WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 14, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 8:38pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:56pm Imaginos: Ahoy, me hearties! Looks like an excellent show
	9:01pm Charles: It lives! It lives!
	👻 9:01pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:56 Imaginos! I do hope you enjoy your time in the Digital Salon.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:01 "Rise from your grave!"
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:01 yerfriendpaul! Thanks for joining us! Sit and stay a spell.
	9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 I always do!
	9:03pm Charles: We're not there yet but the theme from Quiet Please is so creepy :o
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: Hi ! I like the Weird Circle and Vince! Weird Circle introducer sounds like Garrison Keillor.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: As you all know, I have made it a habit of trying to restore the sound on these broadcasts, and this episode is no exception. I did some track separation, EQing, and other bits here and there, to clean this one up as best I could. Fortunately, most Weird Circle episodes sound pretty good, but anything I can do to improve things, I'll happily do.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:03 I get that theme stuck in my head working on these shows. It is so good!
	9:04pm Webhamster Henry: Speaking of Quiet Please, Stashu just played a shortened, newly read version of Quiet Please's "The Thing on the Fourble Board"
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:03 I never thought of that! I'll have to compare their voices. I do find these anthology shows, with different stories every week, to be very interesting. Seems like a challenge for a voice actor, to embody so many characters.
	👻 9:05pm WR: Hi Austin and folks. Just recalled that I haven't listened to all of last week's episode. So few hours, so much great radio on 'FMU.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:04 Oooooo. I do like that story.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:05 I look at the radio shows I've downloaded, and I wonder who will listen to all the ones I don't finish before I pass. My cats don't seem too interested.
	9:09pm Charles: Everyone has great voices in this.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: I don't think I've ever actually experienced a night "sitting around telling ghost stories" with friends. Clearly I have been missing out.
	9:10pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 Well, right now Archive.org is down, trying to recover from hacks and Denial of Service attacks. So my big source of OTR is offline .
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:10 DON'T GET ME STARTED! I've been following this story pretty avidly, as archive.org hosts my podcasts, and is my source for so much entertainment. I'm very happy to hear the data is safe. But damn, why mess with archive.org? They're the good guys!
	9:12pm Charles: Gah I'm forgetting the name of the author but the book "Ghost Story" will make you want to do exactly that. Great read.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:12 One of my fave books is Ambrose Bierce's, "Ghosts Stories." (It has many names, and is more and or less complete depending on the version.) But his ghost stories are great.
	👻 9:15pm yerfriendpaul: Pants stealing ghosts are the worst!
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: "I saw the ghost; my britches are gone!" Okay, now I'm scared.
	👻 9:15pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 Ha ha!
	9:17pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:12 Well, Archive.org is being smacked down by publishers who think their "borrowing" scheme is not enough like taking a book out of a library (and returning it). One thing after another. arstechnica.com...
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:17 I know, it's so dumb. I do appreciate that the currently copyright holder for "1984" asked for it to be removed from archive.org, which seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: While he's yelling about "trousers" all I can think about is Wallace & Grommit.
	9:21pm David The Splatter: ↳ Song: ""The Spectre of Tappington"" by "The Weird Circle" "The ghost has taken my trousers", never flew in my house with my parents.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:21 All those "rules" about having to wear "clothes" in public. Man, squares ruin everything.
	9:23pm laurapanic: PRESENT!!
	9:23pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 ITS THE WRONG TROUSERS!!
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:23 Hooray! You get "participation" credit for this one!
	👻 9:24pm yerfriendpaul: Sadly, I’ve got to cut out early before the trouser mystery gets resolved. Good luck to Charles! Thanks Austin!
	9:24pm laurapanic: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:10 EXCUSE ME? nOOOOOOOOO
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:23 I love those shorts! I was so excited I could watch Wallace & Grommit more when I started babysitting.
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:24 Sorry to see you go, but we'll enjoy the next time you can join us! Until then.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: "I Remember My Trousers" was a lesser known Peter Gabriel hit in the early 80's.
	9:27pm David The Splatter: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:24 night, paul!
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: Ha! A woman, wear trousers? What kind of future-fantasy is that man talking about? Oh, what a jest!
	9:27pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Or Streisand's Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: I believe the Vandals genuinely have a song called, "I'm Not Gonna Change My Pants."
	9:29pm David The Splatter: "I Buried My Pants", a lesser-known punk anthem?
	9:29pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 "if he were any squarer, he'd be a cube!"
	9:29pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: ""To My Dear Dear Saladin"" by "The Price of Fear" This is a fun one!
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: Aside from a little background hiss, this episode sounds great, so I didn't do much aside from EQing this one for tonight's presentation. And it's another Price story about cats! Gotta love it.
	9:30pm David The Splatter: ↳ Austin Rich @9:28 oops... didn't see that one. Sorry.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:29 Punk's not dead, their pants have always smelled like that.
	9:31pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 Indeed. Cats Cradle was another good episode, albeit a sad one.
	9:33pm Imaginos: I wonder if this episode inspired The Aristocats?
	9:34pm Imaginos: Chockies? Cats can't eat chockies.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: I don't know why - probably all the years watching PBS and Monty Python - but I do love the accents on this show. I'm a sucker for an those voices.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:33 I haven't seen Aristocats since I was a kid. I wonder if it holds up?
	9:35pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 Monty Python, Benny Hill, and The Young Ones
	9:37pm wenzo: Howdeee AR & Classic Radio aficionados all
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:35 Young Ones over and over and over again. There's some jokes that haven't aged well, but damn, I do love those Young Ones.
