WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from June 10, 2024

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 7:50pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 8:53pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	🎸 ♥ 8:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:53 Nice to see you in the chat! Thanks for poppin' by.
	8:58pm Charles: I'm staying up late to hear Vincent Price in The House of Fear 😎
	🎸 ♥ 8:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @8:58 Oh No! It's not that house of fear!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Webhamster Henry: The tubes are warming up!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:01 Webhamster Henry! Thanks for making an appearance.
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:01 yerfriendpaul! Our friend paul! Thanks for enjoying some "theater of the mind."
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Charles @8:58 That would be The Price of Fear
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: Gambling is the through-line in tonight's show. Rogue is gambling here in this story. Rocky Jordan has poker on the mind in the next. "The Arson Ring" has an insurance angle, a sort of gambling. And our X-Minus 1 story involves someone taking a very big gamble on a spaceship.
	9:07pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:07 Mr. Fab! I hope you are ready for some Dick Powell on Sheena's!
	9:09pm Mr Fab: When your name is "rogue," I would imagine that kinda sets you on a certain life path.
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: I think I hear Gerald Mohr!
	♥ 9:09pm Maulydaft: Oooo two of my favourites: Gerald Mohr and Lurene Tuttle (I think)
	♥ 9:09pm Maulydaft: Oh ha! Austin: Great minds think alike!
	🎸 ♥ 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:09 Gerald Mohr was one of the actors who played Philip Marlowe on the radio, among many other things. en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:09 Maulydaft! Yeah, it's hard not to have Gerald Mohr on the brain.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Imaginos: The biggest fictional insurance claim was for $$60,000,000,000
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:09 Yeah. That doesn't really give you many career opportunities, to put in in Clash parlance.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:11 What was that in?
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 Trigun
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:09 I'm not familiar enough with Lurene Tuttle's voice to say for sure, but it does seem likely, given the amount of radio work she's done.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Imaginos: What if the diamond never existed?
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm David Shortell: ↳ Imaginos @9:03 Yes. "The House of Fear" starred Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm yerfriendpaul: Boy, Sam is giving him everything he needs
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:14 David Shortell! Thanks for listening.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:15 Sometimes, I just want a Sam to guide me.
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 Ha ha!
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: Who had 16 minutes after for Eugor's appearance?
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Webhamster Henry: As usual!
	9:17pm Mr Fab: Knockout of The Day!
	♥ 9:17pm Maulydaft: They put Eugor in or one two Richard Diamonds, as a little in joke I guess!
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:17 It's the Dimestore "Okay K.O." of the week!
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:17 Oh! I haven't caught those. Hopefully they'll come up when I run those next.
	9:19pm Mr Fab: not Acme Brand?!?
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 The two boys who sang "Career Opportunities" on "Sandinista!" may be over 50 now.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: Reprobate is a surprisingly difficult word to say.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:19 Acme is still in the mix. But Fitch has secured the sponsorship for Rogue's Gallery this season.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:19 Ha! I'm sure there's more stuff like that, I haven't considered before.
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm yerfriendpaul: It must’ve been fun being a musician during these shows. Some of the dramatic transitions are fantastic and I bet fun to play
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:21 It's possible that they got new, original music by some NBC combo in those days. (Some shows, it was cheaper to just have a live band score it live with the actors recording their parts.) But a lot of shows - especially shows on stations with pretty good sound libraries - where one set of sounds was recorded, and then used in every episode. I haven't done enough side-by-side comparisons to say one way or another with this show, but X-Minus One, for example, uses all NBC library music as their soundtracks.
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:21 I have been clipping out my favorite cues that I've been able to isolate, because, as you say: they are fantastic!
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:25 Very cool!
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:25 Should we have musical cues for Lost Christobel?
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The House of Fear"" by "Rogue's Gallery" Like a lot of shows that are almost 80+ years old, the sound isn't perfect on this one; I did a little EQ to try and improve things, but there's still some distortion at the louder end of the sound spectrum.
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:26 I was thinking we should. I could probably whip up some short ones, when we're ready for that.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm Austin Rich: "Know what I mean?" was supposed to be Rogue's "catch phrase" to some degree. However, it was usually only ever heard at the ends of episodes, which makes it hard for me to recall as a "catch phrase."
