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 partner is a monkey.” Peter Cook and Dudley Moore routine: Actor has one leg too few for the role of Tarzan.

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 American on Tarzan – or “White Skin” of the Apes. One storyline for the Tarzan strip was to have Tarzan meet Black Jack, a 1930s era soldier of fortune. “I really enjoyed working on the story,” Alex says. Read the Tarzan/Black Jack strip at http://www.blackjackadventures.com/blackjack-tarzan/

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 audited Paul Yoder's class at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, which explored literary icons: Frankenstein, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes – and Tarzan of the Apes.

Dateline Jasoom Bonus: The Tarzan Yodel Song Elmo mixed Dr. Awkward from the old Podsafe Music Network with various Tarzan yodels.

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 discussion includes an examination of the apeman's inner conflict between heredity versus environment. “He does have that moment where he asks himself, 'Are you a man or an ape?'” Yoder says. Is Tarzan a literary icon? “He's obviously a cultural icon,” Yoder says. “There's something about that story that appeals to us.” He compares the end of “Tarzan of the Apes” to “A Tale of Two Cities” and “Gulliver's Travels.”

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 soundbite from “His Girl Friday.” Comedian Sean Cullen sings, “The chimp and the woman.”

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 convention. He also conveys comments about Gordon from Elaine Hollingsworth, who played Angie in “Tarzan's Greatest Adventure.”

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 Scott has always been my favorite movie Tarzan,” Jim says. And this: “Burroughs was not just a diversion, Burroughs was a moral compass.”

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” said Bob, who is married to Noni. The talk took place at Disney Studios, where fans were shown the film before it opened. There are also comments from background artist Phil Phillipson – a longtime Burroughs Bibliophile. “It's a handmade movie – every frame is slaved over,” he said.

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 clip from the Stan Freeburg radio show. One panelist earned her degree in “Tarzan.” Others had degrees in Lil Orphan Annie and Dick Tracy.

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 and her husband, James, from their Tarzan radio show. Johnny Carson and Betty White parody Tarzan and Jane. Plug for Ted McKosky's “Say Tarzan” DVD. Ends with Jim Hadac, Mike Conran and Laurence Dunn reading the lines from “Tarzan and the Madman” that ERB dictated.

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 always hard to find.” ERB on dreaming up strange worlds: “Purely imagination. Before I wrote a word I used to sit around and dream of weird people and weird places just for my own entertainment.” During the 2006 ECOF, Joan Bledig provides an insightful look at Jane of the novels and Huck Huckenpohler talks about Jane as portrayed in the movies. Cole Richardson talks about Jane in the comics. This episode is a must for any fan of Jane Clayton, Lady Greystoke. And certainly for anyone who has never heard the voice of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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 Mark's fans at https://www.facebook.com/WheatleyMarks/ Late breaking news: The 2007 Dum Dum will be held in Louisville, Kentucky. And Paramount has NOT renewed its options on “A Princess of Mars.” A snippet of Edgar Rice Burroughs' appearance on a 1939 radio show. (The full appearance will appear on Episode 16.)

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.

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 changes to the wording in the paperback editions of the Tarzan books. “The author's words are his alone and should not be subject to change by anyone,” she says.

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 Loincloth Wedgie Guy, by Steve “Ghak the Hairy One” Wadding. George McWhorter, then the curator of the ERB Collection at the University of Louisville and editor of the Burroughs Bulletin, speaks during a 2006 panel discussion at the Oak Park Historical Society about Burroughs and Ray Bradbury. “They both had imaginations that never stopped,” he says.

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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 Broadway critics are really something else,” says Bill. “It was really a lot of fun.” Steve “Ghak the Hairy One” Wadding plugs 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 ...” The Oak Park Historical Society hosts a panel discussion of ERB and Ray Bradbury. Chicago Mucker Greg Phillips speaks at that forum about how each writer handled Mars. “The red Martians are completely human – except they lay eggs and live for a thousand years,” he says of Barsoom. The Tarzan yell of George McWhorter, who also spoke at the forum (and will be featured on another podcast), makes its Dateline Jasoom debut.

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 a 2006 Burroughs convention. Real news about that convention, which would be held in 2006 in Maryland, in an interview with Bill Ross of the National Capital Panthans, a chapter of the Burroughs Bibliophiles. “It's a great place to meet and become friends with people who share your interest,” Bill says. A chat with Bill Hillman, curator of erbzine.com, about what conventions are like. He recalls the “fight to the death” he and Bob “Tarak” Woodley had with Johnny Weissmuller's knife at the 1999 Dum-Dum in Tarzana. More details on plans for the Tarzan on Broadway production.

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 adventure,” he says. Emails from David Critchfield and Phil Normand. Bill Hillman, curator of erbzine.com, talks about a “Land That Time Forgot” movie set in modern times and produced by The Asylum. (It would appear on the SyFy channel in 2009.) A shout out to Pete Ogden, editor of the fanzine ERBANIA, for mentioning Dateline Jasoom in the (then) current issue. ERBANIA had been published for 50 years at the time of this 2006 podcast