Vivant You - Episode 40

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.”

2. 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.

Time-Bomb in a Clock Shop - Episode 39

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 We Fight - Episode 38

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.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/

Whistle Sound Effect Title: Hey You.wav

By Benboncan

License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

https://freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/77752/

Sound Effect Title: barking dog 2

License: public domain

https://freesound.org/people/roman_cgr/sounds/415023/

Sound Effect Title: Skittering Dog

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/people/sittingmonkeyanim/sounds/199919/

Sound Effect Title (panting dog): chip.aiff

License: Public Domain

https://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.

Strikeforce Shakespeare - Episode 37

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.

D Is for Dirigible - Episode 36

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)?

2. 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.

3. 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.”

4. “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).