WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from February 3, 2025

Listener comments!
	👻 7:31pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	👻 8:45pm ChristinaInCanada: Hello Austin! And fellow OTR enthusiasts!
	8:46pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	9:00pm Arvo: Howdy
	9:00pm asheville jon: Meanwhile....... Yep, gonna be lurking, as usual
	9:01pm Charles: Meanwhile,
	👻 9:01pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: Look at that! We have a full Digital Salon already! ChristianInCanada, Imaginos, Arvo, asheville jon, Charles, and yerfriendpaul! This is a great way to start the show. Everyone, sit down, and stay a spell. Should I make some Tea?
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: Ouch! These two are clearly not the best examples of humanity.
	9:04pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "The Stolen Purse" by "Richard Diamond, Private In... City low life accents...
	👻 9:05pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 I have some brandy, and will be mulling wine with a nice British Columbia red varietal. No tea for me thanks.
	9:05pm Webhamster Henry: "lowbrow goniff"
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:04 There's often a lot of old New York accents on old time radio, in a way that is sort of delightful... and anachronistic.
	👻 9:05pm ChristinaInCanada: I <3 the dialogue. Apparently in 1949 Irish brogue officers had not disappeared.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:05 I do like a nice bit of brandy, now and then. Make that two!
	👻 9:06pm ChristinaInCanada: Obsoive
	9:06pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 CBS radio mysteriously theatre has way too many "Irish cops"
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:05 A lot of the dialog and voices remind me of Damon Runyon short stories.
	👻 9:07pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 Of course, pass me your snifter.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:06 Movies and TV have too many of them, too. Media would make you think that every person of Irish descent became a cop.
	👻 9:07pm yerfriendpaul: Is that the voice of granny from Beverly Hillbillies?
	9:08pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 With 8 kids, 1 a cop, 1 a priest, 1 a nun #stereotypes
	👻 9:08pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 Damon Runyon is teetering at the edge of my 2025 Reading List.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:07 Good question! It does sound a little like Irene Ryan! Let's check the credits...
	9:09pm Webhamster Henry: For once, someone else gets knocked out before the detective.
	👻 9:09pm yerfriendpaul: I imagine that’s what she’d sound like without the hillbilly accent
	👻 9:09pm ChristinaInCanada: I saw Jane Morgan, but I think it's the 1880-1949 Jane Morgan, not the current centenarian who sings/sang
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:08 I'll be running The Damon Runyon Theater on this show eventually, but they are a little different. I've only ready a couple, but I hear that they are all pretty delightful. I watched Guys and Dolls not long ago, and that is also great, but in a different way.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:09 Every once in a while Richard gets in a good belt.
	9:12pm Webhamster Henry: "I just love the way you talk" -- just wait'll the end of the program, you can hear him sing!
	👻 9:13pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Austin Rich @9:10 I've seen "Lady for a Day" (1933) and some Lucille Ball movie, that's my Damon Runyon exposure. "Guys and Dolls" is already tabled in my 2025 viewing
	9:14pm laurapanic: here, just working away to the comforting sounds of olde timey radio
	👻 9:14pm ChristinaInCanada: "punchboard out of his chest" -- a million of 'em, baby, a million of 'em!
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: I need to see "Lady For A Day." I didn't realize the pedigree...
	9:14pm wenzo: 👋
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:14 laurapanic! Thanks for droppin' in on the Digital Salon! And wenzo, too! It's a full house tonight!
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: This is the song that Francis was singing: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: It's a song about the ghost of Anne Boleyn. Francis was carrying a purse under his arm... sort of like the head in the song...
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: "She was drinking Gin. Cheap gin." "Glenda!" And that alone was description enough to identify her.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: As a very young man, I used to date a girl who drank a LOT of gin. It was her favorite. When I have a nice gin, I think of Colleen.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: There's a lot of comedy in this show, but it gets pretty grim at times, too, and there's often a body count. And then he ends each show with a song! It's an interesting blend of writing that you don't find in a lot of shows.
	9:24pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 Gin is as popular as it is because you can't get a bottle of Janx Spirit on this planet
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: I've said this about Richard before, but he shoots at women, ties them up, ditches his girlfriend all the time, and is pretty unreliable in a number of ways. But he has a way with getting to the bottom of cases with minimal injuries, which seems to be his primary skills. Personally, I think Helen should get a new boyfriend.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:24 Very true! The import prices are just too much.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: "Here's a corny line: STOP, or I'll Shoot!"
	👻 9:29pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 I agree! She got beat up and he showed zero concern
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: He's also sort of a jerk to his girlfriend's neighbor. #RedFlag
	9:31pm Arvo: Written by Blake Edwards!
