The Yeast of These My Brethren - Episode 148

How will Falk take down a bank robber when aromatic, freshly minted heroes keep getting in the way? What’s their origin story? You own some carnival rides? Listen to find out!

The Yeast of These My Brethren, episode 148 of This Gun in My Hand, was punched into shape 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 would it kill ya to buy my books? Such as Sisyphus, Eat Your Heart Out, available in paperback and ebook from Amazon. Why do they always need irradiated chemicals when the best origin is This Gun in My Hand?!

Show Notes:
1. From the Bible, King James Version, Matthew 25:40: “And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”

2. Obvious mistake I didn’t notice until after recording. Beer Man says he gained his powers last week. Then he mentions using his powers for three months. Continuity is hard! A no-prize will be awarded to anyone who rationalizes those statements.

Credits:
Music in this episode came from these public domain films:
The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and Too Late for Tears (1949, aka Killer Bait). Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Ironized Yeast Tonic radio commercial, vintage unknown, assumed to be public domain.
https://www.oldradioworld.com/media/Vintage%20Commercials%20Ironized%20Yeast.mp3

Sound Effect Title: 22lr Caliber Rifle Shots and Reloading
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/717133/ 

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

Sound Effect Title: Kimmokkeita / Ricochets by YleArkisto
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/sounds/401921/

Sound Effect Title: Metal Frame.mp3 by TheBoulder3400
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/636096/ 

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

Sound Effect Title: Hose Sounds.mp3 by JazzyBay
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/JazzyBay/sounds/435052/

Sound Effect Title: Spraying water from a garden hose by meisterjaan
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/s/323485/ 

Sound Effect Title: Leather Car Seat 2 by Filmscore
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/830202/

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

The image accompanying this episode is a modified version of a print ad for ironized yeast, assumed to be public domain, date and artist unknown.

Image Alt text: Print magazine ad for Ironized Yeast featuring a photo of a woman in a striped bathing suit next to a comic strip. A word balloon above the woman in the photo has her saying ‘If men “hate the sight of you”--read this–.’ In the first panel of the comic, two young men run past an emaciated woman in a black one-piece bathing suit. One of the men says, “Let’s beat it__here comes that skinny dame.” The second ad shows the skinny dame seated wearing a short sleeve top with possibly ragged sleeve edges. As she reads a newspaper with a prominent ad headlined “GAIN 10 LBS,” she says, “Men hate the sight of me, I’m so skinny. I’m going to try Ironized Yeast.” The third panel has a black arrow labeled “A FEW WEEKS LATER” pointing towards the action. A smiling woman filling out a bikini, no longer a skinny dame, poses with one hand on hip and the other on the back of her hair. A young man in dark shorts holds her bicep in one hand, saying, “You’re gorgeous since you’ve gained weight!” Two other men in the background run towards them. Across the bottom, large letters read, “THOUSANDS OF SKINNY GIRLS GAIN 10 TO 20 LBS.–QUICK!”

Falk Meets Mat Ban - Episode 135

Can Falk vanquish one of the grimmest, darkest, most dangerous vigilantes to ever delight audiences in our grimmest, darkest world? How do you have more than one origin story? Listen to find out!

Falk Meets Mat Ban, episode 135 of This Gun in My Hand, was grimly darkened 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. Good lord, I wrote this script so long ago, it was promoting my previous story collection. For the freshest fiction, buy my novella Sisyphus, Eat Your Heart Out, available in paperback and ebook from Amazon. How do I signal when the story is about to get gritty? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Catafalque Earth Moving Equipment is not affiliated with Monback Brothers Trash Hauling. 

2. We did not hit this season’s quota with episode 131. But there’s still time.

3. The often-repeated origin story of a certain vigilante detective in long underwear begins with his parents getting killed after they saw The Mark of Zorro. The Crimson Clown mentioned in this episode was another anti-hero from Johnston McCulley, creator of Zorro. No films of The Crimson Clown were released in our universe, to the best of my knowledge.

4. How many spoonerisms did you count in this episode? I count at least three. I’m particularly proud of Mat Ban: The Narc Right Detournes.

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.

The music for “Come Listen to Mat Ban” is my poor attempt to sound like Joel Mabus’s arrangement of “Blues in a Bottle,” first recorded and released 1928 by Prince Albert Hunt’s Texas Ramblers although the original author is unknown, “traditional.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfT4cJA1n64&t=29s

Sound Effect Title: Rain.WAV by inchadney
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/123703/ 

Sound Effect Title: Downpipe2.wav by digitfishmusic
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/digifishmusic/sounds/71594/?

Sound Effect Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/

Sound Effect Title: helmutscream_short.wav by creativeheroes
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/84353/ 

Sound Effect Title: Wood_Creak_02.wav by dheming
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/177779/ 

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: Bouncing Glas Marbles.wav by Cymeon
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/245402/ 

Sound Effect Title: 06-1 Shovel by 16GPanskaKomarkova_Marina
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/496725/ 

Sound Effect Title: Footsteps on gravel by Joozz
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/Joozz/sounds/531952/

Sound Effect Title: Beep 1 sec.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/austin1234575/sounds/213795/

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: Punching with ivy by itsadequate
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/s/353676/ 

Sound Effect Title: Punches.wav by CGEffex
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/s/94679/ 

Sound Effect Title: G24-01-Warner Brothers Body Fall.wav by craigsmith
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/438300/ 

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a panel from the public domain Suspense Comics Number 6, October 1944, art by John Giunta. Note that whoever lettered this page misspelled the artist’s last name. Everywhere I can find it on the web, it’s spelled “Giunta.” 

