WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 19, 2022

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 6:18pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: Lux Presents Hollywood!
	9:02pm Charles: Ho ho ho! Santa brought you a little radio! You can listen to the movies on it!
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: Charles! Hopefully I spelled your name correctly on the stocking, hangin on the mantle.
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: Imaginos! Greetings and salutations! Hopefully I mixed the nog to your liking.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Mixed to perfection.
	9:05pm Charles: Is your christmas tree decorated in lava lamps?
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: Our other movies this month have "mentioned" Christmas, mostly at the end of each show. This story actually takes place from Thanksgiving to Christmas, making it a little more appropriate.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: I have those tiny Lava Lamps, instead of candles.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Did I just hear a sneaky cigarette reference?
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: I think you did.
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: Chandu, The Magician is one of our regular programs, and is sponsored by White King soap. "Lux" was a brand of soap, too, and the sponsor of this show we're listening to now. I'm fairly certain that Lux Interior of the Cramps was referencing that boxes of Lux warned people not to ingest the soap... which I guess was a problem?
	9:11pm Charles: Gimbles -- !
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: This presentation of "Miracle on 34th" really leans into the comedy, as evidenced by the audience laughter that you can hear throughout the show. While not uncommon, it underlines something that is easy to forget: these shows were presented in front of audiences, live, with actors at microphones, reading from scripts. It was a live show.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I'm working on two Max Headroom stories.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: I got the new chapter for the "Max / Nightmare" crossover.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: You mean the Black Butler crossover?
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: Oh, is that what it is? I'm not familiar with Black Butler. Looks like it's a manga? We might stock it at work.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: I've never seen Rogue's Regiment, but this little blurb made me curious. Vincent Price is the villain! I'll report back after I watch it, and let ya'll know if it's any good.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Bryce is a grim reaper in the crossover.
	9:19pm Charles: Maybe he's only a little crazy :)
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: "A little crazy." It's like being "a little pregnant," right?
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: Poor Murray.
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Bryce's next scheduled reaping is Mink. But he doesn't want to do it.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: I wonder if this movie's subplot - that the psychiatrist is bad at his job - is a dig at psychiatry, which hadn't been around for very long, in 1948.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: Yeah, I wouldn't want to be a reaper to Mink, either.
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: The visual image of Santa imitating a monkey is not in the film, if memory serves... but makes for a good little gag for the radio.
	9:27pm Mr Fab: Funny that soap companies sponsored these shows. They’re not exactly what comes to mind when thinking of “soap operas.”
	🎸 ♥ 9:29pm Austin Rich: I do think that's the origin of the phrase, Mr. Fab. Most of the TV soaps started on radio... or at least, the concepts and the stars. There's some radio soaps that I've read about, but I've never listened to more than a few. Just not my bag. But they do sound pretty much like what modern soaps are like.
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Austin Rich: If my memory is correct, this "Macy & Gimble shaking hands" gag is not in the film, but again, works great for radio.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Austin Rich: While I do like this movie, I do have a few issues with it. The men are constantly meddling in the life of a single mother, and the men are convinced they know what's best for her.
	♥ 9:34pm WR: Hi
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you, WR!
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Hi
	9:35pm Mr Fab: Well “soap operas” got their name because they were targeted at housewives so allegedly the sponsors they got were mostly household cleaners and related things, e.g.: soap. So goes the old radio lore that I was told. Is there another explanation?
	♥ 9:35pm WR: Nothing more powerful than rich guy who wants to make his kid happy.
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Austin Rich: I think that's right, Mr. Fab. The shows were called "soaps" because all the sponsors were for soap.
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Of course soap ads were often questionable.
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Austin Rich: There's also a weird angle to this movie, where the men are trying to convince the daughter and mother that Santa is real.. and the mother is doing her best to teach her daughter to be sensible in life. Seems strange to build a movie around gaslighting these women.
	9:37pm Mr Fab: This was a big movie around my house when I was a kid cuz my mom grew up in this era NYC.
