WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 22, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 7:29pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:59pm Imaginos: Ahoy, me hearties!
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:59 Wonderful to see you in the digital salon! Sit down, and stay a spell, won't you?
	9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:00 Happily. I'm listening, having fun in chat and expecting a bonk in 7.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: This would have been the "New Year's" Broadcast for 1946. In my memory, there was nothing in the story that related to new years's, or even the beginning of the year. But In this era, a lot of shows were not really worried about being timely, and often only did so for big holidays.
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: Time for the weekly hair wash with Fitch shampoo! and Eugor.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:03 "Make the Switch, With Fitch!" Which I think was their actual slogan?
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: I've been in a terrible mood for the last several days, so the Rogue's Gallery music is doing wonders on my mood. Thanks Old Time Radio!
	9:06pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:04 Hope you're doing better.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:06 Meh. Some things just get worse and worse.
	9:08pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 One of those weeks. The kind that make you go "grrr"
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:08 Or sigh a lot and take a few extra naps.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: "And let you shoot at me? That doesn't sound practical."
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: One thing about Richard Rogue is that he is really unafraid to shoot people, and in a number of stories, he shoots people, and let's them bleed. He's a fairly cruel gumshoe.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: I was thinking about collecting all the Eugor scenes into one extended super-cut.
	9:10pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:10 That would be fun
	9:11pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:10 I can use it to train a text to speech voice.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:11 Ha!
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: I think this hobo on the train is played by our friend Gerald Mohr!
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: Rogue is also very pushy, with almost everyone, too. (Particularly with women he is hitting on.) I suspect that is part of the "hard boiled" style that people were trying to ape in those days, and in particular, part of Dick Powell's efforts to repair his "good boy / crooner" reputation. His behavior in this show, in spite of his good acting, makes him come off as a charismatic "dick," in every sense of the word.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: "Phoney as a chorus girl's accent."
	9:28pm laurapanic: HI Austin! bit late and happy to be here...
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: In spite of his jerkiness, I do enjoy Richard Rogue's charm. He's like a jock that you should hate but you don't, in spite of the bad things he does. Or like Sawyer, from Lost.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:28 Good Hello! Thanks for droppin' in. There's still plenty of show left!
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: You can hear a "crackle" that matches the sound of the mechanical motor spinning the disc. This is a common sound on a lot of Rocky Jordan episodes. Eventually, you learn to listen "through" them, but I did my best with new digital tools to remove as many as possible, without ruining the sound.
	9:31pm laurapanic: I am looking forward to PAULA
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: "...looking for salt water and had a run-in with a bottle of gin."
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: Chris, the bartender at The Cafe Tambourine, is one of the unsung heroes of this show. He is often asked to do something for Rocky, or takes are of the bar for Rocky, runs an errand, breaks up a fight, etc. Chris is sort of the secret backbone of this show, and I've been thinking about writing a story from his point of view.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: While the setting is in Cairo, quite often the stories would work in any large city, almost anywhere in the world. The problem is that all the actors a very obviously Americans, so the accents sort of stick out, and it probably would have been better set in the US somewhere. That said, the exotic setting, and the excellent music, have made this a unique noir among old radio shows.
	9:37pm laurapanic: Team Chris
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:37 It could be a "day in the life," where he's running errands, and keeps getting into all these side-adventures.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: "She looked as good in the late afternoon as she did at night." I've fallen for a few French Girls. I get it.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: Anytime she wants to open a bottle of wine with you, you say: yes.
	9:43pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:41 From France, Canada, or Mauritius?
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:43 One Canadian, one French. Both in College. They were in PDX, so I didn't even have to travel.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: "Cleopatra's Grandmother" would make a great name for an experimental band.
	9:46pm laurapanic: go old lady, go!
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: Yeah, I love characters like her.
	9:47pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 background/minor characters are fun to pay attention to
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:47 There's a lot of really weird, hilarious, and fantastic performances in small roles on shows like this. I was thinking about cutting up a bunch of background characters, to make them all the main focus.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: She's a clever grandma. As they often are.
	9:52pm Imaginos: ↳ laurapanic @9:47 And to write fanfics about
	9:57pm laurapanic: a few hours of fun! We have all been there
	9:57pm laurapanic: ↳ Imaginos @9:52 Doctor Who audio adventures, for instance!
