WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 13, 2025

Listener comments!
	👻 7:30pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:01pm asheville jon: Meanwhile...... i'm lurking Hi Rich!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @9:01 asheville jon! Nice to see you in the Digital Salon.
	9:02pm Mr Fab: Rascally raconteur? I’m all in!
	9:02pm Charles: Radio, what's new? Radio, someone still loves yooou ♪
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Phillis Adrian Is Missing"" by "Rogue's Gallery" This is the last recorded episode of "Rogue's Gallery." When Dick Powell moved on, a pilot was recorded with Barry Sullivan in the lead. It didn't take off, but we do have this relic of a show that might have been.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: Some of the dialog sounds like various consonants are "rounded off." The original recording is incredibly fuzzy, so I did some restoring to improve the sound. It works mostly, but there are some lines that sound a little "vauge."
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:02 Mr. Fab! Thanks for poppin' into the Digital Salon.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:02 Charles! Thanks for the lovely song.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: The music is a little different for this Pilot that what was typical for the Dick Powell era of "Rogue's Gallery," but that's typical for a pilot. Is that Gerald Mohr I hear?
	9:06pm Mr Fab: The Mandalay is in the Valley? Cool, will have to swing by.
	9:07pm Maulydaft: I'm popping in to say hello, and popping out again. Been sick with virus X and COVID for weeks - Dimestore has been fun Mondays as I lie in bed with migraines! MORE MOHR!!!
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:07 Oh no! Maulydaft is sick. Hopefully all the good radio is helping pass the time.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:07 More Mohr is our Gerald Mohr fancast that we'll have to start when you are well.
	👻 9:09pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone! Finally have some time to listen along. These last few weeks have been so busy for me. Nice to be back
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:09 yerfriendpaul! We kept your seat here in the Digital Salon warm. Stay a spell!
	9:11pm Mr Fab: “You’re looking like Dresden doll tonight.” Like the band? (Named after a song by The Fall) Didn’t know it was an actual expression. Wonder what it means…
	👻 9:11pm yerfriendpaul: Excellent! Is the concession stand open? I need to get a box of Junior Mints
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: I don't mind Barry Sullivan as Richard Rogue, but he's not as good as Dick Powell, at least for this character. However, I do think it's a nice chance to see the kinds of things that also get lumped in with the other Rogue's Gallery episodes. Pilots like this were common, and at the very least, would make a good "one-off" show to fill in a night that comes up short. Like in the TV era after Radio, Pilots were how new ideas were pitched to stations. Why try to explain a show, when you can make an example of the show you want to offer?
	👻 9:12pm David Shortell: Look what’s coming to the Film Forum on Saturday! In 3-D, it’s “Gog”: the conclusion to Ivan Tors’ O.S.I. trilogy, the first ⅔ of which Mid-Valley Mutations excerpted in October. Robert Firmanek of the 3-D Film Archive introduces it in person. filmforum.org...
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:11 According to a quick Google search, "The phrase 'Dresden doll-like' describes a woman's face as having a flawless complexion and old-fashioned elegance."
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:12 Hell yeah! I would go see that. (For obvious reason... still writing my jokes for that installment...)
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: Her dialog is nearly unintelligible, as her particular accent sort of swallows her words. That, and the fuzziness of the original recording make it hard to understand her.
	9:16pm wenzo: Salutations Radio Denizens
	9:16pm wenzo: What-ho AR
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:16 wenzo! Thanks for coming into the Digital Salon.
	9:17pm wenzo: Well my digital nails were getting pretty chipped…
	👻 9:17pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 More on Gog on the FMU blog: blog.wfmu.org...
	👻 9:18pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 Dresden Dolls singer Amanda Palmer's ex-husband Neil Gaiman is in the news, and not in good way.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:18 I started to notice because a lot of customers are coming in to sell all their Neil Gaiman books, and even our signed copies are not selling anymore. That's usually a sign in bookstores...
	9:20pm wenzo: Yikes
	9:21pm Mr Fab: ↳ David Shortell @9:18 I’m didn’t know they had split up. They seemed very close, what with all their collaborations.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: It's nice to hear Gerald Mohr in this episode, as he does play one of the voices in nearly all the other episodes. While any show with Mohr in it is great, he's just as good in lead roles, as he would prove soon enough, when he would play Phillip Marlowe in the regular series.
	👻 9:27pm yerfriendpaul: Good scream!
