Listener comments!

🎸 ♥ 7:11pm
: Good Hello. 🎸 ♥ 8:00pm
Austin Rich: Question for Listeners: I have been needing to change my schedule for work related reasons. Would an EARLIER version of Dimestore Radio Theater work better for people? (Having a Morning, or lunchtime show, instead of an evening show?). 8:33pm
Imaginos: I would love that as I would be able to hang out for the full show 🎸 ♥ 8:58pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @8:33

If I do this, it might be VERY early. I'm still thinking it over. I don't want to move, then have to move again. 9:00pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @8:58

Just let me know what time you’re going to be on 🎸 ♥ 9:00pm
David The Splatter:

↳ Austin Rich @8:00

If you do it during the day (like before 5:00), I'd certainly be able to listen to the full show. I usually listen to FMU at work. 🎸 ♥ 9:01pm
Austin Rich: It's lovely to see you both, Imaginos and David The Splatter! I do enjoy having guests in the Digital Salon. 🎸 ♥ 9:02pm
Austin Rich: The Carnival! I haven't been to one in years, either. Richard doesn't seem to like Carnivals. Hurm... 🎸 ♥ 9:02pm
Austin Rich: Rexall Reference! (Their current sponsor, for stations in 1950.) 🎸 ♥ 9:02pm
Bandit: REXALL YOU SAY?!? Speaking of Rexall pharmacy check this out ( www.trainworld.com... ) ♥ 9:03pm
Tenacious Crow:

↳ Austin Rich @8:00

I certainly wouldn't mind an earlier show though I'd be listening no matter what time of day. 🎸 ♥ 9:03pm
Austin Rich: Turns out Helen is a crack-shot. That's never come up before... 9:03pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:02

Six Flags only had one good ride .. a Madhouse 🎸 ♥ 9:03pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Tenacious Crow @9:03

Tenacious Crow! (And Bandit! Hooray!) 🎸 ♥ 9:03pm
Bandit:

↳ Bandit @9:02

I recently learned about how Rexall paid the New York Central system to have basically giant ads on the locomotive and its cars. Each car was named after a different product sold by Rexall. 🎸 ♥ 9:04pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Bandit @9:02

Hurm. That link comes up: "Error 403 Forbidden" ♥ 9:04pm
Tenacious Crow:

↳ Austin Rich @9:03

It's good to see ya Austin! 🎸 ♥ 9:04pm
Austin Rich: "Inner Sanctum" joke! This show's full of 4th Wall Breaks... 🎸 ♥ 9:05pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Bandit @9:03

That sounds about right. Rexall was everywhere, back in the day. 🎸 ♥ 9:05pm
Austin Rich: "Let's be modern. I'm a cynic." 🎸 ♥ 9:05pm
Austin Rich: "I should pay to watch a girl play solitaire?" 🎸 ♥ 9:05pm
Bandit:

↳ Austin Rich @9:04

Hold on!! Try this one, a picture of the real life train. The link I sent was a scale model in HO that is being made.

www.flickr.com...

🎸 ♥ 9:05pm
Webhamster Henry: Hi Radio fans! 🎸 ♥ 9:06pm
Webhamster Henry: I was listening to Nightfall shows last night. ♥ 9:06pm
Tenacious Crow: I love how much of a wiseass Richard is.

It makes him endearing.

🎸 ♥ 9:06pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Bandit @9:05

Nice Rexall Train! My dad worked for Southern Pacific Railroad for years, as a laborer, and then later, and a Union Rep. We were around trains a lot when I was a kid. 🎸 ♥ 9:06pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:06

Webhamster Henry! I do love that Nightfall show. 🎸 ♥ 9:07pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Tenacious Crow @9:06

The dialog is 75% of the reason to listen! I love listening to these people crack wise. 🎸 ♥ 9:07pm
Bandit:

↳ Austin Rich @9:06

themetrains.com...

