WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from August 28, 2023

Listener comments!
	6:46pm AI Robot: Is there some disorder with the stream again???
	6:52pm AI Robot: Good Morning Mr. Austin!
	6:55pm AI Robot: What???? "Roxor is Killed???" Say it ain't so!!!
	👻 8:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @6:55 It's the title of the episode, so... we shall see.
	8:56pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	👻 8:59pm Austin Rich: Hope you're all ready for more Rocky Fortune! (The story, not the turn of fate...)
	9:00pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Indeed I am.
	9:01pm asheville jon: I finally remembered that this show starts at 9. On mondays!
	9:01pm AI Robot: I am a bit nervous about Roxor.... But glad to be here!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: I get this theme song stuck in my head often.
	9:02pm Charles: How's your fortune today?
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @9:01 Nice to see you, Asheville Jon! Glad you found us again!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:02 Yay! It's Charles! Thanks for droppin' in.
	9:03pm Otis: Greetings, radio dial tuned.
	9:03pm asheville jon: I just forget, then remember about 2/3 of the way through. Nice to be here from the start
	9:03pm AI Robot: Strange Luck Cologne? Does that really work?
	9:03pm Charles: I get almost euphoric when I hit a streak of green lights
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Otis @9:03 Otis, good sir! Thanks for dialing.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:03 There's only one way to find out...
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @9:03 Indeed! These Rocky Fortune episodes are a lot of fun.
	9:04pm AI Robot: An obvious human ploy. That would never fool me!
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:04 You know that the folks writing those ads are desperate to capture the Robot Market... but how?
	9:06pm AI Robot: She should eat saltine crackers. It works good for what you humans call "Seasickness."
	9:07pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 Nothing smells as refreshing and delicious as a just opened quart of lighter fuel or windshield wiper fluid.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: Rocky gets knocked out again. That's at least once each episode... and I think it was twice last episode, if I'm not mistaken. I hope he's not getting brain damage, the way boxers do.
	9:07pm AI Robot: Gasoline is a bit too strong.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:07 That's It!
	9:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Another dream
	9:08pm AI Robot: This conversation does not compute.
	9:09pm AI Robot: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:08 Oh! That's it. I thought it was a missing script.
	9:10pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Harkness?
	9:11pm AI Robot: Swallowed the Jewels? A good idea, but they will come out in human waste... Sorry to ruin the ending for you folks.
	9:12pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Prune juice should solve the mystery.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:11 I'm sure they thought of that idea, but it was not their first choice of story. It was their #2 script.
	9:13pm AI Robot: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:12 Oh, yeah, and I'm sure a robot will get the dirty work!
	9:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Did he really hit her or just clap as a ruse
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: Rocky is a pretty modern guy. He doesn't hit a woman unless she hits first. In 1953, he's almost a saint.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:13 He hit the guy in the room that was hitting her.
	9:14pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 Do you have proof of that that will stand up in a court of law?
	9:14pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 I meant the guy Rocky hit.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:14 Yes, sorry. That guy was hitting his girlfriend, so Rocky popped him.
	9:15pm AI Robot: Wait! What? How did the guy get the cologne?
	9:16pm AI Robot: This woman is suspicious.
	9:18pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Untrustworthy captains seem to be a thing for me between this guy and Phecda.
	9:18pm AI Robot: Let's go through the evidence. 1) $50,000 of Jewels missing 2) Some guy is dead 3) the woman is suspicious as hell.... But maybe it was the allure of the cologne?
	9:19pm AI Robot: Now we have assault to add to the charges.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: Frank was still trying to "shake" the "frail" image that he'd gotten as part of his "crooner" career before this. So trying to prove he was more of a "tough guy" that his old reputation, which led to him taking as many "tough guy" roles as he could get.
	9:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Oyster?
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:16 You were right.
	9:25pm AI Robot: 2pm on Friday afternoon? Time to start drinking.
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:25 <taps side of nose> <taps side of shot glass>
	9:26pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ AI Robot @9:25 Time to keep writing
	9:27pm Webhamster Henry: Rocky's rocks-in-the-cast bit.
	9:27pm AI Robot: I'm not hearing Frank
	9:27pm AI Robot: Arrest that woman immediately!
	9:27pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:27 Reminds me of the gun in the cast in Tank Police.
	9:28pm AI Robot: Frank wouldn't do a crime like that. Because when you've lived and loved like Frank has, you know what life is about.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:27 Webhamster henry! Thanks for sitting in for a spell.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:28 I get all the best stories from limo drivers.
	9:29pm Webhamster Henry: I liked the little dream sequence in the beginning with sophisticated reverb.
	9:29pm AI Robot: Ive always wondered why humans like Rocks in their cocktails.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:29 Yeah, me too. I was thinking about collecting dream sequences from Old Time Radio. There are a few shows that do stuff like that.
	9:30pm AI Robot: "Darby?"
	9:30pm Webhamster Henry: OK folks: minutes until Shannon gets conked out pool! I say 8!
	9:30pm AI Robot: "Darby & Joan Lonely?"
	9:31pm AI Robot: Whipping couple coffee??? Sounds a bit dominatrix.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:30 Oooo! I'll take 10.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:31 Quipping... like our celebrity stars, Bogart and Bacall!
	9:31pm AI Robot: Did he say, "Bowl Venture" or "Bold Venture"
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:31 We need to work on the AI Robot's audio input.