	9:28pm asheville jon: What a bizarre plot
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:27 Sometimes that's all you want out of a radio show.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: They tried to keep the, "Know what I mean?" final line, but I'm not sure Barry Sullivan delivered it quite as well.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: I've been involved in a restoration project for, "The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen," a show that we ran when Dimestore Radio Theater first launched. It was only the other day, when I was comparing a sound cue for some reason, that I realized that the music for "Rocky Jordan" was made by the same person who did the music for "The Scarlet Queen." (Richard "Dick" Aurandt.) It makes sense; both shows won awards for their music. But it didn't occur to me that it might be the same person until the other day.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @9:28 I wonder if the new version of the show didn't get picked up because of the difficult-to-follow story.
	👻 9:39pm yerfriendpaul: Ha ha! Wow - her voice changed pretty quickly
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:39 Her story changed quickly, too!
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: "Ever try acting?" "There's no future in it."
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: "Why don't you try an American cigarette, Sam?"
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: The back half of this episode has that rhythmic "surface noise," and required a fair amount restoring. Some of the music and sound cues were mangled pretty badly, one sound cue is missing, and the closing music cue is cut off. I did what I could to rebuild this part of the show, and hopefully it doesn't sound too weird.
	9:49pm Arvo: Hi, just saying hello after watching a foreign film at the theater.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:49 Nice to see you in the digital salon, Arvo.
	9:51pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 I did merch for Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls once. True story.
	9:53pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 I took Neil Gaiman's master class, having very little knowledge of his work. Shame he is in that metoo boat along with so many others.
	👻 9:55pm David Shortell: ↳ Arvo @9:49 Details!
	9:55pm Mr Fab: “Go buy yourself a new fez,” haha.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: "From here on it's a monologue..."
	9:59pm Arvo: ↳ David Shortell @9:55 I don't remember a great deal, but I was subscribed to the master class website for a year, and took many classes. Gaiman's was one of the few that had exercises in the companion pdf that came with the class. I haven't looked to see what he is in the news for, but some time last year I read that he was being outed for various things as a teacher.
	10:00pm asheville jon: howdy
	10:01pm Arvo: ↳ David Shortell @9:55 Oh you want details about the foreign film? I watched a Chinese film called "The Octopus With Broken Arms". It was a fairly tedious action film with sex trafficking as a tacky plot device, to be honest. Although I do tend to enjoy foreign films a bit more usually. Not today.
	10:01pm laurapanic: I'm out walking, listening
	10:04pm Arvo: Man there must be a space station type set up in the Lava Lamp Lounge.
	10:05pm Arvo: My friend has a record player that plays those transcription discs. 16 inch records. Damn.
	10:05pm Arvo: I am just imagining how much gear would need to live in a house to do all of the things you do.
	10:07pm Webhamster Henry: A little late tonight, I was out at a show....
	10:10pm Arvo: ↳ Mr Fab @9:55 I still have some ABBA records. You need all the ABBA records, my dude.
	10:11pm Webhamster Henry: My record player used to have a '16' setting - there were also 8RPM records for books for the blind!
	10:12pm laurapanic: I love hearing about people's vinyl collections soooo much
	10:12pm Arvo: I think the highest quantity I had was around 4,000. Now I am around 400 max. A lot of it is sentimental, and things I would hang on my wall. I miss my thrift store records the most. Especially the organ records.
	10:13pm laurapanic: And these turntable comments are super cool
	10:14pm Arvo: I had a turntable that I could still play while I was taking a belt sander to a record in real time. Noise secrets.
	10:14pm laurapanic: I listened to a vinyl collection podcast, but like many vinyl social media groups, all dudes with Led Zepplin records. Yawwwwwn. Proper INTERESTING collections pleeeeeze
	10:16pm Arvo: ↳ laurapanic @10:14 I don't really listen to Led Zeppelin anymore. I had a period where I loved their first four LPs. It was an anomaly. I hated them, then went through a rough patch, and now don't see what I saw in them.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: I had a roommate who was into New Orleans soul 7"s. He would get into Ebay bidding wars with other collectors, and he now has a pretty excellent collection of 45s. That's the kind of person you should have on a vinyl podcast.
	10:19pm Arvo: I liked having a lot of things that were in the Nurse With Wound List, and a lot of Locked Groove records, and a lot of Halloween/Monster Music records. I had a good amount of 78s, but for a longest time, my vintage 78 record player was almost all bass, even if I played just the radio from it. I recorded a good amount of that with a contact mic. I should have done a record like The Caretaker, but I ended up only using it with other pieces.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: He's showing off a radio-controlled car that he built for these kinds of things.
	10:20pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 One of my favorite memories of New Orleans (and there are many) was going to a soul party that went until 4am and listening to people play first press soul singles.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:19 I love love a good locked groove. I should pull out some and do a show with them.
	👻 10:22pm yerfriendpaul: Quality acting there, ha ha
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:19 Man, I do enjoy those Nurse With Wound records. I regret not seeing a Steven Stapleton show when he came to PDX.
