Have you ever seen Tales from the Crypt? Well, The Unexpected Storytelling Podcast is scarier. Twilight Zone? This is SMARTER. Modern Family? We're not sure... we've never seen it. Heard good things though.

In "The Human Pretzel", Joe's job isn't just a boring old job to him... it's his passion. His zest for life. Though when his obsession with pretzels and his newfound interest in yoga gets to be too much... it may just END his life!

Released a few times each year (we try our best), this original horror podcast aims to horrify, terrify, stupefy, and maybe, just maybe, make you chuckle.

Website: https://www.theunexpectedpodcast.com/

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Theme Party: The Podcast features a collection of clever creatives that come up with an inventive, original idea for an episode based on the theme of the season. Season One’s theme is “Family Traditions". Each creator will feature the results of their hard work in our podcast feed, as well as appear in an interview episode where we celebrate their achievement, talk about their process, and get an anecdote or two about their experience with parties (themed or not).

In Theme Party: The Podcast's first episode by creator Lindsay Fawn, a rebellious young octopus races to finish a mech suit to honor her late mother and protect her kind from the surface world.

Website: https://www.lengthytangent.com/

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Supernova is both a fanciful and autobiographical tale, based upon Liza’s real experience losing multiple family members to suicide and cancer. Expressed through her playing multiple characters, various genres of musical numbers (including but not limited to country, pop, R & B, and funk), and humor that perfectly juxtaposes the seriousness of the poignant thematic elements.

The show’s heroine shares the same name as the actress who plays her. However, in this dimension Liza belongs to a family of superheroes tasked with the very large feat of saving the world. Unlike the rest of the members of her family, at the top of the show, Liza is the only member who doesn’t have any superpowers yet. She’s merely equipped with a positive attitude and an uncanny ability to find joy in even the smallest things and darkest moments.

With no cure or anecdote in sight, the family’s mission is to discover the causes of an “emotional pandemic” sweeping the globe that results in people losing their will to live and “self-destructing”. The family’s adventure of saving the world is intrinsically linked with Liza’s personal journey of self-acceptance and becoming who she truly is.

On March 1st, Liza got the all too familiar call that another brother had died by suicide. Of her four brothers, three of them have taken their lives; joined in death by their mother and stepmother, who both passed away of differing cancers 15 years apart. Seemingly compelled by something greater than herself, Liza could no longer keep silent about her intimate experiences with death, grief, trauma, and mental health. Within months, a series of events, people, and opportunities serendipitously unfolded resulting in a one woman mental health musical comedy. What began as a small whisper of a desire to share her family’s story and possibly impact the taboo nature with which suicide and emotional well-being are currently regarded in society, quickly snowballed into a much bigger conversation about happiness, spirituality, and one’s ability to withstand the uncontrollable and unfair, but inherent, challenges of life. The show closes with a finale song that perfectly encapsulates the theme and message of the musical: What makes life worth living? Do more of THAT!

Website: https://lizadealey-thomason.com/supernova-musical

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Mindy from Ambient Escapes creates a soothing audio experience to help her 4-month-old niece fall asleep. She brings together recorded ambient sounds-- a train through snowy Alaska mountains and ocean waves from the Gulf of Mexico-- with a heartfelt letter. As she explains the stories behind each recording, she reflects on watching her younger sister become a mother, grieving the unexpected loss of a beloved aunt, and learning to release her own need to bottle up time.

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DqljGoEg9SCGZjHeIhyQnmLAvT85PWSAT-hSJd4B6vQ/edit?usp=sharing

Find more at Ambient Escapes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXOzn2ZOaeEaVPHo-7Lf6HQ

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S.I.B.O.P.S. is an inter dimensional radio show broadcast from the vault at the Bureau of Public Secrets. Found sounds from the vast orbit of intergalactic travel along with songs of heartbreak and glee intermingle with tape hiss and analog saturation. Upon the Seaboard International anyone is welcome.

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Decades ago, DARPA abandoned the research vessel USS Horus somewhere in the Atlantic. All information on the ship, and its role in the creation of superheroes, was erased. Except for the memories of one Captain Crowe.

A Hail Mary at the end of the line, Roxxie asks Crowe to take her to the condemned vessel. Quarterbag Life Insurance was on the ship, and any trace of them could lead her to Captain Wraythe’s body.

Instead, she finds a military drone, and is welcomed with a missile barrage.

Roxxie awakens on the USS Horus, Captain Crowe nowhere to be found. Her only company is a voice on the ship’s PA system. And that voice is Roxx Populi’s biggest fan.

For the first time in years, Roxxie is truly on her own. Now she’s forced to face not just a manic fanboy, but the fallout of her own celebrity.

Website: https://www.taylordoddgeu.com/

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After inheriting his uncle’s radio show, Luke brings on aspiring producer Vivian to help revitalize it. Personalities clash as Luke and Viv struggle to solve their eclectic listeners’ problems in a new advice segment. Will they be able to find the show’s voice (and their own) among all the noise of the digital era?

Website: https://www.iantrutt.com/

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A bitter rivalry becomes personal when a pair of aging mech pilots decide to have one final showdown, a battle that will determine which of them gets to spend the summer with their eight year old granddaughter.

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