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

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 7:54pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:00pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: Thank you, Dimestore Radio Theater listeners, for your donations! You helped WFMU reach their goal this year, and that goes a long way toward keeping this show on the air! Thank you!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Peg O' My Heart"" by "Lux Radio Theater" As you can imagine, radio recordings from 1937 often sound very rough, even under the best of circumstances. This was a nice challenge, in terms of trying to restore this recording so that it sounds natural, and yet, much more clear than the original archived recordings. Hopefully it sounds good to you!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Webhamster Henry: Ahh a few Luxes. The spend time hawking those cosmetic products.
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Webhamster Henry: These and Guild theater and a few other high-class shows do a great job of documenting old movies and stage shows, often with close to original casts.
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Peg O' My Heart"" by "Lux Radio Theater" This show aired the Monday after Thanksgiving, sort of making this a "holiday" broadcast. However, I was more interested in the Irish connection. I usually celebrate this day by watching, "The Commitments."
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:04 Webhamster! I do love when you join us in the Digital Salon!
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:00 Imaginos! Now that you are radio-famous, I'm glad that you still join us here in the Digital Salon!
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: "There's one or two things I couldn't teach her myself." Uhm, she probably knows a lot more than you, pops. She's a clever girl.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: "A WHAT?" She sort of cracks me up. I'm in love.
	9:13pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 I'm always happy to join everyone here
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: Going to the movies - both then and now - was not affordable to everyone. (It's the kind of entertainment that separates classes.) But these radio adaptations were heard much more widely than the movies were seen, and allowed people of any class to enjoy these stories. Lux Radio Theater was very popular in it's time, and the show ran for YEARS. TV was really the thing that killed Lux Radio Theater, as people could see movies on TV for free.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm David Shortell: The 1948 movie "The Luck of the Irish" is showing right now on the MOVIES! network. Then it repeats 3 hours from now. moviestvnetwork.com...
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: She can take the dog, but not her dad? It's the kind of detail that only makes sense in a weird old movie.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:14 Ha! Perfect timing. (Though I suspect the odds were in my favor.)
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: greetings digital salon 📻🛋️
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: A redhead who says what she thinks, and stands up for things that are important to her? And she loves dogs? Is she single?
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:17 red_door_what_for! Hooray! (And it looks like you've got your headphones on!)
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 I actually literally do!! Delightful 🎧
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: You'll hear a lot of background noise on this one. I've probably talked about this before on other shows, but occasionally, when I try to filter out background noise like that, it tends to "sand off" the dialog, and makes it sound very muddy. I did mix out some of the background noise, but not all of it, to try and keep the dialog clear.
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: "He's my friend, isn't he?" We'll see...
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: i appreciate the work you put into the mix! it sounds great to me. I like the bit of background noise ✨🌌
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Webhamster Henry: We all associate Marion Davies with Wm. Randolph Hearst, but she was something of a live wire as a stage actress!
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: I do appreciate that they got the same lead from the film to play Peg on the radio show. Lux usually tries to get the original cast, as Webhamster pointed out. I'll need to track this down, as I have found that Marion Davies is quite the looker.
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:22 I like a little hum and rumble myself, and I can usually listen through the worst sounding old radio recording. But I do like the challenge of trying to improve them as much as I can.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: "It's a beautiful temper." Damn.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: "Oh, it's mighty disturbing." That is exactly what it's like to fall in love.
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm WR: Sheena makes my heart leap when I come near.
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:27 WR! Thanks for poppin' into the Digital Salon!
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm WR: Will be listening while heading home from the grocery.
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm Austin Rich: Determined red heads make the world a better place.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Austin Rich: "The Boar's Head Tavern."
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: listening to these stories makes me feel sharper and calmer at the same time. I wanna get people to gather around the radio and listen to this program with me ^_^
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: omg his vocal delivery is like Gil in Frasier !! Peg reminded me of Daphne Moon ☝️🤓
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: Ha! Those voices are pretty memorable.
	9:44pm Imaginos: Keep those storms coming
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: That was so cool ✨
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: traditional Irish folk music actually goes so hard
	9:49pm Imaginos: Blue green is a nice color
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: yooo I know this tune in the background but what is it called!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: yo I got u it's on the tip of my tongue
	9:53pm Imaginos: Excellent
	9:53pm Imaginos: Would love that
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: John Ryan's Polka!! 🎶
	9:57pm Imaginos: 1 news reel 2 cartoon 3 serial. 4 movie part 1 5 intermission 6 movie part 2
	10:00pm GorillaFella: @Imaginos i remember learning about this as a kid and ever since Ive always wished that they would show fun little cartoons before movies. Seems like going to the movies used to feel more grandiose
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm Webhamster Henry: When I was a kid, you would get left off at the movies, unescorted, for a double feature.