	🎸 ♥ 9:29pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:27 Excellent
	🎸 ♥ 9:29pm Austin Rich: Here's the Dick Powell "noir" that they announcer was plugging. en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:19 Hopefully you heard: there really was a "Fitch Shampoo," and somehow, their commercial jingle became the theme music for "Rogue's Gallery," when they became the sponsor. So I ran with that for the ads on Rogue's Gallery, too.
	9:36pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:31 Oh right, yeah pretty clever the way they sneak ad business in there.
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:36 I'm fairly sure that Fitch doesn't exist anymore, but either way, I'm not sure my ads are in any danger of being mistaken for real ads.
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:37 Even though they give warnings like real ones
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Austin Rich: Here's a little info I found on Fitch, or rather, the person who created the product: en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Imaginos: Fitch vintage bottles available on eBay
	9:42pm Mr Fab: As long as Rocky is in Cairo, he should ask Chandu the Magician for help.
	🎸 ♥ 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:42 I'm not sure how obvious this might be, but Rocky Jordan was radio's effort to do "Casablanca on the radio," since Bogart was not interested.
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:42 I have been thinking of making a "surreal" episode of Dimestore Radio Theater, sort of inspired by "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid." But I should probably save that for April Fool's again.
	9:50pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 That sounds cool!
	9:50pm wenzo: Howdee AR & Dimestore patrons!
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:50 wenzo! We always appreciate you in the Dimestore Digital Salon. (Chatroom.)
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm Imaginos: I wonder if Junior was disguised as a woman. Seems like a good way to dodge
	🎸 ♥ 9:54pm Webhamster Henry: Mr. King Moses, that is.
	🎸 ♥ 9:54pm Austin Rich: In it's time, this version of Rocky Jordan was lauded for the music, which was not only unusual for radio at the time, but was said to evoke a sense of place very well. I certainly appreciate the music for this show, and I do think Rocky Jordan might have had original cues recorded for each show, as the cues don't sound too similar to my ears. (I could be wrong.)
	🎸 ♥ 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:54 Zing.
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Austin Rich: Rocky's pronunciation of "muslims" is very... late 40's American, let's just say.
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:52 You called it!
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:58 Guess so
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm univac: Hello, all. This is odd "Junior Queen"...
	♥ 9:58pm Maulydaft: The announcer is Larry Thor from Broadway is My Beat and I've been meaning to look up info on him - did he start as an announcer and get his own show?
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:58 univac! Hooray!
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:58 Ooooo, good question!
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm univac: It has been some time.
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:59 You have been very busy!
	🎸 ♥ 10:02pm Imaginos: Going to sleep soon. Good show tonight
	10:03pm wenzo: Come for the old time radio, stay for the factoids
	♥ 10:06pm Maulydaft: Broadway is my Beat is INTENSE! Larry Thor is a brooding grim detective spouting poetry about NYC in each episode. People are constantly lying about murder. :D
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm Webhamster Henry: Yeah I like Broadway Is My Beat, frequently played on WBAI back inthe day.
	♥ 10:11pm Maulydaft: yeah WBAI!
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Webhamster Henry: It's very "New Yorky"
	10:12pm wenzo: I listened to some BIMB recently and was pleasantly surprised… but I generally listen to old time radio as I drift off to sleep so I won’t pretend I remember much about it
	♥ 10:12pm Maulydaft: WBAI's OTR show: Sunday evenings :)
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm univac: Aw, thanks Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:12 Good point!
	10:13pm Feldy: Hey Austin! Listening and driving
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Feldy @10:13 Feldy! Driving and listening is always fun.
	🎸 ♥ 10:14pm Austin Rich: I meant to say this during the break, but I forgot: the story beat in our "Rocky Jordan" episode this week where the suspect was also playing another character in a disguise seems to be a riff on the very real fact that the limited number of actors on "Rocky Jordan" all played multiple characters in each episode.
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: This guy was almost signing "Kokomo" for s second there.
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: "It is not a passive sport, this radio game."
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: He's an old, nerdy radio enthusiast! That's why I love this story.
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: "His hobby will cost him far less than the tobacco habit."
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Barno in Akron: How do you do, fellow kids?
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Barno in Akron @10:19 Barno! Thanks for tuning in, and joining us.
