And now Audio Theater Central. Hello, welcome to Audio Theater Central. This
is the show that explores family friendly audio drama through news, reviews, and
interviews. I'm your host, JD. Sutter. This is episode one hundred
and eighty nine. Thank you so much for joining me for this episode.
We've got a lot of great stuff coming up in this episode. In a
little bit, I'm gonna be joined by Jonathan and Alicia of Eternal Future Productions,
and we're going to talk a little bit about some of the work they've
been doing lately as well as they're going to be giving us an exclusive full
reveal of the cast of their upcoming show Venture. So that's going to be
a lot of fun to get to all of that information. And we're going
to have some feedback a little later on from Blake. But for now,
there is a whole lot happening in the audio drama space, So let's get
to the audio drama updates. We interrupt this program to bring you a special
report and in other news tonight, a brief look at the headlines. Now.
They want exciting, fast piece news that's relevant and entertaining like this.
Well, first off, just a couple of little event announcements, and one
is just wanted to say real quickly, happy birthday to Keys for Kids Radio.
On October twenty fourth, they celebrated their thirty fifth birthday, which is
just super cool. And if you don't know what Keys for Kids Radio is,
it is a streaming station that plays kids music and audio drama twenty four
to seven, So you know, all your favorite shows Pause and Tales Down
Gilliad Lane, Kid's Corner Adventures and Odyssey, Lamplighter and lots of others are
available on this station. And there are even some programs that they have access
to on demand, so you can just go right onto the website and listen
to the latest episodes right there. But it's a great, great way to
get some audio drama in your day or have something playing for the kids as
they are, you know, hanging out at the house or whatever is going
on in your family. It is a great ministry that Keys for Kids Radio
has been doing for thirty four years now, So just wanted to say happy
birthday and congratulations to them. Link in the show notes to head over to
the station website and check that out if you haven't before, but it is
well worth a listen. Also Sonic Con is this month. It is just
a few days away. If you are going to be there and you see
me there, please come up and say hi, take a photo, whatever
you want to do, just come up and introduce yourself and love to meet
you. There's going to be some great stuff happening there, some new audio
drama premieres, and there's going to be a live taping of this podcast on
Thursday, so be sure to come to that. Lots more coming out.
If you haven't got your tickets yet, there is still time sonicdash Con dot
Org. Head over there, get your tickets right now and we'll see you
there. And lastly, don't have a whole lot of information about this because
I found out about it right before we were recording this episode, so I
unfortunately did not have time to research too much. But the Family Central Christian
Bookstore in Holland, Michigan, which is a Christian bookstore owned by Focus on
the Family, and they have had multiple Adventures Odyssey related events there over the
years since it opened. I think it's only been open for a couple of
years now if I remember correctly, But they are adding a wits end at
this bookstore location and there's going to be a grand opening at noon on Saturday,
November eleventh, So again don't have a whole ton of information about what
all is involved. Is this going to be a replica of the one in
Colorado Springs, I don't know. But what I do know is they said
that a beautiful facade of wits End is going to be opening at the back
of the bookstore and will soon be home to bustling activity spaces for kids,
WIT's garage, Eugene's science lab, the soda shop's quaint kitchen, and a
garden playhouse with two slides. So I don't know if that means it's a
full kitchen where they're going to be serving food, I don't know, but
that's the information that I have. If you are anywhere in the area and
that sounds like something you want to look into, there is a link in
the show notes to their website which has all their contact information, you know,
phone number, address, all of that to look into that if you
are in that area. But again, this is taking place at Family Central
in Holland, Michigan, on on November eleventh. Well, that brings us
to our recent releases section, and first up is a brand new audio drama
series, the first of a series, i should say, and it is
called the Harry Moon Series. This first audio drama is called wand Paper Scissors,
and it is a seventy seven minute standalone audio drama. But it sets
up the world of this character, Harry Moon, and is the origin story
of this character. And it is the beginning of a multiple book series,
and this is the first one that they are adapting as an audio drama.
There are some familiar names involved in this production. Joshua Nicholson, who if
you were at either of the previous Sonic Con events then you would have heard
of him. He is a voice talent and a voice coach, and he
did sessions at both of the previous events, and so he adapted this book
into an audio drama script and did much of the post production on this himself.
And also he plays a couple of characters in this show. And then
on top of that, we also have John Fornoff playing one of the characters
in this show, and he does a really great job with that. And
in fact, I would say that those two were some of the best acting
in this production in my opinion. They both just nailed their roles and so
it's a show that is a geared towards children seven to twelve years old,
and the series is aiming to provide engaging storylines with important messages such as anti
bullying, self acceptance, and responsibility, all while teaching young readers to be
heroes in their own communities by celebrating the differences of others and cultivating kind behavior.
So again it's called the Harry Moon Series. You can check them out
at Harrymoon dot org. And in this first release called Wandpaper Scissors, we
meet Harry and his sister Honey and his archenemy Titus Kilgore. And this whole
story is all about Harry preparing to compete in a talent show and runs into
all kinds of issues with this bully named Titus. Harry is a magician,
so he's going to perform magic at this talent show and he meets this magical
rabbit who starts talking to him. So there's some fun magical elements to it,
and it was an overall very fun story. There were a few elements
that were a little bit rough, but that is sort of to be expected
with a brand new production in a new series and just getting things rolling.
Overall, I thought it was quite a fun little story. You can find
a full review by ATC contributor Robert Thacker on our website, and there's a
link to that post in the show notes of this episode. So if that
sounds like something you might want to check out for your family, go read
that review and then check out Harry Moon Want Paper Scissors the next item.
If you heard the last bonus episode, which we released on October thirtieth,
then you already know about this, but in case you missed that episode.
Audio Imagination seventy seven Productions released a brand new audio drama called Operator. It
is a ninety minute audio drama that provides a unique perspective on the classic tale
of the War of the Worlds as performed by Orson Wells and the Mercury Theater
back in nineteen thirty eight. The story focuses on the experiences of Fay Rogers,
a young woman embarking on her first night as a telephone operator. As
the drama unfolds, listeners are transported to a world on the brink of chaos.
Unbeknownst to Fay, an alien invasion is imminent, and the fate of
humanity hangs in the balance, so it is an exclusive to Drama FI.
So there's a link in the show notes to go check that out over there.
And if you missed the last episode, then you want to go check
that out because I had a great conversation talking about some of the behind the
scenes and the inspiration of that script with the creator of it, Matthew P.
