The Hapless Hack of Gazpacho Gulch - Episode 119

Is it wrong to make up stories about silly gunfights fifty years ago while authoritarian figures are taking power and civilians are getting massacred as we speak? That’s the dilemma Falk has to solve, in the middle of a gunfight!

The Hapless Hack of Gazpacho Gulch, episode 119 of This Gun in My Hand, was rustled up and branded with innuendo 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. (But wait until the strike's over to order it.) What helps me escape from my neighbor’s basement? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Getting a story accepted by an editor who was then fired, and getting it rejected by his replacement, was based on something that happened to my favorite creative writing professor, the late Dr. Gilbert Cross. The editor who liked his stuff published three of his spy novels under the name “Jon Winters” in the late 70s and early 80s, before getting replaced by an editor who didn’t like them.

Credits:
The opening music 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: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
Recorded by Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html

Sound Effect Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)
By Carmelomike
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/

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

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

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

Sound Effect Title: Plywood_Prying_01.wav
By dheming
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/128408/ 

Sound Effect Title: door wood hit +window rattle slam bang various.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/452595/ 

Sound Effect Title: Crash
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/512246/ 

Sound Effect Title: S10-19 Falling wooden beam; big interior crash; house collapses; long.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/675967/ 

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of an interior illustration from Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine, Vol. CLXXIV No. 2 (June 3, 1939), public domain, artist unknown.

Spoonful of Lugers - Episode 105

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.