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vexic929 · 2 months
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I just found one of my new favorite websites!!!!
brb while I listen to every old Superman, Batman, Blue Beetle, and detective/mystery broadcast for the rest of the night
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meanstreetspodcasts · 2 months
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Episode 567 - Mouse House of Mystery (The Whistler, Sam Spade, & Philip Marlowe)
Old time radio fans will recognize some of their favorite performers' voices popping up in classic Disney films, and today we'll hear three of those stars in radio mysteries. Before she was Cruella de Vil in One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Betty Lou Gerson was a faded movie star who plans to marry into money in "The Girl Next Door" from The Whistler (originally aired on CBS on August 20, 1947). And years before he menaced Peter Pan as Captain Hook, Hans Conried played Sam Spade's client - a butler whose employers have a house full of secrets - in "The Bouncing Betty Caper" (an AFRS rebroadcast from December 12, 1948). Finally, you can still hear Paul Frees as the "Ghost Host" of the Haunted Mansion, and we'll also enjoy his performance as an eccentric poet in "The Cloak of Kamehameha" from The Adventures of Philip Marlowe (originally aired on CBS on April 23, 1949).
Check out this episode!
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jessicanjpa · 1 year
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20 and 31 for Esme? 🌸
(from the Sensory Headcanons Ask List)
20. a song that instantly transports them back to a certain memory
The Cullens bought their first real radio in 1923 (Carlisle tried making a crystal one earlier but it was awful). A few weeks later, Esme was still trying to get used to the idea of a faraway stranger picking out music for her to listen to—she found it very jarring.
So when "Tin Roof Blues" came on one evening, she was relieved to hear a song she recognized from a phonograph record Edward had bought a few months earlier. She didn't particularly like the song, but at least it felt familiar. But this recording was by the Memphis Five (here vs. the original) and it sounded completely different! Esme was entranced by the difference and found herself swaying and humming along while she went on with her sweeping. Then she realized Carlisle was leaning against the doorway to the kitchen, watching her with a teasing smile.
"I thought you didn't like jazz," he said.
"I don't!" Esme insisted, and she went back to her housework with furious concentration. Carlisle laughed and suddenly she was in his arms and they were dancing. They kept flirty-arguing over whether Esme liked jazz the whole time. She gave a little shriek when Carlisle added a little "wiggle" into their steps but she shocked herself by picking up the new rhythm right away.
"I still don't like jazz," she said with a pout as soon as the song ended, and they proceeded to keep dancing until the radio broadcast ended for the evening.
To this day, whenever Edward or a dusted-off old record plays the song, Esme and Carlisle both drop whatever they're doing and go find each other. She always playfully recites the lie that she still doesn't like jazz and then they begin to dance.
31. Which other character do they find the most restful to be around?
Definitely Jasper. They do a lot of parallel play together, staying in the same room for hours while they work on their own hobbies or paperwork or whatever. Jasper is the least likely "kid" to need or want any mothering, which makes him the easiest to be a mother around. Esme can just be happy and relaxed when she sees Jasper being happy and relaxed. She was the one who taught him to work at human speed when doing something he really enjoyed. She was especially proud when he finally picked up some hobbies that were just for himself and had nothing to do with Alice.
And since Esme also radiates an aura of quiet contentedness when she's deeply focused on a project, Jasper's gift naturally settles into a nice feedback loop. It keeps them both floating in a state of serene calm that fosters creativity for hours on end.
(post-canon, Bella is a close second)
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ezekieltobiasfletcher · 4 months
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Keep It Simple
The worst of my bout with COVID is over. Tomorrow will be two weeks since I noticed the uncomfortable tingle in my throat. Yesterday marks one week since I suffered the worst of it. I am on the mend, but some symptoms still linger. As much as I want them to go away, I need these remaining mild symptoms to linger a little while longer as a reminder. I need to be reminded of the promises I made to my higher power that I would take better care of myself. To sleep when I am tired, and not to use substinances, screens, and people to distract myself from the work and pains of living my life on life's terms. I need to be reminded of how honest I was with myself as I pleaded through prayer to survive this virus. I need to be reminded that I will not find my salvation in thinking about what I need to do. I will only save myself by focusing on my higher power and walking my talk. If I want things to be different, then I need to continue breaking from my old habits and coping mechanisms and act as-if, being different, everyday, one day at a time.
