Monday, February 7, 2022

Subject Index

I’m not going to include every subject discussed in This Gun in My Hand, but I thought it would be helpful or interesting to make a list of the targets of parody in some episodes. Below you’ll find a subject index, character appearance index (episodes in which these characters spoke), character mentioned index (episodes in which these characters were spoken of by others), locations of episodes, ad index, fake radio show index, and a link to the music index. The subject index does not include topics that are in almost every episode -- things like radio drama tropes, vigilanteism and the gun lobby. Episode numbers are listed after each entry in the index. Last updated November 18, 2024, up to and including episode 116.

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Subject Index
Episode number zero represents The Liability of Keiko, the unofficial pilot episode of This Gun in My Hand. 

Abbott and Costello - 21
ad from comic book - 22
Adams, Douglas - 108
airships - 36
anarchism - 64
Antifa - 6
Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips - 38
Artificial Intelligence - 92
asexuality / Ace - 5, 20
ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) - 60, 100
Atlas, Charles - 112
Batman and Robin - 47
Big Sleep, The (film) - 78
Bitcoin - 35
Black Lives Matter movement (Conservative reaction to) - 6
Blade Runner - see "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
Block chain - 92
Bond, James - 95
Bonnie and Clyde - 88
Bride of Frankenstein - 57
British costume drama - 73, 108
Britain - 73, 108, 112
Brood, The (1979 film) - 110
Buck Rogers - 45, 54
Burke & Hare murders - 109
burlesque - 21
business culture - 106
Call the Midwife (tv series) - 110
cannabis - 28
capitalists - 32, 33, 45
Care Bears - 74
Carter, Nick - 25, 29
Charles, Nick and Nora (The Thin Man) - 70
Chekov’s Gun - 8, 21
children’s tv shows - 45
chili, the myth of - 73, 95, 96, 108, 114
Chinatown (film, 1974) - 28, 29, 78, 112
Christie, Agatha - 114
Christmas - 44, 69
cliffhanger serials - 76, 77
Conan the Barbarian - 14
comic book crossover events - 37, 41
Continental Detective Agency - 28
costume drama - 73
Cranston, Lamont - 12
Creed of a United States Marine, aka The Rifleman’s Creed - 110, 113
Critical Race Theory - 6
Cronenberg, David - 110
cryptocurrency - 35
Defenders of the Earth - 13, 80
“Defense” Industry - see Military Industrial Complex
Destroyer, The (comic book character) - 18
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Blade Runner - 98, 109
Doc Savage (mentioned) - 19, 25
Doctor Strange - 83
Dracula - 40
drunk dialing - 41
espionage - 64
ethnic fraud - 38
fandom, toxic - 115
Fantômas - 84
fashion - 48
Fast and The Furious, The - 34
Flint, water supply, negligence - 76
Fly, The (1958 film) - 101, 110
Freemasons - 27
Gadsden flag - 96
gambling, pinball - episode zero "Keiko is a Liability," 8, 9, 10, 102
gambling, websites - 102, 114
Gates, Bill - 20
Geico commercials - 16, 18, 19, 21
gender, non-binary / Enby - 5, 26
gender, non-conforming - 51, 63, 77
gentrification, racist - 47
G.I. Joe - 15, 37, 90
gig economy racket - 79
Goldberg, Rube - 56
Green Hornet, The / Britt Reid - 0, 8, 9, 10, 12, 17, 20, 24, 26, 41, 49, 56
Hallmark Holiday movies - 69
Halloween - 40
hard-boiled detective genre - 27, 28, 29, 85
haunted house - 112
health insurance - 23
Heartbreak Ridge (1986 film) - 18
Hell - 20
Hill Street Blues - 55
His Girl Friday (1940 film) - 98
horror, body - 110
House of Wax (1953 film) - 42
human resources - 23
irregulars - 49, 79
It's a Wonderful Life - 109
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors (cartoon and toys) - 15
job fair - 106
Johnny Mnemonic (film) - 114
Kabibble, Ish - 90
Kato - 0, 9, 10, 12, 17, 20, 24, 26, 33, 39, 41
Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge - 90
Keillor, Garrison - 23
Kelly, Patsy - 109, 112
Kilmister, Lemmy - 8
Klondike Bar commercial - 23
Knights Templar, arrest in 1307 by King Philip of France - 106
Lane, Margo - 12
Lark Rise to Candleford (tv series) - 108
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - 48
Lindell, Mike - 11
Little Rascals/Our Gang - 8 
Lizard, The (comic book villain) - 19
Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (novel by Douglas Adams) - 17
Marxism - 45
mass shootings - 16
Massengill douche commercial - 3
menstruation - 22
merchandising - 96, 103
microfilm - 14, 36, 77
military - 15, 18, 37, 40
Military Industrial Complex - 2, 36
military keynesianism - 111
militia movement - 6
Moonraker (novel) - 95
mukbang - 60, 101
Muncie College of Business Administration - 17
Muskingum College - 22
My Little Pony - 15, 73
Naked Lunch (film) - 110
narration, the awkwardness of delivering exposition in audio format - 104, 109
narrators, unreliable - 72, 109
news media in the tank for cops - 16
Non-Fungible Tokens - 41
Northrup, Robert Thomas - 72
“officer-involved shootings” - 16
Olsen, Jimmy (comic book character) - 8
Orientalist origins - 8, 38, 83, 99, 106
Papa Jim's Botanica (real life voodoo retailer) - 106
partiarchy - 104
Patriot movement - see Militia Movement
Penguin Pool Murder (1932 film) - 86
Phantom, The - 13
pharmaceutical commercials - 14
pharmaceutical profiteering - 13, 20, 21, 23
pinball - 9, 10, 32, 49, 56, 57, 63, 67, 88, 95
Pinball Wizard - 95
Pinkertons - 106
Pitts, Zasu - 107
police - 7, 17, 20, 39, 48, 78
police gangs, LAPD - 78
Popeye - 71
Prairie Home Companion, A (radio show) - 23
Pride and Prejudice - 108
problem hotlines - 102
public radio commercials - 16, 18, 19 
publishing - 59
pulps - 38, 77, 78
rackets
   - Counterfeit Collectible Lunchbox - 24
   - Income Tax Poison Embezzlement - 10
   - Murder Ring - 10
   - Organized Shoplifting - 104
   - Payday Lending - 12
   - Pinball Gambling - 9
   - Protection - 6
   - Skee-ball - 1, 2
   - Vanity Publishing - 17
Radiolab - 83
Rainbow Brite - 74
Rand, Ayn - 15, 45, 48
Rage Against the Machine, “Bulls on Parade” - 4
reading of the will - 112
recruiting, military - 40
ride sharing racket - 79
Rifleman’s Creed, aka The Creed of a United States Marine - 110, 113
Robots - 70, 79, 85, 92, 98
Rogers, Fred (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood) - 54
Rom the Space Knight - 27
San Bernardino - 90
San Francisco - 90
Santa Claus - 44
Saw (film) - 92
science fiction - 54
Scooby Doo - 112
Sesame Street - 45
sex work - 75
Shadow, The - 12, 79
shoplifting, organized - 104
ska - 38
Smurfs - 74
Space Patrol (radio show) - 107
Spy Smasher (public domain comic book superhero) - 64
Star Trek - 54
Sword & Sorcery genre - 14
Thongor (sword & sorcery character by Lin Carter) - 14
Three Stooges - 21
time travel - 50
Top Gun: Maverick - 73
Transformers - 15
trivia contests - 49
Uber - 79
Vaudeville - 21, 68
Videodrome - 110
Whitesnake - 111
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - 78
Wimpy, J. Wellington - 71
Wizard of Oz - 115
wrestling, professional - 99
Wuthering Heights - 108
X-Men - 38
Xavier, Prof. Charles - 38
You Must Remember This (podcast) - 86
Žižek, Slavoj - 10 


These characters appeared (delivered lines) in the episode numbers listed after their names.

Abolysche, Sgt. Lester - 3, 7, 17, 26
Alan (fanboy) - 24, 59, 61, 63, 97, 114
Alley Katherine - 49, 70, 85
Ant (agonist) - 74
Antidisestablishmentarianist, The - 63
Astonishing Lethal Amazon Nationalists (or is it Albanian or Alsatian or Alberta?) - 61
Arbogast - 28
Astro Police (Cap, Joe and Rocky) - 107
Baa Baa Black Sheep (G.I. Jake aviator) - 90
Backdoor Pilot, The - 50
Bag Bird (Sesame Highway) - 45
Baker, The - see Pekar, Alonzo
Baldwin, Bruce - 98
Barndz, Jimmy ("Card Sense") - 95
Batrachian, Prof. - 17, 18, 19
Bayarmaa (Red Herring Patrol) - 50
Beiderman, Francis - 113
Beiderman, Libby - 113
Beltran, Cal / The Land Lord (aka Baron Lessor) - 33
Benton, Bob / The Black Terror - 11
Bernard, Gil - 1, 26
Besser (alleged Mole Man) - 53
Big Oat Tree - 13
Billy - see Narrator, Billy, Jr.
Bismuth, Commodore - 64
Blackmail Wingman, The (Gilbert something?) - 66
Blessed Day (Brian, aka Muckbang, aka PeatBoom) - 60, 100
Boston Dynamo (robotic canine helper to Chick Quasar) - 116
Boyd ("Big Boyd") - 75
Brand (Miss) - 95
Breed, Ritt / The Emerald Ash Borer - 9, 10, 12, 17, 20, 24, 26, 41, 56, 104, 116
Burns, Walter - 98
Butcher, The - 79
Buzzy the Robot (Healthy Smiles spokesperson) - 79, 95
Caldicott, Nadine Ederle (aka Cosmo Polite Ann) - 104, 106
Cali-Ban (G.I. Jake) - 37
Calley ("Machine Gun", deceased) - 111
Candlestick Maker, The - 102
Canyon, Rayce - 15
Cappadocia, Clyve - 88
Captain Capitalism - 13
Captain Captain - 59
Captain Freedom - 116
Carla (InforMatron irregular) - 79
Carper, Nick - 25
Carchetti, Tim - 6
Castro (valet) - 9, 10, 12, 17, 20, 26, 33, 39, 41, 51, 82, 104, 105, 116
Castro (COBRA high command) - 15
Cat and the Fiddle (G.I. Jake) - 90
Catch-2022 - 59, 87, 90, 94, 110
Chalmers, Lucy - 12
Champion Helpmeets of the Ululating Fungi (CHOUFs) - 70
Chase, Duesenberg (formerly of the duo Shot and Chaser) - 104, 109, 112 (not named in episode)
Chaser - see Chase, Duesenberg
Cheers, Paul - 97
Cherry Pachyderm - see Morressier, Latthew
Chester (asst to Eccentric Houseboat Detective) - 106
Chilton, Armand - 16
Chost, Belvita - 27
Christie, Agartha - 114
Chumley (first name not mentioned, owner of Chumley Hamster Farm) - 78
Coen, Herb (inventor of twinning tech) - 30
Collie, Det. Gander “Sonnyboy” - 17
Connie (Concepcion, Mac Med protagonist) - 43
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) - 15
Constant, Carmela - 20
Cosmo Polite Ann - see Caldicott, Nadine Ederle
Cotswold, Calla - 52
Cotswold, Ted - 52
Cow That Jumped Over the Moon (G.I. Jake aviator) - 90
Cowboy (G.I. Jake: Full Metal Overcoat) - 82
Cranford, Lamont / The Shade - 12, 26, 79
Crank (G.I. Jake leader) - 15, 37, 90
Crawford, Broderick (mug who uses name of the actor) - 75
Craxton, Altira Philippa Morris, Lady Pelennor - 108
Craxton, Peltington Cottingswold Fieldsby, Lord Pelennor - 108
Crotchety G - 116
Crypt O’ Knight (formerly The Black Marketeer) - 35, 36
Cusamano, Enola Gay - 66
Cuttlefish, The - 76, 77
Dana the Explaina - 45
Dawson (a butler, no first name given) - 112
Debo, Capt. Hassan Pfeffer - 36
Debonaire, The (formerly Meat Cute and before that Filet Mignon) - 69, 81, 83
Defenders of the Hearth - 80
Denise - 3, 4, 13, 36 
Dennedy, Ked - 29, 30
DeSoto, Hilario / The Destroyer (comics) - 18
Destroyer (comics) - see DeSoto, Hilario
Desty, Caroline “Ma” - 24
Disemboweler, The (surname Galardin) - 58, 89
Doberman, Det. James Backus - 17
Doctor Intellectual Property Master - 13, 26, 39
Doctor Stranj - 83
Emerald Ash Borer - see Breed, Ritt
Emmerson, Chuck - 64
En Garde - see Olson, Vickie
FalkGPT (Falk Gun-Packing Trained Transformation) - 92
Fan Mail - 115
fanTom - 84
Faskist, Jim - 11, 26
Fatale, Ferne (aka Sinead O’Bridgessey) - 78
Feinberg, Louis (Larry) - 68
Feldman (alleged Mole Man) - 53
Fellopian, Rom - 27
Fernwood, Hap - 16
Fighter Flight (aviation-themed hero group) - 66
Fire Escape - 101
Flan, Huckleberry - 74
Forward Operating Group Mother Goose (battalion of G.I. Jake) - 91
Fran's Stormers - see Shuwatch, Francesca
Frankenstein, Victor - 99
Freefire Zone (G.I. Jake) - 37
Freemont (Phantasm irregular) - 79
Froggy - 8 (name not mentioned in episode), 21
Fusilo (Captain, Verf Street Blues) - 55
