WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from September 4, 2023

Listener comments!
	👻 2:30pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:00pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My profile image is an adult version of Desdinova's daughter Phoebe.
	9:01pm Webhamster Henry: Time for the "Beat up Frankie" show! Followed by the "Beat up Bogie" show!
	9:01pm AI Robot: Hi Austin san!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:01 Oh, very cool! Thanks for joining us!
	9:02pm AI Robot: I'm listening but my hands are a bit full at the moment.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:01 Are you still taking bets for when he'll get knocked out?
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:01 Nice to see you in the chat, AI Robot! Always love listening to your show.
	9:03pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:01 to bad there's not a Frankie and Bogie beat each other up show.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: I bet there's a show where they were on together. I'll have to look into that.
	9:05pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 One Wimpy, drown it! Adam and Eve on a raft, wreck 'em!
	9:05pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 Thank you!
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:05 So good! I love listening to the dialog on this show.
	9:07pm Webhamster Henry: The kid is sailing off on the Bold Venture!
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: "A pint-sized Arthur Godfrey." wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Godfrey
	9:11pm Webhamster Henry: "Can I hit 'im boss?"
	9:13pm laurapanic: so, its OK to hide kids in the garbage can? takes notes
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:13 So long as you are merely a stranger to that child, and you're hiding them from the law. But otherwise: yes!
	9:14pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ laurapanic @9:13 Just hope the truck doesn't come
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: Another "Pecan Ring" has come up on this show. Was it "Rocky Fortune" last time, too? I can't quite recall...
	9:15pm laurapanic: I'm still just hearing "Yes can hide kids in the garbage"
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:15 Apparently, it's even better if the kid is an orphan.
	9:16pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 they like it
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: I feel like this show missed an opportunity to have a "boy sidekick." Rocky could regularly put his life in danger, teach him how to lie to cops, etc. All the useful things in life.
	9:18pm Dean: Why is radio theater so compelling? I can't bear to watch a movie. The acting is (by definition according to me) non-existent, and the same goes for radio. Sinatra's just this side of awful as a thespian. But I don't care.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:18 I have no good answer for you, but I am hooked, too. While I do find Sinatra sort of entertaining, even if he is sort of phoning in the performances here and there.
	9:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Why do I get the idea he's going to trip and shoot himself?
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Pint-Size Payroll Bandit"" by "Rocky Fortune" I'm surprised this show doesn't shy away from the fact the father beats the child. While this show really doesn't do much with it, I'm still surprised it's in here at all. Seems like a detail that could easily have been dropped, but is brought up a couple times. Seems like a strangely modern detail to include, though I'm sure it was just as much of an issue in any era.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: I forgot the officer called them "punks" in this show. It turns out this gang was in a really awful crust-core band.
	9:26pm laurapanic: He is setting up quite the situation for himself to visit that aunt
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: Poor Rocky. Always trying to get a date, and it doesn't always work out...
	9:27pm Webhamster Henry: Hoooods!
	9:27pm Dean: I don't think child beating is modern, and I imagine it was a much more acceptable as a dramatic element way back when. Nowadays, certain difficult behaviors are off-limits in pop media.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:27 In a way, it's almost more normal to just include it as a fact, and have it be a texture to the show.
	9:28pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Dean @9:27 There was some teen-kid beating in the Netflix Norwegian show Ragnarok!
	9:28pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I liked it. It was better than Cats. I will listen again and again.
	9:28pm Dean: Yeah, "texture." Jesus, the hypocrisy.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: For the record: I do not endorse beating children. Merely hiding them from cops in garbage cans.
	9:30pm Dean: That you feel you have to state that is exactly my point.
	9:31pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 I don't either, but Mother Goose did
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:31 Mother Goose was a kooky gal.
	9:32pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 To say the least.
	9:35pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: There was a mutiny by trickery in my latest story.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:32 As a younger person, I was really into the Frank Baum version of the Mother Goose stories. I recall the illustrations being pretty excellent.
	9:35pm Dean: Old Denture? Are they playing off Bogie's slur?
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:35 Gold Renter! (It's his rental status.)
