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Turn back the dial with the Firehouse Radio Players! Our cast of voice actors and sound effects artists present an evening of original comedies in the style of shows from the Golden Age of Radio. There's outer space excitement in "The Thrilling Adventures of Captain Fremulon," soft-boiled crime drama with "Cliff Hanger, Private Eye," and more! Recorded live at Firehouse Theatre in Richmond, Virginia.
 
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Kevin Podas and Grant Mooney

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Cleaning up the mean streets of the internet - because somebody's gotta do it. From the cyberpunk hellscape of Neo-Chicago, Officer Kevin and Officer Grant monitor the world wide web so you don't have to. Leave us a voicemail to play on the show: 312-788-7361 or send an audio file to thoughtcopspodcast@gmail.com The Thought Cops have deputized a number of your favorite thought leaders, content creators, comedians, online personalities, and more, in their effort to clean up the internet once ...
 
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It's the finale of Munch Madness 2023: The Tournament of Chompions: BOWL! Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus of Newcomers join forces with the 'boys to determine who will be crowned winner and take home the Dave Thomas Cup. Plus, special appearances from The Commissioner, Mrs. Mitchell, and The Noid. Want more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://…
 
For this month's bonus episode, I'm sharing my favorite episodes of Suspense starring Oscar-winner Claire Trevor. First, she's trapped in her home with a madman in "The Plan" (originally aired on CBS on May 16, 1946). Then, she's a dancer trying to solve her boyfriend's murder and find a priceless diamond he was hiding in "The Blue Hour" (originall…
 
This episoded aired on CBS Radio January 6, 1944. Mr. Keen: Tracer of Lost Persons. Mr. Keen’s in the deep South to find a missing southern gentleman on a plantation with black walnut trees. Bennett Kilpack, Frank Hummert, Anne Hummert, Larry Elliott (announcer). Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons was one of radio's longest running shows, airing Octo…
 
"Um, actually--" Just stop right there. Zach AKA Yolo Swag Studios of Cold Cuts is back on the show! Support the show on Patreon Field Notes Zach talks to us about putting drawings on the computer and making people mad. Also doing a podcast and making people mad. Speaking of people mad, people got really mad at Kevin this week for making an observa…
 
Episode 141 aired February 12, 1942. The series focused on a crusading D.A., initially known only as "Mister District Attorney," or "Chief", and was later translated to television. On television the D.A. had a name, Paul Garrett, and the radio version picked up this name in the final years when David Brian played the role. Mr. District Attorney is …
 
Hoist the sail for a triple feature of detectives vs. 20th century pirates! First, as secret agent Ken Thurston, Herbert Marshall hunts a gang that's looting relief ships in the Red Sea in The Man Called X (originally aired on CBS on June 19, 1947). Then, Tom Collins stars in the syndicated show "The Case of the Vanishing President" - a story of pi…
 
Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple was featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series. The radio mystery series aired on NBC and CBS from 1942 to 1954. Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin had the…
 
Released June 30, 1948 aka The legend of The Lone Ranger...is an incredibly American story that may very well have been inspired by the U.S Marshal Bass Reeves. The legend began 1875, but was introduced into modern culture through a radio show what developed into a popular story in the entertainment industry.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Range…
 
Paul Scheer (Unspooled, How Did This Get Made?) joins the 'boys to talk movie theaters, Gru, and basketball before tackling the second semi-soft finals of Munch Madness 2023: The Tournament of Chompions: BOWL! Sponsored by Better Help. Go to betterhelp.com/doughboys for 10% off your first month. Want more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://…
 
Hitchockian heavy and Third Man hero Joseph Cotten returns for more "tales well calculated to keep you in Suspense!" We'll hear him first as a corrupt prosecutor who plans a murder to keep his dirty dealings a secret in "A Watery Grave" (originally aired on CBS on March 10, 1952). Then, he stars as the titular murderer as the ballad of "Tom Dooley"…
 
Goo goo ga ga-- just kidding around. Brandon Kirkman of Podzooky is back on the show this week. Support the show on Patreon Field Notes What's it like to be a podcaster AND a dad?? Brandon Kirkman answers that question and many more. "Weird Comments" has a theme song now, and we try to figure out what the hell are "reddit movies" as we discuss the …
 
Ira Cook's artist of the day is John Allan Jones aka JACK JONES (born January 14, 1938) an American singer and actor. Son of singer Allan Jones. Jack Jones is primarily a straight-pop singer whose forays into jazz are mostly of the big-band/swing variety. He has won two Grammy Awards.Note as of this post (8/21/2023) Jones is 85 years of age and con…
 
This episode of The Howard Miller Show aired on CBS Radio February 15, 1957 and features an interview with Richard Edward Arnold (May 15, 1918 – May 8, 2008). Eddy Arnold was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a Nashville sound (country/popular music) innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billb…
 
This week, we've got stories from three of the all-time great mystery writers - literary giants who gave us some of the most famous detectives in fiction. We'll hear adaptations of Raymond Chandler's "Murder in the City Hall" and Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution" from The Mollé Mystery Theatre (originally aired on NBC on April 5 and M…
 
Arden Myrin (Shameless, Insatiable, Will You Accept This Rose?) joins the 'boys to talk digestive issues and go-to healthy meals before tackling the semi-soft finals of Munch Madness 2023: The Tournament of Chompions: BOWL! Want more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboys See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information…
 
After achieving stardom in her native Australia, Ann Richards traveled to Hollywood. Unfortunately, studios never quite figured out what to do with her, and she retired after making just 12 movies in the States. But during her short stint in Hollywood, she co-starred with the likes of Brian Donlevy, Burt Lancaster, and Barbara Stanwyck. We'll hear …
 
