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Rogue Tyger: The Alternate Histories of Different Great Houses (Patreon Bonus Audio)

We’ve been posting bonus segments for our Patrons all summer long that originally played on WERA between episodes of Rogue Tyger. This segment was recorded for the 2023 rebroadcast of Rogue Tyger, set between Part Two and Part Three of “Uninvited Guests.” Bjorn goes into some of the exposition slipped into Part Two, especially in regards…

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Rogue Tyger: Perhaps Too Much on the Acreage of Flatrock’s Nature Preserve (Patreon Bonus Audio)

We’ve been posting bonus segments for our Patrons all summer long that originally played on WERA between episodes of Rogue Tyger. This bonus filler segment was recorded for our 2023 rebroadcast of Rogue Tyger, set between Part 5 of “Flatrock” and Part 1 of “Uninvited Guests.” Bjorn kind of goes down a rabbit hole about the…

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Rogue Tyger: Vic Ratha and Redbacks (Patreon Bonus Audio)

We’ll be posting bonus segments for our Patrons all summer long that originally played on WERA between episodes of Rogue Tyger. This segment was recorded for our 2023 rebroadcast of Rogue Tyger, set between Part 3 and Part 4 of “Flatrock.” We actually briefly explain redbacks in the Encyclopedia of the Imperium, but this gives…

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Rogue Tyger: More about Flatrock (Patreon Bonus Audio)

We’ll be posting bonus segments for our Patrons all summer long that originally played on WERA between episodes of Rogue Tyger. This segment was recorded for our 2023 rebroadcast of Rogue Tyger, set between Part 1 and Part 2 of “Flatrock.” There are actually more sci-fi influences we could go into, especially regarding the moving…

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Rogue Tyger: Gaoliang, the Seven Systems, and Commerce Raiders

We’ll be posting bonus segments for our Patrons all summer long that originally played on WERA between episodes of Rogue Tyger. This sement was recorded for a 2019 rebroadcast between part 4 and part 5 of “The Pilot.” These are brief explanations that also related to a lot of entries for the Encyclopedia of the…

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Rogue Tyger: Cliffhangers, Sci-Fi Influences, and SFX Production (Patreon Bonus Audio)

We’ll be posting bonus segments for our Patrons all summer long that originally played on WERA between episodes of Rogue Tyger. This segment is from our 2023 rebroadcast and played between part two and part three of “The Pilot.” This segment needed to be longer to fill the required airtime, so you’ll hear Bjorn Munson…

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Rogue Tyger: The Five-Act Structure and More (Patreon Bonus Audio)

We’ll be posting bonus segments for our Patrons all summer long that originally played on WERA between episodes of Rogue Tyger. This segment from our 2019 broadcast went between part two and part three of “The Pilot.” In it, writer-director Bjorn Munson talks about how the TV five-act structure found its way into his serialized…

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Rogue Tyger: Series Influences & Characters (Patreon Bonus Audio)

We’ll be posting bonus segments for our Patrons all summer long that originally played on WERA between episodes of Rogue Tyger. This segment was part of our 2023 rebroadcast of Rogue Tyger between JAT Chat #1 and Rogue Tyger episode #1 (“The Pilot, Part 1”). It goes deeper into the origins of the series and…

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The Tell-Tale Heart: Bonus Interview with Tegan Cohan

With our home radio station, WERA, making sure that producers keep their programs at least 26 minutes long, we’re going back to some of our older episodes and making sure they measure up. That means all sorts of bonus segments — and in the case of our intense version of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale…

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The Wild (and possibly Sheb Wooley) Origins of the Wilhelm Scream

Based on the news we read this weekend, there was absolutely no reason we were not going to share the glorious discovery of the original recording session that gave the work The Wilhelm Scream. You can learn a great background of the Wilhelm Scream on Mental Floss from 2018, recently updated with this latest news….

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