WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from February 12, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 7:05pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	7:20pm Arvo: Hello!
	8:59pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @7:20 Nice to see you in the chat!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:59 Thanks for joining us! Always good to have you in the chat.
	9:02pm laurapanic: the soothing sounds of Sinatra
	👻 9:02pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: I only just realized that we had a Superb Owl the other day, and that was WELL after I assembled this show for this day. This is the SECOND time that Rocky Fortune just HAPPENED to fall on the right day, to line up with an American Holiday. So weird.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:02 Seriously. I like him more and more as I get older.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:02 yerfriendpaul! I was hoping you'd come by.
	9:04pm Charles: Today is alright for toniiight
	9:04pm Imaginos: Nice to see everyone tonight
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: This is one of two episodes that have two "slightly different" versions, depending on where you heard it. There was a version heard on regular broadcast radio, and another, slightly different version, on Armed Forces Radio. I have sort of combined the two; the main difference in AFRS version is the theme song is looped and played longer at the end of the story. I've tried to combine the two versions for you, here, tonight.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:04 Quotin' Strong Bad, and feelin' alright!
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: This episode aired on Groundhog Day, originally.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: "Precocious as Bonzo, Sarge," is a reference to the "Bedtime for Bonzo" movie, staring Ronald Reagan and a monkey named Bonzo.
	9:08pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 Did it come out before the first Super Bowl?
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:08 Yes, this story aired before the first Super Bowl, in 1966.
	9:10pm Webhamster Henry: ooh Kefauver Committee (Senate Crime committee)reference!
	9:10pm Charles: i'm glad to be catching the show live
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:10 This show is VERY literate.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:10 It's a little more fun, live. I think, anyway.
	👻 9:12pm yerfriendpaul: Rocky can’t catch a break. Always in the wrong place at the wrong time
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:12 He sort of likes being in those wrong places, too.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: That is the closest to singing we've had Sinatra do on this show!
	9:13pm Mr Fab: "Got the world on a string" haha.
	9:14pm Imaginos: Cookware for Valentine's? Some people would love it
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:13 Thanks for listening, Mr. Fab!
	9:15pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:12 So far! I wish he'd get kidnapped and accused of being a stool pigeon and have the mugs ask him to sing!
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:14 (I have bought my wife lots of kitchen stuff, and she even asked for them. But I can also see the other side of the story...)
	9:16pm Imaginos: Fingerprints?
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: My wife buys me records and comics for most holidays, so she knows my love language, perfectly.
	9:18pm Mr Fab: "Look, hipster..."
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:18 Always funny coming from Sinatra.
	9:18pm Mr Fab: man, like, Rocky is buggin the most
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: This show does not shy away from some of the worse aspects of low-life culture, and certainly does depict things in pretty rough ways. I think there is more than one example of violence against women that's been depicted in this show. It's not easy to hear, certainly. This show can get pretty grim, even with Sinatra in the lead.
	9:26pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:23 noir/hardboiled crime stories, and the Beat movement, were the cracks in the post-war "Leave it To Beaver" optimism.
	9:26pm Imaginos: Interesting episode
	9:26pm Mr Fab: The evil twin trope! First known example?
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:26 Very true. And a year later, Sinatra would star in a movie where he plays a heroin addict. Seems like Sinatra didn't mind the gritty stories.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:26 Oooooo! Good question! I'll have to investigate.
	9:27pm univac: Hello! Popping in for a bit.
	9:27pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 that movie was so interesting, especially for the time
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:27 univac! Lovely to see you, even for just a moment.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:27 Agreed. I should watch it again; I recall the soundtrack being excellent.
	9:29pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 and with that hipster character we got the hardboiled crime AND the Beats! Pretty subversive show for mainstream entertainment.
	9:29pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:28 Speaking of soundtracks, are you planning on adding one to our reading? Perhaps a piano piece for the pub scenes?
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:29 And the guy who created / wrote this show, was better known as a Sci-Fi writer. That's the part that always gets me. What a weird career George Lefferts had.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:29 I think so.
