(13.44) “I’m 29 years old, and I’m living smack dab in the middle of the Bible Belt…”

guests: Kymm Zuckert of the Mighty Kymm, Nikki Atkins of Halau O’ Hula Hawaii, Todd Tyrtle of The Long Ride East, Brand Gamblin of BrandG, Andrew Ball of Between the Lines Studios

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(4.51) The Legend of the TTC; and I only see her at dusk.

guests: Shelly Brisbin of Shelly’s Podcast, Chris Hvidsten of Outcast

photo: Richard Masoner

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(6.25) I overheard two people talking in a restaurant; and “Letter To A Nation”, by Raffi. Included with permission.

guests: Andrew Ball of Between the Lines Studios, Cami Peacock of Nuurdy Girl

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(29.55) When I lived in the 44 story Ivory Tower, the residents would watch the elevators open like gazelles in an African plain. The Mormon Missionaries lived on the 40th floor, and happily pounced on any people dumb enough to get into the elevator with them.

And I’ll tell you what, when you’re five feet tall standing alone in a box with five towering guys who hold sacred everything you hate, your fury can get the better of you. Which is how I ended up demanding an interview from the Ivory Tower Mormons.

guests: Brian Brown of A Slice of Sci-Fi, Will McGree of The Contingency

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(4.27) Sweet Cedars 1.1. “Catherine and I could hardly believe Sweet Cedars was real. I think it was about ten minutes into the tour that I looked at her, and she looked at me, and we knew…”

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Henry Will McGree of The Contingency
Voiceover Valina of Strangely Literal
Testimonials Valerie Hunter of Movies for the Blind, Andrew Ball of Between the Lines Studios

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(2.59) I am riding the bus. Next to me are two children. A five year old girl in pink. A three year old boy in blue…

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(22.14) Romance comics were wildly popular from the late forties to early sixties. If you’ve never read one of these hilarious pieces of… um… “art” – I won’t spoil it for you. The audiodrama you’re about to hear is taken absolutely VERBATIM from a real romance comic published in the fifties. The radio host is all QN.

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Radio Host Kymm Zuckert of the Mighty Kymm
Ellen Nikki Atkins of Halau O’ Hula Hawaii
Tom Paul Maki of Between the Lines Studios was Tom
Sorority Girls Kate Southey of Knitting Not Drowning, Gwen Davie
Doctor Brand Gamblin of BrandG
Police Officer Brian Brown of A Slice of Sci-Fi
Paul Levi Sauerbrei of Escape Clause

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(6.08) Ten Things I’ve Learned From Living As A Short Man With Scoliosis, by Ken Hall, read with permission by Brand Gamblin of BrandG. Submit your own Ten Things.

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(6.14) Charlie Veitch headed out to St. Paul’s Cathedral, the London Stock Exchange, and the Bank of England armed with three things: a megaphone, a sign, and free hugs. He recorded the results. (Look for the next episode: November 1st. I’ll be working like crazy behind the scenes on upcoming QN episodes.)

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music: “Before You” by Ant Neely

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(6.58) Were people really smarter in 1984?

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(4.20) Lou vs. Rick. A man teaches his cat to use text messaging. Episode 4. Written by Shane Cyr.

photo: Maccio Capatonda

guests: Kymm Zuckert of the Mighty Kymm, James LeVeque of Tomato Blue

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(9.33) Lou vs. Rick. A man teaches his cat to use text messaging. Episode 3. Written by Shane Cyr.

photo: Jake Kitchener

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(5.25) Lou vs. Rick. A man teaches his cat to use text messaging. Episode 2. Written by Shane Cyr.

photo: Neil Mallett

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(6.40) Lou vs. Rick. A man teaches his cat to use text messaging. Episode 1. Written by Shane Cyr.

photo: Mikko Luntiala

guests: Kymm Zuckert of the Mighty Kymm, James LeVeque of Tomato Blue

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(4.51) Josie Henley-Einion of Casting Pods reads an imaginary letter from Thomas Jancis‘ granddaughter.

