This Gun in My Hand: Recent Episodes
Robert Thomas Northrup
Audio drama podcast featuring Falk Zildjian, indomitable hero by virtue of the fact that he carries a gun. What would make anyone listen to it? This Gun in My Hand.
Can David Graham, a torpedo engineer vital to the war effort, escape from German spies? Can Falk protect him? Is that supposed to be a Greek accent? Listen to find out!
Journey Into Fiasco, episode 120 of This Gun in My Hand, was driven and engineered by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Sisyphus, Eat Your Heart Out, available in paperback and ebook from Amazon. What makes torpedoes move faster? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. This episode was inspired by “Journey Into Fear,” an episode of The US Steel Hour of Mystery starring Lawrence Olivier and broadcast on June 9, 1946, which was adapted from the 1940 novel by Eric Ambler.
https://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/thriller/the-hour-of-mystery/journey-into-fear-1946-06-09
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No, it's not my impression of a Greek accent. The lines from Mithrodopolis in this episode are my impression of the guy from that 1946 broadcast of Journey Into Fear, doing an unidentifiable accent that's all over the place. I actually tried to sound like David Lander's character from On the Air, a 1992 David Lynch tv comedy that only aired 3 episodes in the US.
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“Mon petit chou” was an expression I heard not in high school French class, but from my mother. She had learned it from her father who landed at Normandy three to six days after D-Day. He drove a refrigerated supply truck. I wonder in what context he learned “mon petit chou” from the locals?
Credits:The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Other music comes from “Journey Into Fear,” the June 9, 1946 episode of the public domain radio show Hour of Mystery. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: chugging diesel (bus) and rev.MP3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/CraftyIndividual/sounds/418436/
Sound Effect Title: bus coach ext pull up brake air release idle.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/kyles/sounds/454420/
Sound Effect Title: Bus Closing Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/am7/sounds/520753/
Sound Effect Title: bustle in the pub
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/organicmanpl/sounds/403285/
Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/
Sound Effect Title: Slam door.MP3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/SoundsForHim/sounds/395653/
Sound Effect Title: S16-06 Light wooden door open & close.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/675878/
Sound Effect Title: Shotgun Reload Pump
Recorded by RA The Sun God
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1959-Shotgun-Reload-Pump.html
Sound Effect Title: 1911 Pistol Cocking
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/J.Anthracite/sounds/465488/
Sound Effect Title: Glock 19 Handgun Pistol Slide Cocking Sounds
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/jackmurrayofficial/sounds/393734/
Sound Effect Title: AR15 M4 Gun Hardware Magazine Movement Sounds
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/jackmurrayofficial/sounds/393732/
Sound Effect Title: Gun Cocking Sound.mp3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/545958/
Sound Effect Title: Pump Action Shotgun Cycle
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/370344/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a panel from the public domain Greyhound promotional comic book Driving Like a Pro (1958), artist unknown.
https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=31501
Is it wrong to make up stories about silly gunfights fifty years ago while authoritarian figures are taking power and civilians are getting massacred as we speak? That’s the dilemma Falk has to solve, in the middle of a gunfight!
The Hapless Hack of Gazpacho Gulch, episode 119 of This Gun in My Hand, was rustled up and branded with innuendo by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Sisyphus, Eat Your Heart Out, available in paperback and ebook from Amazon. (But wait until the strike's over to order it.) What helps me escape from my neighbor’s basement? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
- Getting a story accepted by an editor who was then fired, and getting it rejected by his replacement, was based on something that happened to my favorite creative writing professor, the late Dr. Gilbert Cross. The editor who liked his stuff published three of his spy novels under the name “Jon Winters” in the late 70s and early 80s, before getting replaced by an editor who didn’t like them.
Credits:
The opening music was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
Recorded by Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html
Sound Effect Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)
By Carmelomike
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/
Sound Effect Title: Gun Fire
By GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html
Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/
Sound Effect Title: Kicking/Forcing/Breaking Wooden Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/160213/
Sound Effect Title: Plywood_Prying_01.wav
By dheming
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/128408/
Sound Effect Title: door wood hit +window rattle slam bang various.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/452595/
Sound Effect Title: Crash
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/512246/
Sound Effect Title: S10-19 Falling wooden beam; big interior crash; house collapses; long.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/675967/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of an interior illustration from Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine, Vol. CLXXIV No. 2 (June 3, 1939), public domain, artist unknown.
How will Falk escape this scrape with The Scrapper? Will he have to climb over or down the escarpment? Will she throw the book at him? Where did I put those stickers with the flowers? Listen to find out!
Scrapping at the Escarpment, episode 118 of This Gun in My Hand, was scraped together and later scuppered by Rob Northrup, with special guest Melinda Flicka as the hamster-monger. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Sisyphus, Eat Your Heart Out. That’s right, my new novella Sisyphus, Eat Your Heart Out is now available in paperback and ebook from Amazon. I’ll post readings of the first two chapters soon. Buy it today! If you have Kindle Unlimited, you can read the ebook for free and I still get two bits kickback for it, possibly more. And you can still buy Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. In fact that’s only been in ebook format so far, now available for the first time in paperback. How did I get through the locked door of your apartment? With This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. Santa Rosita is where the treasure was buried in [spoilers] It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).
Credits:Transitional music clips were taken from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), The Scar (aka Hollow Triumph, 1948) and Killer Bait (1949), films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: Traffic mel 1.wav
By malupeeters
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/malupeeters/sounds/191350/
Sound Effect Title: S16-06 Light wooden door open & close.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/675878/
Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/
Sound Effect Title: Cutlery drawer
License: Public Domain
http://soundbible.com/591-Cutlery-Drawer.html
Sound Effect Title: Glass Bottle Breaking
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/IENBA/sounds/607910/
Sound Effect Title: Mount Moganshan Insect Chorus
By: RTB45
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/RTB45/sounds/325321/
Insect chorus recorded one summer evening, Mount Moganshan, Zhejiang Provence, People's Republic of China
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the public domain comic book cover from Monte Hale Western Number 50 (July 1950), pencils and inks by Edmond Good.
Will Falk survive the wriggling horror that descends from the heavens? Why did he murder his wife? When did he get married? How do you make a piano out of squids? Listen to find out!The Chilling Horror That Grinds and Wiggles, episode 117 of This Gun in My Hand, was molded, frozen and dropped on you by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What’s the scariest part of the episode? This Gun in My Hand!Show Notes:1. The “slush pile” is publishing industry jargon for unsolicited manuscripts mostly from amateurs. I know the term because outside of self-publishing, that’s as far as my stories have gotten.Credits:The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.Music Title: Pictures at an Exhibition - I. Gnomus VivoComposed by Modest Petrovich MussorgskyPerformed by Skidmore College OrchestraLicense: Public Domainhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skidmore_College_Orchestra_-_02_-_I_Gnomus_Vivo.ogg Music Title: Pictures at an Exhibition - VIII. Catacombae. Sepulcrum romanum LargoComposed by Modest Petrovich MussorgskyPerformed by Skidmore College OrchestraLicense: Public Domainhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skidmore_College_Orchestra_-_12_-_VIII_Catacombae_Sepulcrum_romanum_Largo.ogg Music Title: Pictures at an Exhibition - Cum mortuis in lingua mortua Andante non troppo con lamentoComposed by Modest Petrovich MussorgskyPerformed by Skidmore College OrchestraLicense: Public Domainhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skidmore_College_Orchestra_-_13_-_Cum_mortuis_in_lingua_mortua_Andante_non_troppo_con_lamento.oggSound Effect Title: forest boreal light wind breeze through leaves +close loud birds.flac License: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/s/637563/ Sound Effect Title: Silbido bomba cayendo.wav License: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/s/393006/ Sound Effect Title: Broken Egg Squelch By d.n.audio.ukLicense: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0https://freesound.org/s/461049/Sound Effect Title: Pouring Soup in a Metal Pan - Quick,Short,Gross by HitrisonLicense: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0https://freesound.org/s/251410/Sound Effect Title: Messy Splat 3a by FoolBoyMediaLicense: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0https://freesound.org/s/237928/ Sound Effect Title: Blood Gush and Squelch License: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/s/635042/ Sound Effect Title: GateShutThumps.wavLicense: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/s/401041/ Sound Effect Title: lion.wav License: Public Domain https://freesound.org/s/684527/ Sound Effect Title: Gore Cabbage by IENBALicense: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/s/607909/ The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the public domain drawing “squid holding sailor” by Alphonse de Neuville, featured in the Hetzel edition of 20000 Lieues Sous Les Mers.
Will you enjoy the new crop of audio dramas debuting this fall on the Magnum Radio Network? The Gun Doctor! Chap Zero’s House of Traps! Chick Quasar, Space Stevedore! Listen to find out!Debut Taunts, episode 116 of This Gun in My Hand, was doctored by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What’s coming your way next fall? This Gun in My Hand!Show Notes:1. Listen to the Mystery Frequency podcast for a wide variety of old time radio dramas, like Dr. Sixgun and Captain Starr of Space.https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mystery-frequency-audio-drama-radio/id16940416952. I want to say that toys advertising actual gold seems like something unique to our modern hellscape, but they’ve probably done it before, or equally ridiculous and borderline scammy promotions. For example, in 1955, Quaker Oats bought 19 acres of land in the Yukon Territory of Canada and printed 21 millions deeds, each deed for square inch of land, as a promotion for the Sergeant Preston of the Yukon TV show.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_Big_Inch_Land_PromotionCredits:The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.“Gun Doctor” music and hoofbeats taken from the September 2, 1954 episode of the radio show Dr. Sixgun. License: Public Domainhttps://archive.org/details/otr_drsixgunOrgan music in “Chick Quasar” taken from the July 14, 1953 episode of the radio show Captain Starr of Space.License: Public Domainhttps://archive.org/details/CaptainStarrOfSpace1953/I hope the tiny excerpt of “Need to Know” by Incognito (Democracy Now theme song) counts as fair use after it was chopped, screwed and filtered.Music Title: Flight of the Carpenter BeeBy Steven Arntson License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0https://archive.org/details/Bildungsroman-7512Sound Effect Title: Mount Moganshan Insect ChorusBy: RTB45 License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0https://freesound.org/people/RTB45/sounds/325321/Insect chorus recorded one summer evening, Mount Moganshan, Zhejiang Provence, People's Republic of ChinaSound Effect Title: Car_motor_Sound.m4a License: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/people/Blizzard123/sounds/504633/#Sound Effect Title: barking dog 2License: public domainhttps://freesound.org/people/roman_cgr/sounds/415023/Sound Effect Title: Angry big dog barking - Close [d15].wavLicense: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/people/v23/sounds/440866/Sound Effect Title: Dog Barking and Whining.wavLicense: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/people/DaniloSFX/sounds/672733/Sound Effect Title: Doggo_Panting_1_Para.mp3 by Paradoxxxical License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0https://freesound.org/s/679219/ Sound Effect Title: R15-82-Men Laughing Heartily.wav License: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/s/480806/ Sound Effect Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)By CarmelomikeLicense: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/Sound Effect Title: Kimmokkeita / RicochetsBy YleArkistoLicense: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0https://freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/sounds/401921/Sound Effect Title: bustle in the pubLicense: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/people/organicmanpl/sounds/403285/Music Title: spoons.wav (used in “Fight the Rascals”)by angienmLicense: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/s/249709/ Music Title: Munniharppua.ogg (jaw harp used in “Fight the Rascals”)By ElectricToothpasteLicense: Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 via Wikimedia Commonshttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munniharppua.oggThe image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the public domain comic book cover from Tom Corbett, Space Cadet Number 10, May-July 1954. Painting by Al McWilliams.
Can Falk prevent the murder of beloved songwriter E. Y. “Yip” Harburg? Why would a fan want to kill him? Will everyone come out of it with their childhood memories intact? Listen to find out!
The Assassination of Yip Harburg by the Coward Fan Mail, episode 115 of This Gun in My Hand, was written, edited and a sung-a on the tongue-a by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What physical object represents my heart and brain and courage and love of home? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. Watch excerpts from the 1936 Merrie Melodies cartoon “I Love to Singa” starring Owl Jolson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y6CNuffBi0
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Orson Welles produced a successful version of Macbeth with an all-Black cast in 1936.
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Judy Garland led a revised cast in Lux Radio Theater’s one-hour radio adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, broadcast December 25, 1950.
https://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/drama/lux/lux-radio-theater-50-12-25-726-the-wizard-of-oz -
Wikipedia has an entry on Political interpretations of The Wizard of Oz. Wild stuff. I cribbed some of their ideas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_interpretations_of_The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz
Credits:The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Music Title: Theme to Kolchak: Night Stalker
Composed by Gil Mellé
Whistled by Rob
Fair use excerpt, I hope.
Sound Effect Title: S15-03 Good general walla with some dishes; cheer.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/675070/
Sound Effect Title: G28-27-Crowd Fast Walla Applause.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/438387/
Sound Effect Title: R02-06-Medium Crowd Applause.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/480682/
Sound Effect Title: Gun Fire
By GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html
Sound Effect Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)
By Carmelomike
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/
Sound Effect Title: House Front Door Inside 3.wav
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/people/saturdaysoundguy/sounds/388027/#
Sound Effect Title: R28-44-Women Screaming and Rapid Talking.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479894/
Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/
Sound Effect Title: S41-25 Car backfires; reverberant.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/675723/
Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/
Sound Effect Title: Taurus G2c Dry Trigger Pull
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/NoonerBear/sounds/589848/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the back cover of the public domain comic book Dell Junior Treasury, Number 5 (July 1956), painted by Mel Crawford.
The PunGent turns over a new leaf! The slug beneath that leaf slithers away from the smell as quickly as it can. Will he solve a murder? Will he detour beneath the Earth? How you gonna keep ‘em down on the farm? Listen to find out!
The PunGent Cleans Up, episode 114 of This Gun in My Hand, was convoluted by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How do I unravel convoluted tales? With This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. For previous appearances or mentions of The PunGent, Alan, CHUFFs, CHOUFs and Mole Men, see the subject index.
https://thisguninmyhand.blogspot.com/2022/02/subject-index.html
2. The charred ruins of Google claims that Brits pronounce “bons mots” as “baanz mahts,” which does not seem to reflect the consensus of dictionary websites.
Credits:The opening and a later transitional music clip were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950); the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949); and a brief piece of music at the end of the last commercial is from The Scar (1948, aka Hollow Triumph), all films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: R12-43-Old Car Horns.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479995/
Sound Effect Title: Car_motor_Sound.m4a
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Blizzard123/sounds/504633/#
Sound Effect Title: Car_Stop_Breaks_Screech_Engine-Rev_by-monnie101.mp4.WAV
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/monnie101/sounds/58150/
Sound Effect Title: TUBE POP.wav
By sandyrb
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/102540/
Music Title from “Regrets” commercials: 'Le Regret, Op. 332’
Composed by Charles Mayer.
Incorrectly attributed to Chopin for many years under the title 'Valse mélancolique in F-sharp minor' A1/7.
Performed by Olga Gurevich
Composition and Performance License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/12481-valse-melancolique-le-regret-op-332/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a public domain drawing by Duplessis, “Man in suit, Paris, France, 1900.”
Can Falk prevent the murder of beloved songwriter E. Y. “Yip” Harburg? Why would a fan want to kill him? Will everyone come out of it with their childhood memories intact? Listen to find out!
“The Assassination of Yip Harburg by the Coward Fan Mail,” episode 115 of This Gun in My Hand, was written, edited and a sung-a on the tongue-a by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What physical object represents my heart and brain and courage and love of home? This Gun in My Hand!
Since I'm unable to post podcast episodes of This Gun in My Hand to archive dot org, I can't link them in my feed here. Until that's fully restored, your alternative for listening to new episodes is the version on Youtube. I'll post the audio version as soon as I can with full credits on the blog, which will show up in rss feed.
The Internet Archive has been down for a few days so I haven't been able to upload the latest episode of This Gun in My Hand there, which means I can't make it available as part of my podcast feed. I'll post it as soon as I can. In the meantime, you can hear or view the episode on Youtube.
For two bits per day plus expenses, you can hire Billy Narrator, boy detective to solve your mysteries. Where’s my missing cat? Does Georgia like me? Where’d that corpse come from? Listen to find out!
Don’t Kid a Kidder, episode 113 of This Gun in My Hand, was popped off by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy Rob’s books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What’s the best toy in the backyard or the schoolyard? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. The Clutching Hand was a 1936 cliffhanger serial. Band of the Hand was a 1986 action film executive produced by Michael Mann.
https://archive.org/details/clutching_hand_ep1
- A few of Francis’ lines were shamelessly stolen from my memory of “Pinch Singer,” a 1936 Little Rascals short of which, sadly, I can’t find a free version on the web.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pinch_Singer
Credits:The opening and middle transitional music clips were from public domain film The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950). Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: G39-09-Boxing Fight Bell.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/438626/
Sound Effect Title: 22lr Caliber Rifle Shots and Reloading
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/717133/
Sound Effect Title: Gun Fire
By GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html
Sound Effect Title: TUBE POP.wav
By sandyrb
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/102540/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of an ad from Mechanix Illustrated, presumed to be public domain.
Will a mansion full of monsters and ghouls scare Falk Zildjian away from doing his duty? Will hearts be torn out or tamed? Is there anyone here besides us chickens? Listen to find out!
It Was a Dark and Stormy Reading of the Will, episode 112 of This Gun in My Hand, was carried out according to the final instructions of Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What ensures that I get good deals at thrift stores? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. Watching The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966), The Bat (1959) or House on Haunted Hill (1959) will not necessarily prepare you for this episode, but it’d be a good excuse to put off listening to this episode.
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UyPC24qfI4
The Bat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td3OM8jbBJQ
House on Haunted Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsnw-RNGKFY
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This Gun in My Hand is perpetually set in 1939. Patsy Kelly’s next movie after 1939 was released in October 1940, The Hit Parade of 1941, also known as Romance and Rhythm. Her reputation was enough to get her listed on the posters for this film, and pictured on some of them.
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The audio and text of This Gun in My Hand are works of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, real organizations, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, organizations, places and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Clacton-on-Sea is east and a little north of London, but it’s not in what they consider East London.
Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Music Title: Let Me Call You Sweetheart (I’m in Love With You)
Music by Leo Friedman, lyrics by Beth Slater Whitson, 1910.
Performed by Carter’s Orchestra, 1924.
License: Public Domain
https://archive.org/details/carters-orchestra-let-me-call-you-sweetheart-brunswick-3541-b
Sound Effect Title: R30-28-Classic Thunder Clap.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/486273/
Sound Effect Title: S23-19 Thunder claps; variation edit of Universal’s “Castle Thunder”.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/675991/
Sound Effect Title: G46-06-Treble-Heavy Thunder Crack.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/438743/
Sound Effect Title: G28-27-Crowd Fast Walla Applause.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/438387/
Sound Effect Title: chugging diesel (bus) and rev.MP3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/CraftyIndividual/sounds/418436/
Sound Effect Title: bus coach ext pull up brake air release idle.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/kyles/sounds/454420/
Sound Effect Title: Bus Closing Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/am7/sounds/520753/
Sound Effect Title: DoorKnockerVarious.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/136544/
Sound Effect Title: Creaking door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/333929/
Sound Effect Title: Creaking Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/709418/
Sound Effect Title: Slam door.MP3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/SoundsForHim/sounds/395653/
Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/
Sound Effect Title: Cutlery drawer
License: Public Domain
http://soundbible.com/591-Cutlery-Drawer.html
Sound Effect Title: Glass Bottle Breaking
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/IENBA/sounds/607910/
Sound Effect Title: S10-19 Falling wooden beam; big interior crash; house collapses; long.wav
by craigsmith
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/675967/
Sound Effect Title: Foley_Footsteps_ShedWoodenFloor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/523273/
Sound Effect Title: 175bpm_classical_running_freak.wav
By giacomelli
License: Creative Commons Sampling+
https://freesound.org/s/95763/
Sound Effect Title: TUBE POP.wav
By sandyrb
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/102540/
Sound Effect Title: R27-20-Small Crowd Gasps.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/480774/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of the public domain comic book This Magazine is Haunted, Number 9, February 1953. Artist might be Sheldon Moldoff.
Falk misses! Who is The Loner? What are you, some kind of Rambling Man? A Wanderer? You find a dead body there, fella? Every day you find another body? Listen to find out!
This episode was Cut Down in His Prime, episode 111 of This Gun in My Hand, found on the side of a dusty road and dusted off by Rob Northrup. Like all other episodes, this one is available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Why are so many people alone in this town? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. I think it still counts as illegal breaking and/or entering if a door is unlocked, maybe even if the door is ajar. Or maybe that’s vampire rules, entering without an invitation. While we’re debunking legal myths, you can ask an undercover cop if they’re a cop, they are not required by law to tell you. And declaring yourself a “sovereign citizen” is not One Weird Trick to convince cops or prosecutors that their laws don’t apply to you.
Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: S31-16 Tommy gun busts; machine gun.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/675603/
Sound Effect Title: Gun Fire
By GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html
Sound Effect Title: Footsteps on gravel
By Joozz
https://freesound.org/people/Joozz/sounds/531952/
Sound Effect Title: Traffic mel 1.wav
By malupeeters
https://freesound.org/people/malupeeters/sounds/191350/
Sound Effect Title: Squeaky Car Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/coltures/sounds/262325/#
Sound Effect Title: Car_motor_Sound.m4a
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Blizzard123/sounds/504633/#
Sound Effect Title: Door knocking
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/altfuture/sounds/174640/
Sound Effect Title: Body fall in grass CLOSE.mp3
By J.Zazvurek
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/73583/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of the paperback novel Road Kid by Howard Pease, published in 1953, and I hope the cover is public domain. Artist unknown.
After talking to a shady booker for a shortwave station, Falk’s body doesn’t seem to work like it used to. Will Falk’s gun still fire? When did he take off his shirt? Who won the story seed contest? Listen to find out!
This Gun Is My Hand, episode 110 of This Gun in My Hand, was ushered into this world by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How can you tell I’ve grown attached to firearms? This Gun is My Hand!
Show Notes:1. I was confusing Roger Corman (born 1926) with David Cronenberg (born 1943). Corman would have been 14 in 1939. Cronenberg would have been a smile on his mother’s lips and a twinkle in his father’s eye.
2. Ms. Harriet’s lullaby is derived from The Creed of a United States Marine, aka The Rifleman’s Creed.
https://www.usmcu.edu/Research/Marine-Corps-History-Division/Frequently-Requested-Topics/Marines-Rifle-Creed/
3. You might appreciate this episode more after watching twelve seasons of the delightful BBC series Call the Midwife. Sadly my local library doesn’t have season thirteen yet so I can’t vouch for that one.
Credits:The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: NOISE-PINK-10VU.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/mutantra/sounds/571176/
Sound Effect Title: Police Radio Chatter.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/320351/
Sound Effect Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)
By Carmelomike
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/
Sound Effect Title: Slam door.MP3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/SoundsForHim/sounds/395653/
Sound Effect Title: 220531 Fly buzzing in window, short, R-07
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/TRP/sounds/717567/
Sound Effect Title: Fly at Window
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/573240/
Sound Effect Title: Pouring Soup in a Metal Pan - Quick,Short,Gross
by Hitrison
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/251410/
Sound Effect Title: Squishing.wav
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https://freesound.org/s/485484/
Sound Effect Title: Burp 8
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/399761/
Sound Effect Title: Broken Egg Squelch
By d.n.audio.uk
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/s/461049/
Sound Effect Title: Crying newborn baby child 2.WAV
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/211528/
Sound Effect Title: 1911 Pistol Cocking
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/J.Anthracite/sounds/465488/
Sound Effect Title: Glock 19 Handgun Pistol Slide Cocking Sounds
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/jackmurrayofficial/sounds/393734/
Sound Effect Title: AR15 M4 Gun Hardware Magazine Movement Sounds
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/jackmurrayofficial/sounds/393732/
The image accompanying this episode is a combination of the following public domain artworks:
1. The cover of New Detective magazine, Volume 8, Number 4 (July 1946). Not sure of the artist.
2. The cover of Argosy Weekly, Volume 230, Number 6 (July 2, 1932), art by Robert Graef.
How will Falk track down a grave robbing killer with special guest star Patsy Kelly in tow and his narrator on strike? Listen to find out!
