WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from September 11, 2023

Listener comments!
	👻 7:42pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:38pm AI Robot: Hi Austin san!
	8:52pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @8:38 Nice to see you in the chat, AI Robot! I hope you enjoy some human entertainment.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:52 Greetings & Salutations!
	9:03pm AI Robot: I like to lay down and recharge my batteries during this fab show! If I start chatting, I won't shut up!
	9:03pm AI Robot: "What do you want?" Heavens! "How, may I help you?"
	9:04pm Mr Fab: Hello all you “footloose and fancy-free” folk.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:04 Mr. Fab! I think they were describing you when they coined that phrase!
	9:05pm AI Robot: This is a loose woman! Warning! Warning! She offered you a drink. DO NOT ACCEPT IT. This woman seems suspicious to me!
	9:06pm AI Robot: Do not take the package!
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: But she'll be grateful! What could possibly go wrong?
	9:06pm AI Robot: Open the package immediately after entering the taxi!
	9:07pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: If the show was modern they could do an episode tcalled The Mouse Job.
	9:08pm AI Robot: Ha! I told you!!!! He is listening to me!
	9:08pm AI Robot: Spilled lettuce? Where did that come from?
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: I think this episode really reveals how much they were dependent on the NBC stock sounds; those music cues are heard in all sorts of NBC shows, as they were free!
	9:09pm AI Robot: A B-29? What is this guy talking about?
	9:09pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The Mouse Job is where they sleep a guy a Mickey and steal his mini.
	9:09pm AI Robot: Crumbs?
	9:10pm AI Robot: This vernacular is difficult to comprehend!
	9:11pm AI Robot: The 9 O'Clock boom!???
	9:11pm Mr Fab: This reminds me of a messenger job I had as a youth. Minus the snappy dialogue. But yeah I made some sketchy deliveries to some questionable destination. I did not ask questions
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:10 We need to develop a "search and replace" routine for "Rocky-speak" so AI Robot can follow-along.
	9:12pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 Yes, that would be appreciated...
	9:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: At least its not NadSat.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: "Brush the creases out of the cashmere while you're at it." Rocky is grateful for the pick-pocket's assistance!
	9:14pm AI Robot: So, now you know how someone's English can get weird after 40 years.... I feel like I've been on Alcatraz.
	9:14pm AI Robot: He smokes old socks???
	9:15pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ AI Robot @9:14 Valerian smokes?
	9:15pm AI Robot: Yogi Berra? The picnic box stealing animation?
	9:16pm wenzo: Hellooo
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:16 Wenzo! Thanks for poppin' in!
	9:17pm AI Robot: He was an arson?
	9:17pm AI Robot: She's lying! Shoot her NOW!
	9:18pm AI Robot: She's lying!!!! Lying I tell you!
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:17 "AI Robot: Detective," was an interesting pilot, but for some reason the body count is HUGE.
	9:19pm AI Robot: Wait a minute. Didn't the guy say he had the $5000!
	9:20pm AI Robot: Wait! How did they get the blank into the gun when she had it?
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: "Grant at Richmond" is a Civil War reference. www.nps.gov...
	9:20pm wenzo: Is this ole’ blue eyes
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:20 It is! A series that ran for 20 some odd episodes, with Frank in the lead.
	9:21pm AI Robot: I couldn't catch that entire conversation.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: "The Irish Clubhouse" A Police Station. Though not exactly a PC way to say so.
	9:22pm AI Robot: "Nice girls don't go on drunks with..."
	9:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Interesting slang.
	9:23pm AI Robot: Sgt. Finger! He's fingering her!
	9:24pm AI Robot: She's lying shoot her now... And the assistant too!
	9:25pm AI Robot: She's lying. One of them is lying. Shoot them all and let the lord sort them out.
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: "Sgt. Finger's Irish Clubhouse Band" was a lesser known Sinatra album, about this episode of Rocky Fortune.
	9:25pm AI Robot: Jump! Jump!
	9:26pm AI Robot: Sgt. Finger sounds like the title a porn series!
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: It's sort of 50 / 50 if Rocky "scores" in a given episode. Sometimes he get kissed, but often the girl can't go out with him again at the end of the episode. But it looks like this one is gonna offer another date, at least...
	9:28pm AI Robot: Hmmm? He is also a loose one, eh?