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(5.23) Jenny Serwylo writes an imaginary letter from her 15 year old self.

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(14.03) Sage tells a true story about her life in 1978 California.

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(23.17) Bat Eyes performs “The Bat” live on stage. This improv format takes place entirely in the dark, and the audience is encouraged to close their eyes. This performance includes Sage Tyrtle, Todd Tyrtle, Josef Addleman, Danella Milanovich, and Jason Donovan.

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(52.58) The Quirky Quiz 2.18. Kymm Zuckert of the Mighty Kymm proves that Americans DO SO know geography, Melissa Bartell of Escribition explains that pigeons are godless, Sage discovers that long blonde hair causes bad taste in movies, and Jancis of Thomas Jancis wanders the moors in the snow, sobbing. And possibly selling matches.

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(7.26) James LeVeque of Tomato Blue reads Jack Layton’s last letter to Canada.

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(5.08) Nikki Atkins of Halau O’ Hula Hawaii reads an imaginary letter, written by Melissa Bartell of Escribition.

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(6.21) Brian Brown of a Slice of Sci-Fi reads a real Toronto Craigslist post. Your rent is one dollar a month, and the move-in costs are $600 (fully refundable) and there’s just ooooooone catch…

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(6.02) “Summertime”, by Michael Wriston of The Myth of Fingerprints

Take heart, I haven’t deserted you. This summer has been INSANELY busy, real-life wise. Starting in September, I will have buckets and buckets of free time to devote to QN. Next episodes: August 8, August 12, August 15, August 19.

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(13.59) Part two (listen to part one) of Kate’s hilariously true story of suburban intrigue. “I move to this village, and I become friendly with a woman up the road. And she says to me – and at the time it struck me as slightly odd – ‘You’ll love my husband.’”

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(12.00) Part one of Kate’s hilariously true story of suburban intrigue. “I move to this village, and I become friendly with a woman up the road. And she says to me – and at the time it struck me as slightly odd – ‘You’ll love my husband.’”

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(41.38) The Quirky Quiz 2.17. Brian Brown of a Slice of Sci-Fi phones in from 1994. Melissa Bartell of Escribition will marry you, but only if you live in a different house. Athena Muze of Upsidedown and Halfway to Happyland is wearing a ruby red bikini and reclining on the beach, while Sage rides her bike to the Tall Tower, to rescue her One True Love.

(I know there are some audio quality issues in this episode, my apologies. I’ve resolved the problem for future Quizzes.)

photo: James Blann

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(29.43) When we moved to Canada, we landed in Thorncliffe Park. A vibrant neighbourhood filled with saris, skullcaps, hijabs, and laughing children. I talked to Faizel Karmali about growing up in this Highrise Village.

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(6.12) Nikki Atkins of Halau O’ Hula Hawaii tells a true story.

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(48.33) Put on your favourite polyester panstsuit, pop some popcorn and sit down next to me. We’re going to watch Jaws 2 today.

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(5.25) The 2009 Target Catalog, by Woes of a Barren Lesbo. Included with permission.

guests: Kymm Zuckert of the Mighty Kymm, Athena Muze of Upsidedown and Halfway to Happyland, Andrew Ball of Between the Lines Studios, Cami Peacock of Nuurdy Girl, Valina of Strangely Literal, Gwen Davie

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(19.20) This story begins: “I am nine years old. I am having a fight with my father’s girlfriend, Deborah, and I am saying: ‘You’re not my mother!’ and she is saying, ‘YOUR MOTHER is a SCHIZOPHRENIC and a LESBIAN.’ She’s not making this up. My mother is, indeed, a schizophrenic and a lesbian…”

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(4.18) I asked for true stories. Jancis of Thomas Jancis on Twitter tells the story of how a misthought-out metaphor resulted in the loss of his religion.

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Please note Every moment of my time is devoted right now to a huge storytelling event at the end of May. New episodes of QN will return the first Monday in June, PROMISE.

(10.00) Josie Henley-Einion of Casting Pods tells a true story about her days as a student nurse.

