EPISODE 0.023: THE DESPICABLE STRAIN
Posted by The Frequency Of Fear at 1/20/2008 9:10 PM 
Categories: Suspense, Flights Of Fright, The Clock, Taliesin's Top 3, Were-pugs, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination, General Tanhammer, Doctor Despicable
Categories: Suspense, Flights Of Fright, The Clock, Taliesin's Top 3, Were-pugs, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination, General Tanhammer, Doctor Despicable
Episode 0.023: The Despicable Strain
(95.3 MB; 1:44:08 MIN)
Filthy filthy germs! Blecch! Doctor Despicable invents germs that turn people into were-pugs, but some germs just kill. We have stories from The Clock, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination and Suspense that prove it. We also have another Flights Of Fright, which has no disease in it that we know of. Taliesin offers us disease-ridden vampires in Taliesin's Top 3, courtesy of Taliesin Meets The Vampires.
A new addition to the podcast is the button below - the podcasts are now being uploaded onto the blog instead of hotlinked to a file on the Zombie Astronaut site - this should alleviate the iTunes issues. In a few cases, the file linked by the title above will be of a slightly higher quality. If the file is listed as larger than 100 MB in the above description, the file you can download below will be smaller than 100 MB, as it has to for me to upload it here. You might also find the link above doesn't have a file yet - that's because the link below uploads faster than my FTP program does for the link above. Now that I've completely confused you, have fun listening!
"The Despicable Strain" was written by KC Locke and W Ralph Walters
KC Locke - General Tanhammer
Doctor Despicable - his disease-free self
Edie and Basil - the Were-pugs
W Ralph Walters - everything else
(95.3 MB; 1:44:08 MIN)
Filthy filthy germs! Blecch! Doctor Despicable invents germs that turn people into were-pugs, but some germs just kill. We have stories from The Clock, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination and Suspense that prove it. We also have another Flights Of Fright, which has no disease in it that we know of. Taliesin offers us disease-ridden vampires in Taliesin's Top 3, courtesy of Taliesin Meets The Vampires.
A new addition to the podcast is the button below - the podcasts are now being uploaded onto the blog instead of hotlinked to a file on the Zombie Astronaut site - this should alleviate the iTunes issues. In a few cases, the file linked by the title above will be of a slightly higher quality. If the file is listed as larger than 100 MB in the above description, the file you can download below will be smaller than 100 MB, as it has to for me to upload it here. You might also find the link above doesn't have a file yet - that's because the link below uploads faster than my FTP program does for the link above. Now that I've completely confused you, have fun listening!
"The Despicable Strain" was written by KC Locke and W Ralph Walters
KC Locke - General Tanhammer
Doctor Despicable - his disease-free self
Edie and Basil - the Were-pugs
W Ralph Walters - everything else
Played: 3510 | Download | Duration: 01:44:22
Boy, Howdy!
I didn't realize that you've been updating the new site, as the old site has not been updated for quite some time.
You may not care about this;
while I commend you for all the effort involved in your Freq. of Fear podcasts, (I find them humorous, witty clever and well produced)
...I dont have the time or inclination to listen to chapterless episodes that are often well over two hours long-
-especially if i want to listen repeatedly to a certain segment, or delete another.
I've TRULY enjoyed MANY of the individual shows I downloaded from your "ZA" site.
(Five of my all time faves: "Beast", "Friday When It Rains" "Papa Benjamin"(Suspense or Escape)Golden Disk (Send More Chuck Berry!) and Neil Gaiman's Murder Mystery-which I may not have gotten from ZA, but I THINK I did)
You also introduced me to "Quiet Please", which I'd never even heard of before - I am therefore forever in your debt.
My interest is in collecting individual shows, (which I've been doing on and off since I heard the Bill Cosby "Chicken Heart" routine around 8 years of age- I'm now approaching 50) deleting the inferior ones, (and/or the ones I find TOO disturbing-like that one about ghosts from your own future, with the wife abuse and murder as self-protection, which REALLY wigged me out) and keeping the stand-outs.
I'm pretty sure I've downloaded all I can from your old site. Wondering (hoping) that you will be continuing to post individual episodes, as well as continue your funny & well-produced podcast, (which I don't listen to regularly)
My expectation is you will do whatever gives YOU the most pleasure, which is understandable. If this is the case, perhaps you can share with me where/how you got hold of so many of the more recent high quality/well produced shows (like the BBC stuff) as mp3's (I can only find them streaming- and it's very hit and miss) and how you vette the episodes so well (ex: Atlanta Radio Theater Company has one or two free shows that are really well done - while most others from same outfit are really quite weak-same for sonic society.)
