WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 24, 2025

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 7:52pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:57pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:57 Imaginos! Always a delight to see you in the digital salon.
	9:01pm laurapanic: hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Man Who Hated Women"" by "Richard Diamond, P... In July, material about "The Heat" is always guaranteed to play, even if your show is syndicated nationally.
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:01 laurapanic! Finally, I can stop panicing...
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: "Probably a dead dog." Yikes! That's awful, too!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Song: ""The Man Who Hated Women"" by "Richard Diamond, P... I think I've met him!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: My grandmother tried to teach me how to knit. It didn't take, but I do have a fond memory of that summer, hanging out with grandma.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Knitting! A sensitive man in tune with his feminine side. The antithesis of our crook here?
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: Richard Diamond can be a pretty grim and rough show under the best of circumstances. This one starts off with a woman being murdered, and is titled, "The Man Who Hated Women," so I can understand why a lot of people would want to skip this episode. I get it - this one has the knitting comedy to balance things, and it doesn't work super well.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Official Good evening digital salon! 📻🌪️Listening raptly. 🛋️
	9:06pm laurapanic: here for the knitting B plot
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm GorillaFella: I love when Richard says "Lets Neck" haha we need to bring that term back into the modern lingo!
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm David The Splatter: I can't knit, but I CAN sew in a pinch.
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:05 red_door_what_for! I do love when you visit the Digital Salon.
	9:06pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 I panic enough for all. Give me your panic.
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ GorillaFella @9:06 GorillaFella and David The Splatter! Thanks for droppin' in. Hopefully we have enough punch and shortbread for everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:06 You can have it. I'm certainly tired of the worry.
	9:07pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 I can accept a jack the ripper plot, but Diamond knitting? Aaaaaarrrrrrgh!
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: We discover that Otis is sensitive enough to cry in front of his commanding officer.
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 Good old Rich Diamond! Glad to be here! 🥂 Cheers friends!
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:07 Cheers! I'm having a bit of bourbon and some club soda.
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm David The Splatter: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 Thanks, Austin! I have coffee, but wouldn't turn down shortbread.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: There's a few phone calls in this episode, and in general, I've found that phone calls are a bit hard to restore properly, so they sound they way they did originally, but sound clear enough to be understood and appreciated for any plot they might be conveying. A lot of restoration software wants to control for the sound of the phone call, to make it sound like that person is in the room. If you use the wrong kind of EQ, you can neutralize the phone effect too. So I often have to mix back in the original sound of the phone calls from the original broadcasts, un-enhanced or improved, so they sound like they're supposed to. It's a bit of an art.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:09 More shortbread for me!
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:12 Oh, wait! I misunderstood. You would like some. Me too, but I'll share.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Asheville Jon: lurkin' (and waiting for the cheesy reason for the song at the end of the show :) )
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: I tried Witch Shampoo and my hair started turning men to stone! It's working wonders!
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Asheville Jon @9:13 Asheville Jon! We do love our lurkers.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:13 The Medusa Medley.
	9:14pm Imaginos: This exchange makes it worth it. Reminds me of Ford Prefect
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: I gotta upgrade my witty insult game! Taking notes!
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:14 I often wonder if Douglas Adams listened to a lot of old radio dramas. There's little details here and there that feel like Adams might have borrowed them here and there.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm GorillaFella: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 I love that you put the effort in to restore these shows at all! The passion and attention is certainly felt! Now for another glass of punch :)
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @9:08 Classy drink! To my canned Bud Light michelada it would hardly make a clink 😁 But a hearty cheers! 🍻
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm David The Splatter: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:13 Witch Shampoo, sponsoring the "Which Witch is Which?" festival from Barno's show.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ GorillaFella @9:15 It's fun to figure out what each show needs. Some of these old shows are archived from recordings made off the broadcast at home, in 1949, using primitive gear. So some shows sound better than others, some are good on their own, others are not. There's all sorts of things you could run into, and each one needs to be treated differently. (Sort of like a boyfriend.)
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:16 Whatever works is my motto!
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Shoulda used the witch shampoo!
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:18 They'll certainly need a case to make it through the entire tour.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm GorillaFella: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 haha lord knows theres plenty of hair between those bands!
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm GorillaFella: Wow that shoe line was intense!
