WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 23, 2023

Listener comments!
	👻 7:03pm Austin RIch: Good Hello
	8:50pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin RIch @7:03 Ahoy! Hope you're feeling much better these days. Looking forward to the Max Headroom sketch on 20 Mins as well as getting together with you and Heather for the nest part of Lost Christobel.
	👻 9:02pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	9:02pm Imaginos: Poe and Price. Once again the selections tonight are amazing.
	👻 9:02pm Austin RIch: ↳ Imaginos @8:50 Indeed! That will be fun.
	9:02pm Charles: I'm ready for more spooky stories.
	9:02pm Mr Fab: Hell-O, Austin! I don’t know much about geometry, so what differentiates a weird circle from a normal circle?
	👻 9:02pm Austin RIch: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:02 Howdy! Nice to see you in the chat, yerfriendpaul!
	👻 9:03pm Austin RIch: ↳ Imaginos @9:02 Oh yeah. That's a killer combo.
	9:03pm laurapanic: lets get weird in a circular way
	👻 9:03pm Austin RIch: ↳ Charles @9:02 Yeah. I've been watchin' spooky movies all month, too. It's that time of year!
	9:03pm Imaginos: As am I. I just hope the rest of the rest of the cast can pronounce Amontillado.
	9:03pm laurapanic: fools bells. the worst kind
	👻 9:04pm Austin RIch: ↳ Mr Fab @9:02 Oh, if only Mr. Morris were here. He was really good with that stuff back in High School. He could teach it very well.
	👻 9:04pm Austin RIch: ↳ laurapanic @9:03 I already cleared away the furniture, and I rolled out the blanket with the pentagram on it.
	👻 9:05pm Austin RIch: ↳ laurapanic @9:03 I keep forgetting to take my fools bells off, so pardon any weird background sounds you heard during the show.
	9:05pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin RIch @9:04 look I don't know how weird this is gonna get
	👻 9:05pm Austin RIch: ↳ Imaginos @9:03 We might not be in luck. I feel like the pronunciation is all over the map on this show... and this series.
	9:06pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin RIch @9:05 fool! you will alert the townsfolk to your foolish approach with your fools bells
	👻 9:06pm yerfriendpaul: I don’t like this Fortunatu guy. Bad news! I’m with Lucia
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:06 My fools bells are like some sort of albatross, certainly.
	9:07pm laurapanic: in my part of the world, a cask of Amontillado costs about 6.99 at the bottle shop (what your Northerners may call a liquor store)
	9:07pm Imaginos: happy evenings rarely stay that way in Poe stories.
	9:08pm Imaginos: never trust a fool in a Poe story.
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:07 I haven't checked recently, but I'm sure they aren't that costly up here in the Mid-Valley (Oregon.)
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Cask of Amontillado"" by "The Weird Circle" As we have done the last few weeks, all of our "Weird Circle" stories are Poe adaptations. And - like in the previous shows we've heard - this one takes quite a few liberties with the story, and most of the action from the text doesn't happen until later in this version.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:08 It seems like there are a lot of shady characters in Poe stories. Which is why we like them, I think?
	👻 9:14pm yerfriendpaul: That S.O.B. Fortunato!!
	9:15pm asheville jon: I scoff at love too
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:14 Yeah. They really do paint an awful picture of that jerk. I'm gonna stop following him online.
	9:15pm Imaginos: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:14 Indeed he is.
	9:15pm Mr Fab: We are all weird circles here cause we ain’t no squares!
	👻 9:15pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 Ha ha!
	9:15pm laurapanic: ↳ asheville jon @9:15 make scoffing great again
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @9:15 Thanks for stopping in, asheville jon!
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: Boy, I sure hope some that Fortunato get's what's coming to him...
	9:17pm Imaginos: This certainly gives Angelo's actions greater meaning.
	👻 9:17pm yerfriendpaul: He’s gonna get his alright!!
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:15 Hell yeah! Or, should I say... #Hellraiser Yeah! And on that note... scroll to the top, and make a donation! Please!
	9:17pm Imaginos: ACME brand horehound candies?