Image Alt text: Comic book style line art depicts a skeletal grim reaper-type figure and faces of several people inside a black circle. An oversized string of pearls extends from one of the ghoul’s hands toward the bottom of the drawing and back up to his other hand. In the upper left is the head of a woman with black hair wearing a red fascinator. In the upper left is a man’s face with a blue fedora and blue coat collar. Fourteen other faces of men and women appear in and around the pearls. Across the top are the words ‘“...pretty pearls..pretty pearls..”’ Credits on the lower right show “Story by R. Northrup, Art by John Guinta.” It’s spelled wrong, should be Giunta. In lower right large letters say FALK MEETS MAT BAN.

Publisher War Zone - Episode 59

A man in black with a skull on his chest & a blazing tommy gun. His enemy, capable of forcing police & soldiers to do his bidding. Another guy who makes wisecracks from the future. Can Falk end their bloody feud? Listen to find out!

Publisher War Zone, episode 59 of This Gun in My Hand, was punished 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. What am I gonna use to pry open that gate you’re guarding? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Horn & Hardarts was a chain of coin-operated self-serve restaurants popular in the middle of the Twentieth Century, also known as automats. Watch That Touch of Mink (1962) starring Doris Day for an overview.

2. The Black Terror is a public domain comic book character, last seen in Episode 11, “Curse of The Bubbe.” 

3. If The Publisher’s military service began in 1920, he might have deployed to Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua and a handful of times in China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations#1920%E2%80%931929

4. Gary Mackinder, agent to the biggest anti-heroes in Parabellum City, appeared in Episodes 11 and 26 of This Gun in My Hand.

5. Cloning fax machines are discussed in Episode 31, “Take A Powder.” But start with Episode 27, “Hardly Boiled.” It’s a five part mini-series.

6. Do not follow the advice presented by any of these characters thinking it’ll help you get published. How to humor rich people is a bigger mystery than anything these wannabe gumshoes have solved in 59 episodes. Hell, if I knew how to get published, would I be trying to sell my short story collection or other books with an unrelated podcast? 

Credits:
The opening music clip is from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music is 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 during “Pizzicato” commercial: Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.4, F Minor, Op.36 - III. Scherzo Pizzicato
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Performed by European Archives, via Wikimedia Commons
License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/75-symphony-no-4-in-f-minor-op-36/#

Sound Effect Title: chugging diesel (bus) and rev.MP3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/CraftyIndividual/sounds/418436/

Sound Effect Title: diesel truck jake brake and air brake.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/nuncaconoci/sounds/555266/

Sound Effect Title: bus coach ext pull up brake air release idle.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/kyles/sounds/454420/

Sound Effect Title: Bus Closing Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/am7/sounds/520753/

Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/

Sound Effect Title: Machine gun.wav
By CGEffex
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/CGEffex/sounds/101962/

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

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of page 11 of the public domain comic book Crime and Punishment, Number 65 (January 1954), art by George Tuska. It also includes a modified detail from the public domain cover of America’s Best Comics, Number 24 (December 1947), art by Alex Schomburg.

Why We Fight - Episode 38

Why is a gun-toting pulp hero fighting a colorful costumed superhero? Did Zachary Horace Mazzuchelli have a hand in their conflict? And why is it always Italians? Find out!

Why We Fight, episode 38 of This Gun in My Hand, was punched out by Rob Northrup. 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. With what will I console myself after the fight is over? This Gun in My Hand!

This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog.

Show Notes:

1. J-Men Forever is a 1979 movie written by two members of Firesign Theatre.

2. It’s possible for one person to have one-third of a nationality or ethnicity, but you’d probably need to know detailed genealogy further than three or four generations back.

3. A pathological liar I knew in college claimed to have written songs that were recorded by Guns ‘n Roses, Tesla, Indigo Girls and Melissa Etheridge. This one’s for you, Jaime.

4. In episode 37, “Strikeforce Shakespeare,” Falk mentions that he was investigating a screeching sound in the area. I was thinking forward to the screechers in this episode.

5. Believe it or not, I used only my voice, no effects or trick editing to create The Screecher’s amazing screech.

Credits:

The opening music clip 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: Punch.wav

By ztrees1

License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

https://freesound.org/people/ztrees1/sounds/134934/

Sound Effect Title: Punch 1

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/people/peridactyloptrix/sounds/209765/

Whistle Sound Effect Title: Hey You.wav

By Benboncan

License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

https://freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/77752/

Sound Effect Title: barking dog 2

License: public domain

https://freesound.org/people/roman_cgr/sounds/415023/

Sound Effect Title: Skittering Dog

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/people/sittingmonkeyanim/sounds/199919/

Sound Effect Title (panting dog): chip.aiff

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/people/juan%20pablo%20escobar%20plaza/sounds/235813/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified panel from the public domain Our Flag Comics, No. 4, February 1942, page 14. Pencils and inks by Harry Anderson. Text in the word balloons by Rob Northrup. In the original comic book, the colorful character is The Flag and the other one is a generic bad guy.