	10:01pm Imaginos: Joe Dante and Charles Band should collaborate
	10:01pm Imaginos: Like Darby O'Gill?
	10:04pm Imaginos: The Majestic in Australia still shows silent movies with a live pianist
	🎸 ♥ 10:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:04 I love that!
	🎸 ♥ 10:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:01 That's an underrated - and scary! - movie.
	🎸 ♥ 10:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:01 That would be wild!
	🎸 ♥ 10:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:01 I never saw double features that way, but I did get left at the theater fairly often, when my parents wanted a few hours to themselves. I can't imagine parents doing that now. I could have easily just wandered off!
	🎸 ♥ 10:08pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Luck of the Irish"" by "Lux Radio Theater" The novel ("There Was a Little Man"), the movie and this radio play all came out in 1948!
	🎸 ♥ 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Luck of the Irish"" by "Lux Radio Theater" The audio for this recording has a long section of mangled "tape," where the sound is very bad, and the tape "warbles." I used a number of tools to try and clean it up, and hopefully you don't even notice that much. The overall sound on this recording was VERY bad, compared to "Peg O' My Heart." I was happy to clean it up, so I could actually hear it better.
	🎸 ♥ 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:08 Synchronicity! That's a marketing coup.
	10:09pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:06 Sent you an email about it
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Luck of the Irish"" by "Lux Radio Theater" This show aired a couple days after Christmas, also putting this show in the "holiday" season. But it fits in better with St. Patrick's Day.
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm Webhamster Henry: Are you telling OTR groups about your cleaned up shows?
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:10 I tell people when I can, but I don't go out of my way. I'm pretty bad at promotion.
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:09 Thank you.
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm Austin Rich: I wish people would leave bottles of whiskey out for me. I would certainly come round more often if they did.
	10:15pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm Austin Rich: While the pot of gold would be nice, I'd mostly have a lot of logistic questions if I met a leprechaun. Like: what was it like to make that one movie in space?
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:15 Sleep well! We'll meet again online soon.
	10:16pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 Just don't accept any grog. Watered down
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:16 Is grog real? I just assumed it was "anything cheap."
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:09 Some scenes of that monochrome movie were tinted green.
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:18 Very cool! I'll have to check it out.
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: There are a number of audio tools for "enhancing voices," but so far, the only good tools for "enhancing music" is to isolate the track and use "EQ" to fine tune the sound. It's not as precise, which is why there is a bit of a variance between the quality of the "voices" and the quality of the "music." I'm sure I could spend a lot more time to get them a little better, but until there are better "enhance music" tools, I have to do those tracks by hand.
	🎸 ♥ 10:23pm WR: So he made a deal with the devil. [I was off the stream for the last 20 minutes.]
	🎸 ♥ 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:23 Sort of...
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: 💥💥Tha sharp dialogue !! 🤯😵
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @10:24 I love the writing in old movies and radio shows. I can't explain it, but there's a sort of "remove" from the writing you find in modern culture, giving it a little bit of a dreamy quality.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: "Oh no, I screwed up another cocktail! I guess I have to drink that one, too."
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @10:26 well said!! 💭✨
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm WR: From Turner Classic Movies site (as quoted in Wikipedia): "THE LUCK OF THE IRISH(1948) ALSO KNOWN AS: FOR FEAR OF LITTLE MEN / LEAVE IT TO THE IRISH / THAT OLD MAGIC / THE SHAMROCK TOUCH"
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Austin Rich: As a lazy person who doesn't like to do house chores, I do love the idea of a manservant. (You find them a lot in old movies and novels.) There's a bit of a queer-coding to a "man and his manservant," but it was genuinely a job in the old days, sort of the equivalent of a "personal assistant." In my 20s, I used to joke that my personal measure of success would be that I managed to acquire a manservant, somehow.
	🎸 ♥ 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:28 That is a lot of alternate titles! Only episodes of, "Bold Venture," had more titles than that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: "Fifty Cents. Four Bits." I wonder how often people try to call the performer, "50 Cent," by the nickname, "Four Bits"?
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: "Irish stew (or Stobhach) is a stew from Ireland that is traditionally made with root vegetables and lamb or mutton, but also commonly with beef. As in all traditional folk dishes, the exact recipe is not consistent from time to time or place to place." I've also heard it referred to as "slumgullion."