	9:18pm laurapanic: there are just so many big emotions in these radio melodramas
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: I went to all the trouble of making that Thunder Edit with all the compression and whatnot, and then realized that I should have sampled the classic "Castle Thunder" sound effect from all those 30's Universal films. Sigh. Next year... en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:18 It was a whole style, for sure. I watched a few 50's melodramas in college for a film class, and those big emotions / overacting are on full display there, too. I suspect all of that comes from gothic romance?
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: We still haven't gotten to any parts that are in the actual short story, yet.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: Right now, technically, is where the short story would start.
	👻 9:23pm yerfriendpaul: Unleash Hell Angelo!
	9:24pm Imaginos: judge it? you can't even SAY it!
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:24 American actors in the 40's probably didn't know much about how to pronounce wines.
	9:26pm Imaginos: it gets worse and worse.
	9:26pm laurapanic: hahahahahaaaaa a dungeon
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: All that talk about being sick, but going out to party anyway... yeah, that part didn't age so well.
	👻 9:27pm yerfriendpaul: Angelo’s laugh. Fantastic
	9:28pm Imaginos: that's not how I remember it ending.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: They leave out a key and memorable sequence from the short story: Angelo bricking in Fortunato, which is the creepiest part of the whole story! But I guess they thought that would be too much in 1944?
	👻 9:29pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:28 Ooh that would’ve been good to hear that part
	9:30pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:28 they did a tales from the Darkside episode where they put a twist on the bricking up idea when an old dying woman bricks herself in but until the end you think she's bricking in her husband.,
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Meeting In Athens"" by "The Price of Fear" As I have been doing with "The Price of Fear" this month, all of the episodes I'm including actually have Vincent himself as a character in the story. It's nice to hear him break the fourth wall in these stories, and this one is no exception.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Meeting In Athens"" by "The Price of Fear" I did quite a bit of post-production to improve the sound on this episode. The recording of this episode that is easily floating around has poor sound. So with a combination of using some EQ tricks, and some digital enhancement tools, I was able to blend a "recreation" of the voices from this show, with the SFX and background music. I think it sounds a lot better than the rough version that I started with.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: It does sound like Vincent is admiring Mark there in that description.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: Hmmmm. He's got everything in that little book, I guess.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: The particular Digital Enhancement tool that I used gives you a file that has all the "speaking parts" enhanced, and tries to drop out the other sounds. What usually happens is that about 25% of the new "voices" are completely wrong. So, when I produced this "enhanced" version, I was snipping out all the words that were wrong, in favor of the original recording. Hopefully the sound is failry balanced, given all the slip-shod souces and whatnot.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: Probably more entertaining than the voices that are "enhanced" with the wrong word (or, more often, just gibberish that only sounds like voices), is when the enhancement tools try to find "words" in the sound effects, or music. Always curiously uncanny.
	9:43pm Imaginos: When I think hobo costumes I think of the barrel from Popeye.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:43 I have always wanted to do a "barrel with suspenders" costume for Halloween, but finding a barrel that isn't actually heavy is hard! I think you'd have to fabricate something that looks like a barrel, but is light.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: I want to have a large brandy with Vincent Price. That sounds delightful.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: Vincent knows a young cop from Athens? Why does that seem like Vincent and Costus used to date?
	9:53pm Imaginos: starting to doze off. But I'm going to try and stay awake a bit longer. Tonight's show is too cool to drop off from.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:53 Thanks for trying! But if you start to doze, so be it. We all need our sleep.
	👻 9:54pm yerfriendpaul: What kind of shenanigans was Mark up to?
	9:55pm Imaginos: There was an urban legend about people disappearing while on vacation and ending up in freak shows.
	👻 9:58pm yerfriendpaul: Fantastic! Love these stories
	9:58pm Imaginos: moved from the sofa to my computer desk. SHould help me stay up a while.
	9:59pm Imaginos: btw The Price of Fear is now available on Audible. 40 episodes.
	10:00pm Imaginos: I mean 20.
	10:00pm Nick K: Hello
	10:01pm Imaginos: made mine last week. Worth every penny.
	10:02pm asheville jon: Still here lurking
	👻 10:02pm yerfriendpaul: Totally agree!
	10:03pm univac: Hey all!
	10:03pm Imaginos: speaking of Vincent, did you ever see Escapes? There's a nice little segment called Something's Fishy which gives a whole new meaning to the sign "No People-ing".