They Can’t All Be Bangers, episode 109 of This Gun in My Hand, was banged together by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How do I produce consistent bangers? With This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. Anecdote time! My uncle had a sheep named Hajji which butted me to the ground when I was 8 or 10. I don’t know if that’s standard behavior for sheep or if his was just a jerk. Probably named after the hero of the 1954 movie The Adventures of Hajji Baba.https://youtu.be/VUzig-jpMRU?si=MM5i0B0hWPB2VX8G
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I was reminded of the “transplanted body part with mind of its own” trope when listening to an episode of the old time radio show Murder at Midnight, episode titled “The Dead Hand,” originally broadcast on September 16, 1946.
https://archive.org/download/OTRR_Murder_at_Midnight_Singles/Murder%20at%20Midnight%2046xxxx%20%28001%29%20The%20Dead%20Hand.mp3 -
The audio and text of This Gun in My Hand are works of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, real cartoonists or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Credits:The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Music Title for “Astral Police” bit: Streets of Valencia
Composed and performed by John Bartmann
License: Public Domain
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/John_Bartmann/softly-boldly-with-a-piano/streets-of-valencia/
Sound Effect Title: Traffic mel 1.wav
By malupeeters
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https://freesound.org/people/malupeeters/sounds/191350/
Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
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https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/
Sound Effect Title: Collision.wav
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https://freesound.org/people/gbnelso/sounds/684443/
Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/
Sound Effect Title: storm door slam 01.wav
By volivieri
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/161190/
Sound Effect Title: R01-05-Sheep Bleating.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479648/
Sound Effect Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)
By Carmelomike
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https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/
Sound Effect Title: R12-43-Old Car Horns.wav
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https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479995/
Sound Effect Title: land.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/kfatehi/sounds/363922/
Sound Effect Title: G28-27-Crowd Fast Walla Applause.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/438387/
Sound Effect Title: R10-56-Footsteps on Metal Staircase.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/480641/
Sound Effect Title: Car_motor_Sound.m4a
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Blizzard123/sounds/504633/#
Sound Effect Title: Squeaky Car Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/coltures/sounds/262325/#
Sound Effect Title: Car_Stop_Breaks_Screech_Engine-Rev_by-monnie101.mp4.WAV
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https://freesound.org/people/monnie101/sounds/58150/
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By Soundholder
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https://freesound.org/people/Soundholder/sounds/425397/
Sound Effect Title: R03-19-Old Auto Tire Skid.wav
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https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/481668/
Sound Effect Title: 220517 metal garbage can banging falling crashing
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https://freesound.org/people/TRP/sounds/717566/
Sound Effect Title: Door knocking
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/altfuture/sounds/174640/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a panel from the public domain comic book Web of Evil, Number 17 (August 1954), penciled by Charles Nicholas.
In gratitude for his assistance, Lord and Lady Pelennor invite Falk to visit their estate. Is there no end to their generosity? Is there no escape? Is chili better than rashers for your supper? Listen to find out!
Zildjian’s Away to Shropshire, episode 108 of This Gun in My Hand, was lorded over by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How do I resolve the endless yearning between two hearts and bring them together? With This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. This episode is a spin-off from the fake commercial “Henley’s Away to Shropshire” in episode 73, and partly inspired by season one of Sanditon.
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Another example of rich or middle class Brits taking strange children into their homes is Wuthering Heights. I’m aware of the fan theory that Heathcliff is an illegitimate son of Mr. Earnshaw, which explains why Earnshaw would favor the boy over his own children. But the cover story Earnshaw apparently expects everyone to believe is that he adopted a kid off the street at random. As Eighteenth Century Brits were wont to do, I guess?
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Lord Pelennor uses the word “arse,” so it’s not cussing by American standards even though they pronounce it exactly the same way as that other word. Not going to mark this episode as having “explicit language.”
Credits:
The opening music was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Song Title: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629
Composed by Henry Purcell, 1692.
Performed by Carl Pini, John Tunnell, Anthony Pini and Harold Lester.
License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/11140-the-fairy-queen-z629/
Song Title: Consolation, Songs Without Words, Op. 30, No. 3, Adagio non troppo (E major)
Composed by Felix Mendelssohn
Performed by Anonymous
License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/348-songs-without-words-op-30/
Sound Effect Title: Outdoor ambience near a forest with birdsong (Midlands, England)
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/727609/
Sound Effect Title: R22-05-Two Horses on Dirt Road.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479790/
Sound Effect Title: G52-10-Horse and Buggy.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/437081/
Sound Effect Title: 20070918.galloping.horse.wave
By dobroide
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/41180/
Sound Effect Title: S01-01_Horse trots in on hard dirt; stops; trotting out.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/675422/?
Sound Effect Title: Horse-drawn carriage - Approach and stop.wav
By Sirderf
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/333680/
Sound Effect Title: stomp01.wav
By JanKoehl
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/85600/
Sound Effect Title: G38-03-Horse Gallops Through Leaves.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/437096/
Sound Effect Title: horse snort breathe eat recording
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/531429/
Sound Effect Title: Horse Whinny 1.wav
By GoodListener
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/s/322445/
Sound Effect Title: Fist banging on wood surface.wav
By 221339
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/655133/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a panel from Stories by Famous Authors Illustrated #1, August 1950, in public domain, pencils and inks by Jim Lavery.
How will Falk and his special guest star cope without a narrator? How many wall angles does this polygon have? You do everything a child says? Listen to find out!
No Large Bills, episode 107 of This Gun in My Hand, was created from dues paid by one person, Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What keeps me from paying ransom with large bills? Being broke. And also – This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. Enjoy ZaSu Pitts in
The Crooked Circle (1932)
https://youtu.be/mH--iCfpMqk?si=gnz_vRf7OqVu5eYM
So’s Your Aunt Emma! (1942)
https://youtu.be/yv4HtlLmgeg?si=mWRSID-fboPfAp76
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During my experience of the 1980s, Thursday night at 8 o’clock was time for Michigan Outdoors on your local PBS station, one of my dad’s favorite shows. Astro Police were inspired by the announcer on the radio series Space Patrol (1952-1955), and their activities were inspired by the Dead Kennedys song “Police Truck” (1980) and the rather problematic James Caan and Alan Arkin film which set the standard for buddy cop movies, Freebie and the Bean (1974).
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Wikipedia says bungalows are single story. I just throw out architectural terms that sound legit. What’s ranch style? What’s Tudor? What’s a “cornice?” I have no idea.
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Actual old time radio dramas name-checked in this episode: Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy; The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen. Not actual old time radio shows: Little Orphan Ayn; Father Clogin; InfoMars with Alex Johansen; Astro Police.
Credits:The opening and middle theme music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950); the music used in the Astro Police ad was from Chapter ten of Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (1938); and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), all three films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: Striking a Match, Burning, Extinguishing
By nebulousflynn
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/221554/
Sound Effect Title: Whoosh02.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/kingsrow/sounds/181578/
Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/
Sound Effect Title: Deep Space Ship Effect
By hykenfreak
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/214663/
Sound Effect Title: House Front Door Inside 3.wav
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/people/saturdaysoundguy/sounds/388027/#
Sound Effect Title: Victorian Twist Doorbell 01
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Dionysuspsi/sounds/464230/
Song Title: Sassy Jazzy
By LaFaena
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/lafaena/not-shift-free-will/sassy-jazzy/
Sound Effect Title: knock-window-glass.aiff
By stereostereo
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/124536/
Sound Effect Title: Cutlery drawer
License: Public Domain
http://soundbible.com/591-Cutlery-Drawer.html
Sound Effect Title: Glass Bottle Breaking
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/IENBA/sounds/607910/
Sound Effect Title: Gun Fire
By GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html
Sound Effect Title: G28-27-Crowd Fast Walla Applause.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/438387/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the front of a 1928 two dollar bill, and both sides of a 1928 one dollar bill.
Which detective was murdered at the job fair for dicks? How many dicks will it take to detect who did it? Do you have any experience gunning down striking miners or railroad workers? Listen to find out!
Murder at the Job Fair for Dicks, episode 106 of This Gun in My Hand, was headhunted by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What do I use to practice my skills of detection? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. One of my favorite old time radio shows is Pete Kelly’s Blues, a 1951 series starring Jack Webb as a hardboiled cornet player in a Dixieland jazz band who solves mysteries in 1920s Kansas City. Only six episodes are thought to survive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Kelly%27s_Blues_(radio_series)
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Eccentric Houseboat Detective was inspired by John D. MacDonald’s character Travis McGee in The Deep Blue Good-by. Not inspired by eccentric sailboat detectives Sonny Crocket or Quincy or Adam West’s character in The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1969).
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Anachronism: the Knights Templar were arrested for heresy by order of King Phillip IV on October 12th, 1307, but you can tell this episode is set in summer because no one is described as wearing coats as they would be in Parabellum City in October.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trials_of_the_Knights_Templar
Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950); the ad music for Eccentric Houseboat Detective was from D.O.A. (1949); and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), all films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: bustle in the pub
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/organicmanpl/sounds/403285/
Sound Effect Title: S16-06 Light wooden door open & close.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/675878/
Sound Effect Title: ancient conference Room Door.wav
by mcweigert
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/696482/
Sound Effect Title: tug boat horn - sound effect.wav
By komal22moiz
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/s/380825/
Sound Effect Title: Lake Waves 1.wav
By Benboncan
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/s/67883/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Black Book Detective, Volume 5, Number 4 (July 1936), painted by Norman Saunders.
Can Falk or Castro use their unique crime-fighting skills to punish those who carry out massacres? Is this topic too heavy for a punny old time radio parody? And where are the Lugers?! Listen to find out!
Spoonful of Lugers, episode 105 of This Gun in My Hand, was seamlessly worked into a plot by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What narrative technique helps me sneak serious topics into wacky adventure stories? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. For more info about the Rosewood Massacre and other political massacres in US history, see https://www.zinnedproject.org/collection/massacres-us/
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/rosewood-massacre/
Also read A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn, and the novel A Moment in the Sun by John Sayles.
- The bird you hear in almost every movie set in the jungles of Africa, Central America or South America is the Kookaburra, which is actually native to Australia and New Guinea. According to Wikipedia, “The call is heard in [Tarzan and the Green Goddess (1938) and] The Wizard of Oz (1939), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Swiss Family Robinson (1960), Cape Fear (1962), The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and other films.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kookaburra
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/437964/
Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: Car_motor_Sound.m4a
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Blizzard123/sounds/504633/#
Sound Effect Title: Squeaky Car Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/coltures/sounds/262325/#
Sound Effect Title: Footsteps on gravel
By Joozz
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/Joozz/sounds/531952/
Sound Effect Title: Punch.wav
By ztrees1
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/ztrees1/sounds/134934/
Sound Effect Title: Custom_punch_04_2022.mp3
By Artninja
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/Artninja/sounds/700204/
Sound Effect Title: Body fall_02.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Adam_N/sounds/346694/
Sound Effect Title: 2-1_ducks.WAV
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/16FPanskaLan_Jiri/sounds/498190/
Sound Effect Title: R30-32-Ducks Quack on Pond.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479608/
Sound Effect Title: Ducks
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/D4XX/sounds/607226/
Sound Effect Title: Tawny owl calling.wav
By Sparrer
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/Sparrer/sounds/59517/
Sound Effect Title: G12-32-Kookaburra Bird in Jungle.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/437964/
Sound Effect Title: Montezuma oropendola bird call
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/512109/
Sound Effect Title: S27-24 Gibbon squeals.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/675432/
Sound Effect Title: G12-29-Tigers and Lions Growling.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/437961/
Sound Effect Title: audi a4 b8 20tdi update engine set1 idle acceleration early gear shifting mono.wav
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The image accompanying this episode is a combination of the following photos:
1. “Fleischextrakt” (photo of spoon) by Rainer Zenz, license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.
2. “Castletown at War 2021 Castletown D Day Centre, Portland, Dorset. WWII Reenactor in German Wehrmacht uniform - Luger pistol, belt 51614442855” by dorsetbays, license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic.
3. “WW2 Third Reich German 7 7,92mm K cartridges 8 Zug-Zünder (mine pull igniters) 9 7,92 mm cartridges 10 Luftwaffe dagger 11 Scabbard 12 Hitlerjugend knife 13 9mm P08 Luger pistol Hjemmefrontmuseet Rakkestad museum Norway 2021-06-20 IM” by Wolfmann, license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International.
4. “German pistols firearms holsters 39 Luger P08 40 Radom M35 41 Walther 38 42 6.35 S.B.E. Pistol 43 6.35 Walther M1 1908 44 Mauser M1934 45 Walther PP M1929 46 Field knife boot Hjemmefrontmuseet Rakkestad WW2 museum Norway IMG 5665 2” by Wolfmann, license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International.
5. “WW2 German Occupation of Norway. HEFT PARTEIADLER Booklet Nazi Eagle Soldatbok hakekorsørn. SS KOPPELSCHLOSS Meine Ehre heisst Treue Belt buckle. 9 mm LUGER P08. Pistolentasche holster. Bergenhus Festningsmuseum Bergen Norway 2021” by Wolfmann, license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International.
6. “Krigshistorisk Festival 2023 - Regimentet 02” by Leif Jørgensen, license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International.
7. “Музей истории донецкой милиции 072” by Andrew Butko, license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.
Can Falk steer rookies in the world of crime down the path of justice? Will he be forced off the road of crime-fighting by a spindly motorized bicycle? What’s that smell? Listen to find out!
Watching the Defectives, episode 104 of This Gun in My Hand, was mentored by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What keeps you from turning to crime? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. Citations Needed podcast on the exaggeration of the modern “organized shoplifting racket”:
https://citationsneeded.medium.com/news-brief-organized-crime-shoplifting-epidemic-panic-hits-san-francisco-media-b044c0f78bfa
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The Olympics first added women’s shot put in 1948.
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My maternal grandmother’s middle name was “Ederle,” named after the first woman known to swim solo across the English Channel. Is this the equivalent of naming your kid Khaleesi or Anakin?
Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: Park ambience - mostly birds
License: Public Domain
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Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
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Sound Effect Title: Heels on Pavement.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/B.Harkins/sounds/683658/
Music Title: Flight of the Carpenter Bee
By Steven Arntson
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://archive.org/details/Bildungsroman-7512
Sound Effect Title: Mount Moganshan Insect Chorus
By: RTB45
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/RTB45/sounds/325321/
Insect chorus recorded one summer evening, Mount Moganshan, Zhejiang Provence, People's Republic of China
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https://freesound.org/people/kyles/sounds/406387/
Sound Effect Title: Squeaky Car Door
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https://freesound.org/people/coltures/sounds/262325/#
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Sound Effect Title: R03-19-Old Auto Tire Skid.wav
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Sound Effect Title: Bike Falling on Concrete.wav
By plivesey
License: Creative Commons Sampling+
https://freesound.org/s/78960/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a panel from the public domain comic book Hot Rods And Racing Cars, Number 32 (October 1957), pencils by Bill Molno, inks by Sal Trapani.
Falk walks close to the edge of crass commercialism, then gets pushed over the line. Do you have hat-related powers? Did someone steal your hat when you were young? Does it have something to do with drumming? Listen to find out!Violent Vacation with Peruvian Guns, episode 103 of This Gun in My Hand, was crocheted by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What keeps my ears warm? This Gun in My Hand!
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Show Notes:
1. Violent Vacation with Peruvian Nuns was a tape released by the UK skate/thrash band The Stupids in 1986. In the village where I grew up (literally, legally a “village”), I was not on the cutting edge of knowledge about hardcore punk. The only radio stations within range were top 40, oldies or country, except for a freeform college radio station from Ann Arbor. When my family took a month long road trip in maybe summer 1988, we stopped a few days in San Diego. I might have passed over this tape at the swap meet, never heard of The Stupids before, but the cover had a cartoon of a twitching guy in a wheelchair by Don Martin. Great music, problematic pseudonyms and album titles, probably problematic lyrics but who can understand what Brits are singing? And I bet they used the cartoon without paying Don Martin or Mad Magazine. Rascals!
Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/
Sound Effect Title:Body fall_02.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Adam_N/sounds/346694/
Sound Effect Title: Gun Fire
By GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html
Sound Effect Title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
Recorded by Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html
Music for commercial is from the 1938 public domain cliffhanger serial Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars, Chapter 10.
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the public domain cover of Railroad Stories (July 1937), by Emmett Watson.
A boy stumbles into the world of vice, from pennies to billiards to pinball. Will Falk rescue him in time? Why couldn't you become a jazz singer? Listen to find out!
Fievel Getcha Ten, episode 102 of This Gun in My Hand, was diced and pinned by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What are my stakes when I’m betting? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. Toon: The Cartoon Role-Playing Game by Greg Costikyan and Warren Spector includes “Chutzpah” as a character attribute.
- The text for the fake commercial for Benzedrine Sulfate, not counting the disclaimer at the end, is taken almost verbatim from a print ad in California Western Medicine, Volume 62 (April 1945).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377281/
Credits:
The opening and some of the middle music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Other music surrounding commercials came from the public domain film The Scar (aka Hollow Triumph, 1948). Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: Old Rotary Phone Ringing - Western Electric Bell 500 phone
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Sound Effect Title: old pinball.wav
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https://freesound.org/people/mapleleaf/sounds/34730/
Sound Effect Title: Classic Pinball Gameplay
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https://freesound.org/people/jppi_Stu/sounds/189727/
Music title: Requiem in D minor, K. 626 - III. Sequence - Lacrymosa (For Piano - Liszt)
Performed by Markus Staab
Composed by Mozart, arranged by Liszt?
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://musopen.org/music/43683-requiem-in-d-minor-k-626/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified version of the public domain cover of Easy Money, Volume 1, Number 2 (May 1936), by Charles McCann.
A noisy day at the park, when suddenly–it’s oh so quiet. Gunshots are muffled. Wrestling grunts are barely audible. Can Falk restore order to the soundscape? Why does that bearded guy’s costume include wings? Listen to find out!
World of Whispers, episode 101 of This Gun in My Hand, was breathed out by Rob Northrup. All episodes are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What keeps people quiet? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. One of my earliest radio plays was a group project for Creative Writing class in high school, probably 1989. My friends Jeff, Julian and I wrote a script parodying Star Trek, cobbled together from jokes we had probably absorbed reading Mad Magazine. Only five or ten minutes long, we recorded it on tape and played it in class. I’m not sure why Mr. Groesser apologized to the class afterwards, maybe because of the bad language like “Damn!” or “Bloody Hell!” At one point Jeff did the voice of a vendor at a baseball game, calling out, “peaNUTS! Popcorn!” maybe to hint at how large the ship is. I tried to recreate his delivery here. When Julian’s girlfriend heard the tape, she asked what girl we had cast for the voice of Uhura. She wouldn’t believe I had done it. No effects software to raise the pitch, I did it all in the delivery.
- Whispering Wind and Blessed Day (aka Muckbang, aka Peatboom) first appeared in episode 60, “Hush, Sweet Zildjian.”
https://archive.org/details/tgimh-60-hush-sweet-zildjian
Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: Park ambience - mostly birds
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mafon2/sounds/274175/#
Sound Effect Title: Organ_grinder_paris1.aiff, Organ_grinder_paris2.aiff
By milo
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https://freesound.org/people/milo/sounds/36155/
https://freesound.org/people/milo/sounds/36156/
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https://freesound.org/people/wjoojoo/sounds/540466/
Music Title: Hail to the Spirit of Liberty
Composed by John Philip Sousa
Performed by The United States Marine Band
License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/43782-hail-to-the-spirit-of-liberty/
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Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
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https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/
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Sound Effect Title: Metal hit with dull ringouts
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https://freesound.org/people/Artninja/sounds/717721/
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The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Fantastic Adventures, Volume 10, Number 5 (May 1948) by Robert Gibson Jones; combined with a detail from Autant en emporte le vent, Anonymous, 1815, both in public domain.
Celebrating 100 years of Parabellum City, The City That Never Misses! Will Falk survive? Will Petra? Was your lack of a nickel the final nail in her coffin? Listen to find out!
Parabellum City Passes a C-Note, episode 100 of This Gun in My Hand, was founded and passed by Rob Northrup -- who would like to remind you that This Gun in My Hand is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual events, places, financial instruments or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialogue. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What will I use to get a message to the bank? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. The history of Parabellum City is inspired by the founding of Jacksonberg, aka Jacksonopolis, aka Jackson, aka Jacktown, aka Rose City, aka Prison City. They’re not meant to be the same. Parabellum City is bigger. Jackson is not what I’d call a toddlin’-class town.
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Fruity ad inspired by “He Was Her Man” (Merrie Melodies, 1936). Content warning: the domestic violence they got away with in 1936 cartoons is unreal.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x60u9yo -
Wikipedia says “In some cities in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany, the key to the city is given to the so-called 'prins carnaval' who leads the carnivals which take place the week prior to Septuagesima.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_City#Key_to_the_City
Credits:
The opening music was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: S18-25 Rifle shots battle.wav
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https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/675666/
Sound Effect Title: Gun Fire
By GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html
Sound Effect Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)
By Carmelomike
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https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/
Sound Effect Title: Park ambience - mostly birds
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https://freesound.org/people/Mafon2/sounds/274175/#
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https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/480682/
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https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/438429/
Sound Effect Title: G28-27-Crowd Fast Walla Applause.wav
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https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/438387/
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Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the public domain cover of Key Comics Number 3, Winter 1945, art by Walter Johnson.
Can Falk pin the corrupt boss of Parabellum City’s professional wrestling organization? Why is the crowd so quiet? Do frogs really stay in a pot of water if you turn up the heat gradually? Listen to find out!
Rats in a Cage Match, episode 99 of This Gun in My Hand, was slammed into a turnbuckle by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities.
How do I pin a person to the mat? With This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. I was going to insert a sample of “Hey Murgatroyd, let’s go-o-oo!” from “Jam On It” by Newcleus, but I couldn’t isolate the vocal from the not-very-1939 music.
2. Falk might be thinking of the Wallace Beery wrestling picture Flesh (1932).
3. Don Knotts would count as an animal shapeshifter in The Incredible Mister Limpet (1964), right? I watched the full movie last night because that’s the level of commitment I bring to researching this show.
4. Regina slips up when she says, “I already said the episode title…” proving that she is really Petra! but Falk misses it.
Credits:The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950). The music clip during the commercial was from The Scar (1948, aka Hollow Triumph). The closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), all three films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
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Sound Effect Title: G39-09-Boxing Fight Bell.wav
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Sound Effect Title: bustle in the pub
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/organicmanpl/sounds/403285/
Sound Effect Title: R07-18-Light Cheering and Crowd Noise.wav
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https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/486213/
Sound Effect Title: R07-05-Crowd at Sporting Event.wav
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https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/486205/
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https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/486214/
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https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/486204/
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Sound Effect Title: R27-20-Small Crowd Gasps.wav
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https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/480774/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a panel from the public domain comic G.I. Joe, Number 14 (October 1951) from Ziff-Davis Publications. Artist unknown, pencils and inks might be by Carmine Infantino and Frank Giacoia.