	10:22pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 RRR 500 is a holy Grail for me. Of course, the first release on my label was a seven inch with 100 locked grooves, so I am partial. There is also one called YOKOMONO that had stuff from Blixa Bargeld in it. I could keep going.
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:22 If I recall correctly, he gets his family to play all the roles in the little scenes like that.
	👻 10:23pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 Ha ha! That’s great
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:22 I only have a few, and none that you have mentioned!
	10:25pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 I would also recommend a seven inch by Stock Hausen & and Walkman that had all locked grooves. It was almost all samples.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:25 There's a godheadSilo 7" that has a lock groove at the end of every song, that I quite like. And there's an unwound record I quite like that ends in a lock groove. I think one of the 10" records that Sweatband Records put out has lockgooves on it if I recall... and maybe that's all that I have right now?
	10:27pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 Wfmu did a locked groove record, I haven't tracked one down yet, but I suspect it is good.
	10:29pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 One favorite locked groove from the RRR 500 LP is by Brutal Truth. They actually used that locked groove at the end of one of their albums. It is a 20 minute piece where the loop gradually becomes more and more distorted. I truly loved it.
	10:30pm Arvo: One of my favorite scratched records was Chuck Berry's My Ding A Ling. It skips right at Ding A Ling, so it's just "My Ding A Ling" over and over.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: That does sound good. I just remembered that I have that Dead Kennedys record with the lockgroove at the end, too!
	👻 10:32pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 Are you thinking of Flipper's "Brainwash"?
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:30 I'm a little sad that my "Hairway to Steven" records skips in a few places. I would replace it, but an ex gave that and another Surfers records when we dated, and she has passed now, so they are very sentimental to me.
	10:32pm Arvo: Asmus Tichens did a record of minute long tracks that end in locked grooves too. Last year I did a lathe that actually ends in a locked groove. It hasn't been released yet. I didn't know it was possible. I also had a couple flexis that ended in locked grooves. I think Propagandi was the band that did a record where all of their tracks ended in locked grooves.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:32 I don't have that one! I do love Flipper.
	10:34pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 I do not remember having anything by DK on vinyl. I had it all on CD. I remember Jello had a side project where they pressed a 45 sized hole into the actual playing surface. I think it was Tumor Circus.
	10:35pm Arvo: East Bay Ray recently bought something on my label. True story!
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:34 I've got a few CDs that have grooves in them. They are often hard to play.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:34 The "Plastic Surgery Disasters" record ends in a lockgroove. I have a tape somewhere with 45 minutes of that groove.
	10:36pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:32 One of my favorite records is T. Rex. The song "It's A Rip Off" skips. It just says "Rip Off" over and over. I have two copies now.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:36 I love that. It's like in the Crow, when the record skips at just the right spot...
	10:37pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:36 That would be my favorite DK release. I had it on CD with In God We Trust.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: Sometimes I think I understand records better than I understand people.
	👻 10:38pm David Shortell: ↳ Arvo @10:30 That reminds me of the ending to the 1948 movie "Brighton Rock". It's a corny alteration of the 1938 Graham Greene novel's ending, but it amused me.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:37 Those two are just the best. That era of DK is unbeatable.
	10:40pm Arvo: ↳ David Shortell @10:38 I can't say I have seen it.
	👻 10:40pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The Last Martian"" by "X-Minus One" Read the 1950 Fredric Brown story here: archive.org...
	👻 10:40pm David Shortell: ↳ David Shortell @10:40 It was adapted into the 1959 Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode “Human Interest Story”, starring Steve McQueen! barebonesez.blogspot.com...
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: This story opens with a "comedy" music cue, so you know this story is gonna be interesting...
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: It's a sci-fi story from 1956, so of course there's a bar and lots of drinking in it.
	10:42pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 I find that if I can't at least discuss creative ideas with people, if not collaborate, I feel that social interactions are a strange contrivance created solely for the purpose of reinforcing social standing and therefore validation, which is something I gave up on long ago.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: How in the hell does a bartender charge for, "Leave the bottle?"
	10:43pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:42 I assume the bottle was $5 and you could walk out the door with it if you didn't finish.
	👻 10:45pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:38 I last saw Klaus Flouride in 2007, backing up the Legendary Stardust Cowboy.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:40 I've been making it a goal to read all the short stories that Dimension X / X Minus One is based on. I'm surprised at how many I already remember reading, and other that I don't!
	10:45pm Arvo: ↳ David Shortell @10:40 That is fascinating. Dimension X and X Minus One were among my favorites when I was playing Old Time Radio on the radio. My show would start at midnight and technically end at 4, but I would often play old time radio because nobody came in until six, and that is about when the busses started running again.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:45 That sounds like a good combo!
