Crypt O' Knight - Episode 35

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

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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.

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By klankbeeld
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/243351/

Sound Effect Title: Lake shore waves.wav
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Sound Effect Title: Punch.wav
By ztrees1
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https://freesound.org/people/ztrees1/sounds/134934/

Sound Effect Title: Punch 1
License: Public Domain
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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.