GDT: Game 82. Finito. Finale. Complete. End. Fin. Sharks @ Oilers 6pm

[LadyStanley]

 

[Hawkeye8]

in honor of the semi-hijacking conversation that @hotcabbagesoup and I had last night about old time radio, and to get everyone's minds off the crushing deflation that was this Sharks season, I present a personally curated sampling of classic radio shows via Youtube to quiet the ongoing existential dread for 30 minutes at a time. They may not be everyone's cup of tea but if even a couple of people find something in this that they enjoy then that'll make it worth it for my attempts to showcase the value of old time radio as something that is functionally workable like podcasts almost 100 years before podcasts existed.

(really late added note: for context, I say this as someone who is like 2-3 generations removed from any old time/golden age of radio content being pop culturally relevant. I don't introduce these in a "you kids these days should appreciate the stuff I grew up with" sort of way because this would've been more like the stuff that my grandparents or great-grandparents would've grown up with. If I was trying to push my own childhood pop culture on everyone I would've posted episodes of The Transformers. Or the Nelvana Studios Adventures of Tintin Cartoon. Or ReBoot. Or the show made by the ReBoot/Transformers: Beast Wars guys that nobody remembers even though it was awesome: Shadow Raiders.)

Spoiler tags are just to prevent the embedded YT player from making this post take up 4x as much space.

Philip Marlowe - The Red Wind (originally aired Sept 26, 1948) (an adaptation of an early Raymond Chandler short story before he created Marlowe, re-engineered for the character for the purposes of this radio script)

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The Shadow - The Poison Death (originally aired Jan 30, 1938) (starring Orson Welles as The Shadow/Lamont Cranston and Agnes Moorhead (possibly best known as the mother/in-law on Bewitched) as Margot Lane)

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The Saint - The Saint Goes Underground (originally aired July 31, 1949) (starring Vincent Price as Simon Templar/The Saint)

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Burns & Allen - Turkey Swallows a Wedding Ring (originally aired Nov 25, 1948) (fair warning that there is some cringey old-timey "a wife should obey her husband" stuff during the setup, but it also quickly gets subverted as part of the joke and it's worth noting that the series never really proscribed to that except for gags because in real life George Burns knew that Gracie was the unquestioned heavy hitter of their act and never treated her with anything less than the respect she earned and deserved.)

Spoiler

I highly recommend getting a comfy chair, a refreshing drink, and turning the lights down to set the right atmosphere to listen. Well maybe not for the comedy show, but the Shadow and Marlowe stories befit quiet, dark environs.

EDIT: I've now edited this post like 5 times to add little additional touches that will likely never be of consequence since the game is over and few will read this GDT much past tonight, but if anyone actually does listen to a show here based on my soapboxing/hawking I'd love to hear it just to know if the likes that result are from legitimate interest or more "isn't it cute that Nem tries so hard for something so esoteric." type motivations.


Yes, I am that insecure.

Legitimate interest on my end. Grew up listening to old time radio shows with my father all the time. He use to get cassette tapes and we would listen to them while driving or at night while camping.

Philip Marlowe and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, and Sam Spade, and Dragnet are probably my favorites as I loved detective stories.

I think listening to classic radio shows as a kid really helped me shift into listening to audio books, which is my go to while driving.

 

[The Nemesis]

Legitimate interest on my end. Grew up listening to old time radio shows with my father all the time. He use to get cassette tapes and we would listen to them while driving or at night while camping.

Philip Marlowe and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, and Sam Spade, and Dragnet are probably my favorites as I loved detective stories.

I think listening to classic radio shows as a kid really helped me shift into listening to audio books, which is my go to while driving.

Nice. I love Philip Marlowe. It's probably my favorite of the detective stories (if you count the Shadow separately). I've listened to all the episodes that are out there, which I think is like 100-something between the handful of ones from the original Van Heflin run and most of the episodes from the Gerald Mohr run (Mohr was far better in the role). It's a good percentage of the series that's been preserved compared to things like The Saint (which lost like half of its run) and The Shadow (which is missing almost all of the episodes from its last 5 or 6 years on the air)

Sam Spade I've only listened to a couple and in spite of the fact that the character is so iconic thanks to Bogart and The Maltese Falcon, I just didn't click with the radio version as much as the Marlowe stories. I also have some other Dashiel Hammett series in adaptations of The Fat Man and Adventures of The Thin Man but I haven't started those yet.