	👻 10:48pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The Last Martian"" by "X-Minus One" I loved Fredric Brown’s 1954 comedy novel “Martians, Go Home”. The aliens weren’t scary or particularly malevolent. They were just annoying immature pricks who enjoyed screwing up human society for the hell of it! (It was apparently made into a 1990 movie that I never want to see.)
	10:49pm Mr Fab: ↳ Arvo @10:27 I got mine from the WFMU store online. Have you checked? They might still have some.
	10:49pm Arvo: ↳ David Shortell @10:48 I am inclined to say I would watch that movie. I actually saw a UFO in 2021. I mean it flew over us and I really thought we were going to be abducted. They looped around us twice. They were apparently just messing with us.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:48 Starring Randy Quaid! I can't imagine why you haven't rushed out to see it.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: We'll go about 8 minutes over. Sorry everyone.
	10:51pm Arvo: ↳ Mr Fab @10:49 I haven't checked recently. I was eyeing it on discogs for a while. Some day...
	10:51pm Mr Fab: ↳ Mr Fab @10:49 The WFMU locked groove album.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: All of the "comedy" music cues, the drinking, bringing a person home for dinner without calling first... it's such a 50's radio story.
	👻 10:53pm Heather Z: Been tuned in and enjoying the show! Popping in to say thanks for the awesome listening, Austin, and I hope everyone is enjoying the Wolf Moon tonight!
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:53 Nice to see you in the Digital Salon, Heather. What is a Wolf Moon?
	10:54pm Arvo: ↳ Heather Z @10:53 I have! Incidentally there is also some sort of eclipse of Mars today.
	10:54pm Mr Fab: ↳ Arvo @10:51 Just checked the FMU online store, and no, there are none for sale.
	👻 10:56pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 It's the first full moon of the year! I didn't know about the Mars eclipse Arvo mentions, though..appropriate to this story and also auspicious, I'd say!
	10:58pm Arvo: ↳ Mr Fab @10:54 I am in a budget, but there is one on discogs for $25. https://www.discogs.com/master/2597318-Various-Running-In-Place-Locked-Grooves-From-WFMU
	👻 10:58pm yerfriendpaul: Why would a newsman in that organization resort to murdering this guy?
	10:59pm Arvo: ↳ Heather Z @10:56 One would hope!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:58 Yeah, that's weird. There's something still missing...
	11:01pm Arvo: Reptilians, dude.
	👻 11:01pm David Shortell: ↳ Arvo @10:54 I saw Mars to the lower left of the moon tonight. I looked at the moon again later and Mars was not in sight.
	👻 11:02pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:36 I’ve owned that LP for 40 years. I remember that it ends with the spoken outro by the late Melissa Webber (“Now you can relax, and return to your job!”).
	👻 11:02pm yerfriendpaul: Uh oh. Trouble!
	11:02pm Arvo: ↳ David Shortell @11:01 Light pollution did not allow for such a view with me, I just see things in the news.
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:02 Yep. It's such a good record.
	11:04pm Arvo: I never did own anything by DK on vinyl, but I did own the poster of the Giger painting from Frankenchrist after it was banned. Had it on my wall for a while. Also, Winston Smith ( I hope I am getting that right) is still a great collage artist to me.
	👻 11:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @11:04 I do love those Smith collages. That Frankenchrist record is also pretty fantastic. They were such a great band.
	👻 11:07pm yerfriendpaul: Now it all makes sense!
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: Everyone's from space! Oh no!
	👻 11:07pm David Shortell: ↳ Arvo @11:02 Light pollution plagues me in NJ too. There are few stars I could see with my naked eyes tonight, but Venus was bright as hell. Jupiter not as bright. I can distinguish Mars from the stars because it’s a red dot.
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: See ya'll next week.
	11:07pm Webhamster Henry: Are there _any_ Native Terrans?
	👻 11:07pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @11:07 Ha ha!
	11:08pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:06 I just glanced at his website, he is still great. I don't listen to DK as much now. I still like Lard.
	11:08pm Mr Fab: Damn, maybe I’M a Martian!
	👻 11:08pm yerfriendpaul: Thanks Austin! Enjoyed the show! Good night all!
	👻 11:08pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @11:06 I bought it in 1985. Still got it--and the poster!
	11:08pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:07 Have a good un!
	11:09pm Webhamster Henry: There's a nice comet coming, But I think we Northern Hemisphere people only get it in the morning for a few days.
