WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 29, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 6:29pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:58pm Imaginos: Ahoy, me hearties!
	9:00pm Imaginos: If you give an infinite number of monkeys infinite typewriters you get a lot of dead monkeys
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: The "pork chops" reference is getting at the food rations happening in the era. Next week, he'll have to go back to just eating Spinach, which I'm sure was plentiful. A small taste of the culture of the time.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:00 Thanks for joining us! Let's hope no monkeys die this time.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: "Incidentally, where do you live?"
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: Food Rationing in the United States started in 1942, and lasted in some ways until 1954. More information about war rationing: www.nationalww2museum.org...
	👻 9:07pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:07 yerfriendpaul! Thanks for joining the digital salon! Sit down, and stay a spell.
	9:08pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 It was the same in Britain. They did a series called Back in Time For Dinner where a family had to live life as if they were in the 40s to the present day including rations, clothes, house styles
	👻 9:08pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:08 Don’t mind if I do! Much obliged!
	9:08pm Imaginos: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:07 Ahoy
	👻 9:09pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Imaginos @9:08 Hey Imaginos!
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:08 I would watch that! Sounds interesting. I think rationing happened in a lot of places, but I'm not an expert.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: Wills, and the consequences of Wills, are a common trope in Crime fiction, noir, and detective shows. I suspect I could assemble an evening of stories about "Wills" if I look around more.
	👻 9:17pm Arvo Zylo: Howdy! Just popping in.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:17 Nice to see you in the chat, Arvo! I've got a great X-Minus One Story later, that I think you might enjoy.
	👻 9:19pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Suspicious Will"" by "Rogue's Gallery" Turner Classic Movies celebrated Richard Egan’s birthday today by showing movies he acted in. One, “Split Second”, was directed by Dick Powell.
	👻 9:19pm Arvo Zylo: You know I love Dimension X and X-Minus One!
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:19 Oooooo! Another reason to get TCM. I understand there is a good App that I could pay for...
	👻 9:21pm Arvo Zylo: Need some of that Fitch shampoo action! Got bugs in me rug!
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:19 The one I have tonight is one of my faves! I've sampled it many times.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: There is a documentary about Dick Powell that I'm trying to track down. I found a mangled version on YouTube once. If anyone can find a more pristine version, I'll be very excited!
	9:22pm Webhamster Henry: Hi there Dimestore Denizens!
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:22 Webhamster Henry! Hopefully we have a Webhamster Wheel that you will be comfortable in, tonight.
	9:24pm laurapanic: Hi, busy and lurking! A great tale has unfolded!
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:24 Laurapanic! Now it's a party! Lurk away! We don't judge.
	👻 9:26pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: ""Suspicious Will"" by "Rogue's Gallery" I don't believe that's true about morphine in pinpoint pupils... Is there a doctor in the house?
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:26 I almost commented on that, too! But I'm not 100% sure, either. I think drugs and the effects of them are often "fudged" in noir and detective stories. Don't let the truth get in the way of a good yarn!
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: Unless I'm wrong, I did not hear Gerald Mohr this week! I think he must have had another commitment. (A bit part in a film, maybe?)
	9:30pm univac: Hello, there!
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:30 univac! Hooray!
	9:30pm univac: Comments seem to be working fine for me now! No more math.
	9:30pm univac: Hello Austin!
	👻 9:31pm yerfriendpaul: Nice! He’s listening to St. Louis Blues. Might have to listen to that after the show
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Case of the Sleepy Camel"" by "The Adventure... You might be able to hear, on this recording, a rhythmic "sound" that creeps into the background of the show. I used some digital tools to remove that sound, in some of the more "intrustive" moments. I didn't cut them all out, as you'll hear, as some of them overlapped with too much important sound. But this episode sounds a lot better than it did, in the raw version I found at archive.org.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:30 Hmmmm. Yeah, I'm not sure what that's about. Glad it's resolved!
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:31 I think they reference that song on this show often. (I think Rocky is supposed to be from St. Louis, originally... but I'm not 100% sure.)
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 (The rhythmic sound is the result of some sort of grit on the transcription disc, or some other damage, like a scratch. As the disc spins, the grit or scratch comes up at a regular interval, and sometimes overpowers the dialog and music. It's a recurring problem with the surviving recordings of Rocky Jordan, and more generally with Mid-Century radio recordings.)