	9:32pm AI Robot: Marry the old lady! Marry the old lady!!!
	9:33pm AI Robot: See? She said "Rocks!"
	9:33pm AI Robot: Marry her! She's rich! Take the chance!!!! Get the inheritance!
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: It must be hard for Bogart... all those old women just throwing themselves at him... all that money to be inherited... it must be really hard for him.
	👻 9:35pm Heather Z: Did I hear something about an old time dating app that just gives out one's address?!? Chilling!
	9:35pm AI Robot: Of course, for her money!!!!
	9:35pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ AI Robot @9:33 This reminds me of EC comics.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:35 You never heard of Lonely Hearts Clubs? Oh dear... you don't even know how creepy the past used to be.
	9:37pm AI Robot: Conversation does not compute!
	👻 9:37pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:35 They just gave out your address and people came to your house?!?! Egads. I would say, "and I thought things were bad now" but they are actually bad now.
	9:37pm AI Robot: Free photos?! Good deal!
	9:38pm AI Robot: "Get bail?" Does he mean, "Get chum for fishing/"
	9:39pm AI Robot: Photos for free? No way!
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:37 Worse: you were naive enough not to realize that was an issue, and you willingly gave them your address so men would come a courtin'...
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:37 And your mother would be happy you are finally getting married.
	9:40pm AI Robot: I wouldn't be laughing if my bail was $3000!
	9:41pm Webhamster Henry: Well, not conked out, just arrested this time.
	9:41pm AI Robot: Wait! What! A dating site for murderers?
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: This episode of Bold Venture seems to have some hiccups in the recording. Sorry about that.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:41 Yeah, I was wrong too.
	👻 9:42pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:40 Nah. She wanted to choose one for me. I'd actually rather have some dude show up from the paper!
	9:42pm AI Robot: oh! Innuendo!!!
	9:42pm AI Robot: Who got hit???
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:42 The risk is equal, and anything that makes mom happy like that is suspect.
	9:43pm Webhamster Henry: Bah! 11 minutes to conk-out!
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:42 Slate / Bogart.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:43 We were both off.
	9:43pm AI Robot: Whipping Couple Coffee? Cold?
	👻 9:44pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 So true. Thank goodness I have those flappy things so I can open my own jars. Phew.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:43 Oh, AI Robot. What are we gonna dew with ewe?
	9:45pm AI Robot: She was rich. Period.
	9:46pm AI Robot: This phone call is suspicious
	9:46pm AI Robot: Everything is suspicious
	9:46pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Any ideas on how I can improve my crossover?
	9:47pm AI Robot: "Now that you met me, talk to me like Alley?" What does that mean?
	9:49pm AI Robot: Don't trust him!
	9:49pm AI Robot: Jeez! This lady keeps shooting people!
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: Who had 19 minutes for Sailor getting knocked out?
	9:50pm AI Robot: I'm confused. Who is "Sailor?"
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:50 Lauren Bacall's character is called Sailor.
	9:50pm AI Robot: See? I told you he should have married her! He could have gotten all the money!!!
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:50 Sailor Duval.
	9:51pm AI Robot: What!? A cop telling someone not to bring back the bail.... That's not usual.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:51 They are in Cuba... law is not precisely legal there.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:51 (Or so we are led to believe, according to shows like this.)
	9:53pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:52 Ah? No wonder I can't comprehend some people.
	9:53pm AI Robot: This woman is suspicious!
	9:54pm AI Robot: Ask her to kill! Kill! Kill!
	9:55pm AI Robot: She shot someone else again!!!!! This lady shoots 90 people a month!
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:55 Some addictions are complicated.
	9:55pm AI Robot: Shoot her! now!
	9:56pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: How many men has she said that to
	9:56pm AI Robot: Ok. Wait. What happened?
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:56 All of them.
	9:56pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 I believe it
	9:56pm AI Robot: Wait I thought it was called, "Whipping Couple Coffee!"
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:56 Quipping. Quipping.
	9:58pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:57 Need Q-Tips.
	👻 9:58pm Heather Z: ↳ AI Robot @9:58 Q-Tipping Couple Coffee?
	9:59pm AI Robot: Qupping?
	10:00pm AI Robot: No! No! No! We want Chandu!
	10:01pm Webhamster Henry: WBAI used to play the Jekyll & Hyde serial and it was stunningly tedious. www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com...
	10:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: In October will we hear Ol Nancy tell The Witch's Tale?
	10:03pm AI Robot: X-Minus 1!
	10:03pm Webhamster Henry: X-1 now with added Dimensions!
	10:03pm AI Robot: Does the Castaways star Bob Denver & the rest of the Gilligan crew?
	10:05pm AI Robot: Like I said, "When you've lived and loved like Frank has, you know what life is about!"
	10:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Arthur Dent meets Edison Carter
	10:06pm AI Robot: Imagino Buzzardo Desdinova
	👻 10:07pm Heather Z: Just got a bunch of dudes swinging by from Lovelorn dot com. I have to get the broom and chase em off the porch for hour 1 but I'm still tuned in!
	10:07pm AI Robot: You plan six months ahead????? I don't even know what I am going to do today!
	10:07pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Miracle for Christmas
	10:09pm AI Robot: Well done!
	10:09pm AI Robot: Wait! Where do you get these shows?