	9:36pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:35 I'm not sure if I saw that one.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:36 At the time, I was working on a paper about Wizard of Oz, and I wanted to read some other stuff. That was my fave.
	9:38pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:37 My favourite nursery rhyme was the Two Cats of Kilkenny
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:38 I don't know that one! I'll have to check it out.
	9:41pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:37 Rumor was that Baum wanted to call it Emerald City but using gems in a title was bad luck
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:41 Hmmmmm. I'll have to dig out that paper and see what I said. It was almost 20 years ago now, so my memory isn't PRECISE, as they say.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: "A belly-whopper on the rocks." I think that's the second time I've heard a character use the phrase "belly-whopper" on a Dimestore Program, something I'd only ever heard in "Frosty The Snowman," previously.
	9:44pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 There once two cats of Kilkenny Who each thought there's one cat too many So they fought and they fit And they clawed and they bit Til excepting their nails And the tips of their tails Instead of two cats there weren't any
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: King Moses as a worried parent to Slate and Sailor is pretty cute.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: "I could be the end of your rainbow, kid." Woah. Now THAT'S a line.
	9:51pm Dean: "Hey, baby, I got $12.72 says you're gonna get everything you want."
	9:52pm Dean: By "beat-cha," I assume Bogart means "win."
	9:54pm Webhamster Henry: This episode is so padded...
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:54 Yeah... sometimes "Bold Venture" is a small idea and a lot of talking.
	9:55pm Dean: Sardines. Grilled, slathered in aioli. Matrimonios. Better than anchovies.
	9:55pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Dean @9:55 Love sardines.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: I do like fish, in most forms. Seafood and etc. A nice crab... yum! I'm a coastal boy at heart.
	9:57pm Dean: Wait. She didn't teach him how to whistle.
	9:57pm Webhamster Henry: No King song this week?
	9:57pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:57 Clam bake. Over seaweed
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:57 I noticed that too! I guess he gets to be in more of the episode as a trade off.
	9:58pm Dean: That sounds sublime, IBD!
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:57 Hell yeah!
	10:00pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:58 My family used to do that every July
	10:02pm asheville jon: I'm lurking
	10:02pm AI Robot: Me too
	10:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Those days were great for sci-fi. Too bad they didn't do Triplanetary from the Lensman series.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:08 I do love those Lensman stories. A lot of stuff from those were "borrowed" for Green Lantern comics, which is how I first saw all that stuff.
	10:10pm Dean: BS. You can't wave on radio.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:10 It was 1947. They were still getting dressed up to broadcast in those days.
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: "DC / AC"? That must have been the first draft version of their band-name.
	10:12pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I have to turn in. Early morning appointment. But I will be back for MVM tomorrow night.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:12 Yay! See ya then. Sleep well.
	10:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Thanks
	10:13pm Dean: The Young brothers, Stephen Merritt, jeez, these guys were hip!
	10:14pm Webhamster Henry: I like the library music...
	10:15pm Dean: That isn't library music. It's Handel's Jephtha.
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:13 My big regret in life is not opting to go an see The Magnetic Fields when they were touring on "69 Love Songs." I was really not sure who they were, and I was convinced that seeing Daniel Johnston for the umpteenth time was a better use of my time. Now I regret the choice, especially since I saw Daniel a few times after that.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:14 I needed something to spruce up the documentary. It is the dryest doc I've found on radio-related stuff, yet.
	10:16pm Dean: Yeah, well, I'll never forgive myself for missing the 1752 performance of Jephtha.
	10:17pm Dean: I have a faint recollection of being at a party with the guy narrating that USAF record.
	10:18pm Webhamster Henry: You cut it just as it was getting to the good part! Is there a capacitor next week?
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:16 Yeah. I was completely obvious when Spike Jones and His City Slickers were active.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:18 I promise! Picks up just where it left off.
	10:18pm Dean: We have Dr. Demento to thank for introducing us to the world of Spike Jones.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:18 Absolutely! That's where I first heard him. Later, I had a friend, and his younger brother was obsessed with Spike Jones, so he made me a tape. And away I went...
	10:20pm Dean: Just once I'd like to hear, "So easy a child can do it, but a magician cannot!"