What happens when Falk gets stuck in a screwball comedy? Can Falk weed out the humans from the androids? Do androids dream of His Girl Friday? Listen to find out!
Do Androids Dream of His Girl Friday? , episode 98 of This Gun in My Hand, was manufactured not by the Tyrell Corporation but by Rob Northrup, using dialogue from the 1940 public domain film His Girl Friday, which was adapted from the 1928 public domain play The Front Page. The part of Walter Burns was played by Cary Grant, with Rosalind Russell as Hildy Johnson and Ralph Bellamy as Bruce Baldwin. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How do I survive a screwball comedy? With This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. The 1940 film His Girl Friday was adapted from a 1928 stage play titled The Front Page, both in the public domain. Dialogue in this episode was taken from His Girl Friday. (Link below.) It’s excellent but has (CONTENT WARNING) the kind of racism and sexism you might expect in a 1940 film. There’s also a one hour Lux Radio Theater adaptation starring Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert; a Screen Guild Theater radio adaptation starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell squeezed down into a half hour; and an even more offensive, grittier 1970 film of The Front Page starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. And there’s a 1931 film version of The Front Page which I have yet to watch.
https://archive.org/details/his_girl_friday
Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), with transitional music from His Girl Friday (1940) and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), all films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
The two women saying “pixielated” were from the Campbell Playhouse radio adaptation of “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,” broadcast February 11, 1940, public domain.
Sound Effect Title: bustle in the pub
License: Public Domain
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Sound Effect Title: teletype_medium_speed.wav
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License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/stratcat322/sounds/169259/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a promotional photo by A. L. Schafer for the 1940 film His Girl Friday showing Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell and Ralph Bellamy sitting next to each other. Superimposed over Ralph Bellamy’s face is the robot from The Phantom Creeps (1939) from another promotional photo (photographer unknown).
We’re gonna ballyhoo some stinkeroos,
Shows as cheesy as Milwaukee.
We’re gonna box up the radio and ship it to Biloxi.
Hot Dog! This Guy’s Got Moxie!
Paul, June & Jason of the popular show HDTGGM try to answer the question: how did This Gun in My Hand get made?
How Did This Gun in My Hand Get Made, episode 97 of This Gun in My Hand, was ballyhooed by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What tool did I use to make this? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. When Jason Manticore is introduced, the audience is not booing. They’re actually shouting, “Zoooo!” A manticore is a mythical creature. They love him so much, they want to keep him in a zoo.
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The audio credits at the end of the first episode of This Gun in My Hand said that all the voices were by one person, but not everyone listens to the credits or reads the show notes, as you might be demonstrating if you’re not reading this.
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The reviews that Paul claims to have found in radio magazines are actual reviews of this podcast posted on various websites. It was my wife in real life who said she liked the part where a female character punches me.
https://thisguninmyhand.blogspot.com/2023/03/praise-for-this-gun-in-my-hand.html
Credits:The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Detective Fiction Weekly, Volume 127, Number 4 (April 15, 1939), public domain art by Emmett Watson.
Can Gary convince his client Falk to endorse a spin-off show and merchandise? Will they stop a misguided hero from broadcasting the formula for nuclear destruction? Does chili exist? Listen to find out!
Merch and Destroy, episode 96 of This Gun in My Hand, was parroted by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, information on how to subscribe, and to buy the only official merchandise for This Gun in My Hand: a short story collection called Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities by Rob Northrup. Plunge back through your memories to episode 53, in which Falk reads these stories while riding the bus. You can read the same stories he raved about. Only $2.99 in pdf format. Cheap! Not available in paper format until we get more demand for it, or any demand for it. Which item of clothing truly makes the hero? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. My teacher for the second half of first grade was named Mrs. Schiller, I think. And if you haven’t read any mysteries, thrillers, westerns or anything else by Loren Estleman, you’re missing out.
2. The Backdoor Pilot appeared in Episode 50, “The Shady Aviator.”
Credits:
The opening music was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950) and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: porto_birdmarket_22.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/mhusinsky/sounds/76437/
Sound Effect Title: Ravens.mp3
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https://freesound.org/people/kentdavies959/sounds/466666/
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https://freesound.org/people/775noise/sounds/494565/
Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/
Sound Effect Title: Squeaky Car Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/coltures/sounds/262325/#
Sound Effect Title: Car_motor_Sound.m4a
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Blizzard123/sounds/504633/#
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The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a Stetson ad from Life magazine, September 9, 1940.
Will Falk prevent scandal and sabotage of the United States Rocketry Program? Does his friend Jimmy seem familiar? Is chili a myth? Listen to find out!
Ad Space, episode 95 of This Gun in My Hand, was advertised and spaced by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How do I make space for ads? With This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. Anachronism: Umberto Eco was seven years old in 1939, the time this story is set.
Credits:The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), with more music from The Scar (aka Hollow Triumph, 1948) and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), all films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: old pinball.wav
By mapleleaf
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/mapleleaf/sounds/34730/
Sound Effect Title: Classic Pinball Gameplay
By theshaggyfreak
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/theshaggyfreak/sounds/404144/
Sound Effect Title: Fail (Trombone wah, wah, wah…) - Sound Effect.mp3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/NikPlaymostories/sounds/563850/
Sound Effect Title: Beep 1 sec.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/austin1234575/sounds/213795/
The image accompanying this episode is from 1950s and 1970s comic book or magazine ads, presumed to be public domain.
Falk wishes they would leave him be.
He first must vanquish seductresses three.
Will they charm our brave hero?
You’ve heard him before; you already know.Listen anyway to find out!
Seduction of the Ignorant, episode 94 of This Gun in My Hand, was loved up and turned into a horny toad by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. My love for who is way out of line? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. Depending which dictionary you look in, “impassionate” is a contronym that can mean passionate or dispassionate.
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Anachronism: according to Vogue India, “Designers Salvatore Ferragamo, Roger Vivier and André Perugia have all been credited with inventing the stiletto [heel], sometime between 1948 and 1954.” As so often happens in Parabellum City, Sickubus is a little ahead of her time.
https://www.vogue.in/content/the-history-of-the-stiletto -
Catch-2022 paraphrases the “snails and oysters” innuendo from the bath scene from Spartacus (1960), which no one in 1939 would recognize. In fact, the scene was censored from the original release and wasn’t widely available to the public until a restored version in 1991.
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I learned a new word from Freesound dot org: “borborygmus,” growling or rumbling sound made as food, fluids or gas passes through the stomach or intestines. Plural, “borborygmi.”
Credits:The opening music was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: Park ambience - mostly birds
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mafon2/sounds/274175/#
Sound Effect Title: fav.stomach.growl.mp3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/CropDub6425/sounds/703168/
Sound Effect Title: Stomach Rumble
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/yrdn/sounds/473989/
Sound Effect Title: groaning1.flac
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/borygmi/sounds/414975/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a public domain comic book panel from Strange Worlds, Volume 5, Number 1 (November 1951). Pencils by Wally Wood, inks by Wally Wood and Joe Orlando.
Can Falk keep control of one cuffed criminal while following a trail of clues left by another crazed spree killer? Will someone make a love connection or is this episode title completely misleading? Listen to find out!
A Match Made in Heck’s Pantry, episode 93 of This Gun in My Hand, was ignited by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Who’s the only smoker that gets close to me? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. This episode was partly inspired by Columbo and other cozy or formulaic murder mysteries, in which the culprit usually offers no resistance once the detective announces the final piece of evidence that proves they did it.
- Public defenders were not provided across the country until Gideon v. Wainwright in 1963, but there were cities, counties and states that provided them as early as 1913.
https://6ac.org/the-right-to-counsel/history-of-the-right-to-counsel/understanding-gideons-impact-part-2-the-birth-of-the-public-defender-movement/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_defender_(United_States)
- My grandfather threatened to leave only one dollar in his will to any of his children who smoked, according to my dad. It worked! None of his kids smoked.
https://grissomlawfirm.com/disinheriting-heir-one-dollar/
- Pete Larsen came up with the names Patch Work and Pat Schwerk. Thanks, Pete!
Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Music in fake commercial: For He’s the Jolly Good Fellow
Excerpt from “Special Events Tracks,” Windsor Records 7641-A, 1958.
Performer unknown. Public Domain.
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License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/481924/
Sound Effect Title: Curtains
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/DapperDaniel/sounds/180687/
Sound Effect Title: G26-26-Crowbar Prying Squeaky Wood.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/438345/
Sound Effect Title: Wood Falling - 4 Drops.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Manim8/sounds/577452/
Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/
Sound Effect Title: House Front Door Inside 3.wav
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/people/saturdaysoundguy/sounds/388027/#
Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/
Sound Effect Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)
By Carmelomike
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/
Sound Effect Title: Gun Fire
By GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html
Sound Effect Title: Kimmokkeita / Ricochets
By YleArkisto
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/sounds/401921/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the public domain image “606 Club Matchbook Chicago, Illinois.”
https://ia802602.us.archive.org/5/items/606-club-matchbook-chicago/606%20Club%20Matchbook%20Chicago.jpg
Almost every episode of This Gun in My Hand has the same opening and closing music from two public domain films: The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950) for the opening and Killer Bait (1949) for the closing. Falk's musical sting after saying his catchphrase is a burst of horns from the same opening music from The Sun Sets at Dawn. Below are other songs used in the series. The number after the hyphen is the episode it appears in. All music is either public domain, parody, original, or used under Creative Commons licenses. For more details, see show notes and credits for individual episodes.
(Updated through episode 92.)
Big Combo, The (1955 public domain film, stripper music) - 47
Birth of a Nation (1915 public domain film) - 86
Black Cobra 2 (1989 public domain film) - 10, 43
“Bläser, Trommler und Fahnenschwinger des Fanfarenzuges Ottheinrich beim Mittelalterfest in Eggenburg (11. Sept. 2011),” Fanfarenzug Ottheinrich - 21
"Bouncy Gypsy Beats" by John Bartmann - 70, 85
"Bullets and Bayonets" composed by John Philip Sousa, performed by The US Marine Band - 87
"Bulls on Parade" by Rage Against the Machine, parody by Rob Northrup - 4
"Cash for Diabetic Test Strips" jingle, lyrics by Rob Northrup, melody "For He's the Jolly Good Fellow" - 93
"Chase Scene" by ROZKOL - 16, 17
"Close Call" by ROZKOL - 50
"Crazy Words, Crazy Tune" by Jack Yellen & Milton Ager, performed by Frank Crumit; Frank Banta (Rob Northrup vocals over the music) - 47
Crestablanca commercial - 30
“Dracula,” music from the first episode of Mercury Theatre on the Air (1938) - 40
"The Fairy Queen, Z. 629," composed by Henry Purcell; performed by Carl Pini, John Tunnell, Anthony Pini and Harold Lester - 73
"The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 - Sing While we Trip it Upon the Green" performed by Papalin - 25, 74
Five for Hell (1969 public domain film, aka 5 PER L'INFERNO) - 89
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (music from 1938 cliffhanger serial film) - 68
"Flight of the Carpenter Bee" by Steven Arntson - Episode 0 (The Liability of Keiko), 9, 17, 24, 56
"For He's the Jolly Good Fellow" (Cash for Diabetic Test Strips jingle) - 93
"Frankenstein" by Edgar Winter (rhythm of secret knock) - 20
"Grand Introductory Overture" from The Edison Minstrels (1913 public domain film) - 86
"Hark the Herald Angels Sing" performed by US Army Band - 44
"He Used To Be Your Man But He’s My Man Now" composed by Perry Bradford; performed by Johnny Dunn’s Original Jazz Hounds, vocals by Edith Wilson - 66
"Here We Come A-wassailing" performed by US Army Band - 44
"Hillbilly Swing" by Kevin MacLeod - 66
"Hot Dog, This Guy's Got Moxie theme" (original) - 97
"Ich hör so gern Musik" by Rudi Schuricke, Performed by Willy Berking mit seinen Solisten mit Gesang - 34
"In the Pursuit of More Money and Better Drugs" by ROZKOL - 50, 51
"Ishikawa Ambience" by ROZKOL - 51
"Lachrimæ, or Seaven Teares - 9. Sir Henry Umpton’s Funeral" composed by John Dowland, performed by I Solipsisti - 91
"Lounge.wav" by Sly_R - 45, 54
Löwenbräu jingle (“Here’s to Good Friends”) written by Bill Backer, parody by Rob Northrup - 88
"Matt's Beatbox Harmonies Loop (100 bpm)" by Mattc90 - 44
"A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 61 Wedding March" composed by Felix Medelssohn, performed by “European Archive” (Czech National Symphony Orchestra?) - 88
"Multitracks of Madness" original guitar, harmonica & ocarina by Rob Northrup - 83
"Mystery!" composed by Milton Ager, Joseph A. Cirina, Cliff Hess & Howard E. Johnson; performed by Paul Biese’s Novelty Orchestra - 66
Nick Carter, Master Detective (music from radio show 1943 by Lou White) - 79
"O Christmas Tree" by massi_1130 - 69
"Orpheus in the Underworld" by Offenbach - 21
Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer commercial - 41
"Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" composed by Leon Jessel; performed by United States Air Force Band of Mid-America, Concert Band - 69
"Peer Gynt Suite no. 1, Op. 46 - I. Morning Mood," (Edvard Grieg, Musopen Symphony) - 13, 87
"Peer Gynt Suite no. 1, Op. 46 - II. Aase's Death, " (Edvard Grieg, Musopen Symphony) - 52
"Pennies From Heaven" by John Burke & Arthur Johnston, performed by Hal Kemp And His Orchestra with vocals by Maxine Grey - 47
"The Pensacola Mooch" by Will Marion Cook, 1910 piano roll - 21
"Pop Goes the Weasel" (jack-in-the-box sound) - 39
"Prelude and Fugue No. 20 in A minor" (Bach, performed by Malcolm Hamilton) - 14
"Razing of Heaven" by Joseph Earwicker - 47
"Reenactment3" recording of fife and drum music from Revolutionary War reeanactment - 32
"Requiem in D minor, K. 626 - III. Sequence - Lacrymosa," Performed by Markus Staab, Composed by Mozart, arranged by Liszt? - 26, 55
"Rhapsody in Blue" performed by Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra with George Gershwin - 28
"Rockin' Robin" by Jimmie Thomas, performed by Bobby Day - 47
Scar, The (1948 public domain film, aka Hollow Triumph) - 2, 11, 20, 22, 49, 58, 67, 75, 77, 84, 85, 99
"Sesame Highway theme" written & performed by Rob Northrup - 45
"Soldier's Chorus from Faust" from The Edison Minstrels (1913 public domain film) - 86
Spy Smasher (music from 1942 public domain serial cliffhanger film) - 64
Swan Lake music box - 86
"Symphony No.4, F Minor, Op.36 - III. Scherzo Pizzicato" by Tchaikovsky, performed by European Archives - 59
"Thewgosh musical sting" by Rob Northrup - 14
"This Gun is Crazy" melody from Hello Ma Baby with lyrics by Rob Northrup - 97
“Tishomingo Blues” (Spencer Williams, performed by The All Star Stompers) - 23
"DIE WALKURE-RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES Part 1" by Richard Wagner, performed by Victor Symphony Orchestra - 47
"Weekend" composed by Will Meisel, Performed by Eugen Grossman mit seinem Tanz-Orchester - 34
"What a Beautiful Name" by Jay Man / OurMusicBox - 12
"William Tell Overture Part 4 (Finale)," composed by Rossini, performed by Victor Symphony Orchestra - 43
"Windy Winds - Intro A” by Jay Man / OurMusicBox - 3, 4, 36, 76, 78
“Worth The Struggle" by Jay Man / OurMusic Box - 14
WPBC station ID by Rob Northrup - 16, 40, 50
How will Falk escape the Dungeon of Suspense? I mean, WILL he escape it? Who put him there and why? All this will be revealed when you listen to–
Falk’s Brain, episode 92 of This Gun in My Hand, was transplanted by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What joke do I make every sixty seconds? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. Pete Larsen came up with the names Patch Work and Pat Schwerk. Thanks, Pete!
2. S’Creature and The Screecher appeared in Episode 38, “Why We Fight.” https://archive.org/details/tgimh-38-why-we-fight
Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: R16-33-Chains Dragging.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/486285/
Sound Effect Title: R26-19-Foley Chains.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/481924/
Sound Effect Title: alarm_clock.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/eriklindmanmata/sounds/266668/
Sound Effect Title: Sproing!!
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/se2001/sounds/514429/
Sound Effect Title: apple peeling device cranking sound
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/rubberduck9999/sounds/676318/
Sound Effect Title: Hissing.m4a
By TheScarletWitch89
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/TheScarlettWitch89/sounds/415287/
Sound effect title: Gun Fire
Recorded by GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html
Sound Effect Title: Toy Gun 7
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/giddster/sounds/434720/
Sound Effect Title: laser gun
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Superglue28/sounds/499696/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a panel from the public domain comic book Nightmare, Number 3 (October 1953), artist unknown.
Who shackled Falk in a dungeon cell? How did he get there? How will he escape? How can he fill ten minutes when there’s no one to banter with? Listen to find out!
Dungeon of Suspense, episode 91 of This Gun in My Hand, was built by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialogue. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Who’s the companion that never leaves me alone in a prison cell? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. Suggested viewing after you listen to this episode, or any time: John Carpenter’s The Fog, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Gravity Falls.
2. I have no idea if Argosy was hard or easy to get published in, never read it. It’s just the name of a magazine that was active in 1939, I think.
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Kyser%27s_Kollege_of_Musical_Knowledge
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ish_Kabibble
5. One of Anne Rice's novels opens with the line "The Vampire Lestat here." Reeaaallly killed the vibe for me.
Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: R16-33-Chains Dragging.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/486285/
Sound Effect Title: R26-19-Foley Chains.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/481924/
Music Title: Lachrimæ, or Seaven Teares - 9. Sir Henry Umpton’s Funeral
Composed by John Dowland, 1604
Performed by I Solipsisti
Performance license: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://musopen.org/music/43281-lachrimae-or-seven-tears/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a drawing by H. Lanos, from a sketch by W.T. Maud, “Turkish prisoners sitting in a cell with a barred window,” public domain, published in The Graphic (London), 1896.
Can Falk prevent a war between G.I. Jake and Castro? How many giant robots will be involved? Is knowing half the battle? Listen to find out!
Nursery Crimes, episode 90 of This Gun in My Hand, was transformed and rolled out by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Who else did I need to introduce yet? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. Some people claim the nursery rhyme “Ring Around the Rosie” was about the Bubonic Plague, but that interpretation appears to have developed after World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_Ring_o%27_Roses
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The crimes of The Butcher are documented in Episode 79, “Shadow Taxi,” and The Baker in Episode 81, “Any Other Name.”
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Listen to Banned Camp on your favorite podcast player. (That’s “Banned” with two Ns.)
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Special guest appearance by Flicka the Ladybug as Mecha-Batrachian.
Credits:
The opening music clips was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: Sota, taistelu, rintama, jalkaväki / War, infantry at the front, a battle, various guns, automatics, weapons, various banging, mix
By: YleArkisto
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/sounds/265654/
Sound Effect Title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
Recorded by Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html
Sound Effect Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)
By Carmelomike
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/
Sound effect title: Gun Fire
Recorded by GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html
Sound Effect Title: explosion bomb
By Jurgerius
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Jurgerius/sounds/473819/
Sound Effect Title: Räjähdys sisällä / Explosion, hollow, echoing, edit, interior
By: YleArkisto
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/sounds/347758/
Sound Effect Title: cows_mooing_mono_4824.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mystikuum/sounds/401636/
Sound Effect Title: lancaster bomber.wav
By confusion_music
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/confusion_music/sounds/103439/
Sound Effect Title: Farnborough Airshow > Lancaster flyover
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/surrey_film/sounds/162240/
Sound Effect Title: B-25 Mitchell Flyby
By Fight2FlyPhoto
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Fight2FlyPhoto/sounds/142887/
Sound Effect Title: Glock 19 Handgun Pistol Slide Cocking Sounds
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/jackmurrayofficial/sounds/393734/
Sound Effect Title: Chain Dropped
By BlastwaveFx.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/559-Chain-Dropped.html
Sound Effect Title: Hitting in a Face
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/florianreichelt/sounds/460509/
Sound effect title: bustle in the pub
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/organicmanpl/sounds/403285/
Sound Effect Title: Bricks/Stones/Rocks/Gravel Falling
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/iwanPlays/sounds/567249/
Sound Effect Title: G29-40-Theater Audience Laughing.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/438400/
Rice-A-Roni commercial circa 1970.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIH5cRqpzs0
Sound Effect Title: G50-01-Trolley Street Scene.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/437592/
Sound Effect Title: R28-47-Man and Woman Screaming.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/482833/
Sound Effect Title: Pink Noise 20 Sec.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/MATRIXXX_/sounds/443990/
The image accompanying this episode is modified from panels of the following public domain comic books:
Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics Number 41 (April 1944), art by Walt Kelly.
Flying Aces Number 3 (November 1955), artist unknown.
How will Falk prevent the series of attacks happening simultaneously across Parabellum City, launched by Parallel, the most dangerous villain yet? Will it be a sporting fight or will Parallel show poor form? Listen to find out!
Parallel, episode 89 of This Gun in My Hand, was pulled together from disparate pieces by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What ensures all the threads come together at the climax? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. It’s not a bad Sean Connery impression you’re hearing. It’s a bad Sebastian Gorka. Damn, I should have pronounced it “clark” instead of “clerk.”
- This episode was inspired by movies and shows like The Phantom Menace, Return of the Jedi, Stranger Things Season 4 (part one?). Did they use this multi-setting climax technique in many or any movies in the 1930s?
Credits:The opening music was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Fake commercial music is from the public domain film Five for Hell (5 PER L'INFERNO, 1969).
Sound Effect Title: Elevator Door opens and closes
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/NachtmahrTV/sounds/556699/
Sound Effect Title: Radio tuning-static-interference
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/quantumriver/sounds/552160/
Sound Effect Title: Flat Button Clicks
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Phil25/sounds/202909/
Sound Effect Title: Old radio, switch on, humming, warming up, noise, switch off, 1950s, 1960s
By YleArkisto
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/sounds/349912/
Sound Effect Title: Fail (Trombone wah, wah, wah…) - Sound Effect.mp3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/NikPlaymostories/sounds/563850/
Sound Effect Title: S10-21 Pottery fall and breaks; several takes.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/675897/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the public domain cover of New Story Magazine (April 1913), artist unknown.
Can two criminals on the run unite the crime families of Parabellum City with one shared purpose? Can Falk stop them in time? Should he? Listen to find out!
Plan of Attack, episode 88 of This Gun in My Hand, was officiated by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. “What can I get for you fellas?” This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. There was no consensus or large group of credible scientists in the Twentieth Century claiming that another ice age was coming soon. It was always a fringe belief. I’m not using a handful of Erich Von Däniken-adjacent crackpots to argue against the overwhelming scientific consensus today about impending climate catastrophe. It’s just funny that the tiny minority of ice age warners were so wrong.
- Fascinating article about honey bee sex. Did you know that male bees have no father, they do have a grandfather, they can be fathers to daughters, granddaughters and grandsons, but they can’t have sons?
https://wisconsinpollinators.com/Bee/BA_HoneyBeeSex.aspx
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It kills me that The Green Hornet radio show had episodes about narrowly focused crimes like the vanity publishing racket, the citizenship papers racket, a protection racket that bombed fruit stands, a protection racket that bombed gas stations, and another protection racket for parking lot attendants.