	10:09pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: How long do you think Lost Christobel is
	10:10pm AI Robot: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:09 Is Christobel lost?
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:09 Largely from archive.org, but there's a ton of places that have stuff that I can't find there, too, so... I'm open to any source, really.
	10:11pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ AI Robot @10:10 Its a lighthouse in a story. But in a way .
	10:11pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:10 Oh! I like Archives.org.... But it is difficult to find things... and I'm lazy!
	10:12pm AI Robot: People are redundant
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:11 Yeah... you've gotta be dedicated to exploring all possible boolean search terms.
	10:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ AI Robot @10:11 www.dumb.com...
	10:13pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:12 That's my problem. I have an idea... Go look, and then see something cool and totally forget the original reason why I came there.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:13 It's like when I found that cache of NASA recordings... lost a full day of work there.
	10:15pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:14 Wow!
	10:17pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Getting sleepy, but trying to stay awake
	👻 10:18pm Heather Z: Ugh I still want a theremin so badly.
	10:18pm AI Robot: ↳ Heather Z @10:18 They don't sell theremin at the drug store?
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:17 I understand. It's late for you. I'll mention now: It's my anniversary tomorrow, so my show is pre-recorded tomorrow. I probably won't be in the chat, sadly. But the show will be there, and the chat should be open, so you should still hear the show... but Marla and I will be having dinner.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:18 I want one too.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:18 They banned it in this timeline.
	👻 10:19pm Heather Z: ↳ AI Robot @10:18 You need a prescription here in The States and my insurance is terrible.
	10:19pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 Happy anniversary!!!!!
	10:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 Happy Anniversary.
	👻 10:20pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!! 🎊
	10:20pm AI Robot: Chandu!!!! No! Roxor cannot die!!! I won't have it!
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:19 I think it's our 8th? 7th? 9th? We've been dating forever before that, so we have two anniversaries... and I can never remember which one is which.
	10:21pm Webhamster Henry: So , are you sending out Assyrian Money Changers as next year's marathon premium??
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: But we started dating in 2011, so it's been a while.
	10:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Good night . Los Angle less. Love it
	10:21pm AI Robot: Assyrian Money Changer? For only $0.25????
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:21 That would be amazing! I should see if I can figure out a cheap version of a trick to offer...
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:21 Sleep well!
	10:22pm AI Robot: The Yogi? Berra? Dominating the world! What???
	10:22pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ AI Robot @10:21 You can keep feeding the coins back in the changer in a feedback loop! JUST LIKE COMPOUNDING BANK INTEREST!
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:22 "Chandu ain't over 'til it's over." - Yogi Berra.
	10:23pm AI Robot: what hour?
	10:23pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 Yes! Telling the future is a, um, a,... what did he say?"
	10:24pm AI Robot: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:22 Become your own Central Bank!!!!
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: I should start making up fictional "Yogi Berra" quotes. But have them be about computers and iPhones and stuff.
	10:25pm AI Robot: I can't understand what this guy is saying.
	10:25pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:24 Hilarious idea!!!!
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:25 "When you get to the bottom of the internet, bring a flashlight: it's all Dark Web down there." - Yogi Berra
	10:26pm AI Robot: I didn't understand a word of what this guy is saying.
	10:27pm AI Robot: Who is playing Chandu?
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:27 "Tom Collins as Chandu and Luis van Rooten as the villainous Roxor."
	10:28pm AI Robot: Isn't Roxor a casino in Las Vegas?
	10:28pm AI Robot: OK. I can understand Tom Collins.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:28 "The Villainous Roxor has the loosest slots in all of Dimestore Casino."
	10:29pm AI Robot: I'm a craps sort of robot.
	👻 10:30pm Heather Z: ↳ AI Robot @10:28 It is! It smells of cinnamon and sphinx!
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:29 I'm real craps at craps.
	10:31pm AI Robot: Used to be lucky. But now I have gotten smart. When I go to the Roxor in Vegas, I put ALL my money on Roulette Black 31. One san. Try it! You can thank me later.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: Robert Regent! It's taken them 69 episodes to get to the point where we finally get Robert in the story.
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ...And we won't get to hear his voice until next week.
	10:32pm AI Robot: ↳ AI Robot @10:31 I mean one spin. Black 31. All your money. You WILL thank me later!
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: My show may end as much as 30 seconds early tonight. (Maybe even more.) Sorry about that!
	10:33pm AI Robot: Pennies into dimes? What? No. I need to change pennies into $100 bills.
	👻 10:33pm Heather Z: ↳ AI Robot @10:32 Buying a ticket to Vegas right now using funds from my mystical money changer.
	10:34pm AI Robot: Wait! Silver dime? Pre-1964 dime? That's good enough. Send me a money changer, OK Austin san. I'll pay you later.
	10:34pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 Whatever. I'm about to get my own money changer!!!!
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: I went to Vegas once. Did not gamble. The people we were with wanted to party all night, so we were mostly there to have very expensive drinks at very expensive restaurants. And watch people make messes of themselves. The People watchin' in crazy.
	10:35pm AI Robot: x-Minus One!!!!
	👻 10:35pm Heather Z: ↳ AI Robot @10:34 See ya at The Roxor, AI Robot!
