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Dateline Jasoom
by Panthan Press
Covering the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs and beyond via the vast Gridley Wave Network. Interviews with fans, professional artists and writers, ERB scholars and more -- with liberal doses of humor from the Barsoomian Blade, the oldest tabloid newspaper on Mars. Email the host, Elmo, at [email protected]
Episodes
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Dateline Jasoom: Jeddak debate in Thark
Herbo Gooli of the Barsoomian Blade covers the jeddak debate in Thark
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Dateline Jasoom: Joan Bledig on Princess play
In 2006, Joan Bledig and I traveled from Chicago to Minneapolis to see “A Princess of Mars” performed on stage by Hardcover Theater. This is our discussion of the play on the drive home. My friend of more than 25 years died Jan. 18, 2024. RIP, Joan – J the V.
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 49
Bit: The ever-widening scope of the Red Mafia would become even more apparent over the next few years as federal agents began tracking the activities of a flamboyant Florida Red Fella known as “Tarzan.” Antiques Road Show features a piece of art by Frank Schoonover. Cartoon network, “My gym…
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 48
Opening clip: Your Flight Patrol membership card will get you a free bag of jumping beans. The Chicago Blackhawks are “Muckers and grinders,” according to a Chicago sports radio show. The Chicago Muckers chapter of the Burroughs Bibliophiles discusses favorite “minor” ERB characters. Jim Hadac...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 47
Opening clip: From the Tarzan radio show, “Congo Christmas.” This is Dateline Jasoom's 2007 interview with Alex Simmons, who wrote the Sunday Tarzan comic strip in the early 2000s. Alex also talks about his original creation, Black Jack. The discussion includes Alex's perspective as an African...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 46
Opening bit: An expedition into the Carrion Caves at the frozen North Pole of Barsoom is foiled by Rudolph's nose. Francisco M. Camas of the Spanish National Biotechnology Centre in Madrid creates Tarzan yells via pan flute, clarinet and oboe. Dateline Jasoom talks to Steve “Korak” Allsup, who...
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Dateline Jasoom Bonus: The Tarzan Yodel Song
Elmo mixed Dr. Awkward from the old Podsafe Music Network with various Tarzan yodels.
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 45
Opening clip from the Tarzan radio program. Dateline Jasoom interviews Paul Yoder, an associate professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock about his graduate seminar exploring the literary icons Frankenstein, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes – and Tarzan of the Apes. This wide-ranging...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 44
Opening clip: “Super Argo and the Faceless Giants.” 2007 Louisville Dum-Dum discussion of local chapters of the Burroughs Bibliophiles. James G Huckenpöhler talks about the National Capital Panthans. Bill Ross also talks about the benefits of forming a local Burroughs group.
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 43
Brazilian TV commercial clip: “The chimp who drank Coke became a very close friend of Tarzan. The chimp who drank Pepsi became a very close friend of ...” Dateline Jasoom researches the archives of the Chicago Daily Tribune and finds references that almost certainly helped inspire “The Mucker.” A...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 42
Opening clip: “Tarzan, Silver Screen King of the Jungle,” featuring ERB fan and scholar Tracy Griffin. Tracy joins Chicago Muckers Jim Hadac, Joan Bledig and Elmo for a tour of Oak Park and Chicago sites related to Edgar Rice Burroughs. Elmo interviews Frank Lipo, who heads the Oak Park…
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 41
Trailer for “Tarzan and the Great River.” Will Pepe make friends with old Baron? Can Tarzan escape the crocodiles? Can the lady doctor save the village with her medicine? Clip from the Tarzan Filmation cartoon series from the 1970s. The 2007 Burroughs Bibiophiles Achievement Award was introduced…
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 40
Opening Bit: Carson Napier calls OnStar for directions to Mars. Elmo interviews ERB artist Richard Hescox, who says his favorite Carson cover that he illustrated was Escape on Venus. Later, Hescox is presented with a Golden Lion award and speaks during the 2007 Dum -Dum banquet in Louisville,...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 39
Opening Bit: Jane Goodall observes the 2007 Dum-Dum proceedings in Louisville, Kentucky. A talk by Sky “Apeman” Brower during that Dum-Dum. He discusses how fans rallied around Gordon Scott during the final months of his life. Sky reads a letter from Eve “Jane 1958” Brent addressed to fans at the...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 38
Opening clip from the 2007 Flash Gordon TV series, which Elmo hated. Then a clip from the 1930s radio serial, which Elmo loved. From the 2007 Dum-Dum, a talk by Mike Chapman about the Herman Brix/Bruce Bennett Tarzan movie/serial, “Tarzan and the Green Goddess.” Mike wrote the Bennett biography,...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 37
George McWhorter and Mike Conran give Tarzan yells. Dedication of the Bob Hyde ERB collection at the University of Louisville during the 2007 Dum-Dum by Bob's son, John Clayton Hyde. “My father's life passion has made for some interesting times.”
