WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 22, 2023

Listener comments!
	👻 7:48pm Austin Rich: Good Hello
	9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	9:01pm Charles: There's nothing like winding down with Candy and friends.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: I like that Candy has a friend, and they talk about stuff that isn't a man. This show is progressive for 1949!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:01 Charles! I do enjoy a little Candy, too.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:01 Yay! Always a pleasure to see you in the chat.
	9:03pm Charles: Missing Santa Claus Helper ... intense organ
	9:03pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: What is it with Jack Frosts and troublemaking.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: This is one of a series of Candy Matson episodes, set during the holidays. With so many shows in the run completely missing, it's actually sort of unusual to have the holiday episodes be the ones that survived. (There are a lot of other shows where the holiday shows are the ones missing.) My theory is that someone pulled the holiday shows to air again, around the holidays... and were thus in circulation. I think there are four, total. So... it's Christmas in the Summer on Dimestore Radio Theater!
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:03 Jack Frosts are a little less troublesome than Jack Sprats, apparently.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:03 The comedy organ stings are a completely lost art.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: Rembrandt's "friend."
	9:06pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 True.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: Rembrandt is very fond of Diogenes. Ahem.
	9:07pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 Do we need music besides doorchimes for Lost Christobel?
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: Rembrandt has a file on male models he uses regularly. Ahem.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:07 I was thinking I might need to cook up a few tunes here and there.
	9:08pm Charles: That exchange was amazing.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: And Rembrandt admits to being "gay" in that last scene, even...
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:08 Yeah. The acting is pretty great on this show, too. With the excellent writing... it sort of elevates this show in a way others of the era have trouble reaching.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: The comments of how complex parking is in SF are in nearly every episode Candy goes for a drive. Apparently entirely true, even?
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: "Rocky Jordan" was a show that was, originally, referred to as, "A Man Named Jordan." It's a sort of "Casablanca" knock-off radio show, which I might run on this program, someday.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: (And yes, Rocky Jordan was on a different network. Apparently Candy is aware of the fact she's a character on a radio show, too.)
	9:14pm Charles: Love those early fourth wall breaking.
	9:15pm Dean: Not entirely true. I live in Berkeley, travel to SF less than once a year, but I had to go there Saturday to pick up my wife from an event in Potrero Hill. Parking was plentiful.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:14 Candy usually mentions the announcer, too.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:15 Good to know! I've never drove while I was in SF, so I don't know for real. Just going on what I've read, with regards to the "running jokes" on the show. Perhaps it's improved?
	9:16pm Dean: I marvel at how much, like live theater, I love radio theater. Yet I can't stomach film.
	9:17pm Dean: Parking in SF is awful in some neighborhoods, not so bad in others.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:16 Yeah, most of my entertainment is from this kind of storytelling.
	9:18pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Dean @9:17 Depends on if the road is horizontal or vertical.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:17 There is a single episode that I found where she does comment, "I easily found parking, a minor miracle."
	9:19pm Dean: ...and if the parking is 45 or 90 degrees.
	9:20pm Dean: ...or parallel.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: Given the "less than great" delivery on that kids dialog, it's likely that was actually a real kid.
	9:24pm Dean: Verisimilitude!
	9:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: That Mallard is just ducky.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: It is interesting: Candy's nickname for Rembrandt is "Ducky." Mallard is her boyfriend. Seems like it's sort of a complicated relationship.
	9:27pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Sounds like its for the birds.
	9:28pm Webhamster Henry: I did it!
	9:28pm Dean: In my 'hood we have similar bars: Club Mallard, Albatross (shut down during pandemic), Stork Club.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:28 Webhamster Henry! Very cool.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:28 I hope all of them have those little "drinking bird" novelty items somewhere...
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: "It was behind the sofa the whole time!"
	9:31pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 Or dancers posed to dip forward like them
	9:31pm Charles: It's all very funny. Good times.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: "He socked me in the mouth. Not a weird phrasing at all!"
	9:33pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:31 Especially not weird to Goldie Hawn fans
	9:33pm Charles: There you go. The kids was not ficticious!
	9:33pm Charles: *Topper the kid
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: The sound is a little funky on "Bold Venture" this week. Some slight distortion, in the high-end range of this recording. I did a little EQ to try and improve it, but this was the best I could get. It's listenable, and not that bad... but it's there.