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Smashing The Arson Ring, Part 1"" by "The Blue B... Did you ever notice how Dan Garrett in that picture resembles Lee Falk's Phantom?
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: I think we'll go 4 minutes over this week. Sorry everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:22 We got a bunch of old "Phantom" collections in at my work, and I'm really tempted to buy some. We also got a "Love & Rockets" collection that I really, REALLY want.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: "Dan Garrett's a smoke eater." According to "the internet," "In the 1800s, firefighters wore the name 'smoke eater' with pride. The term represented a life spent running towards danger to save people and property from harm, regardless of the personal health risks."
	10:27pm wenzo: Good thing these three old timers were around to narrate that scene!
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @10:24 Cool
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm Austin Rich: I know I've mentioned this before, but I've been using audio-rendering algorithms to allow me to "remix" Old Radio episodes. The primary use I have found for them is to allow me to increase the "signal" for the dialog of these shows, and I can dial back the music and other sounds a bit, to make some of the dialog scenes a little easier to hear. I'll be doing this for Blue Beetle and X-Minus One from here on out. (Though most X-Minus One episodes don't need much help.)
	♥ 10:29pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 That's really helpful thank you! So many issues with hearing voices properly and music being too loud...
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 I'll be rolling out the same tools for both Rocky Jordan and Rogue's Gallery, too, but I've been slowly rolling out this new tool, to make it's working the way I'd like, etc. It seems to be working exactly as advertised, but I want to be a little careful as I start using tools like this.
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:29 I'm thinking of collecting some of my EQ'd and "remixed" shows, for Archive.org. But for now, they are just a little present, for Sheena's.
	10:30pm wenzo: This guy broke pretty quick
	🎸 ♥ 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:30 Cops would like you to think that's how it works.
	10:34pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 Thanks, much appreciated!
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 It’s well known that Alan Moore informed fellow Northampton UK native Peter Murphy about that Fantagraphics publication–and Peter stole the name for his own band. There are also two bands that call themselves Speedy Ortiz: one from Northampton MA, one from Philadelphia.
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 I'm not really interested in "changing" these shows, or using these kinds of tools to create something new that's not in line with how the shows were supposed to sound. My primary interest in using tools like this is to improve the sounds that are there, so we can better enjoy the shows. Modern audiences are used to the high-quality audio dramas that you can hear on podcasts these days, and I'd like people to be able to better hear what makes these these shows great: the excellent writing and acting.
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Smashing The Arson Ring, Part 1"" by "The Blue B... In the opening credits of the recent Blue Beetle movie, newspaper headlines serve as exposition. Archaeology Monthly: ‘Archaeologist Dan Garrett makes new discovery’ Scientific Review: ‘Garrett receives research funding from Ted Kord’ Daily Planet: ‘New hero in Palmera City: vigilante “Blue Beetle” saves city from Firefist’ Daily Planet: ‘Ted Kord charts new clean tech course’ unidentified publication: ‘Ted Kord missing. Victoria Kord: new CEO’
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Jaywalker"" by "X-Minus One" You'll notice this story begins with some dialog at the beginning, before the theme music. X-Minus one will start doing this more and more, as the show continues, as as they find new ways to exploit the format of the show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:34 I'll have to look into that! I don't know these "Speedy" bands. (And I and a big nerd for Love & Rockets, not the band.)
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:35 That's very funny! Maybe I need to finally see this Blue Beetle movie.
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Jaywalker"" by "X-Minus One" Correct me if I'm wrong, but this might be the first episode of "X-Minus One" that is - mostly - from a woman's point of view. This didn't happen often in the 50's, which is the only reason I mention it.
	10:39pm Mr Fab: Author: Clifford D. Simak - one of the biggies from the Golden Age of SciFi.
	🎸 ♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: I think this story might also pass the famous "Bechdel Test." While the main character is motivated by her feelings about her relationship to take action in this story, she does have conversations with other women, about things that are not men. Another big accomplishment for 1956.
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm yerfriendpaul: Ha ha! The heavy breathing
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:39 Simak rules! I should read more of him. I've been considering reading all the short stories that Dimension X and X-Minus One used as the basis for their shows.
