Delusion #105: Senate Spy and RIP James Earl Jones

Rish Outfield suggested that we watch an episode of the Clone Wars for the podcast. No, that's not a typo, but there's a reason for it. This episode was an homage to Alfred Hitchcock's NOTORIOUS, which we had just watched for the Outfield Excursions. We also had to talk about the passing of the voice of Vader himself. James Earl Jones.

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Journey #201 - Tales From The Crypt: Island of Death (as presented by Seeing Ear Theater)

A pair of film fanatic buddies crash land on an uncharted island where they're forced to play a variation of "The Most Dangerous Game" against a seductive vixen for the amusement of an eccentric millionaire.

Content Warning: Some sexual situations.

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Cast:

Gina Gershon as Galatea Hapsburg

Luke Perry as Quinn Dillon

Anne Bobby as Doris

Todd Cummings as Jeeves

Ramon de OCampo as Baily

Rafael Ferrer as Lothar

Nick Wyman as the Rich Man

Allissa Hunnicutt as the Series Announcer, and

John Kassir as The Crypt Keeper

Seeing Ear Theater was an internet based drama/re-enactment troupe looking to capture the feel of older sci-fi / fantasy radio plays. The productions originally ran from 1997-2001 on the now defunct SciFi.com website.

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Outfield Excursion #33 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city's residents one body at a time. Matthew Benell and Elisabeth Driscoll, from the Department of Health, and some friends, are on the run to find out what is happening in their city.

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Trekkin' Log #14 - Star Trek: Picard S1 Eps 1-5

Join Keith and Marshal as they trek back out into space with a resigned Admiral Jean-Luc Picard on a new mission with a ragtag crew aboard the starship La Sirena to save an android twin who could be Data's daughter.

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Timecode................Episode Title

00:04:04...................Remembrance

00:19:57...................Maps and Legends

00:28:04...................The End Is the Beginning

00:36:57...................Absolute Candor

00:44:28...................Stardust City Rag

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Journey #200 - Funny Farm by Robert Bloch (Mindwebs)

Joe Satterlee, a reclusive retiree, was holed away in his childhood home amid his extensive collection of vintage comic strips. Who would ever want to do him any harm?

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Timecode: 00:00 Intro, 16:04 Tune in, 17:20 "Funny Farm" on Mindwebs, 47:26 Commentary

Robert Bloch was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. He also wrote a relatively small amount of science fiction. Best known as the writer of Psycho (1959), the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock, Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels. He was a protégé of H. P. Lovecraft, who was the first to seriously encourage his talent

Mindwebs was a 1970's series out of WHA Radio in Wisconsin that featured weekly semi-dramatized readings of science fiction short stories performed by Michael Hansen. It aired stories by some of the genre's best writers like Robert Bloch, Arthur C. Clarke, Gordon R. Dickson, and Ray Bradbury. Many of the readings were enhanced by music, periodic sound cues, and the occasional character voice, however they are not completely dramatized.

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"The Man Who Collected Poe" by Robert Bloch on Rish Outcast (Patreon)

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Outfield Excursion #32 - The Guns of Navarone (1961)

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

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2024 Journey Into Journey: Illustrated Edition Writing Contest - Title and Picture Assignment

Several people have opted in for this new Writing Contest and so I will now reveal to them their assigned story titles based on a Journey song and their AI-generated image which they must use as inspiration for their story. The images are shown below, but will also be emailed to each participant. See detailed Submission Guidelines at the bottom.

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Assigned Images:

Sweet and Simple

Where Were You

Dead or Alive

Keep On Runnin'

Lay It Down

Open Arms

Faithfully

Precious Time

Opened the Door

Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)

Daydream

I'm Cryin'

2024 JOURNEY INTO JOURNEY: ILLUSTRATED EDITION WRITING CONTEST SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

CONTEST TIMELINE:

• You will be assigned a story title and AI-generated image based upon a song title from the band Journey. This will be the basis and inspiration for your story. You will receive this assignment via email, and on a podcast episode on August 9th.

