Can We Talk? - Episode 62 of This Gun in My Hand

Can Falk bite his tongue long enough to record a radio commercial? Was it a bad idea to get an agent? Is Stichomythia an ancient Greek hero? Listen to find out!

“Can We Talk?,” episode 62 of This Gun in My Hand, was garbled 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. What keeps this harmonica in my hand safe from those who would take it? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:

1. Gary Mackinder, theatrical agent to Parabellum City’s finest crime-fighters, appeared in episodes 11 and 26, and was name-dropped in episodes 37 and 50.

2. The US Marines landed at Foochow on the China coast in 1934.

3. The bit about drinking a complimentary glass of milk before trying to sing & perform is autobiographical. Except I was playing guitar and possibly singing back-up for my cousin Audrey at a coffee shop. Water is your best bet.

4. When they talked about “transcribed” radio shows in the 1930s, they meant recorded, not “transcribed” in the linguistic sense of a written version of some spoken event.

Credits:

The opening and middle transitional music clips are 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.

Sound Effect Title: Radio tuning-static-interference

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/people/quantumriver/sounds/552160/

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/

Sound effect title: Hitting in a Face

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/people/florianreichelt/sounds/460509/

Sound effect title: Punch in the face

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/people/Huminaatio/sounds/390462/

Sound Effect Title: Cow moos

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/people/JosephSardin/sounds/177253/

Sound effect title: bustle in the pub

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/people/organicmanpl/sounds/403285/

Sound Effect Title: Flat Button Clicks

License: Public Domain

https://freesound.org/people/Phil25/sounds/202909/

The image accompanying this episode is a photo of voice actors and live sound effects creators of the radio show Gang Busters recording in New York, circa 1930s. I changed the CBS sign on top of the microphone to WPBC and cropped the edges.