Love at First Sound - Episode 149

How do you convey love at first sight on an audio-only medium? What does that sound like? What in tarnation has got into you? Listen to find out!

Love at First Sound, episode 149 of This Gun in My Hand, was [finger pop from mouth][side of mouth razz][quick burst of siren whistle][GUN_FIRE] 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. This episode is dedicated to Melinda [TING], and to our good friends Patrick and Anita celebrating their honeymoon on Ganymede. [Ting, Ting!] What’s the best way to coax the delicate flower of love to blossom? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. I keep trying to make a joke that shows on shortwave radio are second-rate compared with FM radio. Melinda, being a longtime expert, reminded me that people in our time like Alex Jones, ReviewBrah and various cult leaders have to pay extra to have their shows broadcast on shortwave. So maybe it should be considered a status symbol instead of a mark of weakness.

2. Listeners have already heard The Cherry Pachyderm’s real name, Latthew Morressier, during his first appearance in episode 24, “Consulting Defectives.” He forgot but I didn’t.
https://archive.org/details/tgimh-24-consulting-defectives

3. It came out sounding like I’m dragging hillbillies for hoping their kids take the same job their father and grandfather had, but it’s not what I intended. I think this expectation is similar for people all over the US. Even though my grandfather (the master plumber) and my dad (the steamfitter) would be glad I got an office job instead of following in their footsteps, there’s a part of me that feels like I let them down by taking a different path.

Credits:
Music in this episode came from these public domain films:
The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), Too Late for Tears (1949, aka Killer Bait) and The Big Combo (1955). 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: Run-Out Groove of a 78 RPM Record – Archival Noise Texture by Auroch_Media
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/440733/ 

Sound Effect Title: Xylo N&D 72 C4.aif by beskhu
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/273879/ 

Sound Effect Title: Glockenspiel_46_f4_04 by cabled_mess
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/348924/ 

Sound Effect Title: Piano Note.wav by kelsey_w
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/s/467047/ 

Sound Effect Title: medium wine glass.wav by Tairblenn
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/549900/

Sound Effect Title: Car_motor_Sound.m4a
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Blizzard123/sounds/504633/#

Sound Effect Title: Traffic mel 1.wav by malupeeters
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/malupeeters/sounds/191350/

Sound Effect Title: Clothing_ShirtsandPants_Rustling.wav by duckduckpony
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/204016/ 

Sound Effect Title: Heels on Pavement.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/B.Harkins/sounds/683658/

Sound Effect Title: banjo song.mp3 by Prime45
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/522715/ 

Sound Effect Title: Toy Gun 7
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/giddster/sounds/434720/

Sound Effect Title: laser gun
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Superglue28/sounds/499696/

Sound Effect Title: Horse Whinny 1.wav by GoodListener
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/s/322445/

Music Title: Händel’s Messiah
Composed by Georg Friedrich Händel
Performed by Orchestra Gli Armonici
License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/5876-messiah-hwv-56/

Music Title: Fugato in e minor, BWV 962
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Performed by Gunnar Johansen
License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/45623-fugato-in-e-minor-bwv-962/

Sound Effect Title: Tarzan Yell by Buster Crabbe from Tarzan the Fearless (1933)
License: Public Domain

Sound Effect Title: Boing.wav by juskiddink
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/140867/ 

Music Title: Munniharppua.ogg
By ElectricToothpaste
License: Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0
via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munniharppua.ogg

Sound Effect Title: Siren Whistle 02.wav by FreqMan
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/88425/ 

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

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Confessions of Love, July 1952, Number 11, art possibly by Manny Stallman, AC Hollingsworth and/or Norm Nodel. Public Domain.

Image Alt text: In colorful comic book line art, a young man and woman embrace and kiss passionately. Both have black hair. He wears a long sleeved red shirt. She wears a blue blouse. They’re surrounded by a green leaves and magnolia flowers and branches with blue jays on them. Above them in script letters are the words “Love At First Sound.”