WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from February 5, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 7:22pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:57pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	9:00pm asheville jon: I remebered this show is on!
	9:01pm Imaginos: ↳ asheville jon @9:00 You're in for a treat
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:57 Thanks for poppin' in!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @9:00 Ashville Jon! Hooray!
	9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Song: ""Hollywood or Boom"" by "Rocky Fortune" I give him six minutes until boom
	9:03pm asheville jon: A hot seltzer? Sounds super nasty
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: We are airing these shows nearly 70 years after they were originally broadcast, almost to the week. It's funny how they haven't aged too badly.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: Rocky discusses being at the "Battle of the Bulge," which took place from 16 December 1944 – 28 January 1945, about 10 years before this show was made. He was probably 18 during the war, and around 28 at the time of this story. (The first time we could do that kind of math, using facts from the show.)
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: Rocky hints at having what would have been called "Shell Shock" then, and is now known as PTSD (I believe... I'm no doctor.) It's interesting that Rocky admits that. While Rocky is unusual in many ways, he certainly seems to be forward thinking, as someone not afraid to discuss their issues with strangers.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: "Women are doing everything these days, officer."
	9:08pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! Well, that state trooper is honest in his sexism.
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:08 Mr. Fab! Thanks for joining us.
	9:09pm Imaginos: Am I the only one with Geddy Lee flashbacks when I hear "take off"?
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: While there isn't specific evidence to point to where the Rocky Fortune stories are set, this story reinforces the general idea that Rocky lives in New York. Driving from New York to Hollywood by truck in 1954 must have been slow going, and a VERY long trip.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:09 That is sort of where my mind goes...
	9:11pm Mr Fab: And they’re carrying nitroglycerin? That was the basis of a famous French film, “the wages of fear” I think it was called? They remade it in the US as “sorcerer.”
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:11 That's right! I was just thinking of re-watching Sorcerer. It has been ages.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:11 I'm not sure I've seen all of Wages of Fear, either. I should probably do a double feature.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: I was curious about how many commercials I made for this show. I counted all the ones I wrote for 2022, the first year of this show. I didn't write commercials every week, and I missed a few weeks that year, too. Still, I wrote and recorded 339 different commercials for this show that year, totaling about four and a half hours of audio, if you run them straight through. That is a LOT of fake ads.
	9:17pm Mr Fab: I wonder if there was an original story that was the basis for all the long-drives-carrying- nitro stories. Maybe this was it?
	9:17pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 Holy crap, Austin! That is a lot of phoney baloney. Oh, and Hello!
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:17 Time for a deep-dive of Wages of Fear. I suspect we can get tot he bottom of this!
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:17 univac! Thanks for droppin' in!
	9:19pm univac: Sorcerer was great, and had a score by Tangerine Dream
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: What was "The Works" in 1954? Mustard, catsup and... mayo?
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:19 That was what got me thinking about it. I was thinking about their soundtracks, and... yeah, they did a lot.
	9:19pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 Extra hair.
	9:20pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 They did, for a bit there.
	9:21pm wenzo: Howdeeee
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: I was thinking a "Tangerine Dream Dream" might be a good Marathon Show, where I just play as much of their stuff as I can source. I have a lot... but... they made even more.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:21 Wenzo! Now it's a party!
	9:23pm Imaginos: I don't trust the dame
	9:23pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 That would be amazing! Christopher Franke was a client of mine for a while, did his Mac tech work. It was really hard as he kept telling me incredible stories and I was trying to work on his machines...
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:23 That's hilarious! I love stories like that.
	9:24pm Imaginos: ↳ univac @9:23 The same one who did Tenchi?
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: This is at least the third time that a woman who Rocky was interested in turned out to be a cop. I think they used that trope a little too much.
	9:25pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:25 Always a catch
	9:25pm Barno in Akron: How do you do, fellow kids?
	9:26pm Imaginos: ↳ Barno in Akron @9:25 Excellent
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Barno in Akron @9:25 You know. Kiddin' around.
	9:27pm univac: ↳ Imaginos @9:24 Yes, he did Tenchi, but I haven't heard it...he was a member of Tangerine Dream from 1970-1987
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: We will be running out of Rocky Fortune soon. But, I will be following it up with a short run detective show, called, "Rogues Gallery."
