WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 21, 2022

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 6:35pm Austin Rich: Good Hello
	♥ 9:01pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Gobbler Gobblers!🍽️🦃 🌏🌥️🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	9:02pm Charles: Romance and adventure!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you, Scott67! Pull up a chair, and feel free to have as much squash as you'd like!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: Yes, that is Jack Webb, doing the voice of Jeff Regan!
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: "Jeff Regan, Investigator" was a late 40's detective show, that I might run completely on Dimestore someday. But for now... enjoy this Thanksgiving installment.
	♥ 9:04pm Scott67: Cheers Austin, but not being a Pilgrim I'll stick with the beer & leftover pizza mate. 🍻😎🤙🍕
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: This episode is very much like the usual format for an episode of Jeff Regan, if you're curious about listening to more. The "organ" transitions get a little old, but everything else works for me. Pizza works for this holidays, too. It's really just about eating.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: Charles! I didn't see ya there! Have a see, and help yourself to a slice of ham!
	9:07pm Charles: After a big meal there's nothing better than old timey radio.
	♥ 9:08pm Scott67: Ham I can definitely get down me mate! 🍻😎🤙🍖
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: There's a couple detective shows that sort of work on the premise of one person staying in the office while the other goes out and does the legwork. "Nero Wolfe" famously is so fat that it is actually difficult for him to leave his office, so he has his assistant, Archie Goodwin, go out and do the legwork. But in the case of Nero Wolfe, he is actually good at deduction.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: While I think most of us grew up seeing Jack Webb on Dragnet (in re-runs), he began his career on radio, and had a number of shows before he settled into detective and police work. Dragnet also began on radio, before making the transition to television. Of all the "detective adjacent" radio shows, I find "Dragnet" truly hard to listen to. But when Jack Webb is leaning more noir... he's just right.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: Most biographies of Jack Webb usually mention how hard he worked, and how hard he drank. Most people who worked with him agreed that you had to get as much done before lunch as possible, because by the afternoon, he was usually pretty hammered.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: This show would have broadcast the Saturday before Thanksgiving. While there's not a deep catalog of Thanksgiving themed Old Time Radio shows, usually there's something to find, if you dig around.
	9:19pm Charles: Follow the organ and you'll find the Thanksgiving ~
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: Maybe next year I should do, "Radio Turkeys: Comedians on the radio."
	9:22pm Mr Fab: This is great, I love Jack Webb. Like Dragnet, it’s very geographically accurate. All the city and driving descriptions are accurate. Funny tho, Calabasis is a very affluent community now. Not many turkey shoots there anymore.
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Austin Rich: Maybe I would have liked Dragnet more if it was local to me?
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: Webb is a natural on the radio. He's actually done a lot of radio, so maybe next year I should do, "Webbs-giving"?
	9:26pm Charles: Webbs-giving ahah
	9:27pm Mr Fab: I love his rat-a-tat-tat delivery, and Dragnet can be hilarious. He’s so deadpan that it can be comical.
	🎸 ♥ 9:29pm Austin Rich: I think his delivery works better as a noir heavy. But I do agree: Dragnet can be pretty ridiculous. (I'm also of the age where the 80's comedy version of Dragnet was screened more than once in my house.)
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm Austin Rich: Herb Butterfield also went on to work on Dragnet.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Austin Rich: Casey, Crime Photographer was a show that was re-invented a number of times. This version is a little more light-hearted, where Casey is paired with a partner, and they often hang out at a bar / restaurant.
	9:35pm Charles: Where else could crimes happen? Better be ready.
	🎸 ♥ 9:35pm Austin Rich: (To give you an idea: the earliest "Casey" adventures were on the air in the 30's, and his later adventures were on as late as the 60's.)
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Austin Rich: Flashgun Casey began as a character in the pulps, and was so popular that he began to make the leap to other media, including radio. There were five different radio series that featured Casey, in a variety of forms and formats.
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Austin Rich: After the short stories that were published in pulps, a series of novels were published, and led to a couple of feature films, too. In the late 40's he was an incredibly popular character, who had penetrated a number of different media formats. He even wound up on TV for a few years in the 50's. But by the 60's, his appeal was wearing off, and his popularity fell. By the 70's, he was largely forgotten in popular culture.
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Austin Rich: This episode was actually broadcast ON Thanksgiving Day. Most people listening had just finished dinner, and were enjoying some after meal radio.
	9:44pm Mr Fab: Yep, I haven’t heard of him.
	9:49pm Mr Fab: Haha, check out this cover: www.ebay.com... Imagine what that episode must have been like…
	🎸 ♥ 9:50pm Austin Rich: "Crime at the Circus," mayhaps?
