Today we’ll be listening to Still Lives, which premiered in March of 2019 and was created by Colton Flick, James Currie, Sarah Schnebly (Shneb-lee), and Ríoghnach (REE-oh-noch) Robinson. Colton and Jamie had previously worked together on The Magical History of Knox County. When that show officially ended, they knew they wanted to work on something else, so they made a list of people they'd love to work with and started by emailing their two long-shot picks. Both of them wound up being interested, so they all started writing. Ríoghnach pitched Still Lives -- including the title, character names, and first episode synopsis -- pretty early on. They all loved the idea, so they picked it as their first project. This episode is called “The Quiet”, and it was originally published on March 4th, 2019.

Show-runner Information

• Who's the show-runner(s) and what is their title? No shorunner specifically. We have a four person general creative staff: Colton Flick, James Currie, Sarah Schnebly, and Ríoghnach Robinson

Show Information

• What is the story of why you started your show? "Jamie and I had previously worked together on The Magical History of Knox County. When that show officially ended, we knew we wanted to work on something else, so we made a list of people we'd love to work with, and started by emailing our two long-shot picks. Both of them wound up being interested, so we started writing. Ríoghnach pitched Still Lives -- including the title, character names, and logline/first episode synopsis -- pretty early on. We all loved the idea, so we picked it as our first project."

• When did this show first air? 3/4/2019

• What genre(s) apply to your show (e.g. horror, post apocalypse, comedy...): We call it "Pastoral Post-Apocalyptic."

Episode Information

• What's the name of the episode you want us to use? The Quiet

• What is the episode number (and season if applicable)? Season One, Episode One

• When was it published? 3/4/2019

• Please summarize what we need to know about the story up until this point, for the episode to make sense: Nothing at all -- this is the very first episode.

Special Guests: Austin Travis, David Allen, LJ Donnell, Max Baskin, and Verity Sainte Marie.

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Show-runner Information

• Who's the show-runner(s) and what is their title? Eleanor Hyde & Jeffrey Nils Gardner, Executive Producers

Show Information

• What is the story of why you started your show? This is the new project from HartLife NFP following the end of Our Fair City.
• When did this show first air? 02/20/2019
• What's the show's website? https://www.unwellpodcast.com/
• What genre(s) apply to your show (e.g. horror, post apocalypse, comedy...):
  gothic, spooky, horror, queer, magical realism
• What's the show's Twitter Handle(or what we should tag when we release)? @unwellpodcast
• What's the show's Facebook (page) name (or what we should tag)? @unwellpodcast

Episode Information

• What's the name of the episode you want us to use? (if it includes non English words, how are they pronounced) The Diner
• What is the episode number (and season if applicable)? S.1 Ep.2
• When was it published? 02/21/2019
• What's a link directly to the episode? (preferably where we can download it from) https://www.unwellpodcast.com/episodes
• Please summarize what we need to know about the story up until this point, for the episode to make sense. Lily's mother Dot broke her ankle in a fall. Lily comes to the tiny town in rural Ohio where Dot lives to take care of her for a few weeks. Dot owns a boarding house. Lily and Dot have not seen each other in years. Dot is on crutches throughout. Also appearing in this episode is the teenager who helps out around the place Wes and one of the other boarders Abbie.

Special Guests: David Allen, Diane Raynes, Maggie Allen, Matt "Olaf" Hinton, and Max Baskin.

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• Unwell Website

This originally started as a one off episode in an anthology series called Night Terrors. It started as a series of books that Eric wanted to write back in the 90s. After running into rejections when trying to query publishers, he decided to rework the story to work as an Audio Drama.

Show By: Eric L. Busby - Writer, creator, engineer, and director.
Released on: 2006
Genre: Dark Fantasy/Horror

Reviewers: David Allen, Max Baskin, Michelle Morrison, Scooter Mann, Verity Sainte Marie
Post Production: David Allen, Scooter Mann

• Tell me about how your show started?
• A one off episode in an anthology series called Night Terrors. What inspired me was a series of books I wanted to write. I developed it back in the mid 90s. Researched everything it was going to be about. But after a few rejections from publishers I started rethinking how I could present it. Then with some work on how to present the tale in the audio medium. I developed The Byron Chronicles as a podcast series.

Special Guests: David Allen, Max Baskin, Michelle Morrison, and Verity Sainte Marie.

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• Season 3, Episode 2, "Sam"

Production:

• Writer - Scooter
• Director - Max Baskin
• Engineer - David Allen
• Music - The Night Keep - The Desolate Place

Players:

• Aeris Saylor - Seffy
• Erik van der Goetz - Ray
• Patrick Kempter - Adrian
• Scooter - Storyteller

Special Guests: Aeris Saylor, David Allen, Erik van der Goetz, Max Baskin, and Patrick Kempter.

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• Mercury: A Broadcast of Hope: Mercury: A Broadcast of Hope, a daily audio drama podcast telling the story of a group of survivors living in a college radio station broadcasting during the zombie apocalypse.
• The White Vault: A free horror fiction podcast, set in the Arctic wastes. Journey north with an international repair team to locate the source of a mysterious signal. Trapped in the white wastes, the team makes a dark discovery and finds that they might not be alone... What horrors lurk beneath the ice? Delve the waiting horrors.

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Reviewers: Lisa Watson, Matt "Olaf" Hinton, Max Baskin, Scooter, and Thomas Sixten
Music: The Night Keep - Void and Without Form (Album: Ex Tenebris)

Special Guests: Lisa Watson, Matt "Olaf" Hinton, Max Baskin, and Thomas Sixten.

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• The Night Keep - Main
• The Night Keep - Ex Tenebris (Album)

Background: Will and Rachel decided to start this audio drama after things didn’t go well as cast members in a few other productions. The general theme for this show was inspired by “The Silver Shroud” which is an audio drama within the video game Fallout 4.

Engineer - Brandon Strader

Reviewers:

• Chris G
• Max Baskin
• Scooter
• Thomas Sixten

Special Guests: Brandon Strader, Chris G, Max Baskin, and Thomas Sixten.

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Background: The White Vault was originally conceived while Kaitlin was on vacation in Iceland. The idea came to her while listening to tales of horror. These images mixed with the innate beauty of the location, causing the realization of exactly how dangerous nature can be. Take all of that with a twist of Lovecraftian Horror and you have, The White Vault.

Engineer - Brandon Strader

Reviewers:

• Boston Moss
• LJ Donnell
• Max Baskin
• Scooter
• Thomas Sixten

Special Guests: Boston Moss, Brandon Strader, LJ Donnell, Max Baskin, and Thomas Sixten.

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• The White Vault
• The White Vault - Episode 1 - Fristed