	11:09pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 13, 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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January 13, 2025: Episode #115

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Rogue's Gallery	"Phillis Adrian Is Missing"	29 June 1947	NBC	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Adventures of Rocky Jordan	"Fall Guy"	1 May 1949	Santana Productions	0:29:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Morris Stoloff	Moonglow and Theme From “Picnic”			0:58:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod	The Secret Life of The Radio Part 2	The Secret Life of Machines	BBC	1:16:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Blue Beetle	"Two Rackets In One Pt. 2"	9 August 1940	Mutual–Don Lee Network	1:24:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"The Last Martian" ""The Last Martian"" by "X-Minus One"	7 August 1956	NBC Radio	1:38:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:30pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:01pm asheville jon: Meanwhile...... i'm lurking Hi Rich!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @9:01 asheville jon! Nice to see you in the Digital Salon.
	9:02pm Mr Fab: Rascally raconteur? I’m all in!
	9:02pm Charles: Radio, what's new? Radio, someone still loves yooou ♪
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: ""Phillis Adrian Is Missing"" by "Rogue's Gallery" This is the last recorded episode of "Rogue's Gallery." When Dick Powell moved on, a pilot was recorded with Barry Sullivan in the lead. It didn't take off, but we do have this relic of a show that might have been.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: Some of the dialog sounds like various consonants are "rounded off." The original recording is incredibly fuzzy, so I did some restoring to improve the sound. It works mostly, but there are some lines that sound a little "vauge."
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:02 Mr. Fab! Thanks for poppin' into the Digital Salon.
	👻 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:02 Charles! Thanks for the lovely song.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: The music is a little different for this Pilot that what was typical for the Dick Powell era of "Rogue's Gallery," but that's typical for a pilot. Is that Gerald Mohr I hear?
	9:06pm Mr Fab: The Mandalay is in the Valley? Cool, will have to swing by.
	9:07pm Maulydaft: I'm popping in to say hello, and popping out again. Been sick with virus X and COVID for weeks - Dimestore has been fun Mondays as I lie in bed with migraines! MORE MOHR!!!
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:07 Oh no! Maulydaft is sick. Hopefully all the good radio is helping pass the time.
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @9:07 More Mohr is our Gerald Mohr fancast that we'll have to start when you are well.
	👻 9:09pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone! Finally have some time to listen along. These last few weeks have been so busy for me. Nice to be back
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:09 yerfriendpaul! We kept your seat here in the Digital Salon warm. Stay a spell!
	9:11pm Mr Fab: “You’re looking like Dresden doll tonight.” Like the band? (Named after a song by The Fall) Didn’t know it was an actual expression. Wonder what it means…
	👻 9:11pm yerfriendpaul: Excellent! Is the concession stand open? I need to get a box of Junior Mints
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: I don't mind Barry Sullivan as Richard Rogue, but he's not as good as Dick Powell, at least for this character. However, I do think it's a nice chance to see the kinds of things that also get lumped in with the other Rogue's Gallery episodes. Pilots like this were common, and at the very least, would make a good "one-off" show to fill in a night that comes up short. Like in the TV era after Radio, Pilots were how new ideas were pitched to stations. Why try to explain a show, when you can make an example of the show you want to offer?
	👻 9:12pm David Shortell: Look what’s coming to the Film Forum on Saturday! In 3-D, it’s “Gog”: the conclusion to Ivan Tors’ O.S.I. trilogy, the first ⅔ of which Mid-Valley Mutations excerpted in October. Robert Firmanek of the 3-D Film Archive introduces it in person. filmforum.org...
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:11 According to a quick Google search, "The phrase 'Dresden doll-like' describes a woman's face as having a flawless complexion and old-fashioned elegance."
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:12 Hell yeah! I would go see that. (For obvious reason... still writing my jokes for that installment...)
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: Her dialog is nearly unintelligible, as her particular accent sort of swallows her words. That, and the fuzziness of the original recording make it hard to understand her.
	9:16pm wenzo: Salutations Radio Denizens
	9:16pm wenzo: What-ho AR
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:16 wenzo! Thanks for coming into the Digital Salon.
	9:17pm wenzo: Well my digital nails were getting pretty chipped…
	👻 9:17pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 More on Gog on the FMU blog: blog.wfmu.org...
	👻 9:18pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 Dresden Dolls singer Amanda Palmer's ex-husband Neil Gaiman is in the news, and not in good way.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:18 I started to notice because a lot of customers are coming in to sell all their Neil Gaiman books, and even our signed copies are not selling anymore. That's usually a sign in bookstores...
	9:20pm wenzo: Yikes
	9:21pm Mr Fab: ↳ David Shortell @9:18 I’m didn’t know they had split up. They seemed very close, what with all their collaborations.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: It's nice to hear Gerald Mohr in this episode, as he does play one of the voices in nearly all the other episodes. While any show with Mohr in it is great, he's just as good in lead roles, as he would prove soon enough, when he would play Phillip Marlowe in the regular series.
	👻 9:27pm yerfriendpaul: Good scream!