Warner. So link is in the show notes to check out that episode
as well if you missed it. And our last recent release item is the
Titanic WAF soundtrack from Legacy Radio Theater. It is out now as a digital
download exclusively from the LRT Media web store, which is also a new thing
that they have just launched, and the soundtrack is sixteen tracks. It is
just over half an hour at thirty one and a half minutes long, some
great music by John Campbell from that audio drama, and it is very reasonably
priced only a few bucks and you can get that soundtrack in wave or MP
three formats. And also at this new LRT Media store they have where you
can actually purchase high quality downloads of their homes audio dramas and scripts and some
other stuff there so you can start supporting them even if you have listened to
this stuff that they've put out for free, you can now support them by
purchasing some downloads there. So all of that is linked in the show notes
as well. I've been listening to the soundtrack. It is really great music.
We know John Campbell has been a mainstay in this industry for so many
years and he always does great work. So if you were like me and
love listening to audio drama soundtracks, this is a no brainer for you,
So head over there and grab your copy today. And speaking of LRT Media,
we also have an update on their upcoming American history show called Heritage.
We alluded to it a little bit in the conversation with Craig Hart a couple
of episodes back, but they did officially announce and revealed the cover art of
this new show and the first production. So the show is called Heritage,
Stories of American Heroes and episode one is called Captain Molly and it will be
about Molly Pitcher. This was written by Ashley Banker and directed by Alicia Hanson,
produced by Craig Hart. So we don't have a whole lot of information
about it yet, but it is in the works coming soon. The cover
art looks amazing on this and who knows what other cool stories they have in
the works at this point. But I am really excited about this show,
and so this is something to look forward to very soon. And you know,
just as I was putting together this update segment, there is so much
happening and I'm just so excited. A lot of great content is coming up
soon, and this is just a wonderful time to be involved in this space.
There's just so much good content. And one of those that is coming
up soon is a brand new show from a brand new company called Sound and
Fury Entertainment. And the show is called Root Sticks and that's Root as an
route like Root sixty six and sticks like the Band or the River Styx.
And I think there is a reason for that name. There. There's an
illusion there to classic rock and mythology, because I think both of those seem
to be playing parts in this show. And this one is created by Colton
Grellier, who I met at Sonicon and who is one of the key people
responsible for Sonicicon's very existence. Super cool guy. I had a chance to
chat with him quite a bit at both of the events, and so I'm
excited that he is working on a brand new show and the sort of tagline
for this show is where the Road goes on forever and all roads come to
an end, and he said that root Sticks is basically the Twilight Zone meets
the Iconic American road Trip. They have six thirty minute episodes planned for the
first season, and the pilot will be performed live at Sonicicon in a couple
of weeks, but the first six episodes are titled Wayfaring Stranger Like a Rolling
Stone, the Devil went down to Georgia, Ghostwriters in the Sky, in
the Hall of the Mountain King, and the House of the Rising Sun,
So you can see why I said that it seems like classic rock has some
sort of an influence here on the show in some way. But Culton told
me that the show's target audience is young adult to college age, but rating
wise, he says it's safe for kids to listen to as well. There's
no language or explicit content and there's only some mild violence. But he did
say that they do plan to address some thematically heavy things in the show.
At certain points, they're going to be touching on issues such as generational trauma,
mental health, broken families, failed friendships, and so that's why he
says that he would recommend it to a slightly older age group. But he
did continue and he said that despite much of the subject matter, there will
still be plenty of humor, especially in episode two, which he said quote
turned into an almost misadventurous comedy of errors for the protagonist, exploring the often
wonderland like logic of this supernatural road. So all of that to say,
this sounds very interesting to me, he said. They do plan to go
deeper, and there will be biblical themes that are sort of woven throughout some
of the plot points. So this is going to be very very interesting as
they explore some heavier topics in a show that's meant for an older crowd,
which is something that I've said for years. I would love to see more
of. This is being recorded at the studios of Liberty University, and so
we'll see where this one goes. But I'm ready to take this adventure down
this road. A side note, I don't know if you're like me,
but whenever I speak of the road Route sixty six, I say route.
But whenever I see that word just used in any other context, I always
pronounce it as Route and I don't know why that is. Maybe it just
Route sixty six sounds weird. I don't know, that's a total tangent.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to Rootsticks from Sound and Fury Entertainment and we will
keep you updated on the progress of this show. And another show that is
coming soon is The Invicta Collective, and this one is from in Victim Digital.
So the show is Invicta with an A at the end, and the
company is in Victim You am at the end there, so it is easy
to confuse the two there. But the Invicta Collective is a brand new show
that is coming soon. Jonathan Winstead is the creative force behind in Victim Digital
and we have heard some of his content in the past. He did the
Shadow remake several years ago, which was a lot of fun. And so
the pilot episode of this brand new show is dropping on the twelfth of November
this year, and then they're going to be crowdfunding the rest of season one
and if I remember correctly, I think they have a total of five seasons
planned for this show. So here is a little summary of this upcoming show.
Our story taking place in the nineteen thirties, will follow Arthur Mohammad,
Lola Bashir, and a wide range of colorful characters as they seek to unearth
the shocking truth behind this ancient Mesopotamian mystery, all while facing down a violent
foe who seems to want to stop their mission no matter the cost. And
so this one also seems like another show that is aimed toward an older demographic,
which is great. And some of the talent that you'll hear in this
one is Caleb Bresler, who has been a guest here on the podcast before,
Jonathan Cook, who I think most everybody is familiar with by this point,
and Graham Rowett, who we heard in the aforementioned The Shadow remake that
Jonathan Winstead produced a few years ago, and he's also been in Six Minutes
from gen Z and a lot of other things. He's an on screen actor
as well, a very accomplished actor, and so he's going to be involved
in this show. So let's give a listen to the official trailer for the
Invictor Collective assa. Are you sure this is a good idea? That's your
adventurous spirit, mash. The only spirit here is going to be yours when
his pit collapses. Surviving for over four thousand years, the Epic of Gilgamesh
stands as the oldest surviving literary work. Your client believes this is the place
Gilgamesh died. With this treasure, my men may find something. The mark
of Gilgamesh was there after all. But what if the tale of Gilgamesh was
more than just simple fantasy? Have I told you the legend of the cave
in the middle of the desert, so treacherous the reach only few have lean
it back? What of it was a story carefully constructed to hide an ancient
secret that humanity was not meant to uncover. What thing taken for you doing?
You have no idea of the true significance of Ugash. Miss Morris join
Arthur, Mohammad, Lola, and Bashir on a dangerous journey as they seek
to on earth the truth behind this Mesopotamian mystery. The Gilgamesh legends are just
a mess. What matters is that someone thinks there's something to it. That's
we're killing for. Immerse yourself in the world of the Invictor Collective, where
archaeology, romance, and action collide in a gripping audio drama experience. The
adventure begins on November twelfth. Wherever you get your podcasts, visit in Victimdigital
dot com for more. As I said, Jonathan Winstead is the producer and
the man behind in Victim Digital and he just reaent released a podcast behind the
scenes chat with him and one of the writers of this show. So if
you want to dive into this one and learn a little bit more about it,
you can check that out. There is a link in the show notes
to that podcast episode, and also in the show notes is a link to
the page for this show on the in Victim Digital website which has more of
the cast members and the full crew listed and a little bit more information about
it, including a longer teaser audio. So more information is there. But
this is another show that is on the horizon and you're going to get your
first taste in just a couple of days now. Winstead has been very busy
because in Victim Digital has just recently also announced another show that they're working with.
