Interlude by: Gail Nobles
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There is quite a bit of buzz about Superman versus Shazam. People are buzzing about who would win. Are you ready to see the fight in the theaters? Do you think you could withstand watching that fight? I don't know. Superman and Shazam are both mighty superhero gods. 
Superman was born on the planet Krypton. He was sent to earth and began developing various superhuman abilities and strength. He is Clark Kent.

 Captain Marvel also known as Shazam is Billy Batson, a boy who speaks the magic word “Shazam” is transformed into the costume adult with the powers of superhuman srength, speed, light, and other abilities.

 There was a fight between Shazam and Superman back in 1978 in volume seven number C 58 of the DC comics. That fight started because of an evil wizard. His name was Karmang The Evil. Somehow he brought a black Adam and Superman from earth. The next thing you know you're reading about a Superman on earth asking Shazam why he's not on his own earth, and that's when a fight breaks out between them. Superman cared if Shazam was hurt but later Superman is ready to kill Shazam.

 The comic book features Supergirl and Mary Batson. A fight between Superman and Shazam would be great confusion and long. They both throw very hard punches. You would see destruction.

 I'm Gail Nobles. You're listening to Paudio The Source of Sound.

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PLOT & STORYLINE DISCUSSION 

Did you know there was a kryptonite girl? Yes, there was! It was Superman's girlfriend, and we all know who that was. Yes, it was the Lois Lane. You don't believe me? No, she was never a superhero as far as I know, but something happened to her once that could hurt Superman.

 Lois Lane got kryptonite vision by accident, and we know that Superman can't stand kryptonite. This wasn't just a bad thing for Superman, but for Lois Lane too. She always wanted to marry Superman.

 Superman called on Lois Lane one day in the office of the Daily Planet. He gave her a box with some strange objects inside. He told Lois not to touch the objects, and she did not follow his directions, and that's how Lois Lane got kryptonite vision.

 When Superman came back to see Lois, she was wearing sunglasses. But they fell off her eyes, and that's when Superman got a big surprise. He told Lois to look away from him  and he even called Lois an idiot for not following his directions.

 You'll find this story in the comic book titled Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane. April No. 16. The 1960 issue.

 I'm Gail Nobles, and you're listening to Paudio The Source of Sound.

Archie Andrews: Public Domain
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Archie Andrews was a teenage sitcom directly adapted from the very popular comic strip of Bob Montana. It began to be heard on NBC Blue on May 31, 1943 and lasted on-air until September 5, 1943—the period during which radio adaptations of comic characters were trending. The show was also broadcasted on Mutual from 1944 to 1945.

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Boo sound by: Gail Nobles

Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost is a fictional character that appeared in titles published by Harvey Comics. Spooky first appeared in Casper the Friendly Ghost #10 (June 1953). He is Casper's cousin, although their exact relation is never specified. He generally resembles Casper except he has freckles, a derby hat, and a large, black nose.

Spooky is written with a Brooklyn accent, for example calling his girlfriend and fellow ghost Pearl, "Poil". His iconic derby hat is, therefore, a "doiby". Although he shares traits with The Ghostly Trio as far as loving to scare the living and being somewhat of a tough guy, he is not as cruel to his cousin as the Trio is, though he occasionally makes fun of Casper for being friendly, and Spooky has his moments of goodwill.

 Whenever you saw Spooky in the Harvey Comic Books trying to scare someone, you would see the word ‘boo’ in big bold face letters with an explanation mark. He would blow some of the other characters away with his booing like the wind.

I’m Gail Nobles. You’re listening to Paudio the source of sound.

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Hello! I'm Gail Nobles! Welcome to Paudio. Today's topic is Hot Stuff the Little Devil. Hot Stuff is a comic book character created by Warren Kremer. Kremer passed away at the age of 82 July 24, 2003. He was born in the Bronx, the son of a sign painter. Kremer counted Alex Raymond/Gordon and Hal Foster Prince Valiant among his influences.