I had very little appetite while I was in the depths of COVID. For a few days, all I could tolerate was Lipton Noodles packets with some added rice. The first day I felt a little better, I knew I needed to consume calories, protein, and fiber to help my decimated digestion system. I decided to keep it simple, and made myself two eggs, scrambled in the pan, and two slices of wheat toast with butter. I also decided to nourish my soul by playing one of my favorite games with my mind. I call it, "look how lucky I am..."
I was raised by an early Boomer mother, born in the latter half of the 1940's. She was raised by parents who grew up during the depression, and she also spent a great deal of time with her maternal grandparents, who together with my maternal grandparents, all survived The Great Depression. The love and hardships that my mom was raised with gave her the ability to always find silver linings and to make do with what she had. I will write more about her someday, but for today, I just want you to know that I am very grateful for her and her simple, everyday values that bring me comfort when I need it most. My mother's spirit is part of the great amalgamation that is my "higher power".
As I was making my breakfast, I put on a YouTube Music playlist called: Depression Era, Golden Age of Radio. I remembered stories I was told about what it was like living through world wars, the 1918 flu, and the Great Depression. While preparing my meal, these memories of stories from my family made me thankful to have a stove, cookware, a toaster, sliced bread, butter, eggs, salt and pepper, and a warm home with indoor hot water plumbing to live in. By my grandparents and great grandparent's standards, I have everything I need to live a good and simple life. By simply having a job and a home in the United States, I am in the top 5% of the world. Look how lucky I am.
As horrible as COVID has been for me, it helped me get to bed earlier, I haven't had any marijuana in two weeks, I've limited my screen time, I removed all the social media apps from the home screen of my phone, I've logged off from work by 5:30pm each day, I'm being more intentional about my meals, and with not getting the munchies from the pot, I'm not snacking all the time like Scooby and Shaggy. And as shitty as being sick was, literal pun intended, I am back to my pre-COVID lockdown weight. So yeah... I'm letting this recent mental bottoming out affect me, and I'm getting out of my own way and drawing even closer to my higher power. Look how lucky I am to be alive and be able to change for the better.
For what it's worth, that meal of eggs, toast, and a small glass of orange juice, it was the most delicious fucking meal I have had in a long time. I never want to forget the depth of gratitude I felt on that morning; ever.
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thewordwideweb · 2 years
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Hightail it outta here
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Today’s Word of the Day comes courtesy of my friend Michael. He’s a big fan of old-time radio shows, especially mysteries and westerns. Michael sent me a note recently that said, “I was listening to radio drama from the golden age and the word ‘hightail’ came up (as it does in every Hoppy, Gene or Roy western) spoken by Brian Donlevy in “Dangerous Assignment.”  Might be a nice word with all its appearances in old westerns and clearly derives from the raised tails of fleeing deer and rabbits.  Not elegant, but evocative.”
Mike is correct on all counts. To “hightail it” – to move rapidly, often while fleeing, to beat a hasty retreat, make tracks, vamoose – does, indeed, derive from the raised tails of critters running away. (And I find it interesting that by combining an adjective, “high,” with a noun, “tail,” we get a verb, “hightail.” Ain’t English grand?)
He’s also right that it’s not particularly elegant. “Hightail” is American slang, usually attributed to cowboys or ranchers. It is certainly evocative, especially if you’ve ever seen a white-tailed deer spooked and running away.  
“Hightail” pretty much always travels in company with “it.” The dirty varmints who just robbed the bank never simply “hightail” away. They always “hightail it” back to their hideout.
It didn’t take long for “hightail it” to become a very popular phrase. Merriam-Webster says the first known use of “hightail” was in 1908 (although most other sources put it in the 1890’s). So it was still a veritable youngster when it became prevalent in the Golden Age of Radio (the 1930’s and 40’s).
Thanks, Michael, for letting me hijack your word and then hightail it out of here.
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zaccariacombat · 1 year
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Charlie: Can I sleep in the pup tent?
