WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 1, 2023

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 7:31pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:01 Greetings and Salutations!
	9:03pm Charles: hello
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:03 Charles! Nice to see you in the chat.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: This is the first episode that was broadcast, after the pilot, and where Candy was heard by a wider audience, too. Unfortunately, we don't have a complete run of Candy Matson, so we only get to hear a smattering of shows that happened to survive into the modern age.
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: This story - like a lot of Candy Matson stories - really shows it's San Francisco-ness, with a lot of place-names and local references of the era.
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I got 14 Candys on my app.
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Episodes I mean
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:07 That's how many I have, too.
	9:09pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! This script is hilarious. “He was stone cold dead on Market” is a LOL reference to a calypso song “Stone cold Dead In the Market.”
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: "This mediocre dialog is getting us nowhere." Candy Matson really does enjoy making meta-references and breaking the fourth wall. Candy often references the announcer at the beginning, too.
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:09 Yeah, Candy has some of the best jokes. It still works, years later.
	9:10pm Charles: Booze 'n' Organ mondays in effect
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: You get a sense of Rembrandt's character more in this episode, I think.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: While Candy Matson gets pretty dark at times, this show marries humor and a touch of romance in a way that a lot of detective shows never did.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: "I'm no longer a man. I'm a sprite..." Another "reference" to Rembrandt's status.
	9:12pm Charles: Oh Rembrandt you still have so much to learn ~
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: "Questionable companions..."
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 Lots of those on the docks. Easy get away
	9:14pm Charles: Rembrandt owns.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: The "Live Organ" in Candy Matson was a creative choice to save money while making the show. In 1949, you COULD fully produce a show with music cues and sfx, but you needed a modern studio, which wasn't always available to just anyone. So they decided to make Candy "live," with live organ and sfx. This is also probably why there aren't many surviving into the modern age: there weren't transcription discs made, so ones that do exist where home-made.
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: Candy Matson does the "walk this way" joke that Mel Brooks and the muppets would use over and over again.
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:14 Right? He and his formula go far in this one.
	9:18pm Charles: Private detectives, bah. I only talk to writers hired through newspaper ads.
	9:18pm Mr Fab: “Put your nose back down” Brilliant
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:18 Especially if they don't ask for money.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Remember when people could be trusted to honour a cheque
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Austin Rich: "Thanks for the fowl, chicken." In the 40's, women were still referred to as "chickens." One story about Chico Marx's name is that he was a "chicken chaser."
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Sounds like the ship is sinking
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: "Get that smoke out of your brain."
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Why am I thinking of Frau Blucher?
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:25 Been meaning to re-watch that. Been almost 20 years since I've seen that last.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Gunshot
	9:29pm Charles: Damn
	🎸 ♥ 9:29pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Its on HBO Max
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:29 Yeah. Gets a little dark, sometimes.
	9:32pm Charles: Lead poisoning.
	9:34pm Charles: It's a shame I can't fall asleep when the radio's playing because Bold Venture puts me in a cozy mood.
	🎸 ♥ 9:35pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Had fun writing last month.
	🎸 ♥ 9:35pm Austin Rich: I've wanted to make a period Candy Matson show for a while, with modern FX, but to make it look like a late 40's movie. Surprised no one has used that property yet.
	🎸 ♥ 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:34 Bold Venture is total comfort listening.
	🎸 ♥ 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:35 Nice. You've been writing up a storm, lately.
	9:36pm Charles: Heck, all the shows do. Voices on the radio are comforting.
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:36 True! Friends to keep you company when you need something to listen to.
	🎸 ♥ 9:38pm Austin Rich: When I describe "Bold Venture" to people - Bogart & Bacall have a boat, trade quips, get in an adventure, and then kiss at the end - they all say that it sounds delightful. I guess everyone knows a good thing when they hear it.
	9:39pm Charles: That's exactly right.
	9:42pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:38 Yep. There used to be a species known as “cool people” that once walked the earth. We’re doing our part to bring it back.
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:42 I have seen these cool people in old movies. I've been studying the best lately: Groucho!
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: If you read King Arthur tales you know today is Mordred's birthday
	9:45pm Mr Fab: Just got my Marathon Premium Sheena’s t-shirt in the mail, woo-hoo!
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:43 Woah! Nice birthday! I haven't read any Arthurian stuff since college. Probably worth reading without the need to write a paper about it afterwards.
