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April 9, 2016
Podcast, Uncategorized Fiction, Podcasts, The Freelance Hunters Leave a comment
You can’t take it with you in “The Gold Equations,” A Freelance Hunters Adventure written and performed by Hugh J. O’Donnell.
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This episode was originally posted at TheFreelanceHunters.com on September 9, 2015. Click on the link for more Freelance Hunters stories in audio and digital formats.
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April 3, 2016
Podcast, Uncategorized CCR, hugh, JRD, Opopinax, Podcasts, Rich The T T Leave a comment
Join Hugh, Rich the T. T. Opopinax and JRD as we take a look at 1959’s Vincent Price classic, House on Haunted Hill. It’s HYSTERICAL.
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Chrononaut Cinema Reviews is presented by http://skinner.fm and Way of the Buffalo, and is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License.
This podcast was originally posted at Skinner.fm on March 27, 2016.
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April 2, 2016
Podcast, Uncategorized Every Photo Tells, Fiction, Katharina Bordet, Mick Bordet, Podcasts, The Freelance Hunters Leave a comment
In this story performed and produced by Katharina and Mick Bordet of the Every Photo Tells podcast, The Freelance Hunters must sneak into an impregnable castle to prevent an international incident. Easy enough, but there’s just the tiny matter of the goblin war band standing in their way…
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This podcast was originally posted at Every Photo Tells on October 8th, 2013. Visit their site for more excellent audio fiction and inspiring photo prompts.
You can find more Freelance Hunters fiction and audio at TheFreelanceHunters.com.
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March 28, 2016
Hugh Likes Podcasts Bob Mackey, Gaming, HLP, Hugh Likes Podcasts, Jeremy Parish, Podcasts, Retronauts, review Leave a comment
Retronauts
Hosted by Jeremy Parish and Bob Mackey
Retronauts.com
For a long time, video games have been trying to rise as a medium from frivolous entertainment to serious art form. Some notable successes have been achieved, but also success hasn’t been universal. Something similar can be said for video game podcasts. While many gaming podcasts fall into the ‘bro-gamer’ subculture that seems to permeate the internet, Retronauts rises above the field by mixing intelligent analysis with nostalgia.
Nominally hosted by gaming news site USGamer.net , Retronauts covers games from the dawn of the medium up to about ten years ago. Hosted by two veteran game reviewers and bloggers, the cast is in-depth and smarter than it needs to be. It not only provides a dose of heady nostalgia, but historical analysis and design critique as well. The main show updates every two weeks considering topics such as specific games or series, but also topics like a retrospective on the career of Final Fantasy score composer Nobuo Uematsu. These episodes go in-depth with three or four guests, running one to two hours.
Alternate weeks update with shorter microsodes that focus in deeper on more obscure, but none the less interesting topics like the groundbreaking but often overlooked survival horror adventure ‘Clock Tower,’ or the music of the SNES port of Sim City.
Host Bob Mackey and Jeremy Parish, who is also the talent behind Game Boy World, really know their stuff, and have plenty of anecdotes and inside information that really sheds a light on the game design and development process.
As someone who spent much of his childhood with an NES controller in hand, but usually couldn’t afford the latest generation system, I am a dyed-in the-wool retro gamer. This podcast is my jam. If you prefer pixelated nostalgia over the latest shooter, Retronauts might just be the gaming podcast you’re looking for.
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February 13, 2016
Podcast, Uncategorized CCR, Chrononaut Cinema Reviews, hugh, JRD, Opopinax, Podcasts, Rich The T T Leave a comment
In this episode, the Chrononauts examine 1959’s “The Giant Gila Monster.”
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This podcast was originally published at Skinner.fm on February 12, 2016.
March 10, 2015
Hugh Likes Podcasts Hugh Likes Podcasts, Podcasts, review, Welcome To Night Vale Leave a comment
Welcome to Night Vale
Hosted by Cecil Baldwin, and others
Produced by Commonplace books
“Welcome to Night Vale” a podcast that almost needs no introduction at this point. This wildly popular program is a podcast drama formatted as bulletins from a community radio station in a small desert town. It features notices from the town’s active secret police, a kid’s fun-fact science corner, updates on the mysterious lights in the sky and the war-like subterranean culture located beneath the local bowling alley. And of course, the weather. Night Vale is a weird place, but these are just the everyday foibles you might find in any isolated community, as far as W2NV is concerned. And that is what makes this podcast brilliant.
Written by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, Welcome To Night Vale is not only a delightful satire of horror and weird fiction tropes, it is a clever and often heartbreaking look at tolerance and what it means to be a community. From the bourgeoning romance between radio host Cecil and mysterious and well-coifed scientist Carlos, to the struggles of a young girl trying to fit in despite the fact that she is in fact an adult man’s detached hand, the plots of the show revolve not just around the inexplicable and the fantastic, but real human interaction, even if it is presented in completely silly ways.
At its heart, “Welcome to Night Vale” is about The Other, The Weird, amorphous Unknown that kept H. P. Lovecraft up at night. But what the Mythos never addresses, and part of what makes it problematic today, is that one person’s incomprehensible horror is someone else’s Tuesday. Cecil Baldwin, who plays coincidentally-named station host Cecil Palmer, recently contributed an excellent short essay about his experiences working on the project to the Queers Destroy Science Fiction Kickstarter. The thing he really loves about the podcast, and I agree, is that in all of Night Vale’s strangeness and paranoia, the same-sex relationship between Cecil and Carlos is never even considered unusual or different from a straight one. That’s the subtext for Welcome to Night Vale. The things that we do not understand or find inexplicable are just life seen from a different angle. It’s an unexpected direction, almost stealth schmaltz, but it’s the most original thing in Podcasting, and it brings a delightful little bit of weirdness and joy to my feed twice a month. Find Welcome to Night Vale in your preferred podcatcher, or visit Commonplacebooks.com.
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