Favoriting Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from February 12, 2024 Favoriting

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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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Favoriting February 12, 2024: Episode #82

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Artist Track Album Label Year Images Approx. start time
Rocky Fortune  "The Football Fix"   Favoriting 2 February 1954  NBC   
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Bold Venture  "Joe Norman The Laughing Sailor"   Favoriting 4 February 1952  Santana Productions   
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John Musilli  Frank Sinatra: The Voice of Our Time (Part 6)   Favoriting Frank Sinatra: The Voice of Our Time  Camera Three Productions  1990 
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The Blue Beetle  "The Invisible Ghost, Part 1"   Favoriting 29 May 1940  Mutual–Don Lee Network   
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X-Minus One  "A Logic Named Joe"   Favoriting 28 December 1955  NBC Radio   
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Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
  7:20pm
Arvo:

Hello!
Avatar 8:59pm
Imaginos:

Ahoy!
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Austin Rich:

↳ Arvo @7:20
Nice to see you in the chat!
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Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @8:59
Thanks for joining us! Always good to have you in the chat.
Avatar 9:02pm
laurapanic:

the soothing sounds of Sinatra
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
yerfriendpaul:

Hey Austin, everyone!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Austin Rich:

I only just realized that we had a Superb Owl the other day, and that was WELL after I assembled this show for this day. This is the SECOND time that Rocky Fortune just HAPPENED to fall on the right day, to line up with an American Holiday. So weird.
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Austin Rich:

↳ laurapanic @9:02
Seriously. I like him more and more as I get older.
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Austin Rich:

↳ yerfriendpaul @9:02
yerfriendpaul! I was hoping you'd come by.
  9:04pm
Charles:

Today is alright for toniiight
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Imaginos:

Nice to see everyone tonight
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
Austin Rich:

This is one of two episodes that have two "slightly different" versions, depending on where you heard it. There was a version heard on regular broadcast radio, and another, slightly different version, on Armed Forces Radio. I have sort of combined the two; the main difference in AFRS version is the theme song is looped and played longer at the end of the story. I've tried to combine the two versions for you, here, tonight.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Charles @9:04
Quotin' Strong Bad, and feelin' alright!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:06pm
Austin Rich:

This episode aired on Groundhog Day, originally.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:08pm
Austin Rich:

"Precocious as Bonzo, Sarge," is a reference to the "Bedtime for Bonzo" movie, staring Ronald Reagan and a monkey named Bonzo.
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Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:06
Did it come out before the first Super Bowl?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:09pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:08
Yes, this story aired before the first Super Bowl, in 1966.
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Webhamster Henry:

ooh Kefauver Committee (Senate Crime committee)reference!
  9:10pm
Charles:

i'm glad to be catching the show live
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:10
This show is VERY literate.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Charles @9:10
It's a little more fun, live. I think, anyway.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:12pm
yerfriendpaul:

Rocky can’t catch a break. Always in the wrong place at the wrong time
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:12pm
Austin Rich:

↳ yerfriendpaul @9:12
He sort of likes being in those wrong places, too.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:12pm
Austin Rich:

That is the closest to singing we've had Sinatra do on this show!
Avatar 9:13pm
Mr Fab:

"Got the world on a string" haha.
Avatar 9:14pm
Imaginos:

Cookware for Valentine's? Some people would love it
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @9:13
Thanks for listening, Mr. Fab!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @9:12
So far! I wish he'd get kidnapped and accused of being a stool pigeon and have the mugs ask him to sing!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:14
(I have bought my wife lots of kitchen stuff, and she even asked for them. But I can also see the other side of the story...)
Avatar 9:16pm
Imaginos:

Fingerprints?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:17pm
Austin Rich:

My wife buys me records and comics for most holidays, so she knows my love language, perfectly.
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Mr Fab:

"Look, hipster..."
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:18pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @9:18
Always funny coming from Sinatra.
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Mr Fab:

man, like, Rocky is buggin the most
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:23pm
Austin Rich:

This show does not shy away from some of the worse aspects of low-life culture, and certainly does depict things in pretty rough ways. I think there is more than one example of violence against women that's been depicted in this show. It's not easy to hear, certainly. This show can get pretty grim, even with Sinatra in the lead.
Avatar 9:26pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Austin Rich @9:23
noir/hardboiled crime stories, and the Beat movement, were the cracks in the post-war "Leave it To Beaver" optimism.
Avatar 9:26pm
Imaginos:

Interesting episode
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Mr Fab:

The evil twin trope!

