WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from February 17, 2025

Listener comments!
	♥ 6:39pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	7:43pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	8:10pm ChristinaInCanada: The greetings start early! This time I have dinner in the oven, and it'll be digesting during the show.
	8:54pm Imaginos: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @8:10 Ahoy and welcome
	8:55pm Imaginos: To my fellows on either side of us, sorry about the orange monkey.
	9:01pm Imaginos: I think Roebuck did it
	♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: Look at that! We have ChristinaInCanada and Imaginos, already hanging out in the Digital Salon! Lovely to see you! I hope you enjoy the show.
	♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:01 I think they tried to pin in on someone named Penny. They don't know the first name. Just a set of initials: JC.
	9:02pm asheville jon: Nothing worse than cold toast
	9:03pm Imaginos: ↳ asheville jon @9:02 Cold DRY toast
	♥ 9:03pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: ""Fred Sears Murder Case"" by "Richard Diamond, Pr... Hi there ! Welcome to the unpleasant people program!
	♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @9:02 Asheville jon! Always a delight to see you in the Digital Salon.
	♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:03 You know you're doing something right when Webhamster Henry shows up! Hooray!
	♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: 10 o'clock in the morning is apparently "the middle of the night."
	♥ 9:04pm Webhamster Henry: 10:00PM is the middle of the Night? in which time zone?
	♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: "I'm saving the right eye for emergencies. Keyholes, you know."
	♥ 9:06pm WR: Hello Austin and folks. I mentioned on the Sunday afternoon drummer stream show, The Stork Club, about you running the Richard Diamond series here on Dimestore Radio. (for those listening at home, for The Stork Club program, the host uses a Richard Diamond bit as his program opening). Wonder if any of the Sunday afternoon folks will be checking in here. The host lives in Germany so way past his sleepytime now, but he might comment on one of the archived shows.
	♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:06 Ahhhhh, that's sweet. Thanks for mentioning us!
	♥ 9:07pm WR: ↳ Song: ""Fred Sears Murder Case"" by "Richard Diamond, Pr... In fact it is this opening bit with Mr Sears that is used.
	9:07pm asheville jon: Hi Rich, nice to be here again. Hi everyone else Back to my usual lurking status
	♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: "I want you to follow my wife." "Will I like the view?"
	9:08pm asheville jon: Hey, i know this routine, it's from Stork's show
	9:08pm ChristinaInCanada: coming up is the Stork Club excerpt with Helen and Richard.
	♥ 9:08pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	9:08pm Imaginos: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:08 Ahoy
	♥ 9:09pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Imaginos @9:08 Hey Imaginos!
	♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:08 His name is Paul, and it's a joy for us all!
	♥ 9:09pm WR: Mary Sears, you can see her tonight at The Stork. Hence its use for the The Stork Club opening. Seems that either the host heavily edited the bit or had different source.
	9:09pm ChristinaInCanada: I just learned Canasta today!
	♥ 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:09 "When you do something, you do it all the way." "Yeah. Let's neck."
	9:11pm ChristinaInCanada: Airwick existed in 1949
	♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:11 Nice catch!
	♥ 9:13pm WR: Where is the The Stork Club bouncer? Getting rowdy in there.
	♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:13 Delivering a baby to a very happy couple?
	♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: Lox popovers sound delightful!
	9:15pm laurapanic: many greetings
	♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:15 laurapanic! Now the Digital Salon is truly rockin'!
	9:16pm Imaginos: ↳ laurapanic @9:15 Ahoy!
	♥ 9:23pm Webhamster Henry: About time we got a knockout!
	♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:23 23 minutes into the story! Damn, that's late.
	♥ 9:24pm WR: Vegetarians and green salads was a thing in 1949.
	♥ 9:26pm WR: Funny them doing the who's on first variation.
	♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:26 They'll do variations on that routine a number of times on this show.
	♥ 9:29pm Austin Rich: Dick Powell really tried hard to sell, "Bye!" as one of Richard Diamond's catch phrases.
	9:29pm Imaginos: Why do most radio fights sound like nothing but slaps?
