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 jefflong0220@gmail.com
Sunday, July 19, 2020
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, “Please don't call me Tarzan.” Lots of details about his conversations with Bennett. “Going down to Guatemala was a life changing experience,” Bruce told Mike, referring to his Tarzan movie.
Sunday, July 12, 2020
Friday, June 12, 2020
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 Blade: Another naked Jasoomian wins the hand of a Martian princess and becomes royal. Canadian television program clip: Cheta wins lifetime achievement award. Information about 2007 Dum-Dum in Louisville, Kentucky. A reading from “The God of Tarzan,” courtesy the Pometheus Podcast. Elmo gets sentimental about ERB.
Saturday, May 30, 2020
Sunday, May 24, 2020
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 Huckenpƶhler, Dick Spargur, Doug Denby, Bill Morse, John Tyner, Elaine Casella (organizer of the convention), Mike Conran, Jonathan Hart, Laurence Dunn, and Fred Lucas. Discussions include the friendships of fans, organized fandom, collecting Burroughs, the best Burroughs artists, favorite ERB worlds, meeting Johnny Weissmuller, misunderstandings about the literary Tarzan – and much more. Fans at the convention do a collective shout-out to Henry Franke, who was stationed in Afghanistan at the time.
Saturday, May 16, 2020
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.”
Saturday, May 9, 2020
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.
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