Journey #138 -The First Christmas, by Luke

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

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What Child Is This, played by Lindsey Stirling

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Delusion #21 - Review of The Force Awakens, part 1

Marshal, Rish, and Renee Chambliss talk about their first impressions of The Force Awakens.

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Delusion #20 - The Biggest Fan

Rish talks about being "The Biggest Fan" of Star Wars.

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Journey #137 - We Hold These Truths by Norman Corwin

The U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, but the people were calling for more definitive listing of liberties, or a Bill of Rights.

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We Hold These Truths, a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the United States Bill of Rights, is an hour-long radio program that explored American values and aired live on December 15, 1941, the first to be broadcast on all four major networks (CBS, NBC Red, NBC Blue, and Mutual). It was written and produced by Norman Corwin, who won a Peabody Award for the show, which commemorated the ratification of Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791. The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 — a week before the scheduled broadcast — may have contributed to what the Crosley Rating Service estimated to be 63 million listeners (almost half of the U.S. population), the largest audience in history for a dramatic performance.


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The Rest Is History with Simon Salt

Simon Salt has been a student of history since he had his imagination sparked by a High School history teacher who brought the subject to life for him. Every since he has been an avid reader, amateur historian and consumer of all things historical. He is a professional photographer, an author & Keynote speaker.

He is originally from England and moved to the US 12 years ago. A fan of all things vintage, mechanical and technical he can often be found in his garage making props for photography shoots. He currently lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia, where he is submersing himself in both the colonial and civil war history of the area.

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Video of "Bill of Rights (Shake It Off)" song 

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Delusion #19 - The Force Awakens Trailer Quiz

Marshal takes a quiz on the latest, and apparently last, Star Wars The Force Awakens trailer, which he has yet to see...

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Journey #136 - The Charge of the Light Brigade (You Are There)

Into the valley of Death rode the six hundred...

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The Rest Is History with Simon Salt

Simon Salt has been a student of history since he had his imagination sparked by a High School history teacher who brought the subject to life for him. Every since he has been an avid reader, amateur historian and consumer of all things historical. He is a professional photographer, an author & Keynote speaker.

He is originally from England and moved to the US 12 years ago. A fan of all things vintage, mechanical and technical he can often be found in his garage making props for photography shoots. He currently lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia, where he is submersing himself in both the colonial and civil war history of the area.

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Journey #135 -The Book of Hell by Mavor Moore (Nightfall)

A mysterious manuscript purporting to be a first-person account of what it's like in Hell has the editors of a publishing house in an uproar.

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Nightfall is the title of a radio drama series produced and aired by CBC Radio (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) from July 1980 to June 1983. While primarily a supernatural/horror series, Nightfall featured some episodes in other genres, such as science fiction, mystery, fantasy, and human drama. One episode was even adapted from a folk song by Stan Rogers. Some of Nightfall's episodes were so terrifying that the CBC registered numerous complaints and some affiliate stations dropped it. Despite this, the series went on to become one of the most popular shows in CBC Radio history, running 100 episodes that featured a mix of original tales and adaptations of both classic and obscure short stories.

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The Nightfall Project

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Journey #134 - The Tunnel Under The World by Fredirick Pohl (presented by X-Minus One)

On the morning of June 15th, Guy Burckhardt woke up screaming...

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Frederik Pohl (November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning more than seventy-five years.  From about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy and its sister magazine If; the latter won three successive annual Hugo Awards as the year's best professional magazine. His 1977 novel Gateway won four "year's best novel" awards. He won four Hugo and three Nebula Awards.  The Science Fiction Writers of America named Pohl its 12th recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award in 1993, and he was inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1998.

X Minus One was a half-hour science fiction radio drama series broadcast from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958 in various timeslots on NBC.  Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X (1950–51), the first 15 episodes of X Minus One were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations by NBC staff writers, including Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl and Theodore Sturgeon, along with some original scripts by Kinoy and Lefferts.

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Delusion #18 - Force Friday

Rish regales us with his adventures from Force Friday, and Big Anklevich joins us to share his love of Furbacca.

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Journey #133 - A Dream Within A Dream by Bria Burton

She protected her little sister from Anna, who was always gloomy and mean. But would it be enough?

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An Edgar Allan Poe Month bonus episode!