It is called Morona Grant and the Lost Tomb of Golgotha. So for
this new show, he is teaming up with author Brina Williamson to adapt her
novel into audio drama. Now. The pilot episode for this show is scheduled
to come out Spring twenty twenty four, and there will be a preview showcase
at Sonicon this year, and then after this pilot comes out next year,
they will also be crowdfunding the remaining episodes, which will complete the story from
book one, and they do have plans to continue as the author Williamson continues
publishing the books in this series focusing on this character of Marona Grant, they
will continue to adapt the novels into audio drama based on the funding and the
reception I guess of this first one, but they posted some artwork. It
looks super cool. Don't really know too much about the cast in this one,
other than that Daniel Cross is going to be involved in this one.
I think that Graham Rowett is also going to be appearing in this show,
and maybe some others that we are familiar with. But the official summary is
after a job turns sour, a treasure hunting mercenary is left out of dough
and sporting a shiny black eye. In other words, just another day in
the life of nineteen thirties adventurous Morona Grant. When Presented with an opportunity for
adventure and more importantly, cash, Morona takes up the offer to follow a
coded map and hunt down Judas Escariots infamous thirty pieces of silver, the only
caveat babysitting the expedition's financier, an elderly thrill seeking aristocrat with a propensity for
attracting trouble. A ragtag team is assembled to complete with a loyal dog,
a stalwart pilot, a poised linguist, and a fusspot physician. But when
a hail of bullets threatens their quest before departure, it becomes blindingly clear that
ancient puzzles and booby traps will be the least of their worries. Man that
one sounds like it's going to be a riot fighting adventure pack show. Interesting
note that both this show and the previous one in Victor Collective are set in
the nineteen thirties, so that's an interesting little tidbit there. But more information
will be coming on that soon after the preview showcase at Soniccon than that audio
will be released publicly, so that's something to look forward to if you're not
able to attend Sonicon. But again, these projects are both coming from in
Victim Digital, so lots of great content on the horizon, and another one
that is coming very soon is from the Academy of Arts. Their newest release
is The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. No Professor Boggs again this year,
but they are continuing with these adaptations of fables. This one is available
for pre sale right now and we'll be releasing on November fifteenth. Again,
it is The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, which is adapted from the
well known Asop's fable as well as the story of the prodigal from the Book
of Luke and They said. This timeless children's tale follows one mouse's journey from
the simple, happy cornfields of the country to the fast paced opportunities of the
town as he learns that things are not always as they seem. Memorable characters,
hilarious antics, and the valuable character lessons of contentment and sacrificial love are
brought to life in this original audio drama that your children will be listening to
and singing four years to come. So based on that, it sounds like
it's also going to be a musical. So this one is one that is
geared towards a younger demographic, just like their one from last year, The
Little Red hen But it's always great to see new content coming along. I
have really appreciated all the content that the Academy of Arts has done so far,
so I'm so glad they are continuing with the audio drama medium when they've
got so many other projects that they are working on there. This is a
full fledged academy. There's all the educational aspect of what they do that is
going on. But in case you don't know, the Academy of Arts is
also part of the Loglass Theater, which does huge stage productions, and they
are the ones responsible for the stage adaptation of The Horse and His Boy,
which has been a huge hit here in recent months. And I think they're
actually touring that play right now, if I'm remembering correctly, but it was
in residence at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, d C. For
a while. So anyway, they've got a lot of stuff going on,
so I'm really glad that they are continuing to do audio drama every year as
well. So this is another one that is coming soon. And the benefit
of purchasing during the pre sale is you do get a little bit of a
discount. I think it's five or six bucks off if you go ahead and
order it now before the release date of November fifteenth. Next up are just
two updates on some upcoming projects which we don't have a ton of detail on.
But there is a new musical which I can't recall if I have mentioned
this in the past or not on the show, but John Fornoff and Kathy
Buchanan worked on a musical audio drama on the life of Moses and it is
called Believing the Promise. Well, it was just recorded a few days ago
at Salami Studios in Hollywood, if you don't know, that is where Adventures
Odyssey is recorded and where many of the early Lamplighter Theater productions were recorded and
some of the Extraordinary Adventures of Ga Hinty as well. But this one is
executive produced by Heidi Latreille and Betty Whitehead. It was written and directed by
Kathy Buchanan, and John Fornoff was casting director and assistant director if I have
my information correct, And it was produced by Alan Hurley who is also doing
sound design, with music by John Campbell. So I don't know anything about
the duration or anything any of the specifics on the script. They said it's
about the life of Moses, so I don't know, you know, how
far back is it going, Is it, you know, his entire life,
all the way up to his death. I don't know for sure,
And I don't know very many of the cast members. Just a couple of
them. Few familiar names here, John Fournoff, I don't know. Maybe
you've heard of him, He actually is voicing a few characters. Also Dominic
Trice and Mackenzie Harris, both of whom have appeared in Lamplid's theater productions in
the past. And Tanya Joy, which is a new name to me.
I don't think I've heard of her before. But there are a couple of
others which I have heard participated in this, but I haven't seen any official
announcements, so I don't know if I'm supposed to say anything about their involvement
at this point. But that's really all we know about this production at this
point, but it is something that will be coming down the road at some
point. Again, is called Believing the Promise, a musical audio drama on
the life of Moses. You know, I just thought of this. I've
said for a while too, that I would love to see more musical audio
dramas, not children's musical audio drama. There's a lot of that, and
a lot of it is great, but you know, an audio drama that
is a musical that is aimed at an older demographic, because there are plenty
of adults who like stage musicals. So let's see some more high quality audio
drama musicals. So maybe this is it. I don't know the target age
group for this show, but we will find out at some point. So
for now, we just have to wait and see. And just a couple
of little notes on the upcoming season ten from The Brinkman Adventures. Again not
a whole lot of details, but just a couple of little tidbits here.