	👻 9:32pm ChristinaInCanada: My household will enjoy this tale with some chili and beer bread.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:31 That's right! Don't we know a Blake Edwards?
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:32 Chili! That sounds delightful.
	9:33pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 It's the same Blake Edwards who was married to Julie Andrews, behind many a movie comedy!
	9:33pm Imaginos: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:32 Beer bread sounds delicious
	9:35pm Imaginos: Doesn't a minarets staircase go around it?
	9:35pm Arvo: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:33 I remember Blake Edwards from Peter Gunn, but only now did I know that he wrote The Pink Panther!
	9:35pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Imaginos @9:35 Usually!
	9:36pm Imaginos: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:35 So the victim went around and around on the way down and didn't get stopped by the curves?
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Desert Betrayal" by "The Adventures of Rocky Jordan" In spite of all the weird things about Rocky Jordan that are kind of odd - white actors doing the voices, and the music is made by Americans, too. But the show does a lot to actually give Americans a taste of life and culture from another part of the world, and while some of the characters are stereotypes, the larger picture of this part of the world does contain truth. One of the pieces of trivia about this show is that they would use an Army Guidebook to Cairo to help offer a little more "color" to the details in the show.
	9:39pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 I have been told there is no relation, if I recall correctly.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:39 Probably not. But it is a funny coincidence.
	9:44pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 I used to drink a lot of gin. Gin martinis even. That was after I drank a lot of vodka, but got tired of the vodka. I used to get "industry discount" at the nearby retro vintage bar. Still crave a gin and tonic every once in a while, but those days are long gone.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: Ahhh! We've got a "Cheap Gin" connection between our opening shows tonight. A nice theme.
	👻 9:45pm ChristinaInCanada: Cheap gin should be a sponsored product tonight.
	9:45pm Arvo: I might get into Brandy some day, but not today.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:44 A good Gin is actually quite tasty. But the cheap stuff is not good for me. I always think of "Milk and Cheese," as they has some comic about how their hate was fueled by Gin. Their slogan was: "Gin. It Makes a Man Mean."
	9:46pm Arvo: Someone drinks brandy in just about every episode of Dark Shadows, by the way. I found it funny that Brandy came up today.
	👻 9:46pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 "Everyone Booze Up & Riot!"
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:46 I miss those Milk & Cheese comics. They were the best!
	👻 9:47pm ChristinaInCanada: Happy memories of reading Milk & Cheese with my husband on our honeymoon. But back to the action.
	👻 9:48pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 I have some, plus a hardcover anthology.
	9:49pm Arvo: Seagram's and Tanqueray mostly. I would have extra lime, sometimes lime juice. I have no idea about those comics, so I will stand down.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:48 Oh, that's cool! I probably have a couple old issues somewhere here in the Lava Lamp Lounge. I bet a collection like that would make a nice weekend read.
	9:51pm Arvo: "Gimlet-eyed"
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: I just bought two massive Jack Kirby collections, which I have already bought once before, but this set is much nicer. I have too many comic books. I'm pretty okay with that, for now.
	9:51pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:47 Evan Dorkin (M & C cartoonist) was (is) a WFMU fan!
	👻 9:52pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:51 Ooh! Evan Dorkin has good taste. He's a Preston Sturges fan. Evan has given my family weeks of merriment.
	9:53pm Arvo: There was a funny Onion article about someone claiming that their comic book collection is their retirement plan. I still have several hundred comic books in storage from when I was a kid. Mostly Punisher, Wolverine, and Batman.
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:51 I think he worked on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, back in the day. At least, his name turned up in the credits every now and then.
	👻 9:54pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 I have a vivid memory of a substance-enhanced fellow bus passenger opening a conversation with me, on the basis of me reading a M & C comic. When he deboarded, the nearby passengers took up the conversation. That NEVER happens with other comic books.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:53 I wish my comics were worth anything. I mean, they are to me. But I don't think there's anything close to a "fund" in there. I could probably pay my rent for a month or two if I got top-dollar for everything.
	👻 9:55pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Arvo @9:53 I have autographed _The Watchmen_ and _The Crow_, but they were my late husband's property, therefore mine now.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:54 Ha! That's a great story! That's almost a perfect short comic story on it's own!
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:55 I used to have that Crow comic. I was sad that I couldn't find it the last time I was digging around in my comics. It doesn't mean it's gone, just means I can't find it NOW. (But it might be gone. I've lost almost as much as I have, that's for sure.)
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: Sam saves the day! That was a bit of a turn...
	9:58pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:54 I have a bunch of Deadline magazines, M&C was one of the comics serialized in there, next to the original Tank Girl and Judge Dredds and many more. I live across the street from a comics store.