Another site that talks about it

🎸 ♥ 9:08pm
Webhamster Henry: The show's slot right now is very good for me - earlier on Monday would be bad. 🎸 ♥ 9:08pm
Bandit:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:05

The radio is where it happens you know 9:08pm
Imaginos: Otis reminds me of Detective Sgt Gilks from Dirk Gently 🎸 ♥ 9:08pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Bandit @9:07

Oh, man. You are speaking my language; I have been threatening to make a Train-Themed zine since the 90's. Maybe we should collaborate? 🎸 ♥ 9:09pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:08

That's the first negative vote, and it's never good to loose the Webhamster Henry interest. Like I said: I've just been thinking about it. Nothing in stone. 🎸 ♥ 9:10pm
Austin Rich: "Is that all she shakes?"

This show does love to get saucy...

🎸 ♥ 9:10pm
Austin Rich: Another wrestler! We've had a lot of boxers and wresters on Dimestore lately. 🎸 ♥ 9:10pm
Bandit: IMO when you did the 5 o'clock show I liked that cause the radio dramas helped my finish out my Monday shift. 🎸 ♥ 9:10pm
Webhamster Henry: Diamond meets Freaks. 🎸 ♥ 9:10pm
Bandit:

↳ Austin Rich @9:08

TRAINS!! 🎸 ♥ 9:11pm
Austin Rich: "Loaded with onions, Honey. No date tonight." 9:11pm
Imaginos:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:10

So his usual routine 🎸 ♥ 9:11pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:10

I would watch that movie. ♥ 9:11pm
Tenacious Crow:

↳ Bandit @9:10

I'd vote for the 5PM Time slot as well if possible it would fit perfectly into my schedule. 🎸 ♥ 9:12pm
Austin Rich: A PT Barnum reference! Take a drink! 🎸 ♥ 9:13pm
Bandit: "Fitch is the Shitchs!" 🎸 ♥ 9:13pm
Austin Rich: If your Detective show runs long enough, you will have a show set in a circus, and or at a carnival. I think most of the regular detectives have at least one Circus or Carnival story. 🎸 ♥ 9:14pm
Austin Rich: "Get away son, you're botherin' me."

That's a W.C. Fields reference, if I'm not mistaken...

9:14pm
Imaginos: We fields ref? 🎸 ♥ 9:14pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:14

Jinx! 9:14pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:14

I agree 🎸 ♥ 9:14pm
Webhamster Henry: He says a "voice like Andy Devine" like that's a bad thing. 🎸 ♥ 9:14pm
Austin Rich: 37 Hours sleep will cure just about anything. 🎸 ♥ 9:15pm
Austin Rich: "What this gal carried around could never past the censor board." 9:16pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:15

I’m picturing the Gainax bounce 🎸 ♥ 9:16pm
David The Splatter: Unfortunately, the Fitch Shampoo train is just 2 guys on one of those hand-powered rail boards. It's all marketing could afford. 🎸 ♥ 9:16pm
Austin Rich: I'm sure Dick Powell pitched the "roughshod" voice for this episode. He seems like the kind of actor that likes to give himself challenges. 🎸 ♥ 9:17pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @9:16

He didn't drop any Andy Devine lines that I recognized though. 🎸 ♥ 9:17pm
Austin Rich:

↳ David The Splatter @9:16

You think Fitch has "Train Car" money? With all the class-action lawsuits they face from customers with standing, it's surprising they are still in business. 🎸 ♥ 9:18pm
Austin Rich:

↳ David The Splatter @9:16

David The Splatter! Hooray! 🎸 ♥ 9:18pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:17

I'm not familiar, but I need to look that up. I'm sure I'd recognize it once I knew what I was hearing. ♥ 9:18pm
Tenacious Crow: That Diamond fella is sure one charasmatic guy. 🎸 ♥ 9:18pm
Webhamster Henry: Fitch field trip! en.wikipedia.org... 🎸 ♥ 9:19pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:17

This one, I assume?

en.wikipedia.org...

🎸 ♥ 9:20pm
Austin Rich: Richard is not really that nice to women, and if we were to use the show as a measure of this, he seems to have not trouble finding women who want him. I have no idea what to make of this. 🎸 ♥ 9:21pm
Austin Rich: "Little Miss Wiggle Hips." 🎸 ♥ 9:21pm
Bandit:

↳ Imaginos @9:16

Heh 🎸 ♥ 9:21pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @9:19

Yep, usually comic relief and of course, a friend of Froggy. www.reddit.com... 🎸 ♥ 9:23pm
Bandit:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:21

MAGIC TWANGER!! Kitschy Mama uses this sound on Retro Obscuro ♥ 9:23pm
Tenacious Crow: Not the clown! 🎸 ♥ 9:23pm
Austin Rich: "A Killer Clown From A Diamond Case!"