	♥ 9:29pm Webhamster Henry: And now the song section.
	9:30pm ChristinaInCanada: Next time he should bring the Mills Brothers to Helen's apartment as a surprise performance.
	♥ 9:30pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Imaginos @9:29 And when they are around a mutilated corpse, no one is grossed out.
	9:31pm Imaginos: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:30 Except in The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
	♥ 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:29 Often the SFX on a show like this was made by one person. The sound of "punching" a ham or side of meat - which was often the way that sound was made - does sort of sound like a slap more than a punch, especially on old microphones.
	♥ 9:32pm Webhamster Henry: Tenderly, by Ella in a classic Hubley cartoon: www.youtube.com...
	♥ 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:30 I LOVE The Mills Brothers! I would get excited about that!
	9:33pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:31 How long did an fx go without stinking before the icebox?
	♥ 9:34pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 Agree!
	9:35pm ChristinaInCanada: I keep waiting for a limerick. Am I the only one?
	♥ 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:33 Depends on a lot of factors, I suspect.
	♥ 9:35pm Webhamster Henry: Paul Frees in da house.
	♥ 9:35pm Webhamster Henry: How long till he dies?
	♥ 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:35 It's almost a Boris Badenov impersonation.
	♥ 9:37pm WR: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:35 Apparently not.
	♥ 9:37pm Austin Rich: I think Siue Moffat, in her book "Sonic Bonds," called Paul Frees "The poor man's Orson Welles."
	9:38pm Heather Z: Greetings from iced-over Rochester NY where the radio is almost louder than the wind outside! I'm dogsitting for my sister and her wife this week so I've got two gorgeous black labs here listening with me!
	9:39pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Heather Z @9:38 "I'm dogsitting" I read this as "dogsledding" after "iced over"
	9:40pm Heather Z: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:39 These labs would LOVE that! They're such snow dogs! Their auntie, however, is not!
	9:41pm ChristinaInCanada: I hope nobody's playing a "Damascus" drinking game.
	♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: Since the subject has come up: live sound fx for a radio show were provided by a Foley Artist. The Foley Artist would read the script, and create all the SFX that are not music or voices, using a number of items that created the effect of being in places that were not radio studios. If you want to see a Foley Artist in action, the TV Show "Remember WENN," has a character who never speaks - Mr. Foley - who provides all the SFX for the radio station at the center of the show. There are a lot of scenes were you actually get to see how Mr. Foley made the various sounds with random things in the studio.
	♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:41 I'm playing a drinking game! It's called, "Drink as often as possible, as much as possible, whenever you remember even the slightest amount of the current news headlines." It's not exactly easy to play, though...
	9:45pm ChristinaInCanada: I'd love for someone in the street yell out "Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man!" when chasing Rocky Jordan
	♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:45 In my Rocky Jordan fanfic, I'll have to have some of the street characters just yell out different lyrics to random Bob Dylan songs.
	♥ 9:48pm Webhamster Henry: A comic based on Star Wars #1
	♥ 9:49pm Austin Rich: In 1949, there weren't any comic books that I can find that were titled, "The Phantom Menace." There was a very popular comic at the time called, "The Phantom Lady," but her description of the comic she was reading in this show is not of The Phantom Lady.
	♥ 9:52pm Webhamster Henry: The old bandages-on-the-face swapperoo I bet.
	♥ 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:38 Nice to see you in the Digital Salon. Your appearance here sort of got lost in the shuffle there. My bad.
	10:02pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:58 Oh, no worries! I'm glad I'm having the opportunity to introduce my canine niblings to community supported indie radio while I'm here with them!
	10:05pm Imaginos: Feels more like an expat bar
	10:09pm Imaginos: Or "Friends of Dorothy"
	10:10pm ChristinaInCanada: Thank you, Austin.
	10:12pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy
	♥ 10:15pm yerfriendpaul: Amen, Austin! Thankful for you and WFMU!!
	♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:15 Awww, that's sweet, yerfriendpaul. I'm thankful for YOU!
	10:16pm Heather Z: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:15 I second this and loop in a thanks for all yall here in the salon, too!
	♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: The movie I was talking about, where Dick Powell plays a writer for a radio show, is called, "True To Life." en.wikipedia.org...
	10:18pm ChristinaInCanada: I admit Austin inspired me to register an account and pledge to this and a half-dozen other shows.
	♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:18 Thank you Heather! I love hearing that, Christina! Certainly, every show could use more boosters like this.
	10:19pm ChristinaInCanada: I thought "Santana" was Bogart's yacht, and it was, he bought it from Dick Powell. That and Marlowe, two unlikely commonalities.
	10:20pm ChristinaInCanada: Aha! Chandler and I agree on something!
	♥ 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 I will say, True To Life isn't GREAT. It's a little slow in places, and it's about 10 minutes too long. But it has Victor Moore, who is a great comic actor from those days, and there's a lot of charm for a 40's comedy.
	♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:19 Yeah, you can sort of imagine Bogart and Powell paling around together. I can imagine the kind of trouble those two could cause in a bar.
	10:30pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 I personally will look for the smallest excuse to use “It Ain’t Me, Babe!” or ”A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" in conversation.
	♥ 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:30 It probably comes from all the ZBS radio shows that I've listened to, but I tend to slip a lot of lyrics into my dialog in stories. I just can't help it.
	♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: We will run over about five minutes this week. Sorry everyone. As Werner Herzog used to say, "I'm a bad widdle boy."
	♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:35 maximumfun.org...
	10:38pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The Map Makers"" by "X-Minus One" archive.org...
	10:38pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The Map Makers"" by "X-Minus One" I wonder when science fiction stories started to use things like “hyperspace jumps” as a pseudo-scientific explanation for traveling light-years distances to other star systems. Was “Star Wars” the first movie to do so? The first Star Trek TV series didn’t address the problem at all.
	♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Map Makers"" by "X-Minus One" It is my contention that the "human computer" concept from this story - and the spaceship's dependence on them because they can't use real computers to navigate - is a detail that Frank Herbert borrowed for Dune. I have no evidence of this yet, but it seems very likely, given the timeline of when these stories were written / published.
	♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:38 Good question! I'll have to watch a bunch of 50's and early 60's sci-fi movies to answer that!
	10:42pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ David Shortell @10:38 L'Engle's novel _A Wrinkle i n Time_, published in 1963, mentions a tesseract as a folding of space-time, a hyperspace jump.
	♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: The aspect to this story - where various crew-members are not exactly following ship policy - seems more realistic to what might happen on a ship in deep space, rather than everyone following every rule precisely. People are too... people-like.
	♥ 10:44pm Austin Rich: I do love the sound design for the ambient sounds of the ship on this show. It's SOOO 50's.
	♥ 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:42 My sister was just telling me that she read this book to her daughter. I thought was was pretty great.
	♥ 10:46pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:45 My kids liked the kind of Cheesy Canadian movie version.
	10:46pm David Shortell: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:42 I recall Reed Richards explaining a similar shortcut to his 3 fellow astronauts in a 1965 story.
	♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:46 I never saw it. I think that story might work better as a book, but I'm ready to be wrong.
	♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:46 Who was writing FF in those days? Do you think they got it from A Wrinkle In Time?
	♥ 10:50pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 A Wrinkle In Time was published in 1962
	♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:50 Seems pretty likely.
	10:54pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 Lee/Kirby! it was #37.
	10:55pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 Last December, I went to the Princeton Garden Theatre to see the 1947 Christmas movie “It Happened on 5th Avenue”. I didn’t know any of the cast, but as soon as I heard Victor Moore I recognized his voice. In the 1945 Friz Freleng short “Ain’t That Ducky”, he voiced a caricature of himself as a wimpy hunter who crosses with Daffy and some unnamed bratty duckling!
	♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:54 Seems almost a certain that Kirby would have read A Wrinkle In Time. He seemed to be pretty well read, from what I remember.
	♥ 10:56pm Webhamster Henry: OK here's the entry for "jump" in the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction: sfdictionary.com...
	♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:55 I love that movie! Victor Moore plays the most charming hobo. It's pretty great. He's the kind of person who could be a star in the 40's. I can't imagine someone like him becoming famous these days.
	♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:56 Look at my main man Samuel R. Delany getting a couple early entries on that list! Hell yeah.
	♥ 10:58pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:56 This dictionary is super fun!
	♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: I feel like this scene had to have influenced both Star Trek The Motion Picture, and Douglas Adams, "Infinite Improbability Drive."
	♥ 10:59pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:58 Hyperspace: sfdictionary.com...
	♥ 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:58 Yeah, thanks for this link! This is great!
	♥ 11:00pm yerfriendpaul: Thank you Austin!
	♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone. After this weekend, I needed a dose of radio.
	11:04pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:59 I don't know which scene you mean, but I remember The Motion Picture as a rehash of the second season episode "The Changeling".
	♥ 11:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:04 They go to warp, and everything gets weird, and they have trouble seeing things and whatnot...
	11:05pm Heather Z: Thanks for an awesome show, Austin, and goodnight or good day, everyone!!
	11:05pm ChristinaInCanada: Thank you, Austin. And thanks fellow listeners for the pleasure of your company.
	♥ 11:05pm Webhamster Henry: So many of these tales are so militaristic. I like the more home bound stuff like Zero Hour. I'm off to watch the SF monsters of The Outer Limits on Kanopy.
	♥ 11:05pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone!
	♥ 11:05pm WR: Thank you! Austin! and thanks to the commentors, too. Laters, all.
	11:06pm ChristinaInCanada: Downloading "Blessed Event" (1932) for more Dick Powell with fast-talking Lee Tracy.

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from February 17, 2025

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February 17, 2025: Episode #120

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Richard Diamond, Private Investigator	"Fred Sears Murder Case"	19 June 1949	NBC	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Adventures of Rocky Jordan	"The Man From Damascus"	12 June 1949	Santana Productions	0:31:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: David Rose	Calypso Melody "Calypso Melody" by "David Rose"			1:02:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
GetTV	Music, Radio & Film: The Ambitious Life of Dick Powell, Part 4	Music, Radio & Film: The Ambitious Life of Dick Powell	GetTV	1:14:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Blue Beetle	"The Whale of Pirate's Folly Pt. 1"	28 August 1940	Mutual–Don Lee Network	1:21:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"The Map Makers" ""The Map Makers"" by "X-Minus One"	26 September 1956	NBC Radio	1:36:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 6:39pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	7:43pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	8:10pm ChristinaInCanada: The greetings start early! This time I have dinner in the oven, and it'll be digesting during the show.
	8:54pm Imaginos: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @8:10 Ahoy and welcome
	8:55pm Imaginos: To my fellows on either side of us, sorry about the orange monkey.
	9:01pm Imaginos: I think Roebuck did it
	♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: Look at that! We have ChristinaInCanada and Imaginos, already hanging out in the Digital Salon! Lovely to see you! I hope you enjoy the show.
	♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:01 I think they tried to pin in on someone named Penny. They don't know the first name. Just a set of initials: JC.
	9:02pm asheville jon: Nothing worse than cold toast
	9:03pm Imaginos: ↳ asheville jon @9:02 Cold DRY toast
	♥ 9:03pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: ""Fred Sears Murder Case"" by "Richard Diamond, Pr... Hi there ! Welcome to the unpleasant people program!
	♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @9:02 Asheville jon! Always a delight to see you in the Digital Salon.
	♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:03 You know you're doing something right when Webhamster Henry shows up! Hooray!
	♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: 10 o'clock in the morning is apparently "the middle of the night."
	♥ 9:04pm Webhamster Henry: 10:00PM is the middle of the Night? in which time zone?
	♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: "I'm saving the right eye for emergencies. Keyholes, you know."
	♥ 9:06pm WR: Hello Austin and folks. I mentioned on the Sunday afternoon drummer stream show, The Stork Club, about you running the Richard Diamond series here on Dimestore Radio. (for those listening at home, for The Stork Club program, the host uses a Richard Diamond bit as his program opening). Wonder if any of the Sunday afternoon folks will be checking in here. The host lives in Germany so way past his sleepytime now, but he might comment on one of the archived shows.
	♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:06 Ahhhhh, that's sweet. Thanks for mentioning us!
	♥ 9:07pm WR: ↳ Song: ""Fred Sears Murder Case"" by "Richard Diamond, Pr... In fact it is this opening bit with Mr Sears that is used.
	9:07pm asheville jon: Hi Rich, nice to be here again. Hi everyone else Back to my usual lurking status
	♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: "I want you to follow my wife." "Will I like the view?"
	9:08pm asheville jon: Hey, i know this routine, it's from Stork's show
	9:08pm ChristinaInCanada: coming up is the Stork Club excerpt with Helen and Richard.
	♥ 9:08pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone!
	9:08pm Imaginos: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:08 Ahoy
	♥ 9:09pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Imaginos @9:08 Hey Imaginos!
	♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:08 His name is Paul, and it's a joy for us all!
	♥ 9:09pm WR: Mary Sears, you can see her tonight at The Stork. Hence its use for the The Stork Club opening. Seems that either the host heavily edited the bit or had different source.
	9:09pm ChristinaInCanada: I just learned Canasta today!
	♥ 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:09 "When you do something, you do it all the way." "Yeah. Let's neck."
	9:11pm ChristinaInCanada: Airwick existed in 1949
	♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:11 Nice catch!
	♥ 9:13pm WR: Where is the The Stork Club bouncer? Getting rowdy in there.
	♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:13 Delivering a baby to a very happy couple?
	♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: Lox popovers sound delightful!
	9:15pm laurapanic: many greetings
	♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:15 laurapanic! Now the Digital Salon is truly rockin'!
	9:16pm Imaginos: ↳ laurapanic @9:15 Ahoy!
	♥ 9:23pm Webhamster Henry: About time we got a knockout!
	♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:23 23 minutes into the story! Damn, that's late.
	♥ 9:24pm WR: Vegetarians and green salads was a thing in 1949.
	♥ 9:26pm WR: Funny them doing the who's on first variation.
	♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:26 They'll do variations on that routine a number of times on this show.
	♥ 9:29pm Austin Rich: Dick Powell really tried hard to sell, "Bye!" as one of Richard Diamond's catch phrases.
	9:29pm Imaginos: Why do most radio fights sound like nothing but slaps?
	♥ 9:29pm Webhamster Henry: And now the song section.
	9:30pm ChristinaInCanada: Next time he should bring the Mills Brothers to Helen's apartment as a surprise performance.
	♥ 9:30pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Imaginos @9:29 And when they are around a mutilated corpse, no one is grossed out.
	9:31pm Imaginos: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:30 Except in The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
	♥ 9:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:29 Often the SFX on a show like this was made by one person. The sound of "punching" a ham or side of meat - which was often the way that sound was made - does sort of sound like a slap more than a punch, especially on old microphones.
	♥ 9:32pm Webhamster Henry: Tenderly, by Ella in a classic Hubley cartoon: www.youtube.com...
	♥ 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:30 I LOVE The Mills Brothers! I would get excited about that!
	9:33pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:31 How long did an fx go without stinking before the icebox?
	♥ 9:34pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 Agree!
	9:35pm ChristinaInCanada: I keep waiting for a limerick. Am I the only one?
	♥ 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:33 Depends on a lot of factors, I suspect.
	♥ 9:35pm Webhamster Henry: Paul Frees in da house.
	♥ 9:35pm Webhamster Henry: How long till he dies?
	♥ 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:35 It's almost a Boris Badenov impersonation.
	♥ 9:37pm WR: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:35 Apparently not.
	♥ 9:37pm Austin Rich: I think Siue Moffat, in her book "Sonic Bonds," called Paul Frees "The poor man's Orson Welles."
	9:38pm Heather Z: Greetings from iced-over Rochester NY where the radio is almost louder than the wind outside! I'm dogsitting for my sister and her wife this week so I've got two gorgeous black labs here listening with me!
