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.