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.