No Large Bills - Episode 107

How will Falk and his special guest star cope without a narrator? How many wall angles does this polygon have? You do everything a child says? Listen to find out!

No Large Bills, episode 107 of This Gun in My Hand, was created from dues paid by one person, 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. What keeps me from paying ransom with large bills? Being broke. And also – This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Enjoy ZaSu Pitts in
The Crooked Circle (1932)
https://youtu.be/mH--iCfpMqk?si=gnz_vRf7OqVu5eYM
So’s Your Aunt Emma! (1942)
https://youtu.be/yv4HtlLmgeg?si=mWRSID-fboPfAp76 

2. During my experience of the 1980s, Thursday night at 8 o’clock was time for Michigan Outdoors on your local PBS station, one of my dad’s favorite shows. Astro Police were inspired by the announcer on the radio series Space Patrol (1952-1955), and their activities were inspired by the Dead Kennedys song “Police Truck” (1980) and the rather problematic James Caan and Alan Arkin film which set the standard for buddy cop movies, Freebie and the Bean (1974). 

3. Wikipedia says bungalows are single story. I just throw out architectural terms that sound legit. What’s ranch style? What’s Tudor? What’s a “cornice?” I have no idea.

4. Actual old time radio dramas name-checked in this episode: Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy; The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen. Not actual old time radio shows: Little Orphan Ayn; Father Clogin; InfoMars with Alex Johansen; Astro Police.  

Credits:
The opening and middle theme music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950); the music used in the Astro Police ad was from Chapter ten of Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (1938); and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), all three 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: Striking a Match, Burning, Extinguishing
By nebulousflynn
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/221554/ 

Sound Effect Title: Whoosh02.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/kingsrow/sounds/181578/

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

Sound Effect Title: Deep Space Ship Effect
By hykenfreak
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/214663/

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

Sound Effect Title: Victorian Twist Doorbell 01
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Dionysuspsi/sounds/464230/

Song Title: Sassy Jazzy
By LaFaena
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/lafaena/not-shift-free-will/sassy-jazzy/

Sound Effect Title: knock-window-glass.aiff
By stereostereo
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/124536/

Sound Effect Title: Cutlery drawer
License: Public Domain
http://soundbible.com/591-Cutlery-Drawer.html

Sound Effect Title: Glass Bottle Breaking
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/IENBA/sounds/607910/

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

Sound Effect Title: G28-27-Crowd Fast Walla Applause.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/438387/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the front of a 1928 two dollar bill, and both sides of a 1928 one dollar bill.