	9:28pm Webhamster Henry: Hi I missed Rocky, but am here for the quipping couple.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:28 Webhamster Henry! Nice to see you!
	9:29pm Imaginos: My cat drinks from the side of her mug
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: Also: we have a show on April 1st, so I'm cookin' up something fun for that show. And our #100th episode is soon. Should I do something different, or just have a regular show that week?
	9:31pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 Do what makes you happy
	9:31pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 That many?! Guess all those short little bits add up. We appreciate your dedication!
	9:32pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 Are there any shows that had specials liek that? or maybe just drop the usual programming and play some Norman Corwin specials or something.
	9:32pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 Amazing, Austin! Maybe you should just show up naked and do your show backwards.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: I've mentioned this before, but "Bold Venture" was recorded it two long bursts, and in-between, they went off to make a movie. Apparently, recording "Bold Venture" was done in a long string of regular work days, where they would record a few, break for lunch, and come back to record more afterwards. Apparently, Bogart always returned from lunch HAMMERED, but still recorded his lines fine, even when drunk. I'm not sure I can really tell which ones are when he was drunk, and which ones were "before lunch," but I suspect you could probably work it out if you listened VERY closely.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:32 That's a good idea: find shows that are "celebrating" something! I might try something like that. I'll think on it.
	9:37pm Imaginos: Why do I suspect she's in the right line for electroshock?
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: Maybe I should do an audience poll, of which episodes were their favorite stories? The four that get the most votes get played for episode #100?
	9:41pm Mr Fab: Play 100 episodes at the same time!
	9:41pm univac: Second that.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:41 That's a good idea! Or, a few seconds from all the previous episodes?
	9:42pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:41 Find a show with 100+ episodes and play episode 100
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:42 I bet I could find four shows that ran for at least 100 episodes, and do something like that...
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: I wonder how many stories i've played have a "party" in them? Maybe I could string together a bunch of "party" scenes for episode #100?
	9:45pm univac: There has to be some "April Fool" vintage radio episodes...
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:45 True! I think I have a pretty good idea for that one.
	9:50pm Imaginos: ↳ univac @9:45 Aldrich Family
	9:51pm wenzo: 🎉
	9:55pm Webhamster Henry: This is a good time to plug the excellent movie Nyad.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:55 Ha! I didn't realize that was a movie. How cool!
	9:57pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 Slate & Sailor only had to swim 30 miles...
	10:00pm asheville jon: Lurkin, enjoyin the show, as usual
	10:03pm Dean: Had to turn off my review of a big Henry Cow box to listen in, because I'm such a fan of old-time radio. The stream cuts in and out, alas, but I'll tolerate it.
	10:05pm Imaginos: Looking forward to upcoming episodes. Always amazing
	10:07pm Imaginos: That's quite a mind
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Frank Sinatra: The Voice of Our Time (Part 5)" by... By 1990, Mel Torme - who had suffered from a career downturn in the late 70's and early 80's, was on the upswing by 1990, and was starting to attract larger crowds, and was getting a little revisionism to how he was being seen by the world at large. This was mostly due to him being referenced so often on "Night Court," and then later, making TV appearances where he demonstrated his sense of humor. While I don't think comedy or documentaries were ever his thing, I do appreciate that Mel finally started to get his due in the late 80's and 90's.
	10:13pm univac: I gotta run. Thx Austin! See you tomorrow in the Mid-Valley!
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:13 Fer sure! Until then!
	10:15pm Imaginos: ↳ univac @10:13 Take care
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: Whoops! I think I said it was part one, but i'm pretty sure it's part two this week! Whoops!
	👻 10:16pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone! Sorry I’m late! Had a call with some friends at 9.
	10:17pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:16 Was wondering
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:16 yerfriendpaul! Thanks for droppin' in!
	10:17pm Imaginos: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:16 Friends are important
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:17 I'm usually a little better than that on the intros, but I have been known to make a mistake now and then.
	10:17pm Dean: I continue to have trouble with Sinatra. It occurred to me that he is the proto-Billie Eilish. Bear with me! Her whole schtick, like that of Cat Power and countless other "singers," is to not just to make the song seem effortless, but to expend as little effort as possible. Every once in a while that's how Sinatra strikes me. Worse even than phoning it in.
