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.