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Austin Rich: My family never watched it when I was a kid, but I've come to love it since I got married, and we watch a lot of old movies together.
	🎸 ♥ 9:40pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Old movies can be very interesting and fun
	9:41pm Mr Fab: Honestly I’d kinda forgotten about it. It was a tv rerun staple for a while there, but might have been shoved aside by all the other Xmas show reruns. (Like last week’s show for example)
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: There's so many old movies I've never seen, and there's almost always some detail or nuance to the movie that makes me have to do a little research, and then I learn something at the same time. I guess watching old movies reminds me of flipping around the dial when I was younger. There were just a lot more old movies on TV back then, and you'd catch parts of movies all the time. These days, you don't see hardly anything Black and White casually on TV.
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: There's a lot of little scenes in this version of the story that are not in the film... again, to push the "comedy" angle more, which works really well in front of audiences.
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My favorite old movies are The Dead of Night The Ghost and Mrs Muir Death Takes a Holiday Torture Garden
	♥ 9:46pm WR: Last week you played a radio presentation of It's a Wonderful Life. Was it a regular thing to have movies contemporaneously made into radio versions.
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: Wow! I think i haven't seen any of those, Imaginos! Movie marathon time!
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: WR: Short version: Yes!
	♥ 9:47pm WR: And this seems to have a live audience.
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: This show, and a few others, would do radio adaptations of popular movies, often trying to get the original cast, but sometimes, casting other Hollywood folks in the other roles.
	9:48pm Mr Fab: Austin @ 9:43 - Exactly! I often think of that, of how much of an education we got just goofin off after-school flipping the dial. I have to make an effort to show old stuff to my daughter. She’s never gonna just stumble across em on her own the way we used to.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm Austin Rich: Lux Radio Theater was VERY popular, and ran for decades. Having the audience present when they recorded really helped sell the idea that it was a show version, ideal for radio.
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: We don't really have a way to "flip" channels at our house anymore, but when I used to visit my family, and would flip channels on their TVs, I was always disappointed. The "range" of stuff you stumble on is ironically not as wide, even with more channels and more "content."
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm Austin Rich: This story beat - with the mail-carriers getting the idea to dump their old mail - is much more funny in this version, and much less of an upbeat dramatic moment, like it is in the movie.
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: A trial on Christmas Eve? Wouldn't they wait until the Monday after, in a real court?
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Austin Rich: You sort of realize why "Macy's" is still such a big deal every holiday, even in 2022. If they were a big deal THEN, and they had an annual parade THEN, and they STILL do every year... I guess that's a big deal.
	♥ 10:03pm WR: So far Macy's has survived the overturning of big box stores. I've not kept up with the health of the corporation, but as you say, they continue to sponsor the Thanksgiving parade.
	🎸 ♥ 10:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Macy's is more than just a store.
	10:05pm Heather: You caught me! Lurking away, hi everyone!!
	10:10pm Mr Fab: Wiki sez: “founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy… As of 2015, Macy's was the largest U.S. department store company by retail sales.” 1858?! OMG they were practically NINETY years old when they made this.
	♥ 10:17pm WR: Gimbel's was founded in 1840. They opened in NYC in 1910. Their NYC flagship store is now Manhattan Mall, just a block from the flagship Macy's store. And Gimbels was first with a Thanksgiving parade, in Philadelphia. Ain't Wikipedia wonderful.
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: I had never heard of Gimbel's until I watched, "Miracle On 34th Street."
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Indeed. Remember Montgomery Ward?
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: There was a blooper for Him bells on radio once.
	10:20pm Mr Fab: Mom used to tell me about how her mother, my grandmother, used to work at gimbals.
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Gimbels I meant
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm Austin Rich: I went to Montgomery Ward a few times before they were gone. During my life, I mostly knew "Montgomery Ward" in reference to someone saying, "Oh, you know the blah-blah-blah building? Used to be a Montgomery Ward."
	♥ 10:21pm WR: Yes, the movie was the first I heard of it too. Shows the power of TV, with the Macy's Parade being regularly broadcast. I grew up in Texas.