	9:34pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Are we going to do your famous ads for Lost Christobel?
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:33 I missed that the first time through! Good ear!
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:34 "I didn't ask her." Sailor is the best
	9:35pm Charles: "I didnt ask her." Laughed out loud.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:34 Only if you want. I thought we would just do the script straight.
	9:37pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:35 Straight is good. But as its meant to be a soa pm, I thought it would be fun to use that kind of format.
	9:37pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Soap opera
	9:37pm Dean: She should teach him how to whistle through the hole in his head.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:37 Agreed. There is room for having fun with it.
	9:41pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 It might be fun to create ads for 1800s items.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:41 "The Powdered Wig Emporium."
	9:41pm Dean: Es-TRELL-ah?!
	9:42pm Dean: Bogart sounds like Groucho.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:42 Were they ever in a movie together? They should have been!
	9:43pm Dean: The possibilities...
	9:44pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:41 That's a good one. Or Ruby's Aniseed Twists
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:43 I guess "A Night In Casablanca" has a couple swipes at "Casablanca" itself, but they really should have acted against each other. How fun would that be!
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:43 Oh dear! www.imdb.com...
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 "Rich Little plays all the major characters in the retelling of the Robin Hood story. As in his version of A Christmas Carol, Little plays each character through a classic Hollywood personality. Groucho Marx is Robin, Carol Channing is Maid Marion, Humphrey Bogart is Prince John, John Wayne is Little John, and Laurel & Hardy are the Sheriffs of Nottingham."
	9:47pm Webhamster Henry: People should know better than to show up on Bold Venture.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:47 Yeah. It never bodes well for your character.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: "It makes me stop and think." Sailor is on a roll!
	9:51pm Webhamster Henry: More low quality Foley and dicey accents on Bold Venture!
	9:52pm wenzo: Howdy AR & radio Frenz
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:51 It makes me wonder who was cutting corners on making the show. I know that Bogart and Bacall were, in many ways, just showing up to do the dialog, making suggestions about what they thought their characters would be like. But I think the SFX and music was all assembled by the people who were working at Santana Productions, which was owned by Bogart... but who didn't really have much to do with, in terms of operation, or who did what. Clearly, someone didn't pay too much attention to this show, in certain ways.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:52 Wenzo! Hooray!
	9:56pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:54 It just proves that Bacall reading the phone book would make a fine show.
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:56 I would listen to that.
	10:00pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! I’m at the corner pub so I can see the Lakers playoff game, and alas, they’re not playing WFMU.
	10:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Mr Fab @10:00 😢
	10:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Zoom vroom!
	10:05pm Mr Fab: They are playing an oddly wFMU-like mix on the jukebox: Digital Underground, David Byrne, Chubby Checker’s “Limbo Rock.” Can’t compete with Lauren Bacall tho of course.
	10:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Miracle for Christmas was run many times
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:08 One of my favorite "Hour of Slack" jokes is that their Christmas show was THE ONLY Christmas show they every ran, at Christmas. Years and years later, the same show, every Christmas. I appreciated that.
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:05 Damn! That does sort of sound like a WFMU show. And toss in a Little Bacall for good measure! Why not.
	10:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Getting sleepy.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:13 I understand. It's much later for you where you are. Sleep well!
	10:14pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I will. See you tomorrow night
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:14 Indeed!
	10:15pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:12 Then they played Nina Simone!? But know what- I just put in my ear buds to listen to ya Austin. The loud drunk who just sat next to me is drowning it all out. wFMU to the rescue.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:15 I do love Nina Simone.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:15 Hopefully the game goes well, Mr. Fab?
	10:19pm Mr Fab: Chandu! Lakers gonna need some of his magic
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:19 I haven't followed Basketball since I was a kid. Didn't they used to be good? Or was that, like, 20 years ago, and I'm REALLY out of the loop?
	10:23pm Mr Fab: They’re good, they’ve made It this far into the playoffs. But it could end tonight.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:23 Oh! I forgot it was the Playoffs. Of course! Yes, even if you're good... it's a whole other ball game, now. Wait... that isn't really a metaphor, in this case.
