A Gross of Goons - Episode 75

Too many crooks spoil the plot! Falk and Petra search the red light district for a burglar hiding from the mob. Will they view an agricultural exhibition? Have they found their happily-ever-after? What’s that smell? Listen to find out!

A Gross of Goons, episode 75 of This Gun in My Hand, was engrossed 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. How do I resolve third act problems? With This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Villains is just a funny name, not meant to smear IBEW or unions in general. The people who brought you weekends! Direct action gets the goods! Which side are you on? 

2. No, really, kinkajous have musk glands, live in Central and South America, and are alternately known as “honey bears” or “cuchi cuchi.” I have no idea what they smell like but I assume it’s not pleasant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou

3. Companies that handle titles for real estate really are a parasitic but legal racket. I wish Castro and the Emerald Ash Borer could bring them down.

4. Alternate rejected titles for this episode were “You Don’t Have to Put on the Stop Light” or “Too Many Crooks.”

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. The fake commercial music was from the public domain film The Scar (aka Hollow Triumph, 1948). Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

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: 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

Sound Effect Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)
By Carmelomike
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail from two sources. The man and woman in background are from the cover of Warrant for a Wanton (1953), art by Harry Schaare. The six hands with pistols surrounding them are from the cover of Wild West Weekly (December 10, 1938), art by Norman Saunders.

Fly Away Home - Episode 74

Lost keys, lost worlds, a zeppelin flight to the ant moon. Has Falk lost all sense of scale? Listen to find out!

Fly Away Home, episode 74 of This Gun in My Hand, was written by Rob Northrup, not by a ladybug. 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. Who wrote this episode? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Inspired by Melinda’s stories about Flicka the Ladybug, Dolores the Hamquatch, Marthra the Moth, and a cast of thousands.

2. Falk says, “Someone clouded my mind. If I ever get back to my right mind, I’ll give Lamont an earful.” He’s talking about Lamont Cranford, known as The Shade, able to cloud men’s minds by asking, “What object were you looking for when you stepped into this room?” Listen to Episode 12, “Made in The Shade.”

Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were 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: Park ambience - mostly birds
License: public domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mafon2/sounds/274175/#

Sound Effect Title: Mount Moganshan Insect Chorus
By: RTB45
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/RTB45/sounds/325321/
Insect chorus recorded one summer evening, Moganshan, Zhejiang Provence, People's Republic of China

Sound Effect Title: Dragonfly.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/antoineopeng/sounds/447319/

Music used in “Ladybug Republic Convention and Visitors Bureau” commercial is a modified version of “The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 - Sing While We Trip it Upon the Green (For Recorders - Papalin).”
Composed by Henry Purcell, 1692
Performed by Papalin
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://musopen.org/music/11140-the-fairy-queen-z629/

The image accompanying this episode is a combination of modified panels from National Comics, Number 55 (August 1946), pencils and inks by Andre LeBlanc; and Crime Detective Comics, Volume 3, Number 8 (May-June 1953), artist unknown. Both sources in public domain.

Escalating Pitch - Episode 73

What shameless criminal plans to disrupt the bake-off at the department store? Will Falk arrive in time, or will The Cherry Pachyderm get in the way with his endless pitches for Falk’s radio show? Listen to find out!

Escalating Pitch, episode 73 of This Gun in My Hand, was pitched and escalated 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’s the big idea? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. The ad was inspired by BBC costume dramas such as Middlemarch, Wives and Daughters, Cranford, Return to Cranford, Lark Rise to Candleford, The Paradise, North and South (by Mrs. Gaskell, not the US Civil War miniseries), Pride and Prejudice.

2. Latthew Morressier, aka “The Cherry Pachyderm,” first appeared in episode 24, “Consulting Defectives.”

3. Batman wore several versions of his costume in different rainbow colors in Detective Comics, Volume 1, Number 241 (March 1957). https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Detective_Comics_Vol_1_241

4. Flavia de Luce is an eleven year old girl in 1950s England who solves mysteries using her knowledge of chemistry and poisons, in a series of novels by Alan Bradley.

5. Opinions expressed by fictional characters do not represent those of Robert Thomas Northrup, especially what should go in chili.

Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were 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.

“British Drama” Song Title: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629
Composed by Henry Purcell, 1692.
Performed by Carl Pini, John Tunnell, Anthony Pini and Harold Lester.
License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/11140-the-fairy-queen-z629/

Sound Effect Title: Escalator
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/carlopatrao/sounds/631545/

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

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a photo titled “Berlin, Stadtbahnhof Alexanderplatz.” Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-C1114-0006-013 / Junge, Peter Heinz / CC-BY-SA 3.0. License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany.