WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 12, 2022

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 7:49pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: Every Christmas movie made in the 80's as either a take off on this film, or referenced it in some way. I think a lot of people think they know, "It's a Wonderful Life," but might not have heard or watching it. And Jimmy Stewart is something to behold, in audio or on screen.
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: "When life was normal." Well... for some, anyway...
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: A lot of people my age know Donna Reed from Nick at Nite, endlessly re-playing, "The Donna Reed Show." But certainly, Donna Reed is excellent in this movie.
	9:05pm Charles: Hi!
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you, Charles!
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: Henry Travers made the role of Clarence famous in the film, but for this show on Lux Radio Theater, they have the fantastic performers, Victor Moore, who sort of fills the same kinds of roles in films of the era, and Victor also appears in the excellent holiday film, "It Happened on Fifth Ave."
	🎸 ♥ 9:10pm Austin Rich: I sort of relate to George Bailey. I always wanted to travel and see the world, but I've been stuck in the mid-valley (and adjacent cities) my whole life. So it goes.
	♥ 9:12pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Audience! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you, Scott67!
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: You'll probably notice that this broadcast originally aired in March of 1947. A little odd for a Christmas movie, but then again, Gremlins - a movie that is a horror version of "It's A Wonderful Life," was released in June. A lot of movies that are "holiday" films are released at times of year that have nothing to do with the holiday.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: George Bailey is the kind of role that Jimmy Stewart made his career on playing characters like this: old-fashioned American men with good values who struggles against the injustices of the world. So to see him take a late turn in his career and play all those Hitchcock roles, like Rear Window and Vertigo, was incredibly surprising. I think he does an incredible job throughout his career, but playing all those creepy guys in Hitchcock movies was very unexpected.
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: If you were to combine most of the depictions of Heaven and how people get in and out as its shown in films like this, Heaven is an incredibly bureaucratic place.
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: Sometimes this movie breaks my heart.
	♥ 9:27pm Krys O.: Hello!
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: Krys O! Lovely to see you in the chat!
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Austin Rich: I probably never bothered to watch this whole movie until I was in my early 20s, sort of assuming that I knew the story and it was just an old movie. I was sort of blown away at how relevant and modern it was, as a story.
	♥ 9:35pm Krys O.: I love It Happened on 5th Avenue.
	9:35pm Mr Fab: Yep, I watched “Wonderful Life” for a few Christmases in a row during a window when everyone thought it was in the public domain so it would be all over tv every year.
	🎸 ♥ 9:35pm Austin Rich: That is my favorite Christmas movie. And I only saw that one maybe 7 years ago, accidentally one year, with my wife. We adored it!
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Austin Rich: "It Happened on 5th Ave," I mean.
	♥ 9:37pm Krys O.: There's a hilarious short film with Victor Moore that's based on the vaudeville classic bit, "Pay the Two Dollars!"
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Austin Rich: I love how the rich people pretend to be poor, the poor people pretend to be rich, and it's like some sort of Prince And The Pauper farce... but a lot cooler.
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Austin Rich: Victor Moore is pretty hilarious.
	🎸 ♥ 9:40pm Austin Rich: I'm gonna get the most milage I can out of that poem this month.
	♥ 9:42pm Krys O.: It's great!
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: I mostly just love having a reason to play that funky Christmas instrumental I found.
	🎸 ♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: I remember a class I took when I was pursuing my film minor in college, and we watching the "Pottersville" section of "It's A Wonderful Life" as part of our Noir segment.
	9:46pm Mr Fab: I was surprised to see that this aired in March, but it probably wasn’t originally thought of as a Christmas story. More a parable about life’s worth that just happened to have some key scenes set during Christmas. Kinda like how “To Kill A Mockingbird” has sorta become a Halloween movie.
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: Exactly!
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Austin Rich: I was looking at release dates for Christmas movies, and a lot of them come out at random times in the year.
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Austin Rich: "Zuzu's Petals" is replaced with "Zuzu's Bell" in this version of the story.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm Austin Rich: "Some bad liquor." Clearly, George Bailey doesn't really drink.
	9:50pm Mr Fab: “Die Hard” is set during a Christmas party but was released in July. Again, no one went to see “Die Hard” for holiday cheer.
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: "Stop biting policemen, Clarance," sort of implies that he's done it before.
	9:51pm Mr Fab: Haha, that’s right- There’s no such thing as bad liquor when you have mixers!
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm Austin Rich: I never thought about "Die Hard" as a Christmas movie until... oh, maybe 15 years ago? I feel like that's when that cultural meme sort of gained maximum density.