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:41 I always find "kisses" and other affection on radio shows very funny, because it just starts to sound like porn after a point.
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 It does!
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: One challenge of some audio tools is that it CAN separate tracks, so you can have dialog and music separated. But depending on the settings and the sound, it can really deaden certain kinds of SFX (if you try to edit these shows in any extreme ways.) I mostly spent a lot of time comparing SFX to source files, just to make sure I wasn't loosing any of them using these tools.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: They put a little "X-Minus One" gag in the script for this show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:48pm Heather: I feel like she's better off without this guy....
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 Ted Kord’s villainous sister Victoria was created for the movie (played by Susan Sarandon), but was also introduced into the comics canon. Ted’s daughter Jenny was also created for the movie, but has yet to appear in the comics.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:48 Well, i'm against MOST relationships anyway, but this one is so 50's that I really want her to leave this guy behind.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm univac: Thx Austin! Gotta run!
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm univac: Oh, Hi Heather!
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:49 You are making me curious!
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:49 See ya next time!
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Heather: ↳ univac @10:49 Hi univac! I've been tuned in but just hopped into the salon to say hi!
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: There are elements to "Jaywalker" that seem to be riffing on the story "Cold Equations," which also involves a woman who hitches a ride on a spaceship, with consequences as a result. We heard a version of "Cold Equations" that was less-horrific than the story it was based on, right here on this show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 I saw a Rutgers exhibit of Bechdel’s work in 2018, and later a stage musical of her “Fun Home”.
	♥ 10:55pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:52 Yes I noticed this on a subconscious level!
	10:55pm wenzo: “Don’t take the blame on yourself I’m over 21” … what? 😂
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:55 Yeah, I wasn't sure what that was about.
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm yerfriendpaul: Ha ha, cranky mechanic but he’s got good reason
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:55 I wrote a paper on "Fun Home" in college, but the instructor hated the paper. I thought I had written something pretty insightful; the same instructor hated everything I wrote, so I'm pretty sure I can't trust their opinions.
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:55 They must have read each other's work, given how small the world's of sci-fi were in those days.
	♥ 10:57pm Maulydaft: That was Raymond who was also the announcer on those Lipton tea horror shows (weirdest announcing couple ever - morbid Raymond and bubbly Lipton tea woman!)
	10:57pm wenzo: This lady does not have a solid grasp of science generally… every time someone tries to explain something to her it’s totally unfathomable to her
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:57 Oh, right! I loved that! They are so weird.
	♥ 10:58pm Maulydaft: ↳ wenzo @10:57 haha!
	10:59pm wenzo: Nothing says I love you like putting hundreds of random strangers lives in danger for your loved one
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:57 Yeah, I'm not really comfortable with the way the lead is portrayed in this story. That said: people of all genders have trouble understanding science, so I'm with her on this one.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:59 Yeah, I'm not sure many of the characters in this story are very good role models.
	11:00pm wenzo: Yea I am too lol… I never made it to Physics… almost flunked chemistry… earth sciences I could wrap my brain around… I got a head for rocks… or full of rocks… one of those…
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @11:00 I did okay in Physics... but not really beyond 101 level stuff. I was not cut out for College level science.
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @11:00 I really enjoyed one Geology class I took. It involved a great field trip lecture that was a lot of fun.
	11:02pm wenzo: “I did it… and now I’ve been fired and am facing a class action lawsuit… and I love you…”
	🎸 ♥ 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @11:02 Yeah, that's the modern version.
	🎸 ♥ 11:04pm Austin Rich: See ya next time, everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 11:04pm yerfriendpaul: That was a strange one. Thought that there’d be some sort tragic twist
	♥ 11:04pm Maulydaft: Thanks so much as always!
	🎸 ♥ 11:04pm yerfriendpaul: Thanks Austin! Good night all!
	11:06pm wenzo: Thanks Austin! 🙏 be seeing you errybuddy!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from June 10, 2024

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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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June 10, 2024: Episode #98

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Rogue's Gallery	"The House of Fear"	15 November 1945	NBC		0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Adventures of Rocky Jordan	"Ace High Straight"	12 December 1948	Santana Productions		0:30:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Leo Diamond	Off Shore "Off Shore" by "Leo Diamond"				1:02:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Unpublished History	Radio in the 1920s (Part 13)	Radio In The 1920s	Self-Released	2024	1:12:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Blue Beetle	"Smashing The Arson Ring, Part 1"	21 June 1940	Mutual–Don Lee Network		1:19:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"Jaywalker" ""Jaywalker"" by "X-Minus One"	17 April 1956	NBC Radio		1:34:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 7:50pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 8:53pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	🎸 ♥ 8:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:53 Nice to see you in the chat! Thanks for poppin' by.