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:45 Ooooo. That means mine should be coming soon!
	🎸 ♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: I feel like I only just started at Sheena's / WFMU, and I already have a ton of t-shirts. It always gives me something cool to wear after I take off the pocket protector and bow tie, and enjoy some formula.
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Meaning Slate is next on the list I bet.
	9:48pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 I have really become a bigger and bigger fan of Groucho over the years. Growing up, he was like this stock character that people were always imitating, reduced to like just a Halloween costume type of figure. Kept me from delving into his genius til I got older.
	🎸 ♥ 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:48 I'm in a sort of similar boat. They were on TV, and parodied constantly. But now I'm re-watching them all, and I'm shocked! They hold up! They are fantastic! And funnier than a lot of comedy now. Seems there's a lesson here...
	🎸 ♥ 9:54pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: She sounds familiar
	9:55pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:50 Oh yeah. And actually same with hard boiled/noir films and fiction. Again, just saw lots of parodies on things like tv variety shows- the guy in the trench coat and fedora, sultry dame, sax music, etc. Until i read Raymond Chandler and was like holy crap, this is the greatest, why is everyone making fun of it?
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Plot thickens
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:55 I reverse-engineered my interest in noir. I loved Roger Rabbit as a teen, and soon enough, found Hammett and Chandler at the library, looking for something else like that. But it's the same with music: we hear the covers, and eventually find the originals. It just takes time.
	🎸 ♥ 10:00pm Austin Rich: A surprising number of people get shot on Bold Venture.
	🎸 ♥ 10:00pm Austin Rich: "I didn't go to jail again."
	🎸 ♥ 10:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Cat keeps walking by.
	🎸 ♥ 10:03pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Thinking of writing more about the star-vultures.
	🎸 ♥ 10:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Always enjoyable
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:03 You should! Anything that inspires you, you should follow.
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Just entered a sparkling water flavor contest. Suggested Yuzu.
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:17 Interesting! They are naming a new flavor, for a contest?
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Coming up with flavors
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:18 Interesting! Good luck.
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Yuan is a fruit in Japan that is sweet and tangy
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Yuzu I mean
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: Very cool. I didn't know that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:23pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Getting sleepy. Going to turn in.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:23 Sleep well! See ya next time.
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Heather Z: Hi everyone! Tuned in and enjoying the show! Haven't been lurking here, even, but wanted to pop in and say hello!
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:28 Nice to see you, Heather!
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 Great stuff as always! Super duper enjoying the new Candy segments!
	🎸 ♥ 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:29 Candy is the best. I like that she drinks, and smokes, and makes her own way at a time when most people expected her to be married, and as described in the pilot, she dresses however she wants. He was mistaken for a "Lady of the Night" by one bartender.
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 I remember you've said all along you thought I would enjoy her stories a lot and you were right!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: You'll notice that X-Minus-1 has yet another announcer this week. Not Don Pardo, or Norman Rose. You'll notice that the announcers change a few times on this show.
	10:34pm Mr Fab: I wonder if anyone has written a cultural history of the organ. It was called the King of Instruments, and it really was: radio soundtracks, church, skating rinks, classical, EZ, Voxx for the rockers, Hammond for jazz and soul, baseball (and other) games…are today’s kids even familiar with organs?
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:32 The coded gay sidekick is astonishing for a late 40's radio show. I still haven't found anything else that has a character like that from that same era. I think I can safely say he's the first gay man in old radio dramas, who is represented positively, and not just the butt of jokes.
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:34 I have been thinking that I need to get an organ, and start a Screamers style band.
	10:35pm Arvo: Just saying howdy in real time before I disappear again into the shadows...
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:35 Arvo! Hello! Great to see you in the chat!
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:34 And: I would read that cultural history.
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: I just got that "vocoder" history book for my birthday. Been looking forward to reading that one.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo @10:35 Hi Arvo!
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:36 Vocoder Book: howtowreckanicebeach.com
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Mars Is Heaven"" by "X-Minus One" This story appeared at least twice on Dimension X, and was a fan favorite. For this version of the story, some scenes were re-done and re-written, and since this was a few years later, the music cues and sfx are a little better than before.
	10:40pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 Nice!
	🎸 ♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: The original story - Mars is Heaven - is a Ray Bradbury story. But this version was adapted by Earnest Kinoy, who did a lot of work for Dimension X, and X-Minus-1, and was a Sci-Fi author on his own. But he did a lot of great work writing for radio.