	9:30pm univac: Nice to be here.
	9:30pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 Awesome!
	9:32pm univac: Looking up Leffert: he was credited for many "cutting-edge medical films," including Doctor Barnhard's Heart Transplant [NBC], Pain–Where It Hurts Most [NBC], What Price Health, with Senator Ted Kennedy [NBC], and Acupuncture Anesthesia in Red China [NBC].
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: We are on the "back end" of both Bold Venture and Rocky Fortune, and those shows will be reaching their conclusions in April and May. So, enjoy them while you can! I know we had a lot of people get sad when we ran out of Box 13, so I hope to ease people into the end of these shows.
	9:33pm univac: He did some interesting stuff: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:33 I think those medical films must have come out of his "medical soaps" career.
	9:34pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 Bummer. These have been excellent shows! Thanks for introducing them to me, Austin!
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:34 I've got some good replacement shows for them, when they run out. But it's easy to get attached to some of these stories.
	9:36pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 Yeah, he did a few of those. He also wrote the script and lyrics of a full-scale opera The Amadou Cantata!
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:36 He's an odd duck. The best kind!
	9:37pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy a little early tonight.
	9:37pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:35 I am looking forward. Will be sad to lose hearing Bacall and Bogart.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:37 I understand. Get some sleep. It's much later for you than for me.
	9:38pm laurapanic: everyone can get a bit of fun teasing a widow
	9:38pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:37 I will see you tomorrow night for MVM
	9:38pm univac: Nice to bump into you Imaginos.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:38 It's the mid-century way, apparently.
	9:39pm Imaginos: ↳ univac @9:38 You too
	9:45pm univac: I love those "expositional" interlude songs.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:45 I do love that King Moses seems to know everything that happened, even when he wasn't there, and can sing about it in a song, even. He's got meta awareness!
	9:49pm univac: He's the "Greek Chorus"
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:49 TOTALLY!
	9:49pm univac: Gotta run. Thx Austin! I plan on being here tomorrow for MVM. See you then!
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:49 Until next time!
	👻 9:53pm Heather Z: Been tuned in and enjoying the show! Anyone else craving avocado now?? I know I am!
	👻 9:53pm yerfriendpaul: Avocados is a dirty business
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:53 I'm not the biggest fan of avocados, but I will eat one on a taco or a nacho plate.
	👻 9:56pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:54 I'm very fond of them but it's hard to get good ones here in Rochester NY. I've got to be feeling very wealthy to chance it because they're expensive here, too! Mm.... tacos and nachos.... that's some good stuff right there.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:53 Apparently!
	9:58pm Mr Fab: loves me some avocados in Mexican food, but the cartels are getting in on the action unfortunately. I've criticized drug users for fueling those monsters, so hope that I'm not enabling them now, too.
	10:02pm Barno in Akron: Thank you, Austin :)
	10:03pm Barno in Akron: Groovy
	👻 10:04pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr Fab @9:58 Oh no! This is the first I've heard of this! Glad I know now.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:04 Yeah, it's not good. Like many good things in this world: it's too good to be true.
	10:17pm Mr Fab: Never heard that Kennedy version of "High Hopes." Wonder if there's recordings of it around?
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:17 Yeah, I was thinking about that. Seems likely, but then again...
	👻 10:18pm yerfriendpaul: Great movie. Manchurian Candidate
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:18 Yes! I saw it again a few years ago, and really enjoyed it again. Very tense at times, and very well made.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: Even in 1963, people were talking about how banks and lawyers and corporations were ruining movies. "Same as it ever was..."
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: This critique of slot machine gambling from 1940 is exactly what 2024 America needs to set our culture back on track!
	10:25pm Mr Fab: Which Beatle was the blue one? Paul was the cute one, John was the intellectual, George, the quiet one. I'm guessing Pete Best. If I was kicked out of the biggest band ever just before they made it, I'd be feeling pretty blue.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:25 Oh, I assumed a "Blue Beetle" was some "Buddy Holly & The Crickets" reference. (Someone being clever.)