Episode art from Birit Alits Photography

Bria Burton is employed as a blogger and customer service manager for St. Pete Running Company.

In 2015, "Tight Pants" appeared in Page & Spine Fiction Showcase. "Ticket to Heaven" appeared in Faith Hope and Fiction, an e-literary magazine. A science fiction reprint, "The Wheels Must Turn," appeared in the Broken Worlds anthology. As a member of an author collaboration called the Alvarium Experiment, she published a short story called "On Both Sides." The historical science fiction piece was one of thirteen in The Prometheus Saga. "Empty Girl" in FWA Collection #7 called Revisions: Stories of Starting Over, and "The Mute Girl" in Youth Imagination Magazine.

In 2014, "In Line at the DMYV," science fiction, appeared in the Welcome to the Future anthology. Little Angel Helper, a novella that first appeared as a live story on her blog, was released as an ebook. She also had three speculative fiction pieces published, including my first paid publication in The Colored Lens #13 with "The Darkness Below," science fiction. "Switching," fantasy, appeared on the Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, and "Ligeia," science fiction, appeared on the Journey Into... podcast. In 2013, "The Mute Girl," dark fantasy, was published in eFantasy, and "This is Hollywood," a fantasy/horror short story, appeared online at FICTION on the WEB.

Lance & Ringo Tails is a collection of ten short stories about her pets. In December 2013, I published ebook and paperback editions.

In October 2011, Livinity won First Place in the Unpublished Fantasy Novel category at the RPLA (Royal Palm Literary Awards).


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Journey #132 - Tom Thumb (You Are There)

Can a steam locomotive really outrun a horse?  Of course, right?  There was a time when that question was harder to answer.

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The Rest Is History with Simon Salt

Simon Salt has been a student of history since he had his imagination sparked by a High School history teacher who brought the subject to life for him. Every since he has been an avid reader, amateur historian and consumer of all things historical. He is a professional photographer, an author & Keynote speaker.

He is originally from England and moved to the US 12 years ago. A fan of all things vintage, mechanical and technical he can often be found in his garage making props for photography shoots. He currently lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia, where he is submersing himself in both the colonial and civil war history of the area.

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Delusion #17 - Star Wars Kids

I ask my kids some basic Star Wars questions...and so does Gino Moretto.

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Journey #131 - The Black Bird by David Barr Kirtley

Sam Spade obtained a worthless statue of a bird from his latest case.  Seems typical for his luck.  But then it starts talking.

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David Barr Kirtley is the host of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast on Wired.com, for which he's interviewed well over a hundred guests, including George R. R. Martin, Richard Dawkins, Paul Krugman, Simon Pegg, Margaret Atwood, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Ursula K. Le Guin.
His short fiction appears in magazines such as Realms of Fantasy, Weird Tales, Lightspeed, and Intergalactic Medicine Show, on podcasts such as Escape Pod and Pseudopod, and in books such as The Living Dead, New Cthulhu, The Way of the Wizard, and The Dragon Done It. His story "Save Me Plz" was picked by editor Rich Horton for the 2008 edition of the anthology series Fantasy: The Best of the Year.

David is the son of Buckley prize-winning physicist John R. Kirtley. He majored in Government at Colby College and holds an MPW (MFA) degree in screenwriting and fiction from the University of Southern California. For the past decade he's appeared as a staff instructor at the Alpha Workshop for Young Writers. He lives in New York.  Find out about more of Dave's work at davidbarrkirtley.com

Cast of characters:

Rish Outfield (of Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine) as Sam Spade, and the Black Bird
Marshal Latham as Narrator

Related Links
Read the text of "The Black Bird" over at Lightspeed.


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"Unseen Horrors" by Kevin MacLeod, and assorted public domain movie scores.

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Journey #130 - The Cask of Amontillado and The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe (Weird Circle)

Weird Circle presents two classic Poe stories.

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Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 and became an American author, poet, editor and literary critic. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as the genre of science fiction.  He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.  Poe died in 1849,  in Baltimore, under mysterious circumstances, but he left us with a legacy of tales of wonder and woe, the marvelous and the macarbe.