	10:03pm univac: Hello, Austin!
	10:06pm Imaginos: I think the reason is that most of the good radio parts were being used by the military at the time.
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:03 It's always a pleasure to see you in the chat, univac! Enjoy the show!
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: I love these Forrest J Ackerman interview clips. He was the best!
	👻 10:10pm yerfriendpaul: Love Carol Burnett!
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:10 Yeah. Carol Burnett and Boris is a great combo!
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:03 Hmmmm. I'll need to check that out.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: I still haven't seen "Targets," which is one of his last films, I think. I should watch it.
	10:13pm Imaginos: just trying to stay awake with a piece of toast with butter and mint jelly.
	👻 10:14pm yerfriendpaul: Is that Peter Bogdonavich?
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:14 I believe so!
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: Everyone trying to do their Karloff impersonations is pretty funny. I should dig up as many others I can find for a future show.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: As I get older, I find nearly everything about Boris to be interesting. He's such a fascinating dude.
	10:17pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @10:08 Always a pleasure to listen to the show when I can catch it!
	10:18pm univac: Boris sounded like a very cool person.
	10:19pm univac: This guy's voice...
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Escape To Death"" by "The Black Castle" I've now played all the existing episodes of this show, all this year during Halloween. While it's not my favorite show, the fact the performer who wrote this show did all the voices, too. Such an accomplishment; he actually has a lot of different voices, which is astonishing.
	10:19pm laurapanic: if anyone is ubergeeky, there is a podcast called You Must Remember This, and its AMAZING. There is a whole season on Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. Its so freaking fascinating. That whole podcast is a must for film buffs. Most movie podcasts are the same old "oh ho ho this movie is so trashy". This one is really truly researched.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:19 Karina Longworth is a really gifted podcaster! I am in love with all of her work. She knows everything about movies!
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Escape To Death"" by "The Black Castle" As I understand it, this show ran for quite a while, but there are only a few that exist, now.
	10:22pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 hard agree!!
	10:22pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 Wow! All the same guy! I love the announcer voice. His "Chinese" is a bit Elmer Fudd.
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:19 I was thinking about playing some of her bits about Sinatra, since I'm playing the Rocky Fortune show. But her style is just so slick, and my show is a little corny. It's not a great fit.
	10:23pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 what the.....whaaaa???
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:22 These bits where he's talking to himself are pretty impressive. He switches back and forth pretty quickly.
	10:23pm Imaginos: ↳ univac @10:22 He's just as bad with all his foreign voices. You should have heard him as the Wombatu Giant last week.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:23 Yeah... it's all one voice actor.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: I've heard a few shows from this era, that were 15 minute shows, with only a single performer doing the whole show. But I think this is the most believable one, where the different voices actually sort of work.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: (I say single performer, but there was another person doing music, and maybe a third doing SFX? Though the person doing the music could being handling the other sounds, too. That I don't know.)
	👻 10:27pm yerfriendpaul: The laugh!
	10:28pm univac: The production is great.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:27 Yeah. I have thought about cutting that out and using it for other things. It's so weird.
	10:29pm univac: Wow. The death scene...
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:29 Yeah. The Black Castle is pretty brutal.
	10:30pm univac: I've never heard of it. Thanks!
	10:30pm Mike Rogers: Hi Austin san! Busy, busy, busy!
	10:30pm Imaginos: So now the "monster" has killed the scientist. So he has no way of getting food or anything since he can't just go buy it.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @10:30 Mike Rogers! Nice to see you in the chat!
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Good Ghost"" by "Quiet, Please" This story, with the "ghost" theme, and the noir overlay, was a big inspiration for me on my own Ghost Detective Noir radio story, that I played in this slot last year for Halloween.
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Good Ghost"" by "Quiet, Please" This is the last "Quiet, Please," story for the year. I love this series, and it has always made me sad that the sound quality on all of them is pretty bad. So hopefully, the next mix I made sounds a little better. It's still pretty murky, but... there's only so far you can go.
	10:34pm Imaginos: well, I'm going to finally head off to bed. Will be back tomorrow night.
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:34 See ya next time. Sleep well.
	10:35pm univac: It sounds pretty good!