	8:58pm Charles: I'm staying up late to hear Vincent Price in The House of Fear 😎
	🎸 ♥ 8:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @8:58 Oh No! It's not that house of fear!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Webhamster Henry: The tubes are warming up!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:01 Webhamster Henry! Thanks for making an appearance.
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:01 yerfriendpaul! Our friend paul! Thanks for enjoying some "theater of the mind."
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Charles @8:58 That would be The Price of Fear
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: Gambling is the through-line in tonight's show. Rogue is gambling here in this story. Rocky Jordan has poker on the mind in the next. "The Arson Ring" has an insurance angle, a sort of gambling. And our X-Minus 1 story involves someone taking a very big gamble on a spaceship.
	9:07pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:07 Mr. Fab! I hope you are ready for some Dick Powell on Sheena's!
	9:09pm Mr Fab: When your name is "rogue," I would imagine that kinda sets you on a certain life path.
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: I think I hear Gerald Mohr!
	♥ 9:09pm Maulydaft: Oooo two of my favourites: Gerald Mohr and Lurene Tuttle (I think)
	♥ 9:09pm Maulydaft: Oh ha! Austin: Great minds think alike!
	🎸 ♥ 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:09 Gerald Mohr was one of the actors who played Philip Marlowe on the radio, among many other things. en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:09 Maulydaft! Yeah, it's hard not to have Gerald Mohr on the brain.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Imaginos: The biggest fictional insurance claim was for $$60,000,000,000
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:09 Yeah. That doesn't really give you many career opportunities, to put in in Clash parlance.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:11 What was that in?
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 Trigun
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:09 I'm not familiar enough with Lurene Tuttle's voice to say for sure, but it does seem likely, given the amount of radio work she's done.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Imaginos: What if the diamond never existed?
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm David Shortell: ↳ Imaginos @9:03 Yes. "The House of Fear" starred Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm yerfriendpaul: Boy, Sam is giving him everything he needs
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:14 David Shortell! Thanks for listening.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:15 Sometimes, I just want a Sam to guide me.
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 Ha ha!
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: Who had 16 minutes after for Eugor's appearance?
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Webhamster Henry: As usual!
	9:17pm Mr Fab: Knockout of The Day!
	♥ 9:17pm Maulydaft: They put Eugor in or one two Richard Diamonds, as a little in joke I guess!
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:17 It's the Dimestore "Okay K.O." of the week!
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:17 Oh! I haven't caught those. Hopefully they'll come up when I run those next.
	9:19pm Mr Fab: not Acme Brand?!?
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 The two boys who sang "Career Opportunities" on "Sandinista!" may be over 50 now.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: Reprobate is a surprisingly difficult word to say.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:19 Acme is still in the mix. But Fitch has secured the sponsorship for Rogue's Gallery this season.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:19 Ha! I'm sure there's more stuff like that, I haven't considered before.
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm yerfriendpaul: It must’ve been fun being a musician during these shows. Some of the dramatic transitions are fantastic and I bet fun to play
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:21 It's possible that they got new, original music by some NBC combo in those days. (Some shows, it was cheaper to just have a live band score it live with the actors recording their parts.) But a lot of shows - especially shows on stations with pretty good sound libraries - where one set of sounds was recorded, and then used in every episode. I haven't done enough side-by-side comparisons to say one way or another with this show, but X-Minus One, for example, uses all NBC library music as their soundtracks.
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:21 I have been clipping out my favorite cues that I've been able to isolate, because, as you say: they are fantastic!
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:25 Very cool!
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:25 Should we have musical cues for Lost Christobel?
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The House of Fear"" by "Rogue's Gallery" Like a lot of shows that are almost 80+ years old, the sound isn't perfect on this one; I did a little EQ to try and improve things, but there's still some distortion at the louder end of the sound spectrum.
