Ked Dennedy's apartment in Greektown

Sign on the sidewalk says, "WE SELL STUFF THAT SUCKS."

Escape From Greektown - Episode 29

Why listen to boring old radio detectives wrestling each other for control of a gun and having car chases, when you can hear chariot chases and Greco-Roman wrestling for control of a gun? Find out in “Escape From Greektown!”

Escape from Greektown, episode 29 of This Gun in My Hand, was painted on the side of a clay jug 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. What does not taste as good as baklava? This Gun in My Hand!

This and all other episodes are available on Youtube, with automatically generated closed captions of dialog.

Show Notes:
1. I put “What would make you listen?” into Google Translate (English to Greek), and it came back with “Τι θα σε έκανε να ακούσεις;” which I tried to pronounce at the very opening of this episode before saying This Gun in My Hand.

2. “EVERYTHING WE SELL SUCKS” is a sign I saw in front of a real local vacuum shop.

3. The image for this episode depicts Persian scythed chariots, not Greek chariots. I am prepared to give you a full refund of your payment for this free episode if the lack of verisimilitude left you unsatisfied.

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: Window breaking.MP3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/m1a2t3z4/sounds/112213/

Sound Effect Title: HORSE BLOWS FARM AMBIANCE.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/ohmypro/sounds/400702/

Sound Effect Title: G38-14-Horse Wagon Gallop In.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/437112/

Sound Effect Title: G52-02-Steady Stage Coach.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/437073/

Sound Effect Title: -Hero_of_the_Winds-_Grinding Coffee.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/-Hero_of_the_Winds-/sounds/127910/

Sound Effect Title: G31-01-Metal Rattling Door.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/438439/

Sound Effect Title: Window breaking.MP3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/m1a2t3z4/sounds/112213/

Sound Effect Title: Hey You.wav
By Benboncan
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/77752/

Sound effect title: Hitting in a Face
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/florianreichelt/sounds/460509/

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

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

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

Sound Effect Title: Vacuum.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/cloe.king/sounds/444167/

Machine gun sound taken from the public domain film Commandos (1968).

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of “The charge of the Persian scythed chariots at the Battle of Gaugamela” by André Castaigne. Public Domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=649365

Volumes of Daddy Issues - Episode 28

Does Carmine Legrand know how much trouble his daughter Emma is in? Will Falk be able to bluff his way into the Grotto Club or will he have to wrestle the doorman? And if so, what style of wrestling will it be? Find out!

Volumes of Daddy Issues, episode 28 of This Gun in My Hand, was begat 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. Who knows you inside and out, who was always there for you, who’s always on your mind? Your daddy would be an acceptable answer but I was thinking more along the lines of This Gun in My Hand!

All episodes including this one are available on Youtube with automated closed captioning of the dialog.

Show Notes:
1. The ad that Emma Legrand read might have been in the comic book Weird Terror No. 7 (September 1953), which can be viewed at https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=7365&page=26

2. Carmine Legrand hired investigators from the Continental Detective Agency. Being a fan of hard-boiled fiction, you already know that’s the agency Dashiell Hammett’s unnamed “Continental Op” worked for.

3. I lifted the idea of the scar on the wrong cheek from the 1948 movie Hollow Triumph, reissued in the US as The Scar.

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.

Music Title: Rhapsody in Blue
Performed by Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra with George Gershwin, 1924.
License for composition and this performance: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/11222-rhapsody-in-blue/

Sound Effect Title: bustle in the pub
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/people/organicmanpl/sounds/403285/

Sound Effect Title: R15-17-Series of Slaps.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/483246/

Sound Effect Title: swoosh.wav
By Brsjak
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Brsjak/sounds/482880/

Sound Effect Title: House Front Door Inside 3.wav
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/people/saturdaysoundguy/sounds/388027/#

Sound Effect Title: Window breaking.MP3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/m1a2t3z4/sounds/112213/

Sound Effect Title: Wood Break.boaay
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/BOAAY/sounds/520720/

Sound Effect Title: R28-47-Man and Woman Screaming.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/482833/

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

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: House Front Door Inside 3.wav
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/people/saturdaysoundguy/sounds/388027/#

Sound Effect Title: Unlocking Large Metal Door
By constructabeat
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/constructabeat/sounds/258385/

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

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

Sound Effect Title: Bubbling beaker.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Melthurian/sounds/319384/#

Sound Effect Title: Tapping On Window.mp3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Zel12/sounds/508400/

Sound Effect Title: Splashes In A Bathtub.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/bbrocer/sounds/382649/

The image associated with this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Amazing Stories, Vol. 13, No. 11 (November 1939), in public domain. Art by Harold W McCauley.

Hardly Boiled - Episode 27

Why did Emma Legrand leave Parabellum City? What does she want from Falk Zildjian? How many mysteries can one town hold? Are all these names gonna be on the test? Find out!

Hardly Boiled, episode 27 of This Gun in My Hand, was simmered 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. What’s warm and comforting and slippery and fits in my pocket and has a sulfurous surprise inside? A hardboiled egg. And I suppose that would also describe This Gun in My Hand!

This episode is available on Youtube, including automated closed captions of the dialog.

Show Notes:
1. Owen Taylor is the name of the chauffeur murdered in The Big Sleep. When the director and star of the film couldn’t agree on who killed the chauffeur, they sent a telegram asking the author of the novel, Raymond Chandler. Chandler replied, “Damned if I know.”

2. The exquisite line “You talk or this gun does!” was stolen from an old time radio show about a guy who wears a green mask. Don’t worry, the episode is public domain.