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(4.53) Sendai is a city on the northeast cost of Japan, which was decimated by the earthquake and tsunami in March of 2011. This is a letter from a Canadian ex-pat living in Sendai. Read with permission.

guests: Nikki Atkins of Halau O’ Hula Hawaii

photo: Dr. Logan

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(5.10) What would happen if advertisements were honest? Brand Loyalty. The new fragrance.

guests: Nikki Atkins of Halau O’ Hula Hawaii, Kate Southey of Knitting Not Drowning, James LeVeque of Tomato Blue

music: “Sale” and “Particule” by Silence

photo: Wil Taylor

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(4.22) The first in a new series of Honest Advertisements. “You like your community…” Tagline by the Seacowcoalition. Used under a Creative Commons license.

guests: Shelly Brisbin of Shelly’s Podcast, Elizabeth Green Musselman of Missing Link, Nuchtchas of Nutty Bites, Gwen Davie, John Pavlich of Sofa Dogs, Todd Tyrtle of The Long Ride East

music:

photo: Robert Couse-Baker

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(2.38) XKCD “2009 Called” by Randall Munroe. Used under a Creative Commons license.

guests: Kymm Zuckert of the Mighty Kymm, Adam Gratrix of Transpondency, Andrew Ball of Between the Lines Studios

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(47.27) The Quirky Quiz 2.16. Will McGree of The Contingency explains how to identify members of the Russian Mafia. Newcomer Chris Comerford of Mind’s Eye has to cross the ocean and several continents to find the right friend. And Kate Southey of Knitting Not Drowning finds your rough Housing Estate past JUST ENTHRALLING.

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(7.24) “Ten things I’ve learned from temping as a receptionist at a reinsurance office” by Jess Grant. Read with permission.

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(28.58) In 1984, we were worrying about passing math and who to dance with at the school dance. Doina was living in communist Romania. I talked to her about her experiences.

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(3.11) “Road Sage” by Rosscott of The System. Included with permission. You can find a print of this comic at HilariAwesome.

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(4.01) I overheard a man talking on the streetcar; and a Bufferin commercial from the year 1980.

guests: John Grady (see actor reel)

photo: Doug Wheller

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(3.31) “They’ll Say She Must Be From Another Country” by Imtiaz Dharker. From the poetry collection “I Speak For the Devil“. Read with permission.

music: “Fairy Tale for the Lonely” by Fri.Events Orchestra of Jamendo

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(13.46) Francis Mole is a farmer who cares about his donuts. A PSA from the Donut Council.

guests: Todd Tyrtle of The Long Ride East

music: “River Went Dry” by Josh Woodward

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(5.53) Nine (or so) Ways To Celebrate the Centennial of Ronald Reagan by the Rude Pundit. Read with permission by Adam Gratrix of Transpondency.

music: “Fairest of the Fair” by John Philip Sousa

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(6.17) OMG people! It’s like Zipcar® meets Kiva! But for wealthy suburbanites! With nobody to look after them, this forgotten group has to look out for themselves…

guests:
Socialites: Kymm Zuckert of the Mighty Kymm,
Nikki Atkins of Halau O’ Hula Hawaii, Elizabeth Green Musselman of Missing Link, Athena Muze of Upsidedown and Halfway to Happyland, Valina Cutler
Voiceover: Valerie Hunter of Movies for the Blind
Passerby: Shelly Brisbin of Shelly’s Podcast

music: “Background” by Alexander Blu of Jamendo

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(18.41) Chapter one of the dystopian young adult book The Unidentified. Read with permission.

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(9.45) I’m twelve years old. I’m having the most tragic, Dickension childhood EVER.

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(15.05) Rita of Reading Mother talks about growing up in the Vietnam Era, while Kate Southey of Knitting Not Drowning tells us about the Cabbage Patch Riots of 1985.

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(4.39) Awkward suits make conversation; and One Cello. Slightly Damaged.