First known example?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:26pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @9:26
Very true. And a year later, Sinatra would star in a movie where he plays a heroin addict. Seems like Sinatra didn't mind the gritty stories.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:27pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @9:26
Oooooo! Good question! I'll have to investigate.
Avatar 9:27pm
univac:

Hello! Popping in for a bit.
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laurapanic:

↳ Austin Rich @9:26
that movie was so interesting, especially for the time
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:27pm
Austin Rich:

↳ univac @9:27
univac! Lovely to see you, even for just a moment.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:28pm
Austin Rich:

↳ laurapanic @9:27
Agreed. I should watch it again; I recall the soundtrack being excellent.
Avatar 9:29pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Austin Rich @9:26
and with that hipster character we got the hardboiled crime AND the Beats! Pretty subversive show for mainstream entertainment.
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Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:28
Speaking of soundtracks, are you planning on adding one to our reading? Perhaps a piano piece for the pub scenes?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:30pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @9:29
And the guy who created / wrote this show, was better known as a Sci-Fi writer. That's the part that always gets me. What a weird career George Lefferts had.
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Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:29
I think so.
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univac:

Nice to be here.
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Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:30
Awesome!
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univac:

Looking up Leffert: he was credited for many "cutting-edge medical films," including Doctor Barnhard's Heart Transplant [NBC], Pain–Where It Hurts Most [NBC], What Price Health, with Senator Ted Kennedy [NBC], and Acupuncture Anesthesia in Red China [NBC].
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:32pm
Austin Rich:

We are on the "back end" of both Bold Venture and Rocky Fortune, and those shows will be reaching their conclusions in April and May. So, enjoy them while you can! I know we had a lot of people get sad when we ran out of Box 13, so I hope to ease people into the end of these shows.
Avatar 9:33pm
univac:

He did some interesting stuff:
en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
Austin Rich:

↳ univac @9:33
I think those medical films must have come out of his "medical soaps" career.
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univac:

↳ Austin Rich @9:32
Bummer. These have been excellent shows! Thanks for introducing them to me, Austin!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:35pm
Austin Rich:

↳ univac @9:34
I've got some good replacement shows for them, when they run out. But it's easy to get attached to some of these stories.
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univac:

↳ Austin Rich @9:34
Yeah, he did a few of those.
He also wrote the script and lyrics of a full-scale opera The Amadou Cantata!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:36pm
Austin Rich:

↳ univac @9:36
He's an odd duck. The best kind!
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Imaginos:

Getting sleepy a little early tonight.
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univac:

↳ Austin Rich @9:35
I am looking forward. Will be sad to lose hearing Bacall and Bogart.
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Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:37
I understand. Get some sleep. It's much later for you than for me.
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laurapanic:

everyone can get a bit of fun teasing a widow
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Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:37
I will see you tomorrow night for MVM
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univac:

Nice to bump into you Imaginos.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:39pm
Austin Rich:

↳ laurapanic @9:38
It's the mid-century way, apparently.
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Imaginos:

↳ univac @9:38
You too
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univac:

I love those "expositional" interlude songs.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:46pm
Austin Rich:

↳ univac @9:45
I do love that King Moses seems to know everything that happened, even when he wasn't there, and can sing about it in a song, even. He's got meta awareness!
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univac:

He's the "Greek Chorus"
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:49pm
Austin Rich:

↳ univac @9:49
TOTALLY!
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univac:

Gotta run. Thx Austin! I plan on being here tomorrow for MVM. See you then!
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Austin Rich:

↳ univac @9:49
Until next time!
  👻 9:53pm
Heather Z:

Been tuned in and enjoying the show! Anyone else craving avocado now?? I know I am!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:53pm
yerfriendpaul:

Avocados is a dirty business
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:54pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @9:53
I'm not the biggest fan of avocados, but I will eat one on a taco or a nacho plate.
  👻 9:56pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @9:54
I'm very fond of them but it's hard to get good ones here in Rochester NY. I've got to be feeling very wealthy to chance it because they're expensive here, too! Mm.... tacos and nachos.... that's some good stuff right there.
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Austin Rich:

↳ yerfriendpaul @9:53
Apparently!
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Mr Fab:

loves me some avocados in Mexican food, but the cartels are getting in on the action unfortunately.