	9:56pm Mr Fab: Yeah, it really has nothing to do with Xmas. That’s just background.
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: You sort of used to have to stretch, looking for holiday material, back in the day. "A Christmas Carol" can only get played so many times.
	♥ 9:59pm WR: Interesting to hear the compressed version. Caught the last 5 minutes.
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: WR! Nice to see you in the chat!
	♥ 10:00pm Krys O.: Toodles,all! Must head to bed.
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm Austin Rich: Goodnight, Krys O!
	♥ 10:02pm MHLee: Hi Austin, been around
	🎸 ♥ 10:04pm Barno in Akron: Hi Austin, I'm around - Howdy!
	10:06pm Mr Fab: MHLee and Barno, of course you’re aROUND, cuz you ain’t no squares! (Sorry..)
	10:11pm Heather: Hi everyone! I've been tuned in while hacking through some tasks! Awesome stuff, as always!
	♥ 10:11pm WR: Yes, a Barno is good to have around.
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Austin Rich: Heather! Hooray!
	10:12pm Heather: I'm here! I'll DM you about my nonsense here. Good things afoot but phew!
	🎸 ♥ 10:14pm Austin Rich: If you are an Old Hollywood nerd, and you are looking for a incredible "radio" version of different Hollywood people, "You Must Remember This," is an incredible podcast, the host is really knowledgable and incredibly well read / watched, and the way she tells stories about actors is great. Here episodes about Bogart and Bacall are fantastic... and a lot more detailed than these documentaries will get into.
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: "Treasure of Sierra Madre" is a really great movie... that always feels about 25 minutes too long, for my tastes.
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: I mean, I like it, and it always keeps me thinking... but it always feels too long.
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: It's weird to hear Bogart's son talk about his dad like that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: "Who was half in the bag." I think we can take it, as read, that if someone is telling a Bogart story, he is definitely drunk.
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Austin Rich: I mean, I love Lauren Bacall, but I mean, Katherine Hepburn ain't nothin' to sneeze at.
	10:20pm Heather: 3 in the morning, 3 in the afternoon, any kind of 3, really.
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: 3 is a good time to have a drink, for sure.
	🎸 ♥ 10:23pm Austin Rich: Bing does have a lot of kids.
	10:23pm Heather: Or 10:23, in my case!
	🎸 ♥ 10:23pm Austin Rich: I remember once, going to see a Bob Hope impersonator, and I had to explain all the jokes to my friends, who had never seen any Hope material, except, "Really Old" Bob Hope.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: It's only 7:23 here, so I guess I need to catch up, Heather!
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: I'm serious, this Vincent Price show coming up is a real treat. Vincent is a joy.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: See, Bing has a lot of kids...
	10:24pm Heather: You've got time! And I've got three hours on you!
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm Austin Rich: "The Bathroom..." Zing.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: One thing I love about Hope and Crosby is that they really do crack each other up when they're riffing, and they really sound like modern comedians. They were both pretty ahead of their time.
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: Bing Crosby was a Christmas Tradition for DECADES. It is ridiculous to try to really think about how long his career was, and how many times he was still able to find a place in popular culture. It's wild.
	10:29pm Heather: He even did that duet with Bowie!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Austin Rich: The whistle at the beginning of a radio show is a common theme in old radio, but I love the opening of The Saint more than the one for a show that is actually called, "The Whistler." This one is just better.
	🎸 ♥ 10:31pm Austin Rich: Bob Hope's last Comedy Special was in 1998. Let that sink in... his career was crazy long. He had a career as a boxer BEFORE his comedy career that started... in the 20's! Bob Hope's career is wild.
	10:32pm Mr Fab: There are Bob Hope impersonators?!?
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: There are! There's not as many as there are Elvis impersonators, but there are.
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: Louis is the cabbie who always drives Simon Templar - The Saint - around. Louis is in almost every show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm Austin Rich: I do appreciate that this episode was actually broadcast on Christmas Eve. If my show ever falls on Christmas Eve, it'll be hard for me not to replay this one.
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm Austin Rich: I need to sample all that "punk" talk.
	10:34pm Mr Fab: This is hilarious
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: Most Saint episodes are sort of like this... lots of jokes, lots of great dialog, and there's a good chunk of them with Vincent Price in the lead. I do recommend this show!
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: While not strictly "noir," The Saint often mines a lot of the same content, but with a lot snappier and upbeat dialog. The episodes with the other actors... they're okay. Louis is even the same in a lot of them. But... well... Vincent is just... really, really good...
	🎸 ♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: Two "servants entrance" jokes in the same broadcast.
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: "I dream." See what I mean?
