Saturday, October 30, 2021

Vivant You - Episode 40

Graveyard at night. A bald, pale man with pointed ears and skeletal smile chokes a man who's barely out of the frame. The gaunt man is turning his head to his right, apparently aware of the man behind him in the black suit with an automatic pistol aimed at him.

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.

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