(First Draft titles.)

🎸 ♥ 9:24pm
David The Splatter:

↳ Austin Rich @9:20

It's an evergreen issue. Some people get attracted to guys like that. I've never understood why. Is it the bravado? Maybe the quips? 🎸 ♥ 9:24pm
Austin Rich: That music cue is supposed to imply a "sexy dance" apparently. ♥ 9:25pm
Tenacious Crow: Oh that scamp Richard Diamond will his troubles with the ladies ever cease? 🎸 ♥ 9:25pm
Bandit:

↳ Austin Rich @9:23

"Clowns are a Richard Diamond dozen"

(second draft title)

🎸 ♥ 9:25pm
Austin Rich: Diamond just told his girlfriend, to her face, that the "sexy dance" music wasn't for her, and that instead, she deserves a sweet love song. Is that a dig... or is that cool? I don't know... 🎸 ♥ 9:26pm
Bandit:

↳ Tenacious Crow @9:25

He doesn't have troubles, he has his girlfriend 9:26pm
Imaginos: Getting sleepy. Been up since 4am 🎸 ♥ 9:26pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Bandit @9:25

Nice! You should be titling these shows. 🎸 ♥ 9:26pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:26

Sleep well. 🎸 ♥ 9:27pm
Bandit:

↳ Austin Rich @9:26

Nah, I got lucky with the word play lol 9:27pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:26

Thank you 🎸 ♥ 9:28pm
Austin Rich: There was a clown and a wrestler in this episode. ACTION PACKED, even. Can Rocky Jordan do that well with a story about... beer? 🎸 ♥ 9:28pm
Bandit: New announcer for the show?! 🎸 ♥ 9:28pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Bandit @9:28

I think so. 🎸 ♥ 9:29pm
David The Splatter:

↳ Austin Rich @9:28

It's not just any beer... it's Pharoah's Beer. 🎸 ♥ 9:29pm
Austin Rich: That music cue was a tad early, there, music director. Another sign that, while "transcribed" is still "performed" live when possible. 🎸 ♥ 9:29pm
Bandit:

↳ Song: ""The Pharaoh's Formula"" by "The Adventures of Ro...

'Sphinx Beer' so rich it has what we call "The Pharaoh's Formula" bringing rich hops, toated rice and fresh Nile water 🎸 ♥ 9:30pm
Bandit:

↳ Austin Rich @9:28

Hmm, maybe it was spliced from a different transcribed take? 🎸 ♥ 9:32pm
Bandit: Austin, have you played the show "A Man Named Jordan"? Apparent is set before "The Adventures of Rocky Jordan" 🎸 ♥ 9:32pm
Austin Rich: Another character bit about Rocky: he just had lunch, he runs a Cafe that sells alcohol, and he's usually in the business of making customers happy. Funny that he turned down that beer. 🎸 ♥ 9:33pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Bandit @9:32

Not yet. There are only a few episodes, and I was going to run them as an addendum to this show, when it's done. 🎸 ♥ 9:34pm
Bandit:

↳ Austin Rich @9:33

Awesome! I also have to head out for the night. See yall on the radio! ♥ 9:34pm
Tenacious Crow: See I thought he was going to be poisioned 🎸 ♥ 9:36pm
Austin Rich: No wrestlers or fortune tellers, but a Scientist, and a Salesman, and a Cafe Owner... Interesting... 🎸 ♥ 9:37pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Bandit @9:34

Sleep well! 🎸 ♥ 9:38pm
Austin Rich: There's a Helen in both our stories so far. 🎸 ♥ 9:39pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Austin Rich @9:38

kith.fandom.com... 🎸 ♥ 9:40pm
Webhamster Henry: Fun Foley there! 🎸 ♥ 9:41pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:40