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: This is pretty similar to how most of this series of "Casey" runs. Most episodes start in the bar, Ann and Casey get a lead on a case, they run around gathering clues and solving the case, etc. While most episodes sort of have a format, it's a slightly "lighter" show, and I feel like the stakes are often not quite as in a regular crime show. (Plus, the show opens and closes with a joke.)
	10:03pm Heather: Chiming in from Lurker Land! Awesome show, as always!
	10:04pm Heather: It is indeed well known I'm a Thanksgiving Curmudgeon! The only think I like about it is that Celibate Commandos song Thanksgiving!
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Austin Rich: Ahhhh! I blew the transition, so you know it's live!
	10:13pm Heather: You did great and always do! I didn't notice at all!
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm Austin Rich: It's funny, Obadiah and I recorded the conversation before I worked for him, not realizing that most days that we work together, we end up talking about Science Fiction... for work. (And for fun.)
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: Anyone in the chat have any current Sci-Fi they wanna recommend? (In the spirit of this conversation.)
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: The lesson of this conversation: Issac Asimov was sort of a jerk, and people forget that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: Here's a link to his zine, once again: theaudientvoid.bigcartel.com
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: And here's a link to our store: bookbin.com
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: If you order anything from the Salem location of The Book Bin, then it's my job to package it up and ship it to you!
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm Austin Rich: I love Robert Krulwich. He is such a radio and science nerd, and he LOVE They Might Be Giants, so you gotta love him.
	🎸 ♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: Suspense! was on the air for 22 years. In the early days, there weren't as many episodes being produced, and many have not survived into the modern era. There were several years in the 40s where the show was producing a number of shows every year, but near the end of the show's run, they would only produce a few new shows, and re-run old ones, mostly.
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: There are, according to some sources, over 900 episodes of Suspense! that have survived into the modern era.
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Austin Rich: The audition episode of "Suspense!" was directed by none other than Alfred Hitchcock himself, producing a radio version of his own film, "The Lodger." It was such a hit that the show was immediately picked up.
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm Austin Rich: In the oldest episodes, a figure - "The Man In Black" - hosted the show, and would introduce the stories. As the series went on, they dropped that gimmick, and the stories would just stand on their own, with a regular announcer introducing things.
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: "It's all those comic books you read, darling." I think the show is trying to make the case that she's a bit of a "tomboy," in the parlance of the era.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: Anyway, Suspense! has a lot of history, and almost every star of it's era made an appearance, including a number of writers and behind-the-scenes Hollywood folks.
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: "Cheese it!"
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: Fredric Wertham published his famous book, "Seduction of the Innocent," in 1954, a year before this episode aired. In that book, Fredric argues that comics were ruining American culture, and was particularly harmful to kids. I'm sure that line against comics was the cultural influence of the anti-comics movement that he stirred up the year before.
	♥ 10:54pm Scott67: Thanks Austin, always entertaining mate. 🌏🌥️🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: We're getting near the end of the show. Thanks for joining me for this Thanksgiving installment! Maybe enjoy this with a little cranberry sauce.
	10:54pm Mr Fab: Sorry, just returning now. Why was Asimov kinda jerky? Always seemed like a jolly fellow, near as I can tell.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: He was pretty creepy around women.
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: Not afraid to deliver a racist joke in public. (Samuel Delaney writes all about that in an essay he published.)
	10:57pm Heather: Thank you for the fun show, Austin! Have a great holiday week to the US peeps and a great week in general to all!
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: I suspect Asimov was very similar to a lot of white, suburban sci-fi fans that were the same age as him, so he was probably reflective of the times. But the times weren't great, either.
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm Austin Rich: I find this story so interesting. So much of this story is based on adults NOT believing the kid... and then, in the last few minutes of the show, everyone starts to believe the kid. It's the kind of story that was common in those days, too. Which I'm sure was reflective of the times, too...
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: An upbeat ending for Thanksgiving. Suspense! didn't always have an upbeat ending. Hey! I know the name of that author...
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: Herb Butterfield was in two of our stories tonight.