 Hot Stuff first appeared in Hot Stuff # 1 (October 1957), published by Comics. He was one of my favorite comic book characters by Harvey Comics. Hot Stuff is a mischievous little devil. He is able to produce fire. The little devil's appearance is red. He looks like a red child devil who wears a diaper and carries a magical sentient pitchfork (referred to as his “trusty trident”), which is a character in his own right to the consternation of his demonic brother, Hot Stuff sometimes performs good deeds to irritate them.

 I remember when I first saw Hot Stuff the Little Devil in comics downtown to the bookstore.  I was already reading Casper. Then I started buying both Casper and Hot Stuff comic books. I would read them to my brother and sometimes we would laugh. I was seven years older than him but we were both children. Hot Stuff would really get fired up in those comic books.

 He would say things like: They say I'm hotheaded and that makes me boiling mad.
 
Hot Stuff would be on the pages with fire coming out of his mouth he would make himself disappear.

 Hot stuff would call the sun a fireball. He was hot like fire but there was something hotter than him. When he would go lay on a block of ice, the ice would melt. He couldn't get no satisfaction. Sometimes he would have things running from him like an apple tree with shade. The tree would lose his apples and all hot stuff would do was eat them. That's how Hot Stuff was.You can find the story of that in comic book number one of October 1957.

I enjoyed myself reading Hot Stuff. I didn't know that the character was created way back then. I missed a lot of comic book issues.

 Well there you have it. Hot Stuff the Lttle Devil and a brief summary of what he is all about.

Big Jon and Sparky
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  Jon was an American entertainer as big Jon Arthur. He was the host of the Saturday morning children's radio series big John and Sparkie. Sparkie, "the little elf from the land of make-believe, who wants more than anything else in the world to be a real boy,” was actually the recorded voice of Jon Arthur played at a fast speed.

At WSAI in Cincinnati, Arthur began the Big Jon and Sparkie show, carried daily on 181 ABC stations beginning in 1950. ABC also aired his two-hour Saturday show, No School Today, heard weekly by 12 million listeners on 275 stations.The show's theme song was "Teddy Bears' Picnic" as sung by Ann Stephens. Cincinnati's Don Kortekamp, who was an editor at WSAI, teamed up with Arthur to become the scriptwriter of Big Jon and Sparkie. Arthur voiced all of the various characters while Kortekamp provided the scripts for their adventures.

And now, coming up next: Big Jon and Sparkie.

Episode of the old-time radio series "Destination Freedom". 
Story:The Legend of John Henry
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Durham wrote and produced the radio drama Destination Freedom. In cooperation with The Chicago Defender, he began this series over NBC Chicago outlet WMAQ in July 1948, with scripts emphasizing the progress of African-Americans from the days of slavery to the ongoing struggle for racial justice.

Coming up next is the Legend of John Henry. an American folk hero. An African American freedman, he is said to have worked as a "steel-driving man"—a man tasked with hammering a steel drill into a rock to make holes for explosives to blast the rock in constructing a railroad tunnel.

The story of John Henry is told in a classic blues folk song about his duel against a drilling machine, which exists in many versions, and has been the subject of numerous stories, plays, books, and novels.

According to researcher Scott Reynolds Nelson, there was an actual John Henry who was borb in 1848 in New Jersey and died of silicosis and not due to exhaustion of work. Several locations have been put forth for tunnel on which John Henry died,

Sociologist, Guy B. Johnson, investigated the legend of John Henry in the late 1920s. He concluded that John Henry might have worked on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway's (C&O Railway) Big Bend Tunnel.

 Coming up next is the story of John Henry from the radio program produced by WMAQ in Chicago called Destination Freedom. The show was a series of weekly radio programs. Richard Durham an African-American writer and radio producer wrote and produce the radio drama Destination Freedom, and you'll be hearing the legend of John Henry from that radio drama.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Boop

Hello Everyone! Have you heard about Boop! The Musical by Jasmine Amy Rogers? I have seen a video clip of her recording a song titled, ‘Where I Wanna Be.’ She’s a great singer. The musical is performed by David Foster; lyrics by Birkenhead.

