Made in The Shade - Episode 12

Is wealthy playboy and industrialist Lamont Cranford using his power as The Shade for good or evil? Will Falk overcome The Shade's supernatural abilities? What were you looking for when you stepped into this room? Those answers and more lurk inside this episode.

Made in The Shade, episode 12 of This Gun in My Hand, was made by Rob Northrup. Visit https://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for full credits, show notes, details on how to subscribe, and to buy my books. Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities is for sale in pdf format for the low, low price of $2.99. What object was I looking for when I stepped into this room? This Gun in My Hand.

This episode is available on Youtube, and in audio formats other than mp3 on archive.org.

Music and Sound Effects 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 following four modified music or sound effects were used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license:

Music in the waiting room scene was
Title: “What a Beautiful Name”
Music by Jay Man | OurMusicBox
Website: www.our-music-box.com
YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/ourmusicbox

Title: Punch.wav
By ztrees1
https://freesound.org/people/ztrees1/sounds/134934/

Title: ST_chair_ruckus.wav
By ScreenplayTheater
https://freesound.org/people/ScreenplayTheater/sounds/180685/

Title: Mount Moganshan Insect Chorus
By: RTB45
https://freesound.org/people/RTB45/sounds/325321/

Public domain sounds:

Title: Punch 1
https://freesound.org/people/peridactyloptrix/sounds/209765/

Title: G26-23-Fight Scuffle.wav
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/438342/

Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/

Title: House Front Door Inside 3.wav
https://freesound.org/people/saturdaysoundguy/sounds/388027/# 

The modified comic book panel accompanying this episode is from Women Outlaws No. 6 (May 1949). Art by Dick Rockwell. Public domain.

Curse of The Bubbe - Episode 11

Falk is on the trail of an agent whose clients include villains like The Black Terror, The Shade & The Phantasm. But are they really villains? Who can tell these days? Does anybody really know what time it is? Yeah, I’ll tell you who knows: This Gun in My Hand.

Curse of The Bubbe, episode 11 of This Gun in My Hand, was pronounced by Rob Northrup. Rate and review this everywhere you can. Visit https://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for full credits, show notes, details on how to subscribe, and to buy my books. Who can you contact to hire me for writing gigs, birthdays, bar mitzvahs and quinceañeras? This Gun in My Hand!

This episode is also available on Youtube, or in audio formats other than mp3 an archive.org.

Music and sound effects credits: 

The opening and 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. Black Terror musical sting is from the public domain film Hollow Triumph/The Scar (1948).

Sound effect title: Bubbling beaker.wav
https://freesound.org/people/Melthurian/sounds/319384/#
Public domain

The illustration of The Black Terror tossing a criminal at cops is from his debut in Exciting Comics #9, May 1941. Pencils and inks by David Gabrielsen and color by Richard Hughes. Public domain.

Show Notes:

1. The Black Terror debuted in Exciting Comics #9 (May 1941, Vol. 3, No. 3). The first issue of his own comic was published in February 1943. His sidekick Tim Roland had no hero nickname. You can read these and many other public domain comics at digitalcomicmuseum.com.

2. Other real public domain comic characters mentioned in this episode include Captain Freedom, The Shield, Captain Battle, The Star-Spangled Kid, The Liberator, Captain Flag, The Flag, The Destroyer, The Whizzer, The Terror, Daredevil, and Yank and Doodle (the twins from Prize Comics). I made up the story about The Flag pulling a false flag in a museum, but there was a character named The Flag from Ace Comics.

3. This episode is sort of set in the 1940s, with a few anachronisms because of comedic license. Gary predicted that “fifty years from now [1990] the biggest thing on the comics rack is gonna be the one and only menacing guy in a skintight black costume with a skull on his chest.” The prediction came true, although it was some other guy in black with a skull on his chest, not the Black Terror.

You're Tellin Me - Episode 10

How will Falk, the Emerald Ash Borer and Castro escape from Regina’s gunmen? Why is everyone in Parabellum City acting so defensive and argumentative? Do you know the difference between cagata and scrucchiata? Listen for the answers!

You’re Tellin Me, episode 10 of This Gun in My Hand, can be blamed entirely on Rob Northrup. Please rate and review wherever you find it. Go to http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, details on how to subscribe, and to buy my books--such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. For sale now in pdf format for $2.99. Cheap! What will motivate you to rate and review the podcast you’re listening to? This Gun in My Hand!

This episode is also available on Youtube, and in audio formats other than mp3 on archive.org.

Music and Sound Effects Credits:

The opening and 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. Music in “The Go-Go’s” commercial taken from the opening of the public domain film Black Cobra 2 (1989).

The following six modified audio clips were used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License:

Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)

By Carmelomike

https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/

Title: Gun Fire

Recorded by GoodSoundForYou

http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html

 

Title: SPRING 05.wav 

By sandyrb

https://freesound.org/people/sandyrb/sounds/90949/

“With Loved Ones” by Jay Man | OurMusicBox (Music from the VFW Hall/Baby Shower scene)

Website: www.our-music-box.com

YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/ourmusicbox

https://youtu.be/bq6dq6BOoXg

Title: Stereo Babies

By bone666138 (CC-BY)

https://freesound.org/people/bone666138/sounds/198848/

Title: Traffic mel 1.wav

By malupeeters 

https://freesound.org/people/malupeeters/sounds/191350/

These modified public domain clips were also used:

Title: R28-44-Women Screaming and Rapid Talking.wav 

https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479894/

Guests-at-party.wav 

https://freesound.org/people/Mickael_Leroi/sounds/402131/

Title: R10-53-Slow Deliberate Footsteps.wav

https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/480638/#

Title: running sounds

https://freesound.org/s/134991/

Machine gun fire taken from the public domain film Commandos (1968, aka Sullivan’s Marauders).

Bonus! 

Since The Emerald Ash Borer and Aunt Phoebe mention it in this episode, here’s a recipe for scrucchiata, an Italian grape jam made from slowly simmering grapes. No other ingredients! Technically it’s sugar-free, but don’t go wild with it if you’re diabetic: after you reduce that many grapes for that long, the natural fructose in the grapes must be fairly concentrated. Eating two tablespoons of scrucchiata is like eating a quarter pound of grapes. Great recipe to make them last a bit longer if you have a bunch of grapes that are still edible but not for much longer. As you might have noticed, I love that word: skrook-YAH-ta.