Dragnet I also have saved but I haven't listened to it yet. I originally got it for my dad for when he's working outside based on TV shows he likes and other things I thought would be in his wheelhouse, including Gunsmoke, Superman, and the Jack Benny Program. Turns out he's not as into the idea as I had hoped, but now I have more stuff in my library so it wasn't a total loss.

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is on my "to get" list, but it's kind of daunting because there are like 700+ available episodes and the site I usually take from asks people not to siphon off their bandwidth in massive chunks so it's probably going to be a 3-4 month undertaking to complete the series.


The other series I haven't mentioned that I really like is Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator. It's sort of a lighter tone detective story. It has lots of noir-ish elements, but isn't nearly so gritty or dark and Barrie has a bit more of a sense of humor about his cases and the goings on. There are almost 70 episodes of it on the OTRR Collection site I linked to. It's a good listen when you want something that's not strictly a comedy show but is a bit more lighthearted.

 

[landshark]

in honor of the semi-hijacking conversation that @hotcabbagesoup and I had last night about old time radio, and to get everyone's minds off the crushing deflation that was this Sharks season, I present a personally curated sampling of classic radio shows via Youtube to quiet the ongoing existential dread for 30 minutes at a time. They may not be everyone's cup of tea but if even a couple of people find something in this that they enjoy then that'll make it worth it for my attempts to showcase the value of old time radio as something that is functionally workable like podcasts almost 100 years before podcasts existed.

(really late added note: for context, I say this as someone who is like 2-3 generations removed from any old time/golden age of radio content being pop culturally relevant. I don't introduce these in a "you kids these days should appreciate the stuff I grew up with" sort of way because this would've been more like the stuff that my grandparents or great-grandparents would've grown up with. If I was trying to push my own childhood pop culture on everyone I would've posted episodes of The Transformers. Or the Nelvana Studios Adventures of Tintin Cartoon. Or ReBoot. Or the show made by the ReBoot/Transformers: Beast Wars guys that nobody remembers even though it was awesome: Shadow Raiders.)

Spoiler tags are just to prevent the embedded YT player from making this post take up 4x as much space.

Philip Marlowe - The Red Wind (originally aired Sept 26, 1948) (an adaptation of an early Raymond Chandler short story before he created Marlowe, re-engineered for the character for the purposes of this radio script)

Spoiler

The Shadow - The Poison Death (originally aired Jan 30, 1938) (starring Orson Welles as The Shadow/Lamont Cranston and Agnes Moorhead (possibly best known as the mother/in-law on Bewitched) as Margot Lane)

Spoiler

The Saint - The Saint Goes Underground (originally aired July 31, 1949) (starring Vincent Price as Simon Templar/The Saint)

Spoiler

Burns & Allen - Turkey Swallows a Wedding Ring (originally aired Nov 25, 1948) (fair warning that there is some cringey old-timey "a wife should obey her husband" stuff during the setup, but it also quickly gets subverted as part of the joke and it's worth noting that the series never really proscribed to that except for gags because in real life George Burns knew that Gracie was the unquestioned heavy hitter of their act and never treated her with anything less than the respect she earned and deserved.)

Spoiler

I highly recommend getting a comfy chair, a refreshing drink, and turning the lights down to set the right atmosphere to listen. Well maybe not for the comedy show, but the Shadow and Marlowe stories befit quiet, dark environs.

EDIT: I've now edited this post like 5 times to add little additional touches that will likely never be of consequence since the game is over and few will read this GDT much past tonight, but if anyone actually does listen to a show here based on my soapboxing/hawking I'd love to hear it just to know if the likes that result are from legitimate interest or more "isn't it cute that Nem tries so hard for something so esoteric." type motivations.


Yes, I am that insecure.

I enjoy this stuff, too. I'm actually named after Vincent Price... (my middle name is Vincent). Non-tangentially, my grandma loved to listen to Phillip Marlowe so there's a bit of nostalgia there for me.