Boop The Musical is a 2023 musical based on the animated character Betty Boop. The musical original run in Chicago began with previews on November 19 and closed on December 24, 2023.

Betty Boop is a celebrity in the black-and-white animated world, but she feels that something is missing. Grampy, an inventor and Betty's friend, creates a machine to take her into the modern world. She becomes more 3 dimensional. Sounds like a neat broadway show.


I’m Gail Nobles. Thank you for listening to Paudio.

The Adventures of Superman
The Baby From Krypton
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Usage: Public Domain

Boys and Girls, your attention please! Presenting a new exciting radio program featuring the thrilling adventures of an amazing and incredible personality. Faster than an airplane, more powerful than a loca motive, ....

Up in the sky! Look! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!

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Beginning and Ending music by: Gail Nobles

Hello! I'm Gail Nobles on Paudio - The Source of Sound. I want to talk to you today about the 1940 radio Superman. Yes, there was a long running radio serial that originally aired from 1942 to 1951 titled The Adventures of Superman. It featured the DC Comics character Superman.

The serial came to radio as a syndicated show on New York City's WOR on February 12, 1940. On Mutual, it was broadcast from August 31, 1942, to February 4, 1949, as a 15-minute serial, running three or, usually, five times a week. From February 7 to June 24, 1949, it ran as a thrice-weekly half-hour show. The series shifted to ABC Saturday evenings on October 29, 1949, and then returned to afternoons twice a week on June 5, 1950, continuing on ABC until March 1, 1951. In all, 2,088 original episodes of The Adventures of Superman aired on American radio.

Bud Collyer was famous in the roles of Clark Kent / Superman on radio and in animated cartoons, initially in theatrical short subjects and later on television.

Coming up next: More 1940 Radio Superman!

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Hello I'm Gail Nobles, and you’re listening to Paudio the Source of Sound. Growing up as a child I loved the cartoon Woody Woodpecker. I have a little golden book by Walter Lantz titled with “Woody Woodpecker at the Circus.” I loved watching the cartoons and hearing the laugh of Woody.

I asked : How did they make Woody laugh like that?” He had a unique laugh like Porky Pig had a unique stutter. I remember Woody Woodpecker as a bird that was mischievous.

There is a real woodpecker that comes around sometimes in my yard. As a child, I never thought I'd see a real one. The woodpecker had a knock loud enough that I could hear him with my windows closed. He put holes all the way up my pecan tree.

I thought: That woodpecker got to go.” But there was one tree I was glad he peaked on some. The woodpecker had a powerful beak.

When I hear that woodpecker, I think of the cartoon Woody Woodpecker. I remember the cartoon in the 70s where he was created in 1940 by Walter Lantz and appeared in theatrical short films and distributed by Universal Pictures between 1940 and 1972.

Mighty Mouse: Wolf! Wolf!
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https://archive.org/details/mighty_mouse_wolf_wolf

Hello you're listening to Paudio & I am your host Gail Nobles. Today I'm going to play the cartoon “Mighty Mouse Wolf! Wolf!“ A pack of hungry wolves with one of them disguised as Little Bo Peep raids a flock of sheep and captures a little lamb. The wolves attempt to make lambchops out of the lamb but mighty mouse arrives to say the day.


The cartoon is a 1945 cartoon. The cartoon character was created by Terrytoons and animation studio in New Rochelle, New York. They produced animated cartoons for theatrical release from 1929 to 1973 and briefly returned between 1987 and 1996 for television in name only. Terrytoons was founded by Paul Terry, Frank Mose, and Joseph Coffman. I hope you enjoy the cartoon mighty mouse Wolf! Wolf!

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Today’s topic is Cool Ghoul.

Hi I’m Gail Nobles. I remember seeing the Cool Ghoul on television in the 80’s everyday at 4:00 PM showing cartoons like Tom & Jerry.

The Cool Ghoul was a popular radio and TV character and horror movie host in Cincinnati, Ohio created and portrayed by Dick Van Hoene. The Cool Ghoul was an icon of Cincinnati television radio and local pop culture for over decades.