	9:37pm Webhamster Henry: Camel futures....
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: I think camels are pretty valuable, in some parts of the world.
	9:39pm Webhamster Henry: Eugor cue!
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: When I worked on a goat farm, there was absolutely a breeding market for goats, either for farmers looking for "seed" for their goats, or looking for "studs" to breed with their herds. (And there were plenty of other things, too; I was just the hired hand.) But I do recall there was always people looking to buy and sell goats for more than I realized they were worth.
	👻 9:39pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 I recently went to the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona NY. Incredible. Absolutely loved it. Highly recommend visiting there. I’m assuming he’s listening to Louie’s version
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: Yeah, I don't think Eugor showed up this week! How funny.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:39 That seems likely! If I'm ever up that way, I'll take that recommendation!
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: When I'm restoring old radio shows for broadcast, the goal is to try and capture as much of the original sound as possible, so we can hear what it was most like when it aired. There are a number of tools that could remove all sorts of background sounds and noise, but occasionally, the actual sounds of the show get removed with the background noise. So I've had to keep a certain amount of "noise" in the shows, so the other SFX and music aren't accidentally eliminated. Some tools are more aggressive than others, and actually made the shows sound LESS like they did, originally.
	👻 9:48pm yerfriendpaul: I think you’re doing an amazing job. We appreciate all the care you take in preserving the sound as best as possible!
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: I can usually isolate the vocals, and increase the signal strength on that, even if I can't isolate all the background noise. That usually helps make the dialog more clear, even on bad recordings.
	9:51pm Imaginos: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:48 Indeed. Austin does an amazing job
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: Considering how vilified drugs were in the 40's, and how little space we allowed for drugs in our culture then, drugs show up in crime fiction and noir quite often. While there's plenty of evidence to suggest that drugs were being used widely, and by people throughout culture (even then), if you heard about them or encountered them at all on radio, TV, or in film, it was always seen in a bad light.
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: "The language got quite colorful."
	👻 10:03pm Heather: Was Popeye a shill for Big Spinach?!
	👻 10:05pm Heather: It is high in Vit C, I think..... so that's good for a sailor man.
	👻 10:05pm yerfriendpaul: My friend LCBD who is on the mothership’s accu frequently makes delicious spinach balls!
	10:06pm Webhamster Henry: The Popeye / Spinach thing was more or less established by the Fleischer Bros . People have been hating spinach forever.
	10:06pm Imaginos: Limes were popular with British sailors earning them the nickname Limeys
	10:07pm univac: One of the issues was also that most of the consumed spinach was canned. If you've ever eaten canned spinach, you'll understand.
	10:08pm Barno in Akron: How do you do, fellow kids? Just returned from a humid evening walk with my sweetie and am ready for some Dimestore Radio Theatre!
	👻 10:08pm Heather: ↳ univac @10:07 Can confirm! Canned spinach is.... let's just say I'm not cracking it open ala Popeye.
	10:10pm univac: Hi Heather! And, yes. Yuck!
	👻 10:11pm David Shortell: Popeye's spinach fixation was established in Segar's Thimble Theater, but it was only the animated shorts that made it a Deus ex Machina.
	👻 10:11pm Heather: ↳ univac @10:10 Hi univac! Let's never eat canned spinach again if we can avoid it!
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: I don't think I've told this story on the show anywhere, but I believed I did not like most vegetables when I was tossed out to fend for myself in High School. It was only after I started eating fresh vegetables - and more to the point, began roasting vegetables - that I began to realize that I had only ever eaten canned food, and HATED it.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:11 I'll have to track down that Thimble Theater collection I have. It's been at least 15 years since I read it, and while I remember it positively, don't recall anything else.
	10:13pm univac: ↳ Heather @10:11 Pinkie Promise!
	👻 10:16pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:12 My mom had that happen. Until my dad's mom, her MiL cooked for her, she thought veggies were bland mush!
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: I do recall that my professor in High School would use Popeye as an example of "The Homoerotic triad," where two men deal with their love for each other by fighting over the same woman. She really loved talking about that trope in literature. It seemed to speak to her, in some way.
