WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 16, 2023

Listener comments!
	👻 7:11pm Austin Rich: Good Hello!
	8:50pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy
	8:57pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Looking forward to Jungle Adventure despite the Politically incorrect propagandized portrayal of certain characters.
	👻 8:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:50 Nice to see another Early Bird. Hopefully this line-up will entertain this evening.
	9:00pm Charles: 🎃🎃🎃
	9:01pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Spooktaculars!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Tell-Tale Heart"" by "The Weird Circle" This is probably one of the most "original" versions of The Tell-Tale Heart that I have ever heard anywhere. This version takes interesting liberties.
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:00 Charles! Thanks for the Jack-o-Lanterns!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:01 Webhamster Henry! Thanks for dropping in!
	9:01pm AI Robot: Hi Mr. Austin!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:01 AI Robot! Thanks for making an appearance. It's always great to see you.
	9:02pm laurapanic: weird circle. Never sounds good
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:02 Laurapanic! Hooray! Yeah. If it's close to midnight, and you get invited to a Weird Circle... maybe consider going somewhere else.
	👻 9:03pm yerfriendpaul: Hi Austin, everyone!
	9:03pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 Thank you!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:03 yerfriendpaul! Thanks for listening.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: This year, on Dimestore Radio Theater, we are running all Edgar Allen Poe stories in the opening slot, as adapted by The Weird Circle, a great early 40's Horror Show that adapted a lot of great literature for radio.
	9:06pm AI Robot: But keep those stinky cigars out of my face!
	9:06pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 Yeah I recently heard an adaptation that really was off script!
	9:07pm laurapanic: Visitors are indeed bad for the digestion
	9:07pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Poe was a master of characters.
	9:08pm AI Robot: ↳ laurapanic @9:07 Roast them well in an oven for about 180C usually about 3 - 4 hours
	9:08pm laurapanic: I wish I had uncle's moxy with visitors. "A short visit would be appreciated" is code for "you are here now, but please fuck off very soon"
	9:08pm laurapanic: ↳ AI Robot @9:08 aaaaah, now I see where I was going wrong
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:08 Yeah... I appreciate some of the "pre-phone" codes people had.
	9:10pm AI Robot: Who are all these people speaking???
	9:11pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ AI Robot @9:10 Voices in his head
	9:12pm AI Robot: Whose head? My head!?
	9:12pm laurapanic: ↳ AI Robot @9:12 WHAT VOICES?
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: For the record: the narrator in the original story did not have, nor did he describe, voices in his head, like this version does. I think you can tell the entire Tell-Tale Heart story in about 15 minutes, so they really had to pad this one out.
	9:13pm AI Robot: Yeah. You guys can't hear those voices? Right? I'm OK... AOK.... Yeah, that's it.... I'm fine...
	👻 9:14pm yerfriendpaul: Those murderous voices in his head are so pleasant
	9:14pm AI Robot: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:14 yeah, like Laura says, "What voices?"
	👻 9:15pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ AI Robot @9:14 Ha ha!
	9:16pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:15 Bwahaha
	9:16pm AI Robot: Is this just a butter knife?
	9:16pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: 12 midnight as opposed to 5 midnight
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: I might have mentioned this already, but: as a kid, I have a very vivid memory, around Halloween, of listening to a record where someone was reading, "The Raven." It was so engrossing, and spooky, and I loved it. I've been looking for good Halloween Records ever since. (I have to thank my Mom, as I can't imagine who else would put a record on for us as kids.)
	9:18pm AI Robot: "Cawing for you?" You mean like crows "Caw"?
	9:19pm AI Robot: I can't follow this story. So, is this a butter knife or what?
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:19 You'd be surprised how little that detail has on the rest of the story.
	9:23pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 Not just a butter knife, but one of those that they pass around with the butter dish
	9:23pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 Oh, fancy! My mom told us kids not to touch that knife!
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: This show originally aired in December, and Christmas - historically - was a holiday where people would sit around and tell ghost stories. I do like the idea of listening to this radio story around Christmas.
	9:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Never offer the constable tea if you murdered someone
	👻 9:25pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:25 Good lesson here
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: Like our previous Poe story - Murders in The Rue Morgue - it seems like everyone in this neighborhood keeps very late hours.
