Caught Offguard - Episode 22

Can Falk resist The Offguard’s peculiar talent? Is a background in food service enough to snag a job as a burglar’s assistant? Is there anything different or special in painkillers marketed to women? Find out! Then get back to me cuz I don’t know.

Caught Offguard, episode 22 of This Gun in My Hand, was written, performed and edited 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. I’m sorry, were you startled by... This Gun in My Hand?

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Show Notes:
1. Muskingum College, The Offguard’s alma mater, is in eastern Ohio. Notable alumni include astronaut John Glenn and the actress Agnes Moorehead.

2. According to the Internet, the pronunciations “car BINE” and “car BEAN” are commonly used in the US. For the definitive source on this one, I followed the way Peter Billingsley as Ralphie pronounces it in A Christmas Story, and he says carBINE.

3. In spite of its effects as a blood thinner, aspirin is an acceptable pain reliever for mild menstrual cramps according to the Internet.

4. Vickie Olson is the daughter of Mackenzie Olson, also known as Ka-Ren, who appeared briefly in Episode 15 - “Gun Buyback.”

5. What was I watching that I stole the surname “Spoljar” from? Romance of a Horsethief (1971) starring Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Lainie Kazan, David Opatoshu and Serge Gainsbourg, with Branko Špoljar as Strugatch.

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. Music from the comic book ad was from the public domain film Hollow Triumph/The Scar (1948). Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Sound effect title: House Front Door Inside 3.wav
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/people/saturdaysoundguy/sounds/388027/#

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: 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: Title: Body fall_02.wav 
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Adam_N/sounds/346694/

The image associated with this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Thrilling Detective, Vol. 60, No. 3 (October 1947). Public domain. Artist unknown.

The text of the comic book ad comes from Weird Terror, No. 7 (September 1953).