	10:18pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 that downturn was common for a lot of singers of that era. Boomers scorned that kind of music. I specifically remember the usually-great "Doonesbury" strip ridiculing Cole Porter's lyrics. The crooners (and exotica/Space Age bandleaders, etc) had to wait for GenXers to come along and help revive their careers in the '90s.
	10:19pm Mr Fab: ↳ Dean @10:17 Until you try and sing it like him...
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:17 He is not for everyone, and I don't blame you. I might do a Sinatra show on MVM someday, as I have a ton of albums, and I've been wondering what I think are his "best" tunes.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:18 I bet you could write an essay about Gen X saving the careers of a lot of artists.
	10:21pm Imaginos: Sounds like the car is going to eat the tape
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: Another lilttle "blip" in the official archives for this show. Those tape glitches are probably from the person who was transfering these from one set of tapes to another. Most likely, these came from transcription discs, that were then put on tape, and then transferred endlessly to other mediums. So the potential for glitches are many.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:21 Ha!
	10:21pm Dean: Full disclosure, I've been to two Sinatra concerts.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:21 You tried! That certainly counts.
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: There's a lot of swimming in tonight's shows.
	10:23pm Webhamster Henry: The old "villain monologues instead of frying the good guy" trope.
	10:24pm Dean: In fact, one was fairly amazing. But at the other he was in bad form. This was all very near the end of his life. I don't count that.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:23 Villains have a lot to say, but often, no one to talk to! If only henchmen would engage their masterminds more often, those monologues might never occur!
	10:24pm Dean: Meaning: I adjusted my expectations accordingly, of course.
	👻 10:25pm yerfriendpaul: Swell rescue!
	10:25pm Webhamster Henry: The Blue Beetle also wears plot armor.
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:25 The most useful kind of armor, in a show like this.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: I cleaned the Lava Lamp Lounge today, and it's really weird to be in such a clean / sorted / organized enviornment. Part of me thinks maybe I went too far.
	10:29pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 Only if it looks like a museum
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:29 Mostly, I was thinking I should mess the lounge up a bit, so it isn't so weird.
	10:30pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 Leave a shoe overturned
	10:31pm Webhamster Henry: ooh a Bradbury today.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: We have heard this story on Dimension X before. It's a Ray Bradbury story, and as usual, a weird, 50's sexist one, too.
	10:31pm Dean: When I was a kid, c.1970, we used to enjoy not lava lamps, but these weird lightbulb-driven translucent plastic cylinders decorated with paisley-like images that projected onto the walls. Anybody remember those?
	10:32pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 Remember Ray Bradbury Theater?
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:31 That sounds cool! Maybe the Lounge needs one?
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:32 Yes! I loved that show.
	10:33pm Webhamster Henry: Here's a useful Bradbury link: archive.org...
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: Most of the complaints about the wives in this story are very strange. It sounds like the wives... love... their husbands? And the wives want to be... intimate? Why are these husbands upset?
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:33 Ooooooo! I'll need to make sure I have all of those.
	10:35pm Imaginos: My biggest regret for it was they never did Embroidery
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Marionettes, Inc."" by "X-Minus One" This show was aired a few days before Christmas. I can only imagine listeners joking about getting "Marionettes" for Christmas that year.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: "A fellow lodge man."
	10:41pm Imaginos: They're perfectly safe, it's just you who are in trouble
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: Wasn't there a TV show, recently, about the integration of different kinds of robots into service for people, and the consequences?
	10:41pm Mr Fab: ↳ Dean @10:31 My daughter has something like that - got it for her for xmas. It projects planets and stars on her ceiling.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:41 I want that one!
	10:42pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 Maybe an episode of Love, Death and Robots?
	10:42pm Webhamster Henry: I Sing The Body Electric is a different kind of android, an Android Grandma.
	👻 10:43pm yerfriendpaul: B2 can give Gloria what she needs
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:43 Precisely! He's fully functional.
	10:44pm Imaginos: What if Gloria was also a marionette?
	10:45pm Mr Fab: I want a hoodlum handbook!