	9:26pm AI Robot: These voices!!!! ARRRGGGGHHHHH!
	9:27pm AI Robot: I did it! I did it!!!
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:27 Yeah. After that kind of audio torture, I think I might have done it, too.
	9:28pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Most of Poe's killers just need to shut up. Then there's Hop Frog who did it in spectacular public fashion
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Waxwork"" by "The Price of Fear" Periodically, the BBC still re-runs old episodes of, "The Price of Fear," usually all at once, and usually around the holidays, which is why we have high-quality recordings of some of these episodes. (Like this one.) This year, on "The Price of Fear," we are running all stories where Mr. Price himself is a character in the story... in some way or another.
	9:31pm AI Robot: Is that for real? Katherine Hepburn? No robot costume?
	9:31pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: ""Waxwork"" by "The Price of Fear" I hope you play Specialty of the House! What I like about Price Of Fear is that they sometimes leave it up to the listener to figure it out!
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:31 We played that one last year, and I'm trying not to repeat this year. But that is a favorite of this program, and Imaginos, who originally urged me to play that one.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:31 There's gotta be a robot costume, I'm sure. I'll check.
	9:33pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 OK, no repeats!
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:33 There aren't that many "Price of Fear" episodes, sadly. But: I can't imagine October without Vincent, so I'll probably just cycle through these over and over again.
	9:35pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 I too need Mr. Price for the scary season.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:35 He recorded a lot of records, with him just telling scary stories and stuff. So I might resort to those first.
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: We have been getting our "Shock Theater" fix in our house. We watched the 30's era "Dracula," "Frankenstein," and, "The Mummy," over the last few days. All three hold up fantastically.
	9:39pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 Ever see the movie Waxwork II? The time travel montage was hilarious
	9:39pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:36 A small Price to pay, to keep Vincent on the show.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:39 I do recall there being a pretty goofy sequence in that movie, but I haven't seen it in 20+ years.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:39 We could probably write a pretty funny show, if we put our minds to it!
	9:41pm wenzo: Hey hey
	👻 9:41pm yerfriendpaul: Mesmerism!!
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:41 Wenzo! Yay!
	9:41pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:41 Something for April Fools?
	9:42pm Mr Fab: A wax museum chamber of horrors scared the poop out of me as a wee tot.
	👻 9:42pm yerfriendpaul: Don’t do it, Raymond!
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:42 I could imagine! A haunted house I saw as a kid - and a werewolf, in particular - scared the crap out of me as a kid. That might be the last nightmares I ever had. (Maybe of that, or of Alien, when I saw that.)
	9:44pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Speaking of working on future shows, Austin, any idea when we can do the next part of Lost Christobel?
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:44 Soon, actually! I'm feeling better, Heather should be more available, and I think we can have another planning / recording call soon.
	9:44pm Mr Fab: ↳ Mr Fab @9:42 This place: www.flickr.com...
	9:45pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:44 Excellent. I think the audience will enjoy the finished product
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:44 I'll have to look for that when I come to SF next.
	👻 9:49pm WR: Scariest movie I saw as a youngster was The Pit and The Pendulum with Vincent Price, the 1961 movie. I had convinced my mom to take us to the drive-in theater. My brothers were asleep. I couldn't take the suspense of the pendulum getting lower. I said, yawn, I'm sleepy and crawled into the back seat and ducked down.
	9:50pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I remember one story where the statues were people who were murdered and covered in wax
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:49 That movie is great! And, I agree: as I kid, I couldn't finish it the first time I tried to watch. I think I was at least 15 before I finally watched it all the way through.
	👻 9:59pm yerfriendpaul: Waxy laughter is the worst!
	👻 9:59pm yerfriendpaul: Love these stories
	9:59pm human: Thank you!!!!
	9:59pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: How many Price fans have seen him as the postman in Escapes?
	10:00pm Mr Fab: Boy I could listen to Vincent Price read his grocery list
	10:02pm Webhamster Henry: I saw the 3-d Wax Museum at a Thalia 3-d Fest!
	10:02pm Mr Fab: You all should have heard Austin’s awesome tribute to Ghoulardi earlier today. Yes, two shows on one day! And he’s still recovering from illness!
	10:06pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Mr Fab @10:02 I was team Svengoolie, myself. But I'm sure it's lots of fun!