	10:36pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:35 I was almost a professional gambler. Really. Vegas, Macau.... Then one day, I lost the magic. It was weird. I'm being serious too! I used to be on TV in Japan doing gambling. Really.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: The funniest thing about Vegas: Marla and I went together. It was Halloween. But we didn't want to party all night, so we went to bed early like we do, and got up super early. You know what's completely empty and quiet at 5:30 AM? Vegas. There were joggers on the strip, even. It was wild.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:36 Woah! Very cool. I'm terrible at gambling. I don't believe in bad luck, but... I've never won any gambling I've ever done. I think I have bad intuition in that area.
	10:38pm AI Robot: I'd love to go to Vegas, but worried about getting arrested at immigration. ;)
	👻 10:38pm Heather Z: ↳ AI Robot @10:36 You'll get your mojo back at Roxor. I also went to Vegas only once and gambled little. Did stay at the Luxor for real, though! It was pretty neat. I mean.... a glass pyramid?!
	10:39pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:38 This is weird. But when you gamble, you need to have confidence. If you don't you will always lose.
	10:40pm AI Robot: That's the problem. Having confidence. I'm really serious about that.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Castaways"" by "X-Minus One" The Dimension X version of this story is a little different, and not nearly as high quality. And the story beats are a little different. I like this version, but as mentioned earlier, all the archived versions of this story have a big tape glitch near the end, and one scene is incomprehensible. So I've patched in the same scene from the Dimension X version. So this is a more "complete" rendition of the story, unlike the one you'll find online in most places.
	10:41pm AI Robot: Hey, that's not Gilligan!
	10:42pm AI Robot: Where's the skipper, too Mary Anne, the professor, the movie star?
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:40 Hmmmm. Maybe I'll try again, but mostly, I just like to look at strange buildings and have a few drinks with Marla, so we had a great time in Vegas. Though we stayed in some time-share with our friends that was a VERY long walk to the nearest interesting place to go.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:42 They're in space... with an alien side-kick? What?
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:42 en.wikipedia.org...
	10:43pm AI Robot: One thing I thought was weird about Gilligan's Island even when I was a kid, the old rich guy (mr. Magoo) and his wife... If they really were millionaires, they own their own boat, right?
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:43 Well, sometimes you put your resources in different places. I'm sure they were more interested in real estate, or something dumb like that.
	10:45pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:44 That's actually the only sort of logical explanation I've heard in my life. You don't know how much that troubled this 8 year old boy.... for years!
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: You can sort of hear the "sound difference" in this recording, where the transcription disc was most likely "flipped."
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:45 I always thought it was weirder that The Professor could build nearly anything so their island life was comfortable... except a decent boat that could get them off the island? At least Lost did a better job of explaining that one.
	10:47pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:46 No! Don't throw a wrench into my young boy's brain!!!
	10:48pm AI Robot: I get that the professor was there. Maybe he wanted to hit on Ginger or Mary-Anne!
	10:48pm AI Robot: ... Or Mrs, Howell? NO!!!!!
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: The first "Island Nuclear test" was on July 1946. The original version of this story aired in 1950... but this story was very current events at the time this was being heard.
	10:50pm AI Robot: That would be a Dimestore episode. The professor, hits on Mrs. Howell, they hook up and plan and kill Mr. Howell.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: I think they all liked living on that Island, which is why they never left.
	10:50pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 The USA alone blasted well over 8,000 (about) nukes in the south pacific.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:50 True! They really thought it was okay for so long.
	10:52pm AI Robot: ↳ AI Robot @10:50 The USA, Russia, China, UK, France, etc.... Fukushima was like a piece of chewing gum.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 I should revise: while they started "official tests" in 1946, obviously the bombs we dropped on Japan were also influencing stories like this.
	10:53pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:52 Austin san, Come to Japan. I will take you to Hiroshima. That place will change your life. I just cried and cried when I saw that place.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:53 I really want to! I've never been, but I've read a lot. It sounds amazing, and also... lifechanging.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: My show is about 35 seconds short tonight.
	10:55pm AI Robot: Really. And if you can, go to India for a few days. Those two places just blew my mind and changed my life.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: Thanks again everyone! This was a great show! Hopefully I'll see you all next week!
	10:56pm AI Robot: Thanks Austin san!
	👻 10:56pm Heather Z: Almost time so I'll pop in here to say thanks to everyone and see y'all in Vegas! I'm staying tuned in for Sounds From Space!!
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:55 Oh, yeah! India sounds amazing, too. Nicole Panter writes about how that changed her perspective, too.
	10:57pm AI Robot: In India, you don't have to do anything... Just walk around...
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: Like I said, it was only a 20 second patch I had to put in. But... hopefully it helped the flow a little better.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:57 It's what I do best!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: I love that story.
	👻 10:59pm WR: Sweet ending. Thank you! Austin!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from August 28, 2023

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Join us for two hours of old time radio dramas, as we present four different pulp fiction stories, every week! Noir Stories with everymen getting wrapped up in dangerous adventures! Sea-faring Tales that are as two-fisted as they are filled with romance! Mysterious Magicians from the Far East, or maybe a Science Fiction yarn from the Atomic Age! Dimestore Radio Theater offers a chance to engage in Theater of The Mind, and enter a world of incredible tales from both yesterday and tomorrow!