	👻 9:59pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:58 Cool!
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:58 Oh, those Deadline's were great! I've been trying to get old 2000 AD books these days, to fill my UK fix.
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: Sam leaving Rocky tied up. Someone's slash fiction is going to go wild after that scene....
	👻 10:00pm Heather Z: My houseguest and I are tuned in and enjoying the show here in Rochester!
	10:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:58 The only bragging rights I have comic book wise is a copy of Imaginos episode 1
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:00 Nice to see you both in the digital salon!
	👻 10:03pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:01 No gin and comic books for us but we do have good radio and that's what we need!
	👻 10:04pm yerfriendpaul: Aww, shucks! Ha ha
	👻 10:05pm ChristinaInCanada: My kid is lurking but his name is Charles so he feels represented in the shout-outs, thank you Austin.
	👻 10:06pm ChristinaInCanada: random names: Lucky, Lefty, Vito, Officer O'Bannon, Rocco, Vic, Johnny, Lola...
	10:07pm Imaginos: ↳ Imaginos @10:01 www.reddit.com...
	10:09pm Arvo: My favorite drink was Bulleit with fresh squeezed pineapple juice and a splash of grenadine. But I would often settle for Jim Beam and orange juice. People said the grenadine made it girly. Those people are probably living in a van down by the river by now.
	10:10pm Arvo: I think people who do TV get paid much less, still, but otherwise I might agree.
	10:11pm Imaginos: Well the character
	10:12pm Arvo: There are people who still make a living doing radio play sound design. FM Einheit from Einsturzende Neubauten apparently does radio as his main thing now. Outside of the USA, comic books and radio are much more respected, as I understand it.
	10:12pm wenzo: Speaking of radio having been substitute work, I’ve been going to movies at a couple theaters here in the motor city run by theatre organ societies and it’s been mentioned several times that a lot of out of work theatre organists ended up going into radio
	10:12pm Imaginos: I promise, I personally have never launched anybody into space
	👻 10:12pm Heather Z: My houseguest is hooked so mission accomplished!!
	10:13pm Webhamster Henry: Norman Rose was all over the CMS Mystery Theatre!
	👻 10:14pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Heather Z @10:12 My kid is keen on Rocky Jordan and The Blue Beetle. I'm happy he's an enthusiastic listener of "Theatre of the Mind"
	10:15pm Arvo: I love the story about how the main actor from The Shadow apparently left an imprint, and people often saw a shadow character in the window of the studio from outside. I wonder if there are any other radio-related ghost stories?
	10:16pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy. And definitely don't want any pogram. Programs are good, of course.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:14 That's awesome! The stories hold up, if you can give them a chance.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:16 Of course! Well, sleep well, and hopefully we'll see you for a bit tomorrow!
	10:16pm Arvo: I will stop talking about booze if there are kids around!
	10:16pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:16 Indeed
	👻 10:17pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Arvo @10:15 ooh! That's new to me. I know the Shadow started as an announcer for a radio show, and has a legacy of comic books, pulp novels, serial movies...
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:16 I was trying to remember how old I was when I realized what was inside the little barrel that the snow dogs carried under their necks. I would see that barrel and dog in so many cartoons... but how old was I when I knew what that was supposed to be?
	👻 10:18pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Arvo @10:16 No problem here. When I mentioned "Milk and Cheese" to my kid he said "The Cheap Gin comment prompted it, I know it"
	10:21pm Arvo: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:17 I remember trying to find more info on that ghost story about The Shadow. I never found anything that definitely proved itself to be sourced from anything other than the same place that I read it, which was some John Keel book. I don't really trust John Keel in matters of accuracy, but I want to believe the story... John Keel was mainly known for writing about The Mothman sightings, which I believe did happen to some extent.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: The Blue Beetle seems to have met Mr. Exposition.
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: "The Blue Beetle carries master keys to all locks." Blue Beetle has a side career breaking and entering.
	10:33pm Arvo: Incidentally, a lot of organists got work at pizza places in the 70s. Apparently there was a demand for organ music during the little pizza parties at certain places.
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:33 I went to at least one pizza party with an organ player. And there was usually one at the skating rink when I was a kid. But I don't think I've seen an organ player in a job like that in 30 years. (I did see an organist play along with some silent movies in 2018, which was EXCELLENT.)
	👻 10:35pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Tunnel Under The World"" by "X-Minus One" archive.org...
	👻 10:36pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Tunnel Under The World"" by "X-Minus One" It inspired a cheap Italian film: imdb.com...
	👻 10:37pm David Shortell: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:13 Sinatra and Brando didn’t get along, I hear.
	10:37pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:35 I have seen many live organ accompaniments, but never at a skating rink or pizza place.