	👻 10:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:06 Svengoolie is great, too! (And isn't he still on?) I've been meaning to do a tribute to him someday, too, but I'm just not as knowledgeable.
	👻 10:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:02 If there's one thing I can sit up for, it's radio! Plus: missing a show this month, I'm behind! I've gotta make up for it.
	10:08pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:07 I think it’s like Son of Svengoolie
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:08 That makes sense. I was thinking the original Svengoolie must be very old by now.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: If anyone is a general fan of Horror Hosts, you should watch American Scary, which is a great doc about a number of Horror Hosts, and has Doctor Sarcofiguy in it, too, our very own DJ!
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: en.wikipedia.org...
	10:12pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Excellent show tonight
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: There is a LOT of Boris Karloff out there, reading stuff. He's got a wonderful voice, and you could easily fill a full two hours with his readings.
	👻 10:18pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @10:10 I will look to see that. Your Ghoulardi episode triggered me to search for an Amarillo TX based host. My neighborhood friend's father was art director of local tv station and ended up doing the horror film host role. I lost touch with my friend decades ago (he died in a traffic accident while in high school). It was small market and the little bit that I remember, the presentations were not elaborate. So likely no documentation of it, but still searching to see what I can find.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Jungle Adventure"" by "The Black Castle" For this "remastered" version of this story, I took the "enhanced" audio, as it was processed by some online tools, and lined it up with the original, which has the music and sound FX. I still had to cut a lot of the "enhanced" audio, as not all of it was even intelligible. But with some other EQ adjustments, and some pampering, I managed to get the sound to be a lot better than the versions that are floating around out there. As mentioned earlier: one voice actor is doing all the voices for this story.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:18 I'd be very curious about that! I do love regional TV hosts.
	👻 10:19pm Heather Z: Rats, you were on earlier and I missed it? Ahh! Been tuned in and enjoying the show this evening!
	10:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 One actor?! That's amazing for that time
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:19 Heather! Thanks for tuning in.
	10:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Heather Z @10:19 I missed it, too. 😢
	👻 10:20pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 I try to never miss it!
	10:21pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:12 “Tales of the Frightened”! Love those albums. “Are you one of the frightened..?”
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:19 He wrote the show, too. There was music, and that same person probably did the SFX. But all the voices are the same person. It's wild.
	👻 10:21pm Heather Z: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:20 More reason for us to just STAY tuned into Sheenas, I suppose!
	10:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Heather Z @10:21 Indeed.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: Here's a link to the show I did earlier today, if people wanna hear it: wfmu.org...
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:21 Yeah! Those albums rule!
	10:22pm Mr Fab: ↳ WR @10:18 That’s sounds great!
	10:23pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Yeah that's not stereotypical at all.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: As Imaginos pointed out earlier, this story is pretty inappropriate in a number of places, has some racist moments that are weird, and I edited out a slur that gets used a few times. So: this story has a lot stacked against it. But it is a very weird and eerie jungle tale, and given the history of the show (one guy writing / acting it all out), it seemed worth reviewing on our program.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: Don Douglas was his name, who wrote and performed The Black Castle / Chapel.
	👻 10:31pm WR: Excellent work on the edits. I didn't notice them, maybe others did, but I didn't.
	10:31pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:25 Of course wwii was on at the time so there was a lot of hate propaganda
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:31 I was going to mention: a lot of radio at the time had "Japanese" people as the enemies, or spoken poorly of. It was the height of the war.
	👻 10:32pm Heather Z: ↳ WR @10:31 I second the seamless edit notion!
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Never Send to Know"" by "Quiet, Please" The original recording of this show is VERY murky, and hard to hear. Hopefully this version sounds a lot better. I love the blending of ghosts and detective stories, and I'm glad to have a better sounding version of this story.
	👻 10:35pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @10:32 In a museum in Japan I saw some manga and poster that very much demonized Americans, particularly President Roosevelt.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: Wyllis Cooper, who wrote all of the episodes of, "Quiet, Please," as well as another show, "Lights Out," was a wonderful pulp author, who wrote all sorts of stories, but often with a sort of horror / Twilight Zone sort of vibe. I really love his style, but unfortunately, good recordings are few and far between.