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: Was there a regional Texas Parade? There wasn't really any holiday parades anywhere in Oregon when i was growing up, so the Macy's one was it.
	♥ 10:23pm WR: Nope, no parade like that in Texas. Just football games.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Bogart appeared digitally in The Last Action Hero
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: We had lots of Football games, too. My dad LOVED Football, and so did my brothers.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: I forgot about that, Imaginos!
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Was your dad the type who could watch the Game while snoring with his eyes closed
	♥ 10:26pm WR: Have not heard Fred Allen, know of him but haven't heard him.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: Apparently, this is a good example of what Allen & Benny's vaudeville act was like. I'm not sure if there's recordings of their routines elsewhere, but this recording is mostly what I know Fred Allen from.
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: My Dad was the kind of guy who WOULD sleep through TV, but for football, he was sometimes a two TV guy, so he could pop into his bedroom, watch one game, then come out into the living room to watch the other one. And: even if he left the room, don't you dare change the channel! "Hey! I was watching that!" from the other room was something I heard often.
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Austin Rich: The supposed "feud" between Fred Allen and Jack Benny was largely for comedy purposes, but i'm sure the soldiers who would write into Command Performance were excited to have this reunion happen on a radio show FOR THEM.
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: "The Adventures of Nero Wolfe," was a show that ran from 1943–44 on ABC, starring Santos Ortega and Luis van Rooten, which ran for 39 episodes.
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: "The Amazing Nero Wolfe" was a 1945 series starring Francis X. Bushman, Elliott Lewis and Charles Victor, which lasted for 21 episodes, but only the series finale has survived into the modern era.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: "The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe," only lasted 26 episodes, but is my favorite version of the characters on radio. I may run the entire series on "Dimestore" someday... but for now, here's a taste.
	♥ 10:38pm WR: I'm now adding the Benny / Allen film "Love Thy Neighbor" to my want to see list.
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: (There were some 1980's versions of Nero Wolfe on Canadian radio, but I only know OF it.) Maybe we should have a movie club, WR. We can all meet up in the chat a discuss it afterwards!
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: While this is a running gag in all of the Nero Wolfe properties, Archie Goodwin cannot resist women, blondes in particular.
	♥ 10:48pm WR: Archie Goodwin character is pretty obnoxious.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Indeed. Archie certainly has his quirks
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: Yeah, Archie is sort of dim, single minded, and really focuses on the women that pop up in every case. He's sort of a "slightly nicer street informant" who has come into the employ of a real brain. You get a better sense of their mis-matched personas as the show goes on.
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: Since it won't make sense unless you already know: Nero Wolfe really only wants to drink beer and take care of his orchids. So when he makes reference to it later, you'll know he talks about been and flowers in every episode. Fritz in the kitchen! I forgot about that reference.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: It is interesting, that the Nero Wolfe stories were written in the 30s, when "He likes women," was enough of a personality to consider a character well rounded.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: Looks like we'll go a little over this week. Whoops! It's a Christmas Miracle?
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Another fun and fine show
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm Austin Rich: Thanks Imaginos! We have scary stories and weird songs tomorrow night, if you wanna join us again.
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I'd love to
	🎸 ♥ 11:03pm Austin Rich: There's an Algernon Blackwood story in the line-up.
	🎸 ♥ 11:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: See you tomorrow
	🎸 ♥ 11:04pm Austin Rich: Nighty Night!
	11:05pm Heather: I know we've got a bit more bonus but wanted to say thanks for a fun show!! Good night, all!
	🎸 ♥ 11:05pm Austin Rich: Thanks Heather!
	♥ 11:07pm WR: Thank you!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 19, 2022

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December 19, 2022: Holiday Film Fest!: "Miracle On 3th Street!" & "The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe"

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Lux Radio Theater	"Miracle on 34th Street"	20 December 1948	NBC	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
John Kirby and is Orchestra	Bounce Of The Sugar Plum Fairy			1:04:48 (Pop-up)
Biography Channel	Bogart & Bacall: Hollywood's Golden Age Part 4	Three Documentaries Edited Together.		1:11:46 (Pop-up)
Command Performance	"The Christmas Eve Show" Excerpt 3	24 December 1942	AFRS	1:23:46 (Pop-up)
The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe	"The Slaughtered Santas"	22 December 1950	CBS	1:29:55 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 6:18pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: Lux Presents Hollywood!