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 36
Opening Bit: “Harvey Paul” tells the rest of the story about Billy Byrne, the mucker. (My impression of Paul Harvey is embarrassingly bad.) Celebrity Jeopardy with Sean Connery, star of “Tarzan's Greatest Adventure.” Futurama clip: Bender does a Tarzan yell. A breaking story from the Barsoomian...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 35
Opening bit: “Take a cruise on the Lural Az.” (Ray Le Beau) A 2007 interview with Brooks Agnew, leader of the proposed “North Pole Inner Earth Expedition,” then scheduled to take place in 2008. “This is a very ancient idea,” he says. “It's kind of looked at as science fiction today.”
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 34
An “almost live report” from the 2007 ECOF convention in Binghamton, NY. Roving reporter Jim Thompson speaks to Elmo from the huckster room. Elmo also talks to fans D.J. Howell, James G Huckenpöhler, Dick Spargur, Doug Denby, Bill Morse, John Tyner, Elaine Casella (organizer of the convention),...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 33
Opening song clip: “Tarzan, my Tarzan” from a Bollywood movie. Longtime ERB fan Jim Thompson is a guest on Dateline Jasoom. He talks about his father's love of Burroughs and how that was passed down to him. We talk about Gordon Scott, who had just died at the time of this 2007 interview. “Gordon...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 32
Opening Bit: Nu doesn't like Geico's “So easy a caveman can do it” commercials. As part of the 1999 Dum-Dum in Tarzana, the Disney screenwriters of “Tarzan,” Bob Tzudiker and Noni White, discuss the movie. “The passion for this project – I've never seen the like of it at this or any other studio”...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 31
Opening Bit: The Sari Sabertooths baseball team opens its season against the Caspak Bo-lus at Pellucidar Park. Chicago Muckers Jim Hadac, Greg Phillips, Ken Manson and Joan Bledig play “ERB Jeopardy.” Elmo Trebek hosts. (They “buzz in” with Tarzan yells.) One answer: “Who had brain transfers...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 30
Opening Bit: The BBC interviews Hazel Strong. (Laurence Dunn and Joan Bledig.) Jim Hadac and Elmo try to see “The 300” at Navy Pier, but it's sold out. Clip: Johnny Weissmuller appears with Groucho Marx on “You Bet Your Life.” Johnny says the crocodiles he wrestled were real, but Groucho isn't...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 29
Opens with the “George of the Jungle” cartoon song from the 1960s. Discussion of plans in 2007 for a new George of the Jungle cartoon. Clip from Filmation's “Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle” series from the 1970s. Bit: Phone calls from Dateline Jasoom listeners. Wayne James and Ted McKosky sent in a...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 28
Opening bit: The BBC reports that the orphaned son of Lord and Lady Greystoke has been found. (Laurence Dunn and Jerry Spannraft.) Della's favorite author is Otis Adelbert Kline, which causes Elmo to blow a circuit. A clip from the 1994 Dum-Dum features Sam Moskowitz speaking about the alleged...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 27
In February 2007, Dateline Jasoom celebrated its first anniversary. The opening featured a few clips. New material: Pete Ogden submitted a clip from the radio show “Monitor” that has audio of ERB dictating lines from a Tarzan novel and an interview with ERB's daughter, Joan Pierce. A clip of Joan...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 26
Opening bit: Edward Murrow reports from Poloda. Elmo's assistant, a computer named Della, introduces herself. A late-night panel discussion from Windy Con about “Damsels in Distress.”