	9:37pm Imaginos: ↳ wenzo @9:37 Ahoy!
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:37 wenzo! Welcome to the Digital Salon. Sit and stay a spell.
	9:39pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:37 I've often suggested Special Patrol Group as a name in pet reddits.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:39 Ha! I think that, while I aspire to be a Vyvyan, I know in my heart that I'm a Rick.
	9:42pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:41 Nothing wrong with being The People's Poet.
	9:43pm Imaginos: Have you ever seen Torture Garden?
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:43 No, I haven't.
	9:45pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:44 Its an anthology. The first story is about a cat
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:45 I'll have to check that out.
	9:46pm David The Splatter: Thanks, Austin, I've got to get ready for some shuteye. I'll check out the rest on archive tomorrow. G'night, all!
	9:46pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 It stars Burgess Meredith
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:46 Sleep well, David The Splatter.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:46 Oh, I do love Burgess Meredith.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: As mentioned previously, I will not be here next week. Miss Mei will be covering for me. But I will be doing something very fun, while I'm gone: wfmu.org...
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: And while we're on the subject: I will also be missing the show on the 28th. I believe Bob Barth will be covering for me? Meanwhile, I'll be doing something very fun that day, too: wfmu.org...
	9:52pm laurapanic: those animal noises are sending my fox terrier a bit odd
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:52 Yeah, the creature sounds in this one are pretty wild.
	9:53pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 the meeting of two of my fave WFMU shows!!!
	9:54pm laurapanic: ↳ laurapanic @9:53 THREE of my fave shows!!!
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:53 I do love Bob's sense of style. And Miss Mei does great work, too. We have a pretty great crew here, I must say.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: SO, I don't feel bad for Freddy at all. Jerk.
	9:55pm wenzo: I got to see a Vincent Price double feature on the big screen recently… with live organ performances before the films & during intermission.
	9:55pm Imaginos: Face first
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:55 Woah! That's great. I love that kind of thing. I got to see some silents, before Covid, with live musical accompaniment. That was VERY good. I love that kind of stuff.
	👻 9:58pm Heather Z: I love this one.....
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: Yeah, you gotta love Cat Revenge!
	9:59pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather Z @9:58 Ahoy, Heather! Great to see you
	👻 9:59pm Heather Z: ↳ Imaginos @9:59 Hi Imaginos!!
	10:00pm wenzo: There’s a theatre here that’s owned by a theatre organ society… the movies are basically just an excuse to have a place to house/play the organ. They’ve got some Silents coming up… phantom of the opera & the big parade.
	10:02pm wenzo: Yea Freddy was a jerk. Good riddance.
	10:02pm Imaginos: ↳ wenzo @10:00 My mother used to speak of a movie theater in Australia where they showed silent movies while a live pianist played the music
	10:04pm laurapanic: ↳ Imaginos @10:02 what era are we talking, Imaginos? The Valhalla would sometimes do this in the 90s.
	10:04pm Imaginos: ↳ laurapanic @10:04 Around that time actually
	10:05pm laurapanic: there is one in my two happening very soon....hang on...yep. Nosferatu on Thursday night, at a local theatre, with a live score.
	10:05pm laurapanic: ↳ Imaginos @10:04 would have been first half of 90s I reckon. Is she Australian?
	10:06pm laurapanic: ↳ laurapanic @10:05 *in my TOWN
	10:06pm Imaginos: ↳ laurapanic @10:05 She was born in Australia and moved to America in 1946 as a war bride
	10:08pm Webhamster Henry: The Bardavon Theatre in Poughkeepsie has an excellent organ!
	10:08pm wenzo: There were a couple places that I got to experience that as a kid… there’s an old theatre in downtown Fargo that had an organ that rose up out of the floor… not sure if it’s still operational but the theatre is still there.
	10:09pm Imaginos: My mom returned to Australia whenever she could
	10:09pm laurapanic: ↳ Imaginos @10:06 oh wow!! Big move for an Australian girl back then. Australia was not very sophisticated at that time...
	10:09pm laurapanic: ↳ Imaginos @10:09 do you know where she was from?
	10:09pm laurapanic: Austin, you have the best nerds in the salon
	10:10pm Imaginos: ↳ laurapanic @10:09 Brisbane/Bundie
	10:10pm wenzo: But yea if anyone’s ever in Detroit and wants to hear a classic Wurlitzer with all the percussion instruments & all that… https://www.senatetheater.com
	👻 10:10pm Heather Z: Full moon Thursday!
	10:12pm Webhamster Henry: Phantom of the Opera (1925) w/ organ: www.bardavon.org...
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:10 Thursday! Of course. It looks very full tonight.
	👻 10:15pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:14 It's on its way! Have you had The Northen Lights visible there lately? I saw them last week through my phone from my yard!
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:09 We do a have a strict "No Jocks or Socs" rule in the Digital Salon.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:15 Haven't see the Northern Lights, but it's also been partially overcast a lot, so I might just not be seeing it.
	10:17pm Webhamster Henry: Speaking of Bela Lugosi, his pal Ed Wood had a 100th birthday the other day.
	👻 10:18pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:16 People here were very excited last week. Lots of posts from piers and driveways and yards. It was really cool, even though my eyes couldn't see and only the phone camera.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:17 I do love that movie, Ed Wood. The way they portrayed Bela and Ed was great. That movie is fantastic.