	9:02pm Charles: Ho ho ho! Santa brought you a little radio! You can listen to the movies on it!
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: Charles! Hopefully I spelled your name correctly on the stocking, hangin on the mantle.
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: Imaginos! Greetings and salutations! Hopefully I mixed the nog to your liking.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Mixed to perfection.
	9:05pm Charles: Is your christmas tree decorated in lava lamps?
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: Our other movies this month have "mentioned" Christmas, mostly at the end of each show. This story actually takes place from Thanksgiving to Christmas, making it a little more appropriate.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: I have those tiny Lava Lamps, instead of candles.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Did I just hear a sneaky cigarette reference?
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: I think you did.
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: Chandu, The Magician is one of our regular programs, and is sponsored by White King soap. "Lux" was a brand of soap, too, and the sponsor of this show we're listening to now. I'm fairly certain that Lux Interior of the Cramps was referencing that boxes of Lux warned people not to ingest the soap... which I guess was a problem?
	9:11pm Charles: Gimbles -- !
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: This presentation of "Miracle on 34th" really leans into the comedy, as evidenced by the audience laughter that you can hear throughout the show. While not uncommon, it underlines something that is easy to forget: these shows were presented in front of audiences, live, with actors at microphones, reading from scripts. It was a live show.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I'm working on two Max Headroom stories.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: I got the new chapter for the "Max / Nightmare" crossover.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: You mean the Black Butler crossover?
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: Oh, is that what it is? I'm not familiar with Black Butler. Looks like it's a manga? We might stock it at work.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: I've never seen Rogue's Regiment, but this little blurb made me curious. Vincent Price is the villain! I'll report back after I watch it, and let ya'll know if it's any good.
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Bryce is a grim reaper in the crossover.
	9:19pm Charles: Maybe he's only a little crazy :)
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: "A little crazy." It's like being "a little pregnant," right?
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: Poor Murray.
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Bryce's next scheduled reaping is Mink. But he doesn't want to do it.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: I wonder if this movie's subplot - that the psychiatrist is bad at his job - is a dig at psychiatry, which hadn't been around for very long, in 1948.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: Yeah, I wouldn't want to be a reaper to Mink, either.
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: The visual image of Santa imitating a monkey is not in the film, if memory serves... but makes for a good little gag for the radio.
	9:27pm Mr Fab: Funny that soap companies sponsored these shows. They’re not exactly what comes to mind when thinking of “soap operas.”
	🎸 ♥ 9:29pm Austin Rich: I do think that's the origin of the phrase, Mr. Fab. Most of the TV soaps started on radio... or at least, the concepts and the stars. There's some radio soaps that I've read about, but I've never listened to more than a few. Just not my bag. But they do sound pretty much like what modern soaps are like.
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Austin Rich: If my memory is correct, this "Macy & Gimble shaking hands" gag is not in the film, but again, works great for radio.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Austin Rich: While I do like this movie, I do have a few issues with it. The men are constantly meddling in the life of a single mother, and the men are convinced they know what's best for her.
	♥ 9:34pm WR: Hi
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you, WR!
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Hi
	9:35pm Mr Fab: Well “soap operas” got their name because they were targeted at housewives so allegedly the sponsors they got were mostly household cleaners and related things, e.g.: soap. So goes the old radio lore that I was told. Is there another explanation?
	♥ 9:35pm WR: Nothing more powerful than rich guy who wants to make his kid happy.
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Austin Rich: I think that's right, Mr. Fab. The shows were called "soaps" because all the sponsors were for soap.
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Of course soap ads were often questionable.