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: Or maybe its a "Muppet Band" reference. I suspect they had a "Beetles" band at one point, and I'm sure one fo them was "blue."
	👻 10:32pm yerfriendpaul: Invisibility. Gotta be one of most popular desired super powers
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:32 I think about flying, casually, so I would probably want to do that if I could. But I'm sure I'm forgetting a super-obvious essential super-power. Time Travel? Something like that...?
	👻 10:33pm Heather: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:32 Classic flight v invisibility question!
	👻 10:34pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 Would love to fly too. I have dreams where I’ve figured out how to fly
	👻 10:34pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 I'm keeping my fingers crossed for teleportation. I think telekinesis comes with that? And maybe a free phone, too.
	👻 10:35pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Heather @10:34 Ha ha!
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: I do not think about invisibility. But I have thought about running fast, like The Flash. I also think about living a very long time.
	👻 10:36pm yerfriendpaul: I’d like to think that in the afterlife, we’ll all be able to access time travel and be fly-on-the-wall apparitions
	👻 10:37pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:35 There was a big invisibility topic going in this very show chat a bit ago and I think we all agreed it sounds so cold... and dangerous.
	10:38pm Mr Fab: Real superpowers would be like: -always having enough money -knowing what women want -being able to do math
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""A Logic Named Joe"" by "X-Minus One" Another story we've heard before, on "Dimension X." This was the last episode of 1955, and they were going into 1956 knowing they were going to continue. I think they were gearing up for their run in the following year, where the majority of the episodes would be NEW stories that had not been heard on Dimension X or X Minus One.
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:38 I'm bad at math, too. I have no idea what other people are thinking, of either gender. The always having enough money: I think we need to start printing our own. That would fix things!
	👻 10:39pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Heather @10:37 Yeah, the more I think of it, I wouldn’t want invisibility to be my power. Unless it could be used to escape salespeople
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: There's an extremely grim portrayal of a kid in this story, and while I won't comment on it being "accurate" or not, I think it's interesting how this story is presented with "comic" music cues, and then has some downright terrifying story beats, afterwards. Feels like an interesting exercise in black comedy... in 1955!
	10:41pm Mr Fab: '74 was a bit early, but still - not a bad prediction of the internet.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: A "Logic" is, apparently, a terminal connected to the internet.
	👻 10:42pm yerfriendpaul: Can you imagine the writers of this piece getting a glimpse of our present scenario?
	👻 10:43pm Heather: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:39 There was a This American Life ages ago where they had a segment on flight v invisibility and they kind of leaned toward invisibility was pretty sneaky and maybe flight was better. But. Does being able to fly mean one is no longer scared of heights? If not... don't mind me. Just invisible over here.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: I think, when you write about the near future in a sci-fi sense, you can "accidentally" predict things more accurately than if you set a story in the distant future. (That's my theory, anyway.)
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: The Logic is, apparently, also a phone.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:43 That one was written by John Hodgman. He claimed that people who want invisibility are more comfortable with lying and deception.
	👻 10:45pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:44 I remember Hodgman in the ep, for sure! Was a fan then, still am.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: This story theorized that people would use the internet to look up the most terrible things they could imagine. Such fantasy!
	👻 10:47pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:44 Yeah, I think you’d be more tempted into a life of crime. I’d hop the turnstiles for sure ha ha
	👻 10:47pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 Just believe in human nature!
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:47 It stands to reason that anyone with superpowers would trend toward crime and fascism.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: This story also theorizes that most people would use the internet to deceive their spouses. Where do they come up with this stuff?
	👻 10:50pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:48 Yep, even flying could be used for selfish purposes.
	👻 10:50pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 Pure fantasy! Amazing they came up with this!
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: The original version of this story was from years earlier, even, but it seems to be talking about now.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: This aired December 28th. Christmas was a few days ago, New Year's is in a few days. And then you tune in the radio, and you hear this story...