	10:22pm laurapanic: ↳ Imaginos @10:10 oh wow.....even MORE of a big change. Queensland is the most conservative state we have! Was even a bit of a police state in the 70s/80s.
	10:23pm Webhamster Henry: I did this monologue in a funny show I did with Brian Dewan.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: The Strange Dr. Weird has a commercial break in the middle, that really ruins the flow of the story for me. So I cut it out from these presentations.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: The original sound on The Strange Dr. Weird is terrible, so I did a lot of restoration on this one, which sounds a LOT better, now.
	10:25pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:24 Thanks. What was the ad for?
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:25 "Adam Hats." The sponsor of the show.
	👻 10:26pm Heather Z: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:23 Brian Dewan! That's so cool! I don't have a lot of his stuff but I super dig the tracks I have!
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: Our lives might be 20 or 30 years longer? You mean: more of this meaninglessness? Sigh.
	10:26pm Imaginos: Man of Steel Woman of Tissue comes to mind.
	10:27pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Heather Z @10:26 He did a little show here last week on tow of his Dewanatrons.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: What's wrong with going Ape?
	10:28pm Imaginos: Or maybe Altered States?
	👻 10:29pm Heather Z: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:27 That's so neat. I shouldn't have lost track of him. I've got some googling to do after Dime Store wraps tonight!
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 "Ape Call, doodly - ah - bah. Ape Call, doodly - ah - bah. You wanna be cool man? Go ape!" youtu.be...
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:26 The Larry Niven essay?
	10:31pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 Yes
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:28 I still haven't seen that.
	10:32pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 Nor i. But I saw pieces.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: "I know an ape when I see one." That shouldn't be your only point of pride.
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: Not final! Whoops! I mispoke!
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: Like nearly all episodes of Quiet Please, the sound on this one was awful, so I did a lot of processing to improve things. It's better, but there's still a lot of surface noise.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: Interesting that he wants a kid, and she doesn't. In the late 40's, the stereotype would be the other way around.
	👻 10:46pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 larryniven.net...
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:46 I always had a soft spot for Larry Niven's writing, since he wrote on the Star Trek Animated Series, and did a Green Lantern story. I was Trek and GL as a youth, so that made him alright in my mind.
	10:50pm Webhamster Henry: The writing in Quiet Please is so different from other shows!
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:50 It's that Wyllis Cooper style! He's got a really specific point of view. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: "Normal Hill"? That is the scariest name yet.
	10:57pm Webhamster Henry: Stab, stab, stab!
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:57 In Portland, about 20 years ago, there was a band called, "Stabbity Stabbity Stab Stab Stab." I never saw them, but I loved that name.
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: Republican Radio Rally? Now that's terrifying!
	11:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @11:02 Indeed it is
	👻 11:03pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @11:02 That was wild to hear. Yes, talk about a Spooktacular!!
	👻 11:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Haunted Hotel"" by "The Weird Circle" This is a particularly bad recording, for The Weird Circle. I did my best to clean it up, and it sounds better. Many of the transition cues in the second half of this episode are gone, or mangled, so I replaced them with other music cues from other episodes of the show. I think it all works, but this one required more repair than the regular episode of The Weird Circle.
	👻 11:06pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 Niven invented an intelligent non-humanoid extraterrestrial species called Puppeteers in his story "Neutron Star". John Byrne/Terry Austin drew one in a famous panel's background. If you look closely, you might notice the Phantom Stranger and Popeye too. ca.pinterest.com...
	11:07pm Imaginos: Would their name be Borgia?
	👻 11:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:06 I never read X-Men, but all my friends did. I dated a girl who was REALLY into X-Men, but it never clicked with me. I did like some of the artists, here and there. Maybe I would like it more, now?
	11:11pm Imaginos: Going to bed. Have to get up early
	👻 11:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @11:11 Sleep well! We'll talk soon.
	11:12pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @11:11 We'll talk about Lost Christobel.
	👻 11:15pm Austin Rich: Stories like this remind me that, for hundreds of years, people would just go about their lives, sick, going to work, meeting people, doing things, as if there was nothing they could do about it.
	👻 11:16pm Austin Rich: This back-half of the story has some of the worst sound.
	11:16pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @11:10 Stan Lee invented Mutants because he was tired of making origin stories involving radiation to make superheroes. This way, he can skip all those radiation accidents.
	👻 11:19pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @11:15 Even before covid, there was a notable shift in my office culture where, if someone was sick, everyone would bully them to go home and rest, don't get us sick, leave already and get better soon. That was refreshing compared to the culture of, "of oh, I'm sick too. Wish I could go home." And, "hope you had a good 'sick' day and you're 'feeling better.'"
	👻 11:20pm Austin Rich: You can hear, faintly, in the background, another story that is behind this one. Most likely, this episode was recorded onto a tape with another episode of something on behind it. That is one of the things that has muddied the sound in this part of the episode.
	👻 11:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @11:19 That's incredibly rare. I've never had a job that understanding.
	👻 11:22pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @11:20 It was a change I saw at the same job I'm at now. It was really notable. A huge shift and welcome, too. Now we all work from home and yell on Teams for people to log off and get some rest and heal up.
	👻 11:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @11:16 Most super-heroes have dumb origins, and the idea that people REALLY care about origins is a dubious claim to me. I don't particularly care about Robin Hood's early years. Sherlock Holmes is fine to me without knowing how he got his "powers." It's funny how superheroes have such a different set of narrative conventions.
