Parallel - Episode 89

How will Falk prevent the series of attacks happening simultaneously across Parabellum City, launched by Parallel, the most dangerous villain yet? Will it be a sporting fight or will Parallel show poor form? Listen to find out!

Parallel, episode 89 of This Gun in My Hand, was pulled together from disparate pieces 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, archives, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What ensures all the threads come together at the climax? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. It’s not a bad Sean Connery impression you’re hearing. It’s a bad Sebastian Gorka. Damn, I should have pronounced it “clark” instead of “clerk.”

2. This episode was inspired by movies and shows like The Phantom Menace, Return of the Jedi, Stranger Things Season 4 (part one?). Did they use this multi-setting climax technique in many or any movies in the 1930s?

Credits:
The opening music 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.

Fake commercial music is from the public domain film Five for Hell (5 PER L'INFERNO, 1969).

Sound Effect Title: Elevator Door opens and closes
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/NachtmahrTV/sounds/556699/

Sound Effect Title: Radio tuning-static-interference
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/quantumriver/sounds/552160/

Sound Effect Title: Flat Button Clicks
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Phil25/sounds/202909/

Sound Effect Title: Old radio, switch on, humming, warming up, noise, switch off, 1950s, 1960s
By YleArkisto
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/sounds/349912/

Sound Effect Title: Fail (Trombone wah, wah, wah…) - Sound Effect.mp3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/NikPlaymostories/sounds/563850/

Sound Effect Title: S10-21 Pottery fall and breaks; several takes.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/675897/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the public domain cover of New Story Magazine (April 1913), artist unknown.

Plan of Attack - Episode 88

Can two criminals on the run unite the crime families of Parabellum City with one shared purpose? Can Falk stop them in time? Should he? Listen to find out!

Plan of Attack, episode 88 of This Gun in My Hand, was officiated 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, archives, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. “What can I get for you fellas?” This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. There was no consensus or large group of credible scientists in the Twentieth Century claiming that another ice age was coming soon. It was always a fringe belief. I’m not using a handful of Erich Von Däniken-adjacent crackpots to argue against the overwhelming scientific consensus today about impending climate catastrophe. It’s just funny that the tiny minority of ice age warners were so wrong.

2. Fascinating article about honey bee sex. Did you know that male bees have no father, they do have a grandfather, they can be fathers to daughters, granddaughters and grandsons, but they can’t have sons?

https://wisconsinpollinators.com/Bee/BA_HoneyBeeSex.aspx

3. It kills me that The Green Hornet radio show had episodes about narrowly focused crimes like the vanity publishing racket, the citizenship papers racket, a protection racket that bombed fruit stands, a protection racket that bombed gas stations, and another protection racket for parking lot attendants.

4. When I was in elementary school in the late 1970s, there was a big fuss locally about banning kids from selling or possessing red hot cinnamon toothpicks in school. Basically toothpicks boiled in flavored water or syrup and you chew or suck on them like gum. I don’t remember if the danger was that some kids were allergic or poking themselves or each other or swallowing them, or just that students selling things was “disruptive” unless it was girl scout cookies or book sales.

5. In the Commodore 64 version of the game Castle Wolfenstein, you could find useful items on dead guards or in supply chests including bullets, grenades, keys, uniforms, sauerkraut and Liebfraumilch.

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.

Machine gun fire sound taken from the public domain film Commandos (1968).

Löwenbräu jingle (“Here’s to Good Friends”) written by Bill Backer. I’m hoping companies aren’t too strict about copyright for 45 year old commercials. Parody counts as “fair use,” right?

Song Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 61 Wedding March (Mendelssohn)
Composed by Felix Mendelssohn
Performed by “European Archive” (Czech National Symphony Orchestra?)
License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/317-a-midsummer-nights-dream-op-61/

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/

Sound Effect Title: Kimmokkeita / Ricochets
By YleArkisto
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/sounds/401921/

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 the public domain cover of Popular Detective magazine, Volume 16, Number 2 (February 1939), by Rafael DeSoto.

Trailmaster - Episode 87

Will Falk be mastered by The Trailmaster? Which man leaves a longer trail of bodies? What does “GORP” stand for? Listen to find out!

Trailmaster, episode 87 of This Gun in My Hand, was blazed and trailed 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, archives, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What heroic nickname have I given to my most devoted henchman? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. “PR Monster” aka “Preezy” is an artist whose works and tags can be seen in at least two cities in southern Michigan, probably more. 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.

2. The bouncy, chipper music used in the commercial is titled “BULLETS AND BAYONETS” by John Philip Sousa.

Credits:
The opening music 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 Title: Bullets and Bayonets
Composed by John Philip Sousa
Performed by The United States Marine Band
License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/43780-bullets-and-bayonets/

Music Title: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 - Morning Mood
Composed by Edvard Grieg
Whistled by Rob Northrup
License: Public Domain

Sound Effect Title: Park ambience - mostly birds
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mafon2/sounds/274175/#

Sound Effect Title: some cows
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/vermontrobinsson/sounds/529448/

Sound Effect Title: Cows.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/mikewest/sounds/394220/

Sound Effect Title: Cutlery drawer
License: Public Domain
http://soundbible.com/591-Cutlery-Drawer.html

Sound Effect Title: Glass Bottle Breaking
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/IENBA/sounds/607910/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a panel from the public domain comic book Mark Trail on Safari Number 5 (Summer 1959). Pencils and inks by Ed Dodd.