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: This story suggests that crime would increase, and cops would become more useless, with the Internet. It's like I'm reading a Tolkien book!
	👻 10:53pm yerfriendpaul: Ducky Dahhling
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: Another suggestion: exes would use the internet in really creepy ways? What kind of nonsense does this story think it's suggesting?
	👻 10:54pm Heather: What?! The logic made stalking easier?? No way that would ever happen.
	10:54pm Mr Fab: Ah, the great Murray Leinster wrote the orig story, back in 1946. The "logics" are independent, learning on their own...like AI.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: To be clear: in 1955, the idea that a machine could have this kind of effect on everyday life THEN would be completely fantasy. It only became fact in the years since.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: There's no privacy in this future! What kind of madness is this?
	👻 10:58pm yerfriendpaul: Freddy made poison darts! Run for your lives!!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: The idea that children - without good parenting - would use logics to do actual evil? I mean... is that unbelievable or what?
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: So yeah, this is one of the better "X Minus One" stories.
	👻 11:02pm yerfriendpaul: Freddy’s the worst!
	👻 11:02pm Heather: Getting toward that time! Great show, Austin, and thanks for a fun chat, all! Phew. Tense ending here...
	👻 11:02pm yerfriendpaul: Thanks Austin! Take care, everyone!
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: Thanks again, everyone. It's almost over. See ya next time...
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: Comedy Music Cue!
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: That's our Valentine's Day Story! Enjoy!
	11:04pm Mr Fab: Cool stuff as always. And thanks for Acme Brands for sponsoring the show.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from February 12, 2024

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February 12, 2024: Episode #82

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Rocky Fortune	"The Football Fix" ""The Football Fix"" by "Rocky Fortune"	2 February 1954	NBC		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Bold Venture	"Joe Norman The Laughing Sailor"	4 February 1952	Santana Productions		0:29:00 (Pop-up)
John Musilli	Frank Sinatra: The Voice of Our Time (Part 6)	Frank Sinatra: The Voice of Our Time	Camera Three Productions	1990	1:12:14 (Pop-up)
The Blue Beetle	"The Invisible Ghost, Part 1"	29 May 1940	Mutual–Don Lee Network		1:20:24 (Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"A Logic Named Joe" ""A Logic Named Joe"" by "X-Minus One"	28 December 1955	NBC Radio		1:35:27 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:05pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	7:20pm Arvo: Hello!
	8:59pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @7:20 Nice to see you in the chat!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:59 Thanks for joining us! Always good to have you in the chat.
	9:02pm laurapanic: the soothing sounds of Sinatra
	👻 9:02pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: I only just realized that we had a Superb Owl the other day, and that was WELL after I assembled this show for this day. This is the SECOND time that Rocky Fortune just HAPPENED to fall on the right day, to line up with an American Holiday. So weird.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:02 Seriously. I like him more and more as I get older.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:02 yerfriendpaul! I was hoping you'd come by.
	9:04pm Charles: Today is alright for toniiight
	9:04pm Imaginos: Nice to see everyone tonight
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: This is one of two episodes that have two "slightly different" versions, depending on where you heard it. There was a version heard on regular broadcast radio, and another, slightly different version, on Armed Forces Radio. I have sort of combined the two; the main difference in AFRS version is the theme song is looped and played longer at the end of the story. I've tried to combine the two versions for you, here, tonight.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:04 Quotin' Strong Bad, and feelin' alright!
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: This episode aired on Groundhog Day, originally.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: "Precocious as Bonzo, Sarge," is a reference to the "Bedtime for Bonzo" movie, staring Ronald Reagan and a monkey named Bonzo.
	9:08pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 Did it come out before the first Super Bowl?
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:08 Yes, this story aired before the first Super Bowl, in 1966.
	9:10pm Webhamster Henry: ooh Kefauver Committee (Senate Crime committee)reference!
