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.