On the Gunny Side of the Street - Episode 146

What if this beautiful day is just a dream? What if it’s a story contrived by someone with ulterior motives? What does a guy gotta do to get some shut-eye around here? Listen to find out!

On the Gunny Side of the Street, episode 146 of This Gun in My Hand, was brought to light 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 Sisyphus, Eat Your Heart Out, available in paperback and ebook from Amazon. With what do I pierce the veil between our illusory existence and the dark truth underlying it all? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. For Cherry Pachyderm’s arguments that chili does not exist, listen to episode 73, “Escalating Pitch.”
https://archive.org/details/tgimh-73-escalating-pitch

2. In an earlier episode, Cherry Pachyderm describes the emblem on his chest as a cherry tree. The elephant is hiding in the cherry tree so you can’t see it. People were confused by his emblem and started calling him “Cherry Tree,” so he changed it to a red elephant at some point. [This is a retcon. Outside of the story, I just forgot what his emblem was and thought it was always an elephant. I caught this mistake before recording the episode and wrote dialog for him to explain it, but it was too boring. Now it’s a little lagniappe for people who read the show notes!]

3. After Cherry mentions the germ theory of disease, I was going to make a dig at RFK jr’s preferred “miasma theory” of disease. But it’s supposed to be a happy story to take your mind off our grim reality.

Credits:
The opening and closing music in this episode came from two public domain films, The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950) and Killer Bait (1949). Most of the music and sound effects are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Sound Effect Title: Perfect SongBirds (Seamlessly Loopable) by DreamSavvyr
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/s/781115/

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

Sound Effect Title: children1.mp3 by yacou
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/s/190894/ 

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

Sound Effect Title: FEETHmn-MCU_Footsteps, On Grass_Nicholas Judy_TDC by designerschoice
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/s/807862/

Sound Effect Title: hamp rope creaks by 6polnic
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/s/231438/ 

Music title: On the Sunny Side of the Street
Composed by Jimmy McHugh (some think it was Fats Waller)
Lyrics by Dorothy Fields
Performed by Ted Lewis and his Band, 1930
License: Public domain
https://archive.org/details/78_on-the-sunny-side-of-the-street_ted-lewis-and-his-band_wave

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail from this public domain photograph:
Title: Detail view of terrazzo floor medallion - National Zoological Park, Elephant House, 3001 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, District of Columbia, DC.
Photographer: Rosenthal, James W.
License: Public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detail_view_of_terrazzo_floor_medallion_-_National_Zoological_Park,_Elephant_House,_3001_Connecticut_Avenue_NW,_Washington,_District_of_Columbia,_DC_HABS_dc-777-C-26.tif

Image Alt text: A red pictogram of an elephant on a circular white background, surrounded by more red. The whole thing is shot through with light and dark gray flecks as if rusted or distressed.