	10:25pm Mr Fab: Ha! I wonder if Chandu is building towards an ending. Some sort of grand finale. Or it just keeping goin along..
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:25 I've never actually listened this far in, before. But yeah... they're still looking for Robert... but at least everyone seems to actually believe Chandu can do magic, now.
	10:27pm Webhamster Henry: I think I listened to this stretch of Chandu on WBAI decades ago .. yeah it takes forever to do anything.
	10:29pm Dean: Just catching up with the Groucho/Bogart discussion up-thread. I don't think I was ever aware of the Rich Little programs. However, I did recently write a poem that refers to Frank Gorshin.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: I will admit: my primary interest in Chandu was the Korla Pandit music.
	10:29pm wenzo: Huzzah huzzah!
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:29 I remember Rich Little's comedy was sort of only just. Him impressions weren't bad, but... I'm not sure if they were funny? They were more spot on than anything else. But I'm not sure I can really recommend Rich Little's "comedy." (Or, maybe I would be able to, if he were to ever give us any.)
	10:31pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:29 Which is a damn good reason!
	10:32pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 I have the David Frye "Richard Nixon: a Fantasy" record. Nowadays, you could replicate these scripts with voice cloning software.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:32 Good Point! Yeah, I bet AI aps could create that Nixon album in a couple hours.
	10:33pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 I bought a Rich Little album for a buck. Oi. Well, win some, lose some…
	10:33pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: ""A Man In The Moon"" by "X-Minus One" GET OFF THIS WAVELENGTH! CQ = "Seek You" in Ham-speak.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:33 Yeah... I don't really remember him being funny... but... he was working!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:33 I was just about to look that up! Thanks!
	👻 10:34pm David Shortell: I just tuned in and missed Chandu. Was he a Mandrake knockoff, or more like John Constantine? (Dr. Fate, maybe?)
	10:35pm Dean: Little was more cautious than Gorshin, it seems.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:34 Hmmmm. Good Question! The late 40's Chandu is a remake of a 30's radio show (same premise, but older). And Mandrake was also a 30's magician, who was on both radio and in comics. So... Chandu could be a Mandrake knock off, or the other way around!
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:34 I think Dr. Fate started in the 40's, so I suspect he was probably inspired by the magician craze in pop culture.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:34 I think, visually, Chandu was supposed to look like a "far east magician." (Turban, cape, etc.) Certainly an insensitive trope now; Chandu is, canonically, an American who studied to become a magician. The fact he adopts a turban is... problematic?
	10:39pm wenzo: He’s not wearing the turban to cover up a giant mutant head then?
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:39 Oh! I hadn't thought of that. Maybe? It's never mentioned in the show, so it's not precisely untrue...
	10:40pm Dean: I suppose it's worth comparing impressionists like Little and Gorshin with deepfakes and AI these days. The latter are ho-hum impressive; the former sometimes theatrically engaging, sometimes impressive feats of talent and gesture.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:40 Very good point!
	10:41pm Dean: Why is a missing person's occupation important information for locating the person?
	👻 10:41pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 I'd imagine that's it. Too much gold serum, I'd say? I've taken to wearing an old lady turban at times around the house. It's a weird affectation but also way more older white lady style than appropriation, I hope.
	👻 10:41pm David Shortell: Rich Little hosted the Tonight Show but said he was later blacklisted by that show. The last time I saw him was as Johnny Carson in the 1996 TV movie version of "The Late Shift"!
	10:43pm Dean: Wikipedia: "Little's spot-on impersonation allegedly got under the thin skin of Carson, and he was permanently banned from appearing on the Tonight Show without notice or reason after his August 1982 appearance." I had no idea. That's weird.
	10:44pm Dean: Sincerest form of flattery and all that?
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:43 Wow. Me either. That must explain why he was on HBO so much. I recall him having a few specials, and he was a regular on Not Necessarily The News.
	10:45pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:33 Once again, a tech Henry is vindicated.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:41 I think there is president for that style choice being the domain of post-shower hair care, And I suspect you don't try to style it like a traditional turban.
	10:45pm Dean: David Shortell @10:41 prompted me to explore. I didn't even realize Little was still alive.
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:45 Ha!