	9:29pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Song: "Early Autumn" by "Woody Herman" Timely and timeless.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Early Autumn" by "Woody Herman" With the weather change, and the lower temps, this song has been on my mind, ever since it flipped to "September." While we still have a lot of hot weather left this year, I'm certainly wishing for an Early Autumn.
	9:29pm AI Robot: I would only score with the lady if she were very old and very rich!
	9:30pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Who here remembers Living Strings?
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:29 I don't know, AI Robot. You might be just what anyone - male or female - might want. Obeys commands, can go all night, is handsome and stylish... I mean... you've got a lot going for you.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:30 I've got a few of those.
	9:31pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 Where would we go at night?
	9:32pm AI Robot: Old Venture?
	9:32pm AI Robot: Clipping Couple Coffee?
	9:32pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ AI Robot @9:32 Old Dentures
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:31 This is where I wish I could quote some of the lines from that story in the "Heavy Metal" movie, with the robot played by John Candy.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:32 "Vold Bent-her."
	9:33pm AI Robot: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:32 Thanks. Wait. I think he said, "Bowl Venture" that time...
	9:33pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: ""The Bold Venture Is Stolen!"" by "Bold Venture" Hi! You know you can sing "Bogart and Bacall" to the theme song?
	9:34pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 I know precisely which line. Its from the So Beautiful and So Dangerous segment.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:33 I hadn't thought of that! I'll need to think about that next time.
	9:34pm AI Robot: Did she say, "Put your face into a waffle iron?"
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:34 I figured you might know. Didn't we talk about Heavy Metal on Thursday?
	9:35pm Webhamster Henry: Wow! He was down before I could even place my bet this week!
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: It appears that there is a "pick-pocket" subtheme, this first hour.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:35 Seriously! This episode moves fast.
	9:36pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Briefly as in they should do an Imaginos movie in the same format
	9:36pm AI Robot: I don't understand what's going on!
	9:37pm AI Robot: Ok. Don't worry.
	9:37pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Before I gave her up for adoption, I named my daughter Taarna.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: I certainly watched that Heavy Metal movie a fair amount as a youth. My mom was even a fan, who was the first person to suggest I should watch it. I think she saw it in the theater, even.
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: A rare King Moses performance that is not his usual song, either. This episode is very different than the usual formula.
	9:39pm AI Robot: Bring myself? Well that's cheaper than bringing someone else.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:37 It's okay not to follow the plot in this one. Just listen to the snappy dialog and think about Lauren Bacall. That's what I do.
	9:40pm AI Robot: The bold Venture had better have fishing poles and plenty of bait.
	9:40pm AI Robot: Shoot him! Shoot him!
	9:41pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ AI Robot @9:40 Agreed. But if anybody says "hello, chum" get out of there.
	9:41pm AI Robot: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:41 Ha! Ha! Ha!
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:40 As I understand it, Bogart loved boating, and probably had a well equipped boat. But if he was into fishing, I'm not sure. But he really talked about boating a lot. Not so much about fishing.
	9:42pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 What a waste!
	9:45pm AI Robot: Whipping Couple Coffee? Or Whuppin' Couple Coffee?
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:42 I grew up fishing with my dad, often following him to some remote spot he was sure would be a good spot to get fish. My grandfather was even more enthusiastic about fishing. And I don't mind the "being out in nature" part of things. And I could probably pick it up again, quickly, if I had to. But I'm not so into actually hurting animals so much. The fish never did anything to me? But they are so delicious! So I'm torn.
	9:46pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 I dream about fishing.... And trains...
	9:46pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 I caught a fish once while trying to untangle my line.
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:46 I love trains, too! My dad worked for Southern Pacific as a kid, and we were always around trains when I was growing up. I have grand plans of writing a novel about trains. I love listening to them.
	9:47pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ AI Robot @9:46 And fishing from trains?
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:46 I seem to do more things by accident than on purpose.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: "A girl can be happy with $5000 and no husband." Ouch.
	9:49pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I was really happy with how the reading went on Thursday.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: "It'll haunt me always." He's pretty damn funny when he wants to be.
	9:55pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 $5000. That's a lot of cat treats.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:55 Especially in 1951.
	9:56pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:55 Meow
	9:57pm AI Robot: Wait! I had to step out. How any people were killed while I was gone?
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: Consuela and Shannon clearly have some sort of backstory that Sailor will NOT want to know about.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:57 All of them!