	10:36pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My type of detective wears a red hat and carries an I-Ching calculator.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:35 I know it went both ways. It's funny how awful we can all be to each other.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:36 I do love those Dirk Gently books, but I still haven't seen that show. Is it good?
	👻 10:37pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 If he did the performance of all the voices "live". Amazballs.
	10:38pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 The show pretty much ignored the books. But the radio dramas are excellent.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:37 On the Black Castle: he did! But I think Quiet, Please was recorded for transcription discs. (Just to be clear.)
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:38 Ignoring the books isn't always bad. I'll have to check out those radio dramas! I love those books.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: While I don't think there's any story bits in here that I ripped off, when I wrote my own ghost / detective story, I was thinking of this story.
	👻 10:40pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 I very. Very. Badly want to rip this off.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Never Send to Know"" by "Quiet, Please" As I did with "The Black Castle," I used enhancement tools on, "Quiet Please," and then lined it up with the original recording, so I could retain the music / SFX as close to the original as possible. Then I did a lot of EQ, etc. to try and get a little more range.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:40 It's a really good idea for a story!
	👻 10:41pm yerfriendpaul: Love the organ player’s climactic flourishes
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:41 The Organ! It's, like, essential for good horror radio.
	10:42pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:42 Especially a pipe organ
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: I have a synth, and it can replicate a lot of instruments. But the organ always feels a little lacking. I would love to have a nice organ, even one of those 60's electric ones.
	👻 10:44pm yerfriendpaul: This ghost seems like a good guy
	10:44pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:43 Is it lacking with reverb turned on?
	👻 10:46pm yerfriendpaul: Hmm. I spoke too soon
	10:46pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I wonder if the ghost is the detective's future self?
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Never Send to Know"" by "Quiet, Please" Even with enhancement tools, I couldn't use every word in the final mix, as not every "enhanced" word actually sounded like it was correct. So there's some editing and cutting here and there, in favor of the source file. But hopefully it sounds fairly even, as the show goes on.
	👻 10:49pm yerfriendpaul: “As the bad boys say”
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: Curious about running "enhancement" tools on audio like this: it is so focused on getting "words" and "voices" that it silences out other sounds, like FX and music. It's eerie to listen to without those elements, so the "enhanced" versions are very uncanny sounding.
	10:52pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: She reminds me of Firm's cleaning lady Elena.
	👻 10:52pm WR: Characters speaking to the audience is not unusual but in this show it seems a bit awkward. Like him speaking about his temper.
	10:52pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:52 Dirk's
	👻 10:54pm Heather Z: Jeesh we old hags still like a nice compact and a candy bar.... speaking for myself here.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:52 I do think the narration could be a bit reduced, but I think that's just the Wyllis Cooper style. He likes a lot of talking to the audience.
	👻 10:54pm WR: I shot a man in Lindale, just to see him die.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:54 I mean, I like a good compact and candy bar. Seems pretty normal in any desk.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: The end is coming up here! Thanks everyone for joining me here in the chat! See ya'll next week. (Or, tomorrow, even!)
	10:56pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: This reminds me of AngelHeart
	👻 10:56pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:55 Awesome show as always! Have a great night everyone! I'll be hanging around for Sounds From Space!
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:56 Oh, wow! I haven't thought of that in ages. Probably haven't seen it since it came out.
	10:58pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Great show tonight.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: So, the story just ends with the ghost saying, "The pistol's in the drawer, there." Some part of me likes that there isn't a gunshot afterwards. You have to imagine that he kills himself.
	👻 10:58pm yerfriendpaul: Oof! A deal is a deal. Thanks Austin! Enjoyed the show!
	10:59pm AI Robo: Nancy Sheraton was amazing!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: Thanks for tuning in!
	10:59pm AI Robot: Thanks Austin!!
	11:00pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for the show!
	👻 11:00pm WR: Thank you! Austin! Great show. Past my bed time but couldn't pull away. Laters all. Have a good show AI Robot.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 16, 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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October 16, 2023: Special Halloween Spook-tacular 2023! (Part 3)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
The Weird Circle	"The Tell-Tale Heart"	18 December 1943	Mutual		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Price of Fear	"Waxwork" ""Waxwork"" by "The Price of Fear"	13 October 1973	BBC Radio		0:29:31 (Pop-up)
Frankie Trumbauer & Orchestra	Shivery Stomp	Halloween Stomp	Jass Records	1990	1:00:19 (Pop-up)
Biography Channel	Boris Karloff: The Gentle Monster (Part 3)	Boris Karloff: The Gentle Monster	A&E Television	1994	1:06:21 (Pop-up)
The Black Castle	"Jungle Adventure"	25 September 1943	CBS		1:15:56 (Pop-up)
Quiet, Please	"Never Send to Know"	8 March 1948			1:31:03 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:11pm Austin Rich: Good Hello!
