Can You Say Falk - Episode 45

Can you say Falk? Can you enjoy a crisp winter day at the park, apprehending a purse-snatcher, without a dozen fuzzy, condescending characters flailing their little, green felt arms at you? Listen to find out!

Can You Say Falk?, episode 45 of This Gun in My Hand, was finger-painted by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books. Can you say, “Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities?” What’s delightful for children of all ages? This Gun in My Hand! (I mean the radio show, not an actual gun.)

Show Notes:
1. This Gun in My Hand sometimes serves as an audio “What’s wrong with this picture?” puzzle for bird-watchers. For example, the birds you hear in the woodsy winter ambience in this episode were recorded in Berg en Dal, Beek, near Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

2. The character Dana the Explaina is a parody of a kid’s show character, not inspired by anyone I know in real life. Remember, children: This Gun in My Hand is a work 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.

3. Did you know that Kermit Roosevelt Jr., grandson of Teddy, was in the OSS, a precursor to the CIA, and bragged about facilitating the coup in Iran in 1953 that overthrew Mohammad Mosaddegh? Don’t take my word for it, or Wikipedia’s word for it. Maintain a healthy skepticism of everything you hear! But you can check out the citations in the Wikipedia entry and assess whether those sources are credible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Roosevelt_Jr.

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: winter woods NL Beek 02 160216_0848.flac
By klankbeeld at http://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/337083/

Sound Effect Title: SLIDE WHISTLE - 1
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/SamuelGremaud/sounds/517633/

Sound Effect Title: rattles.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mrthenoronha/sounds/387215/

Music Title: Sesame Highway theme
Words and music by Robert Thomas Northrup
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Sound Effect Title: R27-10-Water Pours into Tub.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/480850/

Music Title (Capt. Rogers’ intro): Lounge.wav
By Sly_R
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Sly_R/sounds/545925/#

Sound Effect Title: Body fall_02.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Adam_N/sounds/346694/

The gong sound effect was taken from an episode of the public domain radio show Terry and the Pirates, first broadcast December 1, 1941.

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the public domain cover of Dime Mystery Magazine, July 1940. Artist unknown.