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 25
Opens with a clip from the Disney cartoon series, “The Legend of Tarzan.” Editor: “You know what you need, Ed? Inspiration!” The Comic News Insider podcast allowed Datline Jasoom to play portions of an interview it did with Olivia d'Abo, who played Jane in the series. “She's sort of a wild and...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 24
Part Two of Hardcover Theater's 2006 stage production of “A Princess of Mars.” Written and directed by Steve Schroer. Jami Rassmussen as John Carter. Amber Swenson as Dejah Thoris. Jesse Ray as Tars Tarkas. Terri Elofson Bly as Sola.
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 23
Carl Sagan describes Barsoom in the Cosmos episode, “Blues for a Red Planet.” Part One of Hardcover Theater's 2006 stage production of “A Princess of Mars.” Written and directed by Steve Schroer. Jami Rassmussen as John Carter. Amber Swenson as Dejah Thoris. Jesse Ray as Tars Tarkas. Terri…
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 22
Opens with the “Yodel Song” created by Elmo from various Tarzan yells, mixed with “A Tribe of One” by Doctor Awkward from the Podsafe Music Network. During the 2006 Windy Con, Robert Weinberg and science fiction author Jack McDevitt discuss early science fiction in pulp magazines. From 1970 to...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 21
The full 2006 interview with science fiction author Mike Resnick. He talks about his many trips to Africa. “Almost no place that Burroughs describes exists,” he says. “My first four Hugo winners were all African stories. I've never been able to create any civilization as alien as some of the ones...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 20
Opening bit: Superfans discuss Da Bears versus da horde of Warhoon. A clip from the “X-Minus One radio show” that's relevant to your host, Elmo. Huck Huckenpohler speculates on Professor Archimedes Q. Porter's back story. Was he a historian? Archaeologist? Anthropologist? What was Tarzan's birth...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 19
Opening bit: Traffic Copter 0-220 reports on a four-elephant pile-up on the trail into Opar. Jim Thompson talks about collecting all the different kinds of material related to Edgar Rice Burroughs. “You always remember the ones that got away,” he says.
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 18
Opening bit: Professor Maxon calls Dr. Frankenstein to compare notes. Jim Hadac discusses the portrayal of Jane in fan fiction and pastiches. Jim and the other panelists – Joan Bledig, Cole Richardson and Huck Huckenpöhler – take questions for a wide-ranging discussion of Jane in all of her...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 17
Opening bit: A seemingly eternal season of baseball comes to an end with a game between the Chicago Cubs and the Sari Sabertooths in Pellucidar Park. A conversation with Bill Hillman about “Brother Men,” the book by Matt Cohen about Edgar Rice Burroughs' correspondence with his best friend…
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Dateline Jasoom Bonus: Mike Resnick on ERB
Dateline Jasoom interviews science fiction author Mike Resnick about his days as an associate editor of the Edgar Rice Burroughs fanzine ERB-Dom. The full interview with Mike, who died on Thursday, January 9, 2020, will be included in Episode 21 of Dateline Jasoom.