	10:20pm asheville jon: What is the capital of Assyria?
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @10:20 It's been a few centuries, at least, so I can't really remember.
	10:22pm Dean: Assur (c. 2025–1233 BC) Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta (c. 1233–1207 BC) Assur (c. 1207–879 BC) Nimrud (879–706 BC) Dur-Sharrukin (706–705 BC) Nineveh (705–610 BC) San Fernando (610-612 BC) Harran (612–609 BC)
	10:23pm Dean: Learn your fucking lines, doofus.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: In episode one of this show, the kids, their mom, and Uncle Frank went out to search for Robert Regent. The episodes in-between have essentially been a "farce" of them all running around, "almost" finding Robert. This is finally the pay-off of them looking for their dad for 70 episodes, where nothing happened.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: You could reduce the first 70 episodes to three 15 minutes installments and basically you would get the same story.
	10:26pm Dean: Le Retour de Robert Regent
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: This is the first time we're hearing Robert's voice on the show, even.
	10:29pm ?: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 'tis a line from monty python / holy grail
	10:30pm Dean: Manson, the Magician "Gosh darn! I guess we're serial killers!"
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:30 "L'il Manson" just never took off in the funny papers.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ @10:29 Is it?
	10:31pm Dean: Shoulda.
	10:32pm Dean: If your friends catch on, they're not worthy of being friends.
	10:36pm Dean: Met Bradbury, and he signed my weird Time edition of Martian Chronicles, even commented on it.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""And The Moon Be Still As Bright"" by "X-Minus One" When I decided that I wanted to re-listen to the entire run of "Dimension X / X Minus One," and air it like this, I really wanted to re-created the experience, as close as I could, to the one that the fans would have had back when these shows first aired. To that end, I only repeat episodes when the producers of the show officially sent the episode out again, to be heard on most affiliate stations. Like in this case, when they chose to slot this one in.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:36 Very jealous! I never met him, but I certainly have read a lot about him and by him, so I feel like I know him, even though I really don't.
	10:39pm Dean: What I know, mostly, is that he was so afraid of flying that he had to travel on land, and that he adored public libraries. His advocacy in Southern California for libraries was wonderful.
	10:40pm Dean: And he wrote the screenplay to Moby Dick.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: On the subject of X-Minus One re-runs, and trying to listen to them in order: the effort is sort of futile, as individual local affiliates would just air whatever they wanted, on any day they wanted, to fit their own local needs. And transcriptions discs were sent by mail, so they could get lost, broken, or whatever. And, lastly: some stations would skip episodes if they didn't they they would like it, or would just re-play a local favorite, when they weren't sure of a new story.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: All of that is a long way of saying: while there is some "modern" consensus as to the "order" these episodes should be heard, unlike the way we consume media now, back then it would be different from station to station, region to region. Which itself is pretty cool, I think.
	10:43pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 Well, no reason not to do the same then!
	10:44pm Dean: Starship!
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:43 I might keep "X-Minus One" going for a while, after "the last episode," and air some "fan faves" to replicate that experience. It'll be a while, but I've been considering what to do after we get to the "end" of that series.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: I'm gonna go about 45 seconds over this week. Sorry everyone!
	10:51pm Dean: "Oil can."
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:51 Ha!
	10:52pm AI Robot: I'm back!!!!
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:52 My front!
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: Thanks again for joining me, everyone! This is always fun, and I do appreciate ya'll. See ya tomorrow on MVM, or next week, here!
	10:57pm AI Robot: Did he say "Fuck you"?????
	10:58pm AI Robot: Thanks Austin san!
	11:00pm Chris Ianuzzi: Greetings AI Robot san

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from September 4, 2023

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September 4, 2023: Episode #70

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Rocky Fortune	"Pint-Size Payroll Bandit"	27 October 1953	NBC		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Florian Zabach	The Hot Canary "The Hot Canary" by "Florian Zabach"				0:27:59 (Pop-up)
Bold Venture	"The Marino Victory Mutiny"	5 November 1951	Santana Productions		0:30:16 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Florian Zabach	The Hot Canary "The Hot Canary" by "Florian Zabach"				1:32:55 (Pop-up)
The United States Air Force	Radio Antenna Fundamentals Part 1	Radio Antenna Fundamentals	United States Air Force	1947	1:08:01 (Pop-up)
Chandu The Magician	"Exploring The Garden"	29 September 1948	Mutual–Don Lee Network		1:16:46 (Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"And The Moon Be Still As Bright"	22 September 1955	NBC Radio		1:32:45 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 2:30pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:00pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: My profile image is an adult version of Desdinova's daughter Phoebe.
	9:01pm Webhamster Henry: Time for the "Beat up Frankie" show! Followed by the "Beat up Bogie" show!
	9:01pm AI Robot: Hi Austin san!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:01 Oh, very cool! Thanks for joining us!
	9:02pm AI Robot: I'm listening but my hands are a bit full at the moment.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:01 Are you still taking bets for when he'll get knocked out?
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @9:01 Nice to see you in the chat, AI Robot! Always love listening to your show.
	9:03pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:01 to bad there's not a Frankie and Bogie beat each other up show.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: I bet there's a show where they were on together. I'll have to look into that.
	9:05pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 One Wimpy, drown it! Adam and Eve on a raft, wreck 'em!
	9:05pm AI Robot: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 Thank you!
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:05 So good! I love listening to the dialog on this show.
	9:07pm Webhamster Henry: The kid is sailing off on the Bold Venture!
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: "A pint-sized Arthur Godfrey." wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Godfrey
	9:11pm Webhamster Henry: "Can I hit 'im boss?"
	9:13pm laurapanic: so, its OK to hide kids in the garbage can? takes notes
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:13 So long as you are merely a stranger to that child, and you're hiding them from the law. But otherwise: yes!
	9:14pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ laurapanic @9:13 Just hope the truck doesn't come
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: Another "Pecan Ring" has come up on this show. Was it "Rocky Fortune" last time, too? I can't quite recall...
	9:15pm laurapanic: I'm still just hearing "Yes can hide kids in the garbage"
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:15 Apparently, it's even better if the kid is an orphan.
	9:16pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 they like it
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: I feel like this show missed an opportunity to have a "boy sidekick." Rocky could regularly put his life in danger, teach him how to lie to cops, etc. All the useful things in life.
	9:18pm Dean: Why is radio theater so compelling? I can't bear to watch a movie. The acting is (by definition according to me) non-existent, and the same goes for radio. Sinatra's just this side of awful as a thespian. But I don't care.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:18 I have no good answer for you, but I am hooked, too. While I do find Sinatra sort of entertaining, even if he is sort of phoning in the performances here and there.
	9:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Why do I get the idea he's going to trip and shoot himself?
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Pint-Size Payroll Bandit"" by "Rocky Fortune" I'm surprised this show doesn't shy away from the fact the father beats the child. While this show really doesn't do much with it, I'm still surprised it's in here at all. Seems like a detail that could easily have been dropped, but is brought up a couple times. Seems like a strangely modern detail to include, though I'm sure it was just as much of an issue in any era.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: I forgot the officer called them "punks" in this show. It turns out this gang was in a really awful crust-core band.
	9:26pm laurapanic: He is setting up quite the situation for himself to visit that aunt
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: Poor Rocky. Always trying to get a date, and it doesn't always work out...
	9:27pm Webhamster Henry: Hoooods!
	9:27pm Dean: I don't think child beating is modern, and I imagine it was a much more acceptable as a dramatic element way back when. Nowadays, certain difficult behaviors are off-limits in pop media.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:27 In a way, it's almost more normal to just include it as a fact, and have it be a texture to the show.
	9:28pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Dean @9:27 There was some teen-kid beating in the Netflix Norwegian show Ragnarok!
	9:28pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I liked it. It was better than Cats. I will listen again and again.
	9:28pm Dean: Yeah, "texture." Jesus, the hypocrisy.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: For the record: I do not endorse beating children. Merely hiding them from cops in garbage cans.
	9:30pm Dean: That you feel you have to state that is exactly my point.
	9:31pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 I don't either, but Mother Goose did
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:31 Mother Goose was a kooky gal.
	9:32pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:32 To say the least.
	9:35pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: There was a mutiny by trickery in my latest story.
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:32 As a younger person, I was really into the Frank Baum version of the Mother Goose stories. I recall the illustrations being pretty excellent.
	9:35pm Dean: Old Denture? Are they playing off Bogie's slur?
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @9:35 Gold Renter! (It's his rental status.)
	9:36pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:35 I'm not sure if I saw that one.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:36 At the time, I was working on a paper about Wizard of Oz, and I wanted to read some other stuff. That was my fave.
	9:38pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:37 My favourite nursery rhyme was the Two Cats of Kilkenny
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:38 I don't know that one! I'll have to check it out.
	9:41pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:37 Rumor was that Baum wanted to call it Emerald City but using gems in a title was bad luck
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:41 Hmmmmm. I'll have to dig out that paper and see what I said. It was almost 20 years ago now, so my memory isn't PRECISE, as they say.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: "A belly-whopper on the rocks." I think that's the second time I've heard a character use the phrase "belly-whopper" on a Dimestore Program, something I'd only ever heard in "Frosty The Snowman," previously.
	9:44pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 There once two cats of Kilkenny Who each thought there's one cat too many So they fought and they fit And they clawed and they bit Til excepting their nails And the tips of their tails Instead of two cats there weren't any
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: King Moses as a worried parent to Slate and Sailor is pretty cute.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: "I could be the end of your rainbow, kid." Woah. Now THAT'S a line.
	9:51pm Dean: "Hey, baby, I got $12.72 says you're gonna get everything you want."
	9:52pm Dean: By "beat-cha," I assume Bogart means "win."
	9:54pm Webhamster Henry: This episode is so padded...
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:54 Yeah... sometimes "Bold Venture" is a small idea and a lot of talking.
	9:55pm Dean: Sardines. Grilled, slathered in aioli. Matrimonios. Better than anchovies.
	9:55pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Dean @9:55 Love sardines.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: I do like fish, in most forms. Seafood and etc. A nice crab... yum! I'm a coastal boy at heart.
	9:57pm Dean: Wait. She didn't teach him how to whistle.
	9:57pm Webhamster Henry: No King song this week?
	9:57pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:57 Clam bake. Over seaweed
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @9:57 I noticed that too! I guess he gets to be in more of the episode as a trade off.
	9:58pm Dean: That sounds sublime, IBD!
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:57 Hell yeah!
	10:00pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:58 My family used to do that every July
	10:02pm asheville jon: I'm lurking
	10:02pm AI Robot: Me too
	10:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Those days were great for sci-fi. Too bad they didn't do Triplanetary from the Lensman series.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:08 I do love those Lensman stories. A lot of stuff from those were "borrowed" for Green Lantern comics, which is how I first saw all that stuff.
	10:10pm Dean: BS. You can't wave on radio.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:10 It was 1947. They were still getting dressed up to broadcast in those days.
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: "DC / AC"? That must have been the first draft version of their band-name.
	10:12pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: I have to turn in. Early morning appointment. But I will be back for MVM tomorrow night.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:12 Yay! See ya then. Sleep well.
	10:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Thanks
	10:13pm Dean: The Young brothers, Stephen Merritt, jeez, these guys were hip!
	10:14pm Webhamster Henry: I like the library music...
	10:15pm Dean: That isn't library music. It's Handel's Jephtha.
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:13 My big regret in life is not opting to go an see The Magnetic Fields when they were touring on "69 Love Songs." I was really not sure who they were, and I was convinced that seeing Daniel Johnston for the umpteenth time was a better use of my time. Now I regret the choice, especially since I saw Daniel a few times after that.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:14 I needed something to spruce up the documentary. It is the dryest doc I've found on radio-related stuff, yet.
	10:16pm Dean: Yeah, well, I'll never forgive myself for missing the 1752 performance of Jephtha.
	10:17pm Dean: I have a faint recollection of being at a party with the guy narrating that USAF record.
	10:18pm Webhamster Henry: You cut it just as it was getting to the good part! Is there a capacitor next week?
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:16 Yeah. I was completely obvious when Spike Jones and His City Slickers were active.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:18 I promise! Picks up just where it left off.
	10:18pm Dean: We have Dr. Demento to thank for introducing us to the world of Spike Jones.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:18 Absolutely! That's where I first heard him. Later, I had a friend, and his younger brother was obsessed with Spike Jones, so he made me a tape. And away I went...
	10:20pm Dean: Just once I'd like to hear, "So easy a child can do it, but a magician cannot!"
	10:20pm asheville jon: What is the capital of Assyria?
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @10:20 It's been a few centuries, at least, so I can't really remember.
	10:22pm Dean: Assur (c. 2025–1233 BC) Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta (c. 1233–1207 BC) Assur (c. 1207–879 BC) Nimrud (879–706 BC) Dur-Sharrukin (706–705 BC) Nineveh (705–610 BC) San Fernando (610-612 BC) Harran (612–609 BC)
	10:23pm Dean: Learn your fucking lines, doofus.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: In episode one of this show, the kids, their mom, and Uncle Frank went out to search for Robert Regent. The episodes in-between have essentially been a "farce" of them all running around, "almost" finding Robert. This is finally the pay-off of them looking for their dad for 70 episodes, where nothing happened.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: You could reduce the first 70 episodes to three 15 minutes installments and basically you would get the same story.
	10:26pm Dean: Le Retour de Robert Regent
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: This is the first time we're hearing Robert's voice on the show, even.
	10:29pm ?: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 'tis a line from monty python / holy grail
	10:30pm Dean: Manson, the Magician "Gosh darn! I guess we're serial killers!"
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:30 "L'il Manson" just never took off in the funny papers.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ @10:29 Is it?
	10:31pm Dean: Shoulda.
	10:32pm Dean: If your friends catch on, they're not worthy of being friends.
	10:36pm Dean: Met Bradbury, and he signed my weird Time edition of Martian Chronicles, even commented on it.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""And The Moon Be Still As Bright"" by "X-Minus One" When I decided that I wanted to re-listen to the entire run of "Dimension X / X Minus One," and air it like this, I really wanted to re-created the experience, as close as I could, to the one that the fans would have had back when these shows first aired. To that end, I only repeat episodes when the producers of the show officially sent the episode out again, to be heard on most affiliate stations. Like in this case, when they chose to slot this one in.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:36 Very jealous! I never met him, but I certainly have read a lot about him and by him, so I feel like I know him, even though I really don't.
	10:39pm Dean: What I know, mostly, is that he was so afraid of flying that he had to travel on land, and that he adored public libraries. His advocacy in Southern California for libraries was wonderful.
	10:40pm Dean: And he wrote the screenplay to Moby Dick.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: On the subject of X-Minus One re-runs, and trying to listen to them in order: the effort is sort of futile, as individual local affiliates would just air whatever they wanted, on any day they wanted, to fit their own local needs. And transcriptions discs were sent by mail, so they could get lost, broken, or whatever. And, lastly: some stations would skip episodes if they didn't they they would like it, or would just re-play a local favorite, when they weren't sure of a new story.
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: All of that is a long way of saying: while there is some "modern" consensus as to the "order" these episodes should be heard, unlike the way we consume media now, back then it would be different from station to station, region to region. Which itself is pretty cool, I think.
	10:43pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Austin Rich @10:41 Well, no reason not to do the same then!
	10:44pm Dean: Starship!
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:43 I might keep "X-Minus One" going for a while, after "the last episode," and air some "fan faves" to replicate that experience. It'll be a while, but I've been considering what to do after we get to the "end" of that series.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: I'm gonna go about 45 seconds over this week. Sorry everyone!
	10:51pm Dean: "Oil can."
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Dean @10:51 Ha!
	10:52pm AI Robot: I'm back!!!!
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ AI Robot @10:52 My front!
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: Thanks again for joining me, everyone! This is always fun, and I do appreciate ya'll. See ya tomorrow on MVM, or next week, here!
	10:57pm AI Robot: Did he say "Fuck you"?????
	10:58pm AI Robot: Thanks Austin san!
	11:00pm Chris Ianuzzi: Greetings AI Robot san

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from September 4, 2023

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