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm Austin Rich: Goodnight!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 21, 2022

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November 21, 2022: Our Thanksgiving Special!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Jeff Regan, Investigator	"The Pilgrim's Progress"	20 November 1948	CBS	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Casey, Crime Photographer	"After Turkey, The Bill"	27 November 1947	CBS	0:32:19 (Pop-up)
Band And Field Music Of The United States Military Acadamy	Turkey In The Straw			0:59:58 (Pop-up)
Austin Rich & Obadiah Baird	The Golden Age of Science Fiction Part 6	The Golden Age of Science Fiction (12 August 2022)	For This Program	1:11:33 (Pop-up)
Believe It... Or Not!	"Thanksgiving Fast"			1:31:47 (Pop-up)
Krulwich Wonders	"Why A Turkey Is Called A Turkey"	27 November 2008	NPR	1:33:06 (Pop-up)
Suspense!	"The Screaming Woman" ""The Screaming Woman"" by "Suspense!"	1 March 1955	CBS	1:36:17 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 6:35pm Austin Rich: Good Hello
	♥ 9:01pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Gobbler Gobblers!🍽️🦃 🌏🌥️🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	9:02pm Charles: Romance and adventure!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you, Scott67! Pull up a chair, and feel free to have as much squash as you'd like!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: Yes, that is Jack Webb, doing the voice of Jeff Regan!
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: "Jeff Regan, Investigator" was a late 40's detective show, that I might run completely on Dimestore someday. But for now... enjoy this Thanksgiving installment.
	♥ 9:04pm Scott67: Cheers Austin, but not being a Pilgrim I'll stick with the beer & leftover pizza mate. 🍻😎🤙🍕
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: This episode is very much like the usual format for an episode of Jeff Regan, if you're curious about listening to more. The "organ" transitions get a little old, but everything else works for me. Pizza works for this holidays, too. It's really just about eating.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: Charles! I didn't see ya there! Have a see, and help yourself to a slice of ham!
	9:07pm Charles: After a big meal there's nothing better than old timey radio.
	♥ 9:08pm Scott67: Ham I can definitely get down me mate! 🍻😎🤙🍖
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: There's a couple detective shows that sort of work on the premise of one person staying in the office while the other goes out and does the legwork. "Nero Wolfe" famously is so fat that it is actually difficult for him to leave his office, so he has his assistant, Archie Goodwin, go out and do the legwork. But in the case of Nero Wolfe, he is actually good at deduction.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: While I think most of us grew up seeing Jack Webb on Dragnet (in re-runs), he began his career on radio, and had a number of shows before he settled into detective and police work. Dragnet also began on radio, before making the transition to television. Of all the "detective adjacent" radio shows, I find "Dragnet" truly hard to listen to. But when Jack Webb is leaning more noir... he's just right.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: Most biographies of Jack Webb usually mention how hard he worked, and how hard he drank. Most people who worked with him agreed that you had to get as much done before lunch as possible, because by the afternoon, he was usually pretty hammered.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: This show would have broadcast the Saturday before Thanksgiving. While there's not a deep catalog of Thanksgiving themed Old Time Radio shows, usually there's something to find, if you dig around.
	9:19pm Charles: Follow the organ and you'll find the Thanksgiving ~
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: Maybe next year I should do, "Radio Turkeys: Comedians on the radio."
	9:22pm Mr Fab: This is great, I love Jack Webb. Like Dragnet, it’s very geographically accurate. All the city and driving descriptions are accurate. Funny tho, Calabasis is a very affluent community now. Not many turkey shoots there anymore.
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Austin Rich: Maybe I would have liked Dragnet more if it was local to me?
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: Webb is a natural on the radio. He's actually done a lot of radio, so maybe next year I should do, "Webbs-giving"?
	9:26pm Charles: Webbs-giving ahah
	9:27pm Mr Fab: I love his rat-a-tat-tat delivery, and Dragnet can be hilarious. He’s so deadpan that it can be comical.
	🎸 ♥ 9:29pm Austin Rich: I think his delivery works better as a noir heavy. But I do agree: Dragnet can be pretty ridiculous. (I'm also of the age where the 80's comedy version of Dragnet was screened more than once in my house.)
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm Austin Rich: Herb Butterfield also went on to work on Dragnet.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Austin Rich: Casey, Crime Photographer was a show that was re-invented a number of times. This version is a little more light-hearted, where Casey is paired with a partner, and they often hang out at a bar / restaurant.
	9:35pm Charles: Where else could crimes happen? Better be ready.
	🎸 ♥ 9:35pm Austin Rich: (To give you an idea: the earliest "Casey" adventures were on the air in the 30's, and his later adventures were on as late as the 60's.)
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Austin Rich: Flashgun Casey began as a character in the pulps, and was so popular that he began to make the leap to other media, including radio. There were five different radio series that featured Casey, in a variety of forms and formats.
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Austin Rich: After the short stories that were published in pulps, a series of novels were published, and led to a couple of feature films, too. In the late 40's he was an incredibly popular character, who had penetrated a number of different media formats. He even wound up on TV for a few years in the 50's. But by the 60's, his appeal was wearing off, and his popularity fell. By the 70's, he was largely forgotten in popular culture.