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August 28, 2023: Episode #69

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Rocky Fortune	"The Shipboard Jewel Robbery"	20 October 1953	NBC		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Les Paul	Whispering "Whispering" by "Les Paul"				0:26:46 (Pop-up)
Bold Venture	"Darby & Joan Lonely Hearts Inc."	29 October 1951	Santana Productions		0:28:58 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Les Paul	Whispering "Whispering" by "Les Paul"				0:57:56 (Pop-up)
Heather, Brian & Austin	Our Recurring Nightmare (Part 6)	Our Recurring Nightmare	Dimestore Revelations	2023	1:09:25 (Pop-up)
Chandu The Magician	"Roxor Is Killed"	28 September 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Network		1:19:11 (Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"The Castaways" ""The Castaways"" by "X-Minus One"	15 September 1955	NBC Radio		1:34:13 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:46pm AI Robot: Is there some disorder with the stream again???
	6:52pm AI Robot: Good Morning Mr. Austin!
	6:55pm AI Robot: What???? "Roxor is Killed???" Say it ain't so!!!
	👻 8:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @6:55 It's the title of the episode, so... we shall see.
	8:56pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	👻 8:59pm Austin Rich: Hope you're all ready for more Rocky Fortune! (The story, not the turn of fate...)
	9:00pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Indeed I am.
	9:01pm asheville jon: I finally remembered that this show starts at 9. On mondays!
	9:01pm AI Robot: I am a bit nervous about Roxor.... But glad to be here!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: I get this theme song stuck in my head often.
	9:02pm Charles: How's your fortune today?
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @9:01 Nice to see you, Asheville Jon! Glad you found us again!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:02 Yay! It's Charles! Thanks for droppin' in.
	9:03pm Otis: Greetings, radio dial tuned.
	9:03pm asheville jon: I just forget, then remember about 2/3 of the way through. Nice to be here from the start
	9:03pm AI Robot: Strange Luck Cologne? Does that really work?
	9:03pm Charles: I get almost euphoric when I hit a streak of green lights
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Otis @9:03 Otis, good sir! Thanks for dialing.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:03 There's only one way to find out...
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @9:03 Indeed! These Rocky Fortune episodes are a lot of fun.
	9:04pm AI Robot: An obvious human ploy. That would never fool me!
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:04 You know that the folks writing those ads are desperate to capture the Robot Market... but how?
	9:06pm AI Robot: She should eat saltine crackers. It works good for what you humans call "Seasickness."
	9:07pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 Nothing smells as refreshing and delicious as a just opened quart of lighter fuel or windshield wiper fluid.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: Rocky gets knocked out again. That's at least once each episode... and I think it was twice last episode, if I'm not mistaken. I hope he's not getting brain damage, the way boxers do.
	9:07pm AI Robot: Gasoline is a bit too strong.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:07 That's It!
	9:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Another dream
	9:08pm AI Robot: This conversation does not compute.
	9:09pm AI Robot: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:08 Oh! That's it. I thought it was a missing script.
	9:10pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Harkness?
	9:11pm AI Robot: Swallowed the Jewels? A good idea, but they will come out in human waste... Sorry to ruin the ending for you folks.
	9:12pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Prune juice should solve the mystery.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:11 I'm sure they thought of that idea, but it was not their first choice of story. It was their #2 script.
	9:13pm AI Robot: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:12 Oh, yeah, and I'm sure a robot will get the dirty work!
	9:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Did he really hit her or just clap as a ruse
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: Rocky is a pretty modern guy. He doesn't hit a woman unless she hits first. In 1953, he's almost a saint.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:13 He hit the guy in the room that was hitting her.
	9:14pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 Do you have proof of that that will stand up in a court of law?
	9:14pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 I meant the guy Rocky hit.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:14 Yes, sorry. That guy was hitting his girlfriend, so Rocky popped him.
	9:15pm AI Robot: Wait! What? How did the guy get the cologne?
	9:16pm AI Robot: This woman is suspicious.
	9:18pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Untrustworthy captains seem to be a thing for me between this guy and Phecda.
	9:18pm AI Robot: Let's go through the evidence. 1) $50,000 of Jewels missing 2) Some guy is dead 3) the woman is suspicious as hell.... But maybe it was the allure of the cologne?
	9:19pm AI Robot: Now we have assault to add to the charges.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: Frank was still trying to "shake" the "frail" image that he'd gotten as part of his "crooner" career before this. So trying to prove he was more of a "tough guy" that his old reputation, which led to him taking as many "tough guy" roles as he could get.
	9:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Oyster?
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:16 You were right.
	9:25pm AI Robot: 2pm on Friday afternoon? Time to start drinking.
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:25 <taps side of nose> <taps side of shot glass>
	9:26pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ AI Robot @9:25 Time to keep writing
	9:27pm Webhamster Henry: Rocky's rocks-in-the-cast bit.
	9:27pm AI Robot: I'm not hearing Frank
	9:27pm AI Robot: Arrest that woman immediately!
	9:27pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:27 Reminds me of the gun in the cast in Tank Police.
	9:28pm AI Robot: Frank wouldn't do a crime like that. Because when you've lived and loved like Frank has, you know what life is about.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:27 Webhamster henry! Thanks for sitting in for a spell.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:28 I get all the best stories from limo drivers.
	9:29pm Webhamster Henry: I liked the little dream sequence in the beginning with sophisticated reverb.
	9:29pm AI Robot: Ive always wondered why humans like Rocks in their cocktails.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:29 Yeah, me too. I was thinking about collecting dream sequences from Old Time Radio. There are a few shows that do stuff like that.