Weird Circle was a Ziv Production, produced at RCA's New York studios and licensed by the Mutual Broadcasting System, and later, NBC's Red network. It lasted two seasons, 39 shows each (78 total) consisting mostly of radio adaptations of classic horror stories from the pens of the world's best known and respected supernatural fiction authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and Charles Dickens. The production values were modest and it featured very little music


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Something There Is by Joe Nazare on Pseudopod

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Ken Scholes Stories

For those looking for stories by Ken Scholes here on Journey Into..., scroll down to find "Evermore I Told The Raven", or click here to enjoy several of his stories.

Journey #129 - The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

Two classic gothic horror stories as told by two classic horror actors.

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Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 and became an American author, poet, editor and literary critic. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as the genre of science fiction.  He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.  Poe died in 1849,  in Baltimore, under mysterious circumstances, but he left us with a legacy of tales of wonder and woe, the marvelous and the macarbe.

Vincent Price (born on May 27, 1911) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and performances in horror films. His career spanned other genres, including film noir, drama, mystery, thriller, and comedy. He appeared on stage, television, radio, and in over one hundred films. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one for motion pictures, and one for television.

Peter Lorre, born on 26 June 1904 as László Loewenstein in Austria-Hungary, he began his stage career in Vienna before moving to Germany where he had his breakthrough, first on the stage, then in film in Berlin in the late 1920s and early 1930s. As a Jew he left Germany after 1933. His first English language film was Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934).  Frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner, Peter appeared in over eighty films over his carrer.

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Journey #128 - The Storming of the Bastille (You Are There)

What would it take to make a citizenry revolt against its monarchy?

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Episode Art:  Prise de la Bastille by Jean-Pierre Houël

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The Rest Is History with Simon Salt

Simon Salt has been a student of history since he had his imagination sparked by a High School history teacher who brought the subject to life for him. Every since he has been an avid reader, amateur historian and consumer of all things historical. He is a professional photographer, an author & Keynote speaker.

He is originally from England and moved to the US 12 years ago. A fan of all things vintage, mechanical and technical he can often be found in his garage making props for photography shoots. He currently lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia, where he is submersing himself in both the colonial and civil war history of the area.

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Journey #127 - Evermore, I Told The Raven by Ken Scholes

Michael Found returns home to pay respects to his brother Thomas at his funeral, but something doesn't feel quite right.

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Huge "Thank You!" to all of the generous donors to the "Ken Scholes Meets Edgar Allan Poe" Kickstarter!!

Rish Outfield

Hugh Blair

Joel Pearson

James, Mostly Harmless

Craig Christensen

Jennifer

Shael Hawman

Chris Munroe

Hugh O'Donnell

Gino Moretto

Bria Burton

Chad Koehnen

Kevin Kaatz

John Higham

Donna R. Barnard

John A. Pitts

Keith Teklits

Wilson Flowlie

Abbigail Hilton

Jeremy Carter

Keith Rainey

Mike Bassett

Dave Thompson

Tom Tancredi

Jonathan Leggo

Herb Petro

Ken Scholes grew up in a trailer outside a smallish logging town not far from the base of Mount Rainier in the Pacific Northwest.  Baptized into Story at a young age, he fed himself on Speed Racer, Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants and Marine Boy sprinkled with a generous dose of dinosaur picture books.  When he was thirteen, he read Bradbury's essay "How to Keep and Feed a Muse" and knew he had to be a writer. When he was fourteen, he started writing stories of his own and by fifteen, he had started his own Rejection Slip Collection. 

After a long break away from writing, Ken returned to it after logging time as a sailor, soldier, preacher, musician, label gun repairman, retail manager and nonprofit director. He sold his first story to Talebones Magazine in 2000 and won the Writers of the Future contest in 2004. His quirky, offbeat fiction continues to show up in various magazines and anthologies like Polyphony 6, Weird Tales and Clarkesworld Magazine.

In 2006, his short story "Of Metal Men and Scarlet Thread and Dancing with the Sunrise" appeared in the August issue of Realms of Fantasy. Later that year, inspired and taunted by his friends and family to finally write a novel, Ken extended that story and Lamentation was born. Lamentation is the first in a five book series from Tor Books called The Psalms of Isaak.  He has since also written Canticle, Antiphon, and Requiem in that series.

Ken lives near Portland, Oregon, with his amazing wonder-wife Jen West Scholes and their twin daughters: Elizabeth and Rachel.  If you'd like to know more about Ken, you can  contact him through his website.