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When I was in elementary school in the late 1970s, there was a big fuss locally about banning kids from selling or possessing red hot cinnamon toothpicks in school. Basically toothpicks boiled in flavored water or syrup and you chew or suck on them like gum. I don’t remember if the danger was that some kids were allergic or poking themselves or each other or swallowing them, or just that students selling things was “disruptive” unless it was girl scout cookies or book sales.
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In the Commodore 64 version of the game Castle Wolfenstein, you could find useful items on dead guards or in supply chests including bullets, grenades, keys, uniforms, sauerkraut and Liebfraumilch.
Credits:The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Machine gun fire sound taken from the public domain film Commandos (1968).
Löwenbräu jingle (“Here’s to Good Friends”) written by Bill Backer. I’m hoping companies aren’t too strict about copyright for 45 year old commercials. Parody counts as “fair use,” right?
Song Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 61 Wedding March (Mendelssohn)
Composed by Felix Mendelssohn
Performed by “European Archive” (Czech National Symphony Orchestra?)
License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/317-a-midsummer-nights-dream-op-61/
Sound Effect Title: Gun Fire
By GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html
Sound Effect Title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
Recorded by Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html
Sound Effect Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)
By Carmelomike
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/
Sound Effect Title: Kimmokkeita / Ricochets
By YleArkisto
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/sounds/401921/
Sound effect title: bustle in the pub
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/organicmanpl/sounds/403285/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the public domain cover of Popular Detective magazine, Volume 16, Number 2 (February 1939), by Rafael DeSoto.
Will Falk be mastered by The Trailmaster? Which man leaves a longer trail of bodies? What does “GORP” stand for? Listen to find out!
Trailmaster, episode 87 of This Gun in My Hand, was blazed and trailed by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What heroic nickname have I given to my most devoted henchman? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. “PR Monster” aka “Preezy” is an artist whose works and tags can be seen in at least two cities in southern Michigan, probably more. The audio and text of This Gun in My Hand are works of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
- The bouncy, chipper music used in the commercial is titled “BULLETS AND BAYONETS” by John Philip Sousa.
Credits:The opening music was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Music Title: Bullets and Bayonets
Composed by John Philip Sousa
Performed by The United States Marine Band
License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/43780-bullets-and-bayonets/
Music Title: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 - Morning Mood
Composed by Edvard Grieg
Whistled by Rob Northrup
License: Public Domain
Sound Effect Title: Park ambience - mostly birds
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mafon2/sounds/274175/#
Sound Effect Title: some cows
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/vermontrobinsson/sounds/529448/
Sound Effect Title: Cows.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/mikewest/sounds/394220/
Sound Effect Title: Cutlery drawer
License: Public Domain
http://soundbible.com/591-Cutlery-Drawer.html
Sound Effect Title: Glass Bottle Breaking
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/IENBA/sounds/607910/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a panel from the public domain comic book Mark Trail on Safari Number 5 (Summer 1959). Pencils and inks by Ed Dodd.
Who erased Falk’s memory? Will it be restored with help from a mystical radio hostess and a bit player from silent movies? Why don’t they serve mushroom anchovy pizza on the bus anymore? Listen to find out!
You Must Remember That, episode 86 of This Gun in My Hand, was enunciated by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What’s the last thing I remember? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. I did not watch the 1915 Birth of a Nation to research this episode. Maybe Papo is lying or misremembering his scenes in the movie. I have watched the 2016 Birth of a Nation. They changed a few key details in that remake.
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Lillian Gish, Henry B. Walthall, Elmer Clifton, Spottiswoode Aitken and Elmo Lincoln appeared in Birth of a Nation and some other D.W. Griffith films. “Papo Threadgill” is a fictional character who claims to have appeared in Birth of a Nation.
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There’s a great film podcast you should check out called You Must Remember This. http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/
Credits:
The opening music clip is from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Song Title: Music Box (Swan Lake)
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/deleted_user_4966198/sounds/264186/
Music clip played early in interview was taken from Birth of a Nation (1915), public domain. Music during the “Lurphry’s Cork” commercial is from the 1913 public domain film The Edison Minstrels. The songs in The Edison Minstrels clip may be parts of "Grand Introductory Overture" and "Soldier's Chorus from Faust."
Sound Effect Title: Cutlery drawer
License: Public Domain
http://soundbible.com/591-Cutlery-Drawer.html
Sound Effect Title: Light bulb breaking
By Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/105-Light-Bulb-Breaking.html
The photo accompanying this episode is silent film actress Charlotte Rich in a bathing suit and a movie camera, on page 1 of the February 11, 1922 National Police Gazette. Found on Wikimedia Commons.
Will Falk help the stunning beauty that sauntered into the office? Could she be withholding important details about herself & her situation? When did Falk get an office? Listen to find out!
Sultry, Salty and Desperate, episode 85 of This Gun in My Hand, was given to you as part of a non-monetary exchange by Rob Northrup. Don’t worry; we’ll work something out. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How do I get information when I don’t even have two bits? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. The InforMatron first appeared in episode 49 of This Gun in My Hand and later in episode 70. The Wordsmith, also known as Shoe Shine Man and Roberto Zapata, first appeared in episode 2. Scuttlebutt first appeared in episode 65 but was not named until episode 70. Bar Stool was first mentioned in episode 85 but has not had lines in any episodes. Vickie Olson first appeared in episode 22, “Caught Offguard.” Visit https://thisguninmyhand.blogspot.com for full archives.
2. Special guest appearance by Melinda as the InforMatron’s snoring.
Credits:
The opening music clip was from the public domain film The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950). The music during the commercial was from the public domain film The Scar (also known as Hollow Triumph, 1948). Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Theme for the radio show “Information Wants to Be Free, But For You It’s Two Bits” and closing music:
Music Title: Bouncy Gypsy Beats
By John Bartmann
License: Public Domain
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/John_Bartmann/Public_Domain_Soundtrack_Music_Album_One/bouncy-gypsy-beats/
Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/
Sound Effect Title: polite_applause_08.wav
By joedeshon
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/joedeshon/sounds/119028/
Sound Effect Title: House Front Door Inside 3.wav
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/people/saturdaysoundguy/sounds/388027/#
Sound Effect Title: typewriter22.ogg
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/tams_kp/sounds/43560/
Sound Effect Title: Kitten Meowing.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/lolamadeus/sounds/196251/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the public domain cover painting by Albert Fisher of Inside Detective Magazine, Volume 9, Number 5 (November 1939).
Another early 20th Century character no one was clamoring to see revived: Falk Meets Fantomas! Can Falk trust anyone? Can anyone trust Falk? Listen to find out!
Falk Meets Fantomas, episode 84 of This Gun in My Hand, was created by [splorch] yes, it is I – Rob Northrup! This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How will you know when the real Falk Zildjian steps up? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. Peanut butter was widely known by 1939.
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Yes, there should be a circumflex over the letter “o” in Fantômas but English websites might lose their minds or display it as a glitch so I’m avoiding it, especially in titles and filenames.
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Spanish pun made possible in part by the song “Más” by the Mexican band Kinky – awesome theme song to the 2003 tv show Kingpin, which walked so Breaking Bad could run. https://youtu.be/jnakM3eGYjw
Credits:The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. The music playing throughout the commercial was from another public domain film, The Scar (also known as Hollow Triumph, 1948). Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/
Sound Effect Title: pigeon dove cooing singing sound effect
By: Garuda1982. https://richardatmo.bandcamp.com/
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/Garuda1982/sounds/556323/
The public domain image accompanying this episode is a painting by Gino Starace for the cover of the novel Les Souliers du mort by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain, Paris, Arthème Fayard, collection « Le Livre populaire », septembre 1912. This scan was sourced from Alfu, Patrice Caillot et François Ducos, Gino Starace : l'illustrateur de "Fantômas", Amiens, Encrage, coll. « Portraits », 1987, ISBN 2-906389-05-6, found on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gino_Starace_-_Fant%C3%B4mas_(Souvestre_%26_Allain)_-_Les_Souliers_du_mort.jpg .
Falk seeks help from a strange doctor to pass through the doors of perception on the trail of a French killer! Will he return from the sixth dimension with his dangerous quarry? Will he return at all? Listen to find out!
Falk Zildjian in the Multitracks of Madness, episode 83 of This Gun in My Hand, was shifted from left to right and back again by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Only $2.99. Cheap! What do I use to unlock the doors of perception? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. Celery tonic, wine of cod liver oil, liquid bread, witch hazel jelly and Schiffer’s electric oil are actual nostrums I read about several years ago while preparing 1890s issues of American Druggist to be scanned.
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The idea for this story hit me when I was adding the promo for Madison On the Air to a previous episode. All eighty-two episodes of This Gun in My Hand* up to this point have been delivered in glorious MONO, but the promo was in stereo. I felt like I was diminishing Madison’s promo by changing it to mono, but the possibility of someday shoving Falk into stereo was irresistible. All succeeding episodes will be back to glorious MONO.
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An excellent audio drama comedy you should listen to, www.madisonontheair.com
Credits:The opening and commercial transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
The guitar, harmonica and ocarina during the extra-dimensional parts was improvised, performed and edited by Robert Thomas Northrup. Available for weddings and bar mitzvahs. Unreasonable rates.
Sound Effect Title: Artificial Fire/Rain 10 Second Loop
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Zott820/sounds/209582/
Sound Effect Title: Ducks
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/D4XX/sounds/607226/
Sound Effect Title: Canned_Ham_Sizzling.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/columbia23/sounds/421957/
Public domain clips from old time radio shows were used as lines in the fake commercial:
“Hurry!” is Al Hodge from The Green Hornet, 31 October 1939, “The Parking Lot Racket.”
“You get a bang out of watching that?” is Lauren Bacall from Bold Venture, 26 March 1951, “Deadly Merchandise.”
“Just funnel this down, now what do you want?” is Jack Webb from Pete Kelly’s Blues, 29 August 1951, “Zelda.”
The image accompanying this episode is a cropped public domain ad for the National Radio Institute which appeared in Weird Tales, Volume 36, Number 9 (May 1946).
How will Falk cope when there are no bad guys left for him to do justice to? I have no idea and neither does he. Listen to find out! Then let us know.
Out of Ideas, episode 82 of This Gun in My Hand, was given up by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What’s left when you run out of ideas? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. Falk’s last gunfight depicted in the show was in episode 78, “Speed Detective,” almost three months ago if you count from the release dates. Whew!
2. Episode 6, “Want To Be Heroes,” was the first appearance of the PT Crew, sir. Listen to episodes 15 and 37 for more codenames of G.I. Jake members.
Credits:The opening and near-opening music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: Park ambience - mostly birds
License: public domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mafon2/sounds/274175/#
Sound Effect Title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
Recorded by Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html
Sound Effect Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)
By Carmelomike
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/
Sound effect title: Gun Fire
Recorded by GoodSoundForYou
Used under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html
Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/
Sound Effect Title: Kimmokkeita / Ricochets
By YleArkisto
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/sounds/401921/
Machine gun sounds from the public domain film Commandos (1968, aka Sullivan’s Marauders).
The commercial in this episode is real. Listen to the scripted comedy podcast Madison On The Air at www.madisonontheair.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a panel from the public domain comic book Crime Clinic, Number 10 (July-August 1951), with pencils and inks by Leonard Starr.
A single word on a scrap of paper, found in the hand of a poisoned informant. Will this clue bring down the biggest crime boss in the octo-state area? Listen to find out! Starring neither Leslie Jordan nor Charles Boyer.
Any Other Name, episode 81 of This Gun in My Hand, was cultivated by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Only $2.99. Cheap! If you don't the quality because it's so cheap, feel free to pay $9.99. How did they know where to find me? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. I asked Melinda what she wanted next in an upcoming episode and she said roses. So of course I twisted it to my own purposes.
2. No offense intended to my relatives named Rose and Kelly and Kelly Rose. Am I wrong about Catholics favoring the name “Rose” and its variations? Who wouldn’t, though? Great name! I also didn’t mean to imply any of my relatives are secretly the Queenpins of Crime in their tri-state or octo-state areas. Regular listeners already know the secret identity of Regina. The audio and text of This Gun in My Hand are works of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental!3. Pekar is a surname that means “baker” in Croatian and a few other languages.
Credits:The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: Park ambience - mostly birds
License: public domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mafon2/sounds/274175/#
Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/
Sound Effect Title: Traffic mel 1.wav
By malupeeters
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/malupeeters/sounds/191350/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail from two public domain images. The gun and hand are from the cover of New Detective Magazine, Volume 8, Number 4 (July 1946), artist unknown. The roses are from a panel of Just Married, Volume 1, Number 11 (December 1959), pencils by Bill Molno, inks by Vince Alascia.
When the Defenders of the Hearth are busy propping up the financial world, will their backup squad of benchwarmers be able to put down an invasion of giant ants? No. But listen anyway!
Second String, episode 80 of This Gun in My Hand, was defended by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Do you have any super-powered crime fighters or offensive technology to help in this fight? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. Falk first encountered the Mole Men in “Struggle Session,” Episode 53.
2. The Mime and Monk Show is inspired by the Charlie McCarthy Show, with its absurd premise of listening to a ventriloquist on the radio so you just take their word for it that he wasn’t moving his lips. For Mime and Monk, you have to take the narrator’s word for everything.
Credits:The opening and post-commercial music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Music Title (before commercial) : Kitten on the Keys
By Zez Confrey and his Orchestra (1922)
License: Public Domain
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_Various_Artists/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_05052009/Kitten_on_the_Keys/
Sound effect title: bustle in the pub
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/organicmanpl/sounds/403285/
Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/
(Spider robot feet clicking)
Sound Effect Title: MarbleGlass-HorseClick.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Harrisando/sounds/466208/
Sound Effect Title: clacking, rapid wind-up sound
By ChrisReierson
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/ChrisReierson/sounds/501027/
The public domain photo accompanying this episode is a modified version of “N.Y. parks - bench warmers, Union Sq.” from the Library of Congress. Photographer and subjects unknown, circa 1908.
In a race between Falk Zildjian and The Shade, which crimefighter will bring the bloody killer to justice? Who’s driving the gray De Soto? Will you scoot over? Listen to find out!
Shadow Taxi, episode 79 of This Gun in My Hand, was driven by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Who’s laughing now? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. The Shade first appeared in episode 12, “Made in The Shade.”
2. Alternate title for this episode: Irregular Fare.
Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Organ music performed (and/or written?) by Lou White was taken from a public domain episode of the radio show Nick Carter, Master Detective, “The Echo of Death,” broadcast July 6, 1943.
Sound Effect Title: Traffic mel 1.wav
By malupeeters
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/malupeeters/sounds/191350/
Sound Effect Title: Old FM radio tuning by sielxm3d.mp3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/deleted_user_3667256/sounds/319846/
Sound Effect Title: Squeaky Car Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/coltures/sounds/262325/#
Sound Effect Title: Car_motor_Sound.m4a
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Blizzard123/sounds/504633/#
Sound Effect Title: Screeching Tyres
By iainmccurdy
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/iainmccurdy/sounds/650934/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Ten Detective Aces Magazine, Volume 44, Number 4 (June 1942). Public domain painting by John Hilkert or Norman Saunders.
Will Falk’s first story in Speed Detective Magazine be his last? Will he find the kidnapped girl before it’s too late? Who killed the chauffeur? Listen to find out!
Speed Detective, episode 78 of This Gun in My Hand, the final episode of season six, was hastened by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What magazine am I most often associated with? The one that fits into the grip of This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. Anachronism! Speed Detective was not published with that title in 1939, the period when This Gun in My Hand is set. Spicy Detective Stories was published from 1934-1942. Pushback from the public got a little too spicy, so they changed the title to Speed Detective beginning with the January 1943 issue. (Also Speed Mystery, Speed Western, and others in the formerly “Spicy” line.)
https://www.pulpmags.org/contexts/essays/history-of-girlie-pulps.html
https://donherron.com/sinister-cinema-holy-spicy-detective-batman/
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Text of the first commercial comes from a real advertisement for Gulf Hamstery that appeared in magazines and comics in the late 1940s. Please don’t try sending letters to Parabellum City though.
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Look up “police gangs LAPD.” Truth is stranger than my fiction.
Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: Park ambience - mostly birds
License: public domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mafon2/sounds/274175/#
Sound Effect Title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
Recorded by Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html
Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/
Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/
Sound Effect Title: Wood Break.boaay
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/BOAAY/sounds/520720/
Sound Effect Title: Kicking/Forcing/Breaking Wooden Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/160213/
Sound Effect Title: House Front Door Inside 3.wav
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/people/saturdaysoundguy/sounds/388027/#
Sound Effect Title: bustle in the pub
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/organicmanpl/sounds/403285/
Sound Effect Title: warpedvideo.wav
By AMPUL
License: Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0
https://freesound.org/people/AMPUL/sounds/29720/
Sound Effect Title: chugging diesel (bus) and rev.MP3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/CraftyIndividual/sounds/418436/
Sound Effect Title: diesel truck jake brake and air brake.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/nuncaconoci/sounds/555266/
Sound Effect Title: Bus Closing Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/am7/sounds/520753/
Music from second commercial:
Music Title: Windy Winds - Intro A
Jay Man - OurMusicBox
https://www.our-music-box.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/ourmusicbox/
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Sound Effect Title: Flock Seagulls
Recorded by Daniel Simion
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/2193-Flock-Seagulls.html
Sound Effect Title: Lake Waves 1.wav
By Benboncan
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/s/67883/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the public domain cover from Speed Detective, Volume 3, Number 4 (December 1944). Art possibly by Richard Lillis.
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— tehipite, 24 Aug 2021 via archive.org, reviewing the unofficial episode zero of This Gun in My Hand, "The Liability of Keiko."
Will Falk’s death come at the hands of the villain known as The Cuttlefish? Do you like cliffhanger serials? Will there be actual tentacles in this episode? Listen to find out!
In the Clutches of The Cuttlefish, episode 77 of This Gun in My Hand, was massaged by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What will you feel if you plunge your arm into my aquarium? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. Trail of the Octopus (1919) and The Spider’s Web (1938) are actual movie serials.
2. It’s true that the publishers of The Spider magazine briefly issued a magazine named after his nemesis, The Octopus. In this episode, The Cuttlefish assumes that the magazine went on hiatus, taking a long time to publish its second issue, but a second issue never came. Only one issue was published in 1939 before changing its name to The Scorpion.
3. “The Sinister Ray,” Chapter Five of Shadow of Chinatown (1936) is available on Youtube, along with the rest of the series.
4. In which episodes did you hear about those animal and insect classifications? Mollusks in episode 76; cephalopods in episode 77; arthropods in episode 74; kinkajous in episode 75; hemiptera and hymenoptera in episode 74.
5. It’s possible that an ad for the real Johnson Smith Company’s mail order catalog appeared in The Octopus magazine. It was really located at 6615 East Jefferson Ave, Detroit 7 Michigan in the 1930s. The idea that they offered a mail order training course on biological taxonomy is fictional.
6. That dissertation and its author are legit, and might have been published on microfilm in 1939. You think I’m playing with you? Not when it comes to microfilm.
Credits:The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. The fake commercial music was from the public domain film The Scar (aka Hollow Triumph, 1948). All music used in the episode is modified from the original versions.
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a public domain illustration by Alphonse de Neuville featured in 20000 Lieues Sous les Mers, circa 1871.
Will Falk extract information from the hood without resorting to torture? How would you poison a city’s water supply? Does anyone really call it “Frisco?” Listen to find out!
Trail of Tentacles, episode 76 of This Gun in My Hand, was cuddled by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How do I make waves? With This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. You thought I was making that up? Image of Funk & Wagnall’s New Standard Encyclopedia 1931, Vol. 18, MAFIA-NEAT:
https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images4/1/0617/30/funk-wagnalls-standard-encyclopedia_1_b1f23d1c0f024e3a7b16f727e146d2ad.jpg
Credits:The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: tug boat horn - sound effect.wav
By komal22moiz
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/komal22moiz/sounds/380825/
Sound Effect Title: 40_GolpesConCuchillo.wav
By Lextao
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Lextao/sounds/471808/
Sound Effect Title: Gun Fire
By GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html
Music Title: Windy Winds - Intro A
Jay Man - OurMusicBox
https://www.our-music-box.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/ourmusicbox/
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Sound Effect Title: Flock Seagulls
Recorded by Daniel Simion
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/2193-Flock-Seagulls.html
Sound Effect Title: Lake Waves 1.wav
By Benboncan
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/s/67883/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail from the public domain comic book Sparkling Stars, Number 20 (February 1946). Pencils and inks might be by Herman C. Browner.
Too many crooks spoil the plot! Falk and Petra search the red light district for a burglar hiding from the mob. Will they view an agricultural exhibition? Have they found their happily-ever-after? What’s that smell? Listen to find out!
A Gross of Goons, episode 75 of This Gun in My Hand, was engrossed by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How do I resolve third act problems? With This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Villains is just a funny name, not meant to smear IBEW or unions in general. The people who brought you weekends! Direct action gets the goods! Which side are you on?
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No, really, kinkajous have musk glands, live in Central and South America, and are alternately known as “honey bears” or “cuchi cuchi.” I have no idea what they smell like but I assume it’s not pleasant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou
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Companies that handle titles for real estate really are a parasitic but legal racket. I wish Castro and the Emerald Ash Borer could bring them down.
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Alternate rejected titles for this episode were “You Don’t Have to Put on the Stop Light” or “Too Many Crooks.”
Credits:The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. The fake commercial music was from the public domain film The Scar (aka Hollow Triumph, 1948). Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/
Sound Effect Title: Gun Fire
By GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html
Sound Effect Title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
Recorded by Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html
Sound Effect Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)
By Carmelomike
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail from two sources. The man and woman in background are from the cover of Warrant for a Wanton (1953), art by Harry Schaare. The six hands with pistols surrounding them are from the cover of Wild West Weekly (December 10, 1938), art by Norman Saunders.
Lost keys, lost worlds, a zeppelin flight to the ant moon. Has Falk lost all sense of scale? Listen to find out!
Fly Away Home, episode 74 of This Gun in My Hand, was written by Rob Northrup, not by a ladybug. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Who wrote this episode? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. Inspired by Melinda’s stories about Flicka the Ladybug, Dolores the Hamquatch, Marthra the Moth, and a cast of thousands.
- Falk says, “Someone clouded my mind. If I ever get back to my right mind, I’ll give Lamont an earful.” He’s talking about Lamont Cranford, known as The Shade, able to cloud men’s minds by asking, “What object were you looking for when you stepped into this room?” Listen to Episode 12, “Made in The Shade.”
Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: Park ambience - mostly birds
License: public domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mafon2/sounds/274175/#
Sound Effect Title: Mount Moganshan Insect Chorus
By: RTB45
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/RTB45/sounds/325321/
Insect chorus recorded one summer evening, Moganshan, Zhejiang Provence, People's Republic of China
Sound Effect Title: Dragonfly.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/antoineopeng/sounds/447319/
Music used in “Ladybug Republic Convention and Visitors Bureau” commercial is a modified version of “The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 - Sing While We Trip it Upon the Green (For Recorders - Papalin).”
Composed by Henry Purcell, 1692
Performed by Papalin
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://musopen.org/music/11140-the-fairy-queen-z629/
The image accompanying this episode is a combination of modified panels from National Comics, Number 55 (August 1946), pencils and inks by Andre LeBlanc; and Crime Detective Comics, Volume 3, Number 8 (May-June 1953), artist unknown. Both sources in public domain.
What shameless criminal plans to disrupt the bake-off at the department store? Will Falk arrive in time, or will The Cherry Pachyderm get in the way with his endless pitches for Falk’s radio show? Listen to find out!