	10:18pm univac: Hah! Totally makes sense. They were sailors, after all...
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:18 They often resolve things through physical violence and wrestling. It's not a healthy relationship, but I've seen worse.
	10:19pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 She sounds like a potential fanfic writer
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:19 Ha! She really loved the paper I wrote on Nathaniel Hawthorne's use of the word "you" in "The House of Seven Gables." She said it was bold to do a close reading of a single word in a novel, which I guess was a good thing? I still have the paper somewhere around the Lava Lamp Lounge.
	👻 10:21pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 The first strip to mention spinach was printed June 6, 1931. I remember comedian George Wallace quipping "How come Bluto don't eat spinach and beat up Popeye sometime?" There's a theory that it wasn't the spinach that made Popeye Herculean, but his encounter with Bernice the magical Whiffle Hen (during his first adventure in 1929, setting out to sea with Castor Oyl and Ham Gravy). mrsuttonntu.wordpress.com...
	10:22pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy. Looking forward to tomorrow show
	👻 10:22pm Arvo Zylo: Aluminum is bad! Microplastics too! What can you do? Cigarettes, though, are GRRREAAT!
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:21 Ooooo! Thanks for the link.
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:22 Sleep well!
	10:23pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 Thank you
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:22 Part of me thinks I shouldn't have quit cigarettes, considering how bad everything else is for me.
	10:25pm univac: Gotta run! Thx Austin! See you, and you all, next time!
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:25 See ya next time!
	👻 10:25pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 Just as spinach was made more important in the animated shorts, so was Bluto. He only appeared in one Thimble Theater story; he wasn't a recurring villain!
	👻 10:26pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 I'm just kidding. Cigarettes also have chemicals in them, including aluminum! Same for vapes, but also the microplastics, among other things. Possibly also arsenic, which is apparently still legal to put in food...
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:25 It's hard to get things right.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: We might actually be on time this week! (Or, at least, within one minute off! How wild!)
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Hallucination Orbit"" by "X-Minus One" This is one of my favorite X-Minus One stories. I've sampled it a number of times. It's go some great, weird dialog, that I quite enjoy.
	10:34pm laurapanic: I do really love these sci-fi freakouts
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:34 They get pretty paranoid and strange, for sure.
	👻 10:34pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 Shelley Duvall, known for playing Olive in Robert Altman’s Popeye film, died recently. Just two weeks before, I saw a play in Red Bank’s Two River Theatre which featured Bill Irwin, the actor who played Ham Gravy in that same movie! Ham was Castor Oyl’s buddy and Olive’s suitor. When Popeye entered the strip in 1929, Ham quickly disappeared. His last words exiting the strip were “All right, take ‘er–you one-eyed scum of the seven seas”!
	10:36pm laurapanic: ↳ David Shortell @10:34 Ham stepped off! was it Olive's comic strip before Popeye entered?
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: Bill Irwin is a legend! Damn! That's very cool. I'm a HUGE sucker for the Popeye movie, which is not a popular opinion, but I watched it too often as a kid, and I know every song by heart. Bill Irwin is so good! When I used to do a lot of babysitting, I came to appreciate Mr. Noodle, on Sesame street, mostly because I do enjoy Irwin's antics.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: 6 1/2 years of isolation! For reference: some people have been isolated for five years now, because of the pandemic.
	10:39pm laurapanic: there was a Doctor Who episode with the 13th doctor with a character who kept similar daily reports....
	10:39pm Webhamster Henry: Yes, Good sample food here!
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:39 I'm so far behind on New Who. I saw a couple of those Christopher Eccleston episodes, and those were great. And I loved the old Dr. Who when those were on ages ago. I should get into that show.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:39 It's sort of a great episode for random samples. And I love X-1 SFX, so any time I can sample that stuff, I will.
	👻 10:42pm yerfriendpaul: Damn!
	10:44pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 I have realised I can't watch everything, and I am mad about it.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: This crazy isolated man who has been away from people for over six years, and he keeps hallucinating women. I feel like I could write 100 papers on this episode, if I were in college.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:44 Oh, you are singing my song.