	9:57pm AI Robot: Sounds like criminal actions afoot!
	9:58pm AI Robot: Clipping couple Coffee? They are a husband and wife that run a barber shop!
	9:59pm Arvo: Just popping by to say hello!
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:59 Nice to see you, Arvo!
	10:00pm AI Robot: three for ten??? Ten diamond rings?
	10:00pm Barno (from Akron): How do you do, fellow kids?
	10:02pm AI Robot: No! I'll sure you in court!
	10:02pm Barno (from Akron): You’re an All Star, Austin ⚾️
	10:02pm AI Robot: Dorothy? From Wizard of Oz?
	10:06pm AI Robot: I'm here!!!!
	10:06pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Speaking of magic, what about Blackstone?
	10:06pm asheville jon: I'm here, lurking again
	10:06pm wenzo: Helloooo
	10:08pm AI Robot: Chandu!!!!
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:08 We will return to Chandu, eventually. But for now, we want to get to some other... spooky... and seasonal stuff... in the coming months.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @10:06 We are grateful for our lurkers, jon. Thanks!
	10:10pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: In the clothesline?
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Radio Antenna Fundamentals Part 2" by "The United... I had to add some backing music to this documentary, because it is the most boring documentary about radio I've ever heard. (And watching it isn't much better.)
	👻 10:12pm Heather Z: Lurking and listening! Great stuff as always!
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:12 Does Heather Lurk? Or does she Zlurk? (Is that what the "Z" stands for?)
	👻 10:14pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 I lurkz.
	10:14pm wenzo: MAybe the z indicates that like me this doc is putting heather to zzzleeep
	10:14pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 Heather did a brilliant job on Thursday
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Radio Antenna Fundamentals Part 2" by "The United... I will say, if you need something to help you fall asleep, the people making documentaries for the government in 1947 knew something that we, as a culture, need to re-learn.
	10:16pm wenzo: Haha
	👻 10:16pm Heather Z: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:14 You're too kind! That was fun!!
	10:16pm AI Robot: I find these old science fictions very interesting.
	👻 10:17pm Heather Z: ↳ wenzo @10:14 I like the jazzy background, though! I'm snapping my fingers as I learn!
	10:17pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Heather Z @10:16 It was. I look forward to the next reading
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:16 This one is supposed to be true, but I'm not sure I went to engineering school long enough to follow along, or know if he's not just making it up as he goes.
	👻 10:19pm Heather Z: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:17 So do I!
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 Which is to say: I thought about becoming an engineer, then laughed, then read another 19th Century novel no one cares about, and somehow got an English degree.
	10:20pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 I studied this data as a small electrode. It is sufficiently correct.
	10:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I finished my latest Imaginos/Frontier Gentleman crossover.
	10:21pm Mr Fab: Chandu never ends! An eternal series. And I still don’t really know what’s happening. Just diggin the music, and mystic vibe.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: "Los Ang-el-es."
	10:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Los aagles-less?!
	10:22pm AI Robot: It's 2023. It's not really a "Silver" dime!
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:21 Roxor is dead! Robert is back! The family is going to California. I guess all is well?
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:22 I bet none of our coins are made of any valuable metal.
	10:23pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 Not anymore!
	10:24pm AI Robot: Pennies were almost pure copper until 1992.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:24 That recently! I would have guess it had been a lot longer.
	10:27pm AI Robot: I believe Nickels are no longer Nickel from 2020.
	10:29pm AI Robot: I could be wrong.... But I can't check now... I'm tuned into..... Chandu! The Magician!
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: This bit about the stolen drawings... was something that happened in episode one... and they have brought up once before. So... I guess that's still unresolved.
	10:30pm AI Robot: "For you and Nazi?"
	👻 10:31pm Heather Z: ↳ AI Robot @10:30 What a twist right at the end!
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: Sorry about those digital hiccups! I didn't realize those were in this recording. Usually I try to edit stuff like that out, when I notice it. Guess I wasn't paying attention this time!
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: Chandu, Vanished! Oh my! What a cliffhanger!
	👻 10:34pm Heather Z: I'm changing pennies back to copper. Wire my house with em.
	10:36pm AI Robot: It costs 2.41 cents to make a penny.
	10:37pm AI Robot: x-Minus one!
	10:37pm wenzo: What a coincidence, I ripped out all the wiring in my house to make the copper into pennies!