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:45 Woah! I recall he was alive in 2018, because he was playing Vegas the time I was in Vegas. We did not go see him.
	👻 10:48pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:45 Pull on black velvet dealio! Very much a, "oh, Dear, my hair!" Situation. I need a caftan now.
	10:48pm Dean: It's a Pink Floyd reference...
	10:49pm Dean: "I'll see you on the Earth side of the moon!"
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:49 Ha! Do you think it's a reference to this? Could be, given the content...
	10:50pm Mr Fab: For some reason a number of jazz and r’n’b cats wore turbans. Cool look, I guess. Maybe I should consider it. The Korla look.
	👻 10:50pm David Shortell: I just looked up the author of "A Man In The Moon". It's the same bloke who wrote the Oz books, unless we're hearing something else with the same title.
	👻 10:51pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr Fab @10:50 Do ittttt!
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:50 Hmmmm. I think this episode was written by George Lefferts. Unless I'm mistaken?
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: I am astonished at how expensive cigarettes are now. When I started smoking, they were 98 cents a pack. I think I need a loan to buy a pack now.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: We're gonna go 25 seconds long tonight. Sorry!
	10:57pm Dean: I'll never get those 25 seconds back.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:57 I tried to make them worth it.
	10:57pm wenzo: Outrageous
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: That's all we have tonight. Thanks everyone! See ya next time!
	👻 10:59pm Heather Z: Good night all! Thanks for another great show, Austin!
	11:00pm Dean: Marvelous. Reminds me of my bachelor days in the '80s, listening to Radio Mystery Theater, etc., on AM.
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @11:00 Yes! I listened to so much radio like this, in those days!
	11:01pm Mr Fab: ↳ Heather Z @10:51 Thanks for the thrilling wonder adventures!
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: I do what I can!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 22, 2023

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May 22, 2023: Episode #57

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Candy Matson	"Jack Frost" ""Jack Frost"" by "Candy Matson"	10 December 1949	KNBC	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Bold Venture	"The Search For Tommy Reed"	6 August 1951	Santana Productions	0:32:06 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith And His Cracker-Jacks	Guitar Boogie			1:01:35 (Pop-up)
Ken Burns	Empire of The Air Part 9	Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio	PBS DVD Video	1:08:56 (Pop-up)
Chandu The Magician	"Story Teller"	10 September 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Network	1:16:16 (Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"A Man In The Moon" ""A Man In The Moon"" by "X-Minus One"	29 May 1955	NBC Radio	1:30:18 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:48pm Austin Rich: Good Hello
	9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	9:01pm Charles: There's nothing like winding down with Candy and friends.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: I like that Candy has a friend, and they talk about stuff that isn't a man. This show is progressive for 1949!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:01 Charles! I do enjoy a little Candy, too.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:01 Yay! Always a pleasure to see you in the chat.
	9:03pm Charles: Missing Santa Claus Helper ... intense organ
	9:03pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: What is it with Jack Frosts and troublemaking.
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: This is one of a series of Candy Matson episodes, set during the holidays. With so many shows in the run completely missing, it's actually sort of unusual to have the holiday episodes be the ones that survived. (There are a lot of other shows where the holiday shows are the ones missing.) My theory is that someone pulled the holiday shows to air again, around the holidays... and were thus in circulation. I think there are four, total. So... it's Christmas in the Summer on Dimestore Radio Theater!
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:03 Jack Frosts are a little less troublesome than Jack Sprats, apparently.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:03 The comedy organ stings are a completely lost art.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: Rembrandt's "friend."
	9:06pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 True.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: Rembrandt is very fond of Diogenes. Ahem.
	9:07pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:06 Do we need music besides doorchimes for Lost Christobel?
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: Rembrandt has a file on male models he uses regularly. Ahem.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:07 I was thinking I might need to cook up a few tunes here and there.
	9:08pm Charles: That exchange was amazing.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: And Rembrandt admits to being "gay" in that last scene, even...
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:08 Yeah. The acting is pretty great on this show, too. With the excellent writing... it sort of elevates this show in a way others of the era have trouble reaching.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: The comments of how complex parking is in SF are in nearly every episode Candy goes for a drive. Apparently entirely true, even?
