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 be on Episode 16.)

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 and should not be subject to change by anyone,” she says.

“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.

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.

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 played Sola. Several others of the cast are also interviewed. Jesse Ray on playing Tars Tarkas: “Tars Tarkas is very intrigued by this new creature.” “John Carter also sees a lot of himself in Tars Tarkas,” says Jami. Amber Swenson on playing Dejah Thoris: “This strong, heroic heroine. She's torn between two worlds. She has this need to be strong, but she also needs to be comforted.” Joan Bledig and Elmo discuss the play on the way home from the theater. “I think it was respectful and incredibly well done,” says Joan.

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.

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 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.