Favoriting Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from September 26, 2022 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!

Monday 9 - 11pm (EDT) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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Favoriting September 26, 2022: Episode #35

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Box 13  "Sealed Instructions"   Favoriting 17 April 1949  Mayfair Productions 
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The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen  "Winchester Rifle and the Ambitious Groom"   Favoriting 25 February 1948  Mutual 
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Duke Ellington  Don't Get Around Much Anymore   Favoriting    
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Austin Rich & Obadiah Baird  The Golden Age of Science Fiction Part 3   Favoriting The Golden Age of Science Fiction (12 August 2022)  For This Program 
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Chandu The Magician  "Douglas' Dinner"   Favoriting 13 August 1948  Mutual–Don Lee Network 
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Dimension X  "The Last Objective"   Favoriting 3 June 1951  NBC Radio 
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Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
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Krys O.:

Allo!
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Looks like a good lineup.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Austin Rich:

Nice to see you, Krys O! And Imaginos, too!
Avatar 🎸 8:55pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

always a pleasure. Here and on 20 Minutes.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Austin Rich:

I'm late with September's 20 Minutes. But it IS mostly edited. Just needs some light touch-ups.
Avatar 🎸 8:58pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

I bet it will be awesome.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
Austin Rich:

It's getting closer and closer to "awesome," anyway.
Avatar 9:01pm
Mr Fab:

I'm hear at the store, with a pocketful of dimes.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Austin Rich:

For those who are curious: this will be the last "story" episode of "The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen." There's not exactly a resolution or anything, but it is the last installment... with a few surprises.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Austin Rich:

(There are two more "Scarlet Queen" episodes, both pilots. One from before everything we've heard, and one from almost a decade after, when they tried to reboot the show. I'll air both of those in November.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Krys O.:

Ooh, you can use instant coffee to add some ooomph when you're baking chocolate chip cookies.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Austin Rich:

Nice to see you, Mr. Fab.

I like that baking tip, Krys O. That sounds like a feature we should develop for December, Krys?
Avatar 9:04pm
Mr Fab:

"He was about 50"? He sounds 80!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
Austin Rich:

In 1949, 50 was the 80 of it's day?

Oh... he's sick.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
Krys O.:

80 was the new 50 back in the day.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
Austin Rich:

Krys O: Great Minds etc. cliché.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:06pm
Krys O.:

My mom learned that coffee tip from a woman she worked for. Mom was a housekeeper.
Avatar 🎸 9:06pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Grell? That's three now. This old gent, the Grim Reaper and a character in Trial of a Time Lord.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
Austin Rich:

Nice pull, Imaginos!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
Krys O.:

Because he's a shark. If he stops moving, he dies.
Avatar 🎸 9:12pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

sent you my latest fic.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:12pm
Austin Rich:

I saw that! I'll read it after the show.
Avatar 🎸 9:13pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

love your Acme ads.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
Austin Rich:

This hasn't been announced (or even recorded yet) but on Wednesday we're recording the first in a series of commentary tracks, with Michael and Steve, and anyone else who would like to get in on this. Should be fun to hear the insight from the writers.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
Austin Rich:

I try to write new ACME ads each week. They're always ridiculous, but... old ads from the 40's were also ridiculous, so it actually works.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:23pm
Austin Rich:

Oooof. These casual "racial slurs" are certainly an artifact of the era.
Avatar 🎸 9:25pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

they certainly date the story. but they're not as bad as the ones in Jungle Adventure on the Black Castle.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:26pm
Austin Rich:

I like the notion that these ads in the paper were so well seen, and even promptly enough to have same-day instructions given and followed. It's such an artifact of a pre-internet era.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:27pm
Austin Rich:

Yeah. Unfortunately, I have heard worse things on Old Radio Shows. Some from not that long ago, sadly...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:28pm
Austin Rich:

Here's comes Suzie's "stinger."
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:28pm
Austin Rich:

"Goodnight, Suzie..."
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:29pm
Austin Rich:

Here we go. Last Scarlet Queen...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:30pm
Austin Rich:

Pretty good sound quality, all things considered. I did do a little EQ and whatnot, to balance it all, and improve things. (Noise reduction, etc.)
Avatar 🎸 9:30pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

and how many of you are going to look up those coordinates later?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:31pm
Austin Rich:

Ha! At least the wiki article actually lists the relative "locations" each episodes takes place in:

en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:31pm
Krys O.:

Gallagher's there? Hide the watermelons!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:32pm
Austin Rich:

Ha! His act NEVER changed, even back in the 40's.
Avatar 🎸 9:32pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

get out the tarps!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
Austin Rich:

While the ins and outs of radio shows in those days are hard to know this many years later, all of the scripts for this show were written by the same team of two, and they were pretty relentless with the production of the show. It's equally possible the show was canceled, as it was the team needed to throw in the towel. I'll let the listeners decide how to interpret this final story.
Avatar 🎸 9:34pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Lol! another ACME classic!
Avatar 🎸 9:35pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

a team of two. A writer and a beta. even back then.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:36pm
Austin Rich:

For those who need reminding: Phil and Red sailed for Kang for most of the series, but that storyline was resolved many weeks ago. This story sort of "brings back" all the old characters, for one last hurrah...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:36pm
Will thee Sound Guy:

Hi Austin Rich and all!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:37pm
Krys O.:

Hey, Will!
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Hi!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:37pm
Austin Rich:

There's not a lot known about Gil Doud and Robert Tallman, who wrote The Scarlet Queen Scripts. But it's likely one or both were in the Pacific Theater of WWII, as they really describe the ports as if from first-hand experience.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:37pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello, Will!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:38pm
Krys O.:

Yesterday, Annie, yes, the 1982 John Huston film was on TCM. I had it on in the background as I did chores, but I did pay attention to a scene that recreated a radio show complete with foley artists. And a week ago, Radio Days was on and I know that one like the back of my hand.
Avatar 🎸 9:38pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

it also explains the bad stereotypical Japanese accent.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:39pm
Austin Rich:

I need to see Radio Days again.

Haven't seen Annie in YEARS, but I used to know that one way too well.

TCM. You have convinced me, I'm subscribing to the app this week.
Avatar 🎸 9:40pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

not the girl, but the yelling man earlier.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:41pm
Austin Rich:

Yeah, the Scarlet Queen has a lot of bad accents, and many... not very flattering. She does a pretty convincing job, but all of these accents are by Americans, which is... problematic.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:43pm
Austin Rich:

Of course, Red is good at escaping via windows. He's a Seasoned Sailor.
Avatar 🎸 9:45pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

He would've been a fine crewmate aboard Plutonia.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:46pm
Austin Rich:

I'm not familiar with that one. Google says its a DOOM reference?
Avatar 🎸 9:47pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Google is right and wrong. It's an Imaginos reference referring to a tall ship in the original album and later to a country.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:48pm
Austin Rich:

Ahhh. I usually need footnotes and a gloss.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:48pm
Austin Rich:

I meant to ask, Imaginos: is that "Little Cowbell" mp3 an original song?
Avatar 🎸 9:49pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Yes, it is.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:49pm
Austin Rich:

We need to collaborate! We can write some Headroom Hits!
Avatar 🎸 9:50pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

I created it on Noteflight with cowbell and glockenspiel.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:51pm
Krys O.:

G'night, all! Must head to the land o' Nod.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

enjoy the Blanket Show.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
Austin Rich:

Good Night, Krys O! Thanks for sticking around!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:53pm
Austin Rich:

"The Blanket Show" is a good name for it.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:53pm
Austin Rich:

Red is, of course, sad about the waste of the liquor.
Avatar 🎸 9:54pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

it's what my mother used to call it.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:56pm
Austin Rich:

I'm finally old enough to appreciate falling deeply asleep for many, many hours, more than almost anything else.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:57pm
Austin Rich:

Well. A nice shot of bourbon is still nice, too.
Avatar 🎸 9:58pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

last night i dreamt I was in a submarine exploring undersea caves.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:59pm
Austin Rich:

That sounds delightful!
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

My favourite old Ray Bradbury story is Embroidery.
  10:03pm
Heather:

I'm lurking! Hi everyone! Super psyched to catch the Monday show!
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Mr Fab:

I dreamt I was a very small being swallowed by a chicken, and had to get inside an egg so I could escape when it was laid.
I don’t usually remember my dreams but made a point to remember that one.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Mr Fab, that reminds me of the story of Taliesin (Gwion Bach)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:06pm
Austin Rich:

That does sound like a very memorable dream, Mr. Fab. I would remember that one, for sure.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
Austin Rich:

I should do a show where I have an open Zoom Call that anyone can get on, and they just tell their dreams.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:10pm
Austin Rich:

"Fix-Up Novels" was something we talked about in the previous installment. It's a "Novel" that's shaped from a bunch of short stories that were previously published, then "massaged" to become a sort-of novel.
Avatar 🎸 10:11pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

a non-lethal version of DreamVu?
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Mr Fab:

Love the idea of a listener dream show.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Austin Rich:

Exactly, Imaginos!