	👻 10:38pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 There’s a lot of truth to that. My paternal New York relatives, for example. I can’t find the exact quote, but I recall John Lydon commenting in his book: How clever of these so-called-dum potato farmers. Why join the Mafia when you can become the police?
	10:38pm Arvo: For a few years, all of my dreams would end with me being hit in the head with a brick.
	👻 10:38pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Arvo @10:33 www.pstos.org...
	👻 10:39pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Arvo @10:38 That's Krazy, Arvo
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: We've heard this story on the show before, but this is a different production of that story, with Norman Rose doing the narration. X-Minus One would occasionally have re-runs as part of the "official run" of shows. However, there were gaps in the broadcasting schedule occasionally, and local stations would often re-run shows that were fan favorites. It became very common for local stations to horde old X-Minus One episodes, to use as fill-in material when there wasn't a new episode. This would become relevant later in the run of the series...
	👻 10:39pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 Listen to Evan Dorkin’s WFMU appearance. He knows a lot about old radio dramas. wfmu.org...
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:39 But who is Arvo's Ignatz?
	10:41pm Arvo: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:38 Groovy!
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:38 But of course! They're not much different...
	👻 10:41pm David Shortell: ↳ Arvo @9:53 Mark Millar’s “Kick Ass” had an amusing twist that wasn’t used in the movie. It turned out that Big Daddy was an accountant who financed his vigilante career with his comic book collection!
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:39 I should have known he has been on the mothership. I'll have to listen...
	10:42pm Arvo: Nice!
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:41 I want to like more of Mark Millar's stuff, but there's something about his comics that don't quite work for me. I think the problem is with me; he's fairly popular.
	👻 10:44pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ David Shortell @10:37 Marlon wasn't everybody's cup of tea, I have read, or not everyone was Marlon's cup of milk punch...
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: She's really laying it on thick. If this is how the cigarette girls treated me, I'd probably still smoke today.
	👻 10:46pm David Shortell: ↳ Arvo @9:35 That’s shocking. I’m one of those who prefers “The Pink Panther” sequel “A Shot in the Dark”. It bears little resemblance to the subtle Broadway play starring William Shatner. Blake transformed it into a showcase for Sellers’ Clouseau.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:46 The Pink Panther is one of those series where the first movie bears little resemblance to what those movies became.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:46 It's sort of like the Friday The 13th Series of movies. The first one is not much like what the series became with Jason as the lead, later.
	👻 10:49pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:48 Most of those sequels didn't even concern the Pink Panther Diamond.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: I feel like I wake up screaming all the time. Every day it's the same old thing...
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:49 The Thin Man movies have that problem. The Thin Man was the person who the case was about in the first movie. So "The Thin Man" name sticks with all the films, but there's no titular "Thin Man" in any other film.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: We'll go about four minutes over tonight. Sorry, everyone!
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone, for hanging out with me tonight! It's always fun to listen to old radio shows...
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: The evil paranoid plot ruining your life? Advertising! Thank you, Frederick Pohl!
	👻 10:57pm ChristinaInCanada: This sounds spookily prescient...
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:57 I do like listening to radio from 70 years ago and it's still relevant, now.
	👻 10:58pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:58 In a Barnes & Noble a few days ago, I noticed a shelf full of Sandman books. How are they going to get rid of those now? Come to think of it, how did they get rid of all their Dilbert books?
	10:58pm Arvo: I watched Groundhog Day yesterday.
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:58 Yeah, I was thinking about the "repeating day" coincidence. I should watch Groundhog Day again. That movie's great.
	11:01pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:59 I would also recommend the first season of "Russian Doll" for repeat day motifs. Not second season though. Big no on second season.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:58 Dilbert still has a fanbase, even if it's very small, now. Sandman still sells, but not as well as it used to. Certainly not enough to warrant having a full shelf anymore. I think the average B&N shopper might not follow news stories like that.
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @11:01 I've heard that from others, too. Hmmmmm...
	11:02pm Arvo: I am filling out the census survey online. Good night, see you virtually tomorrow!
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: "None of them knew! None of them knew! (That they were robots!)"
	👻 11:04pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Austin Rich @10:58 Thanks for the fun, Austin and everyone!
	👻 11:04pm ChristinaInCanada: BC'ing you...