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Austin Rich: There's also a weird angle to this movie, where the men are trying to convince the daughter and mother that Santa is real.. and the mother is doing her best to teach her daughter to be sensible in life. Seems strange to build a movie around gaslighting these women.
	9:37pm Mr Fab: This was a big movie around my house when I was a kid cuz my mom grew up in this era NYC.
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Austin Rich: My family never watched it when I was a kid, but I've come to love it since I got married, and we watch a lot of old movies together.
	🎸 ♥ 9:40pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Old movies can be very interesting and fun
	9:41pm Mr Fab: Honestly I’d kinda forgotten about it. It was a tv rerun staple for a while there, but might have been shoved aside by all the other Xmas show reruns. (Like last week’s show for example)
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: There's so many old movies I've never seen, and there's almost always some detail or nuance to the movie that makes me have to do a little research, and then I learn something at the same time. I guess watching old movies reminds me of flipping around the dial when I was younger. There were just a lot more old movies on TV back then, and you'd catch parts of movies all the time. These days, you don't see hardly anything Black and White casually on TV.
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: There's a lot of little scenes in this version of the story that are not in the film... again, to push the "comedy" angle more, which works really well in front of audiences.
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My favorite old movies are The Dead of Night The Ghost and Mrs Muir Death Takes a Holiday Torture Garden
	♥ 9:46pm WR: Last week you played a radio presentation of It's a Wonderful Life. Was it a regular thing to have movies contemporaneously made into radio versions.
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: Wow! I think i haven't seen any of those, Imaginos! Movie marathon time!
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: WR: Short version: Yes!
	♥ 9:47pm WR: And this seems to have a live audience.
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: This show, and a few others, would do radio adaptations of popular movies, often trying to get the original cast, but sometimes, casting other Hollywood folks in the other roles.
	9:48pm Mr Fab: Austin @ 9:43 - Exactly! I often think of that, of how much of an education we got just goofin off after-school flipping the dial. I have to make an effort to show old stuff to my daughter. She’s never gonna just stumble across em on her own the way we used to.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm Austin Rich: Lux Radio Theater was VERY popular, and ran for decades. Having the audience present when they recorded really helped sell the idea that it was a show version, ideal for radio.
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: We don't really have a way to "flip" channels at our house anymore, but when I used to visit my family, and would flip channels on their TVs, I was always disappointed. The "range" of stuff you stumble on is ironically not as wide, even with more channels and more "content."
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm Austin Rich: This story beat - with the mail-carriers getting the idea to dump their old mail - is much more funny in this version, and much less of an upbeat dramatic moment, like it is in the movie.
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: A trial on Christmas Eve? Wouldn't they wait until the Monday after, in a real court?
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Austin Rich: You sort of realize why "Macy's" is still such a big deal every holiday, even in 2022. If they were a big deal THEN, and they had an annual parade THEN, and they STILL do every year... I guess that's a big deal.
	♥ 10:03pm WR: So far Macy's has survived the overturning of big box stores. I've not kept up with the health of the corporation, but as you say, they continue to sponsor the Thanksgiving parade.
	🎸 ♥ 10:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Macy's is more than just a store.
	10:05pm Heather: You caught me! Lurking away, hi everyone!!
	10:10pm Mr Fab: Wiki sez: “founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy… As of 2015, Macy's was the largest U.S. department store company by retail sales.” 1858?! OMG they were practically NINETY years old when they made this.
	♥ 10:17pm WR: Gimbel's was founded in 1840. They opened in NYC in 1910. Their NYC flagship store is now Manhattan Mall, just a block from the flagship Macy's store. And Gimbels was first with a Thanksgiving parade, in Philadelphia. Ain't Wikipedia wonderful.
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: I had never heard of Gimbel's until I watched, "Miracle On 34th Street."
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Indeed. Remember Montgomery Ward?
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: There was a blooper for Him bells on radio once.
	10:20pm Mr Fab: Mom used to tell me about how her mother, my grandmother, used to work at gimbals.
