WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 20, 2025

Listener comments!
	👻 6:41pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:55pm Asheville Jon: I'm lurking early tonight
	8:56pm Imaginos: ↳ Asheville Jon @8:55 So am I. Ahoy!
	8:56pm Asheville Jon: Howdy
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: Lovely to see you in the Digital Salon, Asheville Jon, and Imaginos! Sit down, and stay a spell. We launch a new show tonight!
	9:01pm Mr Fab: Cool, another hard boiled private dick!
	9:02pm Charles: hiya
	9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr Fab @9:01 Would an egg be a hard boiled private duck?
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Austin! Curious about this detective curio! When he gets konked on the head he sees D. Nomaid .
	9:03pm David The Splatter: ↳ Mr Fab @9:01 It's better than one that's scrambled.
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Mr Fab @9:01 Implies a whole bunch of egg-related detective genres.
	9:04pm Imaginos: He didn't take long to take a fall
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Diamond In The Rough" by "Richard Diamond, Privat... After Dick Powell left, "Rogue's Gallery," he essentially took the same character to this show, "Richard Diamond," where he barely changes the name, and the gimmick, and essentially has a continued life as the lead in a show that he had a little more control over. We don't get Eugor, but every episode ends with Richard singing a song to his girlfriend!
	9:05pm Webhamster Henry: We should write a detective script where at no point are there more than two conscious characters in the same scene.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: The original sound on this one is pretty fuzzy, so I did my best to restore it to a more listenable state. Hopefully everyone can follow. Further episodes have much better sound.
	9:05pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:04 A singing private eye?! He should jam with Cassavetes’ sax playing PI, JohnnyStaccato.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:05 It's just a bunch of folks waiting around for the other characters to wake up.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:05 I was trying to figure out a Johnny Staccato joke!
	9:08pm Christina in Canada: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 Crib from SCTV's "Vic Arpeggio"
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:05 Dick Powell's career before he started playing more noir type characters on radio and in film, he had a career singing, and was a bit of a minor crooner. So when he could slip a little piano and singing into something, he usually did. In a way, he's sort of like Sinatra; started out as a crooning hearthrob, then made a turn for the tough guy.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Christina in Canada @9:08 That's right! I forgot about that. I need to re-watch old SCTV again.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:04 I think people just got knocked unconscious a lot in fiction until sometime in the 90's, when science started to indicate that maybe that was bad for you...
	9:10pm Christina in Canada: Since our last convo in 2024 I am happy to hear DP as DD, I mean RD
	9:11pm Mr Fab: Otis Fodder has to sample this episode
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: If I recall correctly, Otis is new to this show, but I think Levinson was the name of the officer that turned up often in "Rogue's Gallery."
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:11 Otis is a regular on this show! Mr. Fodder should have a lot of samples to take...
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: Richard Diamond, punching women during his first case.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: While I have never done the mental gymnastics to try and rationalize how Richard Rogue and Richard Diamond are the same characters, I'm sure there's someone who had written that fanfic, and I feel like I've heard other commentators make claims like that. I do think of the shows together, as Dick Powell is very similar as the lead in each. But I think they work fine as separate shows, with interesting stories, and that's good enough for me.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: And, since they are similar, I decided that we can continue using The Fitch Shampoo Sponsor, as they have been so good to us through Rogue's Gallery.
	9:19pm David The Splatter: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 Multiverse Theory?
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:19 That's probably the simplest answer.
	9:19pm laurapanic: she looked at me like a fat French woman eyeing off a pastry
	9:20pm laurapanic: made me guffaw.
	9:20pm Imaginos: ↳ David The Splatter @9:19 Descendant of Imaginos?
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:19 Laurapanic! Hooray! I'm glad you could make it to the Digital Salon.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: Helen is Diamond's girlfriend throughout the series, and while he flirts and smooches and gets VERY close to infidelity, he's completely in love, and always ends his nights at her house, in spite of how sleezy he often gets.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: The implied violence here is pretty rough to listen to. This show does not shy away from... some very dark content, for a show from 1949.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: The butler is a regular character on the show. Francis gets some good lines, here and there... but he's often the butt of jokes, unfortunately.
	9:31pm univac: Hello!
	9:31pm Webhamster Henry: Here comes the song!
	9:31pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Yeah, like when he said he knew the woman was going to "get a bruise" but he had to skedaddle.