	🎸 ♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: I've done a lot of writing, for newspapers, even. Writing with genuine deadlines. I have never had anyone tell me something was due tomorrow, "OR ELSE." Usually I was turning things in and they were telling me reasons why they would not be able to run it or pay me for it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: Our show will go 90 seconds long this week. Sorry everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Heather Z: I've been tuned in and enjoying the show! Popping in to say Happy St Paddy's to all!
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: There's a slight "chunkiness" to the voices in this version the show, and some of the lines sound like the actors might have cotton balls in their cheeks, or something. That's an artifact of the restoration process; the sound was so bad on the original recording that even the best efforts made some of the sound a little funky. I think you can still understand everything, but the voices sound a little strange, for sure.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:46 Thanks for listening, Heather Z! I hope you are doing well.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 Absolutely! I hope you're doing well, too! Things here are settling in a bit which is great. Bit o chaos recently!
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: If there's not at least one brawl or fistfight at a wedding, you probably didn't do it right.
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: I have NEVER heard the story that leprechauns repair shoes. Is that a real thing? I've heard that ELVES repair shoes...
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: And suddenly, after everyone talked about things like grown adults, it all worked out in the end...
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: Thanks again everyone! See ya next week, when we return to our regular schedule.
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: Are leprechauns real? If you believe in love, you believe in them, I guess....
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Webhamster Henry: Auger's daughter should have taken over the paper.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:58 Totally!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: Surprise Jack Benny appearance!
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm WR: Both those productions have lots of plot resolution in the last few minutes. Thank you, Austin.
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: Surprise NYE message, too!
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! Take care!
	🎸 ♥ 11:03pm Webhamster Henry: Well I finished off my soda bread earlier today, so thanks !
	🎸 ♥ 11:05pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: great show ^_^ immersed in the world of the lil cobbler and crew 📻 sweet dreams, digital salon! ✨
	🎸 ♥ 11:51am WR: PS: You said something about the work you did to improve the audio quality may have adversely affected the voices, not noticeable to my ears. Again, many thanks.

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

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March 17, 2025: Movies On The Radio Double Feature: St. Patrick's Day Special!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Lux Radio Theater	"Peg O' My Heart"	29 November 1937	CBS	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Lux Radio Theater	"Luck of the Irish"	27 December 1948	CBS	1:04:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 7:54pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:00pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: Thank you, Dimestore Radio Theater listeners, for your donations! You helped WFMU reach their goal this year, and that goes a long way toward keeping this show on the air! Thank you!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Peg O' My Heart"" by "Lux Radio Theater" As you can imagine, radio recordings from 1937 often sound very rough, even under the best of circumstances. This was a nice challenge, in terms of trying to restore this recording so that it sounds natural, and yet, much more clear than the original archived recordings. Hopefully it sounds good to you!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Webhamster Henry: Ahh a few Luxes. The spend time hawking those cosmetic products.
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Webhamster Henry: These and Guild theater and a few other high-class shows do a great job of documenting old movies and stage shows, often with close to original casts.
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Peg O' My Heart"" by "Lux Radio Theater" This show aired the Monday after Thanksgiving, sort of making this a "holiday" broadcast. However, I was more interested in the Irish connection. I usually celebrate this day by watching, "The Commitments."
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:04 Webhamster! I do love when you join us in the Digital Salon!
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:00 Imaginos! Now that you are radio-famous, I'm glad that you still join us here in the Digital Salon!
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: "There's one or two things I couldn't teach her myself." Uhm, she probably knows a lot more than you, pops. She's a clever girl.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: "A WHAT?" She sort of cracks me up. I'm in love.
	9:13pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 I'm always happy to join everyone here
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: Going to the movies - both then and now - was not affordable to everyone. (It's the kind of entertainment that separates classes.) But these radio adaptations were heard much more widely than the movies were seen, and allowed people of any class to enjoy these stories. Lux Radio Theater was very popular in it's time, and the show ran for YEARS. TV was really the thing that killed Lux Radio Theater, as people could see movies on TV for free.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm David Shortell: The 1948 movie "The Luck of the Irish" is showing right now on the MOVIES! network. Then it repeats 3 hours from now. moviestvnetwork.com...
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: She can take the dog, but not her dad? It's the kind of detail that only makes sense in a weird old movie.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:14 Ha! Perfect timing. (Though I suspect the odds were in my favor.)
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: greetings digital salon 📻🛋️
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: A redhead who says what she thinks, and stands up for things that are important to her? And she loves dogs? Is she single?
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:17 red_door_what_for! Hooray! (And it looks like you've got your headphones on!)
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 I actually literally do!! Delightful 🎧
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: You'll hear a lot of background noise on this one. I've probably talked about this before on other shows, but occasionally, when I try to filter out background noise like that, it tends to "sand off" the dialog, and makes it sound very muddy. I did mix out some of the background noise, but not all of it, to try and keep the dialog clear.
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: "He's my friend, isn't he?" We'll see...
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: i appreciate the work you put into the mix! it sounds great to me. I like the bit of background noise ✨🌌
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Webhamster Henry: We all associate Marion Davies with Wm. Randolph Hearst, but she was something of a live wire as a stage actress!
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: I do appreciate that they got the same lead from the film to play Peg on the radio show. Lux usually tries to get the original cast, as Webhamster pointed out. I'll need to track this down, as I have found that Marion Davies is quite the looker.
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:22 I like a little hum and rumble myself, and I can usually listen through the worst sounding old radio recording. But I do like the challenge of trying to improve them as much as I can.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: "It's a beautiful temper." Damn.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: "Oh, it's mighty disturbing." That is exactly what it's like to fall in love.
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm WR: Sheena makes my heart leap when I come near.
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @9:27 WR! Thanks for poppin' into the Digital Salon!
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm WR: Will be listening while heading home from the grocery.
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm Austin Rich: Determined red heads make the world a better place.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Austin Rich: "The Boar's Head Tavern."
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: listening to these stories makes me feel sharper and calmer at the same time. I wanna get people to gather around the radio and listen to this program with me ^_^
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: omg his vocal delivery is like Gil in Frasier !! Peg reminded me of Daphne Moon ☝️🤓
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: Ha! Those voices are pretty memorable.
	9:44pm Imaginos: Keep those storms coming
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: That was so cool ✨
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: traditional Irish folk music actually goes so hard
	9:49pm Imaginos: Blue green is a nice color
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: yooo I know this tune in the background but what is it called!!
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: yo I got u it's on the tip of my tongue
	9:53pm Imaginos: Excellent
	9:53pm Imaginos: Would love that
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: John Ryan's Polka!! 🎶
	9:57pm Imaginos: 1 news reel 2 cartoon 3 serial. 4 movie part 1 5 intermission 6 movie part 2
	10:00pm GorillaFella: @Imaginos i remember learning about this as a kid and ever since Ive always wished that they would show fun little cartoons before movies. Seems like going to the movies used to feel more grandiose
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm Webhamster Henry: When I was a kid, you would get left off at the movies, unescorted, for a double feature.
	10:01pm Imaginos: Joe Dante and Charles Band should collaborate
	10:01pm Imaginos: Like Darby O'Gill?
	10:04pm Imaginos: The Majestic in Australia still shows silent movies with a live pianist
	🎸 ♥ 10:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:04 I love that!
	🎸 ♥ 10:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:01 That's an underrated - and scary! - movie.
	🎸 ♥ 10:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:01 That would be wild!
	🎸 ♥ 10:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:01 I never saw double features that way, but I did get left at the theater fairly often, when my parents wanted a few hours to themselves. I can't imagine parents doing that now. I could have easily just wandered off!
	🎸 ♥ 10:08pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Luck of the Irish"" by "Lux Radio Theater" The novel ("There Was a Little Man"), the movie and this radio play all came out in 1948!
	🎸 ♥ 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Luck of the Irish"" by "Lux Radio Theater" The audio for this recording has a long section of mangled "tape," where the sound is very bad, and the tape "warbles." I used a number of tools to try and clean it up, and hopefully you don't even notice that much. The overall sound on this recording was VERY bad, compared to "Peg O' My Heart." I was happy to clean it up, so I could actually hear it better.
	🎸 ♥ 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:08 Synchronicity! That's a marketing coup.
	10:09pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:06 Sent you an email about it
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Luck of the Irish"" by "Lux Radio Theater" This show aired a couple days after Christmas, also putting this show in the "holiday" season. But it fits in better with St. Patrick's Day.
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm Webhamster Henry: Are you telling OTR groups about your cleaned up shows?
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:10 I tell people when I can, but I don't go out of my way. I'm pretty bad at promotion.
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:09 Thank you.
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm Austin Rich: I wish people would leave bottles of whiskey out for me. I would certainly come round more often if they did.
