Listener comments!

🎸 ♥ 8:56pm
: Good Hello. 🎸 ♥ 8:56pm
Asheville Jon: i am ready for some singin'!!!!! 🎸 ♥ 8:57pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Asheville Jon @8:56

This is a song tonight, for sure! 8:59pm
Imaginos: Ahoy 🎸 ♥ 9:00pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @8:59

Nice to see you in the Digital Salon, again! Hopefully you enjoy our stories tonight 🎸 ♥ 9:00pm
Austin Rich: The Rexall Jingle! Hooray! ♥ 9:01pm
Tenacious Crow: Time to get lost in some adventure for a few hours! 9:01pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:00

I always do 🎸 ♥ 9:02pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Austin Rich @9:00

Rexall is still around, but in the days when a Drug Store was more than it is now, Rexall had a large chain of stores, that sponsored a lot of radio. When Richard Diamond got a Rexall Sponsor, you knew the show was doing well. 🎸 ♥ 9:03pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Tenacious Crow @9:01

That's the way to do it, Tenacious Crow! Well done. 🎸 ♥ 9:03pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: ""The Edna Wolfe Case"" by "Richard Diamond, Priva...

This is such a typical farce setup... 🎸 ♥ 9:04pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:03

Webhamster Henry! Yes, getting a woman to walk in and hire you about a cheating husband might be the most generic case premise in Detective fiction. ♥ 9:06pm
Tenacious Crow: I was able to find a ton of old detective adventures on my favorite podcast app but I dunno its just not the same as here in the Salon. 🎸 ♥ 9:06pm
Austin Rich: It's interesting that this show seems to enjoy mocking the police, but Diamond still has an easy relationship with them, they always seem to help, and there's a sort of, "look how hard they're tying," sort of undercurrent. It's hard to figure out the point of view of the show. 🎸 ♥ 9:07pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Tenacious Crow @9:06

I feel the same way. I like to listen to old radio shows, but listening with a crew is always more fun. 🎸 ♥ 9:08pm
Austin Rich: I just noticed we had a stream interruption around the top of the show. Hopefully it wasn't too distracting? 🎸 ♥ 9:10pm
Austin Rich: "My landlord short-sheeted me." 9:11pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:10

Short sheeting back then? 🎸 ♥ 9:11pm
Webhamster Henry: haha posing for Charles Addams... 9:11pm
Imaginos: A dead girl works. 🎸 ♥ 9:11pm
Austin Rich: Suggesting that Charles Addams uses Otis as a model is great. 🎸 ♥ 9:11pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:11

I'm sure short-sheeting is as old as beds. 🎸 ♥ 9:12pm
Austin Rich: "Quit pokin', your muzzle's cold." ♥ 9:13pm
Tenacious Crow: I love how much of a smartass Richard Diamond is.

It makes him even more endearing.

9:14pm
Imaginos: Was that the sfx from Transfusion? 🎸 ♥ 9:14pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:14

It did sort of sound like it! 🎸 ♥ 9:15pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:14

I have heard that "Transfusion" Carcrash SFX in a lot of shows. I think it was part of a radio SFX package. 🎸 ♥ 9:16pm
Austin Rich: Diamond knocking out that thug reminds us that, when he wants to be, Diamond can be a real violent man. 🎸 ♥ 9:20pm
Austin Rich: Wait... Diamond didn't get knocked out? 9:22pm
Imaginos: Lesbian affair? 🎸 ♥ 9:23pm
Austin Rich: The ketchup gag works better in movies and on radio, because the smell doesn't come into the story...   9:23pm
asheville jon: Here it comes! 🎸 ♥ 9:24pm
Austin Rich: "Are you drinking?"

"Honey, I'm with the police force."

That's not a good answer, either!

🎸 ♥ 9:25pm
Austin Rich:

↳ asheville jon @9:23

Hell yeah! 9:25pm
Imaginos: I’m looking forward to this Saturday   9:25pm
asheville jon: I guess the angry neighbor isn't gonna barge in on this one 🎸 ♥ 9:25pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:22

Maybe in the novelization. But not on radio in 1950. 🎸 ♥ 9:25pm
Webhamster Henry: Funny muting here!   9:26pm
asheville jon: aaaaargh, stream drop out 🥺 🎸 ♥ 9:26pm
Austin Rich:

↳ asheville jon @9:25

And the full band makes more sense.

Looks like we had a stream interruption! Sorry again!