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:35 A little better, anyway. I figure if there are sound enhancement tools out there, this is the way they should be used.
	10:39pm univac: Indeed.
	👻 10:40pm Heather Z: Popping in to say I've been tuned in and enjoying the show! The end of the documentary bit made me tear up a little. Great stuff.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:40 Nice to see you in the chat. Don't be sad. He is more loved now than ever!
	👻 10:42pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 It was more sweet and poignant than sad, per se. His legacy sure does live on!
	👻 10:44pm yerfriendpaul: Ha ha, love this scenario
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:44 What I love about it is that THIS is the Halloween story he wrote! It's a horror show every episode, and a lot of stories are very creepy... but almost none of them have this kind of sense of humor to them.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: I should end just on time this week. (I think?)
	10:52pm univac: This is a great story.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: I will admit, "Quiet, Please," does have occasional jokes and quips on it's regular shows. But I think this is the funniest episode of the show, hands down.
	10:53pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:52 This is cool.... But what are the jokes? Does not compute!
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: Now the story takes a bit of a turn.
	👻 10:56pm yerfriendpaul: Schuster’s gonna pay
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:56 This episode takes it's time. Which I also like.
	👻 10:57pm yerfriendpaul: Twisted - I love it ha ha
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:57 Yeah. I love this series.
	👻 10:59pm yerfriendpaul: Great show Austin! Thanks for all you do!
	10:59pm univac: Sweet revenge. I need to hear more of these shows...
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:59 Ahhh, thanks yerfriendpaul! I do love making radio.
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:59 It's pretty great!
	10:59pm univac: "I am quietly yours..."
	11:00pm univac: Great show, Austin!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:59 Yeah. It has such a great tone, all the way through.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 23, 2023

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October 23, 2023: Special Halloween Spook-tacular 2023! (Part 4)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
The Weird Circle	"The Cask of Amontillado"	28 April 1944	Mutual		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Price of Fear	"Meeting In Athens"	22 September 1973	BBC Radio		0:29:32 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Bill Snyder	Bewitched "Bewitched" by "Bill Snyder"				1:04:49 (Pop-up)
Biography Channel	Boris Karloff: The Gentle Monster (Part 4)	Boris Karloff: The Gentle Monster	A&E Television	1994	1:07:42 (Pop-up)
The Black Castle	"Escape To Death"	16 December 1942	CBS		1:16:39 (Pop-up)
Quiet, Please	"Good Ghost" ""Good Ghost"" by "Quiet, Please"	24 October 1948			1:30:17 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:03pm Austin RIch: Good Hello
	8:50pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin RIch @7:03 Ahoy! Hope you're feeling much better these days. Looking forward to the Max Headroom sketch on 20 Mins as well as getting together with you and Heather for the nest part of Lost Christobel.
	👻 9:02pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	9:02pm Imaginos: Poe and Price. Once again the selections tonight are amazing.
	👻 9:02pm Austin RIch: ↳ Imaginos @8:50 Indeed! That will be fun.
	9:02pm Charles: I'm ready for more spooky stories.
	9:02pm Mr Fab: Hell-O, Austin! I don’t know much about geometry, so what differentiates a weird circle from a normal circle?
	👻 9:02pm Austin RIch: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:02 Howdy! Nice to see you in the chat, yerfriendpaul!
	👻 9:03pm Austin RIch: ↳ Imaginos @9:02 Oh yeah. That's a killer combo.
	9:03pm laurapanic: lets get weird in a circular way
	👻 9:03pm Austin RIch: ↳ Charles @9:02 Yeah. I've been watchin' spooky movies all month, too. It's that time of year!
	9:03pm Imaginos: As am I. I just hope the rest of the rest of the cast can pronounce Amontillado.
	9:03pm laurapanic: fools bells. the worst kind
	👻 9:04pm Austin RIch: ↳ Mr Fab @9:02 Oh, if only Mr. Morris were here. He was really good with that stuff back in High School. He could teach it very well.
	👻 9:04pm Austin RIch: ↳ laurapanic @9:03 I already cleared away the furniture, and I rolled out the blanket with the pentagram on it.
	👻 9:05pm Austin RIch: ↳ laurapanic @9:03 I keep forgetting to take my fools bells off, so pardon any weird background sounds you heard during the show.