	10:45pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 it gets nice and weird at times, some dark themes at times. But also whimsical fun stories. Its good like that
	👻 10:45pm David Shortell: ↳ laurapanic @10:36 Castor Oyl was the hero when Thimble Theater started in 1919. Popeye entered in 1929 as a sidekick, until Castor gradually faded out of the strip. Sort of like how Snuffy Smith entered Barney Google's strip in 1934, gradually forcing Barney out.
	10:46pm laurapanic: ↳ David Shortell @10:45 interesting....Popeye must have really spoken to the people!
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: Didn't Krazy Kat take over a different strip, too? I feel like that happened a lot back then.
	👻 10:46pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Crime, Incorporated, Part 1"" by "The Blue Beetle" I just noticed that the fictional setting for this radio series is “York City”. When Steve Ditko revamped the title in the 60’s, it was established that Ted (and presumably Dan) lived somewhere called “Hub City” (as did The Question).
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:46 Oh, that's right! I forgot about that. I used to love those Question stories. I wonder how well those held up? I have a couple issues, but I don't think I have any complete series.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:45 My boss has several signed Dr. Who scripts for sale at our store. He met some actors and writers, and got them all to sign the scripts. It's pretty cool.
	👻 10:49pm Arvo Zylo: Hallucinogenic bad breath!
	👻 10:50pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:49 That’s hard to combat
	10:50pm laurapanic: Everyone wants a chess playin' woman
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:49 Is he a man who imagines he has bad breath? Or is he just bad breath that imagines he's a man?
	👻 10:50pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Crime, Incorporated, Part 1"" by "The Blue Beetle" I wonder if Crime Incorporated was just another name for Intergang. We all know Darkseid pulled the strings in that operation.
	10:51pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 that is so cool!! I love the stories of the "lost" episodes and how some have been found. A couple were found here in Australia....
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:50 That's a great partner! Someone to play chess with. Hell yeah. I was on the chess club.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:50 Ha! That's right. Hell yeah.
	10:51pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 I can play but would need further exposure to become better at strategy etc.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:51 I do like that I can watch episodes now that I grew up thinking were lost forever. I love the second doctor, and there used to be so few of those around. Now there's quite a few.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: Like all good fiction: coffee is mentioned. I find I mention coffee a lot when I'm writing. And I do DRINK a lot of coffee...
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:51 That's very common. I think I'm probably "stale" since I don't play often either. I played more when I lived near my friend Tom, who LOVED to drink and play chess.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: He gets a headache when he finds out this woman is real. See, that college paper practically writes itself.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: We're almost done for the night. Thanks again everyone for joining me! I do love listening to these old Mid-Century Radio shows.
	👻 10:58pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 Ditko wanted the Question to be as cold and ruthless as Mr. A, the character he created (and owned) for underground publication shortly before--but editors wouldn't have that. Though the Question was said to be the basis for "Watchmen"'s Rorschach, Alan Moore was thinking more along the lines of Mr. A.
	10:59pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 I lived with mathematics students back in my university days. Chess, pot, sunny share house days. Those guys, so much pot, two went on to do their masters in maths!
	👻 10:59pm yerfriendpaul: You can hear her voice getting older, right? Thanks Austin! Enjoyed the show!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: I've seen a little Mr. A. That stuff is bonkers! I feel like Ditko was just not meant for mainstream comics. His Shade The Changing Man is just wild!
	10:59pm laurapanic: chats are so nerdy today
	10:59pm laurapanic: thankyou Austin. "see" you tomorrow
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:59 There's something to that! Tom was very nerdy, but he loved to drink.
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:59 She's a VERY good voice actor!
	👻 11:00pm Heather: Night all! Thanks for the great show, Austin!
	11:01pm Webhamster Henry: Good night!
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: 1 1/2 off this week. Not bad!
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: And now there' s Gary Wilson? Excellent!
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: (Well, the end of Gary Wilson, anyway.)