	👻 11:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @11:22 You're lucky. Most jobs are not like that.
	👻 11:26pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @11:24 I'm very lucky! I do know that! I've heard from other friends that they've seen a similar shift in their office cultures and we all agree we're grateful for the shift.
	👻 11:42pm Austin Rich: I don't know why, but the mood established by this story is TERRIFYING to me.
	👻 11:50pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @11:42 It's the Mumsy Wumsy, maybe?
	11:50pm Webhamster Henry: This baby part is very extensive!
	12:08am Mr Fab: Right on, this show is STILL going! The Fab fam has gone to bed, I'm now sitting down with a cocktail, and very happy to at least catch the last hour.
	👻 12:09am Heather Z: ↳ Mr Fab @12:08 What kind of cocktail? Cheers! I have an IPA going here!
	👻 12:09am Austin Rich: I do love hearing those Ray Walston quotes.
	12:10am Mr Fab: ↳ Heather Z @12:09 Hey Heather! Pineapple juice infused wine. Not very strong, but tasty.
	👻 12:11am Heather Z: ↳ Mr Fab @12:10 Excellent! I do love a good pineapple!
	👻 12:12am Austin Rich: I certainly went through a Bela Lugosi / Ed Wood period in my 20's, around when a lot of Wood movies were starting to be much easier to find on VHS. These days, I couldn't really tell you the difference between anything that isn't Plan 9. It's like one, huge, bad movie slurry in my head.
	12:13am Mr Fab: "I will create a race of men...a race of atomic superman...who will conquer the world!" Great scene in the Tim Burton film "Ed Wood" with Bela reciting that speech from "Bride of the Monster."
	👻 12:14am Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:13 I love that movie! It is a very sensitive portrayal of both Wood and Bela. I was thinking of watching it again this year.
	👻 12:16am Heather Z: Jeesh this is poignant....
	👻 12:17am Austin Rich: "He looked very impressive in death." Pretty much Bela's life story.
	12:18am Mr Fab: When I started working in law offices in the '90s, I once saw a letter from another firm, and Bela Lugosi Jr. was one of the names on the masthead. Would have loved to have worked for him! Also once saw a document with Frank Sinatra III on a law firm's masthead. I was like DAMN, those two should have started their own firm. The Law Offices of Sinatra & Lugosi.
	👻 12:19am Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:18 Now we have to write a show where Sinatra & Lugosi are lawyers by day and detectives by night.
	12:23am Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @12:19 and paranormal investigators!
	👻 12:24am Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:23 But of course!
	👻 12:25am Austin Rich: I gotta show off the excellent reasons why I'm missing next week, and the week after: wfmu.org...
	👻 12:25am Austin Rich: wfmu.org...
	👻 12:31am Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Pathetic Fallacy"" by "Quiet Please" This episode is a little different than your average "Quiet Please" episode. It's still great, but... it's different, for sure.
	👻 12:40am Austin Rich: Those crazy computers. You just can't trust them.
	12:41am Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @12:25 So totally rad I can't believe it. So you're Human Dinosaur? Any one else joining you?
	👻 12:43am Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:41 My friend Mr. X - who is in the chat for MVM from time to time - is my co-conspirator with Human Dinosaur. I was excited that we got Mike Dringenberg from the Sandman comics to do our fliers! It's been wild.
	12:45am Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @12:43 Oh yeah, Mr X! that's so cool. I personally prefer "The Strange Dr. Weird" over "The Weird Dr. Strange."
	👻 12:49am Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Pathetic Fallacy"" by "Quiet Please" It is interesting to hear a story from 1948 about computers that might be alive. Considering our current concerns regarding AI, it's good to know we've been worried about "smart" computers for almost 80 years now.
	👻 12:51am Austin Rich: We might actually end on time tonight! It's a Spook-tacular Miracle!
	👻 12:52am WR: I seem to have drifted off to sleep. Strange, must have been dreaming.
	👻 12:53am Austin Rich: ↳ WR @12:52 "...merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily..."
	👻 12:55am Austin Rich: This is the problem with machines. They will inevitably fall in love with us!
	12:55am Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @12:49 couple decades before HAL in "2001," the story that usually we credit with introducing this concept.
	👻 12:56am Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:55 Good point! That didn't occur to me.
	👻 12:56am Austin Rich: I'm about to sign off. Thanks everyone for joining me! See ya next time!
	👻 12:57am Austin Rich: Sisters are looking out for each other.
	12:57am Mr Fab: Thank YOU! Super cool. I love these Halloween specials.
	👻 12:58am Austin Rich: I do love the Spook-tacular Season.
	👻 12:58am Austin Rich: "Talk numbers to me, Quinn."