I've criticized drug users for fueling those monsters, so hope that I'm not enabling them now, too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
Barno in Akron:

Thank you, Austin :)
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Barno in Akron:

Groovy
  👻 10:04pm
Heather Z:

↳ Mr Fab @9:58
Oh no! This is the first I've heard of this! Glad I know now.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:13pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @10:04
Yeah, it's not good. Like many good things in this world: it's too good to be true.
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Mr Fab:

Never heard that Kennedy version of "High Hopes." Wonder if there's recordings of it around?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @10:17
Yeah, I was thinking about that. Seems likely, but then again...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
yerfriendpaul:

Great movie. Manchurian Candidate
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
Austin Rich:

↳ yerfriendpaul @10:18
Yes! I saw it again a few years ago, and really enjoyed it again. Very tense at times, and very well made.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Austin Rich:

Even in 1963, people were talking about how banks and lawyers and corporations were ruining movies. "Same as it ever was..."
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:25pm
Austin Rich:

This critique of slot machine gambling from 1940 is exactly what 2024 America needs to set our culture back on track!
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Mr Fab:

Which Beatle was the blue one? Paul was the cute one, John was the intellectual, George, the quiet one. I'm guessing Pete Best. If I was kicked out of the biggest band ever just before they made it, I'd be feeling pretty blue.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @10:25
Oh, I assumed a "Blue Beetle" was some "Buddy Holly & The Crickets" reference. (Someone being clever.)
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:29pm
Austin Rich:

Or maybe its a "Muppet Band" reference. I suspect they had a "Beetles" band at one point, and I'm sure one fo them was "blue."
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yerfriendpaul:

Invisibility. Gotta be one of most popular desired super powers
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Austin Rich:

↳ yerfriendpaul @10:32
I think about flying, casually, so I would probably want to do that if I could. But I'm sure I'm forgetting a super-obvious essential super-power. Time Travel? Something like that...?
  👻 10:33pm
Heather:

↳ yerfriendpaul @10:32
Classic flight v invisibility question!
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yerfriendpaul:

↳ Austin Rich @10:33
Would love to fly too. I have dreams where I’ve figured out how to fly
  👻 10:34pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:33
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for teleportation. I think telekinesis comes with that? And maybe a free phone, too.
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yerfriendpaul:

↳ Heather @10:34
Ha ha!
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Austin Rich:

I do not think about invisibility. But I have thought about running fast, like The Flash. I also think about living a very long time.
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yerfriendpaul:

I’d like to think that in the afterlife, we’ll all be able to access time travel and be fly-on-the-wall apparitions
  👻 10:37pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:35
There was a big invisibility topic going in this very show chat a bit ago and I think we all agreed it sounds so cold... and dangerous.
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Mr Fab:

Real superpowers would be like:

-always having enough money
-knowing what women want
-being able to do math
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: ""A Logic Named Joe"" by "X-Minus One"
Another story we've heard before, on "Dimension X." This was the last episode of 1955, and they were going into 1956 knowing they were going to continue. I think they were gearing up for their run in the following year, where the majority of the episodes would be NEW stories that had not been heard on Dimension X or X Minus One.
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Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @10:38
I'm bad at math, too. I have no idea what other people are thinking, of either gender.