	9:10pm Charles: i'm glad to be catching the show live
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:10 This show is VERY literate.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:10 It's a little more fun, live. I think, anyway.
	👻 9:12pm yerfriendpaul: Rocky can’t catch a break. Always in the wrong place at the wrong time
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:12 He sort of likes being in those wrong places, too.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: That is the closest to singing we've had Sinatra do on this show!
	9:13pm Mr Fab: "Got the world on a string" haha.
	9:14pm Imaginos: Cookware for Valentine's? Some people would love it
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:13 Thanks for listening, Mr. Fab!
	9:15pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:12 So far! I wish he'd get kidnapped and accused of being a stool pigeon and have the mugs ask him to sing!
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:14 (I have bought my wife lots of kitchen stuff, and she even asked for them. But I can also see the other side of the story...)
	9:16pm Imaginos: Fingerprints?
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: My wife buys me records and comics for most holidays, so she knows my love language, perfectly.
	9:18pm Mr Fab: "Look, hipster..."
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:18 Always funny coming from Sinatra.
	9:18pm Mr Fab: man, like, Rocky is buggin the most
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: This show does not shy away from some of the worse aspects of low-life culture, and certainly does depict things in pretty rough ways. I think there is more than one example of violence against women that's been depicted in this show. It's not easy to hear, certainly. This show can get pretty grim, even with Sinatra in the lead.
	9:26pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:23 noir/hardboiled crime stories, and the Beat movement, were the cracks in the post-war "Leave it To Beaver" optimism.
	9:26pm Imaginos: Interesting episode
	9:26pm Mr Fab: The evil twin trope! First known example?
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:26 Very true. And a year later, Sinatra would star in a movie where he plays a heroin addict. Seems like Sinatra didn't mind the gritty stories.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:26 Oooooo! Good question! I'll have to investigate.
	9:27pm univac: Hello! Popping in for a bit.
	9:27pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 that movie was so interesting, especially for the time
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:27 univac! Lovely to see you, even for just a moment.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:27 Agreed. I should watch it again; I recall the soundtrack being excellent.
	9:29pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 and with that hipster character we got the hardboiled crime AND the Beats! Pretty subversive show for mainstream entertainment.
	9:29pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:28 Speaking of soundtracks, are you planning on adding one to our reading? Perhaps a piano piece for the pub scenes?
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:29 And the guy who created / wrote this show, was better known as a Sci-Fi writer. That's the part that always gets me. What a weird career George Lefferts had.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:29 I think so.
	9:30pm univac: Nice to be here.
	9:30pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 Awesome!
	9:32pm univac: Looking up Leffert: he was credited for many "cutting-edge medical films," including Doctor Barnhard's Heart Transplant [NBC], Pain–Where It Hurts Most [NBC], What Price Health, with Senator Ted Kennedy [NBC], and Acupuncture Anesthesia in Red China [NBC].
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: We are on the "back end" of both Bold Venture and Rocky Fortune, and those shows will be reaching their conclusions in April and May. So, enjoy them while you can! I know we had a lot of people get sad when we ran out of Box 13, so I hope to ease people into the end of these shows.
	9:33pm univac: He did some interesting stuff: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:33 I think those medical films must have come out of his "medical soaps" career.
	9:34pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 Bummer. These have been excellent shows! Thanks for introducing them to me, Austin!
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:34 I've got some good replacement shows for them, when they run out. But it's easy to get attached to some of these stories.
	9:36pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 Yeah, he did a few of those. He also wrote the script and lyrics of a full-scale opera The Amadou Cantata!
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:36 He's an odd duck. The best kind!
	9:37pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy a little early tonight.
	9:37pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:35 I am looking forward. Will be sad to lose hearing Bacall and Bogart.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:37 I understand. Get some sleep. It's much later for you than for me.
	9:38pm laurapanic: everyone can get a bit of fun teasing a widow
	9:38pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:37 I will see you tomorrow night for MVM
	9:38pm univac: Nice to bump into you Imaginos.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:38 It's the mid-century way, apparently.