We clown around with Cheesymanfredo this week as he talks about his latest comic and much more. Support the show on Patreon Field Notes Cheesy talks to us about his potential magnum opus, McPagliacci: A parody comic based on the 1892 opera Pagliacci, starring the McDonald Land characters. We talk clown lore, clownsonas, clown eggs, and more. Appare…
 
In honor of the 95th Academy Awards, we'll hear four old time radio detective stars who took home Oscars of their own. First, Rex Harrison stars as a debonair sleuth in "Murder Deep in the Killer's Mind" from The Private Files of Rex Saunders (originally aired on NBC on June 20, 1951). Next, Edmond O'Brien is "the man with the action-packed expense…
 
Episode 64 aired February 7, 1960 on CBS Radio. A visit to Alder Bend, Colorado, for a job with Ira Stokes, a horse and wife beater out to own the town. The Have Gun – Will Travel radio show broadcast 106 episodes between November 23, 1958 and November 27, 1960. It was one of the last radio dramas featuring continuing characters and one of only a h…
 
Zach Cherry (Severance, The Great American Baking Show) joins the 'boys to talk healthy bowls and Hot Ones before tackling the Acai region of Munch Madness 2023: The Tournament of Chompions: BOWL! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/DOUGHBOYS. Sources for this week's intro: https://www.allaboutpalmtr…
 
Lee Bowman enjoyed a brief run of success on the big screen during World War II, but when film roles dried up he turned to television and eventually to a second career as a corporate and political media consultant. We'll hear him as a man who comes home from his bachelor party to discover a murder mystery in "Five Canaries in the Room" (originally …
 
Hey where are my paper clips?! Rob Steinberg, writer for The Hard Times and Hard Drive, joins us for this week's episode! Support the show on Patreon Field Notes Dilbert has fallen. Lori is out. And landlords are demanding tips. It's total anarchy out there. But we as Thought Cops serve to get you through these uncertain times. We talk about animat…
 
Harry lands in Haiti, where he plans to grift a wealthy vacationer of an artifact once belonging to the only monarch of the Kingdom of Haiti. Episode 5 aired August 31, 1951. THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY LIME was Broadcast in the United States as The Lives of Harry Lime, an old time radio program produced in London, England during the 1951 to 1952 seaso…
 
The American situation comedy that ran from 1950 to 1952 on NBC radio, created by Fibber McGee & Molly co-creator/writer Don Quinn. The series was adapted into a CBS television comedy (1954–55) produced by ITC Entertainment and Television Programs of America. Here is the background and the conception of the series from Wikipedia sources. British hu…
 
Okay, maybe not everybody loves clowns, but I bet you'll enjoy these three old time radio mysteries featuring the circus' most colorful performers. First, Gregory Hood solves the murder of "The Sad Clown" (originally aired on Mutual on October 7, 1946). Then, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate deadly doings under the big top in "The Adventu…
 
The series originated on January 31, 1936, on WXYZ, the same local Detroit station that originated its companion shows The Lone Ranger and Challenge of the Yukon. Beginning April 12, 1938, the station supplied the series to the Mutual Broadcasting System radio network, and then to NBC Blue and its successors, the Blue Network and ABC Network, from …
 
The pilot and first episode aired February 2, 1958 on CBS Radio. Frontier Gentleman was a radio Western series heard on CBS from February 2 to November 16, 1958, It starred John Dehner as J B Kendall. It was an Englishman's account of life and death in the West. As a reporter for the London Times, he writes his colorful and unusual accounts. But as…
 
Academy Award-nominated actress Joan Lorring returns in two more Suspense thrillers from the early 1960s. First, it's "The Luck of the Tiger Eye," a tale of greed and graverobbing set in a mansion on a dark and stormy night (originally aired on CBS on December 3, 1961). Then, a pair of newlyweds might be parted by death sooner than anticipated in "…
 
Adam Pally (Happy Endings, 101 Places To Party Before You Die, Who Invited Charlie?) joins the 'boys and Commissioner Evan Susser to set up the rules for Munch Madness 2023 and kick off The Tournament of Chompions: BOWL! Sources for this week's intro: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bowl https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/jun/28/an…
 
What the... Fudj? That's right, YouTube's own Fudj AKA Brad Waters joins us this week! Support the show on Patreon Field Notes Brad/Fudj talks to us about taking over the Hard Drive YouTube channel. A lot of great stuff on there, surely worthy of your time, so be sure to check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh8OE-9ylx8 We read a lot of "we…
 
February 1948_ep01 The Adventures of Frank Race was an American radio adventure serial syndicated by Bruce Eells Productions. The 30-minute program's first East Coast broadcast was 1949, and the show ran 43 episodes. Because it was syndicated, it aired on different stations on different days. For instance, in New York City, the first episode ran on…
 
From 1952 until 1957, fans of Dragnet could catch one episode on radio and a different story on television. The adventures of Sgt. Joe Friday aired concurrently on radio and the small screen for hundreds of shows, and this week we'll hear three radio episodes that were later adapted for TV. We'll hear the show that was adapted as the first episode …
 
This episode from an AFRTS transcription believed to be from December 28, 1950. The FBI in Peace and War was a radio crime drama inspired by Frederick Lewis Collins' book, The FBI in Peace and War. The idea for the show came from Louis Pelletier who wrote many of the scripts. Among the show's other writers were Jack Finke, Ed Adamson and Collins. A…
 
Episode 42, Ben Hur, aired April 1, 1947 starring John Beal (born James Alexander Bliedung, August 13, 1909 – April 26, 1997) was an American actor. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace, published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century".…
 
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