Various and Sundry

A Classic Collection of Vintage Radio for Halloween

For those of you who want something spooky to listen to versus watch — or if you just want something a bit more abstract horror rather than TV-MA-wow-the-prothetics-team-outdid-themselves than our previous mention, we have something that should cover your whole evening passing out candy to ghosts and goblins coming to your door. We’ve long touted the…

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Broadcast Unfriendly, but Very Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher

What with it being Halloween today, we’re thinking about all things spooky, so we wanted to to share some of the things we’ve been watching and listening to this season in the Tulgey Wood. Given how many stories by the O.G. (original ghoulish) writer Edgar Allan Poe we’ve done for our series Through a Glass, Darkly,…

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Rebel Moon: A Rebel is Kinda Like a Rogue, Right?

So while we’re working away at the next set of stories from the Tygerverse, this Zach Snyder-sized slice of space opera dropped on the Interwebs with the promise of a holiday release (for part 1, anyway). If you’re like us, you got Star Wars vibes before you even saw the women with the, um, energy…

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A Pause from Boldly Going

If you’re one of our patrons on Patreon, you’ll know all the different influences that go into making our shows, many of which come from vintage radio and film. Bjorn Munson also has a frankly disturbing zeal for Star Trek, so he made sure to share this mash-up of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and…

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Real Secret Societies You May Not Know

What with the casting going on for our show Quorum, we have secret societies on our mind, but what about the actual ones? As Jackie Mansky writes for Smithsonian magazine, actual secret societies are often centered around good causes (certainly as far as the members are concerned). Not only that, but these days, they’re not…

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When Did Those American Colonists Stop Sounding Like Brits?

A lot of us here in Deepest Springfield are obsessed with accents. How do we do a good Scouse accent so no one will think it’s Geordie? But with that obsession is also learning about the history of accents and how things shift. So we’re doing some research for some scripts that raise the question…

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The Foundation Comes More Into View

We posted about the upcoming TV adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s influential Foundation series just a little over a year ago. Well, we’ve got a date when the series premieres on its requisite streaming service (September 24th, 2021 on Apple TV+) and we have a brand new trailer: As a reminder, the Foundation series was one…

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Raise the Fungal Radiation Shields!

We’d heard about species of radiation-loving fungus in relation to Chernobyl in the past, but this article by Stephen Johnson in Big Think explains how they’ve been testing it on the International Space Station. Specifically, they’ve been testing it with the idea that some form of this radiotrophic fungus could help shield astronauts bound for Mars. Exciting news. And,…

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Voices Behind the Scenes of Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Disney’s animated films usually come with requisite musical numbers and, while there isn’t anything wrong with that, it’s not something we’ve done a lot of… yet. So it was nice to see this brief, six-minute piece that show some of the voice actors behind one of Disney’s forays into a classic adventure yarn of a…

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The Many Voices of Rob Paulsen

What with our current production of “Prince Prigio” using many cast members to do about 50 different voices, we thought it’d be fun to share a video by one voice actor who could arguably do them all. Odds are, you’ve heard Rob Paulsen do voices in any of a number of shows. In this 20-minute…

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