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:26 I was thinking we should. I could probably whip up some short ones, when we're ready for that.
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm Austin Rich: "Know what I mean?" was supposed to be Rogue's "catch phrase" to some degree. However, it was usually only ever heard at the ends of episodes, which makes it hard for me to recall as a "catch phrase."
	🎸 ♥ 9:29pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:27 Excellent
	🎸 ♥ 9:29pm Austin Rich: Here's the Dick Powell "noir" that they announcer was plugging. en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:19 Hopefully you heard: there really was a "Fitch Shampoo," and somehow, their commercial jingle became the theme music for "Rogue's Gallery," when they became the sponsor. So I ran with that for the ads on Rogue's Gallery, too.
	9:36pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:31 Oh right, yeah pretty clever the way they sneak ad business in there.
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:36 I'm fairly sure that Fitch doesn't exist anymore, but either way, I'm not sure my ads are in any danger of being mistaken for real ads.
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:37 Even though they give warnings like real ones
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Austin Rich: Here's a little info I found on Fitch, or rather, the person who created the product: en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Imaginos: Fitch vintage bottles available on eBay
	9:42pm Mr Fab: As long as Rocky is in Cairo, he should ask Chandu the Magician for help.
	🎸 ♥ 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:42 I'm not sure how obvious this might be, but Rocky Jordan was radio's effort to do "Casablanca on the radio," since Bogart was not interested.
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:42 I have been thinking of making a "surreal" episode of Dimestore Radio Theater, sort of inspired by "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid." But I should probably save that for April Fool's again.
	9:50pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 That sounds cool!
	9:50pm wenzo: Howdee AR & Dimestore patrons!
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:50 wenzo! We always appreciate you in the Dimestore Digital Salon. (Chatroom.)
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm Imaginos: I wonder if Junior was disguised as a woman. Seems like a good way to dodge
	🎸 ♥ 9:54pm Webhamster Henry: Mr. King Moses, that is.
	🎸 ♥ 9:54pm Austin Rich: In it's time, this version of Rocky Jordan was lauded for the music, which was not only unusual for radio at the time, but was said to evoke a sense of place very well. I certainly appreciate the music for this show, and I do think Rocky Jordan might have had original cues recorded for each show, as the cues don't sound too similar to my ears. (I could be wrong.)
	🎸 ♥ 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:54 Zing.
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Austin Rich: Rocky's pronunciation of "muslims" is very... late 40's American, let's just say.
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:52 You called it!
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:58 Guess so
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm univac: Hello, all. This is odd "Junior Queen"...
	♥ 9:58pm Maulydaft: The announcer is Larry Thor from Broadway is My Beat and I've been meaning to look up info on him - did he start as an announcer and get his own show?
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:58 univac! Hooray!
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:58 Ooooo, good question!
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm univac: It has been some time.
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:59 You have been very busy!
	🎸 ♥ 10:02pm Imaginos: Going to sleep soon. Good show tonight
	10:03pm wenzo: Come for the old time radio, stay for the factoids
	♥ 10:06pm Maulydaft: Broadway is my Beat is INTENSE! Larry Thor is a brooding grim detective spouting poetry about NYC in each episode. People are constantly lying about murder. :D
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm Webhamster Henry: Yeah I like Broadway Is My Beat, frequently played on WBAI back inthe day.
	♥ 10:11pm Maulydaft: yeah WBAI!
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Webhamster Henry: It's very "New Yorky"
	10:12pm wenzo: I listened to some BIMB recently and was pleasantly surprised… but I generally listen to old time radio as I drift off to sleep so I won’t pretend I remember much about it
	♥ 10:12pm Maulydaft: WBAI's OTR show: Sunday evenings :)
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm univac: Aw, thanks Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:12 Good point!
	10:13pm Feldy: Hey Austin! Listening and driving
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Feldy @10:13 Feldy! Driving and listening is always fun.
	🎸 ♥ 10:14pm Austin Rich: I meant to say this during the break, but I forgot: the story beat in our "Rocky Jordan" episode this week where the suspect was also playing another character in a disguise seems to be a riff on the very real fact that the limited number of actors on "Rocky Jordan" all played multiple characters in each episode.