Gaffer (Red Herring Patrol) - 50
Galardin, Maria (daughter of The Disemboweler) - 58
Gelbart, Demorge / The Roboteer - 24, 80, 89 (not named in episode)
GentriFireStarter, The - 95
Ghost Pepper, The - 39
Green Cyclist, The - 104
Green Prepper, The - 24
G.I. Jake (team) - 15, 37, 82, 90
Gloom Brothers (Fred and Dread) - 75
Goodman, Ofc. - 7, 33
Green, Jonathan - 16
Greenstreet, Bertie - 75
Greenstreet, Bonita - 88
Grigson, Sheila - 27
Grim Ace, The (G.I. Jake aviator) - 90
Grubby (Wordsmith irregular) - 79
Grumman, Vince (shop steward IBEV, Local 190) - 75
Gumbatz - 64
Gun Doctor (Gabriel Beverly Shtellinski, MD) - 116
Gunny (G.I. Jake: Full Metal Overcoat) - 82
Guns and Butter (G.I. Jake) - 37
Haas, Chief Commissioner Elwood J. - 72
Haas Unreliable Narrativities Committee - 72
Haberdasher, The - 103
Hargurg, E. Y. "Yip" - 115
Harold - 97
Harper - 94
Harriet, Deborah - 110
Hazy Hayes - 116
Heist Row Maestro - see Vastopol, Nuryemik
Henry (negotiation specialist, Verf Street Blues) - 55
Henry (the Ladybug) - 74
Hierarchy, Herr - 13
High Hat, The - 103
Highwayman, The - 32, 108
Hood, Victor (named after my pen-pal Vincent Wallace) - 76
Horowitz, Avram James “AJ” - 6
Howard, Jerome - 68
Howard, Moses - 68
Howk - 54
Human Resource - see Montauk, Hal Regis
Humpty Dumpty (G.I. Jake) - 90
InforMatrix - 70
InforMatron, The (Jennifer Zapata) - 49, 65, 70, 85, 95
InformaTron - 70, 85, 95, 106
Jack and Jill (G.I. Jake) - 90
Jakupi, Erjon (aka John Jacobs) - 75
James, Woody - 110
Jester, The - 100
Johnson (alleged Mole Man) - 53
Johnson, Hildy - 98
Joker (G.I. Jake: Full Metal Overcoat) - 82
Jolson, Lemmy - 8, 26
Josie (Brazen Hearts, Fresh, On Sticks) - 50
Journeyman (follower of Trailmaster) - 87
Joyce-Lynn - 17
Junior (Regina’s Lt.) - 9
Ka-Ren - see Olson, Mackenzie
Kaylee - 6, 26
Kampmann, Jerry (Thiel Team Thicks) - 15
Kelly, Patsy - 109
Kennedy, Zep - 27
Kepperman (radio commercial director) - 62
Kermit the Spy (Sesame Highway) - 45
Kleinfelter, George (ghost) - 109
Kowalchuk, George - 75
Kravatsky, Madame - 109
Land Lord - see Beltran, Cal
Lanford, Cramont (formerly The Shade-caster) - 26
Lavinia (good clone of Emma Legrand) - 29, 30, 31
Lefcowicz ("Lefty") - 109
Legrand, Carmine - 28, 30, 31
Legrand, Emma clones (evil) - 27, 29, 30
Legrand, Emma clone (ambivalent, aka Emma Number Five) - 30 
Little Orphan Ayn - 45
Loner, The - 111
Longfellow, Karina (hostess of You Must Remember That) - 86
Loteks, Willie - 114
Louie (one of The Shade's disgruntled irregulars) - 79
MacDonald, George / Tronno - 43
MacGuffin, Mike Rowe “Film” - 35
MacGuffin, John Shamus (aka Matthias Klemperer?)  - 50
Mackinder, Gary - 11, 26, 62, 88, 96, 103, 113
Mackleby - 108
Macumbi, Laure (Red Herring Patrol) - 50
Mane, Largo - 12
Manhood - 104
Manticore, Jason - 97
Manuel (one of The Cuttlefish's hired punks) - 77
Marsupial (Sesame Highway) - 45
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary (G.I. Jake) - 90
Massacre Janitor - 55
Mat Ban - see Waining, Brutes
Mathai, Sam (retired villain/hero Time Master, aka Gruncle Sam) - 39
Mathory, Countess Elizabeth (Sesame Highway) - 45
McChuff (C.H.U.F.) - 48
Meat Cute (formerly Filet Mignon) - see The Debonaire
Mecha-Batrachian - 90
Melba - 3, 4, 36
Melman, Fievel (aka Fingers McGee) - 102
Merkel, Stumps (Democracy Pow) - 116
Meritnotcracy/Merithawkracy - 13
MetroGnome - 80
Mina (Harker) - 40
Miss Suzy (G.I. Jake) - 90
Mole Men - 53, 80
Montauk, Hal Regis / The Human Resource - 19, 23
Moon Patrol, The - 54
Morressier, Latthew / The Cherry Pachyderm - 24, 25, 26, 44, 53, 73, 94, 95, 96, 110
Moscardino, Martha Raydeen (aka Spitfire) - 66
Mug Number One - see Popper, Herman
Murgatroyd ("Murderer") - 99
Nalla - 61
Narrator, Billy, Jr. - 1, 2, 4, 5, 13, 68, 71, 72, 107, 111, 113
Narrator, Garrison - 23
Nickerson, Kip - 16
O’Davenport, Det. (pseudonym for Wertham Underground member) - 42, 85
O’Murphy, Ofc - 48
Offguard - see Spoljar, Edmund
Olson, Mackenzie / Ka-Ren - 15
Olson, Vickie / En Garde - 22, 85
Otila - 46
Parallel - 89
Patriarchy, Miss - 13
Paul (Phantasm’s associate) - 13
Pekar, Alonzo (The Baker) - 81
Pendergast, Roscoe - 16