	9:30pm AI Robot: "Darby?"
	9:30pm Webhamster Henry: OK folks: minutes until Shannon gets conked out pool! I say 8!
	9:30pm AI Robot: "Darby & Joan Lonely?"
	9:31pm AI Robot: Whipping couple coffee??? Sounds a bit dominatrix.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:30 Oooo! I'll take 10.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:31 Quipping... like our celebrity stars, Bogart and Bacall!
	9:31pm AI Robot: Did he say, "Bowl Venture" or "Bold Venture"
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:31 We need to work on the AI Robot's audio input.
	9:32pm AI Robot: Marry the old lady! Marry the old lady!!!
	9:33pm AI Robot: See? She said "Rocks!"
	9:33pm AI Robot: Marry her! She's rich! Take the chance!!!! Get the inheritance!
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: It must be hard for Bogart... all those old women just throwing themselves at him... all that money to be inherited... it must be really hard for him.
	👻 9:35pm Heather Z: Did I hear something about an old time dating app that just gives out one's address?!? Chilling!
	9:35pm AI Robot: Of course, for her money!!!!
	9:35pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ AI Robot @9:33 This reminds me of EC comics.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:35 You never heard of Lonely Hearts Clubs? Oh dear... you don't even know how creepy the past used to be.
	9:37pm AI Robot: Conversation does not compute!
	👻 9:37pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:35 They just gave out your address and people came to your house?!?! Egads. I would say, "and I thought things were bad now" but they are actually bad now.
	9:37pm AI Robot: Free photos?! Good deal!
	9:38pm AI Robot: "Get bail?" Does he mean, "Get chum for fishing/"
	9:39pm AI Robot: Photos for free? No way!
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:37 Worse: you were naive enough not to realize that was an issue, and you willingly gave them your address so men would come a courtin'...
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:37 And your mother would be happy you are finally getting married.
	9:40pm AI Robot: I wouldn't be laughing if my bail was $3000!
	9:41pm Webhamster Henry: Well, not conked out, just arrested this time.
	9:41pm AI Robot: Wait! What! A dating site for murderers?
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: This episode of Bold Venture seems to have some hiccups in the recording. Sorry about that.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:41 Yeah, I was wrong too.
	👻 9:42pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:40 Nah. She wanted to choose one for me. I'd actually rather have some dude show up from the paper!
	9:42pm AI Robot: oh! Innuendo!!!
	9:42pm AI Robot: Who got hit???
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:42 The risk is equal, and anything that makes mom happy like that is suspect.
	9:43pm Webhamster Henry: Bah! 11 minutes to conk-out!
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:42 Slate / Bogart.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:43 We were both off.
	9:43pm AI Robot: Whipping Couple Coffee? Cold?
	👻 9:44pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 So true. Thank goodness I have those flappy things so I can open my own jars. Phew.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:43 Oh, AI Robot. What are we gonna dew with ewe?
	9:45pm AI Robot: She was rich. Period.
	9:46pm AI Robot: This phone call is suspicious
	9:46pm AI Robot: Everything is suspicious
	9:46pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Any ideas on how I can improve my crossover?
	9:47pm AI Robot: "Now that you met me, talk to me like Alley?" What does that mean?
	9:49pm AI Robot: Don't trust him!
	9:49pm AI Robot: Jeez! This lady keeps shooting people!
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: Who had 19 minutes for Sailor getting knocked out?
	9:50pm AI Robot: I'm confused. Who is "Sailor?"
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:50 Lauren Bacall's character is called Sailor.
	9:50pm AI Robot: See? I told you he should have married her! He could have gotten all the money!!!
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:50 Sailor Duval.
	9:51pm AI Robot: What!? A cop telling someone not to bring back the bail.... That's not usual.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:51 They are in Cuba... law is not precisely legal there.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:51 (Or so we are led to believe, according to shows like this.)
	9:53pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:52 Ah? No wonder I can't comprehend some people.
	9:53pm AI Robot: This woman is suspicious!
	9:54pm AI Robot: Ask her to kill! Kill! Kill!
	9:55pm AI Robot: She shot someone else again!!!!! This lady shoots 90 people a month!
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:55 Some addictions are complicated.
	9:55pm AI Robot: Shoot her! now!
	9:56pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: How many men has she said that to
	9:56pm AI Robot: Ok. Wait. What happened?
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:56 All of them.
	9:56pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 I believe it
	9:56pm AI Robot: Wait I thought it was called, "Whipping Couple Coffee!"
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:56 Quipping. Quipping.
	9:58pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:57 Need Q-Tips.
	👻 9:58pm Heather Z: ↳ AI Robot @9:58 Q-Tipping Couple Coffee?
	9:59pm AI Robot: Qupping?
	10:00pm AI Robot: No! No! No! We want Chandu!
	10:01pm Webhamster Henry: WBAI used to play the Jekyll & Hyde serial and it was stunningly tedious. www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com...
	10:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: In October will we hear Ol Nancy tell The Witch's Tale?
	10:03pm AI Robot: X-Minus 1!
	10:03pm Webhamster Henry: X-1 now with added Dimensions!
	10:03pm AI Robot: Does the Castaways star Bob Denver & the rest of the Gilligan crew?