	9:22pm Imaginos: ↳ GorillaFella @9:21 The Cruel Shoes
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Austin Rich: I always like to imagine the way the show was originally heard. This aired in the summer, and Diamond has already established how hot it was during this case. I like to imagine people in a very stuffy house, the window open, the heat is intense, and they're listening to this show on the radio...
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: This ending scene gets pretty intense.
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: Diamond could have done something sooner. He was there in the car with them. What the hell?
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: At least her comedy line at the end saves it? (Not really...)
	9:28pm asheville jon: Oh geez
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Austin Rich: I've talked before about the abrupt tone shifts in Richard Diamond. The back and forth with horror, drama, and comedy - mixed with a lot of quips and hardboiled wisecracks - can be a bit much for some people. Personally, I like the tone shifts, as I think that's a little more realistic. The tone of real life changes constantly, and in spite of your best intentions or desires.
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Austin Rich: The film they were talking about: Mrs. Mike: en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 9:32pm GorillaFella: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 Man that story had me on the edge of my seat there! I really like this take on the tone shifts as well, life truly can be that unpredictable!
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm Austin Rich: It is easy to think of Cairo as some sort of "old fashioned" city, and I'm sure that you could find places like that in 1949. But Cairo had radio, TV, modern conveniences, and an interest in western culture, as much as their own. It was a fairly cosmopolitian city, like any other large international city, and was as modern as anywhere else in 1949. It's easy to forget that, given how the show is presented.
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ GorillaFella @9:32 Yeah, that one has a VERY dramatic ending.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Webhamster Henry: I'm off m zoom and here in time fro Rocky to get shot at or whatever.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:34 Good timing!
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Ohh Ricky!! 😍 Croon for her baby!! That story kept me enraptured through the end! That poor woman was breaking my heart! They really knew how to make em!!!! Feels like listening to an art piece. I understand why it was a big deal listening in live gathered around the radio, it earned its place as the main event! We have a "1940s cozy lounge" ambience video on the TV for effect 🛋️📻🔥
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 Well said!
	9:37pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:33 I like to think that it was old fashioned in some areas as far as the architecture but once you went indoors you had all the modern convenience
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Austin Rich: In these early episodes of Rocky Jordan, the show did not have a sponsor, so when the show would "go to commercial," they would promote other shows that were on the same station. But In a few weeks there will be a change, as the show will get a sponsor: Del Monte Tomato Products. So enjoy the last of the "Little Egypt Brand Cigarettes" Ads, as that will be changed soon.
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:37 Totally!
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: Damn, this first hour is not doing a lot in terms of how women are portrayed in old radio shows. Of course, women did not get many prominent roles in major shows, and when they did get big roles in smaller shows, they were not as well documented, or archived. (Very typical, unfortunately.) I do try to find shows that are exceptions, but you do run into a lot of clunkers, when you listen to every episode of a show, like we do here.
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 Wrapped with REAL mummy remains! They dont make em like that anymore!
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:47 Ha!
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 Makes for an interesting discussion though!
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 Women were a big part of how radio stations functioned in this era. Every studio had at least one voice actress, maybe two, who did all the voice work for all the shows they made. Secretaries typed scripts, and were often writers, too, and would also act as program directors and any other role that might be needed behind the scenes. Since the golden age of radio was during WWII, many women replaced men at radio stations in the tech roles, too. It is a shame that we don't have more archives of shows that star women, because they were an essential part of the way radio operated in these days.
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:47 I missed this joke! That's the kind of cigarette that only the undead can truly appreciate!
	🎸 ♥ 10:00pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Good ol Sammy knows him too well!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:04pm David The Splatter: Thanks, Austin. Been listening while cleaning up for the night.
	10:06pm Imaginos: Can't be as bad as Night Train to Terror
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @9:51 Here for the timely women's history lesson !! It may be ugly at times but facing reality we have power. Grateful for the work and progress since then, may justice prevail 📻♀️✊💖🎶✨ Glad you enjoy my jokes 😁 Shoutouts right back at ya! 🍻
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Webhamster Henry: Thank You! These Frees shows are silly and short!
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm GorillaFella: ↳ Austin Rich @9:51 Thats super interesting! Its too bad that more of those women didnt get proper recognition or archiving but it really puts things into perspective- I Love Lucy made its debut during the last year of Rocky Jordan (51)! I imagine it must have been incredibly inspiring and empowering for women to see at the time
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm David The Splatter: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @10:11 Reminds me of the disclaimer in front of old WB cartoons, "presented as they were originally created. To do otherwise, would be to claim as these prejudices never existed."