	👻 12:59am WR: Thank you, Austin!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 14, 2024

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
The Weird Circle	"The Spectre of Tappington"	12 March 1944			0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Price of Fear	"To My Dear Dear Saladin"	7 June 1983			0:28:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Frankie Trumbauer & Orchestra	Shivery Stomp	Halloween Stomp	Jass Records	1990	0:59:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Biography Channel	Bela Lugosi: Hollywood's Dark Prince Part 4	Bela Lugosi: Hollywood's Dark Prince	Biography Channel	1995	1:13:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Strange Dr. Weird	"Journey Into The Unknown"	21 November 1944			1:23:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Quiet Please	"Little Visitor" ""Little Visitor"" by "Quiet Please"	5 January 1948			1:34:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Weird Circle	"The Haunted Hotel"	13 May 1945			2:02:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Price of Fear	"Out of The Mouths"	20 June 1983			2:30:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Bill Snyder	Bewitched "Bewitched" by "Bill Snyder"				3:01:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Biography Channel	Bela Lugosi: Hollywood's Dark Prince Part 5	Bela Lugosi: Hollywood's Dark Prince	Biography Channel	1995	3:08:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Strange Dr. Weird	"Death In The Everglades"	28 November 1944			3:18:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Quiet Please	"Pathetic Fallacy" ""Pathetic Fallacy"" by "Quiet Please"	2 February 1948			3:30:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 8:38pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:56pm Imaginos: Ahoy, me hearties! Looks like an excellent show
	9:01pm Charles: It lives! It lives!
	👻 9:01pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:56 Imaginos! I do hope you enjoy your time in the Digital Salon.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:01 "Rise from your grave!"
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:01 yerfriendpaul! Thanks for joining us! Sit and stay a spell.
	9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 I always do!
	9:03pm Charles: We're not there yet but the theme from Quiet Please is so creepy :o
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: Hi ! I like the Weird Circle and Vince! Weird Circle introducer sounds like Garrison Keillor.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: As you all know, I have made it a habit of trying to restore the sound on these broadcasts, and this episode is no exception. I did some track separation, EQing, and other bits here and there, to clean this one up as best I could. Fortunately, most Weird Circle episodes sound pretty good, but anything I can do to improve things, I'll happily do.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:03 I get that theme stuck in my head working on these shows. It is so good!
	9:04pm Webhamster Henry: Speaking of Quiet Please, Stashu just played a shortened, newly read version of Quiet Please's "The Thing on the Fourble Board"
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:03 I never thought of that! I'll have to compare their voices. I do find these anthology shows, with different stories every week, to be very interesting. Seems like a challenge for a voice actor, to embody so many characters.
	👻 9:05pm WR: Hi Austin and folks. Just recalled that I haven't listened to all of last week's episode. So few hours, so much great radio on 'FMU.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:04 Oooooo. I do like that story.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:05 I look at the radio shows I've downloaded, and I wonder who will listen to all the ones I don't finish before I pass. My cats don't seem too interested.
	9:09pm Charles: Everyone has great voices in this.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: I don't think I've ever actually experienced a night "sitting around telling ghost stories" with friends. Clearly I have been missing out.
	9:10pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 Well, right now Archive.org is down, trying to recover from hacks and Denial of Service attacks. So my big source of OTR is offline .
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:10 DON'T GET ME STARTED! I've been following this story pretty avidly, as archive.org hosts my podcasts, and is my source for so much entertainment. I'm very happy to hear the data is safe. But damn, why mess with archive.org? They're the good guys!
	9:12pm Charles: Gah I'm forgetting the name of the author but the book "Ghost Story" will make you want to do exactly that. Great read.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:12 One of my fave books is Ambrose Bierce's, "Ghosts Stories." (It has many names, and is more and or less complete depending on the version.) But his ghost stories are great.
	👻 9:15pm yerfriendpaul: Pants stealing ghosts are the worst!
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: "I saw the ghost; my britches are gone!" Okay, now I'm scared.
	👻 9:15pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 Ha ha!
	9:17pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:12 Well, Archive.org is being smacked down by publishers who think their "borrowing" scheme is not enough like taking a book out of a library (and returning it). One thing after another. arstechnica.com...
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:17 I know, it's so dumb. I do appreciate that the currently copyright holder for "1984" asked for it to be removed from archive.org, which seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: While he's yelling about "trousers" all I can think about is Wallace & Grommit.
	9:21pm David The Splatter: ↳ Song: ""The Spectre of Tappington"" by "The Weird Circle" "The ghost has taken my trousers", never flew in my house with my parents.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:21 All those "rules" about having to wear "clothes" in public. Man, squares ruin everything.
	9:23pm laurapanic: PRESENT!!
	9:23pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 ITS THE WRONG TROUSERS!!
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:23 Hooray! You get "participation" credit for this one!
	👻 9:24pm yerfriendpaul: Sadly, I’ve got to cut out early before the trouser mystery gets resolved. Good luck to Charles! Thanks Austin!
	9:24pm laurapanic: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:10 EXCUSE ME? nOOOOOOOOO
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:23 I love those shorts! I was so excited I could watch Wallace & Grommit more when I started babysitting.
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:24 Sorry to see you go, but we'll enjoy the next time you can join us! Until then.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: "I Remember My Trousers" was a lesser known Peter Gabriel hit in the early 80's.
	9:27pm David The Splatter: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:24 night, paul!
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: Ha! A woman, wear trousers? What kind of future-fantasy is that man talking about? Oh, what a jest!
	9:27pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Or Streisand's Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: I believe the Vandals genuinely have a song called, "I'm Not Gonna Change My Pants."
	9:29pm David The Splatter: "I Buried My Pants", a lesser-known punk anthem?
	9:29pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 "if he were any squarer, he'd be a cube!"
	9:29pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: ""To My Dear Dear Saladin"" by "The Price of Fear" This is a fun one!
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: Aside from a little background hiss, this episode sounds great, so I didn't do much aside from EQing this one for tonight's presentation. And it's another Price story about cats! Gotta love it.
	9:30pm David The Splatter: ↳ Austin Rich @9:28 oops... didn't see that one. Sorry.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:29 Punk's not dead, their pants have always smelled like that.