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:40 One reason to get the book: Vocoder Discography! I'm already looking for records to buy.
	🎸 ♥ 10:45pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 Tmbg has some good vocoder content!
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: I'm exactly the kind of nerd that enjoys a good non-fiction book about the history of music-related things. A book I loved - Perfecting Sound Forever - is a history of different kinds of recording technology, and the various kinds of backlash to them. Fascinating stuff, starting with Edison.
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:45 Very much so.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: A character said the title of the episode. Take a drink!
	10:50pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 Oh heck yeah. Hopefully we’ll get a special episode of “Mid-Valley Mutations” out of it, hint hint!
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:50 <taps side of nose> It's long overdue!
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: This is the fourth episode of seven in this "trial" run of episodes, as first commissioned by NBC in 1955. The show would be so successful, that one month later, NBC would pick up the show in a continuous manner, for a number of years afterwards. Some stations actually aired re-runs in local markets, keeping that time slot alive in the minds of listeners. (Some stations, that had kept their old Dimension X discs, ran some of those, instead.)
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: The Concentration Camp sub-plot in this episode is pretty dark.
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: Upbeat ending! Good night... Wait... I guess there's more? Hmmm...
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: A character said the title of the episode again. Take another drink!
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 I think I recall that's why I loved this show back in my OTR days and also stopped listening. It all made me so darned sad. Awfully effective stuff to make a person feel so strongly.
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:57 Yeah. The Twilight Zone endings are sort of relentless.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:58 More than one Twilight Zone made me cry, too, that's for sure!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:59 Twilight Zone is the best. I love that show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: That's all she wrote. See ya next time!
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm Heather Z: Night all! Thanks for an awesome show, Austin!
	11:02pm Mr Fab: Great show, thx Austin!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 1, 2023

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May 1, 2023: Episode #54

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Candy Matson	"The Cable Car Case"	7 July 1949	KNBC	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Bold Venture	"Death At The Wedding"	16 July 1951	Santana Productions	0:34:25 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Harmonicats	Peg O' My Heart "Peg O' My Heart" by "The Harmonicats"			1:07:06 (Pop-up)
Ken Burns	Empire of The Air Part 6	Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio	PBS DVD Video	1:07:47 (Pop-up)
Chandu The Magician	"Reaching The Ruins"	7 September 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Network	1:18:04 (Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"Mars Is Heaven" ""Mars Is Heaven"" by "X-Minus One"	8 May 1955	NBC Radio	1:31:21 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 7:31pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:01 Greetings and Salutations!
	9:03pm Charles: hello
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:03 Charles! Nice to see you in the chat.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: This is the first episode that was broadcast, after the pilot, and where Candy was heard by a wider audience, too. Unfortunately, we don't have a complete run of Candy Matson, so we only get to hear a smattering of shows that happened to survive into the modern age.
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: This story - like a lot of Candy Matson stories - really shows it's San Francisco-ness, with a lot of place-names and local references of the era.
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I got 14 Candys on my app.
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Episodes I mean
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:07 That's how many I have, too.
	9:09pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! This script is hilarious. “He was stone cold dead on Market” is a LOL reference to a calypso song “Stone cold Dead In the Market.”
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: "This mediocre dialog is getting us nowhere." Candy Matson really does enjoy making meta-references and breaking the fourth wall. Candy often references the announcer at the beginning, too.
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:09 Yeah, Candy has some of the best jokes. It still works, years later.
	9:10pm Charles: Booze 'n' Organ mondays in effect
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: You get a sense of Rembrandt's character more in this episode, I think.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: While Candy Matson gets pretty dark at times, this show marries humor and a touch of romance in a way that a lot of detective shows never did.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: "I'm no longer a man. I'm a sprite..." Another "reference" to Rembrandt's status.
	9:12pm Charles: Oh Rembrandt you still have so much to learn ~
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: "Questionable companions..."
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 Lots of those on the docks. Easy get away
	9:14pm Charles: Rembrandt owns.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: The "Live Organ" in Candy Matson was a creative choice to save money while making the show. In 1949, you COULD fully produce a show with music cues and sfx, but you needed a modern studio, which wasn't always available to just anyone. So they decided to make Candy "live," with live organ and sfx. This is also probably why there aren't many surviving into the modern age: there weren't transcription discs made, so ones that do exist where home-made.