Pepper Pals (Fatima and Violeta) - 39
Perimeter Tactical Crew (P.T. Crew) - 6, 82
Perry and the Tyrants - 45
Peterson, Bugsy (aka Vanessa Cholmondeley, aka Eye Captain) - 63
Phantasm, The - 13
Phelps, Steven - 16
Pitts, Zasu (celebrity voice impersonated poorly) - 107
Plays Volleyball Better Than You (G.I. Jake: Full Metal Overcoat) - 82
Pnakotic Reavers Amalgamated (death cult) - 57
Pneumatic, Johnny - 114
Ponderosa (G.I. Jake: Full Metal Overcoat) - 82
Popper, Herman / Mug Number One - 62
Pound of Flesh (G.I. Jake) - 37
Prompter, The (Vaudevillain’s crew) - 21
Public Ornery (Crotchety G and Hazy Hayes) - 116
Publisher, The - 59
PunGent, The (real name: Roscoe Eddington Sinjin-Neuman) - 75, 80, 104, 114
Querida - 33
Quincy (Van Helping’s asst) - 40 
Racism, Colonel - 13
Raven, Cliff (detective, Astral Police) - 109
Rayce and the Keeled Couriers - 15
Raydeen Difficile, June - 97
Red Herring Patrol - 50
Regina the Queenpin of Crime - see Wojciehowicz, Petra
Roan Ranger, The - 43
Roberta (Mat Ban’s sidekick) - 47, 100
Roboteer - see Gelbart, Demorge
Rodriguez, Carlos “Chuck” - 6
Rogers (Capt. Rogers’ Neighborhood) - 45, 54
Rosen, Lloyd - 1, 26, 100
Sad Sack (G.I. Jake: Full Metal Overcoat) - 82 
Salvatore (Roan Ranger’s horse) - 43
San Francisco - 90
Santopolis, Jill - 16
Satanic Claws (aka Jingle Baalzebub) - 44
S’creature (later Wild One, The) - 38
Scabrous, Harlan - 15, 100
Schwerk, Pat (aka Patchwork) - 92, 93
Screecher, The - 38, 89
Scout (follower of Trailmaster) - 87
Shade, The  - see Cranford, Lamont
Shaywood, Carlotta - 108
Sheetrock, Straw Bonnet - 74
Shuwatch, Francesca (Fran) / Fran’s Stormers - 15
Sickubus - 94
Silver Cyclist, The - 104
Sinjin-Neuman, Roscoe Eddington - See The PunGent
Sirena - 94
Smokeless Joe - 93
Smythe, Wing Commander Terence (Red Herring Patrol) - 50
Snowball (G.I. Jake: Full Metal Overcoat) - 82
"Soupmeat" Souvide - 52
Spaghetti (G.I. Jake: Full Metal Overcoat) - 82
Spoljar, Edmund /The Offguard (formerly Blackjack) - 22
Spy Smasher - 64
Standofficer - 55
Stern, Agent Ralph (Radio Narrative Vice Squad) - 114
Strategic Hamlet (G.I. Jake) - 37
Strikeforce Shakespeare (G.I. Jake) - 37
Stud (G.I. Jake: Full Metal Overcoat) - 82
Superior Firepower (G.I. Jake: Full Metal Overcoat) - 82
Suspicious Character - 109
Tadodaho (Red Herring Patrol) - 50
Talmadge, Kern - 105
Thewgosh - 14
Theywontthey, William - 106
Thiel Team Thicks - 15
Threadgill, Papo (fictional bit player in Birth of a Nation) - 86
Three Blind Mice (G.I. Jake) - 90
Tiger Men of Mars - 45, 54
Time Master - see Mathai, Sam
Titlist, The - 101, 104, 106
Tomlinson, Berta (formerly Bert) - 27
Tonson, Oliver J. (Acting Director of ICE) - 15
Tourniquetto, D’ombudsman (aka D’om, Buddy) - 34
Toxic Masquerader (G.I. Jake: Full Metal Overcoat) - 82
Trailboss - 87
Trailmaster, The - 87
Tronno - see MacDonald, George
Trufflo, Madame Vincenza (alias Anya Carnova) - 42
Van Helping, Prof. Abraham - 40
Vastopol, Nuryemik / The Heist Row Maestro - 47
Vaudevillain, The - 21
Vermin, Kelp - 27, 30
Viscount, The (Sesame Highway) - 45
Vrice (attorney, no first name given) - 112
Vulpe, Sergiu (aka Staff Sgt. Biff Whitebread. Vulpe may also be a fake name.) - 40
Waining, Brutes (aka Mat Ban) - 99, 100
Wallerstein - 27, 30 
Warner, The - 67
Wellington, J. - 71
Westlaw, Peetie - 8, 21
Whispering Wind (Margaret) - 60, 100
Whitman (G.I. Jake: Full Metal Overcoat) - 82
Whitmore, Ralph (detective, Astral Police) - 109
Wilma (Colonel) - 45, 54
Winifred - 8 (name not mentioned in episode), 21
Wojciehowicz, Petra / Regina - 5, 17, 26, 41, 46, 69, 75, 89, 99, 100, 106
Wojciehowicz, Verne - 69
Wordsmith - see Zapata, Roberto
World Crime Syndicate - 13
Xenophobe, The - 13
Yanker (G.I. Jake: Full Metal Overcoat) - 82
Zapata, Roberto / Wordsmith (aka Shoe Shine Man, Word on the Street Smith, Word Smith on the Street) - 2, 17, 19, 20, 24, 37, 41, 49, 65, 70, 81, 85, 103, 104, 107
Zipjam, Flinch - 51
Zonina - 15 (name not mentioned in episode), 48
Zulo, Toby - 88
Zwitek, Casimir - 80


Yeah, I got carried away. The characters or groups below were mentioned in the episode numbers listed beside their names, but did not have any lines.

A-Frame, The (aka The Grounded Crew) - 101
Abolysche, Sgt. Lester - 24
Alley Katherine - 65, 92, 107
Apple Cider Vinegar Consortium - 15, 47, 48, 49, 73, 88
Armstrong, Jack (the All-American Boy) - 25, 107
Astral Police - 107
Aunt Sadie (Brazen Hearts, Fresh, On Sticks) - 50
Aviain'tors, The (aviation-themed villain group) - 66
Backdoor Pilot, The - 66, 96
Badcopowitz, Det. - 7, 17, 26, 42, 55
Bar Stool - 82, 85, 88
Baker, The - 90, 92
Bates, Gil - 20, 41, 97
Big Oat Tree, The - 15, 78
Benton, Bob / The Black Terror - 24, 26, 37, 41, 59, 64, 82, 97
Black Terror - see Benton, Bob
Bloodworth, "Hacksaw" Drac - 99
Bobo Skinny Wotten Totten (G.I. Jake) - 90
Brainclaw - 60, 86
Brainstorm - 60, 86
Breed, Ritt / The Emerald Ash Borer - 8, 11, 13, 15, 24, 33, 37, 39, 47, 49, 50, 51, 53, 59, 62, 72, 74, 82, 88, 91, 92, 96, 100, 101, 105, 106, 109
Bronski, Cristobal / Skee-Ball - 41
Bunker Homes and Gardens (magazine) - 29, 32, 38, 42, 44
Butcher, The - 81, 90
Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker (G.I. Jake trio) - 90
Camembert, Herman Melman (deceased) - 112
Candlestick Maker, The (G.I. Jake) - 90
Candyman, The - 81
Cannibalistic Electrical Vinegar Fellas - 75
Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Fellers (CHUFs) - 24, 26, 44, 48, 49, 53, 70, 73, 80, 82, 114
Cappadocia (crime family) - 88, 91
Captain Capitalism - 47
Captain Freedom - 24
Carper, Nick - 29, 37
Castro (COBRA high command) - 66, 91
Castro (EAB's valet) - 11, 13, 24, 31, 42, 47, 56, 62, 66, 74, 85, 88, 90, 101
Catch-2022 - 105, 116
Champion Helpmeets of the Ululating Fungi (CHOUFs) - 53, 114
Charmaine, Lt. - 60
Cherry Pachyderm - see Morressier, Latthew
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) - 66
Constant, Carmela - 26
Corman, Roger - 34, 107
Cranford, Lamont / The Shade - 8, 9, 11, 26, 41, 49, 74, 80
Crypt O’Knight - 50
Daddy Warbread - 45
Dane, Mark - 13, 80
De La Glace, Maxine (owner of perfume shop on Dequindre) - 75
Debo, Capt. Hassan Pfeffer - 66, 82
Debonaire, The (formerly Meat Cute and before that Filet Mignon) - 79, 99
Defenders of the Hearth - 13, 26, 37, 41, 88
Gelbart, Demorge / The Roboteer - 93
Denise - 73
Dennedy, Ked - 28
Destroyer, The - 11, 22, 24, 26, 64, 82, 97
Desty, Caroline “Ma” - 48
Deviloper, The - 33
Disemboweler, The - 99
Doberman and Collie (radio show) - 50, 73, 107, 110
Doc Savage - 19, 25
Doc Salvage - 19, 20, 23, 31, 32, 33, 35, 66, 80, 89
Doctor Intellectual Property Master - 14, 79
Drearmid, Augustus - 108
Drummond, Ace - 82
Earl of Sandwich - 81
Emerald Ash Borer - see Breed, Ritt
Esty, Heathcliffe “Mod” - 24
Eugenicists Targeting Skin Conditions First for Genocide (ETSCONFOG, villain org) - 80
FalkGPT (Falk Gun-Packing Trained Transformation) - 93
Farlowe, Bim - 9, 24, 53
Fashion Police - 10, 38, 49 
Flaming Carrot - 25
Flannery, Gert (gangster) - 27
Flegworth, Birdsley - 73, 108
Fleming, Garth - 27
Flinch Zipjam - 66, 93
Fran's Stormers - 66
Freeman (first name not given) - 7
Funman (company) - 28
GentrifierStarter, The (or GentriFirestarter) - 33, 47, 79
Ghost Pepper and The Pepper Pals - 79, 81
G.I. Jake - 88
Green-Eyed Monster - 107
Greenstreet (crime family, Kenneth, Orson, Denton, maybe Bertie) - 70, 75, 88, 102, 106, 111
Greenstreet, "Kidney" - 99
Grigson, Sheila - 30
Godfrey, Arthur - 26
Golombek, Unteroffizier - 50
Gorman, Slash - 13, 60, 66, 80
Grappelli, Alderman - 9, 23, 24, 66, 78
Hat on a Hat - 82
Head Cheese - 60, 86
Head Honcho - 86
Head Master, The - 60, 86
Holy Sisters of the Bleeding Shelter - 33
Homeplate Horrorshow - 39
Hot Cross Buns (G.I. Jake) - 90
Hot Tomato - 94
Human Resource, The - see Montauk, Hal
InforMatrix - 73
InforMatron, The - see Zapata, Jennifer Zapata
International Brotherhood of Electrical Villains - 3, 22, 47, 48, 49, 73, 77, 114
Iwerks, Ub - 25
Jakupi, Erjon (aka John Jacobs) - 70
Javier’s Academy for Gifted Orators and Feral Fighters (JAGOFFs, ex-J-Men, XJ-Men) - 38, 44
Jolson, Lemmy - 9, 22, 24, 44
Juvenile Delinquent, The - 39
Keiko (Negative Space) - 51, 88
Lange, Lotus - 111
Leesdale, Garson - 42
Legion of Villains, Vinegar and Underghouls (LOVVU) - 49, 75
Legrand, Carmine - 27
Legrand, Millicent - 28
Limpet, The Incredible Mister - 99
Little Bo-Peep (G.I. Jake) - 90
Little Jack Horner (G.I. Jake) - 90
Little Boy Blue (G.I. Jake) - 90
Little Miss Muffet (G.I. Jake) - 90
Lollipop Mutiny / Mutiny on the Lollipop - 13, 50
Lothario - 13, 80
Lugoshi, Bela - 40
Ma’am E - 8, 17
MacGuffin, Mike Rowe “Film” - 50, 59
Mackinder, Gary - 37, 50, 59, 64, 73, 78, 105, 110
Madonn’ - 17, 38, 43
Man-Jack - 82
Mane, Largo - 26
Ma Roan - 17, 43
Massacre Janitor, The - 80
Mastroiani, Anthony Junior (Regina's right hand man?) - 75
Mat Ban - 8, 11, 19, 24, 33, 37, 38, 39, 47, 56, 73, 88
Mazzuchelli, Zachary Horace (aka “Prof.” Javier Proud Feather, Prof. J) - 38
McDonald's Raiders - 90 - aviators in Spanish Civil war comprised of The Grim Ace, Birdy, M.C. Cheese, Big Mac, McDonald and a burglar.