	10:16pm Imaginos: ↳ GorillaFella @10:13 Lucy also was responsible for getting a little known sci-fi series on air. Something called Star Trek
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Webhamster Henry: Frees was “The Green Lama”, but that show was a real snooze. There are a zillion films where the offscreen announcer is Frees.
	10:16pm laurapanic: Tomorrow has GOT TO GET BETTER
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ GorillaFella @10:13 Lucy had a radio show / comedy that she starred in before I Love Lucy, on at the same time at Rocky Jordan, too! I've been meaning to run more of them, but we don't play many comedies on this program.
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:16 I hope so. It's hard to have a good attitude about that, sometimes.
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm David The Splatter: ↳ laurapanic @10:16 It will. I don't know how, but it will.
	10:18pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 Leonidas Witherall
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:16 Once you have an ear for his voice, you start to hear him EVERYWHERE. Maulydaft (occasionaly hanger on here in the digital salon) likes to call Paul Frees, "The Poor Man's Orson Welles."
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Webhamster Henry: The Conquerer is famous for having been shot on a nuclear test site, and most of the cast died of cancer .
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: MTM!!💖 Broadcasting icon. Def stuck as the "secretary" tho...:/
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:18 I feel like that tid-bit inspired a similar storyline in the Watchmen comic.
	10:20pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy.
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:20 I understand. I hope you get some excellent sleep.
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm Heather Z: I mean, I think I'd divorce my spouse, too, if they kept selling our houses without even telling me...
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: my buddy said "ambitious is one way to put it" 💀 his poor wife!
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The Asylum of Dr. Drear, Pt. 1"" by "The Blue Be... Dr. Drear? Wasn’t he in N.W.A.?
	10:21pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 Thank you
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm David The Splatter: I've got to get to bed. Working tomorrow. Please help yourself to the rest of the shortbread. :D
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Asylum of Dr. Drear, Pt. 1"" by "The Blue Be... As I mentioned in the VO, this episode centers around an Asylum, and some of the portrayals of the inmates is not very sensitive. I do apologize; some stories do not age as well as others.
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:21 Zing...
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @10:21 Yes!
	10:23pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 <<listens with an academic ear>
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ David The Splatter @10:15 Keeping it real!
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Love the Blue Beetle's voice! Unrelated: Potential fifth Beatle?
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:21 It doesn't make these kinds of stories right, but when I hear stories about 1960, I have to change the way I interpret them, because they were 60 years ago, and the perspectives we have now just did not exist. But certainly, any spouse in 2025 who behaves like that needs to be dumped immediately.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Goodnight to the sleepyheads, meet you in dreamland later ✨
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @10:26 As for me i gotta see what happens to Blue Beetle first...
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @10:15 I agree! You can't hide the way we used to be in the past, even if we are clear about not supporting that kind of thing anymore.
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @10:24 Wouldn't the Blue Beetle - who came before them - be the first Beatle?
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Austin Rich: This is the scene I feel is not very sensitive.
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:26 I feel like, even in 60 years ago, most husbands would at least mention it to their wives (since women couldn't own property, if I'm remembering correctly). Seems inconsiderate in any era.
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:29 There was a cultural behavior, where men would not discuss money with women, or their wives. It's not right, and as the story indicated, she divorced him when she found out. But it was so much more common than anyone can imagine, now. This was something we used to talk about when I taught the 1930's American Culture class at PSU.
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: Looks like we'll go three minutes over tonight. Sorry everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 Keeps us from repeating history inadvertently, for it might not be as obvious at first glance in it's modern repetition, but in studying history we can draw informed comparisons.
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Hope im not overstating teehee. Time to eat my pudding 😁
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @10:34 This is why I try to watch and read and listen to things I don't agree with. It helps sharpen my perspective on what's WRONG with those things, and allows me to be more critical of the things that are awful in our culture, if I actually know about them. It's pretty easy to let ignorance prevent me from thinking very deeply.
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 Then there's Beetle Bailey.
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @10:35 💥💥Spot on! Keeps us from developing blind spots.
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Pictures Don't Lie"" by "X-Minus One" One of the few X-Minus One stories written by a woman! That's our balance for the evening.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The Asylum of Dr. Drear, Pt. 1"" by "The Blue Be... screenrant.com...