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: Candy Matson does the "walk this way" joke that Mel Brooks and the muppets would use over and over again.
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:14 Right? He and his formula go far in this one.
	9:18pm Charles: Private detectives, bah. I only talk to writers hired through newspaper ads.
	9:18pm Mr Fab: “Put your nose back down” Brilliant
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:18 Especially if they don't ask for money.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Remember when people could be trusted to honour a cheque
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Austin Rich: "Thanks for the fowl, chicken." In the 40's, women were still referred to as "chickens." One story about Chico Marx's name is that he was a "chicken chaser."
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Sounds like the ship is sinking
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: "Get that smoke out of your brain."
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Why am I thinking of Frau Blucher?
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:25 Been meaning to re-watch that. Been almost 20 years since I've seen that last.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Gunshot
	9:29pm Charles: Damn
	🎸 ♥ 9:29pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Its on HBO Max
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:29 Yeah. Gets a little dark, sometimes.
	9:32pm Charles: Lead poisoning.
	9:34pm Charles: It's a shame I can't fall asleep when the radio's playing because Bold Venture puts me in a cozy mood.
	🎸 ♥ 9:35pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Had fun writing last month.
	🎸 ♥ 9:35pm Austin Rich: I've wanted to make a period Candy Matson show for a while, with modern FX, but to make it look like a late 40's movie. Surprised no one has used that property yet.
	🎸 ♥ 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:34 Bold Venture is total comfort listening.
	🎸 ♥ 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:35 Nice. You've been writing up a storm, lately.
	9:36pm Charles: Heck, all the shows do. Voices on the radio are comforting.
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:36 True! Friends to keep you company when you need something to listen to.
	🎸 ♥ 9:38pm Austin Rich: When I describe "Bold Venture" to people - Bogart & Bacall have a boat, trade quips, get in an adventure, and then kiss at the end - they all say that it sounds delightful. I guess everyone knows a good thing when they hear it.
	9:39pm Charles: That's exactly right.
	9:42pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:38 Yep. There used to be a species known as “cool people” that once walked the earth. We’re doing our part to bring it back.
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:42 I have seen these cool people in old movies. I've been studying the best lately: Groucho!
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: If you read King Arthur tales you know today is Mordred's birthday
	9:45pm Mr Fab: Just got my Marathon Premium Sheena’s t-shirt in the mail, woo-hoo!
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:43 Woah! Nice birthday! I haven't read any Arthurian stuff since college. Probably worth reading without the need to write a paper about it afterwards.
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:45 Ooooo. That means mine should be coming soon!
	🎸 ♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: I feel like I only just started at Sheena's / WFMU, and I already have a ton of t-shirts. It always gives me something cool to wear after I take off the pocket protector and bow tie, and enjoy some formula.
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Meaning Slate is next on the list I bet.
	9:48pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 I have really become a bigger and bigger fan of Groucho over the years. Growing up, he was like this stock character that people were always imitating, reduced to like just a Halloween costume type of figure. Kept me from delving into his genius til I got older.
	🎸 ♥ 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:48 I'm in a sort of similar boat. They were on TV, and parodied constantly. But now I'm re-watching them all, and I'm shocked! They hold up! They are fantastic! And funnier than a lot of comedy now. Seems there's a lesson here...
	🎸 ♥ 9:54pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: She sounds familiar
	9:55pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:50 Oh yeah. And actually same with hard boiled/noir films and fiction. Again, just saw lots of parodies on things like tv variety shows- the guy in the trench coat and fedora, sultry dame, sax music, etc. Until i read Raymond Chandler and was like holy crap, this is the greatest, why is everyone making fun of it?
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Plot thickens
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:55 I reverse-engineered my interest in noir. I loved Roger Rabbit as a teen, and soon enough, found Hammett and Chandler at the library, looking for something else like that. But it's the same with music: we hear the covers, and eventually find the originals. It just takes time.
	🎸 ♥ 10:00pm Austin Rich: A surprising number of people get shot on Bold Venture.
	🎸 ♥ 10:00pm Austin Rich: "I didn't go to jail again."
	🎸 ♥ 10:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Cat keeps walking by.
	🎸 ♥ 10:03pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Thinking of writing more about the star-vultures.
	🎸 ♥ 10:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Always enjoyable
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:03 You should! Anything that inspires you, you should follow.