The Cool Ghoul’s origins date back to 1961, when Von Hoene worked on a WGPO (now WDBZ) radio show called “Bob Smith’s Monster Mash.” By 1969, Von Hoene had moved into television working at the fledging TV station WXIX-TV in Cincinnati.

During the early 1970s, The Cool Ghoul hosted his own Saturday night horror movie show, Scream-In.

In the early 1980s, Von Hoene took the Cool Ghoul to WCTI - TV in New Bern, NC earning a new generation of fans in the process. He sure did. I remember him well. and all the crazy sounds he made. Bl-bl-bl-bl-bl-bl-bl-bl-bl-bl.. BLEAAAHHH BLEAAAHHH

Cool Ghoul made his own records. He had his own rock band known as the Grave Diggers. He was very successful with his talents.

The Ghoul was loved. I remember him performing the Monster Mash.
“ … And Suddenly to my surprise He did the Mash He did the Monster Mash The Monster Mash…”

And I remember him playing a little tune in the background when he would talk showing cartoons. .. I guess I loved him too because I remember some of the things he did growing up. I never forgot him.

Von Hoene passed away at age 63 on Feb. 4, 2004. He was buried at Spring Grove Cemetery Cincinnati. I’ll always remember him. He had some good affect on my childhood.
I’m Gail Nobles. Tune in again next time for more.

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Today’s topic: Gran Turismo

The movie, "Gran Turismo" is based on a true story. It’s about a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won a series of Nissan competitions to become a real professional race car driver. It is a biographical coming-of-age sports drama film directed by Neill Blomkamp.

Produced by Columbia Pictures, PlayStation Productions, Trigger Street Productions, and 2.0 Entertainment, the film is based on the racing simulation video game series published by PlayStation Studios, while inspired by the true story of Jann Mardenborough, a teenage Gran Turismo player aspiring to be a race car driver. Gran Turismo is set to be released on August 11, 2023, by Sony Pictures Releasing. According to the preview, the film looks as if it is going to be pretty good.

I’m Gail Nobles, and you’re listening to Paudio the Source of Sound.

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James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom was the leader of a snake cult in the 1982 movie Conan the Barbarian starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. It is an epic sword & sorcery film directed by John Milius and written by Milius and Oliver Stone.

The Character Thulsa Doom was something else. He could act kind and turn around and kill you in an instant. James Earl Jones made the character and acting seem so real, although you knew you were watching a fantasy movie.

The most creepy part of the movie was when Thulsa Doom slowly turned into a snake right in his clothes. His face began to change slowly, and you could see his head moving that was covered under his head covering, and his hands began to draw up into his sleeves.

It was my first time seeing a face being morphed into something else like that. What made it so creepy was it was the face of James Earl Jones. And I’m wondering, “Wow! How did they do that?” And I didn’t know anything about computers in 1982. It was very amazing to me.
I’m Gail Nobles, and you’re listening to Paudio, the source of sound.

Coming up next is Daffy - The Commando. A Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The cartoon was released on Nov. 20, 1943, and stars Dafy Duck.

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Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daffy_–_The_Commando

Superman Cartoon: MAG TELE
From: SuperToons volumes is in public domain.
pulled from Supertoons - Wayzata Technology (1351) (1993) and Supertoons 2 - The Legend Continues - Wayzata Technology (1441) (1994)
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Hi! I’m Gail Nobles. Welcome to Indie Sights. Today’s topic: RumRunners. RumRunners is a drama short film about a group of bootleggers in the big city looking to make names for themselves during prohibition plan for a job that could potentially put them all on the map.

The director is Jaleel Sampay. The film reminds me of a mobster movie. It starts out with a man & woman entering a stonewall basement. There is a long hallway and a man with a 1940 machine gun blocking a doorway to enter into a room. In the room, they meet a group of men where they sit down and talk about a deal. It seems they can’t agree, and everyone pulls out a gun. When the man and woman decides to leave, things don’t look good.

To see RumRunners, go to YouTube.com.