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:42 It was a full series, a TV show all about robots and their different roles in our lives. A drama... from Canada, maybe? Oh, my memory post-covid is just crap.
	10:46pm Dean: That seems close, Mr. Fab. This was definitely non-representational "psychedelic" imagery.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: Here's the show I was thinking of! The name is, unfortunately, not good for the subject matter: en.wikipedia.org...
	10:47pm Webhamster Henry: I'm so old, I remember seeing My Living Doll with Bob Cummings and Julie Newmar.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:47 I haven't seen that. I only know of it!
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 While naming things is very hard, I'm not sure "Humans" is a good name for a show about robots. At least, not good for remembering the name.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: "She finally bought that house in Connecticut." In the old days, there were lots of trains from New York to nearby Connecticut, where the idea of the suburbs was originally created in the 50s.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: My connectivity seems better tonight. No drops. Hopefully that continues for tomorrow's show.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: Robots with guns! What could possibly go wrong?
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: We're gonna go a minute over. Sorry everyone!
	10:54pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:53 We get extra Dimestore?! Awesome!
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: Getting near the end. Thanks everyone for listening! Ya'll have been great, and I do love my radio hang-outs.
	10:56pm Webhamster Henry: Whacked with a Flexitone!
	👻 10:56pm yerfriendpaul: B2 sounded a little like Bob Barker to me
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:56 Ha!
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: Everything worked out, I guess?
	10:58pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 So it seems
	10:58pm Imaginos: See you tomorrow, Austin, and on Thursday for our recording
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:58 Indeed! Until then.
	👻 11:00pm yerfriendpaul: Nettie is one of them!!! Thanks Austin!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: The music cue is more "comic" in this version. In the Dimension X version, that ending music cue is more in the "horror" vein.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from February 5, 2024

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February 5, 2024: Episode #81

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Rocky Fortune	"Hollywood or Boom"	26 January 1954	NBC		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Bold Venture	"Revenge Equals Murder Times Two"	28 January 1952	Santana Productions		0:28:29 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sauter-Finegan Orchestra	Doodletown Fifers				0:57:35 (Pop-up)
John Musilli	Frank Sinatra: The Voice of Our Time (Part 5)	Frank Sinatra: The Voice of Our Time	Camera Three Productions	1990	1:08:34 (Pop-up)
The Blue Beetle	"Blasting The Dynamite Ring Part 2"	24 May 1940	Mutual–Don Lee Network		1:15:26 (Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"Marionettes, Inc." ""Marionettes, Inc."" by "X-Minus One"	21 December 1955	NBC Radio		1:29:50 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:22pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:57pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	9:00pm asheville jon: I remebered this show is on!
	9:01pm Imaginos: ↳ asheville jon @9:00 You're in for a treat
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:57 Thanks for poppin' in!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @9:00 Ashville Jon! Hooray!
	9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Song: ""Hollywood or Boom"" by "Rocky Fortune" I give him six minutes until boom
	9:03pm asheville jon: A hot seltzer? Sounds super nasty
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: We are airing these shows nearly 70 years after they were originally broadcast, almost to the week. It's funny how they haven't aged too badly.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: Rocky discusses being at the "Battle of the Bulge," which took place from 16 December 1944 – 28 January 1945, about 10 years before this show was made. He was probably 18 during the war, and around 28 at the time of this story. (The first time we could do that kind of math, using facts from the show.)
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: Rocky hints at having what would have been called "Shell Shock" then, and is now known as PTSD (I believe... I'm no doctor.) It's interesting that Rocky admits that. While Rocky is unusual in many ways, he certainly seems to be forward thinking, as someone not afraid to discuss their issues with strangers.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: "Women are doing everything these days, officer."
	9:08pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! Well, that state trooper is honest in his sexism.
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:08 Mr. Fab! Thanks for joining us.
	9:09pm Imaginos: Am I the only one with Geddy Lee flashbacks when I hear "take off"?
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: While there isn't specific evidence to point to where the Rocky Fortune stories are set, this story reinforces the general idea that Rocky lives in New York. Driving from New York to Hollywood by truck in 1954 must have been slow going, and a VERY long trip.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:09 That is sort of where my mind goes...
	9:11pm Mr Fab: And they’re carrying nitroglycerin? That was the basis of a famous French film, “the wages of fear” I think it was called? They remade it in the US as “sorcerer.”