	9:05pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin RIch @9:04 look I don't know how weird this is gonna get
	👻 9:05pm Austin RIch: ↳ Imaginos @9:03 We might not be in luck. I feel like the pronunciation is all over the map on this show... and this series.
	9:06pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin RIch @9:05 fool! you will alert the townsfolk to your foolish approach with your fools bells
	👻 9:06pm yerfriendpaul: I don’t like this Fortunatu guy. Bad news! I’m with Lucia
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:06 My fools bells are like some sort of albatross, certainly.
	9:07pm laurapanic: in my part of the world, a cask of Amontillado costs about 6.99 at the bottle shop (what your Northerners may call a liquor store)
	9:07pm Imaginos: happy evenings rarely stay that way in Poe stories.
	9:08pm Imaginos: never trust a fool in a Poe story.
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:07 I haven't checked recently, but I'm sure they aren't that costly up here in the Mid-Valley (Oregon.)
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Cask of Amontillado"" by "The Weird Circle" As we have done the last few weeks, all of our "Weird Circle" stories are Poe adaptations. And - like in the previous shows we've heard - this one takes quite a few liberties with the story, and most of the action from the text doesn't happen until later in this version.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:08 It seems like there are a lot of shady characters in Poe stories. Which is why we like them, I think?
	👻 9:14pm yerfriendpaul: That S.O.B. Fortunato!!
	9:15pm asheville jon: I scoff at love too
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:14 Yeah. They really do paint an awful picture of that jerk. I'm gonna stop following him online.
	9:15pm Imaginos: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:14 Indeed he is.
	9:15pm Mr Fab: We are all weird circles here cause we ain’t no squares!
	👻 9:15pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 Ha ha!
	9:15pm laurapanic: ↳ asheville jon @9:15 make scoffing great again
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @9:15 Thanks for stopping in, asheville jon!
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: Boy, I sure hope some that Fortunato get's what's coming to him...
	9:17pm Imaginos: This certainly gives Angelo's actions greater meaning.
	👻 9:17pm yerfriendpaul: He’s gonna get his alright!!
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:15 Hell yeah! Or, should I say... #Hellraiser Yeah! And on that note... scroll to the top, and make a donation! Please!
	9:17pm Imaginos: ACME brand horehound candies?
	9:18pm laurapanic: there are just so many big emotions in these radio melodramas
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: I went to all the trouble of making that Thunder Edit with all the compression and whatnot, and then realized that I should have sampled the classic "Castle Thunder" sound effect from all those 30's Universal films. Sigh. Next year... en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:18 It was a whole style, for sure. I watched a few 50's melodramas in college for a film class, and those big emotions / overacting are on full display there, too. I suspect all of that comes from gothic romance?
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: We still haven't gotten to any parts that are in the actual short story, yet.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: Right now, technically, is where the short story would start.
	👻 9:23pm yerfriendpaul: Unleash Hell Angelo!
	9:24pm Imaginos: judge it? you can't even SAY it!
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:24 American actors in the 40's probably didn't know much about how to pronounce wines.
	9:26pm Imaginos: it gets worse and worse.
	9:26pm laurapanic: hahahahahaaaaa a dungeon
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: All that talk about being sick, but going out to party anyway... yeah, that part didn't age so well.
	👻 9:27pm yerfriendpaul: Angelo’s laugh. Fantastic
	9:28pm Imaginos: that's not how I remember it ending.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: They leave out a key and memorable sequence from the short story: Angelo bricking in Fortunato, which is the creepiest part of the whole story! But I guess they thought that would be too much in 1944?