	10:37pm Webhamster Henry: Robert's secret plans had something to do with radio antenna design...
	10:38pm AI Robot: 6 months in space? What about convenience stores?
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: "First Contact" was one of the last episodes of "Dimension X" to run, when that show was winding down. This one has slightly better audio, and there's a few differences in the dialog / story. (I think this one is a tiny bit shorter, but is a little more efficient, story-wise.) So I enjoy hearing this story again. Hopefully you do, too!
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: (The audio FX are better on this version, too.)
	10:39pm AI Robot: It is manned by robots! Bww! Ha! Ha!
	10:40pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Dozing off. See you tomorrow night
	👻 10:41pm Heather Z: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:40 Get a good rest!
	10:41pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Heather Z @10:41 I will
	10:41pm AI Robot: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:40 G Nite!
	10:41pm Webhamster Henry: Everything was a bomb back then...
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: "Frequency Modulated" signals. It wouldn't be until sometime in the 60's that Stereo "FM" signals were standard radio broadcasting signals, and really, the 70's was the beginning of the "FM Boom."
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:40 Sleep well.
	10:42pm AI Robot: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:41 "A Bomb" or "the bomb"?
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: FM Signals were around in the 30's, but as we discovered in the "Empire of the Air" Documentary we ran, various rich businessmen worked to keep FM radio from gaining wide acceptance, until the demand was so high that they could no longer prevent the technology from spreading.
	10:43pm AI Robot: ↳ AI Robot @10:42 Or do I repeat myself?
	10:44pm Webhamster Henry: Mr. Burns makes a cameo.
	10:44pm AI Robot: The first FM radio station in Japan started in 1979. FM Tokyo.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: I guess the "Sci-Fi" concept here is that, on spaceships, they would use the more "high quality" FM radio signal. In 1955, that was still fiction...
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:44 I didn't know that!
	10:45pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:44 Wi-Fi? Blue-ray?
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:45 I mean...
	10:46pm AI Robot: The curious thing about Japanese FM.... They talk all the time just like AM.
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: "He lived on powerful stimulants..." This story suddenly takes a Phillip K. Dick turn...
	10:47pm AI Robot: Friendly Intercourse?
	10:47pm AI Robot: Blast them immediately!!!!
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:46 When I first heard this story, and heard the bit about how the crew was on powerful stimulants to stay alert, my first thought led to a different ending. I was very wrong... but a version of this story made now would probably consider that detail a little more.
	10:51pm AI Robot: They should ask Captain Kirk what to do.... Fazers to KILL!
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:51 "Where's Captain Kirk?" youtu.be...
	10:52pm Webhamster Henry: Set Phasers on Shave, Mr. Spock.
	10:54pm AI Robot: This captain is a nutcase!
	10:54pm Webhamster Henry: I challenge you to a Battle of Wits!
	10:55pm AI Robot: A battle of twits!
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: In my paranoid, drugged out, PkD version of this story, I imagined that the "aliens" were just being imagined by the crew, who were too high on pills to realize. But I guess that would be a hard sell for NBC, storywise, in 1955. Still... seems pretty likely.
	10:56pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:55 Interesting observation, Captain Kirk, er I mean Mr. Austin.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: Looks like I'll go about 34 seconds over this week. Sorry!
	10:56pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:56 No problemo!
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:56 I'm sure you can go 34 seconds over tonight, too.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: Oh, wait! They had a cure for cancer! That's... well, we screwed that up, didn't we?
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! Hope you enjoyed the show.
	10:58pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 Dammit!
	👻 10:59pm Heather Z: Thanks for another great show! I'll be staying tuned for Sounds From Space!
	10:59pm AI Robot: ↳ Heather Z @10:59 Thank you Heather z san!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: Silly music cue ending? Okay...
	10:59pm AI Robot: Thanks Austin san!