	👻 11:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @11:04 You're welcome.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from February 3, 2025

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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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February 3, 2025: Episode #118

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Richard Diamond, Private Investigator	The Stolen Purse	22 May 1949	NBC	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Adventures of Rocky Jordan	Desert Betrayal	29 Mar 1949	Santana Productions	0:31:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Richard Maltby	Theme From ' Man With The Golden Arm '			1:01:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
GetTV	Music, Radio & Film: The Ambitious Life of Dick Powell, Part 2	Music, Radio & Film: The Ambitious Life of Dick Powell	GetTV	1:15:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Blue Beetle	"The Dancing Ghosts of Rocky Hilly Pt. 1"	21 August 1940	Mutual–Don Lee Network	1:21:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"Tunnel Under The World"	04 September 1956	NBC Radio	1:35:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:31pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	👻 8:45pm ChristinaInCanada: Hello Austin! And fellow OTR enthusiasts!
	8:46pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	9:00pm Arvo: Howdy
	9:00pm asheville jon: Meanwhile....... Yep, gonna be lurking, as usual
	9:01pm Charles: Meanwhile,
	👻 9:01pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: Look at that! We have a full Digital Salon already! ChristianInCanada, Imaginos, Arvo, asheville jon, Charles, and yerfriendpaul! This is a great way to start the show. Everyone, sit down, and stay a spell. Should I make some Tea?
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: Ouch! These two are clearly not the best examples of humanity.
	9:04pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "The Stolen Purse" by "Richard Diamond, Private In... City low life accents...
	👻 9:05pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 I have some brandy, and will be mulling wine with a nice British Columbia red varietal. No tea for me thanks.
	9:05pm Webhamster Henry: "lowbrow goniff"
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:04 There's often a lot of old New York accents on old time radio, in a way that is sort of delightful... and anachronistic.
	👻 9:05pm ChristinaInCanada: I <3 the dialogue. Apparently in 1949 Irish brogue officers had not disappeared.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:05 I do like a nice bit of brandy, now and then. Make that two!
	👻 9:06pm ChristinaInCanada: Obsoive
	9:06pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 CBS radio mysteriously theatre has way too many "Irish cops"
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:05 A lot of the dialog and voices remind me of Damon Runyon short stories.
	👻 9:07pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 Of course, pass me your snifter.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:06 Movies and TV have too many of them, too. Media would make you think that every person of Irish descent became a cop.
	👻 9:07pm yerfriendpaul: Is that the voice of granny from Beverly Hillbillies?
	9:08pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 With 8 kids, 1 a cop, 1 a priest, 1 a nun #stereotypes
	👻 9:08pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 Damon Runyon is teetering at the edge of my 2025 Reading List.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:07 Good question! It does sound a little like Irene Ryan! Let's check the credits...
	9:09pm Webhamster Henry: For once, someone else gets knocked out before the detective.
	👻 9:09pm yerfriendpaul: I imagine that’s what she’d sound like without the hillbilly accent
	👻 9:09pm ChristinaInCanada: I saw Jane Morgan, but I think it's the 1880-1949 Jane Morgan, not the current centenarian who sings/sang
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:08 I'll be running The Damon Runyon Theater on this show eventually, but they are a little different. I've only ready a couple, but I hear that they are all pretty delightful. I watched Guys and Dolls not long ago, and that is also great, but in a different way.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:09 Every once in a while Richard gets in a good belt.
	9:12pm Webhamster Henry: "I just love the way you talk" -- just wait'll the end of the program, you can hear him sing!
	👻 9:13pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Austin Rich @9:10 I've seen "Lady for a Day" (1933) and some Lucille Ball movie, that's my Damon Runyon exposure. "Guys and Dolls" is already tabled in my 2025 viewing
	9:14pm laurapanic: here, just working away to the comforting sounds of olde timey radio
	👻 9:14pm ChristinaInCanada: "punchboard out of his chest" -- a million of 'em, baby, a million of 'em!
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: I need to see "Lady For A Day." I didn't realize the pedigree...
	9:14pm wenzo: 👋
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:14 laurapanic! Thanks for droppin' in on the Digital Salon! And wenzo, too! It's a full house tonight!
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: This is the song that Francis was singing: en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: It's a song about the ghost of Anne Boleyn. Francis was carrying a purse under his arm... sort of like the head in the song...
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: "She was drinking Gin. Cheap gin." "Glenda!" And that alone was description enough to identify her.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: As a very young man, I used to date a girl who drank a LOT of gin. It was her favorite. When I have a nice gin, I think of Colleen.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: There's a lot of comedy in this show, but it gets pretty grim at times, too, and there's often a body count. And then he ends each show with a song! It's an interesting blend of writing that you don't find in a lot of shows.
	9:24pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 Gin is as popular as it is because you can't get a bottle of Janx Spirit on this planet
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: I've said this about Richard before, but he shoots at women, ties them up, ditches his girlfriend all the time, and is pretty unreliable in a number of ways. But he has a way with getting to the bottom of cases with minimal injuries, which seems to be his primary skills. Personally, I think Helen should get a new boyfriend.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:24 Very true! The import prices are just too much.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: "Here's a corny line: STOP, or I'll Shoot!"