3. A Webley-Fosbury .38 automatic revolver is what somebody uses to plug Miles Archer in The Maltese Falcon -- which I just watched to get ideas for this short series of Hardly Boiled stories.

4. Today I learned that if you have a Grotto Club in your town, it’s probably Masonic.

5. “The Forty and Eight” is another one of those weird fraternal organizations that were reaching the tail end of their popularity around the time Fred Flintstone was shown in “The Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes Lodge.”

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.

The ad segment of a woman describing a beauty facial is excerpted from the public domain radio show Lux Radio Theater, the episode titled “Phantom Lady,” broadcast March 27, 1944.

Sound Effect Title: Sliding glass door open and close, big & smooth
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/goblinjack/sounds/376407/

Sound Effect Title: bustle in the pub
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/people/organicmanpl/sounds/403285/

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

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

The image associated with this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Dime Mystery Magazine, Vol. 33, No. 4 (September 1946). Art by Gloria Stoll Karn. Public domain.

This Gun in My Coffin - Episode 26

Is this the end of Falk Zildjian? Who’s paying for the funeral home? Was it an accident or murder? Is there another casket with the rest of his remains? Find out!

This Gun in My Coffin, episode 26 of This Gun in My Hand, marking the end of Season Two, was laid to rest 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. What will stop the forces that seek to end This Gun in My Hand? This Gun in My Hand!

This Gun in My Hand is also available on Youtube, including auto-generated closed captions in case you’d like to read the dialog.

Show Notes:
1. The “bustle in the pub” sound clip that I’ve used before for background hubbub was a little too jovial and boisterous for a funeral visitation, so I created my own hubbub. I recorded and overlapped myself reciting “My Rifle - Creed of The United States Marine,” part of the Quality of Mercy speech from Merchant of Venice, lyrics from "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy, and Ezekiel 25:17 (Pulp Fiction Translation). 

2. When Arthur Conan Doyle got sick of writing Sherlock Holmes stories and tried to kill him off permanently, he had Sherlock and Moriarty plummet from Reichenbach Falls.

Credits:
The opening and first 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.

Music title: Requiem in D minor, K. 626 - III. Sequence - Lacrymosa (For Piano - Liszt)
Performed by Markus Staab, CC-BY
Composed by Mozart, arranged by Liszt?
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://musopen.org/music/43683-requiem-in-d-minor-k-626/ 

Title: Cloth Flaps
By Sauron974
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Sauron974/sounds/188733/ 

Sound Effect Title: Wood Break.boaay
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/BOAAY/sounds/520720/

The image associated with this episode is a modified detail from page 20 of the public domain comic book Dark Mysteries No. 2 (August-September 1951). Art maybe by Bill Molno.

Nick Carper and the Evaporating Arsonist - Episode 25

Dime novel detective Nick Carper gets help from Falk on a flaming hot case. What’s the secret to Nick’s perpetual youth? Who’s gonna pay for that door? What’s this stuff? Did you try it? Listen to find out!

Nick Carper and the Evaporating Arsonist, episode 25 of This Gun in My Hand, was written, recorded and edited 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. Where’s that smoke coming from? This Gun in My Hand!

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

Show Notes:
1. The first story about Nick Carter was published September 18, 1886 in New York Weekly, so you’d think a 135-year-old character would be in the public domain. But the name is still trademarked, which is why I had to f***ing re-record it as “Nick Carper” throughout this episode. Here’s more info if you’ve never heard of the subject of this parody, the evolving character Nick Carter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Carter_(literary_character)

You can download hundreds of dime novels and pulps free from archive.org or Northern Illinois University: https://dimenovels.lib.niu.edu/ 

2. Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy was a real radio show that ran from 1933-1951. When Hanna-Barbera couldn’t or wouldn’t secure rights to create a Jack Armstrong cartoon in the 1960s, they filed off the serial numbers and called it “Jonny Quest.”

3. After his studio closed in 1936, animator Ub Iwerks did contract work for Leon Schlesinger Productions and Columbia Pictures’ cartoon division, according to his entry on Wikipedia.

4. The clicking sound in the Life commercial was, indeed, a Ruger 1911 pistol cocking, used to represent the sound of a pistol tapped on a tabletop.

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.

Music from just before the Life commercial: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 - Sing While we Trip it Upon the Green (For Recorders - Papalin)
By Papalin
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://musopen.org/music/11140-the-fairy-queen-z629/

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sound Effect Title: Wood Break.boaay
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/BOAAY/sounds/520720/

Sound Effect Title: R28-47-Man and Woman Screaming.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/482833/

Sound Effect Title: Impacts_Splatter_Watermelon_001.wav
By duckduckpony
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/duckduckpony/sounds/204024/

Sound Effect Title: Pumpmkin Guts Squish 1.aif [sic]
By MWLANDI
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/MWLANDI/sounds/85862/

Sound Effect Title: 1911 Pistol Cocking
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/J.Anthracite/sounds/465488/

The image associated with this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Nick Carter Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2 (April 1933). Public Domain. Art by Jerome George Rozen?

Closed Captions for all episodes on Youtube

I've been weighing whether to post transcripts of episodes for people with hearing impairments. It would be a lot of work and I don't know if there's anyone listening to episodes, let alone clamoring for more accessible versions. Anyway, I noticed that Youtube is automatically creating captions for all the episodes I post there. It's not perfect but more accurate than I expected. If you'd like to read the dialog all the way back to the first episode, navigate to This Gun in My Hand playlist on Youtube. If you'd like to see full scripts posted here on the blog, give me a little clamoring. You can post comments on the blog or contact me on Twitter @evilbobdayjob.