Rats in a Cage Match - Episode 99

Can Falk pin the corrupt boss of Parabellum City’s professional wrestling organization? Why is the crowd so quiet? Do frogs really stay in a pot of water if you turn up the heat gradually? Listen to find out!

Rats in a Cage Match, episode 99 of This Gun in My Hand, was slammed into a turnbuckle 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.
How do I pin a person to the mat? With This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. I was going to insert a sample of “Hey Murgatroyd, let’s go-o-oo!” from “Jam On It” by Newcleus, but I couldn’t isolate the vocal from the not-very-1939 music.
2. Falk might be thinking of the Wallace Beery wrestling picture Flesh (1932).
3. Don Knotts would count as an animal shapeshifter in The Incredible Mister Limpet (1964), right? I watched the full movie last night because that’s the level of commitment I bring to researching this show.
4. Regina slips up when she says, “I already said the episode title…” proving that she is really Petra! but Falk misses it.

Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950). The music clip during the commercial was from The Scar (1948, aka Hollow Triumph). The closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), all three 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: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/

Sound Effect Title: G39-09-Boxing Fight Bell.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/438626/

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

Sound Effect Title: R07-18-Light Cheering and Crowd Noise.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/486213/

Sound Effect Title: R07-05-Crowd at Sporting Event.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/486205/

Sound Effect Title: R07-27-Sporting Event with Steady Cheers.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/486214/

Sound Effect Title: R07-03-Whistling and Cheering.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/486204/

Sound Effect Title: ginger19.wav
By lyjia
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/lyjia/sounds/84659/

Sound Effect Title: R27-20-Small Crowd Gasps.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/480774/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a panel from the public domain comic G.I. Joe, Number 14 (October 1951) from Ziff-Davis Publications. Artist unknown, pencils and inks might be by Carmine Infantino and Frank Giacoia.