	9:32pm univac: Did he say Gay Santa Claus?
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:31 univac! Wonderful to see you in the Digital Salon. Sit and rest your chassis a while...
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:32 I believe so!
	9:32pm univac: I'll sit a spell...I'm working on the script, listening to Mr. Diamond, and now Rocky Jordan!
	9:33pm univac: Wind is back again tonite. Everyone is on edge...
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: As you'll notice, these shows are ALMOST in sync, in terms of the dates they came out. There are many missing shows in both the Richard Diamond and the Rocky Jordan run, so they won't stay in sync for long, but you can consider Richard Diamond and Rocky Jordan and being on roughly at "The Same Time."
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:33 Yeah, I've been nervous about that, too. Fingers crossed.
	9:34pm Webhamster Henry: I like this Fakey French Accent!
	9:35pm Webhamster Henry: Kupfar Frees that is!
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:34 This show seems to enjoy the fake accents.
	9:36pm laurapanic: "I vant to suck your blood" vibes from this accent
	9:36pm Mr Fab: Paul Frees? Like a proto-Boris Badanov
	9:37pm David The Splatter: ↳ laurapanic @9:36 "I am the viper... I vipe the vindows."
	9:37pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ laurapanic @9:36 Yep. Under floor is a cache of Upside-downium!
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:36 It's your "all purpose bad guy" accent, which easily telegraphs to Americans that we shouldn't trust him.
	9:37pm Imaginos: ↳ David The Splatter @9:37 They did a GI Joe cartoon about it
	9:39pm Webhamster Henry: Another role for Frees!
	9:39pm Mr Fab: Paul Frees again!
	9:39pm Webhamster Henry: Maybe Prof. von Drake WILL show up this episode!
	9:39pm David The Splatter: ↳ Imaginos @9:37 so did Animaniacs.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: Shows like this depended on reliable voice actors who could be a whole slew of characters. When you have Paul on your show, you have 100 actors, essentially.
	9:41pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy
	9:42pm DanFA: Hi Austin. First time listener. Do you ever play Orson Welles?
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:41 I understand. Sleep well!
	9:43pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 Thank you
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ DanFA @9:42 I have! Right now we're not running anything with him in it, but occasionally we take breaks from our regular shows to run other stuff. If I get enough requests, I could totally do an all-Orson show.
	9:45pm DanFA: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 is this humphrey bogart?
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: This is, "The Adventures of Rocky Jordan," played by Jack Moyles. The officer is played by Jay Novello.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ DanFA @9:45 We have played a lot of Bogart, when we played his show, "Bold Venture." But he's in plenty of other stuff, too. I was trying to track down some of his appearances on other shows the other day...
	9:49pm David The Splatter: I've got to call it a night, early start tomorrow. Thanks for the show tonight, Austin. I'll catch up the rest in the archive.
	9:49pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 Those “Bold Venture” episodes were very cool. Costarring Lauren Bacall.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:49 Sleep well, sir!
	9:50pm DanFA: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 here's looking at you, kid.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:49 I occasionally re-listen to those, when I have time. Those shows are so fun!
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: "Reducin', I guess." Reducing = on a diet.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: I do love that this show is set in Cairo, instead of a city in the US, but there are not nearly enough voices on the show that are appropriate to Cairo, and an astonishing number of people know Engilish.
	9:58pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 Thanks
	9:59pm DanFA: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 theyre all american ex-pats
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ DanFA @9:59 That makes sense!
	10:04pm Christina in Canada: throwaway comment -- Just noticed: AUSTINRICH - CHRISTINA = U
	👻 10:05pm WR: ↳ Song: "Diamond In The Rough" by "Richard Diamond, Privat... Yes, no Eugor but very similar.
	10:08pm Christina in Canada: Yay. Looking forward to hearing more "Richard Diamond."
	👻 10:11pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 And all those "Bold Venture" episodes you played are available in the archive.
	👻 10:15pm David Shortell: ↳ Mr Fab @9:05 I understand the 1986 BBC TV series “The Singing Detective“ is beloved, but the 2003 American movie is loathed.
	10:15pm univac: Yay! Thanks Austin!
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:15 I've been meaning to track that down. You haven't seen it?
	👻 10:16pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 A year after the movie “Casablanca” came out, it was condensed to a half hour for radio. With Bogart, Bergman and Henreid reprising their film roles!