Season ten will be called Redemptive Velocity. It is fully written and some of
the episodes have been recorded. Season ten will be featuring a ministry called Family
Man, run by a man named Todd Wilson, and so the Wilson family
will be featured in season ten. And in the story, the Brinkman's and
the Wilsons are racing across the country and they're RVs visiting with key people along
the way, and we don't know exactly what the story is, what it
involves, but Todd Wilson plays himself in these shows and those were recorded in
early October, and Ian said that this was the first time he's used the
their RV as a recording studio because they do travel around the country to events
to promote the Brinkman Adventures and they travel in this RV, and he said
it worked perfectly, so that'll be interesting to hear. He said, you
would never guess that these lines were recorded in an RV in the driveway of
the Wilson family home, so that'll be interesting. I know that pat Roy
did some car recording a while back for Time Chroniclers, so it can be
done if you have the right equipment and the right sound treatment. But that'll
be interesting to hear. And also kin Ham, the founder of the Creation
Museum and the arc Encounter, will be featured in season ten as well,
so Ian went there to the Cincinnati area to record kin Ham on site in
late October. So they will be recording the rest of the characters at their
studio in Wisconsin in the coming weeks, as well as still using remote actors
around the country who record in their own studios. So a lot of production
time still coming on Brinkman Adventures Season ten. No release date at this point
because it still has to go through post production and everything. And of course,
speaking of post production, Josh Boltman is their primary editor and sound designer
for the show. And just want to say real quickly, a congrats to
Josh. He recently got married this past summer. Congratulations to Josh Boldman and
his wife Tory on their wedding. Well, the last item is just more
of a question, and that is are you interested in Greenhorn Tales CDs?
This discussion came up a couple of people in the Audio Drama Alliance. We're
talking about liking to have CD copies, physical copies of the audio dramas that
they enjoy. And I'm like that too. A lot of the audio dramas
that I really like, even though I might have a digital copy or even
though I might have heard it on a podcast or something, I do like
to collect those CD copies for my collection. And so I don't recall who
exactly it was, but asked about Greenhorn Tails CDs, and I said I
didn't know if there was any demand for them. So if you are interested
in that, then let me know, and we can make that happen.
If there's enough people who say they would like to have Greenhorn Tails Season one
on CD, then we can make that happen. Well, I know that
was a whole lot of information to get through, but I hope it was
as exciting to you as it was to me. Seeing all that is happening
in this space. There's just some great stuff to look forward to, and
I, for one, am really excited. But I'm also excited to bring
in our guests. Let's move into the interview segment and let's talk with Jonathan
and Alisha from Eternal Future Productions. I have some very important information and I
thought i'd be getting it into the hands of a real reporter. Sir,
Sir, can I speak to a moment? Oh, well, there's nothing
to it. I just ask you the questions and you answered them in the
tape recorder. Here play the interviewer. Well. Alisha Hanson and Jonathan Cook
are the creative geniuses behind Eternal Future Productions. They're no stranger to Audio Theater
Central. We have had them on the show in the past at our live
show from Sonic Con. But we've talked about pirateers and all of their other
projects multiple times on the podcast, so I know you are familiar with their
content, but they have a very special announcement that they wanted to make,
and so I said, Hey, instead of me just sharing this information,
why don't you guys hop on a call. Let's let's share it at the
same time with the audience. So, Alsia, Jonathan, thank you for
coming on the podcast. Oh, thank you for having us. This is
awesome. Yes, thank you so much. Excited to be here because they're
making the rounds. I mean, you were just on Audio Drama Insiders now
atc What's next, NBC News. No, I don't know. We're open
to anything. Hey, why wouldn't you, Yeah, just get the word
out, tell the world about audio drama and good audio drama because that's what
you guys are creating. And we're here to talk about your new show Venture
that's coming out soon. But before we get to that, I wanted to
just ask a couple of questions about some of the other stuff that you guys
have been doing. You're probably most known for Pirateers, and you guys have
also been doing writing and acting for a lot of other shows lately. My
goodness, how do you guys keep up with all of this stuff that we
ask ourselves that every day. Actually we're just talking about that earlier. It's
like we have a lot going on. I think part of it helps that
this is my personally, my full time gig, so I stay home when
my son goes to school. I began at as to stay at home mom,
and then progressively just throughout the years, specifically when my son started going
back to school in kindergarten, I began what I call my internship years,
and I was gaining a lot of experience during that time and just self teaching,
and also I had a couple of mentors as well, and so over
time, this has just become a career for me. Even back when I
wasn't making any kind of money at all, I just had faith that this
is what God wanted me to do. And so even when it was a
little discouraging at times, just because I was putting in so many hours during
the day when when Eric was in school, but not you know, seeing
a whole lot coming back from it, I just kept pressing on and and
now I'm at a point where it's getting a lot more successful, and I
just feel like this is a calling, so I have to answer your question.
I have time during the day to work on this, and so I
guess that's how I keep up. Yeah, and it helps to that we
you know, we like what we do. It makes it fun to work
on, so we're very passionate about it. Yeah, it's a lot of
fun to work on, so we enjoy doing it. Yeah. Yeah,
and you guys, I've been working on robin Hood and of course continuing with
Pirateiers. So we're three seasons into Pirateeers now, about halfway through or getting
close to the end of season three here, What has been the most challenging
part of running an ongoing series like this? I mean, this has been
going for several years now for each of you, because you all or you
both wear multiple hats. You're not just acting or not just writing. You're
doing everything. You know, sound design and you know all kinds of post
production and everything. So what do you think for each of you has been
the most challenging part of keeping this thing going? I think for me,
it's like the writing process has been like the biggest challenge, you know,
coming up with where do we want to go next? What do we want
these characters to do, Where do we want them to go, who do
we want them to meet? And writing has always been kind of my biggest
challenge, so I think that is what it is for me. I've never
ever ventured into a series before, trying to keep a story going on and
having the characters develop and go through different experiences and have a character arc and
things. So that's definitely been a learning process for me and probably the biggest
challenge. Like I love the voice acting part of it. That's always the
blast, and I've been learning a lot with the directing and the sound design
and all that, and that's a lot of fun for me. But yeah,
the writing is where I really feel like I'm kind of like behind for
me. I really enjoy writing, but like Jonathan, that's probably what takes
the longest. And I think the greatest challenge for me is knowing what God
wants months over what you want to do. So just to give you an
example of that, in season one, the final episode where we do share
the Gospel, Jonathan and I had written episode seven and got to the very
end of it, and this is not what is actually been released. Our
original episode or version of episode seven was completely different, and it was what
we were writing, and we realized by the end of it it wasn't at
all what it should be, and so we scrabbed it and I remember,
you know, really praying about it and just taking like a seven day break.
And this actually happened mid season where we took our seven day break.
But it all comes together with episode seven. And this was very hard for
me because I work all the time. I'm so passionate about what I do
that I don't feel like it's work. And so I've had Jonathan tell me
before, He's like, you know, you got to slow down sometimes,
and rightfully so wise words. And so taking seven days off was very,
very challenging for me. But what I did was I put Pirateers into a
folder called under His Wings and didn't work on it at all, and by
day seven I suddenly felt inspired again. And this led to episode seven and
us scrapping episode seven what we had originally and going back and rewriting it to
what God wanted and it felt so right. So what was released is what
we truly believe was inspiration from God. Wow. And so that's my greatest
challenge is trying not to force what I want in there and trying to just
sit back and let God take over. And it's challenging, but it's so
rewarding. Yeah. Yeah, because you're not just telling a great adventure story.