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: It's what makes noir so relatable. We've ALL been there... on both sides of the table.
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:57 It's the only way to can get all those extra Second Doctor stories.
	9:59pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Imaginos @9:52 King Moses can sing about side characters.
	10:00pm laurapanic: I HAD NO IDEA WE MAMBO'D!!!!
	10:01pm laurapanic: in a DIGITAL SALON!!!
	10:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:59 I like it. An anthology series
	10:06pm laurapanic: Too nerdy ? Pfffft? Round here? NEVER
	10:11pm Imaginos: Have you ever seen Haunted Honeymoon?
	10:13pm Imaginos: Gene Wilder and Gilda Earned play a couple of Old Time Radio actors and the visual representation of their characters
	10:13pm Imaginos: ↳ Imaginos @10:13 Radner
	👻 10:14pm David Shortell: ↳ Imaginos @10:13 Almost an anagram!
	10:15pm laurapanic: trained chimers!
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Radio in the 1920s (Part 16)" by "Unpublished His... Religious radio, and church radio, was HUGE in the US, and in many ways, led to the laws we have, since many churches tried to monopolize radio licenses. The most dramatic version of this is seen in the TV show Carnivale, which has a creepy religious pastor who broadcasts his sermons as part of the story.
	10:15pm laurapanic: The show is here on Apple TV and Prime. I don't have those, but I've added it to my watchlist.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:15 Remember WENN? I think it's on AMC, too, if you have access to that one.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:13 I need to see this!
	10:19pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:19 That's okay. Thanks for being so supportive of my shows. I hope you enjoyed the "Dancing On The Moon" Special? It would have been nice to have a Zoom party to watch those videos, too, but it's hard to get everyone on the same schedule.
	10:22pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 I have stamps from the Landing
	10:23pm Imaginos: Good night
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: Blue Beetle always separated their stories into two parts, but at this point in the run, "Mutual-Don Lee" was encouraging that the two parts air on different days. At the beginning of the Blue Beetle run, they suggested that both parts should air on the same day, and for the first couple episodes, the two parts are hard to find the separation point. This is one of those shows that got better as it ran, but since other similar shows were much more popular, didn't run much longer after they figured out the formula. It's surprising that the show lasted as long as it did; there was brutal competition in the kids adventure market.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:23 Sleep well!
	10:26pm laurapanic: Blue Beetle has iPhone
	10:26pm Webhamster Henry: Portable wireless phone!
	10:27pm Webhamster Henry: The battery is as big as a St. Bernard.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: 1940 sure had marvelous technology. There were electric cars in the 30's, too, but were taken off the market by gas companies. The past used to cool...
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:27 You need a St. Bernard to pull the sled for the battery.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: I think we'll go about two minutes over this week. Which is better than I've managed in a long, long time!
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: "The Seventh Order" was written by Jerry Sohl. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: He wrote on Star Trek: TOS under the name Nathan Butler.
	👻 10:35pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:26 C.O.N.T.R.O.L. Agent 86 had one of those in his shoe.
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: He was also Charles Beaumont's ghost writer, near the end of his run on The Twilight Zone.
	10:36pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: ""The Seventh Order"" by "X-Minus One" A blue Humanoid speaking into a ramen noodle cup.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: This story was adapted by George Lefferts, my particular radio hero, who wrote a wild number of scripts in the Sci-Fi, noir and other genres.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:35 This must be why we have to take our shoes off in Airports.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: I think a lot of people in the 50's were worried about robots, and how they would integrate into our culture. In a lot of ways, it sounds like our worry about integrating AI into our culture, now.
	10:39pm laurapanic: Did he just vaporise a DOG??
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: Yikes! I forgot about the dog dying in this one. Sorry everyone! Should have put a warning on this one.
	10:41pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 its fine, its interesting!
	10:41pm laurapanic: Robit.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: I think the most famous movie that Jerry Sohl wrote was, "Frankenstein Conquers the World," mostly because it has become importalized in a song by Daniel Johnston.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:41 The preferred pronunciation.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: Comical music cue...
	👻 10:43pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:34 I see he wrote "The Corbomite Maneuver". That's the first episode produced in the series, after the two pilots. I suppose that means he invented the characters McCoy, Uhura and Rand.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:43 Wow! That's pretty cool. I still need to read that book about the first season of Star Trek. ("These Are The Voyages, Season One," or something like that.) I hear there's some interesting stories in there.