• You must submit your new original story by 12:00:00 AM Mountain Time on December 1, 2024

• Winners will be announced on the show and by email before January 1, 2025

• The 1st place story will be produced for audio publication on the podcast in 2025.

WORD COUNT: No word limit, but judges may tire while reading an overlong story.

STORY REQUIREMENTS AND PREFERENCES:

• The story must be titled as assigned and be based on the AI-generated image you are given.

• Please write an original story based on inspiration from the assigned title and image. There is no way for me to enforce this, but the spirit of this contest is to provide a prompt for a new story.

• Preference for speculative fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and various combinations and sub-genre.

• Remember the 1st place winning story (possibly more) will be produced for the podcast, so we will be looking for stories that "work well in audio."

CONTEST RESTRICTIONS: Please no splatter horror, grimdark, or explicit sexual content. Also please avoid coarse profanity.

WHO WILL DECIDE THE WINNERS: A panel of volunteer judges.

PRIZES: 1st Prize: $20, 2nd Prize: $15, 3rd Prize: $5.  1st place story will be produced as a full cast audio production for the podcast.

WHERE TO SEND SUBMISSIONS: Email submissions to journeyintopodcast@gmail.com

SUBMISSION FORMAT:  The subject line must contain the prefix of "2024 CONTEST:" followed by the title of your story.  The body of the email should be the text of your story.

Trekkin' Log #13 - Star Trek: Prodigy S1 Eps 1-10

Join Marshal and Keith as they trek into the Delta and Gamma Quadrant with Dal, Rok-Tahk, Zero, Jankom Pog, Murf, Gwyn, and Hologram Janeway aboard the starship U.S.S. Protostar.  These young adventurers used the Protostar to escape from a prison  planet and are now pursued by the devious Diviner and his robot henchman, Drednok.

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Timecode          Episode Title

00:14:39             Lost and Found (1 & 2)

00:23:54             Starstruck

00:27:32             Dream Catcher

00:32:33             Terror Firma

00:39:30             Kobayashi

00:46:16             First Con-tact

00:52:27             Time Amok

00:58:08             A Moral Star (9 & 10)

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Journey #199 - "The Coward" (The Six Shooter starring Jimmy Stewart)

While in Temple City, Britt Ponset runs across an old acquaintance, Will, and finds out he is a different man than the one he knew.

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The Six Shooter was a Western program starring James Stewart as Britt Ponset, a drifting cowboy in the final years of the wild west, which ran on NBC radio from Sept. 1953 to June 1954.  

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Outfield Excursion #31 - Force 10 from Navarone (1978)

In 1943, during World War II, Mallory (Robert Shaw) and Miller (Edward Fox), the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past. They join a company led by Lt. Col. Barnsby (Harrison Ford) who have their own mission to destroy a bridge.

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Enter the 2024 Journey Into Journey: Illustrated Edition Writing Contest

Let me know if you would like to enter the Journey Into Journey: Illustrated Edition Writing Contest, where you will be assigned a Journey song title to use as your story title, AND an AI-generated image upon which to base your story on.  There will be small cash prizes for the top three winners. Also the 1st place winner will be guaranteed to have their story produced for the show.  More details below...

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2024 JOURNEY INTO JOURNEY: ILLUSTRATED EDITION WRITING CONTEST SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

CONTEST TIMELINE:

• You will be assigned a story title and AI-generated image based upon a song title from the band Journey. This will be the basis and inspiration for your story. You will receive this assignment via email, and on a podcast episode on August 9th.
• You must submit your new original story by 12:00:00 AM Mountain Time on December 1, 2024
• Winners will be announced on the show and by email before January 1, 2025
• The 1st place story will be produced for audio publication on the podcast in 2025.

WORD COUNT: No word limit, but judges may tire while reading an overlong story.

