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Spikes Cabrera presents: Last Time on Unwell

Released on 02/24/2023

Want a quick reminder of our story so far in preparation for Season Five? Spikes is here to help remind you what happened! Content warnings for this episode can be found here. This episode features: Isa Ramos as Spikes Cabrera, with the cast of Unwell. Written by Jim McDoniel, with clips from episodes by Jessica Best, Bilal Dardai, Jim McDoniel, and Jessica Wright Buha, with sound design by Jeffrey Nils Gardner, recording engineer Mel Ruder, produced by haydée r. souffrant, Unwell lead sound designer Eli Hamada McIlveen, Executive Producers Eleanor Hyde and Jeffrey Nils Gardner, by HartLife NFP. Like this show? Want to help support the artists who made it? You can join Audacious Machine Creative's Membership program at https://audaciousmachinecreative.memberful.com/join. $5 a month gets you ad free feeds of all of our podcasts, and goes directly to supporting the artists making new audio fiction podcasts! Find Unwell merch at https://www.audaciousmachinecreative.com/store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feed Drop: Intra Quest

Released on 02/22/2023

Hello! Jeffrey here. With Unwell Season five debuting next week, we’re excited to bring you one last feed drop- the first episode of the new show Intra Quest! Intra Quest is a wild, kooky show full of mole people, mad scientists, desert cultists, kooky lighthouse keepers, and a whole slew of quirky characters- and if you loved HartLife NFP’s other show Our Fair City, we’re sure you’ll love this! You know I LOVE anything with mad scientists~ You can find Intra Quest anywhere you listen to podcasts. Our thanks to Intra Quest for their support. ========= Aether and Sirius, partners on a mission, meet Logo, who attempts to recruit them for a new quest on behalf of The Agency. The three work together to complete the current mission. Intra Quest – Created by Michael Freiberg A production of iHeartRadio and Astrum Media Executive Produced by Michael Freiberg and iHeartRadio Co-produced by Adam Raymonda and Chelsea English Sound Design and Mix by Dennis Dembeck Music by Trey Toy Episode written by Michael Freiberg Performances by: Matthew Broussard | AetherMike Lebovitz | SiriusMyq Kaplan | LogoLucie Pohl | Umbra Featuring:Avalon Penrose | LuciaEthan Herschenfeld | Vice ScholarPat Swearingen | YurianNick Naney | KingpinTyler Fischer | Street Cart VendorGian DiCostanzo | Young MerchantHannah Matusow | Junior Scholar Director and Head Writer: Michael Freiberg Writers: Tom Delgado and Will Julian Story Editor: Chelsea English Dialogue Editor: Adam Raymonda Additional Music: Matthew Blocha Foley: Post Red Narration: Graham Rowat Key Art: Rich Davies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unwell and the Gothic with Elena Fernández Collins (pt 1)

Released on 02/15/2023

Today, we're excited to share this interview about Unwell and the Gothic with Elena Fernández Collins! You can find content advisories here, and a transcript of the interview here. Like this show? Want to help support the artists who made it? You can join Audacious Machine Creative's Membership program at https://audaciousmachinecreative.memberful.com/join. $5 a month gets you ad free feeds of all of our podcasts, and goes directly to supporting the artists making new audio fiction podcasts