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:35 I guess he was the second Beatle, then? I guess that makes Pete Best the sixth or seventh Beatle?
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:37 Oh! Very interesting.
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Pictures Don't Lie"" by "X-Minus One" Read along: gutenberg.org...
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: Here's a little more about Katherine MacLean: "As a science fiction writer she has few peers; her work is not only technically brilliant but has a rare human warmth and richness." en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: Listening to radio bursts from distant stars is still one of the ways that scientists are trying to decode the mysteries of the stars, and to possibly look for intelligent life...
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm GorillaFella: ↳ Austin Rich @10:42 Reminds me a bit of the Outer Limits episode The Galaxy Being. I wonder if this inspired that story at all
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:32 Given [gestures broadly], any reply I have to this is too grim for this nice radio chat stream! This is making me think of the WOW signal and I love to think about the WOW signal!
	🎸 ♥ 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ GorillaFella @10:44 That is very likely! The book Contact has roughly the same story as this episode.
	10:46pm wenzo: good late hello!
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:44 I believe the world is so much more grim than anyone wants to believe or admit. More girm than that, even.
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:46 wenzo! Thanks for joining us.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:46 I agree with you, sadly.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: There's an episode of Amazing Stories where the kids in that show watch TV Shows from another planet.
	🎸 ♥ 10:48pm Austin Rich: "A Radio Burst Lending Library" sounds like streaming Television to me.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: WFMU origin story?👽✌️✨🌌📡🛰️〰️📻❓
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm David Shortell: ↳ David Shortell @10:38 I’d bet this story’s 1962 British TV dramatization is lost forever, but you can still find the EC Comics adaptation Joe Orlando drew in Weird Science #12. Al Feldstein retitled it “Chewed Out!” barebonesez.blogspot.com...
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Heather Z: Was Jolt cola a national thing? Your ad brought that to mind! We loved Jolt!
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:49 I do love those Joe Orlando EC Comics stories.
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: I love learning. Thank you all 💖
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:50 We had Jolt. There is a noise artist out here called, "Jolthrower," who wears only Jolt merchandise, and makes noise music with old Jolt Cola cans.
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: It's.... it's.... ALF from Melmac!
	10:52pm asheville jon: Thanks Rich
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 Omg that's so good!! I'm going to have to Google them! Jolt tasted awful, really, but I do still like things that taste medicinal.
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:53 It made you feel bad after drinking one, too. I usually got a headache from one. I can't really drink soda anymore anyway, but I remember Jolt being "Bad."
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 I can't handle soda anymore, either, but my sister and I loved Jolt. I don't remember it making us sick but we probably still would have asked for it anyway! Silly kids.
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: "They can't stand Gershwin."
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Lol Gershwin! Fascinating how they describe the film
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:55 There was sort of a "caffeine arms race" back then, and I remember a lot of almost intolerable sodas that came out in the wake of Jolt. That was when I started drinking more ginger ale.
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: We're getting near the end. I think you might notice a similarity in a detail from one of Douglas Adams books, with the way this ends...
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 I only remember Jolt here and then Wegmans came out with their brand WPop. We moved onto that quickly because it was super cheap and had all the flavors!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Heather Z: Night everyone! Thanks for a great show, as always, Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: Their ship is too small! Just like a certain invading fleet in one of the Hitchhiker's books, by Douglas Adams.
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: Thanks for listening everyone. See ya'll next week.
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm GorillaFella: Wowww loved that one! Thanks for another great show, looking forward to tuning in again next week :)
	🎸 ♥ 11:05pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: WOW!! 🕵️‍♂️ Thank you Austin Rich!! Goodnight digital salon, see you in dreamland 🌌🍬✨📻🛋️🛌🪟🌛✌️

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 24, 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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March 24, 2025: Episode #124

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Richard Diamond, Private Investigator	"The Man Who Hated Women"	16 July 1949	NBC	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Adventures of Rocky Jordan	"The Broken Wing"	10 July 1949	Santana Productions	0:31:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Bill Justis	Raunchy "Raunchy" by "Bill Justis"			1:01:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
GetTV	Music, Radio & Film: The Ambitious Life of Dick Powell, Part 6	Music, Radio & Film: The Ambitious Life of Dick Powell	GetTV	1:16:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Blue Beetle	"The Asylum of Dr. Drear, Pt. 1"	4 September 1940	Mutual–Don Lee Network	1:21:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"Pictures Don't Lie" ""Pictures Don't Lie"" by "X-Minus One"	24 October 1956	NBC Radio	1:34:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 7:52pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:57pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:57 Imaginos! Always a delight to see you in the digital salon.