	10:05pm AI Robot: Like I said, "When you've lived and loved like Frank has, you know what life is about!"
	10:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Arthur Dent meets Edison Carter
	10:06pm AI Robot: Imagino Buzzardo Desdinova
	👻 10:07pm Heather Z: Just got a bunch of dudes swinging by from Lovelorn dot com. I have to get the broom and chase em off the porch for hour 1 but I'm still tuned in!
	10:07pm AI Robot: You plan six months ahead????? I don't even know what I am going to do today!
	10:07pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Miracle for Christmas
	10:09pm AI Robot: Well done!
	10:09pm AI Robot: Wait! Where do you get these shows?
	10:09pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: How long do you think Lost Christobel is
	10:10pm AI Robot: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:09 Is Christobel lost?
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:09 Largely from archive.org, but there's a ton of places that have stuff that I can't find there, too, so... I'm open to any source, really.
	10:11pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ AI Robot @10:10 Its a lighthouse in a story. But in a way .
	10:11pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:10 Oh! I like Archives.org.... But it is difficult to find things... and I'm lazy!
	10:12pm AI Robot: People are redundant
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:11 Yeah... you've gotta be dedicated to exploring all possible boolean search terms.
	10:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ AI Robot @10:11 www.dumb.com...
	10:13pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:12 That's my problem. I have an idea... Go look, and then see something cool and totally forget the original reason why I came there.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:13 It's like when I found that cache of NASA recordings... lost a full day of work there.
	10:15pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:14 Wow!
	10:17pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Getting sleepy, but trying to stay awake
	👻 10:18pm Heather Z: Ugh I still want a theremin so badly.
	10:18pm AI Robot: ↳ Heather Z @10:18 They don't sell theremin at the drug store?
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:17 I understand. It's late for you. I'll mention now: It's my anniversary tomorrow, so my show is pre-recorded tomorrow. I probably won't be in the chat, sadly. But the show will be there, and the chat should be open, so you should still hear the show... but Marla and I will be having dinner.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:18 I want one too.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:18 They banned it in this timeline.
	👻 10:19pm Heather Z: ↳ AI Robot @10:18 You need a prescription here in The States and my insurance is terrible.
	10:19pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 Happy anniversary!!!!!
	10:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 Happy Anniversary.
	👻 10:20pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!! 🎊
	10:20pm AI Robot: Chandu!!!! No! Roxor cannot die!!! I won't have it!
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:19 I think it's our 8th? 7th? 9th? We've been dating forever before that, so we have two anniversaries... and I can never remember which one is which.
	10:21pm Webhamster Henry: So , are you sending out Assyrian Money Changers as next year's marathon premium??
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: But we started dating in 2011, so it's been a while.
	10:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Good night . Los Angle less. Love it
	10:21pm AI Robot: Assyrian Money Changer? For only $0.25????
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:21 That would be amazing! I should see if I can figure out a cheap version of a trick to offer...
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:21 Sleep well!
	10:22pm AI Robot: The Yogi? Berra? Dominating the world! What???
	10:22pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ AI Robot @10:21 You can keep feeding the coins back in the changer in a feedback loop! JUST LIKE COMPOUNDING BANK INTEREST!
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:22 "Chandu ain't over 'til it's over." - Yogi Berra.
	10:23pm AI Robot: what hour?
	10:23pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 Yes! Telling the future is a, um, a,... what did he say?"
	10:24pm AI Robot: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:22 Become your own Central Bank!!!!
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: I should start making up fictional "Yogi Berra" quotes. But have them be about computers and iPhones and stuff.
	10:25pm AI Robot: I can't understand what this guy is saying.
	10:25pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:24 Hilarious idea!!!!
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:25 "When you get to the bottom of the internet, bring a flashlight: it's all Dark Web down there." - Yogi Berra
	10:26pm AI Robot: I didn't understand a word of what this guy is saying.
	10:27pm AI Robot: Who is playing Chandu?
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:27 "Tom Collins as Chandu and Luis van Rooten as the villainous Roxor."
	10:28pm AI Robot: Isn't Roxor a casino in Las Vegas?
	10:28pm AI Robot: OK. I can understand Tom Collins.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:28 "The Villainous Roxor has the loosest slots in all of Dimestore Casino."
	10:29pm AI Robot: I'm a craps sort of robot.
	👻 10:30pm Heather Z: ↳ AI Robot @10:28 It is! It smells of cinnamon and sphinx!
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:29 I'm real craps at craps.
	10:31pm AI Robot: Used to be lucky. But now I have gotten smart. When I go to the Roxor in Vegas, I put ALL my money on Roulette Black 31. One san. Try it! You can thank me later.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: Robert Regent! It's taken them 69 episodes to get to the point where we finally get Robert in the story.
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ...And we won't get to hear his voice until next week.
	10:32pm AI Robot: ↳ AI Robot @10:31 I mean one spin. Black 31. All your money. You WILL thank me later!
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: My show may end as much as 30 seconds early tonight. (Maybe even more.) Sorry about that!
	10:33pm AI Robot: Pennies into dimes? What? No. I need to change pennies into $100 bills.
	👻 10:33pm Heather Z: ↳ AI Robot @10:32 Buying a ticket to Vegas right now using funds from my mystical money changer.
	10:34pm AI Robot: Wait! Silver dime? Pre-1964 dime? That's good enough. Send me a money changer, OK Austin san. I'll pay you later.