When the sound is good on this show, it's well produced. 🎸 ♥ 9:43pm
David The Splatter: Time to get ready for bed. Thanks, Austin, I'll be listening while I get settled for the night. 🎸 ♥ 9:43pm
Austin Rich:

↳ David The Splatter @9:43

Thanks for listening, David The Splatter! 🎸 ♥ 9:46pm
Austin Rich: That is a pretty unfortunate Chinese accent. ♥ 9:50pm
David Shortell:

↳ Imaginos @9:08

Is that character in both novels?
I've not read them in years and remember little. 🎸 ♥ 9:53pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @9:46

Clearly living in Egypt too long! 🎸 ♥ 9:54pm
Austin Rich: "Drugs" seems to be the default "thing" that a large number of noir stories end up being about. Even on the radio, where a lot of stories are sanitized, drugs till find a way into the stories. 🎸 ♥ 9:54pm
Webhamster Henry: Falling into a vat of chemicals is the origin story of The Joker and Plasticman! 🎸 ♥ 9:55pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:54

I forgot how Plasticman became Plasticman. I should re-read those comics. I feel like those were actually good. ♥ 9:58pm
Tenacious Crow:

↳ Austin Rich @9:55

Plastic Man is fantastic ♥ 10:00pm
Tenacious Crow: As for the schedule I'll be listening no matter what.

But I would definetly perfer a lunch time show.

♥ 10:01pm
David Shortell:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:54

It wasn't so beneficial to that one crook in "Robocop":
youtube.com... 🎸 ♥ 10:12pm
Austin Rich:

↳ David Shortell @10:01

I have a soft spot of Robocop. That movie is wonderfully strange and well made. The commercial ads are EXCELLENT.   🎸 ♥ 10:13pm
Heather Z: Re scheduling, I love tuning in live during this time slot! But there's always archives. 🎸 ♥ 10:14pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Tenacious Crow @9:58

I think we have a Plastic Man collection at our bookstore, that I could pick up. But I've been trying NOT to buy more comics, and instead, read the ones I STILL HAVEN'T FINISHED. I have too many comics...

Not to mention: I probably don't remember most of them. Re-reading would totally work...

🎸 ♥ 10:14pm
Austin Rich: The woman who doesn't like Gin & Orange Juice, and was complaining about it DECADES later, is my hero. 🎸 ♥ 10:15pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather Z @10:13

Nice to know you are listening! Yeah, this time is becoming a little hard. i might need to change things up. ♥ 10:16pm
Tenacious Crow:

↳ Austin Rich @10:14

This is so real 🎸 ♥ 10:16pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Tenacious Crow @10:16

Seriously! I'll just say: I can relate, sister.   🎸 ♥ 10:20pm
Heather Z:

↳ Austin Rich @10:15

I sure am! And I totally get it. Scheduling is always.... scheduling. 🎸 ♥ 10:22pm
Austin Rich: I am a sucker for Gershwin, which is probably the LEAST cool thing to say these days. My co-workers - who are all 20-somethings, at the oldest - think I'm corny for putting on Gershwin. ♥ 10:29pm
David Shortell:

↳ Austin Rich @9:55

Art Spiegelman wrote a 1999 New Yorker article about Jack Cole:
www.newyorker.com... ♥ 10:29pm
David Shortell:

↳ David Shortell @10:29

www.newyorker.com... ♥ 10:29pm
David Shortell:

↳ David Shortell @10:29

In 2001, the article was expanded into an illustrated book:
www.goodreads.com... 🎸 ♥ 10:31pm
Austin Rich: I should check that out. I sort of remember liking Plastic Man, but it's been a while since I've read anything. ♥ 10:32pm
David Shortell:

↳ Austin Rich @10:31

You might think Plas impossible to parody, but Harvey Kurtzman did so in MAD #14 (August 1954):
jeffoverturf.blogspot.com... 🎸 ♥ 10:32pm
Austin Rich:

↳ David Shortell @10:32

If anyone COULD do it, it's Kurtzman. I should read all of this after the show. ♥ 10:33pm
David Shortell:

↳ Austin Rich @10:32

Jack Cole killed himself in 1958.
Phil Foglio & Hilary Barta did an admirable but brief revival of the property in 1988:
www.everydayislikewednesday.com... ♥ 10:33pm
David Shortell:

↳ David Shortell @10:33

The great Kyle Baker took a funny stab at the character in 2004:
www.tcj.com... 🎸 ♥ 10:34pm
Austin Rich:

↳ David Shortell @10:29

I usually like Spiegelman, too.

