Can Falk or Castro use their unique crime-fighting skills to punish those who carry out massacres? Is this topic too heavy for a punny old time radio parody? And where are the Lugers?! Listen to find out!
Spoonful of Lugers, episode 105 of This Gun in My Hand, was seamlessly worked into a plot 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, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What narrative technique helps me sneak serious topics into wacky adventure stories? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. For more info about the Rosewood Massacre and other political massacres in US history, see https://www.zinnedproject.org/collection/massacres-us/
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/rosewood-massacre/
Also read A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn, and the novel A Moment in the Sun by John Sayles.
2. The bird you hear in almost every movie set in the jungles of Africa, Central America or South America is the Kookaburra, which is actually native to Australia and New Guinea. According to Wikipedia, “The call is heard in [Tarzan and the Green Goddess (1938) and] The Wizard of Oz (1939), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Swiss Family Robinson (1960), Cape Fear (1962), The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and other films.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kookaburra
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/437964/
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: Car_motor_Sound.m4a
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Blizzard123/sounds/504633/#
Sound Effect Title: Squeaky Car Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/coltures/sounds/262325/#
Sound Effect Title: Footsteps on gravel
By Joozz
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/Joozz/sounds/531952/
Sound Effect Title: Punch.wav
By ztrees1
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/ztrees1/sounds/134934/
Sound Effect Title: Custom_punch_04_2022.mp3
By Artninja
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/Artninja/sounds/700204/
Sound Effect Title: Body fall_02.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Adam_N/sounds/346694/
Sound Effect Title: 2-1_ducks.WAV
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/16FPanskaLan_Jiri/sounds/498190/
Sound Effect Title: R30-32-Ducks Quack on Pond.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479608/
Sound Effect Title: Ducks
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/D4XX/sounds/607226/
Sound Effect Title: Tawny owl calling.wav
By Sparrer
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/Sparrer/sounds/59517/
Sound Effect Title: G12-32-Kookaburra Bird in Jungle.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/437964/
Sound Effect Title: Montezuma oropendola bird call
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/512109/
Sound Effect Title: S27-24 Gibbon squeals.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/675432/
Sound Effect Title: G12-29-Tigers and Lions Growling.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/437961/
Sound Effect Title: audi a4 b8 20tdi update engine set1 idle acceleration early gear shifting mono.wav
By Soundholder
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Soundholder/sounds/425397/
The image accompanying this episode is a combination of the following photos:
1. “Fleischextrakt” (photo of spoon) by Rainer Zenz, license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.
2. “Castletown at War 2021 Castletown D Day Centre, Portland, Dorset. WWII Reenactor in German Wehrmacht uniform - Luger pistol, belt 51614442855” by dorsetbays, license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic.
3. “WW2 Third Reich German 7 7,92mm K cartridges 8 Zug-Zünder (mine pull igniters) 9 7,92 mm cartridges 10 Luftwaffe dagger 11 Scabbard 12 Hitlerjugend knife 13 9mm P08 Luger pistol Hjemmefrontmuseet Rakkestad museum Norway 2021-06-20 IM” by Wolfmann, license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International.
4. “German pistols firearms holsters 39 Luger P08 40 Radom M35 41 Walther 38 42 6.35 S.B.E. Pistol 43 6.35 Walther M1 1908 44 Mauser M1934 45 Walther PP M1929 46 Field knife boot Hjemmefrontmuseet Rakkestad WW2 museum Norway IMG 5665 2” by Wolfmann, license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International.
5. “WW2 German Occupation of Norway. HEFT PARTEIADLER Booklet Nazi Eagle Soldatbok hakekorsørn. SS KOPPELSCHLOSS Meine Ehre heisst Treue Belt buckle. 9 mm LUGER P08. Pistolentasche holster. Bergenhus Festningsmuseum Bergen Norway 2021” by Wolfmann, license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International.
6. “Krigshistorisk Festival 2023 - Regimentet 02” by Leif Jørgensen, license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International.
7. “Музей истории донецкой милиции 072” by Andrew Butko, license: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.