	9:28pm asheville jon: What a bizarre plot
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:27 Sometimes that's all you want out of a radio show.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: They tried to keep the, "Know what I mean?" final line, but I'm not sure Barry Sullivan delivered it quite as well.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: I've been involved in a restoration project for, "The Voyage of The Scarlet Queen," a show that we ran when Dimestore Radio Theater first launched. It was only the other day, when I was comparing a sound cue for some reason, that I realized that the music for "Rocky Jordan" was made by the same person who did the music for "The Scarlet Queen." (Richard "Dick" Aurandt.) It makes sense; both shows won awards for their music. But it didn't occur to me that it might be the same person until the other day.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @9:28 I wonder if the new version of the show didn't get picked up because of the difficult-to-follow story.
	👻 9:39pm yerfriendpaul: Ha ha! Wow - her voice changed pretty quickly
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @9:39 Her story changed quickly, too!
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: "Ever try acting?" "There's no future in it."
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: "Why don't you try an American cigarette, Sam?"
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: The back half of this episode has that rhythmic "surface noise," and required a fair amount restoring. Some of the music and sound cues were mangled pretty badly, one sound cue is missing, and the closing music cue is cut off. I did what I could to rebuild this part of the show, and hopefully it doesn't sound too weird.
	9:49pm Arvo: Hi, just saying hello after watching a foreign film at the theater.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:49 Nice to see you in the digital salon, Arvo.
	9:51pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 I did merch for Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls once. True story.
	9:53pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 I took Neil Gaiman's master class, having very little knowledge of his work. Shame he is in that metoo boat along with so many others.
	👻 9:55pm David Shortell: ↳ Arvo @9:49 Details!
	9:55pm Mr Fab: “Go buy yourself a new fez,” haha.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: "From here on it's a monologue..."
	9:59pm Arvo: ↳ David Shortell @9:55 I don't remember a great deal, but I was subscribed to the master class website for a year, and took many classes. Gaiman's was one of the few that had exercises in the companion pdf that came with the class. I haven't looked to see what he is in the news for, but some time last year I read that he was being outed for various things as a teacher.
	10:00pm asheville jon: howdy
	10:01pm Arvo: ↳ David Shortell @9:55 Oh you want details about the foreign film? I watched a Chinese film called "The Octopus With Broken Arms". It was a fairly tedious action film with sex trafficking as a tacky plot device, to be honest. Although I do tend to enjoy foreign films a bit more usually. Not today.
	10:01pm laurapanic: I'm out walking, listening
	10:04pm Arvo: Man there must be a space station type set up in the Lava Lamp Lounge.
	10:05pm Arvo: My friend has a record player that plays those transcription discs. 16 inch records. Damn.
	10:05pm Arvo: I am just imagining how much gear would need to live in a house to do all of the things you do.
	10:07pm Webhamster Henry: A little late tonight, I was out at a show....
	10:10pm Arvo: ↳ Mr Fab @9:55 I still have some ABBA records. You need all the ABBA records, my dude.
	10:11pm Webhamster Henry: My record player used to have a '16' setting - there were also 8RPM records for books for the blind!
	10:12pm laurapanic: I love hearing about people's vinyl collections soooo much
	10:12pm Arvo: I think the highest quantity I had was around 4,000. Now I am around 400 max. A lot of it is sentimental, and things I would hang on my wall. I miss my thrift store records the most. Especially the organ records.
	10:13pm laurapanic: And these turntable comments are super cool
	10:14pm Arvo: I had a turntable that I could still play while I was taking a belt sander to a record in real time. Noise secrets.
	10:14pm laurapanic: I listened to a vinyl collection podcast, but like many vinyl social media groups, all dudes with Led Zepplin records. Yawwwwwn. Proper INTERESTING collections pleeeeeze
	10:16pm Arvo: ↳ laurapanic @10:14 I don't really listen to Led Zeppelin anymore. I had a period where I loved their first four LPs. It was an anomaly. I hated them, then went through a rough patch, and now don't see what I saw in them.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: I had a roommate who was into New Orleans soul 7"s. He would get into Ebay bidding wars with other collectors, and he now has a pretty excellent collection of 45s. That's the kind of person you should have on a vinyl podcast.
	10:19pm Arvo: I liked having a lot of things that were in the Nurse With Wound List, and a lot of Locked Groove records, and a lot of Halloween/Monster Music records. I had a good amount of 78s, but for a longest time, my vintage 78 record player was almost all bass, even if I played just the radio from it. I recorded a good amount of that with a contact mic. I should have done a record like The Caretaker, but I ended up only using it with other pieces.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: He's showing off a radio-controlled car that he built for these kinds of things.
	10:20pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 One of my favorite memories of New Orleans (and there are many) was going to a soul party that went until 4am and listening to people play first press soul singles.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:19 I love love a good locked groove. I should pull out some and do a show with them.