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(28.13) The Quirky Quiz. Season 2, episode 15. Will McGree of The Contingency has something terrible on his face. Laura Goodenough of Quourtesan is in her closet, wearing a pilot’s hat. Sage is easily baited. And Jancis of Thomas Jancis would rather eat a ham sandwich than meet his new baby sister.

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(11.40) I asked you to take us along on a childhood walk. Today we go to school with Josie Henley-Einion of Casting Pods in the quintessential English village.

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(26.32) Entirely improvised madness by Athena Muze of Upsidedown and Halfway to Happyland, Melissa Bartell of All Things Girl, and Clay Robeson of Clay Robeson Creative.

music: “Iron Shell” by Greendjohn of Jamendo

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(4.07) “This Again” by Michael Wriston of The Myth of Fingerprints

guests: Nuchtchas of Nutty Bites, Shelly Brisbin of Shelly’s Podcast, Athena Muze of Upsidedown and Halfway to Happyland, Valerie Hunter of Movies for the Blind

music: “Hidden Sky” by Jami Sieber

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(22.31) A satirical interview with Stephen and Heather Suburbia.

guests: Nikki Atkins and Justin Atkins of Halau O’ Hula Hawaii

music: “Weather Opener” by Connum

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(6.30) What constitutes alcoholism; and “An American View” by Danny Drennan of Beirut Diary. Read with permission by Brand Gamblin of BrandG.

guests: Valina Cutler, Athena Muze of Upsidedown and Halfway to Happyland, James LeVeque of Tomato Blue

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(8.54) In 1990, I was eighteen. I’d only been kissed once. But I am a very practical person…

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(11.44) The final episode of Found, an improvised series based on a real Craigslist classified ad. Kymm Zuckert of the Mighty Kymm created and played Judy. Will McGree of The Contingency created and played Ben.

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(6.48) I am teetering.

music: “Toi et tes nuages” by Tabako Trio

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(7.09) The series Found is based on a real Toronto Craigslist lost and found classified ad. The series is entirely improvised. All the players have is the ad and each other. This is their creation. Found, episode 6. Will McGree of The Contingency created and played Ben.

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(35.51) Quirky Quiz, season 2, episode 14. Kymm Zuckert of the Mighty Kymm wishes she’d sobbed her heart out for an extra second. Will McGree of The Contingency brings damning evidence to the police. Kate Southey of Knitting Not Drowning is reading Sophocles, and Sage can’t win, not even when she smashes the typewriter into a thousand pieces.

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(9.13) The series Found is based on a real Toronto Craigslist lost and found classified ad. The series is entirely improvised. All the players have is the ad and each other. This is their creation. Found, episode 5. Kymm Zuckert of The Mighty Kymm created and played Judy.

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(11.10) “Ten years ago, I was living the Suburban American Dream…”

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(7.18) The series Found is based on a real Toronto Craigslist lost and found classified ad. The series is entirely improvised. All the players have is the ad and each other. This is their creation. Found, episode 4. Will McGree of Unbeknownst To Many created and played Ben.

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(23.10) I asked you to tell me about a decision that changed your life forever.

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Levi Sauerbrei of Escape Clause
Nikki Atkins of Halau O’ Hula Hawaii
Rebekkah of Bowerbird Knits
Alden Mahler
Gwen Davie of the Audio Chick with Sticks
Nuchtchas of Nimlas

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(9.48) The series Found is based on a real Toronto Craigslist lost and found classified ad. The series is entirely improvised. All the players have is the ad and each other. This is their creation. Found, episode 3. Kymm Zuckert of the Mighty Kymm created and played Judy.

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(37.53) Join Melissa Bartell of Escribition, Jancis of Thomas Jancis, and Will McGree of The Contingency for improvised madness. Eggs 1.5: You must say hello to the radiator.

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(8.06) The series Found is based on a real Toronto Craigslist lost and found classified ad. The series is entirely improvised. All the players have is the ad and each other. This is their creation. Found, episode 2. Will McGree of Unbeknownst To Many created and played Ben.