Meat Cute (aka Filet Mignon) - see The Debonaire
Melba - 73
Meritnotcracy/Merithawkracy - 47, 66
Micro (freelance reader for The Publisher) - 59
Mind Bender - 60, 86
MODICUM (Mental Organism Designed to Increase Common Usage of Murder) - 86
Montauk, Hal Regis / The Human Resource - 20, 50
Moorehead, Agnes - 29
Morressier, Latthew / The Cherry Pachyderm - 50, 82, 92, 104
Murderalizer, The - 7, 24, 81, 105
Mushroom People - 114
Mutually Destructive Radio Network - 107
My Little Zony: Friendship is Witchcraft - 15
National Restaurateurs Association - 73, 81
O'Davenport (Detective) - 81, 103
Octopus, The - 38
Offguard, The - See Spoljar, Edmund
Olson, Vickie / En Garde - 88
Palooka Caviar - 82
Paul (associate of The Phantasm) - 50
Pfaltzgraff, Leutnant - 50
Phantasm, The - 11, 17, 26, 37, 49, 50, 53, 79, 80, 97, 100
Phantom, The - 84
Phantom Headlights - 39
Prax, Verdugo - 95
Proud Mary (riverboat queen, villainess) - 76
PT Crew (Perimeter Tactical Crew) - 26, 73
Publisher, The - 82
Puppeteer, The - 60
Racism, Colonel - 15
Ranger Joe (cereal mascot) - 65
Rayce and the Keeled Couriers - 39, 66
Red Herring Patrol, The - 51, 81
Regina, the Queenpin of Crime - see Wojciehowicz, Petra
Restless Yeggs - 49
Review of Radical Political Economics - 44
Ring Around the Rosie (G.I. Jake) - 90
Roan Ranger, The - 50, 55, 108, 116
Roberta (Mat Ban’s sidekick) - 19, 38, 39
Roboteer, The - see Gelbart, Demorge
Rogers, Capt. - 60, 66, 104
Rosen, Lloyd - 41, 96
S'creature (aka Wild One, The) - 92
Screecher, The - 49, 92
Secret Wars on Critical Hearths - 37, 41
Shade, The - see Cranford, Lamont
Shadow, The - 25
Shot (of the duo Shot and Chaser) - 104
Simmons, (Delegate) - 9, 23
Six-Spotted Tiger Beetle (Negative Space, secret identity Brix Ream) - 51, 93
Skee-ball - see Bronski, Cristobal
Skullduggery - 60, 86 
Soft Shoulder and Jailbait - 39
Spider, The - 80
Spoljar, Edmund /The Offguard (formerly Blackjack) - 85
Spy Smasher - 68
Steve and The Steveadores - 96
Stoker, Bram - 40
Stranger Danger - 67
Strategic Hamlet - 53
Strikeforce Shakespeare (G.I. Jake) - 66
Suspicious Character - 112
Talbot, Larry "Hairy Knuckles" - 99
Taylor, Owen (chauffeur from The Big Sleep) - 27
Testarosa, Garfield (deceased) - 109
Thewgosh - 17, 46
This Little Piggy (G.I. Jake) - 90
Tief, Moses Eugene “Injury to the Eye Moe” - 39, 71
Tiger Ma’am - 45
Todd, Thelma - 107, 109
Tracy the Dick - 19, 96
Tronno - 108
Uber Mensch, The - 33
Union of Gentlemen's Gentlemen Local 190 - 106
Vandenberg, Claudio - 109
Vaudevillain, The - 49, 79, 83, 85
Wertham, Dr. Fredric - 39
Wertham Underground, The - 39, 42
Wojciehowicz, Petra / Regina - 9, 10, 24, 51, 81, 85, 88, 94
Wordsmith - see Zapata, Roberto
Worseheimer (police detective?) - 17
World Crime Syndicate - 14, 26, 37, 41, 47, 65, 80
Zapata, Jennifer / The Informatron - 53, 61, 79, 82, 88, 92, 96, 104, 107
Zapata, Roberto / Wordsmith (aka Shoe Shine Man, Word on the Street Smith, Word Smith on the Street) - 17, 20, 26, 39, 40, 41, 53, 79, 82, 88, 96
Zeppelins vs. Pterodactyls - 50
Zipjam, Flinch - 88
Zoltan, Flick - 69

Almost all episodes have been set within Parabellum City, a "toddlin class town" nicknamed "The City That Never Misses" or "Pee City." This section spells out specific neighborhoods or locations mentioned in episodes. Some episodes may not be listed because they were set in general locations like a street or alley.