	🎸 ♥ 10:45pm Austin Rich: That pause must have been where the transcription disc change was on the tape this show came from.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: "Fatal?"
	🎸 ♥ 10:48pm Austin Rich: Ouch! Knocking someone out with the butt of a gun has GOT to hurt.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Austin Rich: "You don't look 65."
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Austin Rich: The Saint keeps knocking people out... on Christmas Eve, even...
	10:49pm Daybreak, just Daybreak: Definitely a concussion at the least. Or 2 concussions now
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat Daybreak, just Daybreak!
	10:51pm Mr Fab: I didn’t know that The Saint was a) on radio b) American, and c)started long before the Roger Moore show. Gettin edjukated here!
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: We're in the home stretch for our program tonight. Thanks everyone for joining us in the chat, and listening / lurking along while I play these old shows. It really is a highlight of me week.
	♥ 10:51pm WR: Noisy door opening.
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Barno in Akron: Thank you, Austin
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: The Saint really gets around... I forgot about that Roger Moore version!
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: There were a few different "Saint" comics that I read as a youth, which made me look for more. I was astonished to find that the character went back several decades.
	10:54pm Mr Fab: It’s the only Saint I knew.
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: That's at least three people he knocked out.
	10:55pm Daybreak, just Daybreak: It would look terrible!
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: This radio version of The Saint is pretty good in hand to hand combat, but also knows guns well, too. But it's his wit and charm that are his true talents.
	♥ 10:56pm WR: I didn't find much to like in the Roger Moore Saint. Enjoyed this Price version.
	♥ 10:58pm WR: Great Sheena Xmas poem.!!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: Usually, when possible, most Saint episodes on the radio end with Simon getting it on with someone we've met earlier in the show. This show is no exception...
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: This episode is also known as, "Santa Clouse Is No Saint."
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: Claus... you get the idea...
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm Austin Rich: Night everyone! Take care!
	♥ 11:01pm WR: Thank you! Austin!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 12, 2022

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December 12, 2022: Holiday Film Fest!: "It's A Wonderful Life!" & "The Saint"

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Lux Radio Theater	"It's A Wonderful Life"	10 March 1947	NBC	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
John Kirby and is Orchestra	Bounce Of The Sugar Plum Fairy			1:02:11 (Pop-up)
Biography Channel	Bogart & Bacall: Hollywood's Golden Age Part 3	Three Documentaries Edited Together.		1:10:56 (Pop-up)
Command Performance	"The Christmas Eve Show" Excerpt 2	24 December 1942	AFRS	1:20:31 (Pop-up)
The Saint	"Nineteen Santa Clauses"	24 December 1947	CBS	1:28:51 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 7:49pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: Every Christmas movie made in the 80's as either a take off on this film, or referenced it in some way. I think a lot of people think they know, "It's a Wonderful Life," but might not have heard or watching it. And Jimmy Stewart is something to behold, in audio or on screen.
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: "When life was normal." Well... for some, anyway...
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: A lot of people my age know Donna Reed from Nick at Nite, endlessly re-playing, "The Donna Reed Show." But certainly, Donna Reed is excellent in this movie.
	9:05pm Charles: Hi!
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you, Charles!
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: Henry Travers made the role of Clarence famous in the film, but for this show on Lux Radio Theater, they have the fantastic performers, Victor Moore, who sort of fills the same kinds of roles in films of the era, and Victor also appears in the excellent holiday film, "It Happened on Fifth Ave."
	🎸 ♥ 9:10pm Austin Rich: I sort of relate to George Bailey. I always wanted to travel and see the world, but I've been stuck in the mid-valley (and adjacent cities) my whole life. So it goes.
	♥ 9:12pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Audience! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you, Scott67!
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: You'll probably notice that this broadcast originally aired in March of 1947. A little odd for a Christmas movie, but then again, Gremlins - a movie that is a horror version of "It's A Wonderful Life," was released in June. A lot of movies that are "holiday" films are released at times of year that have nothing to do with the holiday.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: George Bailey is the kind of role that Jimmy Stewart made his career on playing characters like this: old-fashioned American men with good values who struggles against the injustices of the world. So to see him take a late turn in his career and play all those Hitchcock roles, like Rear Window and Vertigo, was incredibly surprising. I think he does an incredible job throughout his career, but playing all those creepy guys in Hitchcock movies was very unexpected.
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: If you were to combine most of the depictions of Heaven and how people get in and out as its shown in films like this, Heaven is an incredibly bureaucratic place.
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: Sometimes this movie breaks my heart.
	♥ 9:27pm Krys O.: Hello!