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:16 I've been meaning to track that down, too! Casablanca is as good as advertised. While Rocky Jordan has many of it's own qualities, it was born out of the idea of trying to bring Casablanca to radio.
	👻 10:18pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:16 My library has it. I never got through the first episode.
	👻 10:19pm WR: I had a crystal set. The window screen was my antenna. A year or so later I got my first transistor radio.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:19 I've heard you can get kits to build a crystal set even today, but I've never done it. I should try someday.
	10:21pm Arvo: Just saying hello over dinner! Hi!
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: I do urge you to watch "The Secret Life of Machines" documentary series, which was on the BBC, and is free on YouTube these days. Every episode is great, as the host builds robots and machines with cut-away frames so you can see them work in action. It's very charming, and half art / half science.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:21 Arvo! I owe you an e-mail, and yes, we need to get that show scheduled...
	10:23pm Webhamster Henry: These dramatical reenactments are funny!
	10:23pm univac: These are very odd reenactments...
	👻 10:23pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 I heard it on the 3-hours-a-night, 7-nights-a-week "Old Radio Shows" that played on CHML (that shut down last summer).
	10:25pm univac: Excellent!
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:23 The reenactments are with his family, mostly his children, and they're very surreal to watch. But very cute and fun.
	10:27pm Arvo: I used to play old time radio on my radio show at WLUW, but that was mostly from Archive.org. I do not know what other avenues are available for massive collections of Old Time Radio, come to think of it...
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:27 I first started hearing OTR on tape; occasionally for sale as sets, but mostly in the backs of tape-trading 'zines, where you could order some "X-Minus One" with your live Screamers Bootlegs. There's lots of LPs, too, and now you can find sites that sell sets of .mp3s for download. But really, everything worth listening to is free on archive.org now, allowing me to hear shows I would only read about / hear about.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: Sandhogs were the subject of another radio show, when we listened to the run of "Box 13" episodes.
	10:32pm Webhamster Henry: Professor Exposition is here for the audience!
	10:32pm laurapanic: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:32 hahahaaa!
	10:32pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 And I keep finding more obscure stuff there!
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:32 "As you know, Blue Beetle..."
	10:33pm univac: Is he the same guy who recorded the boy's sexuality PSA in the 50s? Sounds like the same voice. I think ECC or Bran Flakes used it...?
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:32 Absolutely. I stumble upon shows I never knew about on archive.org, stuff that will probably make it's way onto this show eventually.
	10:34pm univac: (Blue Beetle voice)
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:34 Could be. Frank Lovejoy did the voice at first, but at this point, someone else does the voice, and I'm not sure I know who it is.
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Snowball Effect"" by "X-Minus One" Get ready for one of the wackiest X-Minus One episodes you've ever heard...
	👻 10:40pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The Underworld Goes Underground Pt. 1"" by "The ... Christopher Irving wrote “The Blue Beetle Companion: His Many Lives from 1939 to Today”. (20 page preview here: twomorrows.com...) Personally I’m more interested in his book on Peter Bagge.
	👻 10:40pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 Read it here: gutenberg.org...
	10:40pm univac: Looking forward to it! Did they do the opening vocal screeches live each episode?
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:40 I am a sucker for some of those Peter Bagge comics.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: "Let's not go too far..."
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: "Comedy music cue..."
	👻 10:43pm Heather Z: Been tuned in since 9:15 east coast time. Great stuff as always! Can't wait to hear the twist this X Minus One has in store!
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: I do appreciate that this is one of the few women sci-fi writers that we get to hear on X-Minus One, but I wish we heard more.
	10:44pm Webhamster Henry: haha Socialism joke!
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:44 There's always an -ism joke, sooner or later.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:43 Thanks for listening, Heather. You might find this story very... odd...
	10:46pm univac: Hello, Heather!
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: All of the comedy music beats... you can tell this one is gonna be silly...
	10:49pm Arvo: ↳ Heather Z @10:43 Hi Heather! Fancy seeing you here!
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: Oh dear... the sewing circle meeting...
	👻 10:51pm Heather Z: ↳ univac @10:46 Hi univac!!
	👻 10:51pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo @10:49 Hi Arvo!
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: While Katherine MacLean wrote the story (en.wikipedia.org...), X-Minus One regular Earnest Kinoy actually adapted the story for radio, and he has given it the typical "X-Minus One" sort of gloss.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 Katherine only died recently: in 2019.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: Looks like we'll go over by about three minutes tonight. Sorry everyone!