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:11 That's right! I was just thinking of re-watching Sorcerer. It has been ages.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:11 I'm not sure I've seen all of Wages of Fear, either. I should probably do a double feature.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: I was curious about how many commercials I made for this show. I counted all the ones I wrote for 2022, the first year of this show. I didn't write commercials every week, and I missed a few weeks that year, too. Still, I wrote and recorded 339 different commercials for this show that year, totaling about four and a half hours of audio, if you run them straight through. That is a LOT of fake ads.
	9:17pm Mr Fab: I wonder if there was an original story that was the basis for all the long-drives-carrying- nitro stories. Maybe this was it?
	9:17pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 Holy crap, Austin! That is a lot of phoney baloney. Oh, and Hello!
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:17 Time for a deep-dive of Wages of Fear. I suspect we can get tot he bottom of this!
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:17 univac! Thanks for droppin' in!
	9:19pm univac: Sorcerer was great, and had a score by Tangerine Dream
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: What was "The Works" in 1954? Mustard, catsup and... mayo?
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:19 That was what got me thinking about it. I was thinking about their soundtracks, and... yeah, they did a lot.
	9:19pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 Extra hair.
	9:20pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 They did, for a bit there.
	9:21pm wenzo: Howdeeee
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: I was thinking a "Tangerine Dream Dream" might be a good Marathon Show, where I just play as much of their stuff as I can source. I have a lot... but... they made even more.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:21 Wenzo! Now it's a party!
	9:23pm Imaginos: I don't trust the dame
	9:23pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 That would be amazing! Christopher Franke was a client of mine for a while, did his Mac tech work. It was really hard as he kept telling me incredible stories and I was trying to work on his machines...
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:23 That's hilarious! I love stories like that.
	9:24pm Imaginos: ↳ univac @9:23 The same one who did Tenchi?
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: This is at least the third time that a woman who Rocky was interested in turned out to be a cop. I think they used that trope a little too much.
	9:25pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:25 Always a catch
	9:25pm Barno in Akron: How do you do, fellow kids?
	9:26pm Imaginos: ↳ Barno in Akron @9:25 Excellent
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Barno in Akron @9:25 You know. Kiddin' around.
	9:27pm univac: ↳ Imaginos @9:24 Yes, he did Tenchi, but I haven't heard it...he was a member of Tangerine Dream from 1970-1987
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: We will be running out of Rocky Fortune soon. But, I will be following it up with a short run detective show, called, "Rogues Gallery."
	9:28pm Webhamster Henry: Hi I missed Rocky, but am here for the quipping couple.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:28 Webhamster Henry! Nice to see you!
	9:29pm Imaginos: My cat drinks from the side of her mug
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: Also: we have a show on April 1st, so I'm cookin' up something fun for that show. And our #100th episode is soon. Should I do something different, or just have a regular show that week?
	9:31pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 Do what makes you happy
	9:31pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 That many?! Guess all those short little bits add up. We appreciate your dedication!
	9:32pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 Are there any shows that had specials liek that? or maybe just drop the usual programming and play some Norman Corwin specials or something.
	9:32pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 Amazing, Austin! Maybe you should just show up naked and do your show backwards.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: I've mentioned this before, but "Bold Venture" was recorded it two long bursts, and in-between, they went off to make a movie. Apparently, recording "Bold Venture" was done in a long string of regular work days, where they would record a few, break for lunch, and come back to record more afterwards. Apparently, Bogart always returned from lunch HAMMERED, but still recorded his lines fine, even when drunk. I'm not sure I can really tell which ones are when he was drunk, and which ones were "before lunch," but I suspect you could probably work it out if you listened VERY closely.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:32 That's a good idea: find shows that are "celebrating" something! I might try something like that. I'll think on it.
	9:37pm Imaginos: Why do I suspect she's in the right line for electroshock?
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: Maybe I should do an audience poll, of which episodes were their favorite stories? The four that get the most votes get played for episode #100?
	9:41pm Mr Fab: Play 100 episodes at the same time!
	9:41pm univac: Second that.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:41 That's a good idea! Or, a few seconds from all the previous episodes?