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: Krys O! Lovely to see you in the chat!
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Austin Rich: I probably never bothered to watch this whole movie until I was in my early 20s, sort of assuming that I knew the story and it was just an old movie. I was sort of blown away at how relevant and modern it was, as a story.
	♥ 9:35pm Krys O.: I love It Happened on 5th Avenue.
	9:35pm Mr Fab: Yep, I watched “Wonderful Life” for a few Christmases in a row during a window when everyone thought it was in the public domain so it would be all over tv every year.
	🎸 ♥ 9:35pm Austin Rich: That is my favorite Christmas movie. And I only saw that one maybe 7 years ago, accidentally one year, with my wife. We adored it!
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Austin Rich: "It Happened on 5th Ave," I mean.
	♥ 9:37pm Krys O.: There's a hilarious short film with Victor Moore that's based on the vaudeville classic bit, "Pay the Two Dollars!"
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Austin Rich: I love how the rich people pretend to be poor, the poor people pretend to be rich, and it's like some sort of Prince And The Pauper farce... but a lot cooler.
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Austin Rich: Victor Moore is pretty hilarious.
	🎸 ♥ 9:40pm Austin Rich: I'm gonna get the most milage I can out of that poem this month.
	♥ 9:42pm Krys O.: It's great!
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: I mostly just love having a reason to play that funky Christmas instrumental I found.
	🎸 ♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: I remember a class I took when I was pursuing my film minor in college, and we watching the "Pottersville" section of "It's A Wonderful Life" as part of our Noir segment.
	9:46pm Mr Fab: I was surprised to see that this aired in March, but it probably wasn’t originally thought of as a Christmas story. More a parable about life’s worth that just happened to have some key scenes set during Christmas. Kinda like how “To Kill A Mockingbird” has sorta become a Halloween movie.
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: Exactly!
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Austin Rich: I was looking at release dates for Christmas movies, and a lot of them come out at random times in the year.
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Austin Rich: "Zuzu's Petals" is replaced with "Zuzu's Bell" in this version of the story.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm Austin Rich: "Some bad liquor." Clearly, George Bailey doesn't really drink.
	9:50pm Mr Fab: “Die Hard” is set during a Christmas party but was released in July. Again, no one went to see “Die Hard” for holiday cheer.
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: "Stop biting policemen, Clarance," sort of implies that he's done it before.
	9:51pm Mr Fab: Haha, that’s right- There’s no such thing as bad liquor when you have mixers!
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm Austin Rich: I never thought about "Die Hard" as a Christmas movie until... oh, maybe 15 years ago? I feel like that's when that cultural meme sort of gained maximum density.
	9:56pm Mr Fab: Yeah, it really has nothing to do with Xmas. That’s just background.
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: You sort of used to have to stretch, looking for holiday material, back in the day. "A Christmas Carol" can only get played so many times.
	♥ 9:59pm WR: Interesting to hear the compressed version. Caught the last 5 minutes.
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: WR! Nice to see you in the chat!
	♥ 10:00pm Krys O.: Toodles,all! Must head to bed.
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm Austin Rich: Goodnight, Krys O!
	♥ 10:02pm MHLee: Hi Austin, been around
	🎸 ♥ 10:04pm Barno in Akron: Hi Austin, I'm around - Howdy!
	10:06pm Mr Fab: MHLee and Barno, of course you’re aROUND, cuz you ain’t no squares! (Sorry..)
	10:11pm Heather: Hi everyone! I've been tuned in while hacking through some tasks! Awesome stuff, as always!
	♥ 10:11pm WR: Yes, a Barno is good to have around.
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Austin Rich: Heather! Hooray!
	10:12pm Heather: I'm here! I'll DM you about my nonsense here. Good things afoot but phew!
	🎸 ♥ 10:14pm Austin Rich: If you are an Old Hollywood nerd, and you are looking for a incredible "radio" version of different Hollywood people, "You Must Remember This," is an incredible podcast, the host is really knowledgable and incredibly well read / watched, and the way she tells stories about actors is great. Here episodes about Bogart and Bacall are fantastic... and a lot more detailed than these documentaries will get into.
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: "Treasure of Sierra Madre" is a really great movie... that always feels about 25 minutes too long, for my tastes.
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: I mean, I like it, and it always keeps me thinking... but it always feels too long.
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: It's weird to hear Bogart's son talk about his dad like that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: "Who was half in the bag." I think we can take it, as read, that if someone is telling a Bogart story, he is definitely drunk.
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Austin Rich: I mean, I love Lauren Bacall, but I mean, Katherine Hepburn ain't nothin' to sneeze at.