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: This guy was almost signing "Kokomo" for s second there.
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: "It is not a passive sport, this radio game."
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: He's an old, nerdy radio enthusiast! That's why I love this story.
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: "His hobby will cost him far less than the tobacco habit."
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Barno in Akron: How do you do, fellow kids?
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Barno in Akron @10:19 Barno! Thanks for tuning in, and joining us.
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Smashing The Arson Ring, Part 1"" by "The Blue B... Did you ever notice how Dan Garrett in that picture resembles Lee Falk's Phantom?
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: I think we'll go 4 minutes over this week. Sorry everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:22 We got a bunch of old "Phantom" collections in at my work, and I'm really tempted to buy some. We also got a "Love & Rockets" collection that I really, REALLY want.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: "Dan Garrett's a smoke eater." According to "the internet," "In the 1800s, firefighters wore the name 'smoke eater' with pride. The term represented a life spent running towards danger to save people and property from harm, regardless of the personal health risks."
	10:27pm wenzo: Good thing these three old timers were around to narrate that scene!
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @10:24 Cool
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm Austin Rich: I know I've mentioned this before, but I've been using audio-rendering algorithms to allow me to "remix" Old Radio episodes. The primary use I have found for them is to allow me to increase the "signal" for the dialog of these shows, and I can dial back the music and other sounds a bit, to make some of the dialog scenes a little easier to hear. I'll be doing this for Blue Beetle and X-Minus One from here on out. (Though most X-Minus One episodes don't need much help.)
	♥ 10:29pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 That's really helpful thank you! So many issues with hearing voices properly and music being too loud...
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 I'll be rolling out the same tools for both Rocky Jordan and Rogue's Gallery, too, but I've been slowly rolling out this new tool, to make it's working the way I'd like, etc. It seems to be working exactly as advertised, but I want to be a little careful as I start using tools like this.
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:29 I'm thinking of collecting some of my EQ'd and "remixed" shows, for Archive.org. But for now, they are just a little present, for Sheena's.
	10:30pm wenzo: This guy broke pretty quick
	🎸 ♥ 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:30 Cops would like you to think that's how it works.
	10:34pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 Thanks, much appreciated!
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 It’s well known that Alan Moore informed fellow Northampton UK native Peter Murphy about that Fantagraphics publication–and Peter stole the name for his own band. There are also two bands that call themselves Speedy Ortiz: one from Northampton MA, one from Philadelphia.
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 I'm not really interested in "changing" these shows, or using these kinds of tools to create something new that's not in line with how the shows were supposed to sound. My primary interest in using tools like this is to improve the sounds that are there, so we can better enjoy the shows. Modern audiences are used to the high-quality audio dramas that you can hear on podcasts these days, and I'd like people to be able to better hear what makes these these shows great: the excellent writing and acting.
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Smashing The Arson Ring, Part 1"" by "The Blue B... In the opening credits of the recent Blue Beetle movie, newspaper headlines serve as exposition. Archaeology Monthly: ‘Archaeologist Dan Garrett makes new discovery’ Scientific Review: ‘Garrett receives research funding from Ted Kord’ Daily Planet: ‘New hero in Palmera City: vigilante “Blue Beetle” saves city from Firefist’ Daily Planet: ‘Ted Kord charts new clean tech course’ unidentified publication: ‘Ted Kord missing. Victoria Kord: new CEO’
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Jaywalker"" by "X-Minus One" You'll notice this story begins with some dialog at the beginning, before the theme music. X-Minus one will start doing this more and more, as the show continues, as as they find new ways to exploit the format of the show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:34 I'll have to look into that! I don't know these "Speedy" bands. (And I and a big nerd for Love & Rockets, not the band.)
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:35 That's very funny! Maybe I need to finally see this Blue Beetle movie.
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Jaywalker"" by "X-Minus One" Correct me if I'm wrong, but this might be the first episode of "X-Minus One" that is - mostly - from a woman's point of view. This didn't happen often in the 50's, which is the only reason I mention it.
	10:39pm Mr Fab: Author: Clifford D. Simak - one of the biggies from the Golden Age of SciFi.
	🎸 ♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: I think this story might also pass the famous "Bechdel Test." While the main character is motivated by her feelings about her relationship to take action in this story, she does have conversations with other women, about things that are not men. Another big accomplishment for 1956.