Fields: No, my pup tent is very small. I use it to cover my dogs. Pup tent, dogs, meaning feet.
Charlie McCarthy and W. C. Fields on The Chase & Sanborn Hour, July 11, 1937
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nunalastor · 2 months
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kenandeliza · 7 months
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A doodle on my notebook
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Just a small doodle though xD
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cantsayidont · 6 months
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August 1940. Perhaps the most important Superman story never published: In the summer of 1940, Jerry Siegel wrote a complete script for a 26-page Superman epic (the length of two normal Superman stories of this period) in which Superman is weakened by a passing meteor of radioactive metal from the destroyed planet Krypton, here called "K-Metal." That alone would have been noteworthy, but that's far from all. Later in the story, Superman reveals his true identity to the survivors of a mine cave-in, including Lois Lane!
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The other three witnesses are subsequently killed, but Lois now knows the truth. She and Superman then have the following conversation:
LOIS: Now I begin to see. Your attitude of cowardliness as Clark Kent-- It was just a screen to keep the world from learning who you really are! But there's one thing I must know: Was your--er--affection for me, in your role as Clark, also a pretense? SUPERMAN: THAT was the genuine article, Lois! LOIS: How foolish you were not to let me in on the secret! You should have known you could trust me! Why-- Don't you realize-- I might even be of great help to you? SUPERMAN: You're right! There were many times when I could have used the assistance of a confederate. Why didn't I think of it before? LOIS: Then it's settled! We're to be--partners! SUPERMAN: Yes -- partners!
It isn't quite so easy, however. After returning to Metropolis, Lois tells Clark, "I just remembered how long you've secretly been laughing at me! I don't like to be laughed at, Clark Kent-- But-- I'll assist you… Only for the good of humanity, however!"
Most of the art for this story was completed, or nearly completed, by Joe Shuster's shop artists before National-DC pulled the plug. The exact reasons are now unknown, although the most likely explanation is that the story just seemed like too much of a shift in the established dynamics of the Superman strip, which was by then running in newspapers and on the radio as well as in the comics. K-Metal, renamed Kryptonite, resurfaced in a 1943 radio storyline, which borrows some elements from this script, but Kryptonite wouldn't appear in the comics until 1949, and it wouldn't be until decades later that Lois Lane really and truly learned the secret.
For background on this story, see Mark Waid's article in ALTER EGO #26 (July 2003). The Superman Through the Ages website has a nearly complete recreation of the full story, done by modern artists (in color) based on the surviving pages of original art and Siegel's script, which Waid had carefully retyped using the same kind of typewriter Siegel used.
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cladriteradio · 1 month
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Here are 10 things you should know about Adolphe Menjou, born 134 years ago today. He all but cornered the market on playing suave scoundrels over the course of his nearly 50-year career.
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testure-1988 · 5 months
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meanstreetspodcasts · 30 days
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BONUS - Suspense Goes West
For this bonus episode, we're saddling up with the best Suspense stories of the old west. Alan Ladd hunts for his brother's murderer in "A Killing in Abilene" (originally aired on CBS on December 14, 1950). Then, Richard Widmark fights a bloody feud in "The Hunting of Bob Lee" (originally aired on CBS on October 29, 1951) and he tracks a deadly panther through the snow in "The Track of the Cat" (originally aired on CBS on February 18, 1952). Frank Lovejoy stars as one of the west's most infamous gunslingers in "The Shooting of Billy the Kid" (originally aired on CBS on April 28, 1952) and Richard Widmark returns - this time as another notorious outlaw - in "The Spencer Brothers" (originally aired on CBS on January 26, 1953). Finally, Victor Mature stars as a legendary bandit in "The Love and Death of Joaquin Murietta" (originally aired on CBS on February 16, 1953).
Check out this episode!
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thebrikbox · 9 days
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The Golden Age of Radio, ep. 01
Tesla did invent the wireless radio that he held a public demonstration in 1893, but an Italian inventor named Guglielmo Marconi believed communication could happen through radio waves using what he called “telegraphy without wires” and he proved it in 1865 by sending and receiving a radio signal by Morse code. His intention was to use wireless communication to contact ships and he wanted to broaden his reach by transmitting waves across the Atlantic on December 12, 1901. There are historians that say Marconi stole the radio from Tesla, but regardless, he did invent radio waves and he was the first to send communication which he is credited as the father of radio.