abandoned grade school - 1, 8, 22, 38, 61, 64 (mentioned 66, 76)
Abbandando Olive Oil Company (mentioned) - 68
Abbandando Street (near abandoned grade school & storefronts) - 93
Acme Funhouse Arcade (mentioned) - 41, 102
Airship Islington - 36
airship of The Backdoor Pilot - 50
apartment of Ritt Breed - 9, 10
automat (Telegraph road and Bochco, mentioned) - 55
Avage IV (planet) - 116
Bartok (street?) - 58
Bermuda Club (across the state line, mentioned) - 93
Beveled Deer Hotel - 27
Black Bottom - 102
Bochco (road? mentioned) - 55
Bradfield (fictional? town from The Loner radio show) - 111
Candelabra, The (store on Gazpacho Boulevard) - 42
Caribbean - 95
Carnegie Library (mentioned) - 67, 93
Central Junior High (corner Delvecchio and Telegraph Road, mentioned) - 74
city morgue - 26
County General Hospital - 81, 83
courthouse - 2
Cranford Building - 12
Crow Bar (abandoned) - 93
Delvecchio (road? mentioned) - 74
Dequindre (road?) - 59 (mentioned 75, 86)
Dietrich Furs (mentioned) - 47
docks/wharf - 71, 76, 77
D.O.T. Precision Auto - 34
drug store of Bob Benton (near city hall) - 11
Dulecki's Suds 'n Fluff (corner of Bartok and Robeshaw, mentioned) - 58
Europa - 116
Fargo Theatre - 97
farmhouse outside of town (ruins in later episodes) - 13, 43, 90 (mentioned 41)
Farner Road (mentioned) - 37
Gallery of the Emerald Ash Borer - 9, 10, 20, 51 (mentioned 82)
Gazpacho Boulevard - 29, 53, 67 (mentioned 42, 52, 55, 68, 103)
Greektown - 29
Gristle Park - 18, 19, 45, 60, 78, 81, 82, 87, 94, 101, 104, 114 (mentioned 23, 85, 88)
Grotto Club - 28, 30, 31, 49, 95, 106
Hammond, Indiana (mentioned) - 53
Heck's Pantry - 17, 37, 40, 44, 52, 59, 68, 69, 88, 93, 96, 107 (mentioned 58, 87)
InforMatron's office - 85
Knights of Pythias hall - 15, 72
Ladybug Republic - 74
Lex (street that crosses Gazpacho Blvd) - mentioned 103
Limeytown - 78
London, Ontario - 95
Lou's Diner (hangout of hoodlums, mentioned) - 58
Mackinac Island (mentioned) - 38
Madame Trufflo's Wax Museum (store on Gazpacho Boulevard, mentioned) - 42
Magnum Diner - 34
Marksman and Spencer (department store) - 73
Marquette Avenue - 75, 84, 93
Marquette Avenue Library (abandoned) - 93
Mechanic Street - 88, (mentioned 81, 86, 87, 89)
Morning Post offices - 98
Myrmidon (street?) - 53
Negative Space (mentioned) - 51
Oak Street (mentioned) - 89, 95
Our Lady of the Immaculate Medal Girls' School - 43 (mentioned 81)
Parabellum City Hall - 79
Parabellum Heights - 108 (mentioned in 3, 6, 16, 19, 38, 81, 86, 89, 93, 106)
Parabellum Motor Speedway (mentioned) - 48
Parabellum Parlor (aka Parabellum Parlor Arcade, mentioned) - 22, 41
Parabola Square Garden - 99
Patisserie par Avion (pie shop, mentioned) - 68
People's Drive - 53, 55
pinball factory (mentioned) - 6, 9, 32, 49, 56, 57, 63
playground - 5
police station, Twelfth Precinct - 7
police station, Verf Street - 55, 89
Potter Savings and Loan (mentioned) - 47
Reichenbach Mortuary - 26
Remington Arms (mentioned) - 69
Robeshaw (street?) - 58
Roebuck-Ward Building - 89
Roxy Theatre, Verf Street - 21, 115
salt mines - 91, 92
Sam's Clock Shop - 39 (mentioned 47)
San Francisco, CA (mentioned) - 27, 33, 76, 87, 90, 94
San Francisco, Tabasco, Mexico (mentioned) - 19
Santopolis (west of Parabellum City) - 36, (mentioned 32, 61, 76, 88, 94, 107)
Sixth Dimension - 83
Starship Kittycat, in space - 54
surplus store, People's Drive and Gazpacho - 55
Swarthinghamton, West-Southwest London (mentioned) - 73
Telegraph Road - 23, 67, 100 (mentioned 6, 41, 56, 68, 69, 74, 78, 79)
Terf Alley - 81 (mentioned 66)
Verf Street - 25, 65, 82, 100, 104, 114 (mentioned 21, 22, 33, 37, 41, 47, 52, 55, 61, 63, 68, 86, 88, 89, 102)
Verf Street Cafe - 25, 65, 102
West-Southwest Side - 42, 53, 58, 64 (mentioned 10, 88)
Whitetail Estates (gated community near Parabellum Heights,mentioned) - 19
Winchester Cafe - 48
Wojo's Heating and Plumbing - 69
woods (near farmhouse outside of town) - 14
WPBC newsroom - 16
WPBC Radio Building - 16, 25, 47, 62 (mentioned 96)
Zapata home - 65, 70, 85


The products, services or public service announcement topics below were advertised in the episode numbers listed after their names.