I think I recall that '88 version, when I was a youth.

🎸 ♥ 10:35pm
Austin Rich: Immediately resolving the suspense as to who got shot makes a lot more sense for a "kids" show. In a detective show, that would have been where the commercial break was. 🎸 ♥ 10:37pm
Austin Rich: You can hear some "speed" changes on this episode of Blackstone. I have no idea how they were originally archived, but I suspect that transferring from a reel-to-reel might have been involved. 🎸 ♥ 10:39pm
Austin Rich: "It's just an exceptionally good trick."

Blackstone doesn't mind tooting his own horn, so to speak.

♥ 10:40pm
David Shortell:

↳ Austin Rich @10:34

That 1988 miniseries’ illustrator, Hilary Barta, later worked with Alan Moore on an homage to Cole's Plastic Man called "Splash Brannigan":
scans-daily.dreamwidth.org... ♥ 10:41pm
David Shortell:

↳ Song: ""The Light"" by "X-Minus One"

archive.org... ♥ 10:41pm
David Shortell:

↳ David Shortell @10:41

This story is important enough to have its own Wikipedia page!
en.wikipedia.org... 🎸 ♥ 10:41pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @9:55

I used to know Kyle Baker, who rebooted Plastic Man. 🎸 ♥ 10:42pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: ""The Light"" by "X-Minus One"

This episode aired one week from Halloween, 1957. This is not a "Halloween" story, nor does it have anything that "spooky" in it. Radio, in 1957, wasn't really "seasonal" in that way. However, listeners at home would be thinking about Halloween while listening, which seems relevant to me. 🎸 ♥ 10:43pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:41

Very cool! I find Comic Book people to be fascinating. 🎸 ♥ 10:44pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @10:43

The family scenes portrayed in his The Bakers comic books were accurate! 🎸 ♥ 10:49pm
Webhamster Henry: Haha Judas Priest! 🎸 ♥ 10:50pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:49

I almost commented on that, too! That's a pretty funny "curse." It's like, 'Great Caesar's Ghost!" 🎸 ♥ 10:51pm
Austin Rich: There's a secret "photography nerd" subplot to this episode that I didn't notice before. 🎸 ♥ 10:51pm
Webhamster Henry: Caravaggio actually would have been the right painter for the moon. ♥ 10:52pm
David Shortell:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:44

Do you know what Kyle's been up to lately? The last thing I read by him was "Special Forces" in 2008. 🎸 ♥ 10:53pm
Webhamster Henry: Court marshalled ... what's the jurisdiction? 🎸 ♥ 10:53pm
Austin Rich: "Ner-Van-Ah." 🎸 ♥ 10:55pm
Austin Rich: We might end on time this week.

I don't know what to say. I tried to hard to go over like normal, but... I didn't.

I'm sorry.

🎸 ♥ 10:56pm
Webhamster Henry: Nope. The family broke up and moved away. 🎸 ♥ 10:57pm
Austin Rich: We will be having a "Moon" Celebration episode of Dimestore Radio Theater on July 20th! TUNE IN. ♥ 10:57pm
David Shortell:

↳ David Shortell @10:52

He apparently did something 10 years ago called "Benevolence: Violence Solves Everything". I'll have to mail-order it. 🎸 ♥ 10:58pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Austin Rich @10:57

Are there any Dick Tracy radio shows featuring Moon Maid? 🎸 ♥ 10:59pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @10:58

I don't know! I'm gonna play three Dimension X episodes, that involve the Moon. 🎸 ♥ 11:00pm
Austin Rich: Okay, I went over a little bit. I feel better now. 🎸 ♥ 11:01pm
Webhamster Henry: And now: the Lumberjack song! Good night! 🎸 ♥ 11:01pm
Austin Rich: That's a good transition!