	9:42pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:41 Find a show with 100+ episodes and play episode 100
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:42 I bet I could find four shows that ran for at least 100 episodes, and do something like that...
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: I wonder how many stories i've played have a "party" in them? Maybe I could string together a bunch of "party" scenes for episode #100?
	9:45pm univac: There has to be some "April Fool" vintage radio episodes...
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:45 True! I think I have a pretty good idea for that one.
	9:50pm Imaginos: ↳ univac @9:45 Aldrich Family
	9:51pm wenzo: 🎉
	9:55pm Webhamster Henry: This is a good time to plug the excellent movie Nyad.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:55 Ha! I didn't realize that was a movie. How cool!
	9:57pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 Slate & Sailor only had to swim 30 miles...
	10:00pm asheville jon: Lurkin, enjoyin the show, as usual
	10:03pm Dean: Had to turn off my review of a big Henry Cow box to listen in, because I'm such a fan of old-time radio. The stream cuts in and out, alas, but I'll tolerate it.
	10:05pm Imaginos: Looking forward to upcoming episodes. Always amazing
	10:07pm Imaginos: That's quite a mind
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Frank Sinatra: The Voice of Our Time (Part 5)" by... By 1990, Mel Torme - who had suffered from a career downturn in the late 70's and early 80's, was on the upswing by 1990, and was starting to attract larger crowds, and was getting a little revisionism to how he was being seen by the world at large. This was mostly due to him being referenced so often on "Night Court," and then later, making TV appearances where he demonstrated his sense of humor. While I don't think comedy or documentaries were ever his thing, I do appreciate that Mel finally started to get his due in the late 80's and 90's.
	10:13pm univac: I gotta run. Thx Austin! See you tomorrow in the Mid-Valley!
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:13 Fer sure! Until then!
	10:15pm Imaginos: ↳ univac @10:13 Take care
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: Whoops! I think I said it was part one, but i'm pretty sure it's part two this week! Whoops!
	👻 10:16pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone! Sorry I’m late! Had a call with some friends at 9.
	10:17pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:16 Was wondering
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:16 yerfriendpaul! Thanks for droppin' in!
	10:17pm Imaginos: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:16 Friends are important
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:17 I'm usually a little better than that on the intros, but I have been known to make a mistake now and then.
	10:17pm Dean: I continue to have trouble with Sinatra. It occurred to me that he is the proto-Billie Eilish. Bear with me! Her whole schtick, like that of Cat Power and countless other "singers," is to not just to make the song seem effortless, but to expend as little effort as possible. Every once in a while that's how Sinatra strikes me. Worse even than phoning it in.
	10:18pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 that downturn was common for a lot of singers of that era. Boomers scorned that kind of music. I specifically remember the usually-great "Doonesbury" strip ridiculing Cole Porter's lyrics. The crooners (and exotica/Space Age bandleaders, etc) had to wait for GenXers to come along and help revive their careers in the '90s.
	10:19pm Mr Fab: ↳ Dean @10:17 Until you try and sing it like him...
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:17 He is not for everyone, and I don't blame you. I might do a Sinatra show on MVM someday, as I have a ton of albums, and I've been wondering what I think are his "best" tunes.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:18 I bet you could write an essay about Gen X saving the careers of a lot of artists.
	10:21pm Imaginos: Sounds like the car is going to eat the tape
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: Another lilttle "blip" in the official archives for this show. Those tape glitches are probably from the person who was transfering these from one set of tapes to another. Most likely, these came from transcription discs, that were then put on tape, and then transferred endlessly to other mediums. So the potential for glitches are many.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:21 Ha!
	10:21pm Dean: Full disclosure, I've been to two Sinatra concerts.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:21 You tried! That certainly counts.
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: There's a lot of swimming in tonight's shows.
	10:23pm Webhamster Henry: The old "villain monologues instead of frying the good guy" trope.
	10:24pm Dean: In fact, one was fairly amazing. But at the other he was in bad form. This was all very near the end of his life. I don't count that.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:23 Villains have a lot to say, but often, no one to talk to! If only henchmen would engage their masterminds more often, those monologues might never occur!
	10:24pm Dean: Meaning: I adjusted my expectations accordingly, of course.