	👻 9:29pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 I agree! She got beat up and he showed zero concern
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: He's also sort of a jerk to his girlfriend's neighbor. #RedFlag
	9:31pm Arvo: Written by Blake Edwards!
	👻 9:32pm ChristinaInCanada: My household will enjoy this tale with some chili and beer bread.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:31 That's right! Don't we know a Blake Edwards?
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:32 Chili! That sounds delightful.
	9:33pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 It's the same Blake Edwards who was married to Julie Andrews, behind many a movie comedy!
	9:33pm Imaginos: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:32 Beer bread sounds delicious
	9:35pm Imaginos: Doesn't a minarets staircase go around it?
	9:35pm Arvo: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:33 I remember Blake Edwards from Peter Gunn, but only now did I know that he wrote The Pink Panther!
	9:35pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Imaginos @9:35 Usually!
	9:36pm Imaginos: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:35 So the victim went around and around on the way down and didn't get stopped by the curves?
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Desert Betrayal" by "The Adventures of Rocky Jordan" In spite of all the weird things about Rocky Jordan that are kind of odd - white actors doing the voices, and the music is made by Americans, too. But the show does a lot to actually give Americans a taste of life and culture from another part of the world, and while some of the characters are stereotypes, the larger picture of this part of the world does contain truth. One of the pieces of trivia about this show is that they would use an Army Guidebook to Cairo to help offer a little more "color" to the details in the show.
	9:39pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 I have been told there is no relation, if I recall correctly.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:39 Probably not. But it is a funny coincidence.
	9:44pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 I used to drink a lot of gin. Gin martinis even. That was after I drank a lot of vodka, but got tired of the vodka. I used to get "industry discount" at the nearby retro vintage bar. Still crave a gin and tonic every once in a while, but those days are long gone.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: Ahhh! We've got a "Cheap Gin" connection between our opening shows tonight. A nice theme.
	👻 9:45pm ChristinaInCanada: Cheap gin should be a sponsored product tonight.
	9:45pm Arvo: I might get into Brandy some day, but not today.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:44 A good Gin is actually quite tasty. But the cheap stuff is not good for me. I always think of "Milk and Cheese," as they has some comic about how their hate was fueled by Gin. Their slogan was: "Gin. It Makes a Man Mean."
	9:46pm Arvo: Someone drinks brandy in just about every episode of Dark Shadows, by the way. I found it funny that Brandy came up today.
	👻 9:46pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 "Everyone Booze Up & Riot!"
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:46 I miss those Milk & Cheese comics. They were the best!
	👻 9:47pm ChristinaInCanada: Happy memories of reading Milk & Cheese with my husband on our honeymoon. But back to the action.
	👻 9:48pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 I have some, plus a hardcover anthology.
	9:49pm Arvo: Seagram's and Tanqueray mostly. I would have extra lime, sometimes lime juice. I have no idea about those comics, so I will stand down.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:48 Oh, that's cool! I probably have a couple old issues somewhere here in the Lava Lamp Lounge. I bet a collection like that would make a nice weekend read.
	9:51pm Arvo: "Gimlet-eyed"
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: I just bought two massive Jack Kirby collections, which I have already bought once before, but this set is much nicer. I have too many comic books. I'm pretty okay with that, for now.
	9:51pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:47 Evan Dorkin (M & C cartoonist) was (is) a WFMU fan!
	👻 9:52pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:51 Ooh! Evan Dorkin has good taste. He's a Preston Sturges fan. Evan has given my family weeks of merriment.
	9:53pm Arvo: There was a funny Onion article about someone claiming that their comic book collection is their retirement plan. I still have several hundred comic books in storage from when I was a kid. Mostly Punisher, Wolverine, and Batman.
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:51 I think he worked on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, back in the day. At least, his name turned up in the credits every now and then.
	👻 9:54pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 I have a vivid memory of a substance-enhanced fellow bus passenger opening a conversation with me, on the basis of me reading a M & C comic. When he deboarded, the nearby passengers took up the conversation. That NEVER happens with other comic books.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:53 I wish my comics were worth anything. I mean, they are to me. But I don't think there's anything close to a "fund" in there. I could probably pay my rent for a month or two if I got top-dollar for everything.
	👻 9:55pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Arvo @9:53 I have autographed _The Watchmen_ and _The Crow_, but they were my late husband's property, therefore mine now.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:54 Ha! That's a great story! That's almost a perfect short comic story on it's own!
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:55 I used to have that Crow comic. I was sad that I couldn't find it the last time I was digging around in my comics. It doesn't mean it's gone, just means I can't find it NOW. (But it might be gone. I've lost almost as much as I have, that's for sure.)