	10:46pm Webhamster Henry: I like the baloon pop foley.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:46 There's some good sounds in this one. I need to work on my X-Minus One Soundboard.
	👻 10:48pm David Shortell: ↳ laurapanic @10:41 One of the more gruesome bubble gum cards in Topps’ 1962 “Mars Attacks” series was “Destroying a Dog”.
	10:48pm Webhamster Henry: Six cops were vaporized, but we care about the dog.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: I'm still waiting to take my TV shows in pill form. Watching them in real time takes too long.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:48 Meh. Cops don't matter. BUT DOGS BRING JOY!
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:48 Isn't that in the movie, too? I feel like there's som pretty weird deaths in that movie, too. (Which is pretty great.)
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: Thanks again everyone for tuning in tonight. It's always fun to listen to these old stories.
	👻 10:51pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:45 The alien Clint Howard plays in that episode is called Balok. He should not be confused with the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" villain Belloq, or the WFMU radio host Joe Belock.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:51 Raiders was the first movie I remember seeing, at the Drive-In, with my parents. Belloq scared the CRAP out of me, and I was glad he melted.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: I sort of want the robots to take over. Is that wrong?
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone for listening. We'll see ya'll next week!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: Triumphant music!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: Comedy ending. (Those professors are always grading.)
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: Comedy musical sting, too!
	11:02pm Webhamster Henry: Alien conquest was defeated by robot bureaucrats.
	👻 11:02pm WR: Thank you, Austin. Glad I could catch X-Minus One tonight.
	👻 11:02pm David Shortell: Before this program ends, I’d like to apologize for misidentifying Zander Schloss’ “Repo Man” character Kevin as “Waldo” last week.
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:02 I did not catch your mistake! You are forgiven.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 22, 2024

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July 22, 2024: Episode #102

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Rogue's Gallery	"Murder At Minden"	3 January 1946	NBC		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Adventures of Rocky Jordan	"Escapade With Paula"	9 January 1949	Santana Productions		0:29:42 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Richard Matby	St. Louis Blues Mambo				0:59:57 (Pop-up)
Unpublished History	Radio in the 1920s (Part 16)	Radio In The 1920s	Self-Released	2024	1:13:28 (Pop-up)
The Blue Beetle	"Rounding Up the Payroll Bandits, Part 2"	28 June 1940	Mutual–Don Lee Network		1:19:09 (Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"The Seventh Order" ""The Seventh Order"" by "X-Minus One"	8 May 1956	NBC Radio		1:32:47 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:29pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:59pm Imaginos: Ahoy, me hearties!
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:59 Wonderful to see you in the digital salon! Sit down, and stay a spell, won't you?
	9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:00 Happily. I'm listening, having fun in chat and expecting a bonk in 7.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: This would have been the "New Year's" Broadcast for 1946. In my memory, there was nothing in the story that related to new years's, or even the beginning of the year. But In this era, a lot of shows were not really worried about being timely, and often only did so for big holidays.
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: Time for the weekly hair wash with Fitch shampoo! and Eugor.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:03 "Make the Switch, With Fitch!" Which I think was their actual slogan?
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: I've been in a terrible mood for the last several days, so the Rogue's Gallery music is doing wonders on my mood. Thanks Old Time Radio!
	9:06pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:04 Hope you're doing better.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:06 Meh. Some things just get worse and worse.
	9:08pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 One of those weeks. The kind that make you go "grrr"
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:08 Or sigh a lot and take a few extra naps.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: "And let you shoot at me? That doesn't sound practical."
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: One thing about Richard Rogue is that he is really unafraid to shoot people, and in a number of stories, he shoots people, and let's them bleed. He's a fairly cruel gumshoe.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: I was thinking about collecting all the Eugor scenes into one extended super-cut.
	9:10pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:10 That would be fun
	9:11pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:10 I can use it to train a text to speech voice.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:11 Ha!
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: I think this hobo on the train is played by our friend Gerald Mohr!
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: Rogue is also very pushy, with almost everyone, too. (Particularly with women he is hitting on.) I suspect that is part of the "hard boiled" style that people were trying to ape in those days, and in particular, part of Dick Powell's efforts to repair his "good boy / crooner" reputation. His behavior in this show, in spite of his good acting, makes him come off as a charismatic "dick," in every sense of the word.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: "Phoney as a chorus girl's accent."