	👻 10:25pm yerfriendpaul: Swell rescue!
	10:25pm Webhamster Henry: The Blue Beetle also wears plot armor.
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:25 The most useful kind of armor, in a show like this.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: I cleaned the Lava Lamp Lounge today, and it's really weird to be in such a clean / sorted / organized enviornment. Part of me thinks maybe I went too far.
	10:29pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 Only if it looks like a museum
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:29 Mostly, I was thinking I should mess the lounge up a bit, so it isn't so weird.
	10:30pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 Leave a shoe overturned
	10:31pm Webhamster Henry: ooh a Bradbury today.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: We have heard this story on Dimension X before. It's a Ray Bradbury story, and as usual, a weird, 50's sexist one, too.
	10:31pm Dean: When I was a kid, c.1970, we used to enjoy not lava lamps, but these weird lightbulb-driven translucent plastic cylinders decorated with paisley-like images that projected onto the walls. Anybody remember those?
	10:32pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 Remember Ray Bradbury Theater?
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:31 That sounds cool! Maybe the Lounge needs one?
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:32 Yes! I loved that show.
	10:33pm Webhamster Henry: Here's a useful Bradbury link: archive.org...
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: Most of the complaints about the wives in this story are very strange. It sounds like the wives... love... their husbands? And the wives want to be... intimate? Why are these husbands upset?
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:33 Ooooooo! I'll need to make sure I have all of those.
	10:35pm Imaginos: My biggest regret for it was they never did Embroidery
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Marionettes, Inc."" by "X-Minus One" This show was aired a few days before Christmas. I can only imagine listeners joking about getting "Marionettes" for Christmas that year.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: "A fellow lodge man."
	10:41pm Imaginos: They're perfectly safe, it's just you who are in trouble
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: Wasn't there a TV show, recently, about the integration of different kinds of robots into service for people, and the consequences?
	10:41pm Mr Fab: ↳ Dean @10:31 My daughter has something like that - got it for her for xmas. It projects planets and stars on her ceiling.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:41 I want that one!
	10:42pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 Maybe an episode of Love, Death and Robots?
	10:42pm Webhamster Henry: I Sing The Body Electric is a different kind of android, an Android Grandma.
	👻 10:43pm yerfriendpaul: B2 can give Gloria what she needs
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:43 Precisely! He's fully functional.
	10:44pm Imaginos: What if Gloria was also a marionette?
	10:45pm Mr Fab: I want a hoodlum handbook!
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:42 It was a full series, a TV show all about robots and their different roles in our lives. A drama... from Canada, maybe? Oh, my memory post-covid is just crap.
	10:46pm Dean: That seems close, Mr. Fab. This was definitely non-representational "psychedelic" imagery.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: Here's the show I was thinking of! The name is, unfortunately, not good for the subject matter: en.wikipedia.org...
	10:47pm Webhamster Henry: I'm so old, I remember seeing My Living Doll with Bob Cummings and Julie Newmar.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:47 I haven't seen that. I only know of it!
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 While naming things is very hard, I'm not sure "Humans" is a good name for a show about robots. At least, not good for remembering the name.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: "She finally bought that house in Connecticut." In the old days, there were lots of trains from New York to nearby Connecticut, where the idea of the suburbs was originally created in the 50s.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: My connectivity seems better tonight. No drops. Hopefully that continues for tomorrow's show.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: Robots with guns! What could possibly go wrong?
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: We're gonna go a minute over. Sorry everyone!
	10:54pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:53 We get extra Dimestore?! Awesome!
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: Getting near the end. Thanks everyone for listening! Ya'll have been great, and I do love my radio hang-outs.
	10:56pm Webhamster Henry: Whacked with a Flexitone!
	👻 10:56pm yerfriendpaul: B2 sounded a little like Bob Barker to me
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:56 Ha!
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: Everything worked out, I guess?
	10:58pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 So it seems
	10:58pm Imaginos: See you tomorrow, Austin, and on Thursday for our recording
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:58 Indeed! Until then.
	👻 11:00pm yerfriendpaul: Nettie is one of them!!! Thanks Austin!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: The music cue is more "comic" in this version. In the Dimension X version, that ending music cue is more in the "horror" vein.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from February 5, 2024

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