We here at the Sonic Society are unabashed fans of Re-imagined Radio and our mutual partnership with Mutual! Last year, they produced a Christmas Sampler that Monday Matinee had on in August. We'd like to kindly restore it to the season here all of which features selections from Christmas episodes of radio programs like Suspense, Rocky Fortune, The Damon Runyon Theatre, The Jack Benny Program, Bing Crosby and The Kraft Music Hall, Vic and Sade, and the 2020 recorded performance of "A Radio Chris...
Dec 18, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep 119•Transcript available on Metacast It's the week before Christmas with Jack in the camper, to celebrate Sonic Society #754 Holiday Sampler, The Batfry #204 is a laugh it's not sorrow, leads us to Mutual's Exploring Tomorrow! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 18, 2022•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast And we're back with Mutual Presents, sneak peaks at our daily releases on the Mutual Audio Network Youtube Channel. This week we're back roaming the high seas with The Voyage of the Scarlet Queen and the feature: "The Story of Eight Historic Periods". All aboard! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 11, 2022•30 min•Ep 118•Transcript available on Metacast Larry Groebe is back with Project Audion's December classic radio recreation is a lost episode from a virtually-lost series - how’s that for a Christmas present from the past! “My True Story" was on the air from 1943 to 1962 on three networks, but it's all but forgotten today as only 10 or so vintage recordings survive out of perhaps 5,000 original broadcasts! A daily cousin to the daytime soap operas, "My True Story" produced a nearly hour-long complete drama five days a week, which I find asto...
Dec 11, 2022•53 min•Ep 117•Transcript available on Metacast Jack and David are back with a fun-filled Sonic Society potpourri including episodes 1-3 of The Haunting of Selene from Misfits Audio written by our dear friend Alexa Chipman and post-produced by Jake Lewsey, followed by Barjory Bufffet: The Cruise Detective "Probably Claus" by Brad Beideman, and finally "Titch and the Enchanted Snow Globe" from Lie Hard with a Vengeance Podcast produced by Paul Blakeley and Rick Allden! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 11, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep 116•Transcript available on Metacast It's Sunday Showcase and Early Ward Christmas. Host Jack is skipping back and forth bringing cheer with Sonic Society #753, Project Audio #35, and Mutual Presents 4.3! Happy Holidays! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 11, 2022•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Old-time Radio Essentials continues its 3rd season with an episode of Birds Eye Open House – "Groucho Brings a Turkey for Thanksgiving Dinner"! This one's Pete's pick, or rather, that of his special guest, Essential Listener Noah Diamond. Noah's an actor, author, podcaster, Marxian Scholar, and off-Broadway Groucho impersonator, not to mention a very funny guy, so you can imagine the discussion of this episode's merits by Noah and our three co-hosts will be sparkling and rapid-fire and exception...
Dec 04, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Ep 115•Transcript available on Metacast Brad and the Kiddie Kamper Girl continue to sell illegal cookies! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 04, 2022•17 min•Ep 114•Transcript available on Metacast Jack and David bring in the season with the last two episodes of “Saint” Nick and the Big F*ck Up written and performed by Phil Rickaby and the Scare Fighters 3 Holiday Special- Solitary Place of Residence, written by Max Brown and Produced by Joe Wilkinson! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 04, 2022•46 min•Ep 113•Transcript available on Metacast It's Christmas month in Sunday Showcase! Host David brings in the holidays with Sonic Society #752, Bell's in the Batfry #302, Old-Time Radfio Essentials Ep. 35! Subscribe today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 04, 2022•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome back to Mutual Presents! We're back with another double-feature from First Nighter, the two-decade radio drama-comedy series that aired on various radio stations from 1930 to 1953 before landing on Mutual from 1942 to 1944. It's "Give Up the Ship" and "Susan Stepped Out"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 27, 2022•59 min•Ep 112•Transcript available on Metacast Jack is once again solo and feeling a seasonal cold as he tries to bring in another season with “Saint” Nick and the Big F*ck Up is a hilarious, heartbreaking, and heartwarming Christmas audio drama with the first four of six episodes about a part-time mall Santa’s ability to mess everything up, written and performed by Phil Rickaby. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 27, 2022•54 min•Ep 111•Transcript available on Metacast It's Sunday Showcase! And it may be Thanksgiving in America, but Jack is sick in Canada! So, to raise his spirits he's got Sonic Society #751, and Mutual Present's First Nighter Double Feature! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 27, 2022•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Larry Groebe and Project Audion is back with a lost episode of "Escape" with "The Run of the Yellow Mail", a terrific, fast-moving adventure yarn set among the railroads of the Old West. As the announcer intones at the start "you're at the throttle of a speeding locomotive -- screaming around the curves of a mountain gorge -- racing against time, with death at your shoulder -- you're the engineer of The Yellow Mail!". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 20, 2022•38 min•Ep 110•Transcript available on Metacast Brad meets up with an old friend and starts a new business enterprise! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 20, 2022•14 min•Ep 109•Transcript available on Metacast This week Jack is running solo catching up on a bunch of projects he brings us a trilogy of comedy-terror with Hannahpocalypse! Meet Hannah, the last zombie well after the apocalypse has come and gone. She's so very happy you're hear, listener... Meanwhile, many miles away Cali speeds her hovering Land Spinner home towards the Golden Gate settlement. And it all begins with episodes 1,2 and 3 because it's AUDIO DRAMA TIME! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 20, 2022•51 min•Ep 108•Transcript available on Metacast Good morning! The Showcase this week has three new features with Sonic Society #750-Hannaudio, Bell's in the Batfry #302, and Project Audion's Escape-The Run of the Yellow Mail! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 20, 2022•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Mutual Presents! This week it's another peek at the Mutual Audio Network's Youtube channel showing the best from our spiritual forefather- The Mutual Broadcasting System. This time we proudly present a double-feature from the Mutual Radio Theater "One Dollar Dream House" and "North from Marakesh"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 13, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Ep 107•Transcript available on Metacast This week David Ault hosts alone as Jack is off taking some time in his cabin. But the horror features continue this week with the first two episodes of Mocking Manor. Mockery Manor is a theme park where people disappear, and it's up to a pair of chaotic teenage twins to catch a killer! If you have enjoyed Stranger Things, Friday the 13th, and Black Mirror than this double-bill is for you! After all, it's AUDIO DRAMA TIME! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 13, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep 106•Transcript available on Metacast It's Sunday Showcase! Host David Ault brings a lite feast this week with Sonic Society #749- Mocking Mysteries and Mutual Presents with a double-feature from Mutual Theater! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 13, 2022•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast MADCON 2022 completes this week with our thanks to Tony and the Faustian Nonsense crew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 06, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep 105•Transcript available on Metacast Jack and David bring episode one from Malevolent! Arkham Private Investigator Arthur Lester wakes up with no memory of who he is or what has happened, only a nameless, eerie voice guiding him through the darkness. Blind, terrified, and confused, his journey will lead him towards a series of mysteries in the hopes of understanding the truth of what has transpired. As cosmic horrors seep into the world around, Arthur must ask himself whether this entity truly seeks to help him, or are its intentio...
Nov 06, 2022•59 min•Ep 104•Transcript available on Metacast In a busy week, host Jack brings two features for Sunday Showcase with Sonic Society #748 and Mutual Presents: MADCON 2022- Sunday #5- Final Day Wrap Up! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 06, 2022•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast MADCON 2022 continues and this week we consider how accessing and gatekeeping can affect the audio drama community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 30, 2022•2 hr 45 min•Ep 103•Transcript available on Metacast How will Mr. Bell take the news that nobody has ever listened to his podcast? Has he quit podcasting for good? Find out... in this podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 30, 2022•19 min•Ep 102•Transcript available on Metacast Captain Radio introduces our final new feature from Sonic Cinema Productions and the Wave Front Anthology- Market Crash In a near future, jobs are scarce and robotic cars are everywhere. As the world falls apart, Jerry and Brooklyn race against time to save the world. Written by Jack J. Ward. Produced by Richard Frohlich with rough editing by Austin Beach! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 30, 2022•33 min•Ep 101•Transcript available on Metacast Steve Bellinger discusses the pros and mostly the cons of computer assistants and uses a sensitive and temperamental program, VICI, to demonstrate his point. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 30, 2022•8 min•Ep 101•Transcript available on Metacast What do you do when the government you thought you knew turns out not to be everything you thought it was? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 30, 2022•27 min•Ep 100•Transcript available on Metacast Captain Radio returns us to the past reflecting on our absent brother, Bill Hollweg. They say that all life came from the oceans… But, as the residents of Aberdeen Massachusetts are about to discover, when a mysterious and beautiful woman arrives in the New England fishing town it’s not just hearts that will be broken and some fish should be thrown back…. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 30, 2022•29 min•Ep 99•Transcript available on Metacast Introduced by Captain Radio, Steve Bellinger's affectionately updated commemoration of Orson Welle's terrifyingly realistic 1939 Halloween modern media interpretation of H. G. Wells classic sci-fi horror novel, WAR OF THE WORLDS. Adios, Chicago! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 30, 2022•53 min•Ep 98•Transcript available on Metacast 
