Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Dungeon of Suspense - Episode 91

Drawing of a stone wall with iron bars set where a window might have been. Black and white.

Who shackled Falk in a dungeon cell? How did he get there? How will he escape? How can he fill ten minutes when there’s no one to banter with? Listen to find out!

Dungeon of Suspense, episode 91 of This Gun in My Hand, was built by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialogue. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Who’s the companion that never leaves me alone in a prison cell? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Suggested viewing after you listen to this episode, or any time: John Carpenter’s The Fog, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Gravity Falls.
2. I have no idea if Argosy was hard or easy to get published in, never read it. It’s just the name of a magazine that was active in 1939, I think.
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Kyser%27s_Kollege_of_Musical_Knowledge
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ish_Kabibble
5. One of Anne Rice's novels opens with the line "The Vampire Lestat here." Reeaaallly killed the vibe for me.

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: R16-33-Chains Dragging.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/486285/

Sound Effect Title: R26-19-Foley Chains.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/481924/

Music Title: Lachrimæ, or Seaven Teares - 9. Sir Henry Umpton’s Funeral
Composed by John Dowland, 1604
Performed by I Solipsisti
Performance license: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://musopen.org/music/43281-lachrimae-or-seven-tears/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a drawing by H. Lanos, from a sketch by W.T. Maud, “Turkish prisoners sitting in a cell with a barred window,” public domain, published in The Graphic (London), 1896.

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Nursery Crimes - Episode 90

Comic book art of The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, her hands on hips, glowering at her children running around the giant, dilapidated shoe-home. Above her 1940s era US bombers and fighters move through bursts of flack.

Can Falk prevent a war between G.I. Jake and Castro? How many giant robots will be involved? Is knowing half the battle? Listen to find out!

Nursery Crimes, episode 90 of This Gun in My Hand, was transformed and rolled out 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. Who else did I need to introduce yet? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Some people claim the nursery rhyme “Ring Around the Rosie” was about the Bubonic Plague, but that interpretation appears to have developed after World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_Ring_o%27_Roses

2. The crimes of The Butcher are documented in Episode 79, “Shadow Taxi,” and The Baker in Episode 81, “Any Other Name.”

3. Listen to Banned Camp on your favorite podcast player. (That’s “Banned” with two Ns.)

4. Special guest appearance by Flicka the Ladybug as Mecha-Batrachian.

Credits:
The opening music clips 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.

Sound Effect Title: Sota, taistelu, rintama, jalkaväki / War, infantry at the front, a battle, various guns, automatics, weapons, various banging, mix
By: YleArkisto
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/sounds/265654/

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: Gun Fire
Recorded by GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html

Sound Effect Title: explosion bomb
By Jurgerius
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Jurgerius/sounds/473819/

Sound Effect Title: Räjähdys sisällä / Explosion, hollow, echoing, edit, interior
By: YleArkisto
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/sounds/347758/

Sound Effect Title: cows_mooing_mono_4824.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mystikuum/sounds/401636/

Sound Effect Title: lancaster bomber.wav
By confusion_music
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/confusion_music/sounds/103439/

Sound Effect Title: Farnborough Airshow > Lancaster flyover
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/surrey_film/sounds/162240/

Sound Effect Title: B-25 Mitchell Flyby
By Fight2FlyPhoto
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Fight2FlyPhoto/sounds/142887/

Sound Effect Title: Glock 19 Handgun Pistol Slide Cocking Sounds
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/jackmurrayofficial/sounds/393734/

Sound Effect Title: Chain Dropped
By BlastwaveFx.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/559-Chain-Dropped.html

Sound Effect Title: Hitting in a Face
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/florianreichelt/sounds/460509/

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

Sound Effect Title: Bricks/Stones/Rocks/Gravel Falling
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/iwanPlays/sounds/567249/

Sound Effect Title: G29-40-Theater Audience Laughing.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/438400/

Rice-A-Roni commercial circa 1970.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIH5cRqpzs0

Sound Effect Title: G50-01-Trolley Street Scene.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/437592/

Sound Effect Title: R28-47-Man and Woman Screaming.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/482833/

Sound Effect Title: Pink Noise 20 Sec.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/MATRIXXX_/sounds/443990/

The image accompanying this episode is modified from panels of the following public domain comic books:
Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics Number 41 (April 1944), art by Walt Kelly.
Flying Aces Number 3 (November 1955), artist unknown.