Cultivating Leverage - Episode 57

In a hidden temple, chanting cultists debate whether to serve pincers hot or cold, which candles to use for their bloody rituals, & how to maximize suffering over the next quarter. Can Falk infiltrate their ranks & work his subtle methods to bring them down? Listen to find out!

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Show Notes:
1. I first heard the chant “Owa tagu siam” from wacky morning deejays on CKLW 800 AM radio, probably 45 years ago. Say one word of it at a time and ask someone to repeat the phrase after you as you until they get the hang of it. Then tell them to say it faster and faster until they realize they’re saying, “Oh what a goose I am.”

2. Let’s assume Brother Zogall was lying about closing a deal with Papa Jim’s Botanica, which is a real shop in San Antonio. They’ve sold voodoo and occult supplies, religious statues, etc. by catalog for decades and later on the web. (Remember, kids: 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.)

3. The National Rifle Association began hunter education courses in 1949. Clearly the NRMA is a totally different organization in a different world and different timeline than ours, dear listener, because This Gun in My Hand is set circa 1939.

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: bustle in the pub
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/organicmanpl/sounds/403285/

Sound effect title: Guests-at-party.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mickael_Leroi/sounds/402131/

Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/

Sound effect title: Gun Fire
By GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html

Sound Effect Title: "Destruction, Wooden, A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

Sound Effect Title: explosion_big_03.ogg
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/derplayer/sounds/587198/

Sound Effect Title: Rockfall in mine
By Benboncan
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/60085/

Sound Effect Title: Bricks/Stones/Rocks/Gravel Falling
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/iwanPlays/sounds/567249/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the front cover of Mystery Tales, Volume 3, Number 4 (March 1940), art by John Walter Scott. Public Domain.