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm yerfriendpaul: Ha ha! The heavy breathing
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:39 Simak rules! I should read more of him. I've been considering reading all the short stories that Dimension X and X-Minus One used as the basis for their shows.
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:41 I always find "kisses" and other affection on radio shows very funny, because it just starts to sound like porn after a point.
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 It does!
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: One challenge of some audio tools is that it CAN separate tracks, so you can have dialog and music separated. But depending on the settings and the sound, it can really deaden certain kinds of SFX (if you try to edit these shows in any extreme ways.) I mostly spent a lot of time comparing SFX to source files, just to make sure I wasn't loosing any of them using these tools.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: They put a little "X-Minus One" gag in the script for this show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:48pm Heather: I feel like she's better off without this guy....
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 Ted Kord’s villainous sister Victoria was created for the movie (played by Susan Sarandon), but was also introduced into the comics canon. Ted’s daughter Jenny was also created for the movie, but has yet to appear in the comics.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:48 Well, i'm against MOST relationships anyway, but this one is so 50's that I really want her to leave this guy behind.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm univac: Thx Austin! Gotta run!
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm univac: Oh, Hi Heather!
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:49 You are making me curious!
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:49 See ya next time!
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Heather: ↳ univac @10:49 Hi univac! I've been tuned in but just hopped into the salon to say hi!
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: There are elements to "Jaywalker" that seem to be riffing on the story "Cold Equations," which also involves a woman who hitches a ride on a spaceship, with consequences as a result. We heard a version of "Cold Equations" that was less-horrific than the story it was based on, right here on this show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 I saw a Rutgers exhibit of Bechdel’s work in 2018, and later a stage musical of her “Fun Home”.
	♥ 10:55pm Maulydaft: ↳ Austin Rich @10:52 Yes I noticed this on a subconscious level!
	10:55pm wenzo: “Don’t take the blame on yourself I’m over 21” … what? 😂
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:55 Yeah, I wasn't sure what that was about.
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm yerfriendpaul: Ha ha, cranky mechanic but he’s got good reason
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:55 I wrote a paper on "Fun Home" in college, but the instructor hated the paper. I thought I had written something pretty insightful; the same instructor hated everything I wrote, so I'm pretty sure I can't trust their opinions.
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:55 They must have read each other's work, given how small the world's of sci-fi were in those days.
	♥ 10:57pm Maulydaft: That was Raymond who was also the announcer on those Lipton tea horror shows (weirdest announcing couple ever - morbid Raymond and bubbly Lipton tea woman!)
	10:57pm wenzo: This lady does not have a solid grasp of science generally… every time someone tries to explain something to her it’s totally unfathomable to her
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @10:57 Oh, right! I loved that! They are so weird.
	♥ 10:58pm Maulydaft: ↳ wenzo @10:57 haha!
	10:59pm wenzo: Nothing says I love you like putting hundreds of random strangers lives in danger for your loved one
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:57 Yeah, I'm not really comfortable with the way the lead is portrayed in this story. That said: people of all genders have trouble understanding science, so I'm with her on this one.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:59 Yeah, I'm not sure many of the characters in this story are very good role models.
	11:00pm wenzo: Yea I am too lol… I never made it to Physics… almost flunked chemistry… earth sciences I could wrap my brain around… I got a head for rocks… or full of rocks… one of those…
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @11:00 I did okay in Physics... but not really beyond 101 level stuff. I was not cut out for College level science.
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @11:00 I really enjoyed one Geology class I took. It involved a great field trip lecture that was a lot of fun.
	11:02pm wenzo: “I did it… and now I’ve been fired and am facing a class action lawsuit… and I love you…”
	🎸 ♥ 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @11:02 Yeah, that's the modern version.
	🎸 ♥ 11:04pm Austin Rich: See ya next time, everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 11:04pm yerfriendpaul: That was a strange one. Thought that there’d be some sort tragic twist
	♥ 11:04pm Maulydaft: Thanks so much as always!
	🎸 ♥ 11:04pm yerfriendpaul: Thanks Austin! Good night all!
	11:06pm wenzo: Thanks Austin! 🙏 be seeing you errybuddy!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from June 10, 2024

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