	9:28pm laurapanic: HI Austin! bit late and happy to be here...
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: In spite of his jerkiness, I do enjoy Richard Rogue's charm. He's like a jock that you should hate but you don't, in spite of the bad things he does. Or like Sawyer, from Lost.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:28 Good Hello! Thanks for droppin' in. There's still plenty of show left!
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: You can hear a "crackle" that matches the sound of the mechanical motor spinning the disc. This is a common sound on a lot of Rocky Jordan episodes. Eventually, you learn to listen "through" them, but I did my best with new digital tools to remove as many as possible, without ruining the sound.
	9:31pm laurapanic: I am looking forward to PAULA
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: "...looking for salt water and had a run-in with a bottle of gin."
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: Chris, the bartender at The Cafe Tambourine, is one of the unsung heroes of this show. He is often asked to do something for Rocky, or takes are of the bar for Rocky, runs an errand, breaks up a fight, etc. Chris is sort of the secret backbone of this show, and I've been thinking about writing a story from his point of view.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: While the setting is in Cairo, quite often the stories would work in any large city, almost anywhere in the world. The problem is that all the actors a very obviously Americans, so the accents sort of stick out, and it probably would have been better set in the US somewhere. That said, the exotic setting, and the excellent music, have made this a unique noir among old radio shows.
	9:37pm laurapanic: Team Chris
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:37 It could be a "day in the life," where he's running errands, and keeps getting into all these side-adventures.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: "She looked as good in the late afternoon as she did at night." I've fallen for a few French Girls. I get it.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: Anytime she wants to open a bottle of wine with you, you say: yes.
	9:43pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:41 From France, Canada, or Mauritius?
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:43 One Canadian, one French. Both in College. They were in PDX, so I didn't even have to travel.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: "Cleopatra's Grandmother" would make a great name for an experimental band.
	9:46pm laurapanic: go old lady, go!
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: Yeah, I love characters like her.
	9:47pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 background/minor characters are fun to pay attention to
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:47 There's a lot of really weird, hilarious, and fantastic performances in small roles on shows like this. I was thinking about cutting up a bunch of background characters, to make them all the main focus.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: She's a clever grandma. As they often are.
	9:52pm Imaginos: ↳ laurapanic @9:47 And to write fanfics about
	9:57pm laurapanic: a few hours of fun! We have all been there
	9:57pm laurapanic: ↳ Imaginos @9:52 Doctor Who audio adventures, for instance!
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: It's what makes noir so relatable. We've ALL been there... on both sides of the table.
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:57 It's the only way to can get all those extra Second Doctor stories.
	9:59pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Imaginos @9:52 King Moses can sing about side characters.
	10:00pm laurapanic: I HAD NO IDEA WE MAMBO'D!!!!
	10:01pm laurapanic: in a DIGITAL SALON!!!
	10:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:59 I like it. An anthology series
	10:06pm laurapanic: Too nerdy ? Pfffft? Round here? NEVER
	10:11pm Imaginos: Have you ever seen Haunted Honeymoon?
	10:13pm Imaginos: Gene Wilder and Gilda Earned play a couple of Old Time Radio actors and the visual representation of their characters
	10:13pm Imaginos: ↳ Imaginos @10:13 Radner
	👻 10:14pm David Shortell: ↳ Imaginos @10:13 Almost an anagram!
	10:15pm laurapanic: trained chimers!
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Radio in the 1920s (Part 16)" by "Unpublished His... Religious radio, and church radio, was HUGE in the US, and in many ways, led to the laws we have, since many churches tried to monopolize radio licenses. The most dramatic version of this is seen in the TV show Carnivale, which has a creepy religious pastor who broadcasts his sermons as part of the story.
	10:15pm laurapanic: The show is here on Apple TV and Prime. I don't have those, but I've added it to my watchlist.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:15 Remember WENN? I think it's on AMC, too, if you have access to that one.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:13 I need to see this!
	10:19pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:19 That's okay. Thanks for being so supportive of my shows. I hope you enjoyed the "Dancing On The Moon" Special? It would have been nice to have a Zoom party to watch those videos, too, but it's hard to get everyone on the same schedule.