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(9.32) “So my partner Todd and I decide that we’re mature enough and responsible enough to have a baby. We get pregnant right away, and I’m REALLY happy. For awhile. And then I notice that I don’t feel any kind of emotional connection to this baby inside of me. And I feel like I SHOULD, right? I should be in love with it, but – I’m not. I start to worry that I’m going to be a really bad mother. I’m going to be the kind of mother that is called “mother” instead of “mummy”…”

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(8.18) In order to begin the show you’re about to hear, I asked the listeners to choose between two real Toronto Craigslist ads. Found is an entirely improvised series of episodes. All the players have is the ad itself. The rest is their own creation. Kymm Zuckert of the Mighty Kymm created and played Judy.

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(36.26) Come sit next to me on the couch. We’ll snark on an episode of The Equalizer. Remember The Equalizer? Crime drama? 1985?

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(4.40) XKCD “Tech Support” by Randall Munroe. Used under a Creative Commons license.

guests: Kymm Zuckert of the Mighty Kymm, Andrew Ball of Between the Lines Studios, James LeVeque of Tomato Blue

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(13.47) Six million people live in Toronto. And yet, I see the same people all the time. Not in the same place, you understand. I see the woman with the giant beehive hairdo striding down Yonge Street one day, and then a week later lying in the sand on the shore of Lake Ontario, and three months go by, and then she’s on the subway heading north to the suburbs (here there be dragons).

God’s Extras. The non-player characters who drift in and out of your life. And you never talk to them, and they never talk to you, but when you’re wandering around the city and you see one of them reading a book or singing to themselves, the world feels a little less lonely.

I saw this young blonde woman curled up at the bottom of the subway stairs, shivering under a thin blanket. Her sign read: “Scottish Lass: just looking for enough to buy a hot meal”. I walked past her, then through the hallway…

Scottish Lass. By Lucinda Chell, read by Josie Henley-Einion of Casting Pods.

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(11.54) So the Huffington Post linked to this article called “Is Your Husband Gay” on a website called Christwire. And it’s either evidence of how bugfuck insane the religious right has gotten, or how deep the gulf in understanding between the lefties and the BUGFUCK CRAZIES is, but everyone, EVERYONE, thought the article was completely real. Including me…

guests:
Voiceover Will McGree of Unbeknownst to Many
Michelle Valerie Hunter of Movies for the Blind
Troy Adam Gratrix of Transpondency
Megan Emily Lind
Jason Clay Robeson of Clay Robeson Creative
Ian Brian Brown of a Slice of Sci-Fi
David Brand Gamblin of BrandG
Heather Valina Cutler
little girl Athena Muze of Upsidedown and Halfway to Happyland

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(7.45) Jacob Haller invites us to spend some time with his dad, in 1967 Chicago.

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(32.07) The adventures of a Relay Operator. Adapted from a true story by Laura-Louise Tobin. “I was transparent…”

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Operator Nikki Atkins of Halau O’ Hula Hawaii
Jessica Athena Muze of Upsidedown and Halfway to Happyland
Ryan Adam Gratrix of Transpondency
Michael Clay Robeson of Clay Robeson Creative
Chris Andrew Ball of Between the Lines Studios
John John Grady (see actor reel)
Jane Kymm Zuckert of the Mighty Kymm
Kevin James LeVeque of Tomato Blue

music: “I’ll Be Right Behind You Josephine”, “Thanks For Coming” by Josh Woodward, “Slow Train”, “Grandma’s Wishes” by Bradley West
“Valsor” by Vulsor

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(6.11) Two surprising fifteen year old boys; and Kate Southey of Knitting Not Drowning explains what happened when her mother-in-law and father-in-law moved to Africa to save their marriage.

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(13.17) Todd Tyrtle of the Long Ride East talks about a mile-long walk he often took by himself, when he was five years old. Inspired by Ze Frank’s Childhood Walk. Used with permission.

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(4.22) I saw this ad on the subway. The ad is drawn in a 1950s style. There’s a woman standing in front of a cake display in a grocery store…

guests: Brian Brown of a Slice of Sci-Fi

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(4.41) I am thinking about Peak Oil. (I think WAY too much about Peak Oil.)