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: "Rocky Jordan" was a show that was, originally, referred to as, "A Man Named Jordan." It's a sort of "Casablanca" knock-off radio show, which I might run on this program, someday.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: (And yes, Rocky Jordan was on a different network. Apparently Candy is aware of the fact she's a character on a radio show, too.)
	9:14pm Charles: Love those early fourth wall breaking.
	9:15pm Dean: Not entirely true. I live in Berkeley, travel to SF less than once a year, but I had to go there Saturday to pick up my wife from an event in Potrero Hill. Parking was plentiful.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:14 Candy usually mentions the announcer, too.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:15 Good to know! I've never drove while I was in SF, so I don't know for real. Just going on what I've read, with regards to the "running jokes" on the show. Perhaps it's improved?
	9:16pm Dean: I marvel at how much, like live theater, I love radio theater. Yet I can't stomach film.
	9:17pm Dean: Parking in SF is awful in some neighborhoods, not so bad in others.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:16 Yeah, most of my entertainment is from this kind of storytelling.
	9:18pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Dean @9:17 Depends on if the road is horizontal or vertical.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:17 There is a single episode that I found where she does comment, "I easily found parking, a minor miracle."
	9:19pm Dean: ...and if the parking is 45 or 90 degrees.
	9:20pm Dean: ...or parallel.
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: Given the "less than great" delivery on that kids dialog, it's likely that was actually a real kid.
	9:24pm Dean: Verisimilitude!
	9:25pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: That Mallard is just ducky.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: It is interesting: Candy's nickname for Rembrandt is "Ducky." Mallard is her boyfriend. Seems like it's sort of a complicated relationship.
	9:27pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Sounds like its for the birds.
	9:28pm Webhamster Henry: I did it!
	9:28pm Dean: In my 'hood we have similar bars: Club Mallard, Albatross (shut down during pandemic), Stork Club.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:28 Webhamster Henry! Very cool.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:28 I hope all of them have those little "drinking bird" novelty items somewhere...
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: "It was behind the sofa the whole time!"
	9:31pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 Or dancers posed to dip forward like them
	9:31pm Charles: It's all very funny. Good times.
	👻 9:31pm Austin Rich: "He socked me in the mouth. Not a weird phrasing at all!"
	9:33pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:31 Especially not weird to Goldie Hawn fans
	9:33pm Charles: There you go. The kids was not ficticious!
	9:33pm Charles: *Topper the kid
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: The sound is a little funky on "Bold Venture" this week. Some slight distortion, in the high-end range of this recording. I did a little EQ to try and improve it, but this was the best I could get. It's listenable, and not that bad... but it's there.
	9:34pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Are we going to do your famous ads for Lost Christobel?
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:33 I missed that the first time through! Good ear!
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:34 "I didn't ask her." Sailor is the best
	9:35pm Charles: "I didnt ask her." Laughed out loud.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:34 Only if you want. I thought we would just do the script straight.
	9:37pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:35 Straight is good. But as its meant to be a soa pm, I thought it would be fun to use that kind of format.
	9:37pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Soap opera
	9:37pm Dean: She should teach him how to whistle through the hole in his head.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:37 Agreed. There is room for having fun with it.
	9:41pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 It might be fun to create ads for 1800s items.
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:41 "The Powdered Wig Emporium."
	9:41pm Dean: Es-TRELL-ah?!
	9:42pm Dean: Bogart sounds like Groucho.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:42 Were they ever in a movie together? They should have been!
	9:43pm Dean: The possibilities...
	9:44pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:41 That's a good one. Or Ruby's Aniseed Twists
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:43 I guess "A Night In Casablanca" has a couple swipes at "Casablanca" itself, but they really should have acted against each other. How fun would that be!
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:43 Oh dear! www.imdb.com...
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 "Rich Little plays all the major characters in the retelling of the Robin Hood story. As in his version of A Christmas Carol, Little plays each character through a classic Hollywood personality. Groucho Marx is Robin, Carol Channing is Maid Marion, Humphrey Bogart is Prince John, John Wayne is Little John, and Laurel & Hardy are the Sheriffs of Nottingham."
	9:47pm Webhamster Henry: People should know better than to show up on Bold Venture.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:47 Yeah. It never bodes well for your character.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: "It makes me stop and think." Sailor is on a roll!