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Gimbels I meant
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm Austin Rich: I went to Montgomery Ward a few times before they were gone. During my life, I mostly knew "Montgomery Ward" in reference to someone saying, "Oh, you know the blah-blah-blah building? Used to be a Montgomery Ward."
	♥ 10:21pm WR: Yes, the movie was the first I heard of it too. Shows the power of TV, with the Macy's Parade being regularly broadcast. I grew up in Texas.
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: Was there a regional Texas Parade? There wasn't really any holiday parades anywhere in Oregon when i was growing up, so the Macy's one was it.
	♥ 10:23pm WR: Nope, no parade like that in Texas. Just football games.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Bogart appeared digitally in The Last Action Hero
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: We had lots of Football games, too. My dad LOVED Football, and so did my brothers.
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: I forgot about that, Imaginos!
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Was your dad the type who could watch the Game while snoring with his eyes closed
	♥ 10:26pm WR: Have not heard Fred Allen, know of him but haven't heard him.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: Apparently, this is a good example of what Allen & Benny's vaudeville act was like. I'm not sure if there's recordings of their routines elsewhere, but this recording is mostly what I know Fred Allen from.
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: My Dad was the kind of guy who WOULD sleep through TV, but for football, he was sometimes a two TV guy, so he could pop into his bedroom, watch one game, then come out into the living room to watch the other one. And: even if he left the room, don't you dare change the channel! "Hey! I was watching that!" from the other room was something I heard often.
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Austin Rich: The supposed "feud" between Fred Allen and Jack Benny was largely for comedy purposes, but i'm sure the soldiers who would write into Command Performance were excited to have this reunion happen on a radio show FOR THEM.
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: "The Adventures of Nero Wolfe," was a show that ran from 1943–44 on ABC, starring Santos Ortega and Luis van Rooten, which ran for 39 episodes.
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: "The Amazing Nero Wolfe" was a 1945 series starring Francis X. Bushman, Elliott Lewis and Charles Victor, which lasted for 21 episodes, but only the series finale has survived into the modern era.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: "The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe," only lasted 26 episodes, but is my favorite version of the characters on radio. I may run the entire series on "Dimestore" someday... but for now, here's a taste.
	♥ 10:38pm WR: I'm now adding the Benny / Allen film "Love Thy Neighbor" to my want to see list.
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: (There were some 1980's versions of Nero Wolfe on Canadian radio, but I only know OF it.) Maybe we should have a movie club, WR. We can all meet up in the chat a discuss it afterwards!
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: While this is a running gag in all of the Nero Wolfe properties, Archie Goodwin cannot resist women, blondes in particular.
	♥ 10:48pm WR: Archie Goodwin character is pretty obnoxious.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Indeed. Archie certainly has his quirks
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: Yeah, Archie is sort of dim, single minded, and really focuses on the women that pop up in every case. He's sort of a "slightly nicer street informant" who has come into the employ of a real brain. You get a better sense of their mis-matched personas as the show goes on.
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: Since it won't make sense unless you already know: Nero Wolfe really only wants to drink beer and take care of his orchids. So when he makes reference to it later, you'll know he talks about been and flowers in every episode. Fritz in the kitchen! I forgot about that reference.
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: It is interesting, that the Nero Wolfe stories were written in the 30s, when "He likes women," was enough of a personality to consider a character well rounded.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: Looks like we'll go a little over this week. Whoops! It's a Christmas Miracle?
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Another fun and fine show
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm Austin Rich: Thanks Imaginos! We have scary stories and weird songs tomorrow night, if you wanna join us again.
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I'd love to
	🎸 ♥ 11:03pm Austin Rich: There's an Algernon Blackwood story in the line-up.
	🎸 ♥ 11:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: See you tomorrow
	🎸 ♥ 11:04pm Austin Rich: Nighty Night!
	11:05pm Heather: I know we've got a bit more bonus but wanted to say thanks for a fun show!! Good night, all!
	🎸 ♥ 11:05pm Austin Rich: Thanks Heather!
	♥ 11:07pm WR: Thank you!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from December 19, 2022

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