After much work to perfect wireless communication, ships were outfitted with radios that proved beneficial when sailing the seas. The Titanic used radio to send distress signals to nearby vessels for aid, and though too many passengers lost their lives, many were indeed saved.
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Marconi revolutionized radio communications. The first recorded radio broadcast happened in 1906 on Christmas Eve. Canadian Reginald Fessenden, also named father of radio, worked with Edison in New Jersey for years to improve radio waves by transmitting sound like human voices and he proved it accomplishable with the first audible broadcast on Christmas Eve. Fessenden introduced the small ensemble playing Christmas tunes and he would end the show, “Goodnight to all.”
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January 13, 1910 was the first live public broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Radio communication proved effective in World War I, but a decade later in 1920 marked a historical event when Pittsburgh station KDKA aired the first commercial broadcast in America on Election Day, November 2, to announce the results of the Harding and Cox. The success of the broadcast inspired other stations to start their own broadcast programs, and thus, this paved the road for the Golden Age of Radio in America.
In the 1920’s, From 1930 through to the 1940’s commercial radio programs aired with programs that entertained families in the privacy of their homes. The function of radios wasn’t limited to homes, but also on battlefields, in the air, and on the seas in both World Wars I and II.
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Radio programs allowed its audiences to visualize performances and favorites brought families together to enjoy their favorites: The Jack Benny Program, Amos ‘n’ Andy, Dick Tracy, Burns and Allen… a few of so many. RCA - later became NBC, CBS, and ABC were the biggest networks that contracted celebrities and their sponsors that were recorded in New York City or Hollywood. During the birth of television, shows would move from NYC to Hollywood as programs started to converge over from sound to sight.
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If ever you get an opportunity to listen to a radio program, do so with an open mind. You’ll be amazed between the difference. Until next time… aloha oe.
Photos: *BBC, Britannica, The Canadian Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Getty Images
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serufu · 5 months
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I just listened to episode 15 of The Wizard The Witch and The Wild One and like, I didn't know I could still get this genuinely excited and curious and enmeshed and inspired by a fantasy story any more, my brain is on fire in a way I haven't felt since I was a kid excitedly reading my first fantasy novels in a quiet library on summer break, I want to listen to Brennan describe this world for years on end! I'm so giddy right now, what a rush of storytelling.
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santmat · 8 months
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The Vegetarian Christians of Early Christianity - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast
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One thing that might be rather surprising to most people that can be learned by doing a study of the gospels, acts and other literature of the Hebrew Christians -- the Ebionites -- the Christianity that Existed Before Paul -- is that, rather than some imagined Sunday school notion of a fish market in the village of Galilee being operated by the disciples of Jesus, there is significant evidence that the Original Jesus Movement and well-known apostles became vegetarians. And furthermore, this vegetarianism of the disciples and Jesus Movement is fairly widely known and mentioned by the early church fathers. It's not that this information is coming from recently discovered writings dug up in the Middle East. Rather, these are old texts that have been with us since the early days of Christianity but didn't seem all that meaningful and significant to a pro-meat carnistic population. Vegetarians however would indeed be most interested finding this out! (Peace be to you)
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"Jacobus [James], the brother of Jesus, lived of seeds and vegetables and did not accept meat or wine." (Saint Augustine)
"The consumption of animal flesh was unknown up until the great flood. But since the great flood, we have had animal flesh stuffed into our mouths. Jesus, the Christ, who appeared when the time was fulfilled, again joined the end to the beginning, so that we are now no longer allowed to eat animal flesh." (pro-vegetarian early church father Hieronymus [St. Jerome] who apparently read the Gospel of the Hebrews and was influenced by Ebionite views)
"Sacrifices were invented by men to be a pretext for eating flesh." (Clement of Alexandria)
"The steam of meat meals darkens the spirit. One can hardly have virtue if one enjoys meat meals and feasts. In the earthly paradise [Eden], no one sacrificed animals, and no one ate meat." (Saint Basil the Great)
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