starring Dr. Hal !
OUR VALENTINE'S DAY PODCAST-- BETTIE PAGE MEETS THE WOLFMAN
February 5, 2021 10:00pm
WHEN LAWRENCE "LARRY" TALBOT, a.k.a. The Wolfman, made the transatlantic journey to the United States just after the Second World War to stop the Conspiracy of the Monsters-- see ABBOT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948), he ended up making yet another suicide attempt, dragging Dracula in bat-form down into the ocean with him. Yet once again, he found that death is no option for the Lycanthrope. Larry had relapsed after apparently being cured by Dr. Franz Edlemann (see HOUSE OF DRACULA (1945), and never realized that HE was one of the monsters, always thinking of himself as a victim. This changed when he met Irving Klaw and his best "Peekaboo" model, the famous Bettie Page. Klaw, the notorious "pornographer," ran afoul of the Kefauver Hearings of the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency in 1957-- the same politicians who were attacking comic books. The Senate Hearings marked the beginning of the end of Klaw's mail-order fetish art business in New York. The investigation tried to link pornography to juvenile delinquency. The McCarthy-style hearings branded Klaw as a "degenerate" and ushered in a new wave of media censorship. Bettie Page was also summoned to the hearings but never did get asked to testify. While waiting to be called at her hotel in the District of Columbia, lovely Bettie met Larry, whose rooms were across the hall from hers. Suffice it to say that the vivacious Bettie convinced Talbot to accept his quasi-lupine, animal nature. And... and there aren't any Wolfman movies featuring Larry Talbot after that, are there? Plenty of Lon Chaney, Jr. ones, though. We ask that you draw your own conclusions. A six-hour show this was, ultimately featuring Puzzling Evidence and KrOB. But of course this here is just another re-run-- it can't be otherwise until the entity called "Radio Valencia" finally decides to focus on the locus (22nd St.), get the lead out of its treads and ahieve some traction on the action. These older shows were multiple hours in length, but the re-runs allow only 3 hours, and that's it. What we're saying is that the "good" parts might be... surgically nipped off after the third hour. Well, it hurts us more than it hurts you. Hey, kids! In the non-frozen, non-Radio Valencia world you can watch and participate in our upcoming Ask Dr. Hal! Show online (Twitch) this Valentine's Day, February 14th, at 7:00 PM, PST. Just go to our web site and follow instructions, easy as pie: https://gonzotronics.net/adh/