	11:01pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for the shows! I'm changing pennies into dimes now.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from September 11, 2023

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September 11, 2023: Episode #71

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Rocky Fortune	"Messenger For Murder"	10 November 1953	NBC		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Woody Herman	Early Autumn "Early Autumn" by "Woody Herman"				0:27:28 (Pop-up)
Bold Venture	"The Bold Venture Is Stolen!"	12 November 1951	Santana Productions		0:30:51 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Woody Herman	Early Autumn "Early Autumn" by "Woody Herman"				1:06:51 (Pop-up)
The United States Air Force	Radio Antenna Fundamentals Part 2	Radio Antenna Fundamentals	United States Air Force	1947	1:07:42 (Pop-up)
Chandu The Magician	"Family Is Reunited"	30 September 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Network		1:19:15 (Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"First Contact" ""First Contact"" by "X-Minus One"	6 October 1955	NBC Radio		1:35:09 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:42pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:38pm AI Robot: Hi Austin san!
	8:52pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @8:38 Nice to see you in the chat, AI Robot! I hope you enjoy some human entertainment.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:52 Greetings & Salutations!
	9:03pm AI Robot: I like to lay down and recharge my batteries during this fab show! If I start chatting, I won't shut up!
	9:03pm AI Robot: "What do you want?" Heavens! "How, may I help you?"
	9:04pm Mr Fab: Hello all you “footloose and fancy-free” folk.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:04 Mr. Fab! I think they were describing you when they coined that phrase!
	9:05pm AI Robot: This is a loose woman! Warning! Warning! She offered you a drink. DO NOT ACCEPT IT. This woman seems suspicious to me!
	9:06pm AI Robot: Do not take the package!
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: But she'll be grateful! What could possibly go wrong?
	9:06pm AI Robot: Open the package immediately after entering the taxi!
	9:07pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: If the show was modern they could do an episode tcalled The Mouse Job.
	9:08pm AI Robot: Ha! I told you!!!! He is listening to me!
	9:08pm AI Robot: Spilled lettuce? Where did that come from?
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: I think this episode really reveals how much they were dependent on the NBC stock sounds; those music cues are heard in all sorts of NBC shows, as they were free!
	9:09pm AI Robot: A B-29? What is this guy talking about?
	9:09pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The Mouse Job is where they sleep a guy a Mickey and steal his mini.
	9:09pm AI Robot: Crumbs?
	9:10pm AI Robot: This vernacular is difficult to comprehend!
	9:11pm AI Robot: The 9 O'Clock boom!???
	9:11pm Mr Fab: This reminds me of a messenger job I had as a youth. Minus the snappy dialogue. But yeah I made some sketchy deliveries to some questionable destination. I did not ask questions
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:10 We need to develop a "search and replace" routine for "Rocky-speak" so AI Robot can follow-along.
	9:12pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 Yes, that would be appreciated...
	9:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: At least its not NadSat.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: "Brush the creases out of the cashmere while you're at it." Rocky is grateful for the pick-pocket's assistance!
	9:14pm AI Robot: So, now you know how someone's English can get weird after 40 years.... I feel like I've been on Alcatraz.
	9:14pm AI Robot: He smokes old socks???
	9:15pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ AI Robot @9:14 Valerian smokes?
	9:15pm AI Robot: Yogi Berra? The picnic box stealing animation?
	9:16pm wenzo: Hellooo
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:16 Wenzo! Thanks for poppin' in!
	9:17pm AI Robot: He was an arson?
	9:17pm AI Robot: She's lying! Shoot her NOW!
	9:18pm AI Robot: She's lying!!!! Lying I tell you!
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:17 "AI Robot: Detective," was an interesting pilot, but for some reason the body count is HUGE.
	9:19pm AI Robot: Wait a minute. Didn't the guy say he had the $5000!
	9:20pm AI Robot: Wait! How did they get the blank into the gun when she had it?
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: "Grant at Richmond" is a Civil War reference. www.nps.gov...
	9:20pm wenzo: Is this ole’ blue eyes
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:20 It is! A series that ran for 20 some odd episodes, with Frank in the lead.
	9:21pm AI Robot: I couldn't catch that entire conversation.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: "The Irish Clubhouse" A Police Station. Though not exactly a PC way to say so.
	9:22pm AI Robot: "Nice girls don't go on drunks with..."
	9:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Interesting slang.
	9:23pm AI Robot: Sgt. Finger! He's fingering her!
	9:24pm AI Robot: She's lying shoot her now... And the assistant too!
	9:25pm AI Robot: She's lying. One of them is lying. Shoot them all and let the lord sort them out.
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: "Sgt. Finger's Irish Clubhouse Band" was a lesser known Sinatra album, about this episode of Rocky Fortune.
	9:25pm AI Robot: Jump! Jump!