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 16
The Oct. 1, 1939 Texaco Star Theater radio show featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs – shared with Dateline Jasoom by longtime ERB fan Ted McKosky. ERB on Tarzan Finds a Son: “We thought it was pretty good. Of course there's always room for improvement. We're pretty happy with Johnny. Good Tarzans are...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 15
A 2006 interview with longtime ERB fan Mark Wheatley – comic book author, illustrator, graphic artist, musician and all around radical dreamer. The show includes selections of his music. In 2019, Mark won the Burroughs Bibliophiles Golden Lion Award. Coincidence? Visit the Facebook page for…
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 14
From the 2006 ECOF convention in Rockville, Maryland. Interviews with fans Steve Wadding and Robert Jones. Shirley LeBeau says hi. George McWhorter opens banquet with a Tarzan yell. Speakers: Laurence Dunn, Dorothy D.J. “Usha” Howell, Mike Conran, Jim Thompson, and Alan Hanson, winner of the 2006...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 13
Ray LeBeau introduces Dateline Jasoom. Steve “Ghak the Hairy One” Wadding reads his fan fiction, “Computer Engineer of Mars.” Bit: Kantos Kan's new and used fliers. Elmo talks about how his grandfather grew up in the same neighborhood as Billy Byrne, the mucker, on Chicago's Great West Side, and...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 12
Elmo talks about the (then) upcoming 2006 ECOF/Dum-Dum convention in Rockville, Maryland. Steve “Ghak the Hairy One” Wadding plugs the ECOF. Bit: Elmo travels up the Wazoo River with Captain Lucas in search of Lady Greystoke.
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 11
The 2006 ERB / Ray Bradbury discussion in Oak Park, Illinois continues with Chicago Muckers Jerry Spannraft and Joan Bledig. Jerry describes meeting Bradbury, who told him Edgar Rice Burroughs was the greatest American writer ever. In the context of Bradbury's “Fahrenheit 451,” Joan talks about...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 10
“Does he think he is Tarzan, or what?” Tarzan references in the movie Deliverance and how the apeman has generally permeated pop culture. Via The Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, “The Jingle of Jungle Joe,” released in 1911. Bud Light presents, Real Men of Genius: Mr. Painful...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 9
Clips from television reviews of Tarzan's 2006 venture onto Broadway. Elmo samples what newspaper critics have to say about the Disney production. Then he gets the real story from Bill Hillman, Jeddak of the North and curator of erbzine.com, who attended the show's premiere in New York. “Those...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 8
Sound clips from “A Princess of Mars,” performed on the stage by Hardcover Theater in Minneapolis in 2006. Elmo reviews the play: “I've been to Barsoom. I was taken there in a little theater in Minneapolis.” Interviews with actors. “I thought it was very cool playing a superhero,” says Jami...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 7
Elmo speaks with Barsoomian Blade reporter Herbo Gooli, who is at the foot of the landing stage where the great warship Paramount is about to land in Greater Helium to finalize details of the “John Carter of Mars” documentary. “The ship is riding majestically toward us, like some great feather…
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 6
Andy “Jason Gridley” Nunez: Why Elmo Lincoln didn't get the speaking role of Tarzan in “Tarzan the Ape Man.” Steve “Ghak the Hairy One” Wadding promotes the 2006 ECOF convention in Rockville, Maryland. Bit: A preview of the dinner speaker for that convention. Real news about that convention in an...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 5
The tail end of “Kodos, the Executioner” by the Karidian Players leads into Dateline Jasoom on the Gridley Wave Network. An interview with Steve Schroer, who wrote and directed a stage production of “A Princess of Mars” for Hardcover Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 2006. Elmo notes the...
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Dateline Jasoom Episode 4
A hypnotized Mr. Apeman describes his dream about Nazis. An interview with Mike Conran, editor of the fanzine “Edgar Rice Burroughs News Dateline,” who talks about collecting ERB before the internet – and how much easier it is today. “Burroughs is such a great author, you just get lost in the...
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Covering the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs and beyond via the vast Gridley Wave Network. Interviews with fans, professional artists and writers, ERB scholars and more -- with liberal doses of humor from the Barsoomian Blade, the oldest tabloid newspaper on Mars. Email the host, Elmo, at [email protected]
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Covering the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs and beyond via the vast Gridley Wave Network. Interviews with fans, professional artists and writers, ERB scholars and more -- with liberal doses of humor from the Barsoomian Blade, the oldest tabloid newspaper on Mars. Email the host, Elmo, at...
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