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(33.43) Quirky Quiz, season 2, episode 13. Clay Robeson of Clay Robeson Creative beats up his next door neighbour. Melissa Bartell of Escribition brings on a Farenheit 451-style apocalypse. Athena Muze of Upsidedown and Halfway to Happyland explains the politics of the Twirly Pole, and Sage milks the almonds.

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(8.00) They don’t grow back; and Greta reaches through 24 years to remind me to pay attention to my life.

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(4.43) “The Princess Who Saved Herself” by Jonathan Coulton. Played with permission. From the album Many Hands: Family Music for Haiti. Proceeds from this release will benefit the Haitian People’s Support Project and their long-standing work to help the people of Haiti. Who are still really, really struggling nine months after the earthquake that hit in January. You can find the album on Amazon or iTunes.

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(25.57) “On June 25, 1894, Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, a young mother of three small children, stood before a crowd of 500 friends, family, suffragists and curious onlookers at the Massachusetts State House. Then, declaring she would circle the world, she climbed onto a 42-pound Columbia bicycle and sailed away like a kite down Beacon Street.” So begins Annie Londonderry’s story, told by her great-grandnephew, Peter Zheutlin. I spoke to Peter about his amazing ancestor.

Find out more in Peter Zheutlin’s book Around The World on Two Wheels. He’s also available for presentations about Annie for adults or children. Please visit annielondonderry.com.

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Wales Josie Henley-Einion of Casting Pods: recorded between about 10.55 and 11.08 in the morning, in Cardiff at Waterstone’s bookshop. Setting up to do a book signing.
California Madame Leiderhosen: featuring The Steven (sick with some mysterious throat ick), Otis (big black kitten), Finn (small black and white kitten).
Florida Heidi Estrin: Sandoway House Nature Center. At 10:30am this morning, they had a shark feeding. The old swimming pool out back has been converted into a giant tank with 3 nurse sharks and some stingrays.
England Thomas Jancis: Waiting at the airport.
California Madame Leiderhosen: continued.
Wales Josie Henley-Einion: continued.
California Ruth Temple: driving to work, singing.
Mississippi Alden Mahler Levine: sitting on the back porch of a 110-year-old house in the Deep South at dusk on a Saturday.
Australia Sasha Ozanne: lying in bed, chatting before bedtime.
England Kate Southey: with new baby.
France Carol Sprang: The village is called Limon and is located in Burgundy. Recorded during what we call a “brocante” (a kind of garage sale). Everyone takes their old things out of the house and sells them in front of the garden. You can buy incredible thnings for a few euros. Two women talking about the sale, oldest daughter trying to buy an old Polaroid Camera, youngest daughter talking with her former dance teatcher.
Wales Josie Henley-Einion: continued.
France Carol Sprang: In front of this house, people were selling old car tires. In order to make the sale more “sexy”, the owners decided to play some old “musette” music. This knid of music was very popular in France until approximately 1950.
Australia Sasha Ozanne: continued.
Texas Shelly Brisbin: the voice of a monument to the oil derrick that dug the well that created the fund that created the University of Texas.
New Jersey Kymm Zuckert: talking ten minutes after getting home, sitting at the kitchen table, exhausted. A little look at our glamourous, exciting New York City theatre life!
Georgia Margie Foster: at home on Lake Jackson in Georgia. Wild ducks that come to be fed, sounding like they are muttering to themselves.
Wales Josie Henley-Einion: continued.