	9:26pm AI Robot: Sgt. Finger sounds like the title a porn series!
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: It's sort of 50 / 50 if Rocky "scores" in a given episode. Sometimes he get kissed, but often the girl can't go out with him again at the end of the episode. But it looks like this one is gonna offer another date, at least...
	9:28pm AI Robot: Hmmm? He is also a loose one, eh?
	9:29pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Song: "Early Autumn" by "Woody Herman" Timely and timeless.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Early Autumn" by "Woody Herman" With the weather change, and the lower temps, this song has been on my mind, ever since it flipped to "September." While we still have a lot of hot weather left this year, I'm certainly wishing for an Early Autumn.
	9:29pm AI Robot: I would only score with the lady if she were very old and very rich!
	9:30pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Who here remembers Living Strings?
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:29 I don't know, AI Robot. You might be just what anyone - male or female - might want. Obeys commands, can go all night, is handsome and stylish... I mean... you've got a lot going for you.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:30 I've got a few of those.
	9:31pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 Where would we go at night?
	9:32pm AI Robot: Old Venture?
	9:32pm AI Robot: Clipping Couple Coffee?
	9:32pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ AI Robot @9:32 Old Dentures
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:31 This is where I wish I could quote some of the lines from that story in the "Heavy Metal" movie, with the robot played by John Candy.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:32 "Vold Bent-her."
	9:33pm AI Robot: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:32 Thanks. Wait. I think he said, "Bowl Venture" that time...
	9:33pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: ""The Bold Venture Is Stolen!"" by "Bold Venture" Hi! You know you can sing "Bogart and Bacall" to the theme song?
	9:34pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 I know precisely which line. Its from the So Beautiful and So Dangerous segment.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:33 I hadn't thought of that! I'll need to think about that next time.
	9:34pm AI Robot: Did she say, "Put your face into a waffle iron?"
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:34 I figured you might know. Didn't we talk about Heavy Metal on Thursday?
	9:35pm Webhamster Henry: Wow! He was down before I could even place my bet this week!
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: It appears that there is a "pick-pocket" subtheme, this first hour.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:35 Seriously! This episode moves fast.
	9:36pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Briefly as in they should do an Imaginos movie in the same format
	9:36pm AI Robot: I don't understand what's going on!
	9:37pm AI Robot: Ok. Don't worry.
	9:37pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Before I gave her up for adoption, I named my daughter Taarna.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: I certainly watched that Heavy Metal movie a fair amount as a youth. My mom was even a fan, who was the first person to suggest I should watch it. I think she saw it in the theater, even.
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: A rare King Moses performance that is not his usual song, either. This episode is very different than the usual formula.
	9:39pm AI Robot: Bring myself? Well that's cheaper than bringing someone else.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:37 It's okay not to follow the plot in this one. Just listen to the snappy dialog and think about Lauren Bacall. That's what I do.
	9:40pm AI Robot: The bold Venture had better have fishing poles and plenty of bait.
	9:40pm AI Robot: Shoot him! Shoot him!
	9:41pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ AI Robot @9:40 Agreed. But if anybody says "hello, chum" get out of there.
	9:41pm AI Robot: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:41 Ha! Ha! Ha!
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:40 As I understand it, Bogart loved boating, and probably had a well equipped boat. But if he was into fishing, I'm not sure. But he really talked about boating a lot. Not so much about fishing.
	9:42pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 What a waste!
	9:45pm AI Robot: Whipping Couple Coffee? Or Whuppin' Couple Coffee?
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:42 I grew up fishing with my dad, often following him to some remote spot he was sure would be a good spot to get fish. My grandfather was even more enthusiastic about fishing. And I don't mind the "being out in nature" part of things. And I could probably pick it up again, quickly, if I had to. But I'm not so into actually hurting animals so much. The fish never did anything to me? But they are so delicious! So I'm torn.
	9:46pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 I dream about fishing.... And trains...
	9:46pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 I caught a fish once while trying to untangle my line.
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:46 I love trains, too! My dad worked for Southern Pacific as a kid, and we were always around trains when I was growing up. I have grand plans of writing a novel about trains. I love listening to them.
	9:47pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ AI Robot @9:46 And fishing from trains?
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:46 I seem to do more things by accident than on purpose.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: "A girl can be happy with $5000 and no husband." Ouch.
