Dateline Jasoom

"The Legacy of Edgar Rice Burroughs" panel at the 2025 Windy City Pulp and Paper convention in Lombard, Illinois.

Herbo Gooli of the Barsoomian Blade covers the jeddak debate in Thark
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In 2006, Joan Bledig and I traveled from Chicago to Minneapolis to see “A Princess of Mars” performed on stage by Hardcover Theater. This is our discussion of the play on the drive home. My friend of more than 25 years died Jan. 18, 2024. RIP, Joan – J the V.
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Stiiv Ryan created this musical mix for Dateline Jasoom. It was featured in Episode 3.
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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.
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Opening clip: Your Flight Patrol membership card will get you a free bag of jumping beans. The Chicago Blackhawks are “Muckers and grinders,” according to a Chicago sports radio show. The Chicago Muckers chapter of the Burroughs Bibliophiles discusses favorite “minor” ERB characters. Jim Hadac likes the dogs that appear in the tales. Greg Phillips mentions Phaidor, the “La” of Barsoom. He also likes Kar Komak, the phantom bowman. Joan Bledig likes Ben, King of Beasts. Elmo likes Sven from “Beasts of Tarzan.” Ken Manson likes Paul d'Arnot. 2020 Elmo announces plans for a reboot of Dateline Jasoom.
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A promo for the first new episodes of Dateline Jasoom since 2007.
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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.
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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.
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Elmo mixed Dr. Awkward from the old Podsafe Music Network with various Tarzan yodels.
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