Dateline Jasoom

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...

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.”

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 crazy girl,” Olivia says. Ted McKosky submitted an interview he found with Forest J. Ackerman, who talks...

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.

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 Elofson Bly as Sola.

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 1981, Weinberg edited and published Pulp, a fanzine devoted to pulp magazines. He died Sept. 25, 2016.

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 in Africa.” He discusses his many inspirations and his own success. Why science fiction pays the bills...

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 year? Did John Carter and Professor Porter cross paths? Carl Sagan quote.

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.

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 incarnations.

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, Herbert T. Weston. And Matt himself discusses the project during the 2006 ECOF.

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.

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 u...

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...

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 Golden Lion award, and John Tyner. Elmo announces the formation of the Chicago Muckers.

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 addresses the notion that ERB was racist.

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.

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...

“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 C...

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 Hai...

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 Rassmussen, who played John Carter. “I was never cast as a Martian before,” says Terri Elofson Bly, who play...

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 Gre...

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 interview with Bill Ross of the National Capital Panthans, a chapter of the Burroughs Bibliophil...

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 passing of great ERB fan and scholar Bob Hyde.

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,...