	9:01pm laurapanic: hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Man Who Hated Women"" by "Richard Diamond, P... In July, material about "The Heat" is always guaranteed to play, even if your show is syndicated nationally.
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:01 laurapanic! Finally, I can stop panicing...
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: "Probably a dead dog." Yikes! That's awful, too!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Song: ""The Man Who Hated Women"" by "Richard Diamond, P... I think I've met him!
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: My grandmother tried to teach me how to knit. It didn't take, but I do have a fond memory of that summer, hanging out with grandma.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Knitting! A sensitive man in tune with his feminine side. The antithesis of our crook here?
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: Richard Diamond can be a pretty grim and rough show under the best of circumstances. This one starts off with a woman being murdered, and is titled, "The Man Who Hated Women," so I can understand why a lot of people would want to skip this episode. I get it - this one has the knitting comedy to balance things, and it doesn't work super well.
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Official Good evening digital salon! 📻🌪️Listening raptly. 🛋️
	9:06pm laurapanic: here for the knitting B plot
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm GorillaFella: I love when Richard says "Lets Neck" haha we need to bring that term back into the modern lingo!
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm David The Splatter: I can't knit, but I CAN sew in a pinch.
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:05 red_door_what_for! I do love when you visit the Digital Salon.
	9:06pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 I panic enough for all. Give me your panic.
	🎸 ♥ 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ GorillaFella @9:06 GorillaFella and David The Splatter! Thanks for droppin' in. Hopefully we have enough punch and shortbread for everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:06 You can have it. I'm certainly tired of the worry.
	9:07pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 I can accept a jack the ripper plot, but Diamond knitting? Aaaaaarrrrrrgh!
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: We discover that Otis is sensitive enough to cry in front of his commanding officer.
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 Good old Rich Diamond! Glad to be here! 🥂 Cheers friends!
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:07 Cheers! I'm having a bit of bourbon and some club soda.
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm David The Splatter: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 Thanks, Austin! I have coffee, but wouldn't turn down shortbread.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: There's a few phone calls in this episode, and in general, I've found that phone calls are a bit hard to restore properly, so they sound they way they did originally, but sound clear enough to be understood and appreciated for any plot they might be conveying. A lot of restoration software wants to control for the sound of the phone call, to make it sound like that person is in the room. If you use the wrong kind of EQ, you can neutralize the phone effect too. So I often have to mix back in the original sound of the phone calls from the original broadcasts, un-enhanced or improved, so they sound like they're supposed to. It's a bit of an art.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:09 More shortbread for me!
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:12 Oh, wait! I misunderstood. You would like some. Me too, but I'll share.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Asheville Jon: lurkin' (and waiting for the cheesy reason for the song at the end of the show :) )
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: I tried Witch Shampoo and my hair started turning men to stone! It's working wonders!
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Asheville Jon @9:13 Asheville Jon! We do love our lurkers.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:13 The Medusa Medley.
	9:14pm Imaginos: This exchange makes it worth it. Reminds me of Ford Prefect
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: I gotta upgrade my witty insult game! Taking notes!
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:14 I often wonder if Douglas Adams listened to a lot of old radio dramas. There's little details here and there that feel like Adams might have borrowed them here and there.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm GorillaFella: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 I love that you put the effort in to restore these shows at all! The passion and attention is certainly felt! Now for another glass of punch :)
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @9:08 Classy drink! To my canned Bud Light michelada it would hardly make a clink 😁 But a hearty cheers! 🍻
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm David The Splatter: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:13 Witch Shampoo, sponsoring the "Which Witch is Which?" festival from Barno's show.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ GorillaFella @9:15 It's fun to figure out what each show needs. Some of these old shows are archived from recordings made off the broadcast at home, in 1949, using primitive gear. So some shows sound better than others, some are good on their own, others are not. There's all sorts of things you could run into, and each one needs to be treated differently. (Sort of like a boyfriend.)
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:16 Whatever works is my motto!
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Shoulda used the witch shampoo!