	9:39pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ Heather Z @9:38 "I'm dogsitting" I read this as "dogsledding" after "iced over"
	9:40pm Heather Z: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:39 These labs would LOVE that! They're such snow dogs! Their auntie, however, is not!
	9:41pm ChristinaInCanada: I hope nobody's playing a "Damascus" drinking game.
	♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: Since the subject has come up: live sound fx for a radio show were provided by a Foley Artist. The Foley Artist would read the script, and create all the SFX that are not music or voices, using a number of items that created the effect of being in places that were not radio studios. If you want to see a Foley Artist in action, the TV Show "Remember WENN," has a character who never speaks - Mr. Foley - who provides all the SFX for the radio station at the center of the show. There are a lot of scenes were you actually get to see how Mr. Foley made the various sounds with random things in the studio.
	♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:41 I'm playing a drinking game! It's called, "Drink as often as possible, as much as possible, whenever you remember even the slightest amount of the current news headlines." It's not exactly easy to play, though...
	9:45pm ChristinaInCanada: I'd love for someone in the street yell out "Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man!" when chasing Rocky Jordan
	♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @9:45 In my Rocky Jordan fanfic, I'll have to have some of the street characters just yell out different lyrics to random Bob Dylan songs.
	♥ 9:48pm Webhamster Henry: A comic based on Star Wars #1
	♥ 9:49pm Austin Rich: In 1949, there weren't any comic books that I can find that were titled, "The Phantom Menace." There was a very popular comic at the time called, "The Phantom Lady," but her description of the comic she was reading in this show is not of The Phantom Lady.
	♥ 9:52pm Webhamster Henry: The old bandages-on-the-face swapperoo I bet.
	♥ 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:38 Nice to see you in the Digital Salon. Your appearance here sort of got lost in the shuffle there. My bad.
	10:02pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:58 Oh, no worries! I'm glad I'm having the opportunity to introduce my canine niblings to community supported indie radio while I'm here with them!
	10:05pm Imaginos: Feels more like an expat bar
	10:09pm Imaginos: Or "Friends of Dorothy"
	10:10pm ChristinaInCanada: Thank you, Austin.
	10:12pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy
	♥ 10:15pm yerfriendpaul: Amen, Austin! Thankful for you and WFMU!!
	♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:15 Awww, that's sweet, yerfriendpaul. I'm thankful for YOU!
	10:16pm Heather Z: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:15 I second this and loop in a thanks for all yall here in the salon, too!
	♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: The movie I was talking about, where Dick Powell plays a writer for a radio show, is called, "True To Life." en.wikipedia.org...
	10:18pm ChristinaInCanada: I admit Austin inspired me to register an account and pledge to this and a half-dozen other shows.
	♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:18 Thank you Heather! I love hearing that, Christina! Certainly, every show could use more boosters like this.
	10:19pm ChristinaInCanada: I thought "Santana" was Bogart's yacht, and it was, he bought it from Dick Powell. That and Marlowe, two unlikely commonalities.
	10:20pm ChristinaInCanada: Aha! Chandler and I agree on something!
	♥ 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 I will say, True To Life isn't GREAT. It's a little slow in places, and it's about 10 minutes too long. But it has Victor Moore, who is a great comic actor from those days, and there's a lot of charm for a 40's comedy.
	♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:19 Yeah, you can sort of imagine Bogart and Powell paling around together. I can imagine the kind of trouble those two could cause in a bar.
	10:30pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 I personally will look for the smallest excuse to use “It Ain’t Me, Babe!” or ”A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" in conversation.
	♥ 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:30 It probably comes from all the ZBS radio shows that I've listened to, but I tend to slip a lot of lyrics into my dialog in stories. I just can't help it.
	♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: We will run over about five minutes this week. Sorry everyone. As Werner Herzog used to say, "I'm a bad widdle boy."
	♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:35 maximumfun.org...
	10:38pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The Map Makers"" by "X-Minus One" archive.org...
	10:38pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The Map Makers"" by "X-Minus One" I wonder when science fiction stories started to use things like “hyperspace jumps” as a pseudo-scientific explanation for traveling light-years distances to other star systems. Was “Star Wars” the first movie to do so? The first Star Trek TV series didn’t address the problem at all.
	♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Map Makers"" by "X-Minus One" It is my contention that the "human computer" concept from this story - and the spaceship's dependence on them because they can't use real computers to navigate - is a detail that Frank Herbert borrowed for Dune. I have no evidence of this yet, but it seems very likely, given the timeline of when these stories were written / published.
	♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:38 Good question! I'll have to watch a bunch of 50's and early 60's sci-fi movies to answer that!
	10:42pm ChristinaInCanada: ↳ David Shortell @10:38 L'Engle's novel _A Wrinkle i n Time_, published in 1963, mentions a tesseract as a folding of space-time, a hyperspace jump.
	♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: The aspect to this story - where various crew-members are not exactly following ship policy - seems more realistic to what might happen on a ship in deep space, rather than everyone following every rule precisely. People are too... people-like.
	♥ 10:44pm Austin Rich: I do love the sound design for the ambient sounds of the ship on this show. It's SOOO 50's.
	♥ 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:42 My sister was just telling me that she read this book to her daughter. I thought was was pretty great.
	♥ 10:46pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:45 My kids liked the kind of Cheesy Canadian movie version.
	10:46pm David Shortell: ↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:42 I recall Reed Richards explaining a similar shortcut to his 3 fellow astronauts in a 1965 story.
	♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:46 I never saw it. I think that story might work better as a book, but I'm ready to be wrong.
	♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:46 Who was writing FF in those days? Do you think they got it from A Wrinkle In Time?
	♥ 10:50pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 A Wrinkle In Time was published in 1962
	♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:50 Seems pretty likely.
	10:54pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 Lee/Kirby! it was #37.
	10:55pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 Last December, I went to the Princeton Garden Theatre to see the 1947 Christmas movie “It Happened on 5th Avenue”. I didn’t know any of the cast, but as soon as I heard Victor Moore I recognized his voice. In the 1945 Friz Freleng short “Ain’t That Ducky”, he voiced a caricature of himself as a wimpy hunter who crosses with Daffy and some unnamed bratty duckling!
	♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:54 Seems almost a certain that Kirby would have read A Wrinkle In Time. He seemed to be pretty well read, from what I remember.
	♥ 10:56pm Webhamster Henry: OK here's the entry for "jump" in the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction: sfdictionary.com...
	♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:55 I love that movie! Victor Moore plays the most charming hobo. It's pretty great. He's the kind of person who could be a star in the 40's. I can't imagine someone like him becoming famous these days.
	♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:56 Look at my main man Samuel R. Delany getting a couple early entries on that list! Hell yeah.
	♥ 10:58pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:56 This dictionary is super fun!
	♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: I feel like this scene had to have influenced both Star Trek The Motion Picture, and Douglas Adams, "Infinite Improbability Drive."
	♥ 10:59pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:58 Hyperspace: sfdictionary.com...
	♥ 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:58 Yeah, thanks for this link! This is great!
	♥ 11:00pm yerfriendpaul: Thank you Austin!
	♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone. After this weekend, I needed a dose of radio.
	11:04pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:59 I don't know which scene you mean, but I remember The Motion Picture as a rehash of the second season episode "The Changeling".
	♥ 11:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:04 They go to warp, and everything gets weird, and they have trouble seeing things and whatnot...
	11:05pm Heather Z: Thanks for an awesome show, Austin, and goodnight or good day, everyone!!
	11:05pm ChristinaInCanada: Thank you, Austin. And thanks fellow listeners for the pleasure of your company.
	♥ 11:05pm Webhamster Henry: So many of these tales are so militaristic. I like the more home bound stuff like Zero Hour. I'm off to watch the SF monsters of The Outer Limits on Kanopy.
	♥ 11:05pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone!
	♥ 11:05pm WR: Thank you! Austin! and thanks to the commentors, too. Laters, all.
	11:06pm ChristinaInCanada: Downloading "Blessed Event" (1932) for more Dick Powell with fast-talking Lee Tracy.

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