Escalating Pitch, episode 73 of This Gun in My Hand, was pitched and escalated by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What’s the big idea? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. The ad was inspired by BBC costume dramas such as Middlemarch, Wives and Daughters, Cranford, Return to Cranford, Lark Rise to Candleford, The Paradise, North and South (by Mrs. Gaskell, not the US Civil War miniseries), Pride and Prejudice.
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Latthew Morressier, aka “The Cherry Pachyderm,” first appeared in episode 24, “Consulting Defectives.”
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Batman wore several versions of his costume in different rainbow colors in Detective Comics, Volume 1, Number 241 (March 1957). https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Detective_Comics_Vol_1_241
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Flavia de Luce is an eleven year old girl in 1950s England who solves mysteries using her knowledge of chemistry and poisons, in a series of novels by Alan Bradley.
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Opinions expressed by fictional characters do not represent those of Robert Thomas Northrup, especially what should go in chili.
Credits:The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
“British Drama” Song Title: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629
Composed by Henry Purcell, 1692.
Performed by Carl Pini, John Tunnell, Anthony Pini and Harold Lester.
License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/11140-the-fairy-queen-z629/
Sound Effect Title: Escalator
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/carlopatrao/sounds/631545/
Sound Effect Title: bustle in the pub
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/organicmanpl/sounds/403285/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a photo titled “Berlin, Stadtbahnhof Alexanderplatz.” Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-C1114-0006-013 / Junge, Peter Heinz / CC-BY-SA 3.0. License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany.
Why is Billy narrating this episode instead of his dad? Can Falk protect his friend Bill Senior from the inflammatory accusations of the Narrators’ Committee? Is “narrativities” a real word? Listen to find out!Undeniable Narrator, episode 72 of This Gun in My Hand, was fantasized by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What cuts through the bureaucracy? This Gun in My Hand! Show Notes:1. “Narrativities” is a real word. Credits:The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.Sound Effect Title: HARP GLISSANDO DOWN.WAVLicense: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/people/olver/sounds/505064/Sound effect title: bustle in the pubLicense: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/people/organicmanpl/sounds/403285/Sound effect title: Guests-at-party.wav License: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/people/Mickael_Leroi/sounds/402131/Sound Effect Title: gavel-double.flacBy zerolagtime (Sen. John Kerry recorded from C-Span)License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0https://freesound.org/people/zerolagtime/sounds/70069/The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a panel from the public domain comic book True Love Problems and Advice Illustrated, Volume 1, Number 25 (January 1954), artist unknown.
A corpse on a pier. Is the witness really the killer? Did the truth get under his skin? Listen to find out!
The Ink-Stained Corpse, episode 71 of This Gun in My Hand, was permanently drawn under your skin by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What points me on the path to treasure? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. This episode was partially inspired by a trope used in the 2020 film Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears.
2. The script said “incalculable hero by virtue of the fact that he carries a gun,” but when I fumbled the word “incalculable” half a dozen times while recording, I changed it to “unpronounceable.”
Credits:The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: Seagulls / gaviotas clean wildtrack.WAV
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Soojay/sounds/462462/
Sound Effect Title: Tweeting birds
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Ravetracer/sounds/515081/
Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified panel from the public domain comic book Captain Silver’s Log of the Sea Hound, Number 3 (July 1949). Pencils and inks by Philip Santry.
What’s that unbearable sound coming from the basement of Roberto and Jennifer Zapata, aka Wordsmith and The InforMatron? No, not the hum of their supercomputer. What’s that other sound? Will they survive? Listen to find out!
Domestic Harmony, episode 70 of This Gun in My Hand, was composed and arranged by Rob Northrup (just the words, not the music). This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What sound will you harmonize with? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. The horse that Wordsmith bets on in this episode is named after the space ship “We Never Agreed To This” in The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi.
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This is not a test of the emergency broadcast system. The background operational sound of the InforMatrix is a modified kalimba and the fungal ululation is produced by drawing through the 6th and 7th holes of a Hohner Hot Metal harmonica in the key of G, eventually shifting to just the 7th hole. Technically I don’t think they’re harmonizing, but at least they stop sounding dissonant.
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Yes, there are annoying background sounds throughout the whole episode, added by design. Please don’t complain about my amateurish audio engineering until you hear the full episode for context. You will receive an instantaneous full refund whether or not you are satisfied, because your cost was zero shekels, zero dogecoin, zero shoplifted bottles of Tide (our preferred currency).
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When I say this episode was “composed and arranged by Rob Northrup,” I mean it was written, edited, performed and all functions carried out by Rob Northrup unless otherwise noted. I don’t mean to take credit for the amazing “Bouncy Gypsy Beats” by John Bartmann, used as theme music for Wordsmith and The InforMatron, or the other music used in this episode.
Credits:The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), a public domain film. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Theme for the radio show “Information Wants to Be Free, But For You It’s Two Bits” and closing music this time:
Music Title: Bouncy Gypsy Beats
By John Bartmann
License: Public Domain
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/John_Bartmann/Public_Domain_Soundtrack_Music_Album_One/bouncy-gypsy-beats/
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https://freesound.org/people/joedeshon/sounds/119028/
Sound Effect Title: Sitcom Laughter 9x, Small Audience
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Kinoton/sounds/383207/
Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/
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License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/phmiller42/sounds/124996/
Sound Effect Title: Dopey Beeps
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/venicesurf/sounds/209363/
Sound Effect Title: Computer Beeps 2
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https://freesound.org/people/LPHypeR/sounds/564590/
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License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/0ktober/sounds/188828/
Sound Effect Title: Rockfall in mine
By Benboncan
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/60085/
Sound Effect Title: Bricks/Stones/Rocks/Gravel Falling
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/iwanPlays/sounds/567249/
Sound Effect Title: Kitten Meowing.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/lolamadeus/sounds/196251/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Scientific Detective Monthly, Volume 1, Number 3 (March 1930) by Jno Ruger. Public domain. The entire issue is available to read at https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=39015
How will Petra’s plan for a romantic holiday be ruined by a meet cute? Why is her uncle afraid she’ll kill him? Listen to find out!
Heck's Pantry for the Holidays, episode 69 of This Gun in My Hand, was romanticized by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. If you’re still in the mood for holiday pulp adventure, listen to episode 44, “Here Comes Satanic Claws.” What time is it? [Gun shot.] This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. Do you realize how much research I put into this show? While looking up Polish dishes for the St. Wladislaw’s Ladies’ Auxiliary fundraiser cookbook, I found a recipe for Bigos (Polish Hunter’s Stew) and cooked it, really in real life.
https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/polish_hunters_stew/
- Falk adds the letter “s” to pluralize “gołąbki,” not realizing the word is already plural. The word for one Polish cabbage roll is “gołąbek.” Uncle Verne and I felt it was too complicated to correct him during the show.
Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Music Title: O Christmas Tree
By massi_1130
License: Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0
https://freesound.org/people/massi_1130/sounds/27706/
Music Title: Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
Composed by Leon Jessel, 1897
Performed by United States Air Force Band of Mid-America, Concert Band
License: Public Domain
https://www.music.af.mil/Multimedia/Music/Public-Domain-Music/
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License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/775noise/sounds/494565/
Sound Effect Title: Knife slice
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/NeoSpica/sounds/504610/
Sound Effect Title: Metallic Whoosh.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/MissCellany/sounds/240640/
Sound Effect Title: Swoosh.wav
By Brsjak
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/Brsjak/sounds/482880/
Sound Effect Title: fwunk.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Reitanna/sounds/264149/
Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/
Sound Effect Title: Body Fall2.wav
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https://freesound.org/people/deleted_user_2104797/sounds/325269/
Sound Effect Title: Porte open close.wav
By Slanesh
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Slanesh/sounds/31768/
Sound Effect Title: Gun Fire
By GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the front cover of Super-Mystery Comics, Vol. 6, Number 4 (February 1947), public domain, pencils and inks by Warren Kremer, colorist unknown.
Written by Robert Thomas Northrup Directed by Robert Thomas Northrup Produced by Robert Thomas Northrup Starring Robert Thomas Northrup Celebrity voices impersonated by Robert Thomas Northrup Edited by Robert Thomas Northrup Created by Robert Thomas Northrup Sponsored by Robert Thomas Northrup Continuity by Robert Thomas Northrup Research by Robert Thomas Northrup Graphics compiled and modified by Robert Thomas Northrup Sound effects compiled by Robert Thomas Northrup Video adaptations by Robert Thomas Northrup Music by Robert Thomas Northrup (except where otherwise noted) Foley artist: Robert Thomas Northrup (except where otherwise noted) Best Boy Electric: Robert Thomas Northrup Key Grip: Robert Thomas Northrup Webmaster: Robert Thomas Northrup Technical support by Robert Thomas Northrup Marketing by Robert Thomas Northrup Accounting services provided by Robert Thomas Northrup Mister Northrup's wardrobe provided by Goodwill. This Gun in My Hand is supported by a grant from the Ladybuglandia Foundation. A production of Awkwardly Media, which is a name under which to hide everything Rob self-publishes, because self-publishing gets a bad wrap. You know that Samuel Clemens and Dumas and Dickens and Tolstoy and Jane Austen and Hemingway and Poe and a bunch of other writers beloved by the ages published some of their own works? So check yourself.
Three familiar wiseguys lead the Howard crime family. How will Falk counter their unique fighting style? Why would you bring a slapstick to a gunfight? Listen to find out!
The Three Stugots, episode 68 of This Gun in My Hand, was clamped in a vise as it was crafted by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What will I deliver to you by French airmail? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. “With the electric rifle, Tom and friends bring down elephants, rhinoceroses, and buffalo, and save their lives several times in pitched battle with the red pygmies,” according to the Wikipedia entry on the 1911 novel Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift_and_His_Electric_Rifle
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I try to restrain myself from explaining all the allusions and inside jokes, but not today. This Gun in My Hand is set in 1939 or thereabouts, so Jerome is accurate when he guesses he might live another 12-13 years. He passed away 13 years later in 1952. In real life, his role was later filled by his brother Samuel, Joe Besser and Joe Wardell (real name, Joe DeRita).
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Anna May Wong became a big star around 1924, earlier than mentioned here. According to Wikipedia, “...Wong's career would continue to be limited by American anti-miscegenation laws, which prevented her from sharing an on-screen kiss with any person of another race, even if the character was Asian, but being portrayed by a white actor.”
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The vise attached to Jerome’s desk was a gift from the judge in Disorder in the Court (1936).
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Their pie delivery boy was a costumed hero who could leap over tall buildings. He got a better offer and went “National” – as in National Allied Publications, which later became DC Comics.
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Falk is confusing the Howard crew with those other guys, Abbott & Costello, whose “Bagel Street/Floogle Street/Susquehanna Hat Company” Vaudeville routine was similar to the Howards’ “Niagara Falls!”
Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Music before and after the commercial was from the public domain film serial Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (1938).
https://archive.org/details/flash-gordons-trip-to-mars-chapter-10
Sound Effect Title: House Front Door Inside 3.wav
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/people/saturdaysoundguy/sounds/388027/#
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License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/
Sound Effect Title: ice grinding cracking freezing designed.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/kyles/sounds/452645/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail from the novel cover of The Judas Goat (1953), painted by Rafael Desoto.
Will Falk be receptive to the warnings of The Warner? How will he escape from a circle of nineteen gunmen? Will that even be resolved by the end of the episode? Listen to find out!
Warner Blunders, episode 67 of This Gun in My Hand, is incredibly unsafe, and the person responsible for putting the public at risk in this manner was Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What will keep you safe from fingers bluffing as pistols in pockets? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. Vaguely inspired by the “Cracktoberfest” podcast series on Behind the Bastards and Hood Politics with Prop.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/cracktoberfest-part-one-constructing-the-crack-102740713/
- Falk overcame the terrifying danger of quicksand in Episode 5, “The Quiz Scam.”
Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Musical sting for “The Warner” taken from the opening theme of the public domain film The Scar (1948, aka Hollow Triumph).
Carter’s Little Liver Pills radio commercial, date unknown. Public domain, as far as I know.
https://www.oldradioworld.com/media/Vintage%20Commercials%20Carters%20Little%20Liver%20Pills.mp3
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Gusto magazine, Vol. 1, Number 1 (October 1957). Artist unknown. Hopefully public domain.
An acquaintance of Falk's has dates to the barn dance with two women on the same night. Can Falk steer them away from catastrophe? Will guns be involved? Listen to find out!
Fighter Flight, episode 66 of This Gun in My Hand, was piloted by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What would make you join a group of aviation-themed crime-fighters? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. Take a sharp right at the end of Diagon Alley and you end up in Terf Alley.
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The surname Cusamano was taken from a character on The Sopranos. Martha Raye (1916-1994) was a comic actress and singer. Raydeen was one of the Shogun Warriors robots. Moscardino is an Italian name that can refer to types of hawk or sparrowhawk, according to the internet.
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“Flick Zoltan” was a fake name Falk used in Episode 12, “Made in the Shade.” “Flinch Zipjam” was a sad sack version of Falk from a parallel dimension, introduced in Episode 51, “Flinch Zipjam in the Negative Space.”
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Captain Fearless, Captain Fight, Captain Flag, Captain Freedom, Sergeant Twilight, Captain Glory, Captain Valiant, and Captain Victory are names of actual public domain superheroes. When Falk and Gilbert talk about Captain Marvel, they mean the one from Fawcett Comics, not the later versions from Marvel Comics.
Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from the public domain film The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950). Songs used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Music at the barn dance, in order:
Music Title: Mystery!
Composed by Milton Ager, Joseph A. Cirina, Cliff Hess and Howard E. Johnson.
Performed by Paul Biese’s Novelty Orchestra
Recorded December 16, 1919
License: Public Domain
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_Various_Artists/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_05052009/Mystery_1254/
Music Title: He Used To Be Your Man But He’s My Man Now
Composed by Perry Bradford
Performed by Johnny Dunn’s Original Jazz Hounds, vocals by Edith Wilson
Recorded December 14, 1922
License: Public Domain
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_Various_Artists/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_272012_Live_from_Brooklyn_Farmacy__Soda_Fountain/Edith_Wilson_And_Johnny_Dunns_Original_Jazz_Hounds_-_07_-_He_Used_To_Be_Your_Man_But_Hes_My_Man_Now_1788/
Music Title: Hillbilly Swing
By Kevin MacLeod
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://filmmusic.io/song/5705-hillbilly-swing
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine, May 1941, painted by Bradshaw Crandell.
What terrifying vision compels the Wordsmith to summon Falk Zildjian, and why can’t he just explain it over the phone? Listen to find out!
I Think You Better Come See This, episode 65 of This Gun in My Hand, was written, performed, edited and produced by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What’s keeping you from just describing the situation over the phone? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. This episode was partly inspired by an episode of Deep Space Nine in which someone told Sisko over a communicator, “I think you better come see this,” because the writers wanted to show and not tell, I guess.
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The first pre-sweetened cereal was Ranger Joe Wheat Honnies, produced in 1939. It was similar to the puffed wheat cereals still produced today under the names Golden Crisp and Honey Smacks. Jesse Rogers starred as Ranger Joe on a Philadelphia tv station from 1950-1952.
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Listen to the fake commercial in episode 59, “Publisher War Zone,” for more details about Pizzicato, formerly the Parabellum City Area Transit System.
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That’s a real commercial in the middle of this episode. Listen to Blazed All Our Lives wherever you find podcasts.
Credits:The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Dial tone taken from short instructional film Introduction to The Dial Telephone (1936).
Title: Traffic mel 1.wav
By malupeeters
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/malupeeters/sounds/191350/
Sound Effect Title: telephone.mp3 (ring)
By Werra
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Werra/sounds/78565/
Sound Effect Title: House Front Door Inside 3.wav
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/people/saturdaysoundguy/sounds/388027/#
Sound Effect Title: Kitten Meowing.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/lolamadeus/sounds/196251/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Phantom Detective, Vol. 53, No. 1 (March 1949). Art by Rudolph Belarski. Public domain.
The moment you’ve been waiting for! Falk fights back-to-back with a comic book and movie serial superstar who couldn’t keep the momentum going when he switched from espionage to crime-fighting after the war and faded from memory: Spy Smasher! Which spies need smashing? Find out!
They Don’t Call Me Spy Detainer, episode 64 of This Gun in My Hand, was covertly surveilled by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How can you tell where my loyalties lie? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:Spy Smasher is a public domain comic book character who first appeared in Whiz Comics Number 2 (February 1940). You can find the complete twelve chapter cliffhanger serial Spy Smasher from 1942 on Youtube at https://youtu.be/lQhrlF8goDM . Full issues of Whiz Comics and Spy Smasher comics are available at https://digitalcomicmuseum.com .
Credits:The opening and ad break music clips are from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music is from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Some music and sounds taken from the public domain serial Spy Smasher (1942).
Sound Effect Title: Smash.ogg
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/egomassive/sounds/536777/
Sound Effect Title: G26-23-Fight Scuffle.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/438342/
Sound Effect Title: Cutlery drawer
License: Public Domain
http://soundbible.com/591-Cutlery-Drawer.html
Sound Effect Title: Light bulb breaking
By Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/105-Light-Bulb-Breaking.html
Sound Effect Title: Gun Fire
By GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html
Sound Effect Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)
By Carmelomike
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/
Sound Effect Title: Various Handcuff Sounds
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/jtnewlin13/sounds/349864/
Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a panel from Whiz Comics Number 2 (February 1940), public domain, artist unknown.
Will Falk survive a team-up attack by The Antidisestablishmentarianist and a budding vigilante who hasn’t settled on a hero name yet? Was Stichomythia an ancient Greek hero? Listen to find out!
Eye Captain and the Wannabes of Tomorrow, episode 63 of This Gun in My Hand, was established by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What’s my special power or ability? Defusing tense situations between wannabe crime-fighters. And also This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. I missed the word “chrysanthemum” in the first round of the seventh grade spelling bee. The next speller got the word “column.” What a crock.
2. Alan previously appeared in episodes 24, 59 and 61. He played one of the four guys singing around a burning barrel in episode 44.
Credits:The opening and middle transitional music clips are from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the public domain cover of Dime Mystery Magazine, Volume 35, Number 3 (October 1947). Artist unknown.
Can Falk bite his tongue long enough to record a radio commercial? Was it a bad idea to get an agent? Is Stichomythia an ancient Greek hero? Listen to find out!Can We Talk?, episode 62 of This Gun in My Hand, was garbled by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What keeps this harmonica in my hand safe from those who would take it? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. Gary Mackinder, theatrical agent to Parabellum City’s finest crime-fighters, appeared in episodes 11 and 26, and was name-dropped in episodes 37 and 50.
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The US Marines landed at Foochow on the China coast in 1934.
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The bit about drinking a complimentary glass of milk before trying to sing & perform is autobiographical. Except I was playing guitar and possibly singing back-up for my cousin Audrey at a coffee shop. Water is your best bet.
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When they talked about “transcribed” radio shows in the 1930s, they meant recorded, not “transcribed” in the linguistic sense of a written version of some spoken event.
Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips are from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music is from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: Radio tuning-static-interference
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/quantumriver/sounds/552160/
Sound Effect Title: Punch.wav
By ztrees1
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/ztrees1/sounds/134934/
Sound Effect Title: Punch 1
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/peridactyloptrix/sounds/209765/
Sound effect title: Hitting in a Face
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/florianreichelt/sounds/460509/
Sound effect title: Punch in the face
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Huminaatio/sounds/390462/
Sound Effect Title: Cow moos
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/JosephSardin/sounds/177253/
Sound effect title: bustle in the pub
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/organicmanpl/sounds/403285/
Sound Effect Title: Flat Button Clicks
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Phil25/sounds/202909/
The image accompanying this episode is a photo of voice actors and live sound effects creators of the radio show Gang Busters recording in New York, circa 1930s. I changed the CBS sign on top of the microphone to WPBC and cropped the edges.
A fifth child has gone missing. Will Falk track them down before it’s too late, or discover the whole thing was a hoax? What percentage of Albanians speak Portuguese? Listen to find out!The Boy Who Cried What’s That Thing in Ya Hand, episode 61 of This Gun in My Hand, was made up by your imaginary friend Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How are you going to escape from this situation, my little hog-tied pork chop? With This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. Alan first appeared in Episode 24 at Gristle Park, and on the bus in Episode 59.
- The abandoned grade school has been the setting for episodes 1, 3, 22 and 38.
Credits:
The opening and fake commercial music clips are from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music is from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Another brief segment of music accompanying narration is from the public domain film The Scar (1948, aka Hollow Triumph). All are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of public domain comic book Crime Must Pay the Penalty No. 9 (August 1949), art possibly by King Ward.
Seventeen citizens lie in the grass, their minds devastated – caught in the psychic crossfire between a boisterous trencherman and a woman who dominates with a whisper. Will Falk Zildjian be permanently hushed? Listen to find out!
Hush, Sweet Zildjian, episode 60 of This Gun in My Hand, was mucked and chewed and whispered windily by Rob Northrup. Featuring Ernesto as the purring of Pyewacket. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What added such flavor to the savory meal before me? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. Pyewacket was the feline familiar of the witch played by Kim Novak in the 1958 film Bell, Book and Candle.
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“Doberman & Collie” is a buddy cop radio show featured in a fake ad in Episode 17. Parabellum City’s hardest detectives were eventually assigned new partners, now appearing on “Collie & Pit.” Not sure if Doberman left after season two due to a contract dispute or because Hollywood beckoned, but the show seems to be picking up steam after his replacement by young Philip Michael Bullworth as Rico Pit. (In real life, I recently walked past the yard that inspired Doberman & Collie and this time I was barked at by a Collie and a Pit Bull. Whatever happened to the real Doberman, we wish him well.)
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Did you catch all the minced oaths in the commercial? “Zounds,” a contraction of God’s wounds. “Gosh,” a variant on God. “Egad,” another variant on God. “Strewth,” a contraction of God’s truth. “Judas Priest,” a soundalike phrase to avoid saying Jesus Christ. “Dickens,” a substitute for The Devil. “Dagnabbit” = God damn it. “By Jim,” to avoid saying By God. “Consarn,” authentic frontier gibberish that sounds like God damn. “Darnit” = damn it.
Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips are from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music is from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: Park ambience - mostly birds
License: public domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mafon2/sounds/274175/#
Sound Effect Title: Rain - shower
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Alayan/sounds/396335/
Sound Effect Title: Cat meow
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/TRNGLE/sounds/362652/
Sound Effect Title: Car_motor_Sound.m4a
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Blizzard123/sounds/504633/#
Sound Effect Title: Electric razor
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/dylanperitz/sounds/452367/
Sound Effect Title: Electric razor 8 - travel razor
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/giddster/sounds/434991/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Detective Novel Magazine, Vol. XIX, No. 3 (July 1947), public domain, artist unknown.
A man in black with a skull on his chest & a blazing tommy gun. His enemy, capable of forcing police & soldiers to do his bidding. Another guy who makes wisecracks from the future. Can Falk end their bloody feud? Listen to find out!
Publisher War Zone, episode 59 of This Gun in My Hand, was punished by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What am I gonna use to pry open that gate you’re guarding? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. Horn & Hardarts was a chain of coin-operated self-serve restaurants popular in the middle of the Twentieth Century, also known as automats. Watch That Touch of Mink (1962) starring Doris Day for an overview.
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The Black Terror is a public domain comic book character, last seen in Episode 11, “Curse of The Bubbe.”
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If The Publisher’s military service began in 1920, he might have deployed to Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua and a handful of times in China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations#1920%E2%80%931929 -
Gary Mackinder, agent to the biggest anti-heroes in Parabellum City, appeared in Episodes 11 and 26 of This Gun in My Hand.