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 29, 2024

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July 29, 2024: Episode #103

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Rogue's Gallery	"Suspicious Will"	17 January 1946	NBC		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Adventures of Rocky Jordan	"The Case of the Sleepy Camel"	16 January 1949	Santana Productions		0:29:29 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Frank Chacksfield	Ebb Tide "Ebb Tide" by "Frank Chacksfield"				0:59:47 (Pop-up)
Unpublished History	Radio in the 1920s (Part 17)	Radio In The 1920s	Self-Released	2024	1:10:29 (Pop-up)
The Blue Beetle	"Crime, Incorporated, Part 1"	3 July 1940	Mutual–Don Lee Network		1:17:27 (Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"Hallucination Orbit"	15 May 1956	NBC Radio		1:30:57 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 6:29pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:58pm Imaginos: Ahoy, me hearties!
	9:00pm Imaginos: If you give an infinite number of monkeys infinite typewriters you get a lot of dead monkeys
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: The "pork chops" reference is getting at the food rations happening in the era. Next week, he'll have to go back to just eating Spinach, which I'm sure was plentiful. A small taste of the culture of the time.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:00 Thanks for joining us! Let's hope no monkeys die this time.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: "Incidentally, where do you live?"
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: Food Rationing in the United States started in 1942, and lasted in some ways until 1954. More information about war rationing: www.nationalww2museum.org...
	👻 9:07pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:07 yerfriendpaul! Thanks for joining the digital salon! Sit down, and stay a spell.
	9:08pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 It was the same in Britain. They did a series called Back in Time For Dinner where a family had to live life as if they were in the 40s to the present day including rations, clothes, house styles
	👻 9:08pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:08 Don’t mind if I do! Much obliged!
	9:08pm Imaginos: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:07 Ahoy
	👻 9:09pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Imaginos @9:08 Hey Imaginos!
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:08 I would watch that! Sounds interesting. I think rationing happened in a lot of places, but I'm not an expert.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: Wills, and the consequences of Wills, are a common trope in Crime fiction, noir, and detective shows. I suspect I could assemble an evening of stories about "Wills" if I look around more.
	👻 9:17pm Arvo Zylo: Howdy! Just popping in.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:17 Nice to see you in the chat, Arvo! I've got a great X-Minus One Story later, that I think you might enjoy.
	👻 9:19pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Suspicious Will"" by "Rogue's Gallery" Turner Classic Movies celebrated Richard Egan’s birthday today by showing movies he acted in. One, “Split Second”, was directed by Dick Powell.
	👻 9:19pm Arvo Zylo: You know I love Dimension X and X-Minus One!
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:19 Oooooo! Another reason to get TCM. I understand there is a good App that I could pay for...
	👻 9:21pm Arvo Zylo: Need some of that Fitch shampoo action! Got bugs in me rug!
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:19 The one I have tonight is one of my faves! I've sampled it many times.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: There is a documentary about Dick Powell that I'm trying to track down. I found a mangled version on YouTube once. If anyone can find a more pristine version, I'll be very excited!
	9:22pm Webhamster Henry: Hi there Dimestore Denizens!
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:22 Webhamster Henry! Hopefully we have a Webhamster Wheel that you will be comfortable in, tonight.
	9:24pm laurapanic: Hi, busy and lurking! A great tale has unfolded!
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:24 Laurapanic! Now it's a party! Lurk away! We don't judge.
	👻 9:26pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: ""Suspicious Will"" by "Rogue's Gallery" I don't believe that's true about morphine in pinpoint pupils... Is there a doctor in the house?
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:26 I almost commented on that, too! But I'm not 100% sure, either. I think drugs and the effects of them are often "fudged" in noir and detective stories. Don't let the truth get in the way of a good yarn!
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: Unless I'm wrong, I did not hear Gerald Mohr this week! I think he must have had another commitment. (A bit part in a film, maybe?)
	9:30pm univac: Hello, there!
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:30 univac! Hooray!
	9:30pm univac: Comments seem to be working fine for me now! No more math.
	9:30pm univac: Hello Austin!
	👻 9:31pm yerfriendpaul: Nice! He’s listening to St. Louis Blues. Might have to listen to that after the show
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Case of the Sleepy Camel"" by "The Adventure... You might be able to hear, on this recording, a rhythmic "sound" that creeps into the background of the show. I used some digital tools to remove that sound, in some of the more "intrustive" moments. I didn't cut them all out, as you'll hear, as some of them overlapped with too much important sound. But this episode sounds a lot better than it did, in the raw version I found at archive.org.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:30 Hmmmm. Yeah, I'm not sure what that's about. Glad it's resolved!