	9:31pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 Indeed. Cats Cradle was another good episode, albeit a sad one.
	9:33pm Imaginos: I wonder if this episode inspired The Aristocats?
	9:34pm Imaginos: Chockies? Cats can't eat chockies.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: I don't know why - probably all the years watching PBS and Monty Python - but I do love the accents on this show. I'm a sucker for an those voices.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:33 I haven't seen Aristocats since I was a kid. I wonder if it holds up?
	9:35pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 Monty Python, Benny Hill, and The Young Ones
	9:37pm wenzo: Howdeee AR & Classic Radio aficionados all
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:35 Young Ones over and over and over again. There's some jokes that haven't aged well, but damn, I do love those Young Ones.
	9:37pm Imaginos: ↳ wenzo @9:37 Ahoy!
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:37 wenzo! Welcome to the Digital Salon. Sit and stay a spell.
	9:39pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:37 I've often suggested Special Patrol Group as a name in pet reddits.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:39 Ha! I think that, while I aspire to be a Vyvyan, I know in my heart that I'm a Rick.
	9:42pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:41 Nothing wrong with being The People's Poet.
	9:43pm Imaginos: Have you ever seen Torture Garden?
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:43 No, I haven't.
	9:45pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:44 Its an anthology. The first story is about a cat
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:45 I'll have to check that out.
	9:46pm David The Splatter: Thanks, Austin, I've got to get ready for some shuteye. I'll check out the rest on archive tomorrow. G'night, all!
	9:46pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 It stars Burgess Meredith
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:46 Sleep well, David The Splatter.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:46 Oh, I do love Burgess Meredith.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: As mentioned previously, I will not be here next week. Miss Mei will be covering for me. But I will be doing something very fun, while I'm gone: wfmu.org...
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: And while we're on the subject: I will also be missing the show on the 28th. I believe Bob Barth will be covering for me? Meanwhile, I'll be doing something very fun that day, too: wfmu.org...
	9:52pm laurapanic: those animal noises are sending my fox terrier a bit odd
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:52 Yeah, the creature sounds in this one are pretty wild.
	9:53pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 the meeting of two of my fave WFMU shows!!!
	9:54pm laurapanic: ↳ laurapanic @9:53 THREE of my fave shows!!!
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:53 I do love Bob's sense of style. And Miss Mei does great work, too. We have a pretty great crew here, I must say.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: SO, I don't feel bad for Freddy at all. Jerk.
	9:55pm wenzo: I got to see a Vincent Price double feature on the big screen recently… with live organ performances before the films & during intermission.
	9:55pm Imaginos: Face first
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:55 Woah! That's great. I love that kind of thing. I got to see some silents, before Covid, with live musical accompaniment. That was VERY good. I love that kind of stuff.
	👻 9:58pm Heather Z: I love this one.....
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: Yeah, you gotta love Cat Revenge!
	9:59pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather Z @9:58 Ahoy, Heather! Great to see you
	👻 9:59pm Heather Z: ↳ Imaginos @9:59 Hi Imaginos!!
	10:00pm wenzo: There’s a theatre here that’s owned by a theatre organ society… the movies are basically just an excuse to have a place to house/play the organ. They’ve got some Silents coming up… phantom of the opera & the big parade.
	10:02pm wenzo: Yea Freddy was a jerk. Good riddance.
	10:02pm Imaginos: ↳ wenzo @10:00 My mother used to speak of a movie theater in Australia where they showed silent movies while a live pianist played the music
	10:04pm laurapanic: ↳ Imaginos @10:02 what era are we talking, Imaginos? The Valhalla would sometimes do this in the 90s.
	10:04pm Imaginos: ↳ laurapanic @10:04 Around that time actually
	10:05pm laurapanic: there is one in my two happening very soon....hang on...yep. Nosferatu on Thursday night, at a local theatre, with a live score.
	10:05pm laurapanic: ↳ Imaginos @10:04 would have been first half of 90s I reckon. Is she Australian?
	10:06pm laurapanic: ↳ laurapanic @10:05 *in my TOWN
	10:06pm Imaginos: ↳ laurapanic @10:05 She was born in Australia and moved to America in 1946 as a war bride
	10:08pm Webhamster Henry: The Bardavon Theatre in Poughkeepsie has an excellent organ!
	10:08pm wenzo: There were a couple places that I got to experience that as a kid… there’s an old theatre in downtown Fargo that had an organ that rose up out of the floor… not sure if it’s still operational but the theatre is still there.
	10:09pm Imaginos: My mom returned to Australia whenever she could
	10:09pm laurapanic: ↳ Imaginos @10:06 oh wow!! Big move for an Australian girl back then. Australia was not very sophisticated at that time...
	10:09pm laurapanic: ↳ Imaginos @10:09 do you know where she was from?
	10:09pm laurapanic: Austin, you have the best nerds in the salon
	10:10pm Imaginos: ↳ laurapanic @10:09 Brisbane/Bundie
	10:10pm wenzo: But yea if anyone’s ever in Detroit and wants to hear a classic Wurlitzer with all the percussion instruments & all that… https://www.senatetheater.com
	👻 10:10pm Heather Z: Full moon Thursday!
	10:12pm Webhamster Henry: Phantom of the Opera (1925) w/ organ: www.bardavon.org...
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:10 Thursday! Of course. It looks very full tonight.