	10:54pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 Very cool. I do not look for things like this. While I liked some other shows, at one point I thought Dimension X and X Minus One were among my favorites.
	👻 10:55pm Heather Z: I love when people say ape-ricot. I think I do as an affectation now, on the rare occasions I speak of apricots but I'm fully in app-ricot territory here.
	10:55pm Webhamster Henry: The world of Volunteerism!
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:54 My theory is that George Lefferts and Ernest Kinoy - who wrote / adapted all of Dimension X / X-Minus One, influenced "The Twilight Zone." They have the same flavor to their stories, and often similar kinds of endings.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: With the aid of a little science, apparently women can take over the world.
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: "What could possibly go wrong?"
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: We're getting close to the end. Thanks everyone! We'll do it again next week.
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: Comedy music cue! She took over the world!
	11:03pm univac: ↳ Heather Z @10:55 I say "ape-ricot"
	👻 11:03pm WR: ↳ Song: ""The Snowball Effect"" by "X-Minus One" A very light hearted global domination story. Thank you, Austin, laters folks.
	11:03pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:56 According to the book series "Conversations With God", God said in other dimensions, men are simply slaves to women, and it was those dimensions where the human race became highly evolved and above violence or cruelty....
	11:03pm Christina in Canada: thank you, Austin. See you next time!
	11:03pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @11:02 "wacky"!
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: See ya'll next time!
	11:04pm univac: Thx Austin!
	11:05pm Arvo: I forgot the name of the TV series that may have influenced The Twilight Zone. Not Outer Limits. But it was good.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 20, 2025

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Join us for two hours of old time radio dramas, as we present four different pulp fiction stories, every week! Noir Stories with everymen getting wrapped up in dangerous adventures! Sea-faring Tales that are as two-fisted as they are filled with romance! Mysterious Magicians from the Far East, or maybe a Science Fiction yarn from the Atomic Age! Dimestore Radio Theater offers a chance to engage in Theater of The Mind, and enter a world of incredible tales from both yesterday and tomorrow!

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January 20, 2025: Episode #116

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Richard Diamond, Private Investigator	Diamond In The Rough	1 May 1949	NBC	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Adventures of Rocky Jordan	Lady In Disguise	8 May 1949	Santana Productions	0:32:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Leroy Anderson	Bugler's Holiday "Bugler's Holiday" by "Leroy Anderson"			1:02:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod	The Secret Life of The Radio Part 3	The Secret Life of Machines	BBC	1:15:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Blue Beetle	"The Underworld Goes Underground Pt. 1"	14 August 1940	Mutual–Don Lee Network	1:25:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"The Snowball Effect"	14 August 1956	NBC Radio	1:39:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 6:41pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:55pm Asheville Jon: I'm lurking early tonight
	8:56pm Imaginos: ↳ Asheville Jon @8:55 So am I. Ahoy!
	8:56pm Asheville Jon: Howdy
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: Lovely to see you in the Digital Salon, Asheville Jon, and Imaginos! Sit down, and stay a spell. We launch a new show tonight!
	9:01pm Mr Fab: Cool, another hard boiled private dick!
	9:02pm Charles: hiya
	9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr Fab @9:01 Would an egg be a hard boiled private duck?
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Austin! Curious about this detective curio! When he gets konked on the head he sees D. Nomaid .
	9:03pm David The Splatter: ↳ Mr Fab @9:01 It's better than one that's scrambled.
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Mr Fab @9:01 Implies a whole bunch of egg-related detective genres.
	9:04pm Imaginos: He didn't take long to take a fall
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Diamond In The Rough" by "Richard Diamond, Privat... After Dick Powell left, "Rogue's Gallery," he essentially took the same character to this show, "Richard Diamond," where he barely changes the name, and the gimmick, and essentially has a continued life as the lead in a show that he had a little more control over. We don't get Eugor, but every episode ends with Richard singing a song to his girlfriend!
	9:05pm Webhamster Henry: We should write a detective script where at no point are there more than two conscious characters in the same scene.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: The original sound on this one is pretty fuzzy, so I did my best to restore it to a more listenable state. Hopefully everyone can follow. Further episodes have much better sound.
	9:05pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:04 A singing private eye?! He should jam with Cassavetes’ sax playing PI, JohnnyStaccato.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:05 It's just a bunch of folks waiting around for the other characters to wake up.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:05 I was trying to figure out a Johnny Staccato joke!
