After talking to a shady booker for a shortwave station, Falk’s body doesn’t seem to work like it used to. Will Falk’s gun still fire? When did he take off his shirt? Who won the story seed contest? Listen to find out!

This Gun Is My Hand, episode 110 of This Gun in My Hand, was ushered into this world 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, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How can you tell I’ve grown attached to firearms? This Gun is My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. I was confusing Roger Corman (born 1926) with David Cronenberg (born 1943). Corman would have been 14 in 1939. Cronenberg would have been a smile on his mother’s lips and a twinkle in his father’s eye.
2. Ms. Harriet’s lullaby is derived from The Creed of a United States Marine, aka The Rifleman’s Creed.
https://www.usmcu.edu/Research/Marine-Corps-History-Division/Frequently-Requested-Topics/Marines-Rifle-Creed/
3. You might appreciate this episode more after watching twelve seasons of the delightful BBC series Call the Midwife. Sadly my local library doesn’t have season thirteen yet so I can’t vouch for that one.

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.

Sound Effect Title: NOISE-PINK-10VU.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/mutantra/sounds/571176/

Sound Effect Title: Police Radio Chatter.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/320351/

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: Slam door.MP3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/SoundsForHim/sounds/395653/

Sound Effect Title: 220531 Fly buzzing in window, short, R-07
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/TRP/sounds/717567/

Sound Effect Title: Fly at Window
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/573240/

Sound Effect Title: Pouring Soup in a Metal Pan - Quick,Short,Gross
by Hitrison
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/251410/

Sound Effect Title: Squishing.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/485484/

Sound Effect Title: Burp 8
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/399761/

Sound Effect Title: Broken Egg Squelch
By d.n.audio.uk
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/s/461049/

Sound Effect Title: Crying newborn baby child 2.WAV
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/211528/

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

Sound Effect Title: Glock 19 Handgun Pistol Slide Cocking Sounds
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/jackmurrayofficial/sounds/393734/

Sound Effect Title: AR15 M4 Gun Hardware Magazine Movement Sounds
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/jackmurrayofficial/sounds/393732/

The image accompanying this episode is a combination of the following public domain artworks:
1. The cover of New Detective magazine, Volume 8, Number 4 (July 1946). Not sure of the artist.
2. The cover of Argosy Weekly, Volume 230, Number 6 (July 2, 1932), art by Robert Graef.