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @9:18 They'll certainly need a case to make it through the entire tour.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm GorillaFella: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 haha lord knows theres plenty of hair between those bands!
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm GorillaFella: Wow that shoe line was intense!
	9:22pm Imaginos: ↳ GorillaFella @9:21 The Cruel Shoes
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Austin Rich: I always like to imagine the way the show was originally heard. This aired in the summer, and Diamond has already established how hot it was during this case. I like to imagine people in a very stuffy house, the window open, the heat is intense, and they're listening to this show on the radio...
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: This ending scene gets pretty intense.
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: Diamond could have done something sooner. He was there in the car with them. What the hell?
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: At least her comedy line at the end saves it? (Not really...)
	9:28pm asheville jon: Oh geez
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Austin Rich: I've talked before about the abrupt tone shifts in Richard Diamond. The back and forth with horror, drama, and comedy - mixed with a lot of quips and hardboiled wisecracks - can be a bit much for some people. Personally, I like the tone shifts, as I think that's a little more realistic. The tone of real life changes constantly, and in spite of your best intentions or desires.
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Austin Rich: The film they were talking about: Mrs. Mike: en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 9:32pm GorillaFella: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 Man that story had me on the edge of my seat there! I really like this take on the tone shifts as well, life truly can be that unpredictable!
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm Austin Rich: It is easy to think of Cairo as some sort of "old fashioned" city, and I'm sure that you could find places like that in 1949. But Cairo had radio, TV, modern conveniences, and an interest in western culture, as much as their own. It was a fairly cosmopolitian city, like any other large international city, and was as modern as anywhere else in 1949. It's easy to forget that, given how the show is presented.
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ GorillaFella @9:32 Yeah, that one has a VERY dramatic ending.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Webhamster Henry: I'm off m zoom and here in time fro Rocky to get shot at or whatever.
	🎸 ♥ 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:34 Good timing!
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Ohh Ricky!! 😍 Croon for her baby!! That story kept me enraptured through the end! That poor woman was breaking my heart! They really knew how to make em!!!! Feels like listening to an art piece. I understand why it was a big deal listening in live gathered around the radio, it earned its place as the main event! We have a "1940s cozy lounge" ambience video on the TV for effect 🛋️📻🔥
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @9:30 Well said!
	9:37pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:33 I like to think that it was old fashioned in some areas as far as the architecture but once you went indoors you had all the modern convenience
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Austin Rich: In these early episodes of Rocky Jordan, the show did not have a sponsor, so when the show would "go to commercial," they would promote other shows that were on the same station. But In a few weeks there will be a change, as the show will get a sponsor: Del Monte Tomato Products. So enjoy the last of the "Little Egypt Brand Cigarettes" Ads, as that will be changed soon.
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:37 Totally!
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: Damn, this first hour is not doing a lot in terms of how women are portrayed in old radio shows. Of course, women did not get many prominent roles in major shows, and when they did get big roles in smaller shows, they were not as well documented, or archived. (Very typical, unfortunately.) I do try to find shows that are exceptions, but you do run into a lot of clunkers, when you listen to every episode of a show, like we do here.
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 Wrapped with REAL mummy remains! They dont make em like that anymore!
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:47 Ha!
	🎸 ♥ 9:48pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 Makes for an interesting discussion though!
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 Women were a big part of how radio stations functioned in this era. Every studio had at least one voice actress, maybe two, who did all the voice work for all the shows they made. Secretaries typed scripts, and were often writers, too, and would also act as program directors and any other role that might be needed behind the scenes. Since the golden age of radio was during WWII, many women replaced men at radio stations in the tech roles, too. It is a shame that we don't have more archives of shows that star women, because they were an essential part of the way radio operated in these days.
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @9:47 I missed this joke! That's the kind of cigarette that only the undead can truly appreciate!
	🎸 ♥ 10:00pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Good ol Sammy knows him too well!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:04pm David The Splatter: Thanks, Austin. Been listening while cleaning up for the night.
	10:06pm Imaginos: Can't be as bad as Night Train to Terror
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @9:51 Here for the timely women's history lesson !! It may be ugly at times but facing reality we have power. Grateful for the work and progress since then, may justice prevail 📻♀️✊💖🎶✨ Glad you enjoy my jokes 😁 Shoutouts right back at ya! 🍻
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Webhamster Henry: Thank You! These Frees shows are silly and short!