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Cloning fax machines are discussed in Episode 31, “Take A Powder.” But start with Episode 27, “Hardly Boiled.” It’s a five part mini-series.
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Do not follow the advice presented by any of these characters thinking it’ll help you get published. How to humor rich people is a bigger mystery than anything these wannabe gumshoes have solved in 59 episodes. Hell, if I knew how to get published, would I be trying to sell my short story collection or other books with an unrelated podcast?
Credits:
The opening music clip is from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music is from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Music during “Pizzicato” commercial: Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.4, F Minor, Op.36 - III. Scherzo Pizzicato
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Performed by European Archives, via Wikimedia Commons
License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/75-symphony-no-4-in-f-minor-op-36/#
Sound Effect Title: chugging diesel (bus) and rev.MP3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/CraftyIndividual/sounds/418436/
Sound Effect Title: diesel truck jake brake and air brake.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/nuncaconoci/sounds/555266/
Sound Effect Title: bus coach ext pull up brake air release idle.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/kyles/sounds/454420/
Sound Effect Title: Bus Closing Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/am7/sounds/520753/
Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/
Sound Effect Title: Machine gun.wav
By CGEffex
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/CGEffex/sounds/101962/
Sound Effect Title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
Recorded by Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of page 11 of the public domain comic book Crime and Punishment, Number 65 (January 1954), art by George Tuska. It also includes a modified detail from the public domain cover of America’s Best Comics, Number 24 (December 1947), art by Alex Schomburg.
How do you solve a problem like exchanging witty banter with a villain when his little girl Maria tags along? Has Falk Zildjian met his match in The Dizzy Bowler? Listen to find out!
Dew Drop Innuendo, episode 58 of This Gun in My Hand, was implied by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What happens when a mommy and daddy reallllly love each other? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. A “defenestrator” is someone who kills by throwing people out of windows.
2. Phonebooks were directories published annually or less frequently and distributed to all residents, in which a person could look up the names, telephone numbers and usually addresses of every person or business in a city or region. To remain private, customers actually had to pay the phone company extra to NOT list their personal information. In most cities, phone books were hundreds of pages long and two to three inches thick. It became a cliché for men to demonstrate their strength by tearing a phonebook in half. Yes, Falk Zildjian sometimes uses clichés.
Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Music playing during the “Growing Innovation in Radio Drama” narration was from the public domain film The Scar (aka Hollow Triumph, 1948).
Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/
Sound Effect Title:Body fall_02.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Adam_N/sounds/346694/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail from page 34 of the public domain comic book Sweetie Pie, Volume 1, Number 2 (May 1956). Art probably by Nadine Seltzer.
In a hidden temple, chanting cultists debate whether to serve pincers hot or cold, which candles to use for their bloody rituals, & how to maximize suffering over the next quarter. Can Falk infiltrate their ranks & work his subtle methods to bring them down? Listen to find out!
Cultivating Leverage, episode 57 of This Gun in My Hand, was pinched by Red-Hot Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my merchandise! That’s right, you can now buy hats, shirts and tote bags to show your devotion to This Gun in My Hand. Just order a paper copy of one of the books available on my website, unfold it over your head – you’ve got a hat. Or tear out the pages and sew them into a stylish t-shirt, cape dress or tote bag. Or if you like NON FUNGIBLE TOKENS, I have something right up your alley but way better. No coal mines will have to be exhausted to fuel computers to maintain the blockchain for this unique digital item – but you will have a valuable, one-of-a-kind digital item. No one else has it. It’s an ebook called Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities by Robert Thomas Northrup. Buy one now and you’ll be the first and only person to have a copy. You can tell everyone you have the only copy in the world. What could be more unique than that? This Gun in My Hand!*
- That’s a damned lie.
Show Notes:1. I first heard the chant “Owa tagu siam” from wacky morning deejays on CKLW 800 AM radio, probably 45 years ago. Say one word of it at a time and ask someone to repeat the phrase after you as you until they get the hang of it. Then tell them to say it faster and faster until they realize they’re saying, “Oh what a goose I am.”
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Let’s assume Brother Zogall was lying about closing a deal with Papa Jim’s Botanica, which is a real shop in San Antonio. They’ve sold voodoo and occult supplies, religious statues, etc. by catalog for decades and later on the web. (Remember, kids: The audio and text of This Gun in My Hand are works of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.)
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The National Rifle Association began hunter education courses in 1949. Clearly the NRMA is a totally different organization in a different world and different timeline than ours, dear listener, because This Gun in My Hand is set circa 1939.
Credits:The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound effect title: bustle in the pub
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/organicmanpl/sounds/403285/
Sound effect title: Guests-at-party.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mickael_Leroi/sounds/402131/
Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/
Sound effect title: Gun Fire
By GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html
Sound Effect Title: "Destruction, Wooden, A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Sound Effect Title: explosion_big_03.ogg
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/derplayer/sounds/587198/
Sound Effect Title: Rockfall in mine
By Benboncan
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/60085/
Sound Effect Title: Bricks/Stones/Rocks/Gravel Falling
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/iwanPlays/sounds/567249/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the front cover of Mystery Tales, Volume 3, Number 4 (March 1940), art by John Walter Scott. Public Domain.
The gun lobby hires Emerald Ash Borer to solve their image problem. How many people will get shot as he brainstorms ways to reduce gun violence? (Spoilers: it's not zero.)
Please Kill Responsibly, episode 56 of This Gun in My Hand, was knocked off a shelf by a cat, who was set loose from a cage by a piece of twine tied to a broom handle, which was pulled by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What sets in motion a cascading series of events, leading to the desired outcome? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. Faro was the most popular gambling card game in the Eighteenth Century United States. For a good time, read Sucker's Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in America by Herbert Asbury, or any of his other books.
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“Ballistic blankets” are real and have really been offered as a solution for school massacres in the year of our lord 2022. Who needs to write satire when reality is as sick as ours? After the May 24, 2022 murder of nineteen children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, a former FBI agent on the teevee suggested hanging bulletproof or bullet-resistant blankets on walls of schools, which could be used to block windows.
https://www.newsweek.com/ballistic-blankets-children-shot-maureen-oconnell-fox-news-school-uvalde-texas-1709955 -
In the edited-for-television version of Repo Man (1984), much of the cursing dialogue was overdubbed with phrases like “Flip you, melon farmer.”
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Rube Goldberg graduated from UC-Berkeley in 1904 with a degree in Engineering. He passed away in 1970.
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The tasteless opinions of these characters do not necessarily reflect the opinions of their creator, Robert Thomas Northrup.
Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: Mount Moganshan Insect Chorus
By: RTB45
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/RTB45/sounds/325321/
Music Title: Flight of the Carpenter Bee
By Steven Arntson
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://archive.org/details/Bildungsroman-7512
Sound Effect Title: Car_motor_Sound.m4a
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Blizzard123/sounds/504633/#
Sound Effect Title: Old FM radio tuning by sielxm3d.mp3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/deleted_user_3667256/sounds/319846/
Music and voice clips from the following public domain works: The Phantom Empire, Chapter Two (1935). The Shadow radio show (1940), Bold Venture radio show (1951), Lux Radio Theater ("Sing, You Sinners," 1940), Crestablanca radio commercial.
Sound Effect Title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
Recorded by Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html
Sound Effect Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)
By Carmelomike
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/
Sound effect title: Gun Fire
Recorded by GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html
Sound Effect Title: Toy Gun 7
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/giddster/sounds/434720/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail from the cover of the public domain comic book Guns Against Gangsters, Vol. 1, No. 1 (September-October 1948). Art by L.B. Cole.
Can Falk Zildjian end the stand-off on Verf Street, or will someone else have to clean up the situation? Can Falk create life with his words? What is an auto-gyro? Listen to find out!
This Frog in My Hand, episode 55 of This Gun in My Hand, was riveted by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Where am I gonna get money for new shoes for Frank Junior? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. Hey, man, I noticed cop shows in the 1970s and 1980s have people saying “hey” way more often than you’d expect, almost a throw-away word, the way we use “like” when we’re not setting up a simile. Neal and JD on Hill Street Blues are the most prolific “hey-men,” sometimes having whole conversations where every sentence begins with “Hey.” Also heard it overused on Miami Vice and by Det. Harris on Barney Miller.
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A batrachian is an amphibian of the order Anura.
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Modern Mechanix changed its title to Mechanix Illustrated after the May 1938 issue and lowered their price. That’s why the July 1935 cover image accompanying this episode has a fifteen cent cover price, but it actually dropped to a dime an issue by 1939. Of course I looked it up. Do you think I’m playing here?
Credits:The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
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Verf Street Blues theme music: Requiem in D minor, K. 626 - III. Sequence - Lacrymosa (For Piano - Liszt)
Performed by Markus Staab
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The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Modern Mechanix, July 1935, Vol. XIV, No. 3, public domain, artist unknown.
What dangers will Falk face when he rockets into Captain Rogers’ Neighborhood? Will they rescue the Tiger Men in time? Has the Moon Patrol lost its way? What’s a cloaca? Listen to find out!Look Out, Moon Featuring Captain Rogers, episode 54 of This Gun in My Hand, escaped Earth’s gravity thanks to the piloting of Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Dungeons and Dayjobs, or Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What do I use to violate the Crime Directive? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. I stole the “Moon Patrol” gag from Melinda.
2. Red Sorghum (1987) is a great movie. How can you go wrong with Gong Li directed by Zhang Yimou?
3. Never put butter on a burn. Rinse it with cool water.
4. The Starship Kittykat would have to travel more than twice the speed of light to reach the stranded Tiger Men beyond Neptune in less than two hours. It’s not capable of that speed so couldn’t have reached them in time anyway.
5. “Owning a handgun is associated with a dramatically elevated risk of suicide, according to new [2020] Stanford research that followed 26 million California residents over a 12-year period.” https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/06/handgun-ownership-associated-with-much-higher-suicide-risk.html
Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
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The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of the public domain comic book Tom Corbett Space Cadet No. 5 (Feb-Apr 1953), art by Alden McWilliams.
Can Falk Zildjian stop the Mole Men from invading the surface world? Or are they Mushroom People or Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Fellers? Listen to find out!Struggle Session, episode 53 of This Gun in My Hand, was self-criticized by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What stops a subterranean mutant ululating ruckus farmer? This Gun in My Hand!Show Notes:1. You can tell Parabellum City isn’t supposed to be New York because residents say “standing in line” instead of “on line.” 2. “People’s Drive” was mentioned by the radio dispatcher during the opening credits of Hill Street Blues. 3. Hey, cut the pipefitter jokes! My dad was a pipefitter and steamfitter. People don’t seem to know the difference between plumbing and pipefitting. I know there is one, but I couldn’t articulate it.Credits:The opening and middle transitional music clips were from the public domain film The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950). Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.Sound Effect Title: Punch.wavBy ztrees1License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0https://freesound.org/people/ztrees1/sounds/134934/Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wavLicense: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/Sound Effect Title: chugging diesel (bus) and rev.MP3License: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/people/CraftyIndividual/sounds/418436/Sound Effect Title: bus coach ext pull up brake air release idle.wavLicense: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/people/kyles/sounds/454420/Sound Effect Title: Bus Closing DoorLicense: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/people/am7/sounds/520753/Sound Effect Title: House Front Door Inside 3.wavLicense: Public domainhttps://freesound.org/people/saturdaysoundguy/sounds/388027/#Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wavLicense: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail from an ad in the public domain Crown Comics No. 14 (August 1948), artist unknown.
Listen to The First Kato, a short biography of Raymond Tokutaro Muramoto, the voice actor who originated the part of Kato on The Green Hornet. Available on Dungeons and Dayjobs podcast, where you can also find credits, references, a poorly formatted bibliography, and a full transcript.
IS THIS THE END OF FALK ZILDJIAN? No, some other schlemiel you never heard of catches a bullet. Wait, why am I killing suspense in the teaser text? Maybe Falk does die! Listen to find out!
Goodbye, Honey, episode 52 of This Gun in My Hand, the final episode of Season Four, was shot down and resurrected by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How can I possibly say goodbye? With This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. I stole the name "Soupmeat" from the movie Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964).
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The Automat was a cross between a restaurant and a vending machine. Fresh, hot food of all kinds were prepared and set in little windows that could be opened by customers inserting coins. You can catch scenes of them in movies up to the 1960s like That Touch of Mink (1962). Most of them closed by the Seventies.
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There’s at least one episode of the Green Hornet radio show where bad guys toss bombs into produce stores, trying to intimidate them into paying protection money. That kills me. Weren’t there any richer targets in town? Did fruit sellers make a lot more money in the Thirties?
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Cheesy Cauliflower and Mushroom Gougère is one of the five recipes in my short story collection, Dungeons and Dayjobs, available in print or ebook from Lulu dot com.
Credits:The opening music clip and the one just before the Farmer Jacques commercial were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Music title (as Ted leaves home): Peer Gynt Suite no. 1, Op. 46 - II. Aase's Death
Composed by Edvard Grieg
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The image accompanying this episode is a modified panel from page 3 of the public domain comic book Bride's Secrets No. 17 (October 1957), artist unknown.
What will Flinch Zipjam discover when he’s thrust into another dimension? How much doppel could a doppelganger gang if a doppelganger could gang doppel? Listen to find out!
Flinch Zipjam in the Negative Space, episode 51 of This Gun in My Hand, was dragged out of the hole in his head by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. “Why can’t you just get a peephole like everybody else?” Because of This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. Another episode inspired by Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast. Guest Richard Benjamin said that on the set of Westworld (1973), Yul Brynner taught him how to fire a revolver without flinching. I imagined a cowboy or gunman named Flinch Hipshot. Then realized it could be a bizarro version of Falk, a gunman who always misses.
- “Six-Spotted Tiger Beetle” was the superhero name that Ritt Breed suggested for Castro way back in Episode 9, “Invasion of the Emerald Ash Borer.”
Credits:The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
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Music title (in the fake commercial): Ishikawa Ambience
By ROZKOL
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Sound of the Trans-Portal from music titled: In the Pursuit of More Money and Better Drugs
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The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Clues Detective Stories, Vol. 35, No. 6 (May 1936), art by Norman Saunders. Public domain.
I’m not going to include every subject discussed in This Gun in My Hand, but I thought it would be helpful or interesting to make a list of the targets of parody in some episodes. Below you’ll find a subject index, character appearance index (episodes in which these characters spoke), character mentioned index (episodes in which these characters were spoken of by others), and ad index. I’m leaving some topics out of the subject index because they’re in almost every episode -- things like radio drama tropes, vigilanteism and the gun lobby. Episode numbers are listed after each entry in the index. Last updated Feb. 7, 2022, up to and including episode 50.
Subject Index / Target of ParodyEpisode number zero represents The Liability of Keiko, the unofficial pilot episode of This Gun in My Hand. Abbott and Costello - 21Ad from comic book - 22Airships - 36Antifa - 6Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips - 38Asexuality / Ace - 5, 20Batman and Robin - 47Bitcoin - 35Black Lives Matter movement (Conservative reaction to) - 6Buck Rogers - 45Burlesque - 21Cannabis - 28Capitalists - 32, 33, 45Carter, Nick - 25, 29Chekov’s Gun - 8, 21Children’s tv shows - 45Chinatown (film, 1974) - 28, 29Christmas - 44Conan the Barbarian - 14Comic book crossover events - 37, 41Continental Detective Agency - 28Cranston, Lamont - 12Critical Race Theory - 6Cryptocurrency - 35Defenders of the Earth - 13“Defense” Industry - see Military Industrial ComplexDestroyer, The (comic book character) - 18Doc Savage (mentioned) - 19, 25Dracula - 40Drunk dialing - 41Fashion - 48Fast and The Furious, The - 34Freemasons - 27Gates, Bill - 20Geico commercials - 16, 18, 19, 21Gender, Non-Binary / Enby - 5, 26Gentrification, Racist - 47G.I. Joe - 15, 37Green Hornet, The / Britt Reid - 0, 8, 9, 10, 12, 17, 20, 24, 26, 41, 49Halloween - 40Hard-boiled detective genre - 27, 28, 29Health insurance - 23Heartbreak Ridge (1986 film) - 18Hell - 20House of Wax (1953 film) - 42Human Resources - 23Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors (cartoon and toys) - 15Kato - 0, 9, 10, 12, 17, 20, 24, 26, 33, 39, 41Keillor, Garrison - 23Kilmister, Lemmy - 8Klondike Bar commercial - 23Lane, Margo - 12Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - 48Lindell, Mike - 11Little Rascals/Our Gang - 8 Lizard, The (comic book villain) - 19Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (novel by Douglas Adams) - 17Marxism - 45Mass shootings - 16Massengill douche commercial - 3Menstruation - 22Microfilm - 14, 36Military - 15, 18, 37, 40Military Industrial Complex - 2, 36Militia movement - 6Muncie College of Business Administration - 17Muskingum College - 22My Little Pony - 15News media in the tank for cops - 16Non-Fungible Tokens - 41“Officer-involved shootings” - 16Olsen, Jimmy (comic book character) - 8Orientalist Origins - 8, 38Patriot movement - see Militia MovementPhantom, The - 13Pharmaceutical commercials - 14Pharmaceutical profiteering - 13, 20, 21, 23Police - 7, 17, 20, 39, 48Prairie Home Companion, A (radio show) - 23Public radio commercials - 16, 18, 19 Pulps - 38Rackets - Counterfeit Collectible Lunchbox - 24 - Income Tax Poison Embezzlement - 10 - Murder Ring - 10 - Payday Lending - 12 - Pinball Gambling - 9 - Protection - 6 - Skee-ball - 1, 2 - Vanity Publishing - 17Rand, Ayn - 15, 45, 48Rage Against the Machine, “Bulls on Parade” - 4Recruiting, Military - 40Rom the Space Knight - 27Santa Claus - 44Sesame Street - 45Shadow, The - 12Ska - 38Sword & Sorcery genre - 14Thongor (sword & sorcery character by Lin Carter) - 14Three Stooges - 21Time travel - 50Transformers - 15Trivia contests - 49Vaudeville - 21X-Men - 38Xavier, Prof. Charles - 38Žižek, Slavoj - 10 Character Appearance IndexThese characters appeared (delivered lines) in the episode numbers listed after their names.Abolysche, Sgt. Lester - 3, 7, 17, 26Alan (fanboy) - 24“Alley Katherine” - 49Arbogast - 28Backdoor Pilot, The - 40Bag Bird (Sesame Highway) - 45Batrachian, Prof. - 17, 18, 19Bayarmaa (Red Herring Patrol) - 50Beltran, Cal / The Land Lord (aka Baron Lessor) - 33Benton, Bob / The Black Terror - 11Bernard, Gil - 1, 26Big Oat Tree - 13Billy (Narrator Jr.) - 1, 2, 4, 5, 13Breed, Ritt / The Emerald Ash Borer - 9, 10, 12, 17, 20, 24, 26, 41Cali-Ban (G.I. Jake) - 37Canyon, Rayce - 15Captain Capitalism - 13Carper, Nick - 25Carchetti, Tim - 6Castro (valet) - 9, 10, 12, 17, 20, 24, 26, 33, 39, 41Castro (COBRA high command) - 15Chalmers, Lucy - 12Chilton, Armand - 16Chost, Belvita - 27Coen, Herb (inventor of twinning tech) - 30Collie, Det. Gander “Sonnyboy” - 17Connie (Concepcion, Mac Med protagonist) - 43Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) - 15Constant, Carmela - 20Cranford, Lamont / The Shade - 12, 26Crank (G.I. Jake leader) - 15, 37Crypt O’ Knight (formerly The Black Marketeer) - 35, 36Dana the Explaina - 45Debo, Capt. Hassan Pfeffer - 36Denise - 3, 4, 13, 36 Dennedy, Ked - 29, 30DeSoto, Hilario / The Destroyer (comics) - 18Desty, Caroline “Ma” - 24Doberman, Det. James Backus - 17Doctor Intellectual Property Master - 13, 26, 39Faskist, Jim - 11, 26Fellopian, Rom - 27Fernwood, Hap - 16Freefire Zone (G.I. Jake) - 37Froggy - 8 (name not mentioned in episode), 21Gaffer (Red Herring Patrol) - 50Gelbart, Demorge / The Roboteer - 24Ghost Pepper, The - 39Green Prepper, The - 24G.I. Jake (team) - 15, 37Goodman, Ofc. - 7, 33Green, Jonathan - 16Grigson, Sheila - 27Guns and Butter (G.I. Jake) - 37Hierarchy, Herr - 13Highwayman, The - 32Horowitz, Avram James “AJ” - 6InforMatron, The (Jenny?) - 49Jolson, Lemmy - 8, 26Josie (Brazen Hearts, Fresh, On Sticks) - 50Joyce-Lynn - 17Junior (Regina’s Lt.) - 9Kaylee - 6, 26Kampmann, Jerry (Thiel Team Thicks) - 15Kennedy, Zep - 27Kermit the Spy (Sesame Highway) - 45Lanford, Cramont (formerly The Shade-caster) - 26Lavinia (good clone of Emma Legrand) - 29, 30, 31Legrand, Carmine - 28, 30, 31Legrand, Emma clones (evil) - 27, 29, 30Legrand, Emma clone (ambivalent, aka Emma Number Five) - 30 Little Orphan Ayn - 45MacGuffin, Mike Rowe “Film” - 35MacGuffin, John Shamus (aka Matthias Klemperer?) - 50Mackinder, Gary - 11, 26Macumbi, Laure (Red Herring Patrol) - 50Mane, Largo - 12Marsupial (Sesame Highway) - 45Mathai, Sam (retired villain/hero Time Master, aka Gruncle Sam) - 39Mathory, Countess Elizabeth (Sesame Highway) - 45McChuff (C.H.U.F.) - 48Melba - 3, 4, 36Meritnotcracy/Merithawkracy - 13Mina (Harker) - 40Montauk, Hal Regis / The Human Resource - 19, 23Morressier, Latthew / The Cherry Pachyderm - 24, 25, 26, 44Narrator, Garrison - 23Nickerson, Kip - 16O’Davenport, Det. (pseudonym for Wertham Underground member) - 42O’Murphy, Ofc - 48Olson, Mackenzie / Ka-Ren - 15Olson, Vickie / En Garde - 22Otila - 46Patriarchy, Miss - 13Paul (Phantasm’s associate) - 13Pendergast, Roscoe - 16Perimeter Tactical Crew (P.T. Crew) - 6Perry and the Tyrants - 45Pepper Pals (Fatima and Violeta) - 39Phantasm, The - 13Phelps, Steven - 16Pound of Flesh (G.I. Jake) - 37Prompter, The (Vaudevillain’s crew) - 21Querida - 33Quincy (Van Helping’s asst) - 40 Racism, Colonel - 13Rayce and the Keeled Couriers - 15Red Herring Patrol - 50Regina the Queenpin of Crime - see Wojciehowicz, PetraRoan Ranger, The - 43Roberta (Mat Ban’s sidekick) - 47Rodriguez, Carlos “Chuck” - 6Rogers (Capt. Rogers’ Neighborhood) - 