The always having enough money: I think we need to start printing our own. That would fix things!
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yerfriendpaul:

↳ Heather @10:37
Yeah, the more I think of it, I wouldn’t want invisibility to be my power. Unless it could be used to escape salespeople
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:41pm
Austin Rich:

There's an extremely grim portrayal of a kid in this story, and while I won't comment on it being "accurate" or not, I think it's interesting how this story is presented with "comic" music cues, and then has some downright terrifying story beats, afterwards. Feels like an interesting exercise in black comedy... in 1955!
Avatar 10:41pm
Mr Fab:

'74 was a bit early, but still - not a bad prediction of the internet.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
Austin Rich:

A "Logic" is, apparently, a terminal connected to the internet.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
yerfriendpaul:

Can you imagine the writers of this piece getting a glimpse of our present scenario?
  👻 10:43pm
Heather:

↳ yerfriendpaul @10:39
There was a This American Life ages ago where they had a segment on flight v invisibility and they kind of leaned toward invisibility was pretty sneaky and maybe flight was better. But. Does being able to fly mean one is no longer scared of heights? If not... don't mind me. Just invisible over here.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
Austin Rich:

I think, when you write about the near future in a sci-fi sense, you can "accidentally" predict things more accurately than if you set a story in the distant future. (That's my theory, anyway.)
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
Austin Rich:

The Logic is, apparently, also a phone.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:44pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather @10:43
That one was written by John Hodgman. He claimed that people who want invisibility are more comfortable with lying and deception.
  👻 10:45pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:44
I remember Hodgman in the ep, for sure! Was a fan then, still am.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:47pm
Austin Rich:

This story theorized that people would use the internet to look up the most terrible things they could imagine. Such fantasy!
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yerfriendpaul:

↳ Austin Rich @10:44
Yeah, I think you’d be more tempted into a life of crime. I’d hop the turnstiles for sure ha ha
  👻 10:47pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:47
Just believe in human nature!
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Austin Rich:

↳ yerfriendpaul @10:47
It stands to reason that anyone with superpowers would trend toward crime and fascism.
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Austin Rich:

This story also theorizes that most people would use the internet to deceive their spouses. Where do they come up with this stuff?
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yerfriendpaul:

↳ Austin Rich @10:48
Yep, even flying could be used for selfish purposes.
  👻 10:50pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:50
Pure fantasy! Amazing they came up with this!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
Austin Rich:

The original version of this story was from years earlier, even, but it seems to be talking about now.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
Austin Rich:

This aired December 28th. Christmas was a few days ago, New Year's is in a few days. And then you tune in the radio, and you hear this story...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:52pm
Austin Rich:

This story suggests that crime would increase, and cops would become more useless, with the Internet. It's like I'm reading a Tolkien book!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
yerfriendpaul:

Ducky Dahhling
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
Austin Rich:

Another suggestion: exes would use the internet in really creepy ways? What kind of nonsense does this story think it's suggesting?
  👻 10:54pm
Heather:

What?! The logic made stalking easier?? No way that would ever happen.
Avatar 10:54pm
Mr Fab:

Ah, the great Murray Leinster wrote the orig story, back in 1946.

The "logics" are independent, learning on their own...like AI.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
Austin Rich:

To be clear: in 1955, the idea that a machine could have this kind of effect on everyday life THEN would be completely fantasy. It only became fact in the years since.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:57pm
Austin Rich:

There's no privacy in this future! What kind of madness is this?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
yerfriendpaul:

Freddy made poison darts! Run for your lives!!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
Austin Rich:

The idea that children - without good parenting - would use logics to do actual evil? I mean... is that unbelievable or what?
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Austin Rich:

So yeah, this is one of the better "X Minus One" stories.
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yerfriendpaul:

Freddy’s the worst!
  👻 11:02pm
Heather:

Getting toward that time! Great show, Austin, and thanks for a fun chat, all! Phew. Tense ending here...
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yerfriendpaul:

Thanks Austin! Take care, everyone!
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Austin Rich:

Thanks again, everyone. It's almost over. See ya next time...
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Austin Rich:

Comedy Music Cue!
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Austin Rich:

That's our Valentine's Day Story! Enjoy!
Avatar 11:04pm
Mr Fab:

Cool stuff as always. And thanks for Acme Brands for sponsoring the show.
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