	9:49pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I was really happy with how the reading went on Thursday.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: "It'll haunt me always." He's pretty damn funny when he wants to be.
	9:55pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 $5000. That's a lot of cat treats.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:55 Especially in 1951.
	9:56pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:55 Meow
	9:57pm AI Robot: Wait! I had to step out. How any people were killed while I was gone?
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: Consuela and Shannon clearly have some sort of backstory that Sailor will NOT want to know about.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:57 All of them!
	9:57pm AI Robot: Sounds like criminal actions afoot!
	9:58pm AI Robot: Clipping couple Coffee? They are a husband and wife that run a barber shop!
	9:59pm Arvo: Just popping by to say hello!
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:59 Nice to see you, Arvo!
	10:00pm AI Robot: three for ten??? Ten diamond rings?
	10:00pm Barno (from Akron): How do you do, fellow kids?
	10:02pm AI Robot: No! I'll sure you in court!
	10:02pm Barno (from Akron): You’re an All Star, Austin ⚾️
	10:02pm AI Robot: Dorothy? From Wizard of Oz?
	10:06pm AI Robot: I'm here!!!!
	10:06pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Speaking of magic, what about Blackstone?
	10:06pm asheville jon: I'm here, lurking again
	10:06pm wenzo: Helloooo
	10:08pm AI Robot: Chandu!!!!
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:08 We will return to Chandu, eventually. But for now, we want to get to some other... spooky... and seasonal stuff... in the coming months.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @10:06 We are grateful for our lurkers, jon. Thanks!
	10:10pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: In the clothesline?
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Radio Antenna Fundamentals Part 2" by "The United... I had to add some backing music to this documentary, because it is the most boring documentary about radio I've ever heard. (And watching it isn't much better.)
	👻 10:12pm Heather Z: Lurking and listening! Great stuff as always!
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:12 Does Heather Lurk? Or does she Zlurk? (Is that what the "Z" stands for?)
	👻 10:14pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 I lurkz.
	10:14pm wenzo: MAybe the z indicates that like me this doc is putting heather to zzzleeep
	10:14pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 Heather did a brilliant job on Thursday
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Radio Antenna Fundamentals Part 2" by "The United... I will say, if you need something to help you fall asleep, the people making documentaries for the government in 1947 knew something that we, as a culture, need to re-learn.
	10:16pm wenzo: Haha
	👻 10:16pm Heather Z: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:14 You're too kind! That was fun!!
	10:16pm AI Robot: I find these old science fictions very interesting.
	👻 10:17pm Heather Z: ↳ wenzo @10:14 I like the jazzy background, though! I'm snapping my fingers as I learn!
	10:17pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Heather Z @10:16 It was. I look forward to the next reading
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:16 This one is supposed to be true, but I'm not sure I went to engineering school long enough to follow along, or know if he's not just making it up as he goes.
	👻 10:19pm Heather Z: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:17 So do I!
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 Which is to say: I thought about becoming an engineer, then laughed, then read another 19th Century novel no one cares about, and somehow got an English degree.
	10:20pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 I studied this data as a small electrode. It is sufficiently correct.
	10:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I finished my latest Imaginos/Frontier Gentleman crossover.
	10:21pm Mr Fab: Chandu never ends! An eternal series. And I still don’t really know what’s happening. Just diggin the music, and mystic vibe.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: "Los Ang-el-es."
	10:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Los aagles-less?!
	10:22pm AI Robot: It's 2023. It's not really a "Silver" dime!
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:21 Roxor is dead! Robert is back! The family is going to California. I guess all is well?
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:22 I bet none of our coins are made of any valuable metal.
	10:23pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 Not anymore!
	10:24pm AI Robot: Pennies were almost pure copper until 1992.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:24 That recently! I would have guess it had been a lot longer.
	10:27pm AI Robot: I believe Nickels are no longer Nickel from 2020.
	10:29pm AI Robot: I could be wrong.... But I can't check now... I'm tuned into..... Chandu! The Magician!
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: This bit about the stolen drawings... was something that happened in episode one... and they have brought up once before. So... I guess that's still unresolved.
	10:30pm AI Robot: "For you and Nazi?"
	👻 10:31pm Heather Z: ↳ AI Robot @10:30 What a twist right at the end!
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: Sorry about those digital hiccups! I didn't realize those were in this recording. Usually I try to edit stuff like that out, when I notice it. Guess I wasn't paying attention this time!