	9:51pm Webhamster Henry: More low quality Foley and dicey accents on Bold Venture!
	9:52pm wenzo: Howdy AR & radio Frenz
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:51 It makes me wonder who was cutting corners on making the show. I know that Bogart and Bacall were, in many ways, just showing up to do the dialog, making suggestions about what they thought their characters would be like. But I think the SFX and music was all assembled by the people who were working at Santana Productions, which was owned by Bogart... but who didn't really have much to do with, in terms of operation, or who did what. Clearly, someone didn't pay too much attention to this show, in certain ways.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:52 Wenzo! Hooray!
	9:56pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:54 It just proves that Bacall reading the phone book would make a fine show.
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:56 I would listen to that.
	10:00pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin! I’m at the corner pub so I can see the Lakers playoff game, and alas, they’re not playing WFMU.
	10:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Mr Fab @10:00 😢
	10:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Zoom vroom!
	10:05pm Mr Fab: They are playing an oddly wFMU-like mix on the jukebox: Digital Underground, David Byrne, Chubby Checker’s “Limbo Rock.” Can’t compete with Lauren Bacall tho of course.
	10:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Miracle for Christmas was run many times
	👻 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:08 One of my favorite "Hour of Slack" jokes is that their Christmas show was THE ONLY Christmas show they every ran, at Christmas. Years and years later, the same show, every Christmas. I appreciated that.
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:05 Damn! That does sort of sound like a WFMU show. And toss in a Little Bacall for good measure! Why not.
	10:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Getting sleepy.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:13 I understand. It's much later for you where you are. Sleep well!
	10:14pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I will. See you tomorrow night
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:14 Indeed!
	10:15pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:12 Then they played Nina Simone!? But know what- I just put in my ear buds to listen to ya Austin. The loud drunk who just sat next to me is drowning it all out. wFMU to the rescue.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:15 I do love Nina Simone.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:15 Hopefully the game goes well, Mr. Fab?
	10:19pm Mr Fab: Chandu! Lakers gonna need some of his magic
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:19 I haven't followed Basketball since I was a kid. Didn't they used to be good? Or was that, like, 20 years ago, and I'm REALLY out of the loop?
	10:23pm Mr Fab: They’re good, they’ve made It this far into the playoffs. But it could end tonight.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:23 Oh! I forgot it was the Playoffs. Of course! Yes, even if you're good... it's a whole other ball game, now. Wait... that isn't really a metaphor, in this case.
	10:25pm Mr Fab: Ha! I wonder if Chandu is building towards an ending. Some sort of grand finale. Or it just keeping goin along..
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:25 I've never actually listened this far in, before. But yeah... they're still looking for Robert... but at least everyone seems to actually believe Chandu can do magic, now.
	10:27pm Webhamster Henry: I think I listened to this stretch of Chandu on WBAI decades ago .. yeah it takes forever to do anything.
	10:29pm Dean: Just catching up with the Groucho/Bogart discussion up-thread. I don't think I was ever aware of the Rich Little programs. However, I did recently write a poem that refers to Frank Gorshin.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: I will admit: my primary interest in Chandu was the Korla Pandit music.
	10:29pm wenzo: Huzzah huzzah!
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:29 I remember Rich Little's comedy was sort of only just. Him impressions weren't bad, but... I'm not sure if they were funny? They were more spot on than anything else. But I'm not sure I can really recommend Rich Little's "comedy." (Or, maybe I would be able to, if he were to ever give us any.)
	10:31pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:29 Which is a damn good reason!
	10:32pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 I have the David Frye "Richard Nixon: a Fantasy" record. Nowadays, you could replicate these scripts with voice cloning software.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:32 Good Point! Yeah, I bet AI aps could create that Nixon album in a couple hours.
	10:33pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 I bought a Rich Little album for a buck. Oi. Well, win some, lose some…
	10:33pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: ""A Man In The Moon"" by "X-Minus One" GET OFF THIS WAVELENGTH! CQ = "Seek You" in Ham-speak.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:33 Yeah... I don't really remember him being funny... but... he was working!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:33 I was just about to look that up! Thanks!
	👻 10:34pm David Shortell: I just tuned in and missed Chandu. Was he a Mandrake knockoff, or more like John Constantine? (Dr. Fate, maybe?)