Cast of characters:

Graeme Dunlop (of Podcastle) as Michael Found
Renee Chambliss as Victoria
Julie Hoverson (of 19 Nocturne Boulevard) as Sandra Matthews
Wilson Fowlie as Thomas Found

Music used in this production:
"Awaiting Return", "Virtutes Vocis", and "Rumination" by Kevin MacLeod

Realated Links:
Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show

Several sound effects were found at freesound.org.


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Journey #126 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

While lamenting his lost love, Lenore, a man is visited by a persistent bird who only bears a one-word message.

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Episode art was from vNovel Interactive's iPad book available on iTunes

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 and became an American author, poet, editor and literary critic. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as the genre of science fiction.  He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.  Poe died in 1849,  in Baltimore, under mysterious circumstances, but he left us with a legacy of tales of wonder and woe, the marvelous and the macarbe.

Dave Robison has indulged in creative pursuits his entire life.  His accomplishments include writing Curious George fan-fiction at the age of eight, improv theater at age ten, playing trumpet at age twelve, as well as a theater degree, creating magazine cover art, writing audio scripts, designing websites, creating board games, hosting mythological roundtables and generally savoring the sweet draught of expression in all its forms.  His years of exploration give him a unique, informed, and eloquent perspective on the art of storytelling.

Dave is also the Creator and Host of the Roundtable Podcast, the Managing Director at Wonderthing Studios, and the Editorial Director of the Vex Mosaic e-zine.

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"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Out of Orion

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Journey #125 - The Ratification of the US Constitution (You Are There)

What would it take to unite 13 newly independent states under one binding governmental document?

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The Rest Is History with Simon Salt

Simon Salt has been a student of history since he had his imagination sparked by a High School history teacher who brought the subject to life for him. Every since he has been an avid reader, amateur historian and consumer of all things historical. He is a professional photographer, an author & Keynote speaker.

He is originally from England and moved to the US 12 years ago. A fan of all things vintage, mechanical and technical he can often be found in his garage making props for photography shoots. He currently lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia, where he is submersing himself in both the colonial and civil war history of the area.

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Journey #124 - Leiningen Versus the Ants by Carl Stephenson (Escape)

The battle between the owner of a plantation in the Brazilian jungle and an attacking army of soldier ants.

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Escape was radio's leading anthology series of high-adventure radio dramas, airing on CBS from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954

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Delusion #16 - Oh The Games We Could Play

Gino Moretto schools Rish and Marshal regarding various Star Wars video games.

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Journey #123 - The Execution of Joan of Arc (You Are There)

Did this young french girl receive help from God to liberate her country?

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The Rest Is History with Simon Salt

Simon Salt has been a student of history since he had his imagination sparked by a High School history teacher who brought the subject to life for him. Every since he has been an avid reader, amateur historian and consumer of all things historical. He is a professional photographer, an author & Keynote speaker.

He is originally from England and moved to the US 12 years ago. A fan of all things vintage, mechanical and technical he can often be found in his garage making props for photography shoots. He currently lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia, where he is submersing himself in both the colonial and civil war history of the area.

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"Feelin Good" by Kevin MacLeod

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Delusion #13 - Clone Wars Review

Rish questions Marshal about his enjoyment of Clone Wars.

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Delusion #12 - Tease Me, Please Me

Rish and Marshal talk (in a timely manner) about the Star Wars 7 teaser trailer.

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Delusion #11 - Revenge of the Spoilers

Rish and Marshal talk about the shoulds, coulds, and how-woulds of avoiding spoilers.

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Delusion #10 - The Force Awakens

Marshal and Rish talk about the newly announced title for the Episode VII movie.

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Delusion #9: Join The Rebellion

Rish and Marshal talk about the premier of the new animated TV show Star Wars: Rebels

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Delusion #8 - Star Wars Origins: Marshal and Rish

Marshal and Rish talk about their first experiences with Star Wars

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Delusion #7 - Taking On The Empire

Rish, Marshal, and Dave Thompson talk about leaked set photos, new cast members, the directors of the new Star Wars franchise, and the fate of Harrison Ford.

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Dave Thompson, former host and co-editor PodCastle, writes short fiction, with his work appearing at Escape Pod, Pseudopod, Drabblecast, Journey Into... and Variant Frequencies.  Check out the Kickstarter for a collection of his short stories.


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