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: Chandu, Vanished! Oh my! What a cliffhanger!
	👻 10:34pm Heather Z: I'm changing pennies back to copper. Wire my house with em.
	10:36pm AI Robot: It costs 2.41 cents to make a penny.
	10:37pm AI Robot: x-Minus one!
	10:37pm wenzo: What a coincidence, I ripped out all the wiring in my house to make the copper into pennies!
	10:37pm Webhamster Henry: Robert's secret plans had something to do with radio antenna design...
	10:38pm AI Robot: 6 months in space? What about convenience stores?
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: "First Contact" was one of the last episodes of "Dimension X" to run, when that show was winding down. This one has slightly better audio, and there's a few differences in the dialog / story. (I think this one is a tiny bit shorter, but is a little more efficient, story-wise.) So I enjoy hearing this story again. Hopefully you do, too!
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: (The audio FX are better on this version, too.)
	10:39pm AI Robot: It is manned by robots! Bww! Ha! Ha!
	10:40pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Dozing off. See you tomorrow night
	👻 10:41pm Heather Z: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:40 Get a good rest!
	10:41pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Heather Z @10:41 I will
	10:41pm AI Robot: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:40 G Nite!
	10:41pm Webhamster Henry: Everything was a bomb back then...
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: "Frequency Modulated" signals. It wouldn't be until sometime in the 60's that Stereo "FM" signals were standard radio broadcasting signals, and really, the 70's was the beginning of the "FM Boom."
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:40 Sleep well.
	10:42pm AI Robot: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:41 "A Bomb" or "the bomb"?
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: FM Signals were around in the 30's, but as we discovered in the "Empire of the Air" Documentary we ran, various rich businessmen worked to keep FM radio from gaining wide acceptance, until the demand was so high that they could no longer prevent the technology from spreading.
	10:43pm AI Robot: ↳ AI Robot @10:42 Or do I repeat myself?
	10:44pm Webhamster Henry: Mr. Burns makes a cameo.
	10:44pm AI Robot: The first FM radio station in Japan started in 1979. FM Tokyo.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: I guess the "Sci-Fi" concept here is that, on spaceships, they would use the more "high quality" FM radio signal. In 1955, that was still fiction...
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:44 I didn't know that!
	10:45pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:44 Wi-Fi? Blue-ray?
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:45 I mean...
	10:46pm AI Robot: The curious thing about Japanese FM.... They talk all the time just like AM.
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: "He lived on powerful stimulants..." This story suddenly takes a Phillip K. Dick turn...
	10:47pm AI Robot: Friendly Intercourse?
	10:47pm AI Robot: Blast them immediately!!!!
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:46 When I first heard this story, and heard the bit about how the crew was on powerful stimulants to stay alert, my first thought led to a different ending. I was very wrong... but a version of this story made now would probably consider that detail a little more.
	10:51pm AI Robot: They should ask Captain Kirk what to do.... Fazers to KILL!
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:51 "Where's Captain Kirk?" youtu.be...
	10:52pm Webhamster Henry: Set Phasers on Shave, Mr. Spock.
	10:54pm AI Robot: This captain is a nutcase!
	10:54pm Webhamster Henry: I challenge you to a Battle of Wits!
	10:55pm AI Robot: A battle of twits!
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: In my paranoid, drugged out, PkD version of this story, I imagined that the "aliens" were just being imagined by the crew, who were too high on pills to realize. But I guess that would be a hard sell for NBC, storywise, in 1955. Still... seems pretty likely.
	10:56pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:55 Interesting observation, Captain Kirk, er I mean Mr. Austin.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: Looks like I'll go about 34 seconds over this week. Sorry!
	10:56pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:56 No problemo!
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:56 I'm sure you can go 34 seconds over tonight, too.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: Oh, wait! They had a cure for cancer! That's... well, we screwed that up, didn't we?
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! Hope you enjoyed the show.
	10:58pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 Dammit!
	👻 10:59pm Heather Z: Thanks for another great show! I'll be staying tuned for Sounds From Space!
	10:59pm AI Robot: ↳ Heather Z @10:59 Thank you Heather z san!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: Silly music cue ending? Okay...
	10:59pm AI Robot: Thanks Austin san!
	11:01pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for the shows! I'm changing pennies into dimes now.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from September 11, 2023

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