	8:50pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy
	8:57pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Looking forward to Jungle Adventure despite the Politically incorrect propagandized portrayal of certain characters.
	👻 8:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:50 Nice to see another Early Bird. Hopefully this line-up will entertain this evening.
	9:00pm Charles: 🎃🎃🎃
	9:01pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Spooktaculars!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Tell-Tale Heart"" by "The Weird Circle" This is probably one of the most "original" versions of The Tell-Tale Heart that I have ever heard anywhere. This version takes interesting liberties.
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:00 Charles! Thanks for the Jack-o-Lanterns!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:01 Webhamster Henry! Thanks for dropping in!
	9:01pm AI Robot: Hi Mr. Austin!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:01 AI Robot! Thanks for making an appearance. It's always great to see you.
	9:02pm laurapanic: weird circle. Never sounds good
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:02 Laurapanic! Hooray! Yeah. If it's close to midnight, and you get invited to a Weird Circle... maybe consider going somewhere else.
	👻 9:03pm yerfriendpaul: Hi Austin, everyone!
	9:03pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 Thank you!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:03 yerfriendpaul! Thanks for listening.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: This year, on Dimestore Radio Theater, we are running all Edgar Allen Poe stories in the opening slot, as adapted by The Weird Circle, a great early 40's Horror Show that adapted a lot of great literature for radio.
	9:06pm AI Robot: But keep those stinky cigars out of my face!
	9:06pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 Yeah I recently heard an adaptation that really was off script!
	9:07pm laurapanic: Visitors are indeed bad for the digestion
	9:07pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Poe was a master of characters.
	9:08pm AI Robot: ↳ laurapanic @9:07 Roast them well in an oven for about 180C usually about 3 - 4 hours
	9:08pm laurapanic: I wish I had uncle's moxy with visitors. "A short visit would be appreciated" is code for "you are here now, but please fuck off very soon"
	9:08pm laurapanic: ↳ AI Robot @9:08 aaaaah, now I see where I was going wrong
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:08 Yeah... I appreciate some of the "pre-phone" codes people had.
	9:10pm AI Robot: Who are all these people speaking???
	9:11pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ AI Robot @9:10 Voices in his head
	9:12pm AI Robot: Whose head? My head!?
	9:12pm laurapanic: ↳ AI Robot @9:12 WHAT VOICES?
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: For the record: the narrator in the original story did not have, nor did he describe, voices in his head, like this version does. I think you can tell the entire Tell-Tale Heart story in about 15 minutes, so they really had to pad this one out.
	9:13pm AI Robot: Yeah. You guys can't hear those voices? Right? I'm OK... AOK.... Yeah, that's it.... I'm fine...
	👻 9:14pm yerfriendpaul: Those murderous voices in his head are so pleasant
	9:14pm AI Robot: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:14 yeah, like Laura says, "What voices?"
	👻 9:15pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ AI Robot @9:14 Ha ha!
	9:16pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:15 Bwahaha
	9:16pm AI Robot: Is this just a butter knife?
	9:16pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: 12 midnight as opposed to 5 midnight
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: I might have mentioned this already, but: as a kid, I have a very vivid memory, around Halloween, of listening to a record where someone was reading, "The Raven." It was so engrossing, and spooky, and I loved it. I've been looking for good Halloween Records ever since. (I have to thank my Mom, as I can't imagine who else would put a record on for us as kids.)
	9:18pm AI Robot: "Cawing for you?" You mean like crows "Caw"?
	9:19pm AI Robot: I can't follow this story. So, is this a butter knife or what?
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:19 You'd be surprised how little that detail has on the rest of the story.
	9:23pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 Not just a butter knife, but one of those that they pass around with the butter dish
	9:23pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 Oh, fancy! My mom told us kids not to touch that knife!