	9:08pm Christina in Canada: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 Crib from SCTV's "Vic Arpeggio"
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:05 Dick Powell's career before he started playing more noir type characters on radio and in film, he had a career singing, and was a bit of a minor crooner. So when he could slip a little piano and singing into something, he usually did. In a way, he's sort of like Sinatra; started out as a crooning hearthrob, then made a turn for the tough guy.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Christina in Canada @9:08 That's right! I forgot about that. I need to re-watch old SCTV again.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:04 I think people just got knocked unconscious a lot in fiction until sometime in the 90's, when science started to indicate that maybe that was bad for you...
	9:10pm Christina in Canada: Since our last convo in 2024 I am happy to hear DP as DD, I mean RD
	9:11pm Mr Fab: Otis Fodder has to sample this episode
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: If I recall correctly, Otis is new to this show, but I think Levinson was the name of the officer that turned up often in "Rogue's Gallery."
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:11 Otis is a regular on this show! Mr. Fodder should have a lot of samples to take...
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: Richard Diamond, punching women during his first case.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: While I have never done the mental gymnastics to try and rationalize how Richard Rogue and Richard Diamond are the same characters, I'm sure there's someone who had written that fanfic, and I feel like I've heard other commentators make claims like that. I do think of the shows together, as Dick Powell is very similar as the lead in each. But I think they work fine as separate shows, with interesting stories, and that's good enough for me.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: And, since they are similar, I decided that we can continue using The Fitch Shampoo Sponsor, as they have been so good to us through Rogue's Gallery.
	9:19pm David The Splatter: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 Multiverse Theory?
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:19 That's probably the simplest answer.
	9:19pm laurapanic: she looked at me like a fat French woman eyeing off a pastry
	9:20pm laurapanic: made me guffaw.
	9:20pm Imaginos: ↳ David The Splatter @9:19 Descendant of Imaginos?
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:19 Laurapanic! Hooray! I'm glad you could make it to the Digital Salon.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: Helen is Diamond's girlfriend throughout the series, and while he flirts and smooches and gets VERY close to infidelity, he's completely in love, and always ends his nights at her house, in spite of how sleezy he often gets.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: The implied violence here is pretty rough to listen to. This show does not shy away from... some very dark content, for a show from 1949.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: The butler is a regular character on the show. Francis gets some good lines, here and there... but he's often the butt of jokes, unfortunately.
	9:31pm univac: Hello!
	9:31pm Webhamster Henry: Here comes the song!
	9:31pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Yeah, like when he said he knew the woman was going to "get a bruise" but he had to skedaddle.
	9:32pm univac: Did he say Gay Santa Claus?
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:31 univac! Wonderful to see you in the Digital Salon. Sit and rest your chassis a while...
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:32 I believe so!
	9:32pm univac: I'll sit a spell...I'm working on the script, listening to Mr. Diamond, and now Rocky Jordan!
	9:33pm univac: Wind is back again tonite. Everyone is on edge...
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: As you'll notice, these shows are ALMOST in sync, in terms of the dates they came out. There are many missing shows in both the Richard Diamond and the Rocky Jordan run, so they won't stay in sync for long, but you can consider Richard Diamond and Rocky Jordan and being on roughly at "The Same Time."
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:33 Yeah, I've been nervous about that, too. Fingers crossed.
	9:34pm Webhamster Henry: I like this Fakey French Accent!
	9:35pm Webhamster Henry: Kupfar Frees that is!
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:34 This show seems to enjoy the fake accents.
	9:36pm laurapanic: "I vant to suck your blood" vibes from this accent
	9:36pm Mr Fab: Paul Frees? Like a proto-Boris Badanov
	9:37pm David The Splatter: ↳ laurapanic @9:36 "I am the viper... I vipe the vindows."
	9:37pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ laurapanic @9:36 Yep. Under floor is a cache of Upside-downium!
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:36 It's your "all purpose bad guy" accent, which easily telegraphs to Americans that we shouldn't trust him.
	9:37pm Imaginos: ↳ David The Splatter @9:37 They did a GI Joe cartoon about it
	9:39pm Webhamster Henry: Another role for Frees!
	9:39pm Mr Fab: Paul Frees again!
	9:39pm Webhamster Henry: Maybe Prof. von Drake WILL show up this episode!