I've been meaning to try a "zoom call" show, to test how well it would work.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:12pm
Austin Rich:

"Can you take... this much Heinlen?"
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Austin Rich:

The only Hubbard I know at all is from Old Time Radio. I've never really be tempted to go any further.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
Austin Rich:

I like the idea of the alternate universe where L. Ron Hubbard is a guru and PKD is the cult leader.
Avatar 🎸 10:19pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

40s sci-fi was very interesting
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:20pm
Austin Rich:

Obadiah has a huge collection of original sci-fi books and magazines from the 30s and 40s. We nerd out about books a lot.
Avatar 10:21pm
Mr Fab:

The most interesting thing L Ron wrote was the memo that went: “the three goals of Scientology are 1) make money, 2) make money…”
And you can probably guess what the third goal is.
Avatar 🎸 10:22pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Avoid taxes
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Mr Fab:

Ha!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:23pm
Austin Rich:

Right?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Austin Rich:

That "Going Clear" documentary on HBO is FASCINATING.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Austin Rich:

"It sounds like Korla Pandit performing over there. Let's listen."
Avatar 🎸 10:27pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

What is it with reporters and superheroes?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:29pm
Austin Rich:

I imagine most reporters think they can make a career by breaking the story of a new super-hero.

Which probably explains why Superman thought it was a good idea to pretend to be a reporter: he could see who was trying to cover Superman, and cut that off at the pass.
Avatar 🎸 10:30pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

And Spider-Man has an apparent exclusive with a newspaper that hates him.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:31pm
Austin Rich:

Ha! Good point.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:31pm
Austin Rich:

That organ music can't be a good sign.
Avatar 🎸 10:33pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Organ music usually means either a dangerous thing, or Barbarella's clothes are going to be flying around the room
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:34pm
Austin Rich:

So, for those who have been following Chandu: for the last 30 some-odd episodes, they have been looking for the missing father / husband / friend. They were optimistic that he might be alive, but were told he was dead.

In 30-some odd episodes of adventure, they have learned that it is more likely that he is alive... but they still don't know for sure.

Chandu moves very slowly.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Austin Rich:

I do like it when Barbarella's clothes fly around the room. But it's hard not to love that.
Avatar 🎸 10:36pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

The excessive machine was very well tuned.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Do you remember the Rolling Roads?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
Austin Rich:

I do! I'm not sure if that one has aired yet, but I've heard it before.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:39pm
Austin Rich:

Yeah, we did air that one, several weeks back, when I was on earlier.

wfmu.org...
Avatar 🎸 10:40pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

I listen on my app from time to time
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:40pm
Austin Rich:

Yeah, you were telling me about that. A bunch of old shows and stuff.

This scene with these guys and this "character" really has an "Alien" vibe to it.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
Austin Rich:

I used to smoke cigarettes a LOT, and I would listen to Old Radio Show, and think, "Yep, that's about how much people smoke."
Avatar 🎸 10:44pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

People forced to live underground. What's above? Aliens? Sinister plantlife?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
Austin Rich:

They said in the opening: a nuclear disaster has destroyed everything, but I think it was even destroyed before that. It sounded bad.
Avatar 🎸 10:47pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

So depending upon how long ago that was something sinister might have risen from the ashes?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:47pm
Austin Rich:

I like how all old Dimension X shows end up sounding like a submarine story, with the SFX, anyway.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:48pm
Austin Rich:

A lot of old Sci-Fi "space" stories sort of treated space like the sea, and spaceships were often described like Subs. And since a lot of the people that worked in radio in these days were WWII vets, I suspect enough of them were leaving their influence on sci-fi in that way.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

It certainly influenced StarBlazers
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:50pm
Austin Rich:

Oh yeah! Totally.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:50pm
Austin Rich:

I like how "Bibles" are illegal. Contraband!
  10:51pm
Heather:

SoT trivia: the sound I put when the Spacebridge is running is a submarine sound effect, just really low, for texture. I'm sure I cribbed that from OTR, not even meaning to.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
Austin Rich:

Ha! I mean, I'm sure that's an old trick in audio production. I wonder if they design real NASA crafts to "sound" like subs, even though there's no practical reason for it to sound that way. (Sort of like how modern electric cars "sound" like regular engines, but don't need to.)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:54pm
Austin Rich:

Getting ready to wrap up. Thanks everyone for joining us! We'll se you next week, maybe?
  10:55pm
Heather:

It's better than any of the other engine noise effects I have! Add some beep boop zip zaps and, wow! We're in space!

Thanks for a great show and have a wonderful evening, everyone!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:56pm
Austin Rich:

"The war's over, alright."
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:57pm
Austin Rich:

The lonely robot, by itself everyone else is dead.

There needs to be a song about that.
Avatar 🎸 10:57pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Sad ending
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
Austin Rich:

Most Dimension X episodes have a pretty sad ending.
Avatar 🎸 10:58pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Sole Survivor by boc is closest
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
Austin Rich:

Well, in Novemeber, anyway.
Avatar 10:59pm
Mr Fab:

Yeah, the future looks bleak.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
Austin Rich:

See ya next time!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
Austin Rich:

It looked bleak, then, too.
Avatar 🎸 10:59pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Look forward to it
Avatar 10:59pm
Mr Fab:

Thanks, Space Captain Austin!
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