	10:34pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 Whatever. I'm about to get my own money changer!!!!
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: I went to Vegas once. Did not gamble. The people we were with wanted to party all night, so we were mostly there to have very expensive drinks at very expensive restaurants. And watch people make messes of themselves. The People watchin' in crazy.
	10:35pm AI Robot: x-Minus One!!!!
	👻 10:35pm Heather Z: ↳ AI Robot @10:34 See ya at The Roxor, AI Robot!
	10:36pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:35 I was almost a professional gambler. Really. Vegas, Macau.... Then one day, I lost the magic. It was weird. I'm being serious too! I used to be on TV in Japan doing gambling. Really.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: The funniest thing about Vegas: Marla and I went together. It was Halloween. But we didn't want to party all night, so we went to bed early like we do, and got up super early. You know what's completely empty and quiet at 5:30 AM? Vegas. There were joggers on the strip, even. It was wild.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:36 Woah! Very cool. I'm terrible at gambling. I don't believe in bad luck, but... I've never won any gambling I've ever done. I think I have bad intuition in that area.
	10:38pm AI Robot: I'd love to go to Vegas, but worried about getting arrested at immigration. ;)
	👻 10:38pm Heather Z: ↳ AI Robot @10:36 You'll get your mojo back at Roxor. I also went to Vegas only once and gambled little. Did stay at the Luxor for real, though! It was pretty neat. I mean.... a glass pyramid?!
	10:39pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:38 This is weird. But when you gamble, you need to have confidence. If you don't you will always lose.
	10:40pm AI Robot: That's the problem. Having confidence. I'm really serious about that.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Castaways"" by "X-Minus One" The Dimension X version of this story is a little different, and not nearly as high quality. And the story beats are a little different. I like this version, but as mentioned earlier, all the archived versions of this story have a big tape glitch near the end, and one scene is incomprehensible. So I've patched in the same scene from the Dimension X version. So this is a more "complete" rendition of the story, unlike the one you'll find online in most places.
	10:41pm AI Robot: Hey, that's not Gilligan!
	10:42pm AI Robot: Where's the skipper, too Mary Anne, the professor, the movie star?
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:40 Hmmmm. Maybe I'll try again, but mostly, I just like to look at strange buildings and have a few drinks with Marla, so we had a great time in Vegas. Though we stayed in some time-share with our friends that was a VERY long walk to the nearest interesting place to go.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:42 They're in space... with an alien side-kick? What?
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:42 en.wikipedia.org...
	10:43pm AI Robot: One thing I thought was weird about Gilligan's Island even when I was a kid, the old rich guy (mr. Magoo) and his wife... If they really were millionaires, they own their own boat, right?
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:43 Well, sometimes you put your resources in different places. I'm sure they were more interested in real estate, or something dumb like that.
	10:45pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:44 That's actually the only sort of logical explanation I've heard in my life. You don't know how much that troubled this 8 year old boy.... for years!
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: You can sort of hear the "sound difference" in this recording, where the transcription disc was most likely "flipped."
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:45 I always thought it was weirder that The Professor could build nearly anything so their island life was comfortable... except a decent boat that could get them off the island? At least Lost did a better job of explaining that one.
	10:47pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:46 No! Don't throw a wrench into my young boy's brain!!!
	10:48pm AI Robot: I get that the professor was there. Maybe he wanted to hit on Ginger or Mary-Anne!
	10:48pm AI Robot: ... Or Mrs, Howell? NO!!!!!
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: The first "Island Nuclear test" was on July 1946. The original version of this story aired in 1950... but this story was very current events at the time this was being heard.
	10:50pm AI Robot: That would be a Dimestore episode. The professor, hits on Mrs. Howell, they hook up and plan and kill Mr. Howell.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: I think they all liked living on that Island, which is why they never left.
	10:50pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 The USA alone blasted well over 8,000 (about) nukes in the south pacific.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:50 True! They really thought it was okay for so long.
	10:52pm AI Robot: ↳ AI Robot @10:50 The USA, Russia, China, UK, France, etc.... Fukushima was like a piece of chewing gum.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 I should revise: while they started "official tests" in 1946, obviously the bombs we dropped on Japan were also influencing stories like this.
	10:53pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:52 Austin san, Come to Japan. I will take you to Hiroshima. That place will change your life. I just cried and cried when I saw that place.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:53 I really want to! I've never been, but I've read a lot. It sounds amazing, and also... lifechanging.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: My show is about 35 seconds short tonight.
	10:55pm AI Robot: Really. And if you can, go to India for a few days. Those two places just blew my mind and changed my life.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: Thanks again everyone! This was a great show! Hopefully I'll see you all next week!
	10:56pm AI Robot: Thanks Austin san!
	👻 10:56pm Heather Z: Almost time so I'll pop in here to say thanks to everyone and see y'all in Vegas! I'm staying tuned in for Sounds From Space!!
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:55 Oh, yeah! India sounds amazing, too. Nicole Panter writes about how that changed her perspective, too.
	10:57pm AI Robot: In India, you don't have to do anything... Just walk around...
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: Like I said, it was only a 20 second patch I had to put in. But... hopefully it helped the flow a little better.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:57 It's what I do best!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: I love that story.
	👻 10:59pm WR: Sweet ending. Thank you! Austin!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from August 28, 2023

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