	9:39pm David The Splatter: ↳ Imaginos @9:37 so did Animaniacs.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: Shows like this depended on reliable voice actors who could be a whole slew of characters. When you have Paul on your show, you have 100 actors, essentially.
	9:41pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy
	9:42pm DanFA: Hi Austin. First time listener. Do you ever play Orson Welles?
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:41 I understand. Sleep well!
	9:43pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 Thank you
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ DanFA @9:42 I have! Right now we're not running anything with him in it, but occasionally we take breaks from our regular shows to run other stuff. If I get enough requests, I could totally do an all-Orson show.
	9:45pm DanFA: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 is this humphrey bogart?
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: This is, "The Adventures of Rocky Jordan," played by Jack Moyles. The officer is played by Jay Novello.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ DanFA @9:45 We have played a lot of Bogart, when we played his show, "Bold Venture." But he's in plenty of other stuff, too. I was trying to track down some of his appearances on other shows the other day...
	9:49pm David The Splatter: I've got to call it a night, early start tomorrow. Thanks for the show tonight, Austin. I'll catch up the rest in the archive.
	9:49pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 Those “Bold Venture” episodes were very cool. Costarring Lauren Bacall.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:49 Sleep well, sir!
	9:50pm DanFA: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 here's looking at you, kid.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:49 I occasionally re-listen to those, when I have time. Those shows are so fun!
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: "Reducin', I guess." Reducing = on a diet.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: I do love that this show is set in Cairo, instead of a city in the US, but there are not nearly enough voices on the show that are appropriate to Cairo, and an astonishing number of people know Engilish.
	9:58pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 Thanks
	9:59pm DanFA: ↳ Austin Rich @9:56 theyre all american ex-pats
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ DanFA @9:59 That makes sense!
	10:04pm Christina in Canada: throwaway comment -- Just noticed: AUSTINRICH - CHRISTINA = U
	👻 10:05pm WR: ↳ Song: "Diamond In The Rough" by "Richard Diamond, Privat... Yes, no Eugor but very similar.
	10:08pm Christina in Canada: Yay. Looking forward to hearing more "Richard Diamond."
	👻 10:11pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 And all those "Bold Venture" episodes you played are available in the archive.
	👻 10:15pm David Shortell: ↳ Mr Fab @9:05 I understand the 1986 BBC TV series “The Singing Detective“ is beloved, but the 2003 American movie is loathed.
	10:15pm univac: Yay! Thanks Austin!
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:15 I've been meaning to track that down. You haven't seen it?
	👻 10:16pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 A year after the movie “Casablanca” came out, it was condensed to a half hour for radio. With Bogart, Bergman and Henreid reprising their film roles!
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:16 I've been meaning to track that down, too! Casablanca is as good as advertised. While Rocky Jordan has many of it's own qualities, it was born out of the idea of trying to bring Casablanca to radio.
	👻 10:18pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:16 My library has it. I never got through the first episode.
	👻 10:19pm WR: I had a crystal set. The window screen was my antenna. A year or so later I got my first transistor radio.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:19 I've heard you can get kits to build a crystal set even today, but I've never done it. I should try someday.
	10:21pm Arvo: Just saying hello over dinner! Hi!
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: I do urge you to watch "The Secret Life of Machines" documentary series, which was on the BBC, and is free on YouTube these days. Every episode is great, as the host builds robots and machines with cut-away frames so you can see them work in action. It's very charming, and half art / half science.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:21 Arvo! I owe you an e-mail, and yes, we need to get that show scheduled...
	10:23pm Webhamster Henry: These dramatical reenactments are funny!
	10:23pm univac: These are very odd reenactments...
	👻 10:23pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 I heard it on the 3-hours-a-night, 7-nights-a-week "Old Radio Shows" that played on CHML (that shut down last summer).
	10:25pm univac: Excellent!
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:23 The reenactments are with his family, mostly his children, and they're very surreal to watch. But very cute and fun.
	10:27pm Arvo: I used to play old time radio on my radio show at WLUW, but that was mostly from Archive.org. I do not know what other avenues are available for massive collections of Old Time Radio, come to think of it...