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(18.18) So Todd and I go to a movie theatre. We pay two dollars each, because this is the Bargain Basement VHS Vault. We have no idea what movie we’re going to see, beyond knowing that it came out in the eighties, on VHS…

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Jennifer Eleanor Wroblewski
Monsieur Rampe Brand Gamblin of BrandG
Madame Rampe Nikki Atkins
Landlord Thomas Jancis
Coroner John Pavlich of Sofa Dogs
Host James LeVeque of Tomato Blue
Policeman Levi Sauerbrei of Escape Clause
Voiceover Brian Brown of a Slice of Sci-Fi

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(6.56) “Drive Less”, by Maggie Koerth-Baker. Read with permission by Emily Lind.

music: “Overture facile a la con” by La Goutte Au Nez

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(11.42) “My name is JAMES, not Bill.”

guests: Valina Cutler, Athena Muze of Upsidedown and Halfway to Happyland, Brian Brown of a Slice of Sci-Fi

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(4.22) Christine did “something” to your car; and Wanted: one rabbi versed in the dark Talmudic arts.

guests: Paul Maki of Between the Lines Studios, Kymm Zuckert of the Mighty Kymm

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(13.41) True stories of revenge from Nikki Atkins, Athena Muze of Upsidedown and Halfway to Happyland, and Melissa Bartell of Escribition.

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(4.03) Hallo, little kiddies. It’s time for Mister Roger-Smythe’s neighbourhood. Today we’re going to talk about feelings. Feelings are important. There are good feelings, and there are bad feelings. Like when you see a picture of the Queen. Or when you’re six years old and your mummy and daddy send you away to boarding school all by yourself…

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(23.59) Eggs 1.3, improvised madness with Eleanor Wroblowski, Melissa Bartell of All Things Girl, Kymm Zuckert of the Mighty Kymm.

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(5.55) You have lobster shorts!; and “First World Problem” by MC Frontalot

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(6.01) So there’s this little video making the rounds. It’s a parody of the late night tv ads which feature a woman writhing around on a couch…

guests: Nuchtchas of Nimlas, Valerie Hunter of Movies for the Blind, Elizabeth Green Musselman of Missing Link, Kymm Zuckert of the Mighty Kymm, SVallie, Brenda Dayne of Cast On

music: “Headphonetic” by Revolution Void of Jamendo

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(1 hour, 5 minutes) I was emptying my paper scraps into the big Ivory Tower recycling bin when I saw this sheaf of blue lined paper, scrawled handwriting covering page after page. A diary. This man’s diary, right there, waiting to be picked up. So of course I did. The Art of Boot and Shoemaking: an audiodrama a year in the making.

guests:
Maude Kymm Zuckert of the Mighty Kymm
Joseph Tim Ralphs of the Story Forge
Lisa Elizabeth Green Musselman of Missing Link
Annika Sage Tyrtle
Julie Kate Southey of Knitting Not Drowning
Alexander Brian Brown of a Slice of Sci-Fi
Matthew Andrew Ball of Between the Lines Studios
Other cast members Chris Hvidsten of Outcast, Brand Gamblin, Valina Cutler, Nuchtchas of Nimlas, Athena Muze of Upsidedown and Halfway to Happyland, James LeVeque of Tomato Blue, Adam Gratrix of Transpondency, Valerie Hunter of Movies for the Blind, Shelly Brisbin of Shelly’s Podcast, Paul Maki of Between the Lines Studios

music: “Border Blaster”, “She Dreams in Blue”, “Once Tomorrow” by Josh Woodward, “Flick of a Trick”, “Hassan’s Dream”, “Oneshot” by Luc Bartoli of Jamendo, “Come Back Home” by Galdson of Jamendo
“Satellite” by Major Major of Jamendo

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(5.56) What would you do with fourteen grand?; and Sunday in the park with FIFA.

guests: John Meadows of On the Log

music: “Let Me Talk, Carol” by Josh Woodward

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(23.57) Daniel Goldbloom attended the G20 protests in Toronto as an observer, and I talked to him about his experiences.

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(51.18) The Quirky Quiz. Season 2, game 12. Shelly Brisbin of Shelly’s Podcast is in a shiny green jacket waving her arms around while she fixes Texas. Kate Southey of Knitting Not Drowning won’t admit it, but lives in one of one of the Outer Palaces. Kymm Zuckert of the Mighty Kymm has no time for the peasants, she is too busy hob-nobbing with Elvis. And Sage? Sage is sitting in your lap. You can’t tell, because she is invisible.

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