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Austin Rich: This episode was actually broadcast ON Thanksgiving Day. Most people listening had just finished dinner, and were enjoying some after meal radio.
	9:44pm Mr Fab: Yep, I haven’t heard of him.
	9:49pm Mr Fab: Haha, check out this cover: www.ebay.com... Imagine what that episode must have been like…
	🎸 ♥ 9:50pm Austin Rich: "Crime at the Circus," mayhaps?
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: This is pretty similar to how most of this series of "Casey" runs. Most episodes start in the bar, Ann and Casey get a lead on a case, they run around gathering clues and solving the case, etc. While most episodes sort of have a format, it's a slightly "lighter" show, and I feel like the stakes are often not quite as in a regular crime show. (Plus, the show opens and closes with a joke.)
	10:03pm Heather: Chiming in from Lurker Land! Awesome show, as always!
	10:04pm Heather: It is indeed well known I'm a Thanksgiving Curmudgeon! The only think I like about it is that Celibate Commandos song Thanksgiving!
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Austin Rich: Ahhhh! I blew the transition, so you know it's live!
	10:13pm Heather: You did great and always do! I didn't notice at all!
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm Austin Rich: It's funny, Obadiah and I recorded the conversation before I worked for him, not realizing that most days that we work together, we end up talking about Science Fiction... for work. (And for fun.)
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: Anyone in the chat have any current Sci-Fi they wanna recommend? (In the spirit of this conversation.)
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: The lesson of this conversation: Issac Asimov was sort of a jerk, and people forget that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: Here's a link to his zine, once again: theaudientvoid.bigcartel.com
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: And here's a link to our store: bookbin.com
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: If you order anything from the Salem location of The Book Bin, then it's my job to package it up and ship it to you!
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm Austin Rich: I love Robert Krulwich. He is such a radio and science nerd, and he LOVE They Might Be Giants, so you gotta love him.
	🎸 ♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: Suspense! was on the air for 22 years. In the early days, there weren't as many episodes being produced, and many have not survived into the modern era. There were several years in the 40s where the show was producing a number of shows every year, but near the end of the show's run, they would only produce a few new shows, and re-run old ones, mostly.
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: There are, according to some sources, over 900 episodes of Suspense! that have survived into the modern era.
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Austin Rich: The audition episode of "Suspense!" was directed by none other than Alfred Hitchcock himself, producing a radio version of his own film, "The Lodger." It was such a hit that the show was immediately picked up.
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm Austin Rich: In the oldest episodes, a figure - "The Man In Black" - hosted the show, and would introduce the stories. As the series went on, they dropped that gimmick, and the stories would just stand on their own, with a regular announcer introducing things.
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: "It's all those comic books you read, darling." I think the show is trying to make the case that she's a bit of a "tomboy," in the parlance of the era.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: Anyway, Suspense! has a lot of history, and almost every star of it's era made an appearance, including a number of writers and behind-the-scenes Hollywood folks.
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: "Cheese it!"
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: Fredric Wertham published his famous book, "Seduction of the Innocent," in 1954, a year before this episode aired. In that book, Fredric argues that comics were ruining American culture, and was particularly harmful to kids. I'm sure that line against comics was the cultural influence of the anti-comics movement that he stirred up the year before.
	♥ 10:54pm Scott67: Thanks Austin, always entertaining mate. 🌏🌥️🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: We're getting near the end of the show. Thanks for joining me for this Thanksgiving installment! Maybe enjoy this with a little cranberry sauce.
	10:54pm Mr Fab: Sorry, just returning now. Why was Asimov kinda jerky? Always seemed like a jolly fellow, near as I can tell.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: He was pretty creepy around women.
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: Not afraid to deliver a racist joke in public. (Samuel Delaney writes all about that in an essay he published.)
	10:57pm Heather: Thank you for the fun show, Austin! Have a great holiday week to the US peeps and a great week in general to all!
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: I suspect Asimov was very similar to a lot of white, suburban sci-fi fans that were the same age as him, so he was probably reflective of the times. But the times weren't great, either.
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm Austin Rich: I find this story so interesting. So much of this story is based on adults NOT believing the kid... and then, in the last few minutes of the show, everyone starts to believe the kid. It's the kind of story that was common in those days, too. Which I'm sure was reflective of the times, too...
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: An upbeat ending for Thanksgiving. Suspense! didn't always have an upbeat ending. Hey! I know the name of that author...
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: Herb Butterfield was in two of our stories tonight.
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm Austin Rich: Goodnight!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 21, 2022

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