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm GorillaFella: ↳ Austin Rich @9:51 Thats super interesting! Its too bad that more of those women didnt get proper recognition or archiving but it really puts things into perspective- I Love Lucy made its debut during the last year of Rocky Jordan (51)! I imagine it must have been incredibly inspiring and empowering for women to see at the time
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm David The Splatter: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @10:11 Reminds me of the disclaimer in front of old WB cartoons, "presented as they were originally created. To do otherwise, would be to claim as these prejudices never existed."
	10:16pm Imaginos: ↳ GorillaFella @10:13 Lucy also was responsible for getting a little known sci-fi series on air. Something called Star Trek
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Webhamster Henry: Frees was “The Green Lama”, but that show was a real snooze. There are a zillion films where the offscreen announcer is Frees.
	10:16pm laurapanic: Tomorrow has GOT TO GET BETTER
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ GorillaFella @10:13 Lucy had a radio show / comedy that she starred in before I Love Lucy, on at the same time at Rocky Jordan, too! I've been meaning to run more of them, but we don't play many comedies on this program.
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:16 I hope so. It's hard to have a good attitude about that, sometimes.
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm David The Splatter: ↳ laurapanic @10:16 It will. I don't know how, but it will.
	10:18pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 Leonidas Witherall
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:16 Once you have an ear for his voice, you start to hear him EVERYWHERE. Maulydaft (occasionaly hanger on here in the digital salon) likes to call Paul Frees, "The Poor Man's Orson Welles."
	🎸 ♥ 10:18pm Webhamster Henry: The Conquerer is famous for having been shot on a nuclear test site, and most of the cast died of cancer .
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: MTM!!💖 Broadcasting icon. Def stuck as the "secretary" tho...:/
	🎸 ♥ 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:18 I feel like that tid-bit inspired a similar storyline in the Watchmen comic.
	10:20pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy.
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:20 I understand. I hope you get some excellent sleep.
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm Heather Z: I mean, I think I'd divorce my spouse, too, if they kept selling our houses without even telling me...
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: my buddy said "ambitious is one way to put it" 💀 his poor wife!
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The Asylum of Dr. Drear, Pt. 1"" by "The Blue Be... Dr. Drear? Wasn’t he in N.W.A.?
	10:21pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 Thank you
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm David The Splatter: I've got to get to bed. Working tomorrow. Please help yourself to the rest of the shortbread. :D
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""The Asylum of Dr. Drear, Pt. 1"" by "The Blue Be... As I mentioned in the VO, this episode centers around an Asylum, and some of the portrayals of the inmates is not very sensitive. I do apologize; some stories do not age as well as others.
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:21 Zing...
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @10:21 Yes!
	10:23pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 <<listens with an academic ear>
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ David The Splatter @10:15 Keeping it real!
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Love the Blue Beetle's voice! Unrelated: Potential fifth Beatle?
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:21 It doesn't make these kinds of stories right, but when I hear stories about 1960, I have to change the way I interpret them, because they were 60 years ago, and the perspectives we have now just did not exist. But certainly, any spouse in 2025 who behaves like that needs to be dumped immediately.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Goodnight to the sleepyheads, meet you in dreamland later ✨
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @10:26 As for me i gotta see what happens to Blue Beetle first...
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @10:15 I agree! You can't hide the way we used to be in the past, even if we are clear about not supporting that kind of thing anymore.
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @10:24 Wouldn't the Blue Beetle - who came before them - be the first Beatle?
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Austin Rich: This is the scene I feel is not very sensitive.
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:26 I feel like, even in 60 years ago, most husbands would at least mention it to their wives (since women couldn't own property, if I'm remembering correctly). Seems inconsiderate in any era.
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:29 There was a cultural behavior, where men would not discuss money with women, or their wives. It's not right, and as the story indicated, she divorced him when she found out. But it was so much more common than anyone can imagine, now. This was something we used to talk about when I taught the 1930's American Culture class at PSU.
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Austin Rich: Looks like we'll go three minutes over tonight. Sorry everyone!
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 Keeps us from repeating history inadvertently, for it might not be as obvious at first glance in it's modern repetition, but in studying history we can draw informed comparisons.