45Rosen, Lloyd - 1, 26Salvatore (Roan Ranger’s horse) - 43Santopolis, Jill - 16Satanic Claws (aka Jingle Baalzebub) - 44S’creature (later Wild One, The) - 38Scabrous, Harlan - 15Screecher, The - 38Shade, The - see Cranford, LamontShuwatch, Francesca (Fran) / Fran’s Stormers - 15Smythe, Wing Commander Terence (Red Herring Patrol) - 50Spoljar, Edmund - The Offguard - 22Strategic Hamlet (G.I. Jake) - 37Strikeforce Shakespeare (G.I. Jake) - 37Tadodaho (Red Herring Patrol) - 50Thewgosh - 14Thiel Team Thicks - 15Tiger Men of Mars - 45Tomlinson, Berta (formerly Bert) - 27Tonson, Oliver J. (Acting Director of ICE) - 15Tourniquetto, D’ombudsman (aka D’om, Buddy) - 34Tronno / George MacDonald - 43Trufflo, Madame Vincenza (alias Anya Carnova) - 42Van Helping, Prof. Abraham - 40Vastopol, Nuryemik / The Heist Row Maestro - 47Vaudevillain, The - 21Vermin, Kelp - 27, 30Viscount, The (Sesame Highway) - 45Vulpe, Sergiu (aka Staff Sgt. Biff Whitebread. Vulpe may also be a fake name.) - 40Wallerstein - 27, 30 Westlaw, Peetie - 8, 21Wilma - 45Winifred - 8 (name not mentioned in episode), 21Wojciehowicz, Petra / Regina - 5, 17, 26, 41, 46World Crime Syndicate - 13Xenophobe, The - 13Zapata, Roberto / Wordsmith (aka Shoe Shine Man, Word on the Street Smith, Word Smith on the Street) - 2, 17, 19, 20, 24, 37, 41, 49Zonina - 15 (name not mentioned in episode), 48Character Mentioned IndexYeah, I got carried away. The characters or groups below were mentioned in the episode numbers listed beside their names, but did not have any lines.Abolysche, Sgt. Lester - 24Apple Cider Vinegar Consortium - 15, 47, 48, 49Armstrong, Jack (the All-American Boy) - 25Aunt Sadie (Brazen Hearts, Fresh, On Sticks) - 50Badcopowitz, Det. - 7, 17, 26, 42Bates, Gil - 20, 41Big Oat Tree, The - 15Benton, Bob / The Black Terror - 24, 26, 37, 41Breed, Ritt / The Emerald Ash Borer - 8, 11, 13, 15, 24, 33, 37, 39, 47, 49, 50Bronski, Cristobal / Skee-Ball - 41Bunker Homes and Gardens (magazine) - 29, 32, 38, 42, 44Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Fellers - 24, 26, 44, 48, 49Captain Capitalism - 47Captain Freedom - 24Carper, Nick - 29, 37Castro (valet) - 11, 13, 31, 42, 47Constant, Carmela - 26Cranford, Lamont / The Shade - 8, 9, 11, 26, 41, 49Crypt O’Knight - 50Daddy Warbread - 45Dane, Mark - 13Defenders of the Hearth - 13, 26, 37, 41Dennedy, Ked - 28Destroyer, The - 11, 22, 24, 26Desty, Caroline “Ma” - 48Deviloper, The - 33Doberman and Collie (radio show) - 50Doc Savage - 19, 25Doc Salvage - 19, 20, 23, 31, 32, 33, 35Esty, Heathcliffe “Mod” - 24Ethnic fraud - 38Farlowe, Bim - 9, 24Fashion Police - 10, 38, 49 Flaming Carrot - 25Flannery, Gert (gangster) - 27Fleming, Garth - 27Freeman (first name not given) - 7Funman (company) - 28GentrifierStarter, The (or GentriFirestarter) - 33, 47Grigson, Sheila - 30Godfrey, Arthur - 26Golombek, Unteroffizier - 50Gorman, Slash - 13Grappelli, Alderman - 9, 23, 24Holy Sisters of the Bleeding Shelter - 33Homeplate Horrorshow - 39Human Resource, The - see Montauk, HalInternational Brotherhood of Electrical Villains - 3, 22, 47, 48, 49Iwerks, Ub - 25Javier’s Academy for Gifted Orators and Feral Fighters (JAGOFFs, ex-J-Men, XJ-Men) - 38, 44Jolson, Lemmy - 9, 22, 24, 44Juvenile Delinquent, The - 39Leesdale, Garson - 42Legion of Villains, Vinegar and Underghouls (LOVVU) - 49Legrand, Carmine - 27Legrand, Millicent - 28Lollipop Mutiny / Mutiny on the Lollipop - 13, 50Lothario - 13Lugoshi, Bela - 40Ma’am E - 8, 17MacGuffin, Mike Rowe “Film” - 50Mackinder, Gary - 37, 50Madonn’ - 17, 38, 43Mane, Largo - 26Ma Roan - 17, 43Mat Ban - 8, 11, 19, 24, 33, 37, 38, 39, 47Mazzuchelli, Zachary Horace (aka “Prof.” Javier Proud Feather, Prof. J) - 38Meritnotcracy/Merithawkracy - 47Montauk, Hal Regis / The Human Resource - 20, 50Moorehead, Agnes - 29Morressier, Latthew / The Cherry Pachyderm - 50Murderalizer, The - 7, 24My Little Zony: Friendship is Witchcraft - 15Octopus, The - 38Paul (associate of The Phantasm) - 50Pfaltzgraff, Leutnant - 50Phantasm, The - 11, 17, 26, 37, 49, 50Phantom Headlights - 39PT Crew (Perimeter Tactical Crew) - 26Racism, Colonel - 15Rayce and the Keeled Couriers - 39Restless Yeggs - 49Review of Radical Political Economics - 44Roan Ranger, The - 50Roberta (Mat Ban’s sidekick) - 19, 38, 39Rosen, Lloyd - 41Screecher, The - 49Secret Wars on Critical Hearths - 37, 41Shade, The - see Cranford, LamontShadow, The - 25Simmons, (Delegate) - 9, 23Soft Shoulder and Jailbait - 39Stoker, Bram - 40Taylor, Owen (chauffeur from The Big Sleep) - 27Thewgosh - 17, 46Tief, Moses Eugene “Injury to the Eye Moe” - 39Tiger Ma’am - 45Uber Mensch, The - 33Vaudevillain, The - 49Wertham, Dr. Fredric - 39Wertham Underground, The - 39, 42Wojciehowicz, Petra / Regina - 9, 10, 24Worseheimer (police detective?) - 17World Crime Syndicate - 14, 26, 37, 41, 47Zapata, Roberto / Wordsmith (aka Shoe Shine Man, Word on the Street Smith, Word Smith on the Street) - 17, 20, 26, 39, 40, 41Zeppelins vs. Pterodactyls - 50Ad IndexThe products, services or public service announcement topics below were advertised in the episode numbers listed after their names.Angina Theater - 15ASWIPE (Airship Society for Work, Industry, Progress and Education) - 36, 50Blighco - 16, 18, 19, 21Candelabra, The (candle shop) - 42Choplivria - 14Cloned Ike B.A.R. - 23D.O.T. Precision Auto - 34Ditcoin - 35Doberman and Collie (fake police show) - 17Emerald Ash Borer, The - 12, 24Forbidden Technologies (twinning and memory recording devices) - 30Four Guys Singing Around A Burning Barrel - 44God Chat with God and Tony (promo for a real podcast!) - 49Go-Gos, The (radio show, aka Strikeforce Copper Lightning) - 10InforMatron, The - 49Katz Blue Ribbon Beer (old recording of commercial from Eddie Cantor’s Pabst Blue Ribbon Show) - 41Kevin Trudeo's book, Detonators, Timers and Explosives Made From Everyday Household Items "They" Don't Want You To Know About - 39Life Brand Trigger Locks - 25Lundt’s Toilet Soap (includes excerpt of old Lux ad) - 27Mac Med (radio drama) - 43 MyWakizashi - 11National Rifle Manufacturers Association - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 20, 23, 26, 32Old Time Radio Wrestling Federation - 15Postum (old recording) - 31Power - 37Red Herring Patrol (radio show) - 50Religious Wall Mottoes (ad text from September 1953 comic book Weird Terror number 7) - 22Sal Hepatica (old recording) - 9Sesame Highway - 45Sportsmans stores (old recording with new section added) - 33Spring Fashions (US Hotrod Truck Pull Nationals) - 48Viking Chicks / Rochester Breeding Farms Hatchery - 46
How many times have you found yourself tied to a chair on the bridge of a zeppelin, listening to some clown spout off about his radio show, while he lets a spy escape with the secret plans? Listen to find out!
The Shady Aviator, episode 50 of This Gun in My Hand, was launched and flown into the ground by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Who’s the featured protagonist in this episode? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. The “literal spin-off” referred to in the opening line of this episode was a bullet, spinning because of the rifling (spiral grooves) inside the barrel of Falk’s H&K VP70z pistol. I’m not planning to launch a new podcast any time soon.
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Arch Oboler was a radio writer, most famous today for his “Chicken Heart” episode of Lights Out. Depending who you believe, George Trendle and/or Fran Striker created The Lone Ranger. Tokutaro Hayashi (aka Raymond Toyo) was the first actor to voice Kato on the Green Hornet radio show.
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Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities is available on PDF for $2.99 at
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"Zeppelin v. Pterodactyls" was a rough idea that died in development hell at Hammer Film Productions Ltd. Someone developed a poster for their 1970 pitch, but it never moved much further than that. https://airminded.org/2007/05/25/the-movie-that-time-forgot/
Hearing about it decades later, I created two video mashups of Zeppelin vs. Pterodactyls: a live action version cobbled together from 1930s cliffhanger serials, and a cartoon version.
https://youtu.be/f2PkY3zSuw4
https://youtu.be/nZi2cqSnjJk
There have also been fan-made comic strips, t-shirts and a live stage reading of a script based on the original treatment. -
Brazen Hearts, Fresh, On Sticks was a bloody goblin love story audio drama I put out as a podcast from Feb 2006 to June 2008. It’s still there! Go have a listen! http://brazenhearts.blogspot.com/2008/06/
Credits:The opening music clip is from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music is from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: wind.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/nelstayade/sounds/525292/
Sound Effect Title: House Front Door Inside 3.wav
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/people/saturdaysoundguy/sounds/388027/#
Sound Effect Title: R10-56-Footsteps on Metal Staircase.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/480641/
Music title (used for Red Herring Patrol commercial): Close Call
By ROZKOL
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/ROZKOL/Rust_Symptoms/ROZKOL_-_Rust_Symptoms_-_01_Close_Call
Sound effect of PCHAAW activating taken from the instrumental track titled: In the Pursuit of More Money and Better Drugs
By ROZKOL
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/ROZKOL/III_Cats_Cradle/ROZKOL_-_III_Cats_Cradle_-_02_In_the_Pursuit_of_More_Money_and_Better_Drugs
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Popular Comics No. 98 (April 1944), in public domain, pencils and inks maybe by Zack Mosley.
Will The Wordsmith survive a contest against Parabellum City’s newest purveyor of words on the street? What are all these grubby kids standing around for? What’s the difference between a cowl and a shawl collar? Listen to find out!
Newsy Duel, episode 49 of This Gun in My Hand, was printed, published and tossed in your bushes by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. In the first 48 episodes, I’ve created fake commercials or used old radio commercials. The one for God Chat in this episode is an actual promo for an actual podcast which you should listen to. How do I get the best information? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. “You just gonna talk politics and poke holes in the air with your finger?” was ripped off from the film Shane (1950).
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The formation of The Legion of Vinegar, Villains and Underghouls (LOVVU) was discussed in episode 48, “All Fashion Police Are Fabulous.”
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The InforMatron would be voiced by Nancy Kulp if I had the money and she had been available. If it were on film, maybe Margaret Dumont.
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“InforMatron” and “InformaTron” contain the same letters in the same order but with different pronunciation.
Credits:The opening and later transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Music for the InforMatron commercial was from the public domain film Hollow Triumph (1948, aka The Scar). Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound effect title: bustle in the pub
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/organicmanpl/sounds/403285/
Sound effect title: Guests-at-party.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mickael_Leroi/sounds/402131/
Sound Effect Title: House Front Door Inside 3.wav
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/people/saturdaysoundguy/sounds/388027/#
Sound Effect Title: Door Slam - No Reverb.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/adriann/sounds/440261/
Sound Effect Title: Body fall_02.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Adam_N/sounds/346694/
Sound Effect Title: polite applause with a few sniggers.mp3
By dwsolo
License: Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0
https://freesound.org/people/dwsolo/sounds/24012/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail from the public domain cover of Smash Comics, No. 83 (June 1949). Pencils and inks by Jack Cole.
How will Falk escape from the Fashion Police? What conglomerate of villains threatens the tri-state area and beyond? What is the deeper code in Little Orphan Ayn’s decoder rings? Find out!
All Fashion Police Are Fabulous, episode 48 of This Gun in My Hand, was designed and sewn by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What doesn’t make my butt look big? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. The first appearance of Zonina was in episode 15, “Gun Buyback,” though her name was not mentioned at the time. The first appearance of Caroline “Ma” Desty was in episode 24, “Consulting Defectives.”
- Lose yourself down a rabbit hole of local monster truck tv commercials:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx35Jqwe1-iHXuMGTQdkpvml0QY4WSJPK
Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
The music playing beneath the fake fashion show/hotrod truck pull nationals ad is the opening from the public domain film Death Machines (1976).
The image accompanying this episode is a modified public domain ad, Trench Coat by Hitchenbrook or Hinchinbrook (Army & Navy Stores 1918), artist unknown.
Can Falk and Roberta resist the mind-melting music of the Heist Row Maestro? Can he hear the future? Should a grown man take on an underage sidekick, regardless of gender? Find out!
Heist Row Maestro, episode 47 of This Gun in My Hand, was orchestrated by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What’ll make you sing a different tune? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. Parabellum City is not meant to represent any specific place in our real world, but one of the businesses mentioned on Verf Street is an easter egg for 80s kids who grew up within range of Detroit tv signals. “Dittrich Furs” in Detroit and Bloomfield Hills produced epic tv commercials of women wearing long fur coats while snow skiing and riding horses, with an unforgettable jingle. https://youtu.be/g3XTP2XJEwU
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Falk confronted a valkyrie, possibly in his dreams, in episode 46, “Who Do You Think You Are?”
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Personally I love “Rockin’ Robin” (public domain in the US because copyright was never renewed). Falk is just set in his ways in terms of musical preferences, and won’t appreciate it when he eventually hears rock and roll.
Credits:The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: "Door, Wooden, Close, A (H6 MS).wav"
By InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/411789/
Tiptoe sound effect: Xylophone E1
By DANMITCH3LL
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/DANMITCH3LL/sounds/232007/
Sound effect title: 175bpm_classical_running_freak.wav
By giacomelli
License: Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0
https://freesound.org/people/giacomelli/sounds/95763/
Music title: The Razing of Heaven
By Joseph Earwicker
License: “Feel free to use this or any other of my pieces of music labeled ‘royalty free’ in your own projects! Please just credit me and link back to the original video.”
https://youtu.be/HTuT45gKdp4
Music title: Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
Performed by: Frank Crumit; Frank Banta (Rob Northrup vocals over the music)
Written by: Jack Yellen; Milton Ager
License: Public Domain
https://archive.org/details/78_crazy-words-crazy-tune-vo-do-de-o_frank-crumit-frank-banta-jack-yellen-milton-a_gbia0056604b
Music Title: Pennies From Heaven
Performed by: Hal Kemp And His Orchestra with vocals by Maxine Grey
Written by: John Burke; Arthur Johnston
License: Public Domain
https://archive.org/details/78_pennies-from-heaven_hal-kemp-and-his-orchestra-maxine-grey-john-burke-arthur-johnst_gbia0151539b
Sound effect title: HARP GLISSANDO DOWN.WAV
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/olver/sounds/505064/
Music Title: DIE WALKURE-RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES Part 1
Performed by Victor Symphony Orchestra, 1939
Written by Richard Wagner
License: Public Domain
https://archive.org/details/78_die-walkure-ride-of-the-valkyries-part-1_victor-symphony-orchestra-wagner_gbia0132049a
Music Title: Rockin’ Robin
Performed by Bobby Day, 1957
Written by Jimmie Thomas (Leon René)
License: Public Domain because copyright was not renewed
Stripper music with wolf whistles from the public domain film The Big Combo (1955).
Sound Effect Title: Kicking/Forcing/Breaking Wooden Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/160213/
Sound Effect Title: Wood Break.boaay
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/BOAAY/sounds/520720/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a panel from the public domain comic book The Ghost Rider No. 12 (A-1 No. 80), May-June 1953. Pencils by Dick Ayers, Inks by Ernie Bache.
Otila: How much do you know about Norse traditions of eschatology?
Falk: I can't escape from this cat scatology and you wanna talk about horse scatology?
Who Do You Think You Are?, episode 46 of This Gun in My Hand, was flown to a heavenly beer hall by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What am I? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. According to a baby name book, “Otila” means “happy battle maid.” Which is why I gave that name to my mom’s calico cat in the 90s. When I search the web today, the closest I can find are “Otilia” or “Otilla,” so maybe I spelled it wrong all those years ago.
- Thewgosh appeared in episode 14, “Naked Save.”
Credits:The opening music was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: Gun Fire
By GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html
Sound effect title: HARP GLISSANDO DOWN.WAV
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/olver/sounds/505064/
Sound Effect Title: 60Hz_Tube_Radio_Hum.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/hetanoyokozuki/sounds/541812/
Sound Effect Title: Radio tuning-static-interference
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/quantumriver/sounds/552160/
“Viking Chicks” radio commercial from 1957, public domain.
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail from a comic book panel in Blackhawk No. 49 (February 1952), public domain. Artist unknown.
Can you say Falk? Can you enjoy a crisp winter day at the park, apprehending a purse-snatcher, without a dozen fuzzy, condescending characters flailing their little, green felt arms at you? Listen to find out!
Can You Say Falk?, episode 45 of This Gun in My Hand, was finger-painted by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books. Can you say, “Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities?” What’s delightful for children of all ages? This Gun in My Hand! (I mean the radio show, not an actual gun.)
Show Notes:1. This Gun in My Hand sometimes serves as an audio “What’s wrong with this picture?” puzzle for bird-watchers. For example, the birds you hear in the woodsy winter ambience in this episode were recorded in Berg en Dal, Beek, near Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
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The character Dana the Explaina is a parody of a kid’s show character, not inspired by anyone I know in real life. Remember, children: This Gun in My Hand is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Did you know that Kermit Roosevelt Jr., grandson of Teddy, was in the OSS, a precursor to the CIA, and bragged about facilitating the coup in Iran in 1953 that overthrew Mohammad Mosaddegh? Don’t take my word for it, or Wikipedia’s word for it. Maintain a healthy skepticism of everything you hear! But you can check out the citations in the Wikipedia entry and assess whether those sources are credible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Roosevelt_Jr.
Credits:The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: winter woods NL Beek 02 160216_0848.flac
By klankbeeld at http://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/337083/
Sound Effect Title: SLIDE WHISTLE - 1
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/SamuelGremaud/sounds/517633/
Sound Effect Title: rattles.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mrthenoronha/sounds/387215/
Music Title: Sesame Highway theme
Words and music by Robert Thomas Northrup
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Sound Effect Title: R27-10-Water Pours into Tub.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/480850/
Music Title (Capt. Rogers’ intro): Lounge.wav
By Sly_R
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Sly_R/sounds/545925/#
Sound Effect Title: Body fall_02.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Adam_N/sounds/346694/
The gong sound effect was taken from an episode of the public domain radio show Terry and the Pirates, first broadcast December 1, 1941.
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the public domain cover of Dime Mystery Magazine, July 1940. Artist unknown.
Can Falk and The Cherry Pachyderm neutralize the ho, ho, horror of Satanic Claws? How can you hear stockings hung from a mantle? Do Christmas carols satisfy the burn barrel acapella doo wop ordinance? Find out!
Here Comes Satanic Claws, episode 44 of This Gun in My Hand, was composed by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Makes a great gift! Who knows if you’ve been bad or good? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:1. Remember in episode 24, “Consulting Defectives” when Falk inspired Latthew Morressier to become The Cherry Pachyderm?
- Falk: “The Review of Radical Political Economics? How did you get your hands on this?” Falk is surprised anyone in his era (1939-ish) could get a copy of this journal because it wasn’t published until 1969. Personally I have no opinion whether they “[strain] the limits of their subject area to comment on odd current events and pop culture.” That’s Falk’s conclusion.
Credits:The opening music was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), a film in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/
Sound Effect Title: fork scraping metal 3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/humanoide9000/sounds/328525/
Sound Effect Title: bell 5.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/patchytherat/sounds/534260/
Sound Effect Title: Sleigh bells 90 bpm loop.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/soundstack/sounds/255104/
Sound Effect Title: Cat Meow2.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/steffcaffrey/sounds/262313/
Sound Effect Title: Cat Meowing.mp3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/lextrack/sounds/333916/
Sound Effect Title: cats getting food
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/finalCrystine/sounds/170382/
Sound Effect Title: Cat Meow At Night
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/EminYILDIRIM/sounds/595239/
Sound Effect Title: My Cat Leah Opines.m4a
By DAVIDSUTTON
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/DAVIDSUTTON/sounds/521371/
Sound Effect Title: Body Fall2.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/deleted_user_2104797/sounds/325269/
Sound Effect Title: G29-60-Group of Women Screaming.wav
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/438420/
Sound Effect Title: R28-47-Man and Woman Screaming.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/482833/
Sound Effect Title: R09-66-Close Up Burning Fire.wav
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/483310/
Music Title: "Hark the Herald Angels Sing"
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn, arranged by William H. Cummings
Lyrics writer: Charles Wesley, with revision by George Whitefield
Performance artist: United States Army Band (i.e. "Pershing's Own"), led by Thomas Rotondi, Jr. and Debra L. McGarity
License: Public domain composition, lyrics & performance.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Army_Band_-_Hark!_The_Herald_Angels_Sing.ogg
Sound Effect Title: Matt's Beatbox Harmonies Loop (100 bpm)
By Mattc90
License: Public Domain.
https://freesound.org/people/Mattc90/sounds/203977/
Closing Music Title: Here We Come A-wassailing
Performed by the chorus of U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own", led by Colonel Thomas Rotondi, Jr. (Leader & Commander) and CSM Debra L. McGarity (Command Sergeant Major) c. 2010.
License: Public domain composition, lyrics and performance.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Army_Band_-_Here_We_Come_A-wassailing.ogg
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Santa Claus Funnies, No. 61 (December 1944). Public domain, artist unknown.
What deadly plans do these two strange gunmen have for Falk? Is that a horse or a cow? What’s the second best place in the world to see theatre and musicals? Find out!
The Roan Ranger, episode 43 of This Gun in My Hand, was wrangled by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How we supposed to top that? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. The burned farmhouse that The Roan Ranger and Tronno are investigating was the site of a shoot-out between The Phantasm and jewel thieves in Episode 13, “OnlyPhantasm.” Later in that episode, Falk, The Phantasm and his colleague Paul confronted The World Crime Syndicate. More recently the farmhouse was destroyed during a larger battle between the World Crime Syndicate, Defenders of the Hearth, G.I. Jake and several other heroes from the Tri-State Area (an event mentioned but not depicted in Episode 37, “Strikeforce Shakespeare”).
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There’s a hoodlum named “Scar” with an Italian accent in an episode of Green Hornet (“Sales Tax Racket, broadcast October 17, 1939). Falk apparently thinks this is the same guy because of his accent. In fact, there’s a bad guy named “Scar” in an episode of the Lone Ranger. Maybe Scar from the Old West was the great uncle of Scar from Green Hornet’s time?
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“Ma Roan” was first mentioned in episode 17, “The Long, Dark Night Vision Scope of the Soul.”
https://thisguninmyhand.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-long-dark-night-vision-scope-of.html
Credits:The opening music was The William Tell Overture Part 4 (Finale), composed by Rossini, performed in 1915 by Victor Symphony Orchestra, under direction of Rosario Bourdon. The closing music was from the public domain film Killer Bait (1949). Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
“The curtain falls” and “now we return” clips of narration are from a public domain episode of the Lone Ranger radio show titled “Snake Oil,” broadcast June 13, 1938.
