World of Whispers - Episode 101

A noisy day at the park, when suddenly–it’s oh so quiet. Gunshots are muffled. Wrestling grunts are barely audible. Can Falk restore order to the soundscape? Why does that bearded guy’s costume include wings? Listen to find out!

World of Whispers, episode 101 of This Gun in My Hand, was breathed out by Rob Northrup. All episodes are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What keeps people quiet? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. One of my earliest radio plays was a group project for Creative Writing class in high school, probably 1989. My friends Jeff, Julian and I wrote a script parodying Star Trek, cobbled together from jokes we had probably absorbed reading Mad Magazine. Only five or ten minutes long, we recorded it on tape and played it in class. I’m not sure why Mr. Groesser apologized to the class afterwards, maybe because of the bad language like “Damn!” or “Bloody Hell!” At one point Jeff did the voice of a vendor at a baseball game, calling out, “peaNUTS! Popcorn!” maybe to hint at how large the ship is. I tried to recreate his delivery here. When Julian’s girlfriend heard the tape, she asked what girl we had cast for the voice of Uhura. She wouldn’t believe I had done it. No effects software to raise the pitch, I did it all in the delivery.

2. Whispering Wind and Blessed Day (aka Muckbang, aka Peatboom) first appeared in episode 60, “Hush, Sweet Zildjian.”
https://archive.org/details/tgimh-60-hush-sweet-zildjian

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.

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

Sound Effect Title: Organ_grinder_paris1.aiff, Organ_grinder_paris2.aiff
By milo
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/milo/sounds/36155/
https://freesound.org/people/milo/sounds/36156/

Sound Effect Title: kids_playing_oct2020.WAV
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/wjoojoo/sounds/540466/

Music Title: Hail to the Spirit of Liberty
Composed by John Philip Sousa
Performed by The United States Marine Band
License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/43782-hail-to-the-spirit-of-liberty/

Sound Effect Title: Machine gun.wav
By CGEffex
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/CGEffex/sounds/101962/

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: Explosion 2
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/ZoshP/sounds/541795/

Sound Effect Title: Kicking/Forcing/Breaking Wooden Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/160213/

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

Sound Effect Title: S20-30 Pistol shots with silencer.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/675677/

Sound Effect Title: Silenced Gun Firing - gunshots
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/fireballuke/sounds/166493/

Sound Effect Title: clang.wav
By kwahmah_02
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/kwahmah_02/sounds/253974/

Sound Effect Title: R09-75-Series of Falls on Wooden Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/483233/

Sound Effect Title: Metal hit with dull ringouts
By Artninja
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/Artninja/sounds/717721/

Sound Effect Title: Ambience - European city park - morning - birds - light wind.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/ValentinPetiteau/sounds/563547/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Fantastic Adventures, Volume 10, Number 5 (May 1948) by Robert Gibson Jones; combined with a detail from Autant en emporte le vent, Anonymous, 1815, both in public domain.