	9:39pm Imaginos: ↳ univac @9:38 You too
	9:45pm univac: I love those "expositional" interlude songs.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:45 I do love that King Moses seems to know everything that happened, even when he wasn't there, and can sing about it in a song, even. He's got meta awareness!
	9:49pm univac: He's the "Greek Chorus"
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:49 TOTALLY!
	9:49pm univac: Gotta run. Thx Austin! I plan on being here tomorrow for MVM. See you then!
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:49 Until next time!
	👻 9:53pm Heather Z: Been tuned in and enjoying the show! Anyone else craving avocado now?? I know I am!
	👻 9:53pm yerfriendpaul: Avocados is a dirty business
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:53 I'm not the biggest fan of avocados, but I will eat one on a taco or a nacho plate.
	👻 9:56pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:54 I'm very fond of them but it's hard to get good ones here in Rochester NY. I've got to be feeling very wealthy to chance it because they're expensive here, too! Mm.... tacos and nachos.... that's some good stuff right there.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:53 Apparently!
	9:58pm Mr Fab: loves me some avocados in Mexican food, but the cartels are getting in on the action unfortunately. I've criticized drug users for fueling those monsters, so hope that I'm not enabling them now, too.
	10:02pm Barno in Akron: Thank you, Austin :)
	10:03pm Barno in Akron: Groovy
	👻 10:04pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr Fab @9:58 Oh no! This is the first I've heard of this! Glad I know now.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:04 Yeah, it's not good. Like many good things in this world: it's too good to be true.
	10:17pm Mr Fab: Never heard that Kennedy version of "High Hopes." Wonder if there's recordings of it around?
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:17 Yeah, I was thinking about that. Seems likely, but then again...
	👻 10:18pm yerfriendpaul: Great movie. Manchurian Candidate
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:18 Yes! I saw it again a few years ago, and really enjoyed it again. Very tense at times, and very well made.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: Even in 1963, people were talking about how banks and lawyers and corporations were ruining movies. "Same as it ever was..."
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: This critique of slot machine gambling from 1940 is exactly what 2024 America needs to set our culture back on track!
	10:25pm Mr Fab: Which Beatle was the blue one? Paul was the cute one, John was the intellectual, George, the quiet one. I'm guessing Pete Best. If I was kicked out of the biggest band ever just before they made it, I'd be feeling pretty blue.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:25 Oh, I assumed a "Blue Beetle" was some "Buddy Holly & The Crickets" reference. (Someone being clever.)
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: Or maybe its a "Muppet Band" reference. I suspect they had a "Beetles" band at one point, and I'm sure one fo them was "blue."
	👻 10:32pm yerfriendpaul: Invisibility. Gotta be one of most popular desired super powers
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:32 I think about flying, casually, so I would probably want to do that if I could. But I'm sure I'm forgetting a super-obvious essential super-power. Time Travel? Something like that...?
	👻 10:33pm Heather: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:32 Classic flight v invisibility question!
	👻 10:34pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 Would love to fly too. I have dreams where I’ve figured out how to fly
	👻 10:34pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 I'm keeping my fingers crossed for teleportation. I think telekinesis comes with that? And maybe a free phone, too.
	👻 10:35pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Heather @10:34 Ha ha!
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: I do not think about invisibility. But I have thought about running fast, like The Flash. I also think about living a very long time.
	👻 10:36pm yerfriendpaul: I’d like to think that in the afterlife, we’ll all be able to access time travel and be fly-on-the-wall apparitions
	👻 10:37pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:35 There was a big invisibility topic going in this very show chat a bit ago and I think we all agreed it sounds so cold... and dangerous.
	10:38pm Mr Fab: Real superpowers would be like: -always having enough money -knowing what women want -being able to do math
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""A Logic Named Joe"" by "X-Minus One" Another story we've heard before, on "Dimension X." This was the last episode of 1955, and they were going into 1956 knowing they were going to continue. I think they were gearing up for their run in the following year, where the majority of the episodes would be NEW stories that had not been heard on Dimension X or X Minus One.
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:38 I'm bad at math, too. I have no idea what other people are thinking, of either gender. The always having enough money: I think we need to start printing our own. That would fix things!
	👻 10:39pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Heather @10:37 Yeah, the more I think of it, I wouldn’t want invisibility to be my power. Unless it could be used to escape salespeople
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: There's an extremely grim portrayal of a kid in this story, and while I won't comment on it being "accurate" or not, I think it's interesting how this story is presented with "comic" music cues, and then has some downright terrifying story beats, afterwards. Feels like an interesting exercise in black comedy... in 1955!
	10:41pm Mr Fab: '74 was a bit early, but still - not a bad prediction of the internet.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: A "Logic" is, apparently, a terminal connected to the internet.
	👻 10:42pm yerfriendpaul: Can you imagine the writers of this piece getting a glimpse of our present scenario?
	👻 10:43pm Heather: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:39 There was a This American Life ages ago where they had a segment on flight v invisibility and they kind of leaned toward invisibility was pretty sneaky and maybe flight was better. But. Does being able to fly mean one is no longer scared of heights? If not... don't mind me. Just invisible over here.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: I think, when you write about the near future in a sci-fi sense, you can "accidentally" predict things more accurately than if you set a story in the distant future. (That's my theory, anyway.)
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: The Logic is, apparently, also a phone.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:43 That one was written by John Hodgman. He claimed that people who want invisibility are more comfortable with lying and deception.
	👻 10:45pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:44 I remember Hodgman in the ep, for sure! Was a fan then, still am.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: This story theorized that people would use the internet to look up the most terrible things they could imagine. Such fantasy!
	👻 10:47pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:44 Yeah, I think you’d be more tempted into a life of crime. I’d hop the turnstiles for sure ha ha
	👻 10:47pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 Just believe in human nature!
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:47 It stands to reason that anyone with superpowers would trend toward crime and fascism.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: This story also theorizes that most people would use the internet to deceive their spouses. Where do they come up with this stuff?
	👻 10:50pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:48 Yep, even flying could be used for selfish purposes.
	👻 10:50pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 Pure fantasy! Amazing they came up with this!
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: The original version of this story was from years earlier, even, but it seems to be talking about now.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: This aired December 28th. Christmas was a few days ago, New Year's is in a few days. And then you tune in the radio, and you hear this story...
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: This story suggests that crime would increase, and cops would become more useless, with the Internet. It's like I'm reading a Tolkien book!
	👻 10:53pm yerfriendpaul: Ducky Dahhling
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: Another suggestion: exes would use the internet in really creepy ways? What kind of nonsense does this story think it's suggesting?
	👻 10:54pm Heather: What?! The logic made stalking easier?? No way that would ever happen.
	10:54pm Mr Fab: Ah, the great Murray Leinster wrote the orig story, back in 1946. The "logics" are independent, learning on their own...like AI.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: To be clear: in 1955, the idea that a machine could have this kind of effect on everyday life THEN would be completely fantasy. It only became fact in the years since.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: There's no privacy in this future! What kind of madness is this?
	👻 10:58pm yerfriendpaul: Freddy made poison darts! Run for your lives!!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: The idea that children - without good parenting - would use logics to do actual evil? I mean... is that unbelievable or what?
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: So yeah, this is one of the better "X Minus One" stories.
	👻 11:02pm yerfriendpaul: Freddy’s the worst!
	👻 11:02pm Heather: Getting toward that time! Great show, Austin, and thanks for a fun chat, all! Phew. Tense ending here...
	👻 11:02pm yerfriendpaul: Thanks Austin! Take care, everyone!
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: Thanks again, everyone. It's almost over. See ya next time...
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: Comedy Music Cue!
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: That's our Valentine's Day Story! Enjoy!
	11:04pm Mr Fab: Cool stuff as always. And thanks for Acme Brands for sponsoring the show.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from February 12, 2024

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