Consulting Defectives - Episode 24

A horde of half-baked heroes besieges Falk with questions. How will he bear up under the onslaught by The Green Prepper, The Roboteer, The Cherry Pachyderm, and Alan? Hear the answers!

Consulting Defectives, episode 24 of This Gun in My Hand, was shepherded 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 Child is this -- Who laid to rest -- On Zildjian's lap is sleeping? This Gun in My Hand!

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Show Notes:
1. “Ma Desty” is inspired by Melinda. When she puts together an ensemble she likes, revealing almost no skin except her hands and face, or she wants to express approval of someone’s similar fashion sense, she’ll exclaim, “Modesty!” So far she hasn’t punched anyone for failing to meet her dress code.

2. I really create web-crawling robots. It’s even less exciting than the ones made by The Roboteer.

3. Ha, you thought web-crawling robots were going to be anachronistic, didn’t you? If This Gun in My Hand were solidly set in the early 40s, the anachronisms in this episode would be thermonuclear war, The Destroyer novels, Sixties Mod fashions, Vespa scooters, the terms miniskirt and microskirt, and microwave ovens. Zyklon B was used as a pesticide in Germany since the Twenties, so it’s not impossible someone would have heard of it, just unlikely. 

4. My Ma told me the elephant jokes in this episode, plus these:

     Why shouldn’t you walk in the woods between three and four in the morning?
     Because that’s when elephants jump out of the trees.
     Why are alligators flat?
     Because they walk in the woods between three and four in the morning.

5. RFK said, “Some men see things as they are and ask, ‘Why?’ I dream things that never were and ask, ‘Why not?’" It sounded a lot better when he said it.

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: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/

Music Title: Flight of the Carpenter Bee
By Steven Arntson
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://archive.org/details/Bildungsroman-7512

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

Sound Effect Title: Car_motor_Sound.m4a
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Blizzard123/sounds/504633/#

The image associated with this episode is a modified detail of the cover of New Detective Magazine, Vol. 17, No. 2 (February 1952). Public Domain. Artist unknown.