Showing posts with label Defenders of the Hearth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Defenders of the Hearth. Show all posts

Thursday, May 4, 2023

Second String - Episode 80

Black and white photo of four men sitting on a park bench. The man furthest left is only half in the frame, wearing a long coat. The next man wears a bowler hat, white collar, dark suit, reading a newspaper. To his right is a man with graying beard, still dark hair on his cheeks, bowler hat, dark suit, white shirt, dark bow tie, left leg crossed over right, holding a crumpled newspaper in his lap. The last man on the right leans over his newspaper. Dark suit, bow tie, bowler hat, face barely visible. Across the top white handwritten letters read: "BENCH WARMERS, UNION SQ. 76-5."

When the Defenders of the Hearth are busy propping up the financial world, will their backup squad of benchwarmers be able to put down an invasion of giant ants? No. But listen anyway!

Second String, episode 80 of This Gun in My Hand, was defended 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, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Do you have any super-powered crime fighters or offensive technology to help in this fight? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Falk first encountered the Mole Men in “Struggle Session,” Episode 53.
2. The Mime and Monk Show is inspired by the Charlie McCarthy Show, with its absurd premise of listening to a ventriloquist on the radio so you just take their word for it that he wasn’t moving his lips. For Mime and Monk, you have to take the narrator’s word for everything.

Credits:
The opening and post-commercial 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.

Music Title (before commercial) : Kitten on the Keys
By Zez Confrey and his Orchestra (1922)
License: Public Domain
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_Various_Artists/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_05052009/Kitten_on_the_Keys/

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

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

(Spider robot feet clicking)
Sound Effect Title: MarbleGlass-HorseClick.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Harrisando/sounds/466208/

Sound Effect Title: clacking, rapid wind-up sound
By ChrisReierson
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/ChrisReierson/sounds/501027/

The public domain photo accompanying this episode is a modified version of “N.Y. parks - bench warmers, Union Sq.” from the Library of Congress. Photographer and subjects unknown, circa 1908.

Thursday, February 11, 2021

OnlyPhantasm - Episode 13

Falk Zildjian, indomitable hero by virtue of the fact that he carries a gun, interrogates The Phantasm, hoping to recruit him for a fight with higher stakes than they’ve ever faced. Will they or won’t they? Find out in this final episode of Season One.

OnlyPhantasm, episode 13 of This Gun in My Hand, was brought to you by Rob Northrup. Visit https://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for full credits, show notes, details on how to subscribe, and the whole reason for the podcast, so you can buy my books. Also watch this site for my forthcoming podcast audio book, Mutiny on The Lollipop. What's your password? This Gun in My Hand.

This episode is available on Youtube, and in audio formats other than mp3 on archive.org.

Music and Sound Effects 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. Music during the opening narration is “Peer Gynt Suite no. 1, Op. 46 - I. Morning Mood” by Edvard Grieg, performed by Musopen Symphony (public domain).
https://musopen.org/music/777-peer-gynt-suite-no-1-op-46/ 

The four following modified clips were used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license:

Title: Footsteps on gravel
By Joozz
https://freesound.org/people/Joozz/sounds/531952/

Title: Spring Peeper Frogs
By TheBoatman
https://freesound.org/people/TheBoatman/sounds/346747/

Title: Gun Fire
Recorded by GoodSoundForYou
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html

Title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
Recorded by Mike Koenig
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html

Modified public domain sounds:

Title: falling gumtree.wav
https://freesound.org/people/ianoboe/sounds/150203/

Machine gun fire and explosion taken from the public domain film Commandos (1968, aka Sullivan’s Marauders).

The image illustrating this episode is a modified detail from the cover of Black Cat Comics No. 4 (Feb-Mar 1947). Pencils and inks by Lee Elias. Public Doman.