	👻 10:22pm yerfriendpaul: Quality acting there, ha ha
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:19 Man, I do enjoy those Nurse With Wound records. I regret not seeing a Steven Stapleton show when he came to PDX.
	10:22pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 RRR 500 is a holy Grail for me. Of course, the first release on my label was a seven inch with 100 locked grooves, so I am partial. There is also one called YOKOMONO that had stuff from Blixa Bargeld in it. I could keep going.
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:22 If I recall correctly, he gets his family to play all the roles in the little scenes like that.
	👻 10:23pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 Ha ha! That’s great
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:22 I only have a few, and none that you have mentioned!
	10:25pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 I would also recommend a seven inch by Stock Hausen & and Walkman that had all locked grooves. It was almost all samples.
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:25 There's a godheadSilo 7" that has a lock groove at the end of every song, that I quite like. And there's an unwound record I quite like that ends in a lock groove. I think one of the 10" records that Sweatband Records put out has lockgooves on it if I recall... and maybe that's all that I have right now?
	10:27pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 Wfmu did a locked groove record, I haven't tracked one down yet, but I suspect it is good.
	10:29pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 One favorite locked groove from the RRR 500 LP is by Brutal Truth. They actually used that locked groove at the end of one of their albums. It is a 20 minute piece where the loop gradually becomes more and more distorted. I truly loved it.
	10:30pm Arvo: One of my favorite scratched records was Chuck Berry's My Ding A Ling. It skips right at Ding A Ling, so it's just "My Ding A Ling" over and over.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: That does sound good. I just remembered that I have that Dead Kennedys record with the lockgroove at the end, too!
	👻 10:32pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 Are you thinking of Flipper's "Brainwash"?
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:30 I'm a little sad that my "Hairway to Steven" records skips in a few places. I would replace it, but an ex gave that and another Surfers records when we dated, and she has passed now, so they are very sentimental to me.
	10:32pm Arvo: Asmus Tichens did a record of minute long tracks that end in locked grooves too. Last year I did a lathe that actually ends in a locked groove. It hasn't been released yet. I didn't know it was possible. I also had a couple flexis that ended in locked grooves. I think Propagandi was the band that did a record where all of their tracks ended in locked grooves.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:32 I don't have that one! I do love Flipper.
	10:34pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 I do not remember having anything by DK on vinyl. I had it all on CD. I remember Jello had a side project where they pressed a 45 sized hole into the actual playing surface. I think it was Tumor Circus.
	10:35pm Arvo: East Bay Ray recently bought something on my label. True story!
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:34 I've got a few CDs that have grooves in them. They are often hard to play.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:34 The "Plastic Surgery Disasters" record ends in a lockgroove. I have a tape somewhere with 45 minutes of that groove.
	10:36pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:32 One of my favorite records is T. Rex. The song "It's A Rip Off" skips. It just says "Rip Off" over and over. I have two copies now.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:36 I love that. It's like in the Crow, when the record skips at just the right spot...
	10:37pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:36 That would be my favorite DK release. I had it on CD with In God We Trust.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: Sometimes I think I understand records better than I understand people.
	👻 10:38pm David Shortell: ↳ Arvo @10:30 That reminds me of the ending to the 1948 movie "Brighton Rock". It's a corny alteration of the 1938 Graham Greene novel's ending, but it amused me.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:37 Those two are just the best. That era of DK is unbeatable.
	10:40pm Arvo: ↳ David Shortell @10:38 I can't say I have seen it.
	👻 10:40pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The Last Martian"" by "X-Minus One" Read the 1950 Fredric Brown story here: archive.org...
	👻 10:40pm David Shortell: ↳ David Shortell @10:40 It was adapted into the 1959 Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode “Human Interest Story”, starring Steve McQueen! barebonesez.blogspot.com...
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: This story opens with a "comedy" music cue, so you know this story is gonna be interesting...
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: It's a sci-fi story from 1956, so of course there's a bar and lots of drinking in it.
	10:42pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 I find that if I can't at least discuss creative ideas with people, if not collaborate, I feel that social interactions are a strange contrivance created solely for the purpose of reinforcing social standing and therefore validation, which is something I gave up on long ago.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: How in the hell does a bartender charge for, "Leave the bottle?"
	10:43pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:42 I assume the bottle was $5 and you could walk out the door with it if you didn't finish.
	👻 10:45pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:38 I last saw Klaus Flouride in 2007, backing up the Legendary Stardust Cowboy.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:40 I've been making it a goal to read all the short stories that Dimension X / X Minus One is based on. I'm surprised at how many I already remember reading, and other that I don't!