Title: R28-44-Women Screaming and Rapid Talking.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479894/
Title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Recorded by Mike Koenig
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html
Sound Effect Title: HORSE BLOWS FARM AMBIANCE.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/ohmypro/sounds/400702/
Sound Effect Title: horse’s whinny
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Kubuzz/sounds/347036/
Sound Effect Title: horse.mp3 (whinny)
By: 3bagbrew
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/3bagbrew/sounds/59569/
Sound Effect Title: Amb Hipica + Renill.wav (whinny)
By CraterZounds
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/CraterZounds/sounds/189282/
Sound Effect Title: G38-15-Perfect Horse Whinny.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/437110/
Sound Effect Title: 20060419.horse.neigh.wav
By dobroide
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/dobroide/sounds/18229/
Sound Effect Title: R13-19-Muffled Hooves.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479691/
Sound Effect Title: Horse Galloping.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Max_Headroom/sounds/175356/
Sound Effect Title: Horses.WAV (walking)
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Ornery/sounds/233345/
Sound Effect Title: SFX - Horse - Walk.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/MrFizzywig/sounds/581833/
Sound Effect Title: Egg Timer, Ticking, Ringing
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Kinoton/sounds/468081/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Masked Rider Western magazine (November 1938). Public domain, artist unknown.
Who needs that many pillows? What’s that smell? No, not the corpse, I mean the really bad smell. Why would anyone intentionally make a candle smell like that? Listen and find out!
Pillow Falk, episode 42 of This Gun in My Hand, was fluffed and molded by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What’s warm and emits a comforting fragrance? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. One of the gimmicky characters from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was a humanoid skunk named Stinkor. A horrible fragrance was added to the plastic as the figure was molded. Collectors say that even thirty years later, the dolls still smell. What did they use to achieve the timeless stench? Patchouli oil.
https://gizmodo.com/12-insane-facts-about-he-man-and-the-masters-of-the-uni-1619470015
- Det. O’Davenport’s Irish accent is partly inspired by Mike Axford in the Green Hornet radio show. Axford seems to be comic relief, and one of those almost-vaudeville era bits where just doing an Irish or Italian or Swedish accent somehow amounted to comedy. See also Chico Marx.
Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/
Sound Effect Title: Shop door bell.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/775noise/sounds/494565/
Sound Effect Title:Body fall_02.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Adam_N/sounds/346694/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a panel from the public domain comic book Dark Mysteries, No. 2 (August-September 1951). Art maybe by Bill Molno?
How did the Queenpin of Crime get Falk’s phone number? Why is she calling so late and slurring her words? Oh. Oh! Listen right now!
Dial M for Merlot, episode 41 of This Gun in My Hand, was fermented in small batches by Rob Northrup. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How did I get your number? This Gun in My Hand!
This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog.
Show Notes:1. Regina is confused. The first person who claimed, “Acoustics are funny in Parabellum City. Everybody sounds alike,” was Petra in Episode 5, The Quiz Scam, not Falk.
2. Cristobal Bronski is not related to Blackagar Boltagon.
3. I know how to pronounce “hearth,” but Emerald Ash Borer doesn’t.
4. Falk apologizes to Emerald Ash Borer for the big super battle (“Secret Wars on Critical Hearths”, Episode 37, Strikeforce Shakespeare) because the whole thing was engineered as a diversion by Falk.
Credits:The opening music clip and the music just before the commercial were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
The barber shop quartet is a clip from a Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer commercial. Not sure what year it’s from. Public domain.
Sound Effect Title: RotaryDialPhone.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Sailor55/sounds/265491/
Sound Effect Title: telephone.mp3 (ring)
By Werra
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Werra/sounds/78565/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Boy Loves Girl No. 28 (October 1952). Public domain art by Fred Kida.
Is this creature from the shadows planning to drink Falk’s blood? Or worse -- hypnotize him into becoming a distributor of nutritional supplements and cleaning products? Find out!
Vivant You, episode 40 of This Gun in My Hand, was brought back from death by Rob Northrup. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities or Dungeons and Dayjobs. What do I see emerging from the darkness? This Gun in My Hand!
This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog.
Show Notes:
1. Some of the things “Biff” says in this episode are talking points actual recruiters used on me in the late 1980s. Another guy at school said they gave him the same spiel, claiming he could become a nuclear engineer, slapping dollar bills on the desk and saying, “Here’s forty thousand dollars for college!” Also I don’t think of Falk as overweight but I wanted to repeat the story of the recruiter telling me to do neck roll exercises so I could qualify for a job I wanted nothing to do with. Words of wisdom from my dad: “The difference between being in prison and being on a ship in the Navy is you’re less likely to drown in prison.”
- Here’s a history of the innuendo-laden expression “come up and see my etchings”:
https://wordhistories.net/2020/01/11/come-see-my-etchings/
Credits:Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
The opening and closing music are taken from “Dracula,” the first episode of Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast live on July 11, 1938. Public domain.
https://archive.org/details/TheMercuryTheatreontheAir/Mercury+Theater+1938-07-11+-+01)+Dracula.mp3
Machine gun sound from the public domain film Commandos (1968).
Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)
By Carmelomike
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of The Phantom Detective, July 1940, public domain art by Rudolph Belarski.
With a title like that, do you need teaser text? Listen right now to find out! Hitchcock, eat your heart out!
Time-Bomb in a Clock Shop, episode 39 of This Gun in My Hand, was precisely synchronized by Rob Northrup. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What time is it? This Gun in My Hand!
This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog.
Show Notes:
1. Spicy foods with a certain Scoville level give me hiccups. Bending forward while drinking from the far side of a glass of water sometimes cures hiccups for me.
2. The part of “Delivery Boy” was voiced by Billy Narrator Junior, who is also a fictional character so it makes no sense to give him credit. And yet here we are.
Credits:The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Music/Sound Effect Title: Jack in the Box (Pop Goes the Weasel)
Recorded by Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://soundbible.com/1872-Jack-In-The-Box.html
Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/
Sound Effect Title: Kicking/Forcing/Breaking Wooden Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/160213/
Sound Effect Title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
Recorded by Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html
Sound Effect Title:Body fall_02.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Adam_N/sounds/346694/
Sound Effect Title: explosion bomb
By Jurgerius
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Jurgerius/sounds/473819/
Sound Effect Title: Shop door bell.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/775noise/sounds/494565/
Sound Effect Title (fast ticking): 20090405.clock.mono.dry.wav
By dobroide
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/dobroide/sounds/70259/
Sound Effect Title (grandfather clock): ClockTicks.wav
By daveincamas
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/daveincamas/sounds/27077/
Sound Effect Title: Clock Tick
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/FlashTrauma/sounds/398275/
Sound Effect Title: Cuckoo Clock Ticking.aif
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Dean-Raul_DiArchangeli/sounds/462929/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Detective Fiction Weekly (October 1, 1938). Art by Emmet Watson in public domain.
Why is a gun-toting pulp hero fighting a colorful costumed superhero? Did Zachary Horace Mazzuchelli have a hand in their conflict? And why is it always Italians? Find out!Why We Fight, episode 38 of This Gun in My Hand, was punched out by Rob Northrup. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. With what will I console myself after the fight is over? This Gun in My Hand!This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog.Show Notes:1. J-Men Forever is a 1979 movie written by two members of Firesign Theatre.2. It’s possible for one person to have one-third of a nationality or ethnicity, but you’d probably need to know detailed genealogy further than three or four generations back.3. A pathological liar I knew in college claimed to have written songs that were recorded by Guns ‘n Roses, Tesla, Indigo Girls and Melissa Etheridge. This one’s for you, Jaime.4. In episode 37, “Strikeforce Shakespeare,” Falk mentions that he was investigating a screeching sound in the area. I was thinking forward to the screechers in this episode.5. Believe it or not, I used only my voice, no effects or trick editing to create The Screecher’s amazing screech.Credits:The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.Sound Effect Title: Punch.wavBy ztrees1License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0https://freesound.org/people/ztrees1/sounds/134934/Sound Effect Title: Punch 1License: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/people/peridactyloptrix/sounds/209765/Whistle Sound Effect Title: Hey You.wavBy BenboncanLicense: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0https://freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/77752/Sound Effect Title: barking dog 2License: public domainhttps://freesound.org/people/roman_cgr/sounds/415023/Sound Effect Title: Skittering DogLicense: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/people/sittingmonkeyanim/sounds/199919/Sound Effect Title (panting dog): chip.aiffLicense: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/people/juan%20pablo%20escobar%20plaza/sounds/235813/The image accompanying this episode is a modified panel from the public domain Our Flag Comics, No. 4, February 1942, page 14. Pencils and inks by Harry Anderson. Text in the word balloons by Rob Northrup. In the original comic book, the colorful character is The Flag and the other one is a generic bad guy.
Who are these gun-toting mugs wearing tights & ruffled collars, herding citizens onto trucks? Can Falk Zildjian stop an army? Find out!
Strikeforce Shakespeare, episode 37 of This Gun in My Hand, was pacified urbanely by Rob Northrup. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What light through yonder window breaks? It is the gleaming of This Gun in My Hand!
This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog.
Show Notes:
1. The seed idea for this episode was a character named Strategic Hamlet. Read more about how American armed forces have actually used it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Hamlet_Program
2. To hear the earlier confrontation between Defenders of the Hearth and the World Crime Syndicate, listen to Episode 13, “OnlyPhantasm.” https://archive.org/details/tgimh-13-only-phantasm
Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
Recorded by Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html
Sound Effect Title: Window breaking.MP3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/m1a2t3z4/sounds/112213/
Sound Effect Title: Bulldog Howl
By GB01
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/GB01/sounds/174873/
Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/
Sound Effect Title: Noise
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/jhepkema/sounds/149445/
Machine gun sound taken from the public domain film Commandos (1968).
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of “Hamlet” etched by Leopold Flameng after a statue by Lord Ronald Gower, published in the Art Journal, 1881, plus helmet detail from the comic book Warfront, No. 29 (July-September 1956), page 7, pencils and inks by Warren Kremer. Both source images in public domain.
Will spies make off with microfilm blueprints of the magnificent Airship Islington? Can Zildjian prevent a zeppelin attack on the aeroplane factory? What’s the Cockney rhyming slang for parachute? Find out!D Is for Dirigible, episode 36 of This Gun in My Hand, was erected and inflated by Rob Northrup. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Who wouldn't like to ride in my beautiful, my beautiful balloon? This Gun in My Hand!
This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog.
Show Notes:1. I’m not sure how often or in what era Brits used the phrase “old thing” as they might say “old boy” or “old chap.” Or did anyone really use the expression outside of Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries (1970s BBC tv series)?
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My job used to be acquiring periodicals for a company that reproduced them on microfilm. I love how every spy movie for a decade or two featured heroes and villains fighting over microfilm. If you didn’t know any better, you’d think the only people using it were spies.
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The Islington’s passenger’s name is not intended to make you think of Mike Rowe, the tv villain and apologist for capitalism. I needed that part of the name to fit the pun. As always, “The audio and text of This Gun in My Hand are works of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.”
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“Cabbage root” is almost certainly not Cockney rhyming slang for “parachute.”
Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound Effect Title: Punch.wav
By ztrees1
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/ztrees1/sounds/134934/
Sound Effect Title: Airship propeller engine
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/ilm0player/sounds/578181/
Sound Effect Title: R10-56-Footsteps on Metal Staircase.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/480641/
Sound Effect Title: flak blast 2.wav
By Piotr123
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Piotr123/sounds/551532/
Sound Effect Title: Fireworks - Whistle/Whine
By marklaukkanen
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/marklaukkanen/sounds/580751/
Sound Effect Title: explosion bomb
By Jurgerius
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Jurgerius/sounds/473819/
Sound Effect Title: wind.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/nelstayade/sounds/525292/
Music Title (start of fake ad): "Windy Winds - Intro A”
Jay Man - OurMusicBox
https://www.our-music-box.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/ourmusicbox/
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Sound Effect Title: Flock Seagulls
Recorded by Daniel Simion
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/2193-Flock-Seagulls.html
Sound Effect Title: Lake Waves 1.wav
By Benboncan
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/s/67883/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified version of a drawing from The Illustrated London News, April 11, 1936 (Public Domain).
Will Falk Zildjian escape from the hoard of crypto vermin? Would you gladly pay me one ten-thousandth of a Ditcoin Tuesday for a hamburger today? Listen to find out!
Crypt O’ Knight, episode 35 of This Gun in My Hand, was federally reserved by Rob Northrup. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Or buy my Godzilla doll crochet pattern. Who’s gonna pay for all this? This Gun in My Hand!
This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog.
Show Notes:1. This episode was inspired by a Gravel Institute video titled “Why Bitcoin Is A Scam”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AAUrMuMPlo
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A generation before some meddling kids and their whining dog formed Mystery Inc., Enid Blyton wrote stories about mystery solving kids and their comic relief parrot. Another of her mystery solving teams had a dog. A British author writing in the 1920s-1960s, so some parts are Problematic with a capital P.
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A September 2021 report from the New York Times showed that mining Bitcoin now uses more energy per year than the nation of Finland. It also uses seven times more energy than Google.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/energy/571089-new-analysis-finds-mining-bitcoin-consumes-7-times -
When I wrote this episode, I guessed that a hamburger would cost one ten-thousandth of a Ditcoin. As of September 21, 2021, one ten-thousandth of a Bitcoin is worth $4.08 USD. Good guess!
Credits:The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Sound title (morse code): websdr_recording_2014-07-21T07_22_13Z_7011.4kHz.wav
By klankbeeld
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/243351/
Sound Effect Title: Lake shore waves.wav
By juskiddink
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/juskiddink/sounds/102808/
Sound Effect Title: Punch.wav
By ztrees1
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/ztrees1/sounds/134934/
Sound Effect Title: Punch 1
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/peridactyloptrix/sounds/209765/
Sound Effect Title: Punch in the face
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Huminaatio/sounds/390462/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a comic book panel from World Famous Heroes, No. 2 (December 1941), page 49. Pencils and inks by Ralph Mayo. Public Domain.
Has this gang of young daredevils decided the most exciting sport is breaking the law? Or are they just sledding? Find out with Falk in this thrilling episode!
2 Fast 2 Boggan, episode 34 of This Gun in My Hand, was pulled across the snow and into your ears by Rob Northrup. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Why would anyone in Hollywood greenlight D’om’s story? This Gun in My Hand!
This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog.
Show Notes:1. Someone on the Overthinkingit podcast pointed out the plot similarities between Point Break and The Fast and The Furious.
2. That’s not what “ohana” means.
Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Music leading up to D’om’s radio spot:
Music Title: Ich hör so gern Musik - Rudi Schuricke
Performed by Willy Berking mit seinen Solisten mit Gesang: Rudi Schuricke
License: Public Domain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h52-fvNqqoU
Music in D’om’s radio spot:
Music Title: Weekend
Composed by Will Meisel
Performed by Eugen Grossman mit seinem Tanz-Orchester, 1938
License: Public Domain
https://youtu.be/brP3Xrj44D0
Sound Effect Title: Car_motor_Sound.m4a
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Blizzard123/sounds/504633/#
Sound Effect Title: 080316 Dodge truck revving in driveway.wav
By BoilingSand
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/BoilingSand/sounds/49988/
Sound Effect Title: Footsteps on gravel
By Joozz
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Joozz/sounds/531952/
Sound Effect Title: wind.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/nelstayade/sounds/525292/
Sound Effect Title: Kicking/Forcing/Breaking Wooden Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/160213/
Sound Effect Title: falling gumtree.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/ianoboe/sounds/150203/
Sound Effect Title:Body fall_02.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Adam_N/sounds/346694/
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of an engraving by Henry Sandham captioned “ON A TOBOGGAN HILL,” from the article “Canada as a Winter Resort” by W. George Beers, in Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Vol. 29 (Nov 1, 1884). Public Domain according to the Toronto Public Library’s website.
- First time I remember listening to a radio play, I was five or six. Sitting in the back corner of my aunt's house. I want to say it was Inner Sanctum, but it might have been Lights Out or more likely CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Some horror or thriller. The narrator described being inside the back of an ambulance. I wasn't an instant fan of radio plays, but this has stuck with me.1988. Junior year of high school. Mr. Groesser's Creative Writing class. I think the assignment was to write a scene in some format we weren't used to, a screenplay or radio play. Julian and Jeff and I recorded a radio play making fun of Star Trek. We didn't consciously plagiarize Mad magazine, but we had read enough parodies of Star Trek that it came easy. Rapid fire jokes and puns in the style of Vaudeville or Airplane movies.
Captain Jerk: We're under attack. Boners, quick, go and shake that tv camera!Boners: Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor not a camera man.
Captain Jerk: There are four hundred lives at stake! (Sound of baby crying.) Make that four hundred one.
We recorded it on a cassette tape and played it in class. Five or ten minutes long, probably. Mr. Groesser apologized to the class after playing it, saying he hadn't screened it ahead of time. He didn't really scold us for it though and I'm not sure which parts he felt were naughty. The captain saying "Dammit"? Spotty saying, "Bloody Hell?" A character named Boners? Oh crap, I just remembered the problematic name and accent we used for Spock. Maybe that was it.2005. Melinda and I started dabbling in short audio skits, posted on various websites or forums. "Rainbow Brite interviews Pat Benatar." I don't remember where that idea came from but that was a good one. I recorded and posted The Radcliffe Project. "Audio commentary to second Harry Potter movie, in which the narrator (Robert Levi) describes the hidden messages planted by Chris Columbus, J.K. Rowling and Time Warner to prevent Mr. Levi from marrying the star of the film, Daniel Radcliffe."February 28, 2006. My first podcast! Brazen Hearts, Fresh, On Sticks. "Josie is your typical young goblin, selling freshly grilled human hearts outside the mall, trying to survive her ruthless family, and pining after that dreamy hobgoblin who just stomped into town. Each week, uh, month? Year? Well, periodically she describes part of her story to you, another human whose heart she will soon be selling on a stick." Twelve chapters. How could I stop before hitting 13? I roped Melinda and some of my friends into recording parts for it. I still have tons of notes for a possible "season two."January 7, 2007. I started the Dungeons and Dayjobs podcast, reading samples from my short story collection of the same name (still available in paperback or a free ebook on archive.org). Active through 2008, then a gap til 2012. Then in 2020, just before launching This Gun in My Hand, I posted a stand-alone story, The Liability of Keiko, about a villain calling out El Hornet Verde on all his bullcrap.
What kind of terrorist forces struggling families out of their homes just to make more money? Is he blackmailing good cops into doing his dirty work for him? Find out!
The Land Lord, episode 33 of This Gun in My Hand, was written, voiced, edited and lorded over by Rob Northrup. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What do I give my landlord every month? This Gun in My Hand!
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Show Notes:1. This episode was inspired by On The Media podcast from August 13, 2021. Some landlords actually do remove front doors from hinges and leave the doorway open to the elements, to drive out tenants who resist evictions.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/40-acre-promise-on-the-media
- I couldn’t find a reliable source for prices of pistols circa 1939. If i got it wrong, it’s not the most ridiculous thing that’s ever happened in Parabellum City.
Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
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The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of True Detective Mysteries, Vol. XIII, No. 3 (June 1930) by Dalton Stevens, in public domain.
Will Falk get a chance to take down the highway robber before bystanders talk his ear off? Is she making a fair analogy to the relationship between capitalist and worker?The Highwayman, episode 32 of This Gun in My Hand, was standed and delivered by Rob Northrup. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What will I give the Highwayman? This Gun in My Hand!
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Show Notes:1. The woman on the bus is named after Dara Gottfried, producer of Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast.
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The Highwayman talks about the “closure” of the commons when everybody knows it was called “enclosure.” What a dope.
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I hope it’s obvious that the “History Minute” is false. For a thorough and accessible description of what really happened, read The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty by William Hogeland.
Credits:The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
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The image accompanying this episode is a modified version of the illustration “Shelling the Peas” by Charles George Harper from his 1908 book, Half-Hours with the Highwayman, Volume 1. The book and illustration are in public domain and available on archive dot org.
Have Falk Zildjian and the other captives exhausted every trick in their arsenal? Is there some speck of hope that they can escape? Who says “mash” when they’re talking about buttons? Find out!
Take A Powder, episode 31 of This Gun in My Hand, was blown in your face by Rob Northrup. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and would it kill you to buy one of my books? -- such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What’s the worst source from which to take some powder? This Gun in My Hand!
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Show Notes:1. Gandalf rode a horse named Shadowfax.
2. Yes, I know, it should be femmes fatales, not femme fatales. The correct way sounds too weird.
Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
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Sound Effect Title: Kicking/Forcing/Breaking Wooden Door
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Sound Effect Title: 3-scrapes
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Sound Effect Title: R09-75-Series of Falls on Wooden Floor.wav
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Sound effect title: Hitting in a Face
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The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Secret Agent X Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 4 (June 1936), public domain. Art by William Soare.
How many Emmas does it take to conquer Parabellum City? When you're writing a pun-filled comedy series, what can you use to create an Empire-Strikes-Back style low point for your hero just before the climax of the current arc? This Gun in My Hand!Army of Emmas, episode 30 of This Gun in My Hand, was finished off by Rob Northrup. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What could make Falk Zildjian’s heart spring back to life? This Gun in My Hand!This episode and all others are available on Youtube, including automatically generated closed captions of dialog.Show Notes:1. The music in the Forbidden Technologies ad comes from a radio commercial for Cresta Blanca Wine. 2. This is number four in the five part series “Hardly Boiled,” comprising episodes 27 through 31. After that, we’ll go back to self-contained one-shot episodes, or at least start a new storyline.3. “Only her hairdresser knows for sure” was part of a 1950s slogan for Miss Clairol hair coloring.Credits:The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wavLicense: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wavLicense: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/Sound Effect Title: Splashes In A Bathtub.wavLicense: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/people/bbrocer/sounds/382649/Sound Effect Title: Tapping On Window.mp3License: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/people/Zel12/sounds/508400/Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)By CarmelomikeLicense: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/Sound effect title: Title: Body fall_02.wav License: Public Domainhttps://freesound.org/people/Adam_N/sounds/346694/The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail from the cover of Amazing Stories, Vol. 16, No. 1 (January 1942). Art by Malcolm Smith, public domain.
Why listen to boring old radio detectives wrestling each other for control of a gun and having car chases, when you can hear chariot chases and Greco-Roman wrestling for control of a gun? Find out in “Escape From Greektown!”
Escape from Greektown, episode 29 of This Gun in My Hand, was painted on the side of a clay jug by Rob Northrup. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What does not taste as good as baklava? This Gun in My Hand!
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Show Notes:1. I put “What would make you listen?” into Google Translate (English to Greek), and it came back with “Τι θα σε έκανε να ακούσεις;” which I tried to pronounce at the very opening of this episode before saying This Gun in My Hand.
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“EVERYTHING WE SELL SUCKS” is a sign I saw in front of a real local vacuum shop.
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The image for this episode depicts Persian scythed chariots, not Greek chariots. I am prepared to give you a full refund of your payment for this free episode if the lack of verisimilitude left you unsatisfied.
Credits:The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
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Sound Effect Title: Kicking/Forcing/Breaking Wooden Door
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https://freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/160213/
Sound Effect Title: Gun Fire
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Machine gun sound taken from the public domain film Commandos (1968).
The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of “The charge of the Persian scythed chariots at the Battle of Gaugamela” by André Castaigne. Public Domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=649365