🎸 ♥ 9:26pm
Austin Rich:

↳ asheville jon @9:26

I'll post a full version later! Com-Crash, strikes again!   9:27pm
asheville jon: Its all good 🎸 ♥ 9:27pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:25

Yeah, that horn was great.   9:27pm
asheville jon: Hy averback? 🎸 ♥ 9:27pm
Austin Rich: I always wonder about those names. 9:28pm
Imaginos: I just found out that there’s currently a suspension on several military and diplomatic post offices 🎸 ♥ 9:29pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: ""The World of a Bishop"" by "The Adventures of Ro...

Two things of note up front:

1.) The music is different? Yes. This is an AFRS broadcast version, as the standard broadcast version was not archived properly. There are a few music cues and other indicators that are different than your average Rocky Jordan episode.

🎸 ♥ 9:29pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:28

Interesting. I wonder what's up with that.   9:30pm
asheville jon: I only know hy averback from m*a*s*h. Not sure i've heard his name on drt befor 🎸 ♥ 9:30pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: ""The World of a Bishop"" by "The Adventures of Ro...

2.) Second item: this has some of the worse sound of any Rocky Jordan episode I've heard. Hopefully you can still follow the story, but the show sounds very rough, no matter what I did to help improve it. 🎸 ♥ 9:31pm
Austin Rich:

↳ asheville jon @9:30

Yeah, I didn't recognize it at first. Interesting. 9:32pm
Imaginos: My graphic novel is coming on Saturday 🎸 ♥ 9:33pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:32

Nice! I have promised myself I won't by any more comics or graphic novels, as I have too many I haven't read yet already. 🎸 ♥ 9:36pm
Austin Rich: Richard Diamond is, for lack of a better word, a womanizer. But Diamond doesn't seem to chase women very often, and it never works out when he does. 9:36pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:33

Even if it’s made in the French style with high quality paper and based on the Imaginos saga with QR codes linking to private music videos 🎸 ♥ 9:37pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:36

Well, I DO want that comic, of course. But... well... maybe I can sell some books or something... 9:38pm
Imaginos: Maybe you can sell some to Albert? He’s rather fond of comic books 9:40pm
Imaginos: Getting sleepy 🎸 ♥ 9:41pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:38

I'm not sure I have what he's looking for, but... he and I should talk comics someday. 🎸 ♥ 9:41pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:40

Sleep well. 9:41pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:41

Thanks 🎸 ♥ 9:42pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: ""The World of a Bishop"" by "The Adventures of Ro...

Another item of note about this episode:

3.) No Delmonte ads. This AFRS version has no ad breaks, and doesn't seem to be sponsored, like the usual episode of Rocky Jordan.

🎸 ♥ 9:47pm
Austin Rich: On the subject of Rocky's love-life: while he rarely seems to pursue relationships with women, he is featured as having a regular coffee date with Sam - most weeks, in fact. That, and his close relationship with Chris, the bartender, seems to suggest that Rocky might be bisexual, to a degree anyway. I'm sure a show in 1950 could never depict that directly, but it could certainly suggest it. 9:47pm
Arvo Zylo: hello hello hello 🎸 ♥ 9:48pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Arvo Zylo @9:47

Arvo! Always nice to see you in the Digital Salon.

Arvo will be hosting our MVM show tomorrow!

🎸 ♥ 9:48pm
Austin Rich: I think I hear "Caravan?" 🎸 ♥ 9:51pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Austin Rich @9:47

I wouldn't harp on this, except this episode features a gender misunderstanding, and a character that dresses as both a man and a woman. Seems relevant to the status of Rocky's sexuality. 🎸 ♥ 9:52pm
Webhamster Henry: 007 was helping Mr. Jordan there. 🎸 ♥ 9:52pm
Austin Rich: Damn! Another interruption. We are having a terrible time with our service tonight. 🎸 ♥ 9:53pm
Webhamster Henry: "Leroy Hadidi - The James Bond Theme" -- my Sheena log ♥ 9:53pm
Maulydaft:

↳ Austin Rich @9:48

I noticed that too! I rather "hip" version!? 🎸 ♥ 9:54pm
Austin Rich: Maulydaft! Hooray! It's always great to see you in the Digital Salon. ♥ 9:55pm
Maulydaft:

↳ Austin Rich @9:47

You are so right. Very little interest in women... ♥ 9:55pm
Maulydaft: ...compared to other crime shows ♥ 9:57pm
Maulydaft: Thanks for your hard work Austin :) 🎸 ♥ 10:00pm
Webhamster Henry: The Armed Forces were weaponizing the show. ♥ 10:02pm
Maulydaft:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:00