	👻 9:29pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:28 Ooh that would’ve been good to hear that part
	9:30pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:28 they did a tales from the Darkside episode where they put a twist on the bricking up idea when an old dying woman bricks herself in but until the end you think she's bricking in her husband.,
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Meeting In Athens"" by "The Price of Fear" As I have been doing with "The Price of Fear" this month, all of the episodes I'm including actually have Vincent himself as a character in the story. It's nice to hear him break the fourth wall in these stories, and this one is no exception.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Meeting In Athens"" by "The Price of Fear" I did quite a bit of post-production to improve the sound on this episode. The recording of this episode that is easily floating around has poor sound. So with a combination of using some EQ tricks, and some digital enhancement tools, I was able to blend a "recreation" of the voices from this show, with the SFX and background music. I think it sounds a lot better than the rough version that I started with.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: It does sound like Vincent is admiring Mark there in that description.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: Hmmmm. He's got everything in that little book, I guess.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: The particular Digital Enhancement tool that I used gives you a file that has all the "speaking parts" enhanced, and tries to drop out the other sounds. What usually happens is that about 25% of the new "voices" are completely wrong. So, when I produced this "enhanced" version, I was snipping out all the words that were wrong, in favor of the original recording. Hopefully the sound is failry balanced, given all the slip-shod souces and whatnot.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: Probably more entertaining than the voices that are "enhanced" with the wrong word (or, more often, just gibberish that only sounds like voices), is when the enhancement tools try to find "words" in the sound effects, or music. Always curiously uncanny.
	9:43pm Imaginos: When I think hobo costumes I think of the barrel from Popeye.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:43 I have always wanted to do a "barrel with suspenders" costume for Halloween, but finding a barrel that isn't actually heavy is hard! I think you'd have to fabricate something that looks like a barrel, but is light.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: I want to have a large brandy with Vincent Price. That sounds delightful.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: Vincent knows a young cop from Athens? Why does that seem like Vincent and Costus used to date?
	9:53pm Imaginos: starting to doze off. But I'm going to try and stay awake a bit longer. Tonight's show is too cool to drop off from.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:53 Thanks for trying! But if you start to doze, so be it. We all need our sleep.
	👻 9:54pm yerfriendpaul: What kind of shenanigans was Mark up to?
	9:55pm Imaginos: There was an urban legend about people disappearing while on vacation and ending up in freak shows.
	👻 9:58pm yerfriendpaul: Fantastic! Love these stories
	9:58pm Imaginos: moved from the sofa to my computer desk. SHould help me stay up a while.
	9:59pm Imaginos: btw The Price of Fear is now available on Audible. 40 episodes.
	10:00pm Imaginos: I mean 20.
	10:00pm Nick K: Hello
	10:01pm Imaginos: made mine last week. Worth every penny.
	10:02pm asheville jon: Still here lurking
	👻 10:02pm yerfriendpaul: Totally agree!
	10:03pm univac: Hey all!
	10:03pm Imaginos: speaking of Vincent, did you ever see Escapes? There's a nice little segment called Something's Fishy which gives a whole new meaning to the sign "No People-ing".
	10:03pm univac: Hello, Austin!
	10:06pm Imaginos: I think the reason is that most of the good radio parts were being used by the military at the time.
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:03 It's always a pleasure to see you in the chat, univac! Enjoy the show!
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: I love these Forrest J Ackerman interview clips. He was the best!
	👻 10:10pm yerfriendpaul: Love Carol Burnett!
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:10 Yeah. Carol Burnett and Boris is a great combo!
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:03 Hmmmm. I'll need to check that out.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: I still haven't seen "Targets," which is one of his last films, I think. I should watch it.
	10:13pm Imaginos: just trying to stay awake with a piece of toast with butter and mint jelly.
	👻 10:14pm yerfriendpaul: Is that Peter Bogdonavich?
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:14 I believe so!
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: Everyone trying to do their Karloff impersonations is pretty funny. I should dig up as many others I can find for a future show.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: As I get older, I find nearly everything about Boris to be interesting. He's such a fascinating dude.
	10:17pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @10:08 Always a pleasure to listen to the show when I can catch it!
	10:18pm univac: Boris sounded like a very cool person.
	10:19pm univac: This guy's voice...
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Escape To Death"" by "The Black Castle" I've now played all the existing episodes of this show, all this year during Halloween. While it's not my favorite show, the fact the performer who wrote this show did all the voices, too. Such an accomplishment; he actually has a lot of different voices, which is astonishing.
	10:19pm laurapanic: if anyone is ubergeeky, there is a podcast called You Must Remember This, and its AMAZING. There is a whole season on Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. Its so freaking fascinating. That whole podcast is a must for film buffs. Most movie podcasts are the same old "oh ho ho this movie is so trashy". This one is really truly researched.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:19 Karina Longworth is a really gifted podcaster! I am in love with all of her work. She knows everything about movies!