	👻 10:15pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:14 It's on its way! Have you had The Northen Lights visible there lately? I saw them last week through my phone from my yard!
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:09 We do a have a strict "No Jocks or Socs" rule in the Digital Salon.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:15 Haven't see the Northern Lights, but it's also been partially overcast a lot, so I might just not be seeing it.
	10:17pm Webhamster Henry: Speaking of Bela Lugosi, his pal Ed Wood had a 100th birthday the other day.
	👻 10:18pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:16 People here were very excited last week. Lots of posts from piers and driveways and yards. It was really cool, even though my eyes couldn't see and only the phone camera.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:17 I do love that movie, Ed Wood. The way they portrayed Bela and Ed was great. That movie is fantastic.
	10:22pm laurapanic: ↳ Imaginos @10:10 oh wow.....even MORE of a big change. Queensland is the most conservative state we have! Was even a bit of a police state in the 70s/80s.
	10:23pm Webhamster Henry: I did this monologue in a funny show I did with Brian Dewan.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: The Strange Dr. Weird has a commercial break in the middle, that really ruins the flow of the story for me. So I cut it out from these presentations.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: The original sound on The Strange Dr. Weird is terrible, so I did a lot of restoration on this one, which sounds a LOT better, now.
	10:25pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:24 Thanks. What was the ad for?
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:25 "Adam Hats." The sponsor of the show.
	👻 10:26pm Heather Z: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:23 Brian Dewan! That's so cool! I don't have a lot of his stuff but I super dig the tracks I have!
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: Our lives might be 20 or 30 years longer? You mean: more of this meaninglessness? Sigh.
	10:26pm Imaginos: Man of Steel Woman of Tissue comes to mind.
	10:27pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Heather Z @10:26 He did a little show here last week on tow of his Dewanatrons.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: What's wrong with going Ape?
	10:28pm Imaginos: Or maybe Altered States?
	👻 10:29pm Heather Z: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:27 That's so neat. I shouldn't have lost track of him. I've got some googling to do after Dime Store wraps tonight!
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 "Ape Call, doodly - ah - bah. Ape Call, doodly - ah - bah. You wanna be cool man? Go ape!" youtu.be...
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:26 The Larry Niven essay?
	10:31pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 Yes
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:28 I still haven't seen that.
	10:32pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 Nor i. But I saw pieces.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: "I know an ape when I see one." That shouldn't be your only point of pride.
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: Not final! Whoops! I mispoke!
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: Like nearly all episodes of Quiet Please, the sound on this one was awful, so I did a lot of processing to improve things. It's better, but there's still a lot of surface noise.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: Interesting that he wants a kid, and she doesn't. In the late 40's, the stereotype would be the other way around.
	👻 10:46pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 larryniven.net...
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:46 I always had a soft spot for Larry Niven's writing, since he wrote on the Star Trek Animated Series, and did a Green Lantern story. I was Trek and GL as a youth, so that made him alright in my mind.
	10:50pm Webhamster Henry: The writing in Quiet Please is so different from other shows!
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:50 It's that Wyllis Cooper style! He's got a really specific point of view. en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: "Normal Hill"? That is the scariest name yet.
	10:57pm Webhamster Henry: Stab, stab, stab!
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:57 In Portland, about 20 years ago, there was a band called, "Stabbity Stabbity Stab Stab Stab." I never saw them, but I loved that name.
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: Republican Radio Rally? Now that's terrifying!
	11:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @11:02 Indeed it is
	👻 11:03pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @11:02 That was wild to hear. Yes, talk about a Spooktacular!!
	👻 11:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Haunted Hotel"" by "The Weird Circle" This is a particularly bad recording, for The Weird Circle. I did my best to clean it up, and it sounds better. Many of the transition cues in the second half of this episode are gone, or mangled, so I replaced them with other music cues from other episodes of the show. I think it all works, but this one required more repair than the regular episode of The Weird Circle.
	👻 11:06pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 Niven invented an intelligent non-humanoid extraterrestrial species called Puppeteers in his story "Neutron Star". John Byrne/Terry Austin drew one in a famous panel's background. If you look closely, you might notice the Phantom Stranger and Popeye too. ca.pinterest.com...
	11:07pm Imaginos: Would their name be Borgia?
	👻 11:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:06 I never read X-Men, but all my friends did. I dated a girl who was REALLY into X-Men, but it never clicked with me. I did like some of the artists, here and there. Maybe I would like it more, now?
	11:11pm Imaginos: Going to bed. Have to get up early
	👻 11:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @11:11 Sleep well! We'll talk soon.
	11:12pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @11:11 We'll talk about Lost Christobel.
	👻 11:15pm Austin Rich: Stories like this remind me that, for hundreds of years, people would just go about their lives, sick, going to work, meeting people, doing things, as if there was nothing they could do about it.
	👻 11:16pm Austin Rich: This back-half of the story has some of the worst sound.
	11:16pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @11:10 Stan Lee invented Mutants because he was tired of making origin stories involving radiation to make superheroes. This way, he can skip all those radiation accidents.
	👻 11:19pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @11:15 Even before covid, there was a notable shift in my office culture where, if someone was sick, everyone would bully them to go home and rest, don't get us sick, leave already and get better soon. That was refreshing compared to the culture of, "of oh, I'm sick too. Wish I could go home." And, "hope you had a good 'sick' day and you're 'feeling better.'"