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Hope im not overstating teehee. Time to eat my pudding 😁
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ red_door_what_for in ypsilanti @10:34 This is why I try to watch and read and listen to things I don't agree with. It helps sharpen my perspective on what's WRONG with those things, and allows me to be more critical of the things that are awful in our culture, if I actually know about them. It's pretty easy to let ignorance prevent me from thinking very deeply.
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 Then there's Beetle Bailey.
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Austin Rich @10:35 💥💥Spot on! Keeps us from developing blind spots.
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Pictures Don't Lie"" by "X-Minus One" One of the few X-Minus One stories written by a woman! That's our balance for the evening.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The Asylum of Dr. Drear, Pt. 1"" by "The Blue Be... screenrant.com...
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:35 I guess he was the second Beatle, then? I guess that makes Pete Best the sixth or seventh Beatle?
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:37 Oh! Very interesting.
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Pictures Don't Lie"" by "X-Minus One" Read along: gutenberg.org...
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: Here's a little more about Katherine MacLean: "As a science fiction writer she has few peers; her work is not only technically brilliant but has a rare human warmth and richness." en.wikipedia.org...
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: Listening to radio bursts from distant stars is still one of the ways that scientists are trying to decode the mysteries of the stars, and to possibly look for intelligent life...
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm GorillaFella: ↳ Austin Rich @10:42 Reminds me a bit of the Outer Limits episode The Galaxy Being. I wonder if this inspired that story at all
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:32 Given [gestures broadly], any reply I have to this is too grim for this nice radio chat stream! This is making me think of the WOW signal and I love to think about the WOW signal!
	🎸 ♥ 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ GorillaFella @10:44 That is very likely! The book Contact has roughly the same story as this episode.
	10:46pm wenzo: good late hello!
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:44 I believe the world is so much more grim than anyone wants to believe or admit. More girm than that, even.
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:46 wenzo! Thanks for joining us.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:46 I agree with you, sadly.
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: There's an episode of Amazing Stories where the kids in that show watch TV Shows from another planet.
	🎸 ♥ 10:48pm Austin Rich: "A Radio Burst Lending Library" sounds like streaming Television to me.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: WFMU origin story?👽✌️✨🌌📡🛰️〰️📻❓
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm David Shortell: ↳ David Shortell @10:38 I’d bet this story’s 1962 British TV dramatization is lost forever, but you can still find the EC Comics adaptation Joe Orlando drew in Weird Science #12. Al Feldstein retitled it “Chewed Out!” barebonesez.blogspot.com...
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Heather Z: Was Jolt cola a national thing? Your ad brought that to mind! We loved Jolt!
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:49 I do love those Joe Orlando EC Comics stories.
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: I love learning. Thank you all 💖
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:50 We had Jolt. There is a noise artist out here called, "Jolthrower," who wears only Jolt merchandise, and makes noise music with old Jolt Cola cans.
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: It's.... it's.... ALF from Melmac!
	10:52pm asheville jon: Thanks Rich
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 Omg that's so good!! I'm going to have to Google them! Jolt tasted awful, really, but I do still like things that taste medicinal.
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:53 It made you feel bad after drinking one, too. I usually got a headache from one. I can't really drink soda anymore anyway, but I remember Jolt being "Bad."
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 I can't handle soda anymore, either, but my sister and I loved Jolt. I don't remember it making us sick but we probably still would have asked for it anyway! Silly kids.
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: "They can't stand Gershwin."
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Lol Gershwin! Fascinating how they describe the film
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:55 There was sort of a "caffeine arms race" back then, and I remember a lot of almost intolerable sodas that came out in the wake of Jolt. That was when I started drinking more ginger ale.
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: We're getting near the end. I think you might notice a similarity in a detail from one of Douglas Adams books, with the way this ends...
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 I only remember Jolt here and then Wegmans came out with their brand WPop. We moved onto that quickly because it was super cheap and had all the flavors!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Heather Z: Night everyone! Thanks for a great show, as always, Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: Their ship is too small! Just like a certain invading fleet in one of the Hitchhiker's books, by Douglas Adams.
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: Thanks for listening everyone. See ya'll next week.
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm GorillaFella: Wowww loved that one! Thanks for another great show, looking forward to tuning in again next week :)
	🎸 ♥ 11:05pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: WOW!! 🕵️‍♂️ Thank you Austin Rich!! Goodnight digital salon, see you in dreamland 🌌🍬✨📻🛋️🛌🪟🌛✌️

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 24, 2025

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