	10:20pm Heather: 3 in the morning, 3 in the afternoon, any kind of 3, really.
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: 3 is a good time to have a drink, for sure.
	🎸 ♥ 10:23pm Austin Rich: Bing does have a lot of kids.
	10:23pm Heather: Or 10:23, in my case!
	🎸 ♥ 10:23pm Austin Rich: I remember once, going to see a Bob Hope impersonator, and I had to explain all the jokes to my friends, who had never seen any Hope material, except, "Really Old" Bob Hope.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: It's only 7:23 here, so I guess I need to catch up, Heather!
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: I'm serious, this Vincent Price show coming up is a real treat. Vincent is a joy.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: See, Bing has a lot of kids...
	10:24pm Heather: You've got time! And I've got three hours on you!
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm Austin Rich: "The Bathroom..." Zing.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: One thing I love about Hope and Crosby is that they really do crack each other up when they're riffing, and they really sound like modern comedians. They were both pretty ahead of their time.
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: Bing Crosby was a Christmas Tradition for DECADES. It is ridiculous to try to really think about how long his career was, and how many times he was still able to find a place in popular culture. It's wild.
	10:29pm Heather: He even did that duet with Bowie!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Austin Rich: The whistle at the beginning of a radio show is a common theme in old radio, but I love the opening of The Saint more than the one for a show that is actually called, "The Whistler." This one is just better.
	🎸 ♥ 10:31pm Austin Rich: Bob Hope's last Comedy Special was in 1998. Let that sink in... his career was crazy long. He had a career as a boxer BEFORE his comedy career that started... in the 20's! Bob Hope's career is wild.
	10:32pm Mr Fab: There are Bob Hope impersonators?!?
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: There are! There's not as many as there are Elvis impersonators, but there are.
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: Louis is the cabbie who always drives Simon Templar - The Saint - around. Louis is in almost every show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm Austin Rich: I do appreciate that this episode was actually broadcast on Christmas Eve. If my show ever falls on Christmas Eve, it'll be hard for me not to replay this one.
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm Austin Rich: I need to sample all that "punk" talk.
	10:34pm Mr Fab: This is hilarious
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: Most Saint episodes are sort of like this... lots of jokes, lots of great dialog, and there's a good chunk of them with Vincent Price in the lead. I do recommend this show!
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: While not strictly "noir," The Saint often mines a lot of the same content, but with a lot snappier and upbeat dialog. The episodes with the other actors... they're okay. Louis is even the same in a lot of them. But... well... Vincent is just... really, really good...
	🎸 ♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: Two "servants entrance" jokes in the same broadcast.
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: "I dream." See what I mean?
	🎸 ♥ 10:45pm Austin Rich: That pause must have been where the transcription disc change was on the tape this show came from.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: "Fatal?"
	🎸 ♥ 10:48pm Austin Rich: Ouch! Knocking someone out with the butt of a gun has GOT to hurt.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Austin Rich: "You don't look 65."
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Austin Rich: The Saint keeps knocking people out... on Christmas Eve, even...
	10:49pm Daybreak, just Daybreak: Definitely a concussion at the least. Or 2 concussions now
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you in the chat Daybreak, just Daybreak!
	10:51pm Mr Fab: I didn’t know that The Saint was a) on radio b) American, and c)started long before the Roger Moore show. Gettin edjukated here!
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: We're in the home stretch for our program tonight. Thanks everyone for joining us in the chat, and listening / lurking along while I play these old shows. It really is a highlight of me week.
	♥ 10:51pm WR: Noisy door opening.
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Barno in Akron: Thank you, Austin
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: The Saint really gets around... I forgot about that Roger Moore version!
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: There were a few different "Saint" comics that I read as a youth, which made me look for more. I was astonished to find that the character went back several decades.
	10:54pm Mr Fab: It’s the only Saint I knew.
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: That's at least three people he knocked out.
	10:55pm Daybreak, just Daybreak: It would look terrible!
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: This radio version of The Saint is pretty good in hand to hand combat, but also knows guns well, too. But it's his wit and charm that are his true talents.
	♥ 10:56pm WR: I didn't find much to like in the Roger Moore Saint. Enjoyed this Price version.
	♥ 10:58pm WR: Great Sheena Xmas poem.!!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: Usually, when possible, most Saint episodes on the radio end with Simon getting it on with someone we've met earlier in the show. This show is no exception...
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: This episode is also known as, "Santa Clouse Is No Saint."
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: Claus... you get the idea...
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm Austin Rich: Night everyone! Take care!
	♥ 11:01pm WR: Thank you! Austin!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 12, 2022

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