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Any Other Name - Episode 81

A single word on a scrap of paper, found in the hand of a poisoned informant. Will this clue bring down the biggest crime boss in the octo-state area? Listen to find out! Starring neither Leslie Jordan nor Charles Boyer.

Any Other Name, episode 81 of This Gun in My Hand, was cultivated 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. Only $2.99. Cheap! If you don't the quality because it's so cheap, feel free to pay $9.99. How did they know where to find me? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. I asked Melinda what she wanted next in an upcoming episode and she said roses. So of course I twisted it to my own purposes.
2. No offense intended to my relatives named Rose and Kelly and Kelly Rose. Am I wrong about Catholics favoring the name “Rose” and its variations? Who wouldn’t, though? Great name! I also didn’t mean to imply any of my relatives are secretly the Queenpins of Crime in their tri-state or octo-state areas. Regular listeners already know the secret identity of Regina. 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. Pekar is a surname that means “baker” in Croatian and a few other languages.

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

Sound Effect Title: Traffic mel 1.wav
By malupeeters
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/malupeeters/sounds/191350/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail from two public domain images. The gun and hand are from the cover of New Detective Magazine, Volume 8, Number 4 (July 1946), artist unknown. The roses are from a panel of Just Married, Volume 1, Number 11 (December 1959), pencils by Bill Molno, inks by Vince Alascia.

Second String - Episode 80

When the Defenders of the Hearth are busy propping up the financial world, will their backup squad of benchwarmers be able to put down an invasion of giant ants? No. But listen anyway!

Second String, episode 80 of This Gun in My Hand, was defended 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. Do you have any super-powered crime fighters or offensive technology to help in this fight? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Falk first encountered the Mole Men in “Struggle Session,” Episode 53.
2. The Mime and Monk Show is inspired by the Charlie McCarthy Show, with its absurd premise of listening to a ventriloquist on the radio so you just take their word for it that he wasn’t moving his lips. For Mime and Monk, you have to take the narrator’s word for everything.

Credits:
The opening and post-commercial 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.

Music Title (before commercial) : Kitten on the Keys
By Zez Confrey and his Orchestra (1922)
License: Public Domain
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_Various_Artists/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_05052009/Kitten_on_the_Keys/

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

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

(Spider robot feet clicking)
Sound Effect Title: MarbleGlass-HorseClick.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Harrisando/sounds/466208/

Sound Effect Title: clacking, rapid wind-up sound
By ChrisReierson
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/ChrisReierson/sounds/501027/

The public domain photo accompanying this episode is a modified version of “N.Y. parks - bench warmers, Union Sq.” from the Library of Congress. Photographer and subjects unknown, circa 1908.