!
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: "Telephones strangling people." With social media apps...!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: See ya next time!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from June 19, 2023

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