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:31 I think they reference that song on this show often. (I think Rocky is supposed to be from St. Louis, originally... but I'm not 100% sure.)
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 (The rhythmic sound is the result of some sort of grit on the transcription disc, or some other damage, like a scratch. As the disc spins, the grit or scratch comes up at a regular interval, and sometimes overpowers the dialog and music. It's a recurring problem with the surviving recordings of Rocky Jordan, and more generally with Mid-Century radio recordings.)
	9:37pm Webhamster Henry: Camel futures....
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: I think camels are pretty valuable, in some parts of the world.
	9:39pm Webhamster Henry: Eugor cue!
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: When I worked on a goat farm, there was absolutely a breeding market for goats, either for farmers looking for "seed" for their goats, or looking for "studs" to breed with their herds. (And there were plenty of other things, too; I was just the hired hand.) But I do recall there was always people looking to buy and sell goats for more than I realized they were worth.
	👻 9:39pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 I recently went to the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona NY. Incredible. Absolutely loved it. Highly recommend visiting there. I’m assuming he’s listening to Louie’s version
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: Yeah, I don't think Eugor showed up this week! How funny.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:39 That seems likely! If I'm ever up that way, I'll take that recommendation!
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: When I'm restoring old radio shows for broadcast, the goal is to try and capture as much of the original sound as possible, so we can hear what it was most like when it aired. There are a number of tools that could remove all sorts of background sounds and noise, but occasionally, the actual sounds of the show get removed with the background noise. So I've had to keep a certain amount of "noise" in the shows, so the other SFX and music aren't accidentally eliminated. Some tools are more aggressive than others, and actually made the shows sound LESS like they did, originally.
	👻 9:48pm yerfriendpaul: I think you’re doing an amazing job. We appreciate all the care you take in preserving the sound as best as possible!
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: I can usually isolate the vocals, and increase the signal strength on that, even if I can't isolate all the background noise. That usually helps make the dialog more clear, even on bad recordings.
	9:51pm Imaginos: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:48 Indeed. Austin does an amazing job
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: Considering how vilified drugs were in the 40's, and how little space we allowed for drugs in our culture then, drugs show up in crime fiction and noir quite often. While there's plenty of evidence to suggest that drugs were being used widely, and by people throughout culture (even then), if you heard about them or encountered them at all on radio, TV, or in film, it was always seen in a bad light.
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: "The language got quite colorful."
	👻 10:03pm Heather: Was Popeye a shill for Big Spinach?!
	👻 10:05pm Heather: It is high in Vit C, I think..... so that's good for a sailor man.
	👻 10:05pm yerfriendpaul: My friend LCBD who is on the mothership’s accu frequently makes delicious spinach balls!
	10:06pm Webhamster Henry: The Popeye / Spinach thing was more or less established by the Fleischer Bros . People have been hating spinach forever.
	10:06pm Imaginos: Limes were popular with British sailors earning them the nickname Limeys
	10:07pm univac: One of the issues was also that most of the consumed spinach was canned. If you've ever eaten canned spinach, you'll understand.
	10:08pm Barno in Akron: How do you do, fellow kids? Just returned from a humid evening walk with my sweetie and am ready for some Dimestore Radio Theatre!
	👻 10:08pm Heather: ↳ univac @10:07 Can confirm! Canned spinach is.... let's just say I'm not cracking it open ala Popeye.
	10:10pm univac: Hi Heather! And, yes. Yuck!
	👻 10:11pm David Shortell: Popeye's spinach fixation was established in Segar's Thimble Theater, but it was only the animated shorts that made it a Deus ex Machina.
	👻 10:11pm Heather: ↳ univac @10:10 Hi univac! Let's never eat canned spinach again if we can avoid it!
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: I don't think I've told this story on the show anywhere, but I believed I did not like most vegetables when I was tossed out to fend for myself in High School. It was only after I started eating fresh vegetables - and more to the point, began roasting vegetables - that I began to realize that I had only ever eaten canned food, and HATED it.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:11 I'll have to track down that Thimble Theater collection I have. It's been at least 15 years since I read it, and while I remember it positively, don't recall anything else.