There's a deeper side to what you're doing. And yeah, that makes
a lot of sense. Well, I'm loving the show, and the listener
knows, of course that I've been privileged to be involved in the last couple
of seasons and I've had a blast doing it. I think I think I
told you, Alicia that I think it was the last episode that my character
was in in this season, that was one of the funnest audio drama parts
that I've ever done. I mean, there was just a great energy when
we were recording, and it was that scene between you and I and then
I don't know, it was a great, great moment for me, and
I really enjoyed it. So I just want to publicly say thank you for
allowing me to be part of the show. Oh, thank you so much.
You have been just amazing. And that scene you were talking about,
you blew us away with it because I just remember we were reading back and
forth and you had said one line where what was it? There was one
line you said, why not take control of it, I think, is
what Smithy says. And it gave me chills, it really did. And
so I'm not only just honored to have you involved, but I'm so proud
of you because to see you bring this character to life has been just incredible.
I and this is another thing that I think I may have told you,
but I don't know for sure, but my maternal grandfather his last name
was Smith and he went by Smitty. And so that I got to play
this character has has really been really a cool thing for me. That I
remember you're telling us that that was such a Well, you guys have a
lot of stuff still yet to come this year. So we've got you know,
Robin Hood's going to be coming out. Got you guys are working on
Resurgence and Venture. We don't have time to go into Resurgence and everything right
now, and I don't even know if you guys are willing to share anything
about that, but let's let's talk about Venture. So this is a comedy
sci fi. I mean, tell me what this show is. It's really
a parody of the original series star Trek and I loved that show growing up,
and more specifically, the New Generation was my favorite. But after the
reboot movies of Star Trek came out, I actually began to just really appreciate
the original series even more than the next generation Star Trek, and I just
loved how those actors brought the story to life. And it's very sentimental to
me because I grew up watching it with my mom. But that's what this
series is kind of a parody of, and in the funnest way possible.
Well, we hope. So anyway, well, yeah, we've already had
a lot of fun already, so we hope it's gonna be fun for the
listeners right now. Yeah, we're having a blast with it for sure.
That's kind of how it came about too. It was just, I mean,
at least it's like she said, is been a big Star Trek fan,
and we were talking about that and I was kind of doing a,
you know, a goofy Captain Kirk impression, and she loved it and was
like, Oh, we have to like do something with that. We should
do a Star Trek thing, And so we started working on it, and
it was so funny because we had come up with some ideas for it and
even come up with the name of Captain Kurt. And right about that time,
Glenn Haskell released his on demand series and had a very short episode in
there that was a Star Trek parody in itself with a Captain Kurt, and
he cast me as that character. So we were like, okay, what
is that all about. So that led us to reach out to Glenn since
he already had a connection with it. Well, yeah, he had a
connection. He was reading your emails here. Knew that clearly apparently. Yeah,
it was so fascinating to us because he had no idea. We had
been planning venture for months, We had the graph ready, we had we
had already begun working on the first script, and it was just taking us
a long time to write it. And Glenn whips these scripts out like there's
no tomorrow. He is so talented and so proficient and prolific, and so
we just kind of took it as a sign that maybe we're meant to work
together. And he's been just incredible to work with. So he's our series
writer and we cannot wait to, you know, for him to write more
scripts. Yeah, I know the feeling because working on Greenhorn Tales, you
know, there's times where you're either going over a script or when you're recording
it, you know you're laughing and you're like, man, this is so
funny to me. I really hope it's funny to the people when they listen
to it, too, Right, So let's go over the synopsis, the
official show summary, and that is follow the us V Venture and her crew
as they explore the Gallic See and find adventure along the way in this comedy
space parody that boldly goes where no audio drama, or at least most audio
dramas, have ventured before. I love that it's hilarious, and I'm hoping
that that's a taste of what we're going to get throughout this show. Hopefully
it is. Yes, So I guess the big question is can non Trekkies
enjoy this show? Is it so dependent on the source material that it's parodying
that people who are not familiar with it will will not get the jokes.
I think people who've never even maybe seen an episode of Star Trek in their
life, I think they can appreciate it because the humor it'll be like Easter
aches. For people who have seen Star Trek will be like, oh,
okay, I I recognize that, you know, Kirk's slow speech pattern.
He's a bit notorious for William Shatner is, and so I do think a
lot of the jokes, just the humor is lighthearted enough in general enough that
people can appreciate it at surface value. And then we also have other surprises
in the mix, like surprise characters that we won't even be listing today because
we want to keep them a surprise. And there are people outside of the
star Trek genre that I could probably appreciate those ones. Oh interesting. Yeah.
We tried to keep each script, which Glenn did a great job of,
like Alicia said, humorous and funny that anybody can enjoy it. It'll
just be sort of an added layer of humor. I think if you're familiar
with the series at all and familiar with the characters. So, how many
episodes are we talking about and is this going to be a multi season show
like Pirateers or is this just a finite number of episodes that you have planned
So far we have ten written and their standalone episodes, so really a listener
could come in at just about any point and listen to them. However they
do. Glenn did a really good job making references to previous episodes and so
if you do begin listening to them, there's that connection. We do hope
that after these first ten episodes that will just continue as long as we'll kind
of see how it's received and after these first ten episodes and if people are
really enjoying it, then we've already talked to Glenn and said we would love
for him to write some more if he's interested, and so we'll go from
there. But it can kind of, you know, has potential to go
on indefinitely, just because there's so much potential to cover multi universes, different
dimensions and all that. Yeah, but you know, we could always stick
to ten if people don't like it. So if it turns out to be
that scenario where we think it's really funny and everybody else is going, yeah,
well cool. So you guys shared the list of actors not long ago,
and there are some great names on there. Daniel Cross, you got
Caro O'Brien, Stacy Bradshaw, a lot of names that people are very familiar
with. Yeah, and of course you guys are both playing characters as well,
but we still don't know who is playing which characters and which characters are
series regulars and which might be bit parts or supporting characters. So that's what
we're here for, so take it away. Let's go over this cast list
and share with the listener all about the amazing talent you have on this show.
Yeah, that's an understatement. We were incredibly blessed with the cast that
we rounded up and actually came to us. We had a bunch of people
saying, you know, they would love to work with us and be interested
with it, so we are incredibly lucky to have this super talented cast.
I guess we'll just go alphabetically here on this list, starting with Bethany Baldwin.
She's going to play a species called the Barkhisians, so that she'll be
Barkisian one and Crewman three and then also women one, So those are kind
of some smaller roles bit parts that she'll be playing, but she's also going
to be playing a larger character named Wanda, who the crew will encounter along
the way. We'll also have Rebecca Bradford, who many of you know from
the Nick Guys series, working with Frank Cooley, and she's going to be
a crewman and a character Comedian one and also an officer named Dixon. Awesome.
Yeah. And then we have Stacey Bradshaw you mentioned, and she's another
Barkisian. She'll be Barkisian two and another role of woman to woman too.
Yeah. And then she'll have a more significant character named May who will be
a primary character in one episode. And then the next guy on this list
we don't really have to talk about. His name is Jonathan Cook. He's
kind of a kind of a diva, real difficult to work with, completely
the opposite of a diva. He's too humble U. But yeah, I'll
be voicing Captain Kurt, who is of course a parody of Captain Kirk that
everybody or most people are familiar with, at least even if they're not overly
familiar with the series like myself. I didn't watch a whole lot of it
growing up, but you know, I have seen several other parodies to know
of it, and also be voicing Lieutenant you who who is a parody of
Zulu from the original series. And another character named Billy who's kind of a
one off in an episode. And then we come to Daniel Cross, who
you mentioned. Amazing talent, and he is going to be a character named
Cain, he's one of our villains. And also he's going to be doctor
mcshi who is a parody of doctor McCoy. We thought it would be funny
to go coy shy ha ha ha little bit. And he'll also be playing
Engineer Scotch, which is of course after mister Scott. We always heard the
joke about. I think it's Mike Myers who always said people are Scott.
Scotch is a drink and a sticky tape. We went with that. That's
kind of a launch pad for that was like, let's make it confusing in
Colin Scotch. And then we have Christopher Green, who I think you know
pretty well from your own work, and he'll be voicing a character named Rodney,
which she did a fun job with that one. That's a comedian yep.
And then we have oh yeah, and then we have another name,
Alicia Hanson who you may have may not have heard of, and she's going
to be voicing a character named Cambium who is in a significant part in one
episode of an alien species that they encounter and we'll have to, you know,
figure out. And then we have Elizabeth Hanson, who many know from
several series and stuff, but she's also of course the person behind drama FI
and runs all that. She's going to be playing a character named Commander Burns.
It's a very strong character and she did a really great job with that
one. Yeah, she's perfect for the character. Yeah, someone who comes
in and choose out the captain and you know, has to go through all
that stuff. So she was perfect. And then we have Craig Hart,
who was another familiar name through his own legacy radio theater productions and who we
are working with on Robin Hood. But he's going to be our mister Spock.
He's going to be playing Commander Sock in our series. And then we
have Glenn Haskell, who we have mentioned already multiple times as the writer.
He's going to be a character named Grandpa one, which is another species that
they run into. It's not literally a grandpa's and a grandfather. The name
of the species is Grandpa and we also he's going to be Grandpa one.
And then we have a Grandpa two, who is a female that kiro O'Brian
will be playing. We'll get to that minute. So anyway, it's the
species, not a grandfather. And then we have an actress named Rose Hunt
person. This is the first time we've ever worked with her. She is
mostly a TV film actress but is branching out into voiceover and was really really
excited to work with us on this and kind of, you know, get
a jump start on her voice acting. And so we've been working with her
and she's going to be Lieutenant I Hear You, which is a parody of
Lieutenant Uhura from the main Crew, and we're really excited to work with her.
She her audition was was really really good, and she's been upgrading her
her sound equipment and getting a whole voice acting booth set up and everything just
for this, which is great fun. Wow, yeah, really so fun
to hear her in this. And then we have Jody Krankle, who was
an actress and a friend of Alicia's who she's worked the times. Yeah,
she's very talented. She does a lot of audiobooks and narration work, and
she's trying to branch out more into character stuff and was really really excited.
She's also another Star Trek fan, and she was a Star Trek fan.
She was very eager to jump on board, and so she's going to be
a nurse Bethel, who was a parody of Nurse Chapel, who was a
pretty prominent character in the original series, and she did a great job with
that. And then we have Cracked. I had way too much fun with
these what can we find? That's kind of well, we both did,
but yeah, I'm all about puns and silly humors, so this was right
up my alley. And then we have Nathan Marlette who has been working with
Glenn Haskell on his Dragnet series and I know he's working on some other audio
dramas as well, and he's going to be playing a couple of characters,
one being Carter, who's kind of an ensign, a new recruit character on
the crew. And then he's also going to be playing a character named Wonk,
which is our our version of a kling On character. So he gets
to be all growley and cranky with the crew and do all those you know,
deep main voices. But he had a lot of fun with that.
Yeah, he had a lot of fun with the audition and we loved it.
And we have Betsy Nicholson who is getting started with the voice acting too,
and she is a really good actors. She's got so much energy and
we're really excited to see hear her in this. And she's going to be
playing two characters, one named Amy and one named Serena, and they are
kind of puller opposites. Amy's a super cheery, energetic, go get him
and then Serena is a much more serious, almost villainous role, and she
did a great job with both of them. Then we have Kira O'Brien,
who I mentioned earlier. She's going to be our grandpa too, which again
is the species, so she's not actually grandfather. And she's also going to
be the voice of our ship's computer. I don't know if you've ever heard
Kira do a computer voice, but it's pretty mind blowing. Yeah. So
didn't she do the voice of the car and undercover engagement. She did,
Yes, Yeah, and she sounds just like you know, a Siri or
any of those AI voices, and she nails it with the delivery, so
we're excited to have her. We've got Dominic Trace as our insign check out,
who is a parody of Chekhov from the original one. So he gets
to Flex's Russian accent, which was fun. He just got done doing that
with a lamp lighter production, so I think Betsy was in that one too
with him, wasn't she. Yeah, you're right, you're right, she
was. I forget about that. And she was in the eighty eight production
of The Most Important Passover earlier this year. She was, I forgot all
these credits. She's so talented. But yeah, so we're excited to have
Dominic. He did a great job with it. We've already heard some of
his lines that he's been sending in and he's he's so great. It's a
very good Russian accent. Yes. And then we have Frank Yuley, who,
again many of you know from Nick Guy and several other productions. He's
been character He does character work all over the place. He did some with
Glenn Haskell and hit the on demand stuff as well. And he's going to
be a couple of smaller characters Alien one, Pilot one and Pilot two,
and a jazz musician. He did a great job with all of them,
and he you know, he's got a lot of range, and so it's
fun to hear him a lot of different voice for each character. And he's
also producing some of the music for Venture and then whatever he can't produce because
of time constraints. Yeah, he's got his own show or something. Yeah,
he's got on his own show, you know, but he's happy to
help us out with some music. And then we're just going to supplement with
licensed music where he's not able to do it, but we're so excited to
have him on board for that too. Yeah. Cool, that'd be really
good. Always fun to work with him. And next up we have Jonathan
Winstead, who is another audio drama producer in his own right working on a
couple of audio yeah, and also very talented voice actor. He was.
We were so happy to have him aboard and he did such a great job
with these. He's going to be playing a character alien to and then a
minor character named Tanseling who appears in one episode, and then a more significant
character named William, who's also in one episode, but it's a bigger role
and he did an amazing Jobathan. Jonathan mentioned May earlier and Stacy Bradshaw's playing
May Well. Jonathan Winstead is William who is the husband of May. Just
so well understand what that connection is. Cool? Cool? Yeah, So
I met Jonathan at Soniccon and saw him perform live at the New Works Festival.
Dude is a great actor. He's really good. We met him there
for the first time as well, and the super nice guy awesome. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, So we're really excited to work on this with him
and hopefully we can kind of build that relationship some more. Yeah. And
last, but not least, we have Matthew Warner, who is also another
audio drama producer. You know, you work on some other people's projects and
get to know him, and then they come and work on your project,
so it's kind of a give and take, and that's exactly what happened here.
He's going to be another Barkhisian, which is the species I mentioned earlier.
He's Barkisian three, and he's going to be crewman number two. And
then he has a more significant in one episode with a character named Paul,
who is a guy they run into on a planet and have to connect.
Yeah. Well, he's not really a comedian, We don't very much away.
He's trying to be. He's trying real hard to be a comedians so
he's got some pretty lame jokes in there, but yeah, Math does a
great job with it. Yeah, and that's the list. That's everybody.
So that's a long list of characters we had a lot to keep up with.
Yeah, man, so great, great people in there, and they're
all good actors and it's and they're just fun people too. I mean,
I know many of these people, and actually I think I might know all
of them. Well, no, I don't. I don't know Jody.
We've communicated a little bit, but I don't really know her all that much.
But pretty much everybody else I know. And it's always fun to work
on stuff with people that you like and they're just fun to be around,
and so it just makes the whole process even more fun. Yeah, it
absolutely doesn't. It inspires creativity too, because you can share ideas with people
that you know a lot more comfortably and and it just it ends up being
a lot of fun. Yeah. And it's wonderful when you when you can
meet new voice actors that you know become a part of our circle, our
community, and people like Jodi, who I've worked with just for years now
on my projects. I'm so glad that she gets to be a part of
this. And just a little fun, little fat a little fun fact I
want to share, since we are on the subject of Star Trek is I'm
actually going to have an opportunity to meet William Shatner. Not me personally,
but it's at like an event and they're going to be playing the Wrath of
Kahn movie and then afterwards he's supposed to come up on the stage. And
I bit the bullet and I said, I this was on my bucket list,
and so I am going to get a picture with him. And there's
going to be a PEXI one of what do they call those those little thin
glasses. They have a plexiglass shield to make the COVID restrictions. And because
he's in his nineties now, and I thought about it, I was like,
that's okay, because I'm just gonna do the Rathacon moment on that glass
and see if he'll, like, you know, do that with me where
there's that scene with Spock and Kirk and it's a it's actually a heartbreaking scene
where Spock, you know, he saved everybody, but now he's got radiation
poisoning and they put their hands on the glass and so some people may not
have seen that movie spoiler, sorry, but I am going to try to
imitate that moment. Since we've got the glass between William Shatner and myself,
there you go. At least I wasn't a spoiler alert for our series.
We don't have that plotline going somewhere. No, yeah, we do not
have that plotline. Oh that's fun. Well, so you guys said you're
about halfway through a recording of the of the ten episodes. Is that correct?
Yes, we got about half of the recordings in and just what we've
heard so far is just outstanding. So we're just going to keep, you
know, for more of those to come in, and we're trying to get
all the recording done for the ten episodes and then we're going to start like
producing it. Yeah. I kind of work on multiple episodes at once.
So yeah, we have a lot of the minor characters already in. People
have been recording those like crazy. So we're excited. I think, get
to work on it now. If I remember correctly, you said you're going
to or the goal is to drop the first episode on a particular Star Trek
anniversary date or something, is correct. Yes, I believe it was September
eighth. Was it September eighth, Jonathan? I believe so, I believe
that was the original date. Yeah, because that's the first Yeah, the
anniversary day of when the first episode of the original series was released. So,
as you may have surmised, we are a bit behind schedule. Oh,
I was thinking we're going to have to wait another year or something before
that, I think, yeah, you know, it just it took us
a long time to find just the right pace and to you know, when
we had a bunch of other projects pop up too, or working on Robin
Hood, so I just you know, started piling up and we're like,
we can't quite get this going as fast as we would like. So I'm
sure you're familiar with that story. Oh yeah, yeah, yep. So
it will it be next year or will it be later this year? Do
you have any idea at this point or no? At this point, I'm
hopeful and you know that we can at least release one episode and since they
are standalone episodes, but I would be okay if we got them produced and
just began releasing it in January. Yeah, and that might be the best
way to go. So we're working very hard on it, and even if
we don't release it till January, just know that we'll at least probably have
a couple episodes in the queue before we start releasing it. Is it is
coming, It is making progress, we promise. Oh, this is exciting.
I'm looking forward to it. But I've said on the show before,
I'm not familiar with Star Trek. I mean, I know of the show.
I've heard people talk about it. It's you know, it has permeated
pop culture, but I've never I've never seen it. But I'm looking forward
to because I always love comedies and I know that you guys have put a
lot of work into this and Glenn Wright's great comedy, so I know it's
going to be a lot of fun. And I'm assuming that it'll all be
at the website Eternal Future Productions dot com. It will be yes, excellent,
excellent. And I like that they're going to be standalone episodes, so
even if there's there's gaps between episodes, you can still just go back and
relisten to that one and enjoy the story all over again. Yeah, yep,
for sure. And it makes it easier for the listener too. If
they, you know, happen to miss a couple episodes, you know,
you don't, you don't. You're not left wondering like what happened? How
did they get there? You know, everything's all every each episode is its
own little adventure. So that's great. I think it's a smart choice for
for marketing to try to get some new people introduced to audio drama. So
great job there, thank you. Yeah, and that was a big idea
of Alicius too, was to try and do something that had a pretty solid
fan base already. You know, we might pull some people in and get
them to listen to hopefully some of our other stuff as well. You know,
we're keeping this one family friendly, but it's not necessarily faith based,
but we thought, you know, put something out there that people might be
interested in that would lure them in and maybe they'll listen to pirateers as well
and hear the gospel, so that would be a win win, Yeah,
exactly. It's actually that's really our purpose behind venture is that it's more of
an outreach project. So even if it's not faith based, it's very intentional
in trying to bring in more listeners to pirateers where they can hear the gospel
or even marry holiday because that the gospel is so clear in that one too.
So yeah, there's a purpose behind this one too. It's a sneaky
purpose, but it's a purpose. Well, I'm looking forward to it,
and I really appreciate you guys coming on the show to tell the ATC community
about what's going on. And I said it already, but I'm looking forward
to it. I really am excited about this. So thanks again. Oh,
thank you. We appreciate you having so much for everything that you do
for this community. We appreciate you so much. Yes, you are an
amazing individual. Oh stop it, well, you come on. We like
dushing over you. All the listeners can't see it, but I think Jad's
turning red. I think we'll just stop right now. That's a good place
to stop. So what are you thinking of the show? Please leave your
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He about J d Roy Andrew Minum is Victoria Now. Yesterday I received a
letter from a big band. No time to I've got an emails another package
for me today actly just your mail. Yes, it is time to hear
from you, the listener. I always appreciate when you take the time to
send in feedback on the show. If you get a question, or if
you just want to share some information about an audio drama, whatever it might
be. I love to hear from you, and today we have a question
from Blake, he said, taking it back to Heirloom Audio's Captain Bailey's Heir
from twenty sixteen. There is a scene on the first disc, fifth track
where Frank and the boys go to a tavern where people are speaking against the
government. I listened to this production with some friends and their kids, and
quite a few people had a hard time understanding some of the dialogue during the
scene after Frank shouts rubbish, I can almost make out the part where a
character played by Andrew Harrison says it appears there's a spy. My friends and
the kids said they couldn't understand it because the Andrew Harrison character was too quiet.
It sounded as if Andrew Harrison went over to the other side of the
room and started shouting. What do you think of the way they handled the
scene? How would you have done the tracks differently? So it had been
quite some time since I listened to this audio drama, so I pulled it
up and went back and listened to this scene, and I also did have
some trouble understanding some of the dialogue in this area. Now, he said
that it sounded like Andrew Harrison the actor went over to the other side of
the room. Now, I do know that the sound designer Rob Jorgensen did
do some binurmal audio recordings for this audio drama. I do not know if
this particular scene was one of them, but I know that they did experiment
with some of that in this audio drama. So maybe that's what you're hearing,
that they had the actor panned to one side or something in this scene.
But let's actually give a listen to a clip from this scene so we
can chat about it a little bit more and everyone can hear what we are
referring to mine at the hideous slavery by which we are condemned by a tyrannical
as the time has come right trains to be broken shell times that bloodstained WILLI
known as the British constitution, to be rich and templed under Fuch being so
rubbish rank elish mind women turn him out, you're not him down. He's
a smart line on this tottery. Government has included upon our assembly, are
you not mine? An? So I don't know if you're like me,
but some of that was a little bit hard to catch. Now you said
that after Frank shouts rubbish that you thought the line was it appears there's a
spy. I was able to make out that he says, it appears a
spy from this tottering government has intruded upon our assembly. Well, I tell
you now, intruder, I fear you not. And then there are some
more shouting and things like that, get rid of him or something like that.
But it did take me a couple listens to pick out that entire line
there, and some of the other ones. The murmuring I couldn't understand at
all. And I did think that this character is mixed down a little bit
low. Now, some of the other lines in the background maybe were not
intended for you to actually decipher what is being said. It's more meant just
for just murmuring of voices and background and stuff like that. Obviously they are
saying things, but it may not have been intended to be heard. But
some of those lines you can tell that they are full scripted lines that were
supposed to be part of the scene. And I couldn't make it all out
at the first part of this before Frank shouts rubbish, So some of that
I didn't pick up either. So what do I think of the way they
handled that scene. I honestly don't recall picking up on that issue at all
back when I first heard it or when we reviewed it. But when you
brought it up and I listened back, I'm like, you know what,
that was a little bit hard to understand. Now. I don't know if
any of the words that are missed there are vital to the plot. Probably
not, because again I don't even remember having this come up as an issue
before and not understanding what was going on. But maybe there could have and
some changes on this one a little bit to have those voices a little clearer.
And you asked, how would I have done the voice tracks differently,
Well, maybe that's what I would have done, is mixed that up a
little bit higher so that it was a little clearer. And you know,
when you are working on a project, whether you are the writer or director
or sound designer, you're working with the script, so you know what is
being said, and it doesn't always register to a person who is working on
this repeatedly. You know, they're not just breezing through and spending a few
minutes on these scenes. They're spending hours working on these audio dramas, and
so they are hearing these lines over and over and over as they're tweaking things
and moving sound effects around and adding vocal effects to the actors' voices and all
of this stuff. They're hearing this stuff over and over and over, so
they get to the point where they know what is happening in the scene,
They know the script, they haven't memorized almost. I know this because this
happens to me when I'm working on something as well. So when you finally
get the mix done and you listen back to it and you're like, Okay,
cool, that sounds good, you don't always think about it from the
perspective of somebody who doesn't know this material and is hearing it for the very
first time. And so maybe that is what happened here. Some of the
dialogue is a little muddy and gets lost in the scene and a lot of
other sound effects going on, and so somebody like us, the first time
listener comes in might not catch everything. So is it a bad thing?
I don't really know. I guess that is up to us as listeners to
decide. To me, as I said before, I didn't pick up on
this as being an issue when I first heard the show. I still very
much enjoyed this audio drama, so it didn't detract for me. But as
you mentioned, Blake, for you and your friends and their kids who couldn't
understand that section, maybe it did detract from the enjoyment of this audiodrama for
them. So I guess you're the one that has to make the call of
is it still a high quality audio drama for you? Does it still?
Is it still enjoyable to listen to this story? Is that one scene there
and the losing of some of the context perhaps does that detract enough from the
rest of the show for you so that you don't enjoy it. You know,
you have to make that call. But it is a good point that
I think people who are audio drama creators, whether again whether you're the sound
designer or the producer or the director, you do have to be aware of
these things that you can't get so lost in your own material that you forget
how it's going to sound to the listener and the person who hasn't read the
script and does not have that context of seeing the words on the page.
So I thought it was a very interesting point that Blake brought up, and
I thought it was worth addressing here on the show, So I would like
to hear from you. Let me know what you thought of this, were
you able to understand it all? And if not, did that detract from
the experience of hearing that scene for you? Let me know what you think.
You'd love to hear your thoughts on this issue or anything else related to
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zero Again six two three six eight eight two seven seven is zero. Well.
A big thank you to Jonathan Cook and Alisha Hanson for coming on the
show. A lot of fun talking with them. Show notes for everything that
we mentioned in that conversation, as well as all of the items from the
updates segment, are linked in the show notes at audiotheatercentral dot com slash one
eighty nine. I will see you next time. Thank you so much for
listening, and if you're going to be at Sonocon, I'll see you there.
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