36xxxx 076 Tex Tries The Radio: Magic Island

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“36xxxx 076 Tex Tries The Radio” is an episode of Magic Island, the old-time radio show that aired in 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Tex Bradford, Jerry, Joan and Mrs. Gregory are aboard a submarine within a hundred miles of Los Angeles when they discover they are losing speed. Joan believes another Euclidean submarine directly behind them is holding them back with magnets. The group considers how to escape the pursuing boat, including magnetic bombs that could halt it. They discuss timing the release of the bombs near the harbor, and Tex decides to radio Johnson using a prearranged signal system, so that Johnson can meet them with a boat free of metal. The transmission is repeated as the signal is sent again and again.

Aboard a Euclidean submarine, within a hundred miles of Los Angeles, with another Euclidean submarine following behind it.

Characters: Mrs. Gregory, Tex Bradford, Jerry, Joan, Pat, Johnson

Listen for: Joan's explanation of the magnetic bombs and why the pursuing submarine is holding them back, and Tex's plan to contact Johnson by radio.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.