	10:45pm Arvo: ↳ David Shortell @10:40 That is fascinating. Dimension X and X Minus One were among my favorites when I was playing Old Time Radio on the radio. My show would start at midnight and technically end at 4, but I would often play old time radio because nobody came in until six, and that is about when the busses started running again.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:45 That sounds like a good combo!
	👻 10:48pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""The Last Martian"" by "X-Minus One" I loved Fredric Brown’s 1954 comedy novel “Martians, Go Home”. The aliens weren’t scary or particularly malevolent. They were just annoying immature pricks who enjoyed screwing up human society for the hell of it! (It was apparently made into a 1990 movie that I never want to see.)
	10:49pm Mr Fab: ↳ Arvo @10:27 I got mine from the WFMU store online. Have you checked? They might still have some.
	10:49pm Arvo: ↳ David Shortell @10:48 I am inclined to say I would watch that movie. I actually saw a UFO in 2021. I mean it flew over us and I really thought we were going to be abducted. They looped around us twice. They were apparently just messing with us.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:48 Starring Randy Quaid! I can't imagine why you haven't rushed out to see it.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: We'll go about 8 minutes over. Sorry everyone.
	10:51pm Arvo: ↳ Mr Fab @10:49 I haven't checked recently. I was eyeing it on discogs for a while. Some day...
	10:51pm Mr Fab: ↳ Mr Fab @10:49 The WFMU locked groove album.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: All of the "comedy" music cues, the drinking, bringing a person home for dinner without calling first... it's such a 50's radio story.
	👻 10:53pm Heather Z: Been tuned in and enjoying the show! Popping in to say thanks for the awesome listening, Austin, and I hope everyone is enjoying the Wolf Moon tonight!
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:53 Nice to see you in the Digital Salon, Heather. What is a Wolf Moon?
	10:54pm Arvo: ↳ Heather Z @10:53 I have! Incidentally there is also some sort of eclipse of Mars today.
	10:54pm Mr Fab: ↳ Arvo @10:51 Just checked the FMU online store, and no, there are none for sale.
	👻 10:56pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 It's the first full moon of the year! I didn't know about the Mars eclipse Arvo mentions, though..appropriate to this story and also auspicious, I'd say!
	10:58pm Arvo: ↳ Mr Fab @10:54 I am in a budget, but there is one on discogs for $25. https://www.discogs.com/master/2597318-Various-Running-In-Place-Locked-Grooves-From-WFMU
	👻 10:58pm yerfriendpaul: Why would a newsman in that organization resort to murdering this guy?
	10:59pm Arvo: ↳ Heather Z @10:56 One would hope!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:58 Yeah, that's weird. There's something still missing...
	11:01pm Arvo: Reptilians, dude.
	👻 11:01pm David Shortell: ↳ Arvo @10:54 I saw Mars to the lower left of the moon tonight. I looked at the moon again later and Mars was not in sight.
	👻 11:02pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:36 I’ve owned that LP for 40 years. I remember that it ends with the spoken outro by the late Melissa Webber (“Now you can relax, and return to your job!”).
	👻 11:02pm yerfriendpaul: Uh oh. Trouble!
	11:02pm Arvo: ↳ David Shortell @11:01 Light pollution did not allow for such a view with me, I just see things in the news.
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:02 Yep. It's such a good record.
	11:04pm Arvo: I never did own anything by DK on vinyl, but I did own the poster of the Giger painting from Frankenchrist after it was banned. Had it on my wall for a while. Also, Winston Smith ( I hope I am getting that right) is still a great collage artist to me.
	👻 11:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @11:04 I do love those Smith collages. That Frankenchrist record is also pretty fantastic. They were such a great band.
	👻 11:07pm yerfriendpaul: Now it all makes sense!
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: Everyone's from space! Oh no!
	👻 11:07pm David Shortell: ↳ Arvo @11:02 Light pollution plagues me in NJ too. There are few stars I could see with my naked eyes tonight, but Venus was bright as hell. Jupiter not as bright. I can distinguish Mars from the stars because it’s a red dot.
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: See ya'll next week.
	11:07pm Webhamster Henry: Are there _any_ Native Terrans?
	👻 11:07pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @11:07 Ha ha!
	11:08pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:06 I just glanced at his website, he is still great. I don't listen to DK as much now. I still like Lard.
	11:08pm Mr Fab: Damn, maybe I’M a Martian!
	👻 11:08pm yerfriendpaul: Thanks Austin! Enjoyed the show! Good night all!
	👻 11:08pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @11:06 I bought it in 1985. Still got it--and the poster!
	11:08pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @11:07 Have a good un!
	11:09pm Webhamster Henry: There's a nice comet coming, But I think we Northern Hemisphere people only get it in the morning for a few days.
	11:09pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 13, 2025

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