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: This show originally aired in December, and Christmas - historically - was a holiday where people would sit around and tell ghost stories. I do like the idea of listening to this radio story around Christmas.
	9:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Never offer the constable tea if you murdered someone
	👻 9:25pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:25 Good lesson here
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: Like our previous Poe story - Murders in The Rue Morgue - it seems like everyone in this neighborhood keeps very late hours.
	9:26pm AI Robot: These voices!!!! ARRRGGGGHHHHH!
	9:27pm AI Robot: I did it! I did it!!!
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:27 Yeah. After that kind of audio torture, I think I might have done it, too.
	9:28pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Most of Poe's killers just need to shut up. Then there's Hop Frog who did it in spectacular public fashion
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Waxwork"" by "The Price of Fear" Periodically, the BBC still re-runs old episodes of, "The Price of Fear," usually all at once, and usually around the holidays, which is why we have high-quality recordings of some of these episodes. (Like this one.) This year, on "The Price of Fear," we are running all stories where Mr. Price himself is a character in the story... in some way or another.
	9:31pm AI Robot: Is that for real? Katherine Hepburn? No robot costume?
	9:31pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: ""Waxwork"" by "The Price of Fear" I hope you play Specialty of the House! What I like about Price Of Fear is that they sometimes leave it up to the listener to figure it out!
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:31 We played that one last year, and I'm trying not to repeat this year. But that is a favorite of this program, and Imaginos, who originally urged me to play that one.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:31 There's gotta be a robot costume, I'm sure. I'll check.
	9:33pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 OK, no repeats!
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:33 There aren't that many "Price of Fear" episodes, sadly. But: I can't imagine October without Vincent, so I'll probably just cycle through these over and over again.
	9:35pm Charles: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 I too need Mr. Price for the scary season.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:35 He recorded a lot of records, with him just telling scary stories and stuff. So I might resort to those first.
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: We have been getting our "Shock Theater" fix in our house. We watched the 30's era "Dracula," "Frankenstein," and, "The Mummy," over the last few days. All three hold up fantastically.
	9:39pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 Ever see the movie Waxwork II? The time travel montage was hilarious
	9:39pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:36 A small Price to pay, to keep Vincent on the show.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:39 I do recall there being a pretty goofy sequence in that movie, but I haven't seen it in 20+ years.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:39 We could probably write a pretty funny show, if we put our minds to it!
	9:41pm wenzo: Hey hey
	👻 9:41pm yerfriendpaul: Mesmerism!!
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:41 Wenzo! Yay!
	9:41pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:41 Something for April Fools?
	9:42pm Mr Fab: A wax museum chamber of horrors scared the poop out of me as a wee tot.
	👻 9:42pm yerfriendpaul: Don’t do it, Raymond!
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:42 I could imagine! A haunted house I saw as a kid - and a werewolf, in particular - scared the crap out of me as a kid. That might be the last nightmares I ever had. (Maybe of that, or of Alien, when I saw that.)
	9:44pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Speaking of working on future shows, Austin, any idea when we can do the next part of Lost Christobel?
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:44 Soon, actually! I'm feeling better, Heather should be more available, and I think we can have another planning / recording call soon.
	9:44pm Mr Fab: ↳ Mr Fab @9:42 This place: www.flickr.com...
	9:45pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:44 Excellent. I think the audience will enjoy the finished product
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:44 I'll have to look for that when I come to SF next.
	👻 9:49pm WR: Scariest movie I saw as a youngster was The Pit and The Pendulum with Vincent Price, the 1961 movie. I had convinced my mom to take us to the drive-in theater. My brothers were asleep. I couldn't take the suspense of the pendulum getting lower. I said, yawn, I'm sleepy and crawled into the back seat and ducked down.
	9:50pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I remember one story where the statues were people who were murdered and covered in wax
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:49 That movie is great! And, I agree: as I kid, I couldn't finish it the first time I tried to watch. I think I was at least 15 before I finally watched it all the way through.
	👻 9:59pm yerfriendpaul: Waxy laughter is the worst!
	👻 9:59pm yerfriendpaul: Love these stories
	9:59pm human: Thank you!!!!
	9:59pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: How many Price fans have seen him as the postman in Escapes?