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:27 I first started hearing OTR on tape; occasionally for sale as sets, but mostly in the backs of tape-trading 'zines, where you could order some "X-Minus One" with your live Screamers Bootlegs. There's lots of LPs, too, and now you can find sites that sell sets of .mp3s for download. But really, everything worth listening to is free on archive.org now, allowing me to hear shows I would only read about / hear about.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: Sandhogs were the subject of another radio show, when we listened to the run of "Box 13" episodes.
	10:32pm Webhamster Henry: Professor Exposition is here for the audience!
	10:32pm laurapanic: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:32 hahahaaa!
	10:32pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 And I keep finding more obscure stuff there!
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:32 "As you know, Blue Beetle..."
	10:33pm univac: Is he the same guy who recorded the boy's sexuality PSA in the 50s? Sounds like the same voice. I think ECC or Bran Flakes used it...?
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:32 Absolutely. I stumble upon shows I never knew about on archive.org, stuff that will probably make it's way onto this show eventually.
	10:34pm univac: (Blue Beetle voice)
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:34 Could be. Frank Lovejoy did the voice at first, but at this point, someone else does the voice, and I'm not sure I know who it is.
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Snowball Effect"" by "X-Minus One" Get ready for one of the wackiest X-Minus One episodes you've ever heard...
	👻 10:40pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The Underworld Goes Underground Pt. 1"" by "The ... Christopher Irving wrote “The Blue Beetle Companion: His Many Lives from 1939 to Today”. (20 page preview here: twomorrows.com...) Personally I’m more interested in his book on Peter Bagge.
	👻 10:40pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 Read it here: gutenberg.org...
	10:40pm univac: Looking forward to it! Did they do the opening vocal screeches live each episode?
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:40 I am a sucker for some of those Peter Bagge comics.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: "Let's not go too far..."
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: "Comedy music cue..."
	👻 10:43pm Heather Z: Been tuned in since 9:15 east coast time. Great stuff as always! Can't wait to hear the twist this X Minus One has in store!
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: I do appreciate that this is one of the few women sci-fi writers that we get to hear on X-Minus One, but I wish we heard more.
	10:44pm Webhamster Henry: haha Socialism joke!
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:44 There's always an -ism joke, sooner or later.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:43 Thanks for listening, Heather. You might find this story very... odd...
	10:46pm univac: Hello, Heather!
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: All of the comedy music beats... you can tell this one is gonna be silly...
	10:49pm Arvo: ↳ Heather Z @10:43 Hi Heather! Fancy seeing you here!
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: Oh dear... the sewing circle meeting...
	👻 10:51pm Heather Z: ↳ univac @10:46 Hi univac!!
	👻 10:51pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo @10:49 Hi Arvo!
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: While Katherine MacLean wrote the story (en.wikipedia.org...), X-Minus One regular Earnest Kinoy actually adapted the story for radio, and he has given it the typical "X-Minus One" sort of gloss.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 Katherine only died recently: in 2019.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: Looks like we'll go over by about three minutes tonight. Sorry everyone!
	10:54pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 Very cool. I do not look for things like this. While I liked some other shows, at one point I thought Dimension X and X Minus One were among my favorites.
	👻 10:55pm Heather Z: I love when people say ape-ricot. I think I do as an affectation now, on the rare occasions I speak of apricots but I'm fully in app-ricot territory here.
	10:55pm Webhamster Henry: The world of Volunteerism!
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:54 My theory is that George Lefferts and Ernest Kinoy - who wrote / adapted all of Dimension X / X-Minus One, influenced "The Twilight Zone." They have the same flavor to their stories, and often similar kinds of endings.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: With the aid of a little science, apparently women can take over the world.
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: "What could possibly go wrong?"
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: We're getting close to the end. Thanks everyone! We'll do it again next week.
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: Comedy music cue! She took over the world!
	11:03pm univac: ↳ Heather Z @10:55 I say "ape-ricot"
	👻 11:03pm WR: ↳ Song: ""The Snowball Effect"" by "X-Minus One" A very light hearted global domination story. Thank you, Austin, laters folks.
	11:03pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:56 According to the book series "Conversations With God", God said in other dimensions, men are simply slaves to women, and it was those dimensions where the human race became highly evolved and above violence or cruelty....
	11:03pm Christina in Canada: thank you, Austin. See you next time!
	11:03pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @11:02 "wacky"!
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: See ya'll next time!
	11:04pm univac: Thx Austin!
	11:05pm Arvo: I forgot the name of the TV series that may have influenced The Twilight Zone. Not Outer Limits. But it was good.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 20, 2025

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