A-Frame, The (aka The Grounded Crew) - 101
Alan (fan) - 63
Angina Theater - 15
Apple Card - 100
Astral Police - 109
Astro Police - 107
ASWIPE (Airship Society for Work, Industry, Progress and Education) - 36, 50
Azalea Ammo Company - 110
Banned Camp - 90 (actual podcast)
Bar M Ranch Dairy - 62
Barney's Beanery - 96
Benzedrine Sulphate (text from actual magazine ad) - 102
Bestwill - 112
Betterwill - 112
Blazed All Our Lives (promo for a real podcast!) - 65
Blighco - 16, 18, 19, 21
Block Chain - 92
Candelabra, The (candle shop) - 42
Candlestick Maker, Murder for hire - 102
Carter's Little Liver Pills (recording of actual old radio commercial) - 67
Cash for Diabetic Test Strips - 93
Choplivria - 14
Chullo hats (crocheted by me, real ad) - 103
Chumley Hamster Farm - 78
Cloned Ike B.A.R. - 23
Content Warmings - 56
Crowd Casting Services - 75
D.O.T. Precision Auto - 34
Debonaire, The - 81
Ditcoin - 35
Doberman and Collie (fake police show) - 17
Emerald Ash Borer, The - 12, 24, 104, 116
Exeunt Commercial Real Estate - 61
Farmer Jacques Savings Time - 52
Forbidden Technologies (twinning and memory recording devices) - 30
Four Guys Singing Around A Burning Barrel - 44
Funk & Wagnall's New Standard Encyclopedia - 76
Gambling Hotline at KLondike BOOK-E - 102
GentriFireStarter's Slander Lawsuit - 95
GIRD (Growing Innovation in Radio Drama) - 58
God Chat with God and Tony (promo for a real podcast!) - 49
Go-Gos, The (radio show, aka Strikeforce Copper Lightning) - 10
Hamster Sex - 97
Healthy Smiles Tobacco - 79
"Henley's Away to Shropshire" radio mini-series - 73
Hyperbole - 71
InforMatron, The - 49
International Brotherhood of Electrical Villains apprenticeship program - 78
Johnson Smith School of Biological Taxonomy - 77
Katz Blue Ribbon Beer (old recording of commercial from Eddie Cantor’s Pabst Blue Ribbon Show) - 41
Kevin Trudeo's book, Detonators, Timers and Explosives Made From Everyday Household Items "They" Don't Want You To Know About - 39
Keyne's Produce - 69
Ladybug Orders Tomato Seeds (feature film) - 85
Ladybug Republic Convention and Visitors Bureau - 74
Liebfraumilch - 88
Life Brand Trigger Locks - 25
Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities, short story collection by Robert Thomas Northrup (for real, though!) - 53
Liver Pills (Horsford's or George Piscataway's) - 95
Loner, The (fake radio show) - 111
Lundt’s Toilet Soap (includes excerpt of old Lux ad) - 27
Lurphry's Cork - 86
Mac Med (radio drama) - 43 
Madison On the Air (actual audio drama podcast) - 82
Mastery of the Silver Ball (advice book by Tommy Walker) - 95
Mime and Monk Show, The - 80
Minced Oats Playhouse (radio drama anthology) - 60
Modern Mechanix (magazine) - 55
Moss - 89
MyWakizashi - 11
Narrator, Bill, Sr. - 64
National Restauranteurs Association - 81
National Rifle Manufacturers Association - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 20, 23, 26, 32, 56, 57, 100
Negative Space - 51
Octoberpod AM (actual podcast) - 94
Old Time Radio Wrestling Federation - 15
Peanut Butter (Big Peanut) - 84
Pinball Betting Hotline - 102
Pizzicato (formerly the Parabellum City Area Transit System) - 59
Postum (old recording) - 31
Power - 37
Prophetic Journals Full of Clues Corporation - 91
Red Herring Patrol (radio show) - 50
Red Sorghum Hot Breakfast Paste (Earth Defender Kit premium from Capt. Rogers' Neighborhood) - 54
Regrets - 114
Religious Wall Mottoes (ad text from September 1953 comic book Weird Terror number 7) - 22
Robots, "It's not our fault!" - 95
Rocky Bullhorn's Stone Elixir (Cherry Pachyderm, "There Is No Such Thing As Chili") - 95
Saint Wladislaw's Ladies’ Auxiliary Fundraiser Cookbook - 69
Sal Hepatica (old recording) - 9
Sesame Highway - 45
Skelly Asbestos Supply (Billy Club/Rubber Hand Giveaway) - 113
Sportsmans stores (old recording with new section added) - 33
Spring Fashions (US Hotrod Truck Pull Nationals) - 48
Steak Mart - 69
Third Act Problem Script Doctors - 75
Treasure Rex (gold-plated toys) - 116
United States Space Force - 68
United States War Bonds (promoted by Catch-2022) - 87
Viking Chicks / Rochester Breeding Farms Hatchery - 46
Waining Academy of Wrestling - 99
We Buy Houses - 95
We Degentrify Neighborhoods - 95
Wilkinson, Flask and Sottovoce (advertising agency) - 66
Wireless Radiolab Oratory - 83
WOKM (News Talc 970 AM radio) - 62


Shows mentioned in dialog or fake commercials within This Gun in My Hand. Not a comprehensive list. Most "heroes" of a certain level that Falk comes in contact with have their own show, including Falk at some points. See Ad Index for promos from real podcasts used in this podcast.

Angina Theater - 15
Astral Police - 109 (fake ad)
Astro Police - 107 (fake ad)
Billy Narrator, Boy Detective - 113 (full episode)
Brazen Hearts, Fresh, On Sticks - 50 (Listen to the actual podcast, 12 episodes from 2006-2008)
Capt. Rogers’ Neighborhood - 45, 54
Chap Zero's House of Traps - 116
Cherry Pachyderm's InfoTree Radio Hour - 96
Chick Quasar, Space Stevedore - 116
Dana the Explaina - 45
Democracy Pow - 116
Doberman and Collie (fake police show) - 17, 116
Eccentric Houseboat Detective - 106
Emerald Ash Borer - full episodes 9, 56
Father Clogin's The Protocols of the Elderberry Flowers of Zion - 62, 107
Go-Gos, The (radio show, aka Strikeforce Copper Lightning) - 10
Gun Doctor - 116
"Henley's Away to Shropshire" radio mini-series - 73
Hot Dog, This Guy's Got Moxie - 97 (full episode)
InfoMars with Alex Johansen - 62, 107
Information Wants To Be Free, But For You It's Two Bits - 70 (full episode), 85
Little Orphan Ayn - 45, 107
Loner, The - 111
Mac Med (radio drama) - 43 
Mackinder: Secret Agent to the Stars - 96
Mime and Monk Show, The - 80, 116
Minced Oats Playhouse (radio drama anthology) - 60
Old Time Radio Wrestling Federation - 15
Perry and the Tyrants - 45
Phantasm, The - 13
Red Herring Patrol (radio show) - 50
Roan Ranger, The - 43 (full episode)
Sesame Highway - 45
Shade, The (full episode) - 79
"That’s Not Worth a Bluebird in the Pocket to Me, Chump!" - 27
You Must Remember That - 86
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