Hush, Sweet Zildjian - Episode 60

Seventeen citizens lie in the grass, their minds devastated – caught in the psychic crossfire between a boisterous trencherman and a woman who dominates with a whisper. Will Falk Zildjian be permanently hushed? Listen to find out!

Hush, Sweet Zildjian, episode 60 of This Gun in My Hand, was mucked and chewed and whispered windily by Rob Northrup. Featuring Ernesto as the purring of Pyewacket. 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, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What added such flavor to the savory meal before me? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Pyewacket was the feline familiar of the witch played by Kim Novak in the 1958 film Bell, Book and Candle.

2. “Doberman & Collie” is a buddy cop radio show featured in a fake ad in Episode 17. Parabellum City’s hardest detectives were eventually assigned new partners, now appearing on “Collie & Pit.” Not sure if Doberman left after season two due to a contract dispute or because Hollywood beckoned, but the show seems to be picking up steam after his replacement by young Philip Michael Bullworth as Rico Pit. (In real life, I recently walked past the yard that inspired Doberman & Collie and this time I was barked at by a Collie and a Pit Bull. Whatever happened to the real Doberman, we wish him well.)

3. Did you catch all the minced oaths in the commercial? “Zounds,” a contraction of God’s wounds. “Gosh,” a variant on God. “Egad,” another variant on God. “Strewth,” a contraction of God’s truth. “Judas Priest,” a soundalike phrase to avoid saying Jesus Christ. “Dickens,” a substitute for The Devil. “Dagnabbit” = God damn it. “By Jim,” to avoid saying By God. “Consarn,” authentic frontier gibberish that sounds like God damn. “Darnit” = damn it.

Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips are from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music is 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: Park ambience - mostly birds
License: public domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mafon2/sounds/274175/#

Sound Effect Title: Rain - shower
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Alayan/sounds/396335/

Sound Effect Title: Cat meow
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/TRNGLE/sounds/362652/

Sound Effect Title: Car_motor_Sound.m4a
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Blizzard123/sounds/504633/#

Sound Effect Title: Electric razor
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/dylanperitz/sounds/452367/

Sound Effect Title: Electric razor 8 - travel razor
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/giddster/sounds/434991/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Detective Novel Magazine, Vol. XIX, No. 3 (July 1947), public domain, artist unknown.

Publisher War Zone - Episode 59

A man in black with a skull on his chest & a blazing tommy gun. His enemy, capable of forcing police & soldiers to do his bidding. Another guy who makes wisecracks from the future. Can Falk end their bloody feud? Listen to find out!

Publisher War Zone, episode 59 of This Gun in My Hand, was punished 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, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What am I gonna use to pry open that gate you’re guarding? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Horn & Hardarts was a chain of coin-operated self-serve restaurants popular in the middle of the Twentieth Century, also known as automats. Watch That Touch of Mink (1962) starring Doris Day for an overview.

2. The Black Terror is a public domain comic book character, last seen in Episode 11, “Curse of The Bubbe.” 

3. If The Publisher’s military service began in 1920, he might have deployed to Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua and a handful of times in China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations#1920%E2%80%931929

4. Gary Mackinder, agent to the biggest anti-heroes in Parabellum City, appeared in Episodes 11 and 26 of This Gun in My Hand.

5. Cloning fax machines are discussed in Episode 31, “Take A Powder.” But start with Episode 27, “Hardly Boiled.” It’s a five part mini-series.

6. Do not follow the advice presented by any of these characters thinking it’ll help you get published. How to humor rich people is a bigger mystery than anything these wannabe gumshoes have solved in 59 episodes. Hell, if I knew how to get published, would I be trying to sell my short story collection or other books with an unrelated podcast? 

Credits:
The opening music clip is from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music is 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.

Music during “Pizzicato” commercial: Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.4, F Minor, Op.36 - III. Scherzo Pizzicato
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Performed by European Archives, via Wikimedia Commons
License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/75-symphony-no-4-in-f-minor-op-36/#

Sound Effect Title: chugging diesel (bus) and rev.MP3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/CraftyIndividual/sounds/418436/

Sound Effect Title: diesel truck jake brake and air brake.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/nuncaconoci/sounds/555266/

Sound Effect Title: bus coach ext pull up brake air release idle.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/kyles/sounds/454420/

Sound Effect Title: Bus Closing Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/am7/sounds/520753/

Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/

Sound Effect Title: Machine gun.wav
By CGEffex
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/CGEffex/sounds/101962/

Sound Effect Title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
Recorded by Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of page 11 of the public domain comic book Crime and Punishment, Number 65 (January 1954), art by George Tuska. It also includes a modified detail from the public domain cover of America’s Best Comics, Number 24 (December 1947), art by Alex Schomburg.

Dew Drop Innuendo - Episode 58

How do you solve a problem like exchanging witty banter with a villain when his little girl Maria tags along? Has Falk Zildjian met his match in The Dizzy Bowler? Listen to find out!

Dew Drop Innuendo, episode 58 of This Gun in My Hand, was implied 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, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What happens when a mommy and daddy reallllly love each other? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. A “defenestrator” is someone who kills by throwing people out of windows.
2. Phonebooks were directories published annually or less frequently and distributed to all residents, in which a person could look up the names, telephone numbers and usually addresses of every person or business in a city or region. To remain private, customers actually had to pay the phone company extra to NOT list their personal information. In most cities, phone books were hundreds of pages long and two to three inches thick. It became a cliché for men to demonstrate their strength by tearing a phonebook in half. Yes, Falk Zildjian sometimes uses clichés.

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.

Music playing during the “Growing Innovation in Radio Drama” narration was from the public domain film The Scar (aka Hollow Triumph, 1948).

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

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

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail from page 34 of the public domain comic book Sweetie Pie, Volume 1, Number 2 (May 1956). Art probably by Nadine Seltzer.