Can Falk steer rookies in the world of crime down the path of justice? Will he be forced off the road of crime-fighting by a spindly motorized bicycle? What’s that smell? Listen to find out!

Watching the Defectives, episode 104 of This Gun in My Hand, was mentored 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. What keeps you from turning to crime? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Citations Needed podcast on the exaggeration of the modern “organized shoplifting racket”:
https://citationsneeded.medium.com/news-brief-organized-crime-shoplifting-epidemic-panic-hits-san-francisco-media-b044c0f78bfa

2. The Olympics first added women’s shot put in 1948.

3. My maternal grandmother’s middle name was “Ederle,” named after the first woman known to swim solo across the English Channel. Is this the equivalent of naming your kid Khaleesi or Anakin?

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: Park ambience - mostly birds
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mafon2/sounds/274175/#

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

Sound Effect Title: Heels on Pavement.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/B.Harkins/sounds/683658/

Music Title: Flight of the Carpenter Bee
By Steven Arntson
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://archive.org/details/Bildungsroman-7512

Sound Effect Title: Mount Moganshan Insect Chorus
By: RTB45
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/RTB45/sounds/325321/
Insect chorus recorded one summer evening, Mount Moganshan, Zhejiang Provence, People's Republic of China

Sound Effect Title: Car_motor_Sound.m4a
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Blizzard123/sounds/504633/#

Sound Effect Title: motorcycle throaty pull away medium speed smooth Gaza 2016.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/kyles/sounds/406387/

Sound Effect Title: Squeaky Car Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/coltures/sounds/262325/#

Sound Effect Title: Car_Stop_Breaks_Screech_Engine-Rev_by-monnie101.mp4.WAV
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/monnie101/sounds/58150/

Sound Effect Title: audi a4 b8 20tdi update engine set1 idle acceleration early gear shifting mono.wav
By Soundholder
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Soundholder/sounds/425397/

Sound Effect Title: R03-19-Old Auto Tire Skid.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/481668/

Sound Effect Title: Bike Falling on Concrete.wav
By plivesey
License: Creative Commons Sampling+
https://freesound.org/s/78960/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a panel from the public domain comic book Hot Rods And Racing Cars, Number 32 (October 1957), pencils by Bill Molno, inks by Sal Trapani.

Violent Vacation with Peruvian Guns, episode 103 of This Gun in My Hand, was crocheted 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. What keeps my ears warm? This Gun in My Hand!

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Show Notes:
1. Violent Vacation with Peruvian Nuns was a tape released by the UK skate/thrash band The Stupids in 1986. In the village where I grew up (literally, legally a “village”), I was not on the cutting edge of knowledge about hardcore punk. The only radio stations within range were top 40, oldies or country, except for a freeform college radio station from Ann Arbor. When my family took a month long road trip in maybe summer 1988, we stopped a few days in San Diego. I might have passed over this tape at the swap meet, never heard of The Stupids before, but the cover had a cartoon of a twitching guy in a wheelchair by Don Martin. Great music, problematic pseudonyms and album titles, probably problematic lyrics but who can understand what Brits are singing? And I bet they used the cartoon without paying Don Martin or Mad Magazine. Rascals!

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

Sound Effect Title:Body fall_02.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Adam_N/sounds/346694/

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

Sound Effect Title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
Recorded by Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html

Music for commercial is from the 1938 public domain cliffhanger serial Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars, Chapter 10.

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the public domain cover of Railroad Stories (July 1937), by Emmett Watson.

A boy stumbles into the world of vice, from pennies to billiards to pinball. Will Falk rescue him in time? Why couldn't you become a jazz singer? Listen to find out!

Fievel Getcha Ten, episode 102 of This Gun in My Hand, was diced and pinned 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. What are my stakes when I’m betting? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Toon: The Cartoon Role-Playing Game by Greg Costikyan and Warren Spector includes “Chutzpah” as a character attribute.

2. The text for the fake commercial for Benzedrine Sulfate, not counting the disclaimer at the end, is taken almost verbatim from a print ad in California Western Medicine, Volume 62 (April 1945).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377281/

Credits:
The opening and some of the middle 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. Other music surrounding commercials came from the public domain film The Scar (aka Hollow Triumph, 1948). Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Sound Effect Title: Old Rotary Phone Ringing - Western Electric Bell 500 phone
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/mycompasstv/sounds/456433/

Sound Effect Title: old pinball.wav
By mapleleaf
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/mapleleaf/sounds/34730/

Sound Effect Title: Classic Pinball Gameplay
By theshaggyfreak
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/theshaggyfreak/sounds/404144/

Sound Effect Title: sw_phone_hangup.wav
By jppi_Stu
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/jppi_Stu/sounds/189727/

Music title: Requiem in D minor, K. 626 - III. Sequence - Lacrymosa (For Piano - Liszt)
Performed by Markus Staab
Composed by Mozart, arranged by Liszt?
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://musopen.org/music/43683-requiem-in-d-minor-k-626/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified version of the public domain cover of Easy Money, Volume 1, Number 2 (May 1936), by Charles McCann.