	10:35pm Dean: Little was more cautious than Gorshin, it seems.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:34 Hmmmm. Good Question! The late 40's Chandu is a remake of a 30's radio show (same premise, but older). And Mandrake was also a 30's magician, who was on both radio and in comics. So... Chandu could be a Mandrake knock off, or the other way around!
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:34 I think Dr. Fate started in the 40's, so I suspect he was probably inspired by the magician craze in pop culture.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:34 I think, visually, Chandu was supposed to look like a "far east magician." (Turban, cape, etc.) Certainly an insensitive trope now; Chandu is, canonically, an American who studied to become a magician. The fact he adopts a turban is... problematic?
	10:39pm wenzo: He’s not wearing the turban to cover up a giant mutant head then?
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:39 Oh! I hadn't thought of that. Maybe? It's never mentioned in the show, so it's not precisely untrue...
	10:40pm Dean: I suppose it's worth comparing impressionists like Little and Gorshin with deepfakes and AI these days. The latter are ho-hum impressive; the former sometimes theatrically engaging, sometimes impressive feats of talent and gesture.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:40 Very good point!
	10:41pm Dean: Why is a missing person's occupation important information for locating the person?
	👻 10:41pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:39 I'd imagine that's it. Too much gold serum, I'd say? I've taken to wearing an old lady turban at times around the house. It's a weird affectation but also way more older white lady style than appropriation, I hope.
	👻 10:41pm David Shortell: Rich Little hosted the Tonight Show but said he was later blacklisted by that show. The last time I saw him was as Johnny Carson in the 1996 TV movie version of "The Late Shift"!
	10:43pm Dean: Wikipedia: "Little's spot-on impersonation allegedly got under the thin skin of Carson, and he was permanently banned from appearing on the Tonight Show without notice or reason after his August 1982 appearance." I had no idea. That's weird.
	10:44pm Dean: Sincerest form of flattery and all that?
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:43 Wow. Me either. That must explain why he was on HBO so much. I recall him having a few specials, and he was a regular on Not Necessarily The News.
	10:45pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:33 Once again, a tech Henry is vindicated.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:41 I think there is president for that style choice being the domain of post-shower hair care, And I suspect you don't try to style it like a traditional turban.
	10:45pm Dean: David Shortell @10:41 prompted me to explore. I didn't even realize Little was still alive.
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:45 Ha!
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:45 Woah! I recall he was alive in 2018, because he was playing Vegas the time I was in Vegas. We did not go see him.
	👻 10:48pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:45 Pull on black velvet dealio! Very much a, "oh, Dear, my hair!" Situation. I need a caftan now.
	10:48pm Dean: It's a Pink Floyd reference...
	10:49pm Dean: "I'll see you on the Earth side of the moon!"
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:49 Ha! Do you think it's a reference to this? Could be, given the content...
	10:50pm Mr Fab: For some reason a number of jazz and r’n’b cats wore turbans. Cool look, I guess. Maybe I should consider it. The Korla look.
	👻 10:50pm David Shortell: I just looked up the author of "A Man In The Moon". It's the same bloke who wrote the Oz books, unless we're hearing something else with the same title.
	👻 10:51pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr Fab @10:50 Do ittttt!
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:50 Hmmmm. I think this episode was written by George Lefferts. Unless I'm mistaken?
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: I am astonished at how expensive cigarettes are now. When I started smoking, they were 98 cents a pack. I think I need a loan to buy a pack now.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: We're gonna go 25 seconds long tonight. Sorry!
	10:57pm Dean: I'll never get those 25 seconds back.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:57 I tried to make them worth it.
	10:57pm wenzo: Outrageous
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: That's all we have tonight. Thanks everyone! See ya next time!
	👻 10:59pm Heather Z: Good night all! Thanks for another great show, Austin!
	11:00pm Dean: Marvelous. Reminds me of my bachelor days in the '80s, listening to Radio Mystery Theater, etc., on AM.
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @11:00 Yes! I listened to so much radio like this, in those days!
	11:01pm Mr Fab: ↳ Heather Z @10:51 Thanks for the thrilling wonder adventures!
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: I do what I can!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 22, 2023

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