	10:13pm univac: ↳ Heather @10:11 Pinkie Promise!
	👻 10:16pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:12 My mom had that happen. Until my dad's mom, her MiL cooked for her, she thought veggies were bland mush!
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: I do recall that my professor in High School would use Popeye as an example of "The Homoerotic triad," where two men deal with their love for each other by fighting over the same woman. She really loved talking about that trope in literature. It seemed to speak to her, in some way.
	10:18pm univac: Hah! Totally makes sense. They were sailors, after all...
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:18 They often resolve things through physical violence and wrestling. It's not a healthy relationship, but I've seen worse.
	10:19pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 She sounds like a potential fanfic writer
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:19 Ha! She really loved the paper I wrote on Nathaniel Hawthorne's use of the word "you" in "The House of Seven Gables." She said it was bold to do a close reading of a single word in a novel, which I guess was a good thing? I still have the paper somewhere around the Lava Lamp Lounge.
	👻 10:21pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 The first strip to mention spinach was printed June 6, 1931. I remember comedian George Wallace quipping "How come Bluto don't eat spinach and beat up Popeye sometime?" There's a theory that it wasn't the spinach that made Popeye Herculean, but his encounter with Bernice the magical Whiffle Hen (during his first adventure in 1929, setting out to sea with Castor Oyl and Ham Gravy). mrsuttonntu.wordpress.com...
	10:22pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy. Looking forward to tomorrow show
	👻 10:22pm Arvo Zylo: Aluminum is bad! Microplastics too! What can you do? Cigarettes, though, are GRRREAAT!
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:21 Ooooo! Thanks for the link.
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:22 Sleep well!
	10:23pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 Thank you
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:22 Part of me thinks I shouldn't have quit cigarettes, considering how bad everything else is for me.
	10:25pm univac: Gotta run! Thx Austin! See you, and you all, next time!
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:25 See ya next time!
	👻 10:25pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 Just as spinach was made more important in the animated shorts, so was Bluto. He only appeared in one Thimble Theater story; he wasn't a recurring villain!
	👻 10:26pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 I'm just kidding. Cigarettes also have chemicals in them, including aluminum! Same for vapes, but also the microplastics, among other things. Possibly also arsenic, which is apparently still legal to put in food...
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:25 It's hard to get things right.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: We might actually be on time this week! (Or, at least, within one minute off! How wild!)
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Hallucination Orbit"" by "X-Minus One" This is one of my favorite X-Minus One stories. I've sampled it a number of times. It's go some great, weird dialog, that I quite enjoy.
	10:34pm laurapanic: I do really love these sci-fi freakouts
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:34 They get pretty paranoid and strange, for sure.
	👻 10:34pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 Shelley Duvall, known for playing Olive in Robert Altman’s Popeye film, died recently. Just two weeks before, I saw a play in Red Bank’s Two River Theatre which featured Bill Irwin, the actor who played Ham Gravy in that same movie! Ham was Castor Oyl’s buddy and Olive’s suitor. When Popeye entered the strip in 1929, Ham quickly disappeared. His last words exiting the strip were “All right, take ‘er–you one-eyed scum of the seven seas”!
	10:36pm laurapanic: ↳ David Shortell @10:34 Ham stepped off! was it Olive's comic strip before Popeye entered?
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: Bill Irwin is a legend! Damn! That's very cool. I'm a HUGE sucker for the Popeye movie, which is not a popular opinion, but I watched it too often as a kid, and I know every song by heart. Bill Irwin is so good! When I used to do a lot of babysitting, I came to appreciate Mr. Noodle, on Sesame street, mostly because I do enjoy Irwin's antics.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: 6 1/2 years of isolation! For reference: some people have been isolated for five years now, because of the pandemic.
	10:39pm laurapanic: there was a Doctor Who episode with the 13th doctor with a character who kept similar daily reports....
	10:39pm Webhamster Henry: Yes, Good sample food here!
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:39 I'm so far behind on New Who. I saw a couple of those Christopher Eccleston episodes, and those were great. And I loved the old Dr. Who when those were on ages ago. I should get into that show.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:39 It's sort of a great episode for random samples. And I love X-1 SFX, so any time I can sample that stuff, I will.
	👻 10:42pm yerfriendpaul: Damn!