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: Sam saves the day! That was a bit of a turn...
	9:58pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:54 I have a bunch of Deadline magazines, M&C was one of the comics serialized in there, next to the original Tank Girl and Judge Dredds and many more. I live across the street from a comics store.
	👻 9:59pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:58 Cool!
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:58 Oh, those Deadline's were great! I've been trying to get old 2000 AD books these days, to fill my UK fix.
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: Sam leaving Rocky tied up. Someone's slash fiction is going to go wild after that scene....
	👻 10:00pm Heather Z: My houseguest and I are tuned in and enjoying the show here in Rochester!
	10:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:58 The only bragging rights I have comic book wise is a copy of Imaginos episode 1
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:00 Nice to see you both in the digital salon!
	👻 10:03pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:01 No gin and comic books for us but we do have good radio and that's what we need!
	👻 10:04pm yerfriendpaul: Aww, shucks! Ha ha
	👻 10:05pm ChristinaInCanada: My kid is lurking but his name is Charles so he feels represented in the shout-outs, thank you Austin.
	👻 10:06pm ChristinaInCanada: random names: Lucky, Lefty, Vito, Officer O'Bannon, Rocco, Vic, Johnny, Lola...
	10:07pm Imaginos: ↳ Imaginos @10:01 www.reddit.com...
	10:09pm Arvo: My favorite drink was Bulleit with fresh squeezed pineapple juice and a splash of grenadine. But I would often settle for Jim Beam and orange juice. People said the grenadine made it girly. Those people are probably living in a van down by the river by now.
	10:10pm Arvo: I think people who do TV get paid much less, still, but otherwise I might agree.
	10:11pm Imaginos: Well the character
	10:12pm Arvo: There are people who still make a living doing radio play sound design. FM Einheit from Einsturzende Neubauten apparently does radio as his main thing now. Outside of the USA, comic books and radio are much more respected, as I understand it.
	10:12pm wenzo: Speaking of radio having been substitute work, I’ve been going to movies at a couple theaters here in the motor city run by theatre organ societies and it’s been mentioned several times that a lot of out of work theatre organists ended up going into radio
	10:12pm Imaginos: I promise, I personally have never launched anybody into space
	👻 10:12pm Heather Z: My houseguest is hooked so mission accomplished!!
	10:13pm Webhamster Henry: Norman Rose was all over the CMS Mystery Theatre!
	👻 10:14pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Heather Z @10:12 My kid is keen on Rocky Jordan and The Blue Beetle. I'm happy he's an enthusiastic listener of "Theatre of the Mind"
	10:15pm Arvo: I love the story about how the main actor from The Shadow apparently left an imprint, and people often saw a shadow character in the window of the studio from outside. I wonder if there are any other radio-related ghost stories?
	10:16pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy. And definitely don't want any pogram. Programs are good, of course.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:14 That's awesome! The stories hold up, if you can give them a chance.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:16 Of course! Well, sleep well, and hopefully we'll see you for a bit tomorrow!
	10:16pm Arvo: I will stop talking about booze if there are kids around!
	10:16pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:16 Indeed
	👻 10:17pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Arvo @10:15 ooh! That's new to me. I know the Shadow started as an announcer for a radio show, and has a legacy of comic books, pulp novels, serial movies...
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:16 I was trying to remember how old I was when I realized what was inside the little barrel that the snow dogs carried under their necks. I would see that barrel and dog in so many cartoons... but how old was I when I knew what that was supposed to be?
	👻 10:18pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Arvo @10:16 No problem here. When I mentioned "Milk and Cheese" to my kid he said "The Cheap Gin comment prompted it, I know it"
	10:21pm Arvo: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:17 I remember trying to find more info on that ghost story about The Shadow. I never found anything that definitely proved itself to be sourced from anything other than the same place that I read it, which was some John Keel book. I don't really trust John Keel in matters of accuracy, but I want to believe the story... John Keel was mainly known for writing about The Mothman sightings, which I believe did happen to some extent.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: The Blue Beetle seems to have met Mr. Exposition.
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: "The Blue Beetle carries master keys to all locks." Blue Beetle has a side career breaking and entering.
	10:33pm Arvo: Incidentally, a lot of organists got work at pizza places in the 70s. Apparently there was a demand for organ music during the little pizza parties at certain places.
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:33 I went to at least one pizza party with an organ player. And there was usually one at the skating rink when I was a kid. But I don't think I've seen an organ player in a job like that in 30 years. (I did see an organist play along with some silent movies in 2018, which was EXCELLENT.)
	👻 10:35pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Tunnel Under The World"" by "X-Minus One" archive.org...