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Just entered a sparkling water flavor contest. Suggested Yuzu.
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:17 Interesting! They are naming a new flavor, for a contest?
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Coming up with flavors
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:18 Interesting! Good luck.
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Yuan is a fruit in Japan that is sweet and tangy
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Yuzu I mean
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: Very cool. I didn't know that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:23pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Getting sleepy. Going to turn in.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:23 Sleep well! See ya next time.
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Heather Z: Hi everyone! Tuned in and enjoying the show! Haven't been lurking here, even, but wanted to pop in and say hello!
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:28 Nice to see you, Heather!
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 Great stuff as always! Super duper enjoying the new Candy segments!
	🎸 ♥ 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:29 Candy is the best. I like that she drinks, and smokes, and makes her own way at a time when most people expected her to be married, and as described in the pilot, she dresses however she wants. He was mistaken for a "Lady of the Night" by one bartender.
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 I remember you've said all along you thought I would enjoy her stories a lot and you were right!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: You'll notice that X-Minus-1 has yet another announcer this week. Not Don Pardo, or Norman Rose. You'll notice that the announcers change a few times on this show.
	10:34pm Mr Fab: I wonder if anyone has written a cultural history of the organ. It was called the King of Instruments, and it really was: radio soundtracks, church, skating rinks, classical, EZ, Voxx for the rockers, Hammond for jazz and soul, baseball (and other) games…are today’s kids even familiar with organs?
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:32 The coded gay sidekick is astonishing for a late 40's radio show. I still haven't found anything else that has a character like that from that same era. I think I can safely say he's the first gay man in old radio dramas, who is represented positively, and not just the butt of jokes.
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:34 I have been thinking that I need to get an organ, and start a Screamers style band.
	10:35pm Arvo: Just saying howdy in real time before I disappear again into the shadows...
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:35 Arvo! Hello! Great to see you in the chat!
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:34 And: I would read that cultural history.
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: I just got that "vocoder" history book for my birthday. Been looking forward to reading that one.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo @10:35 Hi Arvo!
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:36 Vocoder Book: howtowreckanicebeach.com
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Mars Is Heaven"" by "X-Minus One" This story appeared at least twice on Dimension X, and was a fan favorite. For this version of the story, some scenes were re-done and re-written, and since this was a few years later, the music cues and sfx are a little better than before.
	10:40pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 Nice!
	🎸 ♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: The original story - Mars is Heaven - is a Ray Bradbury story. But this version was adapted by Earnest Kinoy, who did a lot of work for Dimension X, and X-Minus-1, and was a Sci-Fi author on his own. But he did a lot of great work writing for radio.
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:40 One reason to get the book: Vocoder Discography! I'm already looking for records to buy.
	🎸 ♥ 10:45pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 Tmbg has some good vocoder content!
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: I'm exactly the kind of nerd that enjoys a good non-fiction book about the history of music-related things. A book I loved - Perfecting Sound Forever - is a history of different kinds of recording technology, and the various kinds of backlash to them. Fascinating stuff, starting with Edison.
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:45 Very much so.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: A character said the title of the episode. Take a drink!
	10:50pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 Oh heck yeah. Hopefully we’ll get a special episode of “Mid-Valley Mutations” out of it, hint hint!
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:50 <taps side of nose> It's long overdue!
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: This is the fourth episode of seven in this "trial" run of episodes, as first commissioned by NBC in 1955. The show would be so successful, that one month later, NBC would pick up the show in a continuous manner, for a number of years afterwards. Some stations actually aired re-runs in local markets, keeping that time slot alive in the minds of listeners. (Some stations, that had kept their old Dimension X discs, ran some of those, instead.)
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: The Concentration Camp sub-plot in this episode is pretty dark.
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: Upbeat ending! Good night... Wait... I guess there's more? Hmmm...
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: A character said the title of the episode again. Take another drink!
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 I think I recall that's why I loved this show back in my OTR days and also stopped listening. It all made me so darned sad. Awfully effective stuff to make a person feel so strongly.
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:57 Yeah. The Twilight Zone endings are sort of relentless.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:58 More than one Twilight Zone made me cry, too, that's for sure!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:59 Twilight Zone is the best. I love that show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: That's all she wrote. See ya next time!
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm Heather Z: Night all! Thanks for an awesome show, Austin!
	11:02pm Mr Fab: Great show, thx Austin!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 1, 2023

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