I'm onto THIS at the moment;
http://www.archive.org/browse.php?collection=oldtimeradio&field=creator
But it's also such a random hit and miss, lots of poor sound quality, that I'm not sure it's worth the time and effort.
Anyway, Thanks for being such a good archivist, critic, guide, and just fore all you've given me - you helped me through a remarkably difficult 2007 (started with a broken neck and went downhill from there-apart from healing nicely. Fortunately I had discovered you very shortly before my accident, and had downloaded around 25-30 programs which I had not listened to - gave me something to do while immobile for the first three or four days. As soon as I could hold my head up, I was downloading more.)
2008 is shaping up to be much better, but it would be better still with my near weekly dose of ZOMBIE ASTRONAUT downloads!
Chris (Fishguy) Fish
(Ret)
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I caught a Fishguy with my pocket fisherman!
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Broken neck?!? And still frisking and frolicking about! My-my-my - I think we need to get together, Fishguy, for observation, if nothing else! And if it's still bothering you, I think my excellent friend, the Zombie Astronaut, will attest to my skill with the Ronco Pocket Surgeon...
But I think, on judicious inspection, you'll find that not THAT many of the podcasts exceed 2 hours. On the other hand, I've told ZA again and again that the wraparounds are fun, but mere frippery when you get down to it. I'm sure listeners would prefer the 'cast trimmed down to basically the OTR and me - in fact, mostly me. And perhaps, after an unspecified number of further temporal experiments that may or may not further irreparably damage the space/time continuum, that's precisely what our Beloved Listeners will be getting. Science is working for you, Fishguy - but you must be patient!
Despicably Yours,
Doc
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Now that's a comment!
Firstly, don't think I don't care about your opinion. This is, after all, as much your site or any astronaut's site as mine.
I do know some people prefer the site over the podcast, just as much as some people prefer the podcast over the site. I don't want fans of the site to think I'm ignoring them, either, but I really need two things out of the site - I need it to be easier for me to update and I need it to be easier for fellow astronauts to access and download from. As some astronauts may be aware, I paint. I used to do illustration for a living and had a few rock posters published in a few books, and though I'm not really freelancing anymore I really want to see if I can go anywhere with the painting. The amount of time I put into the site and podcast is staggering, so I have to practice a little time management to figure out how to fit it all in. To put your mind at ease, I haven't quit the site, but I'll be moving it to a site similar to the Frequency Of Fear site (I'll leave the past entries where they are). My plan is to offer something daily - not ten different files, but a category a day so that it's easier for me to keep up with and easier for astronauts to access, download from and search specific series (I'm getting so many redundant requests now because people don't want to have to search 40 issues of the old site to find one radio show - the new site would have a search menu to the right (like this one) so you can search for entries pertaining to individual series).
This will take me a little time to get jump started, but I think everyone will be happier with the new set up once it's complete.
Keep an eye on the original site, Astronaut Fishguy, as zombies never die...
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THANKS!
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Great show and great selections, and ty for the update about the sites too!
Just going to second Taliesin's recommendation of the Richard Matheson novel, I Am Legend.
Not surprisingly, it is better than all three film versions (The Last Man on Earth, The Omega Man & the Will Smith movie).
Taliesin's right, as far as the film versions go, The Last Man on Earth is probably the best of them, and the closest to the book. This isn't to say that TLMoE doesn't omit or change crucial elements of the novel, though.
One thing that is interesting in the novel is Neville's discovery that vampirism is caused by a germ. Okay, nothing new there --except the "obvious" questions: If vampirism is a virus, why the aversion to light, and mirrors, and garlic? Why the craving for blood? Why the aversion to the cross? And what's up with the stake thing?
The cool thing is that Neville figures these questions out, and the answers seem authentic and plausible, within the reality of the story. Matheson doesn't cop out!
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Rich, there is a based on I am Legend (novel) that does really work well and to Matheson's original. There is a graphic novel version, a Steve Niles project, that is really good. Accurate to the novel and lovely artwork.
Like yourself I did like how Matheson tied in the superstition/supernatural aspects into scientific basis
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I'll czech it out, Taliesin. Ty.
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Why did the Red Death spare those minstrels? Why? WHY??????
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