	10:00pm Mr Fab: Boy I could listen to Vincent Price read his grocery list
	10:02pm Webhamster Henry: I saw the 3-d Wax Museum at a Thalia 3-d Fest!
	10:02pm Mr Fab: You all should have heard Austin’s awesome tribute to Ghoulardi earlier today. Yes, two shows on one day! And he’s still recovering from illness!
	10:06pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Mr Fab @10:02 I was team Svengoolie, myself. But I'm sure it's lots of fun!
	👻 10:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:06 Svengoolie is great, too! (And isn't he still on?) I've been meaning to do a tribute to him someday, too, but I'm just not as knowledgeable.
	👻 10:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:02 If there's one thing I can sit up for, it's radio! Plus: missing a show this month, I'm behind! I've gotta make up for it.
	10:08pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:07 I think it’s like Son of Svengoolie
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:08 That makes sense. I was thinking the original Svengoolie must be very old by now.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: If anyone is a general fan of Horror Hosts, you should watch American Scary, which is a great doc about a number of Horror Hosts, and has Doctor Sarcofiguy in it, too, our very own DJ!
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: en.wikipedia.org...
	10:12pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Excellent show tonight
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: There is a LOT of Boris Karloff out there, reading stuff. He's got a wonderful voice, and you could easily fill a full two hours with his readings.
	👻 10:18pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @10:10 I will look to see that. Your Ghoulardi episode triggered me to search for an Amarillo TX based host. My neighborhood friend's father was art director of local tv station and ended up doing the horror film host role. I lost touch with my friend decades ago (he died in a traffic accident while in high school). It was small market and the little bit that I remember, the presentations were not elaborate. So likely no documentation of it, but still searching to see what I can find.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Jungle Adventure"" by "The Black Castle" For this "remastered" version of this story, I took the "enhanced" audio, as it was processed by some online tools, and lined it up with the original, which has the music and sound FX. I still had to cut a lot of the "enhanced" audio, as not all of it was even intelligible. But with some other EQ adjustments, and some pampering, I managed to get the sound to be a lot better than the versions that are floating around out there. As mentioned earlier: one voice actor is doing all the voices for this story.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:18 I'd be very curious about that! I do love regional TV hosts.
	👻 10:19pm Heather Z: Rats, you were on earlier and I missed it? Ahh! Been tuned in and enjoying the show this evening!
	10:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 One actor?! That's amazing for that time
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:19 Heather! Thanks for tuning in.
	10:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Heather Z @10:19 I missed it, too. 😢
	👻 10:20pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 I try to never miss it!
	10:21pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:12 “Tales of the Frightened”! Love those albums. “Are you one of the frightened..?”
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:19 He wrote the show, too. There was music, and that same person probably did the SFX. But all the voices are the same person. It's wild.
	👻 10:21pm Heather Z: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:20 More reason for us to just STAY tuned into Sheenas, I suppose!
	10:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Heather Z @10:21 Indeed.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: Here's a link to the show I did earlier today, if people wanna hear it: wfmu.org...
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:21 Yeah! Those albums rule!
	10:22pm Mr Fab: ↳ WR @10:18 That’s sounds great!
	10:23pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Yeah that's not stereotypical at all.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: As Imaginos pointed out earlier, this story is pretty inappropriate in a number of places, has some racist moments that are weird, and I edited out a slur that gets used a few times. So: this story has a lot stacked against it. But it is a very weird and eerie jungle tale, and given the history of the show (one guy writing / acting it all out), it seemed worth reviewing on our program.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: Don Douglas was his name, who wrote and performed The Black Castle / Chapel.
	👻 10:31pm WR: Excellent work on the edits. I didn't notice them, maybe others did, but I didn't.
	10:31pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:25 Of course wwii was on at the time so there was a lot of hate propaganda
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:31 I was going to mention: a lot of radio at the time had "Japanese" people as the enemies, or spoken poorly of. It was the height of the war.
	👻 10:32pm Heather Z: ↳ WR @10:31 I second the seamless edit notion!
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Never Send to Know"" by "Quiet, Please" The original recording of this show is VERY murky, and hard to hear. Hopefully this version sounds a lot better. I love the blending of ghosts and detective stories, and I'm glad to have a better sounding version of this story.