	10:22pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:20 I have stamps from the Landing
	10:23pm Imaginos: Good night
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: Blue Beetle always separated their stories into two parts, but at this point in the run, "Mutual-Don Lee" was encouraging that the two parts air on different days. At the beginning of the Blue Beetle run, they suggested that both parts should air on the same day, and for the first couple episodes, the two parts are hard to find the separation point. This is one of those shows that got better as it ran, but since other similar shows were much more popular, didn't run much longer after they figured out the formula. It's surprising that the show lasted as long as it did; there was brutal competition in the kids adventure market.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:23 Sleep well!
	10:26pm laurapanic: Blue Beetle has iPhone
	10:26pm Webhamster Henry: Portable wireless phone!
	10:27pm Webhamster Henry: The battery is as big as a St. Bernard.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: 1940 sure had marvelous technology. There were electric cars in the 30's, too, but were taken off the market by gas companies. The past used to cool...
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:27 You need a St. Bernard to pull the sled for the battery.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: I think we'll go about two minutes over this week. Which is better than I've managed in a long, long time!
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: "The Seventh Order" was written by Jerry Sohl. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: He wrote on Star Trek: TOS under the name Nathan Butler.
	👻 10:35pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:26 C.O.N.T.R.O.L. Agent 86 had one of those in his shoe.
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: He was also Charles Beaumont's ghost writer, near the end of his run on The Twilight Zone.
	10:36pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: ""The Seventh Order"" by "X-Minus One" A blue Humanoid speaking into a ramen noodle cup.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: This story was adapted by George Lefferts, my particular radio hero, who wrote a wild number of scripts in the Sci-Fi, noir and other genres.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:35 This must be why we have to take our shoes off in Airports.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: I think a lot of people in the 50's were worried about robots, and how they would integrate into our culture. In a lot of ways, it sounds like our worry about integrating AI into our culture, now.
	10:39pm laurapanic: Did he just vaporise a DOG??
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: Yikes! I forgot about the dog dying in this one. Sorry everyone! Should have put a warning on this one.
	10:41pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 its fine, its interesting!
	10:41pm laurapanic: Robit.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: I think the most famous movie that Jerry Sohl wrote was, "Frankenstein Conquers the World," mostly because it has become importalized in a song by Daniel Johnston.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:41 The preferred pronunciation.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: Comical music cue...
	👻 10:43pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:34 I see he wrote "The Corbomite Maneuver". That's the first episode produced in the series, after the two pilots. I suppose that means he invented the characters McCoy, Uhura and Rand.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:43 Wow! That's pretty cool. I still need to read that book about the first season of Star Trek. ("These Are The Voyages, Season One," or something like that.) I hear there's some interesting stories in there.
	10:46pm Webhamster Henry: I like the baloon pop foley.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:46 There's some good sounds in this one. I need to work on my X-Minus One Soundboard.
	👻 10:48pm David Shortell: ↳ laurapanic @10:41 One of the more gruesome bubble gum cards in Topps’ 1962 “Mars Attacks” series was “Destroying a Dog”.
	10:48pm Webhamster Henry: Six cops were vaporized, but we care about the dog.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: I'm still waiting to take my TV shows in pill form. Watching them in real time takes too long.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:48 Meh. Cops don't matter. BUT DOGS BRING JOY!
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:48 Isn't that in the movie, too? I feel like there's som pretty weird deaths in that movie, too. (Which is pretty great.)
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: Thanks again everyone for tuning in tonight. It's always fun to listen to these old stories.
	👻 10:51pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:45 The alien Clint Howard plays in that episode is called Balok. He should not be confused with the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" villain Belloq, or the WFMU radio host Joe Belock.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:51 Raiders was the first movie I remember seeing, at the Drive-In, with my parents. Belloq scared the CRAP out of me, and I was glad he melted.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: I sort of want the robots to take over. Is that wrong?
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone for listening. We'll see ya'll next week!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: Triumphant music!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: Comedy ending. (Those professors are always grading.)
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: Comedy musical sting, too!
	11:02pm Webhamster Henry: Alien conquest was defeated by robot bureaucrats.
	👻 11:02pm WR: Thank you, Austin. Glad I could catch X-Minus One tonight.
	👻 11:02pm David Shortell: Before this program ends, I’d like to apologize for misidentifying Zander Schloss’ “Repo Man” character Kevin as “Waldo” last week.
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:02 I did not catch your mistake! You are forgiven.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 22, 2024

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