	👻 11:20pm Austin Rich: You can hear, faintly, in the background, another story that is behind this one. Most likely, this episode was recorded onto a tape with another episode of something on behind it. That is one of the things that has muddied the sound in this part of the episode.
	👻 11:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @11:19 That's incredibly rare. I've never had a job that understanding.
	👻 11:22pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @11:20 It was a change I saw at the same job I'm at now. It was really notable. A huge shift and welcome, too. Now we all work from home and yell on Teams for people to log off and get some rest and heal up.
	👻 11:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @11:16 Most super-heroes have dumb origins, and the idea that people REALLY care about origins is a dubious claim to me. I don't particularly care about Robin Hood's early years. Sherlock Holmes is fine to me without knowing how he got his "powers." It's funny how superheroes have such a different set of narrative conventions.
	👻 11:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @11:22 You're lucky. Most jobs are not like that.
	👻 11:26pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @11:24 I'm very lucky! I do know that! I've heard from other friends that they've seen a similar shift in their office cultures and we all agree we're grateful for the shift.
	👻 11:42pm Austin Rich: I don't know why, but the mood established by this story is TERRIFYING to me.
	👻 11:50pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @11:42 It's the Mumsy Wumsy, maybe?
	11:50pm Webhamster Henry: This baby part is very extensive!
	12:08am Mr Fab: Right on, this show is STILL going! The Fab fam has gone to bed, I'm now sitting down with a cocktail, and very happy to at least catch the last hour.
	👻 12:09am Heather Z: ↳ Mr Fab @12:08 What kind of cocktail? Cheers! I have an IPA going here!
	👻 12:09am Austin Rich: I do love hearing those Ray Walston quotes.
	12:10am Mr Fab: ↳ Heather Z @12:09 Hey Heather! Pineapple juice infused wine. Not very strong, but tasty.
	👻 12:11am Heather Z: ↳ Mr Fab @12:10 Excellent! I do love a good pineapple!
	👻 12:12am Austin Rich: I certainly went through a Bela Lugosi / Ed Wood period in my 20's, around when a lot of Wood movies were starting to be much easier to find on VHS. These days, I couldn't really tell you the difference between anything that isn't Plan 9. It's like one, huge, bad movie slurry in my head.
	12:13am Mr Fab: "I will create a race of men...a race of atomic superman...who will conquer the world!" Great scene in the Tim Burton film "Ed Wood" with Bela reciting that speech from "Bride of the Monster."
	👻 12:14am Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:13 I love that movie! It is a very sensitive portrayal of both Wood and Bela. I was thinking of watching it again this year.
	👻 12:16am Heather Z: Jeesh this is poignant....
	👻 12:17am Austin Rich: "He looked very impressive in death." Pretty much Bela's life story.
	12:18am Mr Fab: When I started working in law offices in the '90s, I once saw a letter from another firm, and Bela Lugosi Jr. was one of the names on the masthead. Would have loved to have worked for him! Also once saw a document with Frank Sinatra III on a law firm's masthead. I was like DAMN, those two should have started their own firm. The Law Offices of Sinatra & Lugosi.
	👻 12:19am Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:18 Now we have to write a show where Sinatra & Lugosi are lawyers by day and detectives by night.
	12:23am Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @12:19 and paranormal investigators!
	👻 12:24am Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:23 But of course!
	👻 12:25am Austin Rich: I gotta show off the excellent reasons why I'm missing next week, and the week after: wfmu.org...
	👻 12:25am Austin Rich: wfmu.org...
	👻 12:31am Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Pathetic Fallacy"" by "Quiet Please" This episode is a little different than your average "Quiet Please" episode. It's still great, but... it's different, for sure.
	👻 12:40am Austin Rich: Those crazy computers. You just can't trust them.
	12:41am Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @12:25 So totally rad I can't believe it. So you're Human Dinosaur? Any one else joining you?
	👻 12:43am Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:41 My friend Mr. X - who is in the chat for MVM from time to time - is my co-conspirator with Human Dinosaur. I was excited that we got Mike Dringenberg from the Sandman comics to do our fliers! It's been wild.
	12:45am Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @12:43 Oh yeah, Mr X! that's so cool. I personally prefer "The Strange Dr. Weird" over "The Weird Dr. Strange."
	👻 12:49am Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Pathetic Fallacy"" by "Quiet Please" It is interesting to hear a story from 1948 about computers that might be alive. Considering our current concerns regarding AI, it's good to know we've been worried about "smart" computers for almost 80 years now.
	👻 12:51am Austin Rich: We might actually end on time tonight! It's a Spook-tacular Miracle!
	👻 12:52am WR: I seem to have drifted off to sleep. Strange, must have been dreaming.
	👻 12:53am Austin Rich: ↳ WR @12:52 "...merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily..."
	👻 12:55am Austin Rich: This is the problem with machines. They will inevitably fall in love with us!
	12:55am Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @12:49 couple decades before HAL in "2001," the story that usually we credit with introducing this concept.
	👻 12:56am Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:55 Good point! That didn't occur to me.
	👻 12:56am Austin Rich: I'm about to sign off. Thanks everyone for joining me! See ya next time!
	👻 12:57am Austin Rich: Sisters are looking out for each other.
	12:57am Mr Fab: Thank YOU! Super cool. I love these Halloween specials.
	👻 12:58am Austin Rich: I do love the Spook-tacular Season.
	👻 12:58am Austin Rich: "Talk numbers to me, Quinn."
	👻 12:59am WR: Thank you, Austin!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 14, 2024

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