	👻 10:35pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @10:32 In a museum in Japan I saw some manga and poster that very much demonized Americans, particularly President Roosevelt.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: Wyllis Cooper, who wrote all of the episodes of, "Quiet, Please," as well as another show, "Lights Out," was a wonderful pulp author, who wrote all sorts of stories, but often with a sort of horror / Twilight Zone sort of vibe. I really love his style, but unfortunately, good recordings are few and far between.
	10:36pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My type of detective wears a red hat and carries an I-Ching calculator.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:35 I know it went both ways. It's funny how awful we can all be to each other.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:36 I do love those Dirk Gently books, but I still haven't seen that show. Is it good?
	👻 10:37pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 If he did the performance of all the voices "live". Amazballs.
	10:38pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 The show pretty much ignored the books. But the radio dramas are excellent.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:37 On the Black Castle: he did! But I think Quiet, Please was recorded for transcription discs. (Just to be clear.)
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:38 Ignoring the books isn't always bad. I'll have to check out those radio dramas! I love those books.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: While I don't think there's any story bits in here that I ripped off, when I wrote my own ghost / detective story, I was thinking of this story.
	👻 10:40pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 I very. Very. Badly want to rip this off.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Never Send to Know"" by "Quiet, Please" As I did with "The Black Castle," I used enhancement tools on, "Quiet Please," and then lined it up with the original recording, so I could retain the music / SFX as close to the original as possible. Then I did a lot of EQ, etc. to try and get a little more range.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:40 It's a really good idea for a story!
	👻 10:41pm yerfriendpaul: Love the organ player’s climactic flourishes
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:41 The Organ! It's, like, essential for good horror radio.
	10:42pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:42 Especially a pipe organ
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: I have a synth, and it can replicate a lot of instruments. But the organ always feels a little lacking. I would love to have a nice organ, even one of those 60's electric ones.
	👻 10:44pm yerfriendpaul: This ghost seems like a good guy
	10:44pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:43 Is it lacking with reverb turned on?
	👻 10:46pm yerfriendpaul: Hmm. I spoke too soon
	10:46pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I wonder if the ghost is the detective's future self?
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Never Send to Know"" by "Quiet, Please" Even with enhancement tools, I couldn't use every word in the final mix, as not every "enhanced" word actually sounded like it was correct. So there's some editing and cutting here and there, in favor of the source file. But hopefully it sounds fairly even, as the show goes on.
	👻 10:49pm yerfriendpaul: “As the bad boys say”
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: Curious about running "enhancement" tools on audio like this: it is so focused on getting "words" and "voices" that it silences out other sounds, like FX and music. It's eerie to listen to without those elements, so the "enhanced" versions are very uncanny sounding.
	10:52pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: She reminds me of Firm's cleaning lady Elena.
	👻 10:52pm WR: Characters speaking to the audience is not unusual but in this show it seems a bit awkward. Like him speaking about his temper.
	10:52pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:52 Dirk's
	👻 10:54pm Heather Z: Jeesh we old hags still like a nice compact and a candy bar.... speaking for myself here.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:52 I do think the narration could be a bit reduced, but I think that's just the Wyllis Cooper style. He likes a lot of talking to the audience.
	👻 10:54pm WR: I shot a man in Lindale, just to see him die.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:54 I mean, I like a good compact and candy bar. Seems pretty normal in any desk.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: The end is coming up here! Thanks everyone for joining me here in the chat! See ya'll next week. (Or, tomorrow, even!)
	10:56pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: This reminds me of AngelHeart
	👻 10:56pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:55 Awesome show as always! Have a great night everyone! I'll be hanging around for Sounds From Space!
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:56 Oh, wow! I haven't thought of that in ages. Probably haven't seen it since it came out.
	10:58pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Great show tonight.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: So, the story just ends with the ghost saying, "The pistol's in the drawer, there." Some part of me likes that there isn't a gunshot afterwards. You have to imagine that he kills himself.
	👻 10:58pm yerfriendpaul: Oof! A deal is a deal. Thanks Austin! Enjoyed the show!
	10:59pm AI Robo: Nancy Sheraton was amazing!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: Thanks for tuning in!
	10:59pm AI Robot: Thanks Austin!!
	11:00pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for the show!
	👻 11:00pm WR: Thank you! Austin! Great show. Past my bed time but couldn't pull away. Laters all. Have a good show AI Robot.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 16, 2023

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