	10:44pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 I have realised I can't watch everything, and I am mad about it.
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: This crazy isolated man who has been away from people for over six years, and he keeps hallucinating women. I feel like I could write 100 papers on this episode, if I were in college.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:44 Oh, you are singing my song.
	10:45pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 it gets nice and weird at times, some dark themes at times. But also whimsical fun stories. Its good like that
	👻 10:45pm David Shortell: ↳ laurapanic @10:36 Castor Oyl was the hero when Thimble Theater started in 1919. Popeye entered in 1929 as a sidekick, until Castor gradually faded out of the strip. Sort of like how Snuffy Smith entered Barney Google's strip in 1934, gradually forcing Barney out.
	10:46pm laurapanic: ↳ David Shortell @10:45 interesting....Popeye must have really spoken to the people!
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: Didn't Krazy Kat take over a different strip, too? I feel like that happened a lot back then.
	👻 10:46pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Crime, Incorporated, Part 1"" by "The Blue Beetle" I just noticed that the fictional setting for this radio series is “York City”. When Steve Ditko revamped the title in the 60’s, it was established that Ted (and presumably Dan) lived somewhere called “Hub City” (as did The Question).
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:46 Oh, that's right! I forgot about that. I used to love those Question stories. I wonder how well those held up? I have a couple issues, but I don't think I have any complete series.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:45 My boss has several signed Dr. Who scripts for sale at our store. He met some actors and writers, and got them all to sign the scripts. It's pretty cool.
	👻 10:49pm Arvo Zylo: Hallucinogenic bad breath!
	👻 10:50pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:49 That’s hard to combat
	10:50pm laurapanic: Everyone wants a chess playin' woman
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:49 Is he a man who imagines he has bad breath? Or is he just bad breath that imagines he's a man?
	👻 10:50pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Crime, Incorporated, Part 1"" by "The Blue Beetle" I wonder if Crime Incorporated was just another name for Intergang. We all know Darkseid pulled the strings in that operation.
	10:51pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 that is so cool!! I love the stories of the "lost" episodes and how some have been found. A couple were found here in Australia....
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:50 That's a great partner! Someone to play chess with. Hell yeah. I was on the chess club.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:50 Ha! That's right. Hell yeah.
	10:51pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 I can play but would need further exposure to become better at strategy etc.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:51 I do like that I can watch episodes now that I grew up thinking were lost forever. I love the second doctor, and there used to be so few of those around. Now there's quite a few.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: Like all good fiction: coffee is mentioned. I find I mention coffee a lot when I'm writing. And I do DRINK a lot of coffee...
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:51 That's very common. I think I'm probably "stale" since I don't play often either. I played more when I lived near my friend Tom, who LOVED to drink and play chess.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: He gets a headache when he finds out this woman is real. See, that college paper practically writes itself.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: We're almost done for the night. Thanks again everyone for joining me! I do love listening to these old Mid-Century Radio shows.
	👻 10:58pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 Ditko wanted the Question to be as cold and ruthless as Mr. A, the character he created (and owned) for underground publication shortly before--but editors wouldn't have that. Though the Question was said to be the basis for "Watchmen"'s Rorschach, Alan Moore was thinking more along the lines of Mr. A.
	10:59pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 I lived with mathematics students back in my university days. Chess, pot, sunny share house days. Those guys, so much pot, two went on to do their masters in maths!
	👻 10:59pm yerfriendpaul: You can hear her voice getting older, right? Thanks Austin! Enjoyed the show!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: I've seen a little Mr. A. That stuff is bonkers! I feel like Ditko was just not meant for mainstream comics. His Shade The Changing Man is just wild!
	10:59pm laurapanic: chats are so nerdy today
	10:59pm laurapanic: thankyou Austin. "see" you tomorrow
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:59 There's something to that! Tom was very nerdy, but he loved to drink.
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:59 She's a VERY good voice actor!
	👻 11:00pm Heather: Night all! Thanks for the great show, Austin!
	11:01pm Webhamster Henry: Good night!
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: 1 1/2 off this week. Not bad!
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: And now there' s Gary Wilson? Excellent!
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: (Well, the end of Gary Wilson, anyway.)

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 29, 2024

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