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Escape To Death"" by "The Black Castle" As I understand it, this show ran for quite a while, but there are only a few that exist, now.
	10:22pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 hard agree!!
	10:22pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 Wow! All the same guy! I love the announcer voice. His "Chinese" is a bit Elmer Fudd.
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:19 I was thinking about playing some of her bits about Sinatra, since I'm playing the Rocky Fortune show. But her style is just so slick, and my show is a little corny. It's not a great fit.
	10:23pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 what the.....whaaaa???
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:22 These bits where he's talking to himself are pretty impressive. He switches back and forth pretty quickly.
	10:23pm Imaginos: ↳ univac @10:22 He's just as bad with all his foreign voices. You should have heard him as the Wombatu Giant last week.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:23 Yeah... it's all one voice actor.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: I've heard a few shows from this era, that were 15 minute shows, with only a single performer doing the whole show. But I think this is the most believable one, where the different voices actually sort of work.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: (I say single performer, but there was another person doing music, and maybe a third doing SFX? Though the person doing the music could being handling the other sounds, too. That I don't know.)
	👻 10:27pm yerfriendpaul: The laugh!
	10:28pm univac: The production is great.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:27 Yeah. I have thought about cutting that out and using it for other things. It's so weird.
	10:29pm univac: Wow. The death scene...
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:29 Yeah. The Black Castle is pretty brutal.
	10:30pm univac: I've never heard of it. Thanks!
	10:30pm Mike Rogers: Hi Austin san! Busy, busy, busy!
	10:30pm Imaginos: So now the "monster" has killed the scientist. So he has no way of getting food or anything since he can't just go buy it.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @10:30 Mike Rogers! Nice to see you in the chat!
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Good Ghost"" by "Quiet, Please" This story, with the "ghost" theme, and the noir overlay, was a big inspiration for me on my own Ghost Detective Noir radio story, that I played in this slot last year for Halloween.
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Good Ghost"" by "Quiet, Please" This is the last "Quiet, Please," story for the year. I love this series, and it has always made me sad that the sound quality on all of them is pretty bad. So hopefully, the next mix I made sounds a little better. It's still pretty murky, but... there's only so far you can go.
	10:34pm Imaginos: well, I'm going to finally head off to bed. Will be back tomorrow night.
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:34 See ya next time. Sleep well.
	10:35pm univac: It sounds pretty good!
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:35 A little better, anyway. I figure if there are sound enhancement tools out there, this is the way they should be used.
	10:39pm univac: Indeed.
	👻 10:40pm Heather Z: Popping in to say I've been tuned in and enjoying the show! The end of the documentary bit made me tear up a little. Great stuff.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:40 Nice to see you in the chat. Don't be sad. He is more loved now than ever!
	👻 10:42pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 It was more sweet and poignant than sad, per se. His legacy sure does live on!
	👻 10:44pm yerfriendpaul: Ha ha, love this scenario
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:44 What I love about it is that THIS is the Halloween story he wrote! It's a horror show every episode, and a lot of stories are very creepy... but almost none of them have this kind of sense of humor to them.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: I should end just on time this week. (I think?)
	10:52pm univac: This is a great story.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: I will admit, "Quiet, Please," does have occasional jokes and quips on it's regular shows. But I think this is the funniest episode of the show, hands down.
	10:53pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @10:52 This is cool.... But what are the jokes? Does not compute!
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: Now the story takes a bit of a turn.
	👻 10:56pm yerfriendpaul: Schuster’s gonna pay
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:56 This episode takes it's time. Which I also like.
	👻 10:57pm yerfriendpaul: Twisted - I love it ha ha
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:57 Yeah. I love this series.
	👻 10:59pm yerfriendpaul: Great show Austin! Thanks for all you do!
	10:59pm univac: Sweet revenge. I need to hear more of these shows...
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:59 Ahhh, thanks yerfriendpaul! I do love making radio.
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:59 It's pretty great!
	10:59pm univac: "I am quietly yours..."
	11:00pm univac: Great show, Austin!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:59 Yeah. It has such a great tone, all the way through.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 23, 2023

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