EPISODE 0.047: A CHRISTMAS CALAMITY
Episode 0.047: A Christmas Calamity
(49.6 MB; 1:48:28 MIN)
Sorry for the delay, folks - my basement "recording studio" flooded last week, causing innumerable problems.
Christmas - bleah! We just don't appreciate it. Channel 13 Action News Extreme lead anchor Bob Wolfenbridgen likes Christmas way too much, so we attempt to talk him out of liking it at all. While we break all sorts of laws, you can listen to "The Plot To Overthrow Christmas", as well as two Christmas-themed Power Records gems and an episode of Front Page Drama. We also offer you a special Christmas poem written by our own Brent Hinks, not to mention a few Christmas songs.
"A Christmas Calamity" was written by Brent Hinks, KC Locke and W Ralph Walters
Bill Hollweg - Bob Wolfenbridgen, Bobby Wolfenbridgen
Kim Gianopoulos - Bob Jr., Mrs. Wolfenbridgen
Victoria Gianopoulos - Melissabessa Wolfenbridgen
Therese Chevas - Eugene Wolfenbridgen
Caira Greenfield
Draven Schoberg - The mall children
Brent Hinks - Dr. Von Martinez
Elie Hirschman - Sgt. Staccato
Gwendolyn Jensen-Woodard - Mama Wolfenbridgen
Colin Snow - Randy Towerhausen, The Glendale Police Dept.
Doctor Despicable appeared with Frankenstein and Myrrh
W Ralph Walters - everything else
(49.6 MB; 1:48:28 MIN)
Sorry for the delay, folks - my basement "recording studio" flooded last week, causing innumerable problems.
Christmas - bleah! We just don't appreciate it. Channel 13 Action News Extreme lead anchor Bob Wolfenbridgen likes Christmas way too much, so we attempt to talk him out of liking it at all. While we break all sorts of laws, you can listen to "The Plot To Overthrow Christmas", as well as two Christmas-themed Power Records gems and an episode of Front Page Drama. We also offer you a special Christmas poem written by our own Brent Hinks, not to mention a few Christmas songs.
"A Christmas Calamity" was written by Brent Hinks, KC Locke and W Ralph Walters
Bill Hollweg - Bob Wolfenbridgen, Bobby Wolfenbridgen
Kim Gianopoulos - Bob Jr., Mrs. Wolfenbridgen
Victoria Gianopoulos - Melissabessa Wolfenbridgen
Therese Chevas - Eugene Wolfenbridgen
Caira Greenfield
Draven Schoberg - The mall children
Brent Hinks - Dr. Von Martinez
Elie Hirschman - Sgt. Staccato
Gwendolyn Jensen-Woodard - Mama Wolfenbridgen
Colin Snow - Randy Towerhausen, The Glendale Police Dept.
Doctor Despicable appeared with Frankenstein and Myrrh
W Ralph Walters - everything else
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Ghoultide Spirit arrived high and dry on Xmas Eve last year. This year, I detected a slight increase in humidity in Christmas Calamity, which, despite the flood, arrived one day oily (Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk!) Really, when I was THIS many (calculator out again), the neighbor in the basement was flooded out on a regular basis, but he didn't die. But stuff floated. And smelled funny forevermore.
Back then, radio was all vacuum tubes. The only part of a contemporary audio entertainment device that glows is the ubiquitous red light (ARRRRGGGGHHHHH!), which unlike the vacuum tube, is neither soft nor warm. As a long-ago child with the only electronics at home, a radio, a Mix Master and the doorbell, I could imagine the entire Frankenstein la-BORA-tory inside a glass vacuum tube. That's the era, when people displayed strange behaviors, someone would shout, "Snap out of it!"
Thanks for the time travel. Frederic Brown, until recently unknown to me, wrote of a unique type of time travel where, if you go back in time, you get younger; if you go forward, you age. Kind of limits things.
J-J-J-James
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I managed to save most of what I had down there, but it did destroy a roll of Mardi Gras posters I'd done for the Krewe Of Centurions, which is unfortunate.
Doc and I had a conversation about Frederic Brown - I was going to look for a collection of his work, then forgot to. Zombies are walking brain farts, thanks to soft tissue like the brain going first...
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No, we had a conversation about FREDRIC Brown. And you also appear to have forgotten that I told you so many zombies are focused on brain-eating to compensate for the degeneration of their own grey matter! I swear, sometimes talking to you is like talking to a dead person! You need to eat more pie...
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You mentioned last week that there are people out there that don't like OTR. Is there anything we cn do about them? I can handle pirates and zombies, but the thought of these people kinda creeps me out! Good read on psuedopod by the way. Aldon
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The following statement, accredited to Prince (eeeee eeeee!), is strangely familiar to a quote from Doctor Von Martinez in podcast "Ghoultide Spirit." The quote was taken from the "Say What?" feature of the Doonesbury website:
SAY WHAT?
"I don't understand what this holiday really means. It seems to be some ridiculous convention that everyone assumes."
-- Prince, on Christmas
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Well, folks, in the interest of "right" sizing, I haven't been able to spend as much on actual presents this year...and apparently, I haven't made that peksy time deadline, either. Plus, you don't really like Christmas, apparently, and I digress something fierce. Anyway, here is a little end-of-the-year cheer for you in the form of virtual Christmas presents:
ZA -
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_9ebalqDvirU/R09M-FX7MKI/AAAAAAAAAZM/UFMUJAVi5Fs/MCO-29.jpg
Dr. Von Martinez -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESZ2B10PqZY
Captain Bonemarrow -
http://wholesale.piratemerch.com/images/pirates_booty_undies.jpg
Doctor Despicable -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=417VRxQz1wI&feature=related
God bless, y'all! Merry belated Christmas and Happy New Year!
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Merry belated Christmas and Happy belated New Year to you as well! Thanks for the gifts! Bonemarrow especially loved his, but I think he's wearing them himself...
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Your gift brought tears of joy to my eyeballs! I love love love Christmas!!
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I love that Eugene is now connected to the greater ZA universe.
"The Plot to Overthrow Christmas" sorta swung between awful and wonderfully awful.
I was oddly entertained by the random bird attack on ZA when he climbed out of Wolfenbridgen's window.
Oh, and the Six Million Dollar Man Christmas episode was epic cheese.
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Eugene's great. I've met kids like that. Actually, I was a kid like that.
"The Plot To Overthrow Christmas" is very beatnik. It is tremendously cheesy... though not as cheesy as The Six Million Dollar Man.
I sometimes throw details like the bird into a script solely because I could see it happening to me. I once had a big fat pigeon try to land on my head. Really.
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Wait.. on your head or IN your head?
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