	👻 10:36pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Tunnel Under The World"" by "X-Minus One" It inspired a cheap Italian film: imdb.com...
	👻 10:37pm David Shortell: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:13 Sinatra and Brando didn’t get along, I hear.
	10:37pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:35 I have seen many live organ accompaniments, but never at a skating rink or pizza place.
	👻 10:38pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 There’s a lot of truth to that. My paternal New York relatives, for example. I can’t find the exact quote, but I recall John Lydon commenting in his book: How clever of these so-called-dum potato farmers. Why join the Mafia when you can become the police?
	10:38pm Arvo: For a few years, all of my dreams would end with me being hit in the head with a brick.
	👻 10:38pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Arvo @10:33 www.pstos.org...
	👻 10:39pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Arvo @10:38 That's Krazy, Arvo
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: We've heard this story on the show before, but this is a different production of that story, with Norman Rose doing the narration. X-Minus One would occasionally have re-runs as part of the "official run" of shows. However, there were gaps in the broadcasting schedule occasionally, and local stations would often re-run shows that were fan favorites. It became very common for local stations to horde old X-Minus One episodes, to use as fill-in material when there wasn't a new episode. This would become relevant later in the run of the series...
	👻 10:39pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 Listen to Evan Dorkin’s WFMU appearance. He knows a lot about old radio dramas. wfmu.org...
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:39 But who is Arvo's Ignatz?
	10:41pm Arvo: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:38 Groovy!
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:38 But of course! They're not much different...
	👻 10:41pm David Shortell: ↳ Arvo @9:53 Mark Millar’s “Kick Ass” had an amusing twist that wasn’t used in the movie. It turned out that Big Daddy was an accountant who financed his vigilante career with his comic book collection!
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:39 I should have known he has been on the mothership. I'll have to listen...
	10:42pm Arvo: Nice!
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:41 I want to like more of Mark Millar's stuff, but there's something about his comics that don't quite work for me. I think the problem is with me; he's fairly popular.
	👻 10:44pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ David Shortell @10:37 Marlon wasn't everybody's cup of tea, I have read, or not everyone was Marlon's cup of milk punch...
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: She's really laying it on thick. If this is how the cigarette girls treated me, I'd probably still smoke today.
	👻 10:46pm David Shortell: ↳ Arvo @9:35 That’s shocking. I’m one of those who prefers “The Pink Panther” sequel “A Shot in the Dark”. It bears little resemblance to the subtle Broadway play starring William Shatner. Blake transformed it into a showcase for Sellers’ Clouseau.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:46 The Pink Panther is one of those series where the first movie bears little resemblance to what those movies became.
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:46 It's sort of like the Friday The 13th Series of movies. The first one is not much like what the series became with Jason as the lead, later.
	👻 10:49pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:48 Most of those sequels didn't even concern the Pink Panther Diamond.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: I feel like I wake up screaming all the time. Every day it's the same old thing...
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:49 The Thin Man movies have that problem. The Thin Man was the person who the case was about in the first movie. So "The Thin Man" name sticks with all the films, but there's no titular "Thin Man" in any other film.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: We'll go about four minutes over tonight. Sorry, everyone!
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone, for hanging out with me tonight! It's always fun to listen to old radio shows...
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: The evil paranoid plot ruining your life? Advertising! Thank you, Frederick Pohl!
	👻 10:57pm ChristinaInCanada: This sounds spookily prescient...
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:57 I do like listening to radio from 70 years ago and it's still relevant, now.
	👻 10:58pm David Shortell: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:58 In a Barnes & Noble a few days ago, I noticed a shelf full of Sandman books. How are they going to get rid of those now? Come to think of it, how did they get rid of all their Dilbert books?
	10:58pm Arvo: I watched Groundhog Day yesterday.
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:58 Yeah, I was thinking about the "repeating day" coincidence. I should watch Groundhog Day again. That movie's great.
	11:01pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:59 I would also recommend the first season of "Russian Doll" for repeat day motifs. Not second season though. Big no on second season.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:58 Dilbert still has a fanbase, even if it's very small, now. Sandman still sells, but not as well as it used to. Certainly not enough to warrant having a full shelf anymore. I think the average B&N shopper might not follow news stories like that.
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @11:01 I've heard that from others, too. Hmmmmm...
	11:02pm Arvo: I am filling out the census survey online. Good night, see you virtually tomorrow!
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: "None of them knew! None of them knew! (That they were robots!)"
	👻 11:04pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Austin Rich @10:58 Thanks for the fun, Austin and everyone!
	👻 11:04pm ChristinaInCanada: BC'ing you...
	👻 11:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @11:04 You're welcome.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from February 3, 2025

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