Yes! 🎸 ♥ 10:02pm
Webhamster Henry: There's not a lot of research on this show into the culture of natives and ex-pats in post war Cairo. ♥ 10:05pm
Maulydaft: I think you are right Austin, about people taking what they could from stories, even if that's not what was intended. ♥ 10:08pm
Maulydaft: So sad coming to the end of X Minus 1/Dimension X :( :( 🎸 ♥ 10:09pm
Webhamster Henry: Hey I listen to lots of Inner Sanctum Mystery now, Himan Brown's series before CBS RMT, and they are weird, sometimes really scary or suspenseful, and sometimes they have stupid ads for Lipton tea and soup built into them.   10:10pm
asheville jon: I like the story where they go to the place, they do the thing with the stuff. 🎸 ♥ 10:10pm
Webhamster Henry: I'm sometimes interested in the TV adaptations of radio series as the early days of TV were desperate for material! 🎸 ♥ 10:11pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:09

I do like Inner Sanctum. I should consider adding those to the run later. 🎸 ♥ 10:12pm
Webhamster Henry: There's a nice collection of Bradbury only radio shows,
archive.org... 🎸 ♥ 10:12pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Maulydaft @10:08

It's been a long, strange trip! But fear not. I'll probably re-listen to them again, someday. 🎸 ♥ 10:12pm
Austin Rich:

↳ asheville jon @10:10

I will remember to play that one! 🎸 ♥ 10:12pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:12

Ooooo! I am a sucker for Bradbury in general, as I recall loving a story collection of his as a lad. ♥ 10:13pm
Maulydaft: I know what X-1 I DON'T want to hear again: Perigi's Wonderful Dolls. I've heard to too many times and it's ok but "evil doll" stories aren't that interesting...   10:13pm
asheville jon: Cool! That was one of the best, especially when the other thing came, and they had to escape the thing so it wouldn't do stuff to them. 🎸 ♥ 10:13pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Maulydaft @10:05

Absolutely! I find the character that I relate to and give them a whole backstory, even if I'm fairly sure that wasn't intended. Fan-fic sort of carved out a space for people to feel seen in big media, and I sort of love that. ♥ 10:13pm
Maulydaft: I will always vote for Bradbury :) 🎸 ♥ 10:14pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Maulydaft @10:13

Yeah, I'm not too into that one, either.

Maybe we should vote for what we DON'T want to hear?

🎸 ♥ 10:14pm
Austin Rich:

↳ asheville jon @10:13

The Stuff! Right! I forgot about the thing with the stuff.   10:15pm
asheville jon: Exactly! At the place! 🎸 ♥ 10:16pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Maulydaft @10:13

On the subject of Evil Dolls: are there good Evil Doll stories? I'm trying to remember one I was a fan of... 🎸 ♥ 10:18pm
Austin Rich: Unrelated to all of this: I went to a house show the other day, with bands playing loud in a living room with people a lot younger than me, and it went a LONG way toward making me feel like I wasn't 51, and trying to find a cure for the middle-aged shuffle... 🎸 ♥ 10:20pm
Webhamster Henry: When I hear shows like this, I have to refer to Large Language's totally fake WW II AI story "White Knights" largelanguage.bandcamp.com... 🎸 ♥ 10:21pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:20

Oh dear! I should listen to that. 🎸 ♥ 10:21pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @10:16

Tilight Zone: "Hi! My name is Talky Tina!" June Foray was also the voice of Chatty Cathy (the real doll being pastiched there) 🎸 ♥ 10:22pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:21

Oh, yeah. I don't mind that one.

See, we found one!

🎸 ♥ 10:23pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:21

But I think my love of Twilight Zone goes a long way toward forgiving most episodes, even the not as good ones. 🎸 ♥ 10:26pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @10:23

I kind of like the Black Mirror one: "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too" . 🎸 ♥ 10:28pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:26

I have not seen as much Black Mirror, but it is totally the successor to that kind of fiction, and is meeting the moment better than some Sci-Fi. I have a hard time recommending Black Mirror to everyone, as there are some VERY dark episodes - the first one, included. But I think that first episode sort of weeds out people who might have thought it was going to be "fun" Sci-Fi. 🎸 ♥ 10:28pm
Austin Rich: It was a triple-digit temperature day here in the Mid-Valley. The heat is FINALLY under 90 degrees. ♥ 10:31pm
Maulydaft:

↳ Austin Rich @10:28

I watched the first season and really liked it. But yes... some REALLY DARK stuff... the politician one... I don't even want to say more... eep. I think it was ones like that that probably kept us from seeking out season two. They all got you thinking... but some were much more upsetting than others! 🎸 ♥ 10:33pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Maulydaft @10:31

Agreed. I should catch back up with that show, as I think I saw the first two seasons... and tapped out around there. (It was just SO dark at times, I needed some Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to balance it out.) ♥ 10:33pm
Maulydaft: Like I love There Will Come Soft Rains - it's written SO WELL but is SO DEPRESSING! 🎸 ♥ 10:33pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Maulydaft @10:33

That is one of my favorites, too. I should TOTALLY re-run that one. 🎸 ♥ 10:34pm
Webhamster Henry: I'll just put the fish under this handy X-Ray machine ♥ 10:34pm
Maulydaft:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:34

LOL 🎸 ♥ 10:35pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:34

In 1949, every house had one, right? X-Ray-ing this, and X-Ray-ing that. Wasn't there a song about it? "Don't Go Kissing 'Round The X-Ray Machine, With Anyone Else But Me..." 🎸 ♥ 10:36pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @10:35

The X-Ray machine is near the ice cube maker. ♥ 10:36pm
Maulydaft:

↳ Austin Rich @10:35

So wild... 🎸 ♥ 10:36pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:36

"THE HOME... OF THE FUTURE..." 🎸 ♥ 10:39pm
Austin Rich: I think making "Don"... uhm... "not very smart" in this show works very well. Any kid listening will be two steps ahead of Don, feeling pretty smart at home. 🎸 ♥ 10:40pm
Austin Rich: Love that intro transition music... ♥ 10:40pm
David Shortell:

↳ Song: ""Point of Departure"" by "X-Minus One"

www.gutenberg.org... 🎸 ♥ 10:40pm
Austin Rich: "Listen in on the Nightline..." 🎸 ♥ 10:40pm
Austin Rich:

↳ David Shortell @10:40

David Shortell! Thank you for finding this link. 🎸 ♥ 10:41pm
Austin Rich: I'll announce this now, as I'm sure it will make sense once I mention it: our show this year falls on July 20th, so we will will have a "Moon Landing" Special, re-running all stories about Luna herself. As you can imagine, it's all Sci-Fi stories. 🎸 ♥ 10:42pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @10:40

It adds a visual component - as well as seeing what the cuts and adaptations area! 🎸 ♥ 10:43pm
Austin Rich: The Dead Sea Scrolls! 🎸 ♥ 10:44pm
Austin Rich: They had only just been discovered, or, the final bit of the scrolls was uncovered in 1956.

en.wikipedia.org...

🎸 ♥ 10:48pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: ""Point of Departure"" by "X-Minus One"

Very timely! Sputnik's launch was on 4 October 1957 🎸 ♥ 10:48pm
Austin Rich: I recall, when I was in High School, a new book about The Dead Sea Scrolls had been published, and people were all abuzz with what it was all about. I seem to recall radio DJs even making jokes about being distracted because they were reading the Scrolls. 🎸 ♥ 10:51pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @10:48

The Herculaneum scrolls were recently in the news: too fargile to be unrolled, they were tomographically scanned and unrolled in software. There's a documentary on this! 🎸 ♥ 10:52pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:51

Oh, damn! That's very cool. I should see that doc! I'm a sucker for a well-made documentary...

Even better if Errol Morris made it.

🎸 ♥ 10:56pm
Austin Rich: We are getting near the end for the day. Thanks for listening, everyone! We'll be back again, next week! ♥ 10:57pm
David Shortell:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:12

Of those listed in that link, “And So Died Riabouchinska” and “Marionettes, Inc.” were adapted for Alfred Hitchcock Presents (so were four other Ray Bradbury stories).
Rod Serling said that though Bradbury’s work is good reading, it doesn’t adapt well for drama. He tried once, anyway, in the Twilight Zone episode “I Sing the Body Electric!” 🎸 ♥ 10:58pm
Austin Rich:

↳ David Shortell @10:57

Maybe that was the story that convinced him Bradbury doesn't really work. 🎸 ♥ 10:58pm
Austin Rich: Thanks again, everyone. 🎸 ♥ 10:59pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @10:58

That was a robot grandma story.... 🎸 ♥ 11:00pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:59

I thought so, but I wasn't 100% sure. 🎸 ♥ 11:00pm
Webhamster Henry: BTW, a good fembot movie that didn't get a lot of publicity was Companion that came out last year:
en.wikipedia.org...