	10:15pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm Austin Rich: While the pot of gold would be nice, I'd mostly have a lot of logistic questions if I met a leprechaun. Like: what was it like to make that one movie in space?
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:15 Sleep well! We'll meet again online soon.
	10:16pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 Just don't accept any grog. Watered down
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:16 Is grog real? I just assumed it was "anything cheap."
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:09 Some scenes of that monochrome movie were tinted green.
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:18 Very cool! I'll have to check it out.
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: There are a number of audio tools for "enhancing voices," but so far, the only good tools for "enhancing music" is to isolate the track and use "EQ" to fine tune the sound. It's not as precise, which is why there is a bit of a variance between the quality of the "voices" and the quality of the "music." I'm sure I could spend a lot more time to get them a little better, but until there are better "enhance music" tools, I have to do those tracks by hand.
	🎸 ♥ 10:23pm WR: So he made a deal with the devil. [I was off the stream for the last 20 minutes.]
	🎸 ♥ 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:23 Sort of...
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: 💥💥Tha sharp dialogue !! 🤯😵
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @10:24 I love the writing in old movies and radio shows. I can't explain it, but there's a sort of "remove" from the writing you find in modern culture, giving it a little bit of a dreamy quality.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: "Oh no, I screwed up another cocktail! I guess I have to drink that one, too."
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @10:26 well said!! 💭✨
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm WR: From Turner Classic Movies site (as quoted in Wikipedia): "THE LUCK OF THE IRISH(1948) ALSO KNOWN AS: FOR FEAR OF LITTLE MEN / LEAVE IT TO THE IRISH / THAT OLD MAGIC / THE SHAMROCK TOUCH"
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Austin Rich: As a lazy person who doesn't like to do house chores, I do love the idea of a manservant. (You find them a lot in old movies and novels.) There's a bit of a queer-coding to a "man and his manservant," but it was genuinely a job in the old days, sort of the equivalent of a "personal assistant." In my 20s, I used to joke that my personal measure of success would be that I managed to acquire a manservant, somehow.
	🎸 ♥ 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @10:28 That is a lot of alternate titles! Only episodes of, "Bold Venture," had more titles than that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: "Fifty Cents. Four Bits." I wonder how often people try to call the performer, "50 Cent," by the nickname, "Four Bits"?
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: "Irish stew (or Stobhach) is a stew from Ireland that is traditionally made with root vegetables and lamb or mutton, but also commonly with beef. As in all traditional folk dishes, the exact recipe is not consistent from time to time or place to place." I've also heard it referred to as "slumgullion."
	🎸 ♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: I've done a lot of writing, for newspapers, even. Writing with genuine deadlines. I have never had anyone tell me something was due tomorrow, "OR ELSE." Usually I was turning things in and they were telling me reasons why they would not be able to run it or pay me for it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: Our show will go 90 seconds long this week. Sorry everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Heather Z: I've been tuned in and enjoying the show! Popping in to say Happy St Paddy's to all!
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: There's a slight "chunkiness" to the voices in this version the show, and some of the lines sound like the actors might have cotton balls in their cheeks, or something. That's an artifact of the restoration process; the sound was so bad on the original recording that even the best efforts made some of the sound a little funky. I think you can still understand everything, but the voices sound a little strange, for sure.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:46 Thanks for listening, Heather Z! I hope you are doing well.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 Absolutely! I hope you're doing well, too! Things here are settling in a bit which is great. Bit o chaos recently!
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: If there's not at least one brawl or fistfight at a wedding, you probably didn't do it right.
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: I have NEVER heard the story that leprechauns repair shoes. Is that a real thing? I've heard that ELVES repair shoes...
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: And suddenly, after everyone talked about things like grown adults, it all worked out in the end...
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: Thanks again everyone! See ya next week, when we return to our regular schedule.
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: Are leprechauns real? If you believe in love, you believe in them, I guess....
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Webhamster Henry: Auger's daughter should have taken over the paper.
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:58 Totally!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: Surprise Jack Benny appearance!
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm WR: Both those productions have lots of plot resolution in the last few minutes. Thank you, Austin.
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: Surprise NYE message, too!
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! Take care!
	🎸 ♥ 11:03pm Webhamster Henry: Well I finished off my soda bread earlier today, so thanks !
	🎸 ♥ 11:05pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: great show ^_^ immersed in the world of the lil cobbler and crew 📻 sweet dreams, digital salon! ✨
	🎸 ♥ 11:51am WR: PS: You said something about the work you did to improve the audio quality may have adversely affected the voices, not noticeable to my ears. Again, many thanks.

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

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