STORY REQUIREMENTS AND PREFERENCES:

• The story must be titled as assigned and be based on the AI-generated image you are given.
• Please write an original story based on inspiration from the assigned title and image. There is no way for me to enforce this, but the spirit of this contest is to provide a prompt for a new story.
• Preference for speculative fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and various combinations and sub-genre.
• Remember the 1st place winning story (possibly more) will be produced for the podcast, so we will be looking for stories that "work well in audio."

CONTEST RESTRICTIONS: Please no splatter horror, grimdark, or explicit sexual content. Also please avoid coarse profanity.

WHO WILL DECIDE THE WINNERS: A panel of volunteer judges.

PRIZES: 1st Prize: $20, 2nd Prize: $15, 3rd Prize: $5.  1st place story will be produced as a full cast audio production for the podcast.

WHERE TO SEND SUBMISSIONS: Email submissions to journeyintopodcast@gmail.com

SUBMISSION FORMAT:  The subject line must contain the prefix of "2024 CONTEST:" followed by the title of your story.  The body of the email should be the text of your story.

Delusion #104: The Acolyte, Part 1: The Outrage

Marshal and Rish get together real quick to talk about The Acolyte series and everybody's outrage over it. We also talk briefly about Bad Batch, Tales of the Empire, and even Clone Wars. Do I need to say it? Spoilers included.

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Journey #198 - First Contact by Murray Leinster (X-Minus One)

An Earth rocket makes first contact with an alien space craft in deep space. Both desire a peaceful trade of ideas and technology, but neither can trust the other enough to risk the fate of their home planets.

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Murray Leinster was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975). He was an award-winning fiction writer, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.

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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Trekkin' Log #11 - Star Trek: Lower Decks S1 Eps 1-5

Join Marshal and Keith as they trek with the ensigns on the lower decks of the USS Cerritos, namely Beckett Mariner, Brad Boimler, D'Vana Tendi, and Sam Rutherford, as they face zombie attacks, milk spiders, drunken Klingons, terraforming goo, fights to the death, and love parasites.

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Timecode                  Episode Title

00:21:00                    "Second Contact"

00:29:28                     "Envoys"

00:36:55                     "Temporal Edict"

00:45:46                      "Moist Vessel"

00:54:00                      "Cupid's Errant Arrow"

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Outfield Excursion #30 - Cat People (1942)

Irena Dubrovna, a newly married Serbian fashion illustrator, is obsessed with the idea that she is descended from an ancient tribe of Cat People who metamorphose into black panthers when aroused.

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Journey #197 - The Grave (Twilight Zone Radio)

Old West lawman Conny Miller visits the grave of a man who he failed to track down to prove he was never afraid of him, but he gets more than he bargained for.

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The Twilight Zone was a nationally syndicated radio drama series featuring radio play adaptations of the classic television series produced for the BBC Radio 4 Extra from 2002 to 2012.  Many of the stories are based on Rod Serling's scripts from the original Twilight Zone series, and are slightly expanded and updated to reflect contemporary technology and trends (e.g., the mention of "cell phones" and "CD-ROMs.". In addition to adapting all of the original episodes aired on the 1959-1964 TV series, the radio series has also adapted some Twilight Zone TV scripts which were never produced, scripts from other Serling TV productions, and new stories written especially for the radio series.

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Trekkin' Log #10 - Star Trek: Voyager S1 Eps 1-7

Join Marshal and Keith as they trek into the Delta Quadrant with Captain Kathryn Janeway, Commander Chakotay, Tuvok, B'Elanna Torres and the rest of the crew and of the starship Voyager.   Stranded, they meet the Caretaker, theTalaxians, Kazon, Ocampa, Vidiians, and Baneans as they begin their perilous 75-year trek home looking for ways to speed their journey.

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Episode Title               Timecode

00:03:19                       "Caretaker"

00:28:08                       "Parallax"

00:34:13                       "Time and Again"

00:40:38                       "Phage"

00:45:32                       "The Cloud"

00:51:38                       "Eye of the Needle"

00:57:07                        "Ex Post Facto" 

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