Vivant You - Episode 40 - a podcast by Robert Thomas Northrup

Is this creature from the shadows planning to drink Falk’s blood? Or worse -- hypnotize him into becoming a distributor of nutritional supplements and cleaning products? Find out!

Vivant You, episode40ofThis Gun in My Hand,was brought back from death by Rob Northrup. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such asLittle Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist AtrocitiesorDungeons and Dayjobs. What do I see emerging from the darkness?This Gun in My Hand!

This episodeand all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog.

Show Notes:
1. Some of the things “Biff” says in this episode are talking points actual recruiters used on me in the late 1980s. Another guy at school said they gave him the same spiel, claiming he could become a nuclear engineer, slapping dollar bills on the desk and saying, “Here’s forty thousand dollars for college!” Also I don’t think of Falk as overweight but I wanted to repeat the story of the recruiter telling me to do neck roll exercises so I could qualify for a job I wanted nothing to do with. Words of wisdom from my dad: “The difference between being in prison and being on a ship in the Navy is you’re less likely to drown in prison.”

2. Here’s a history of the innuendo-laden expression “come up and see my etchings”:
https://wordhistories.net/2020/01/11/come-see-my-etchings/

Credits:
Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

The opening and closing music are taken from “Dracula,” the first episode ofMercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast live on July 11, 1938. Public domain.
https://archive.org/details/TheMercuryTheatreontheAir/Mercury+Theater+1938-07-11+-+01)+Dracula.mp3

Machine gun sound from the public domain filmCommandos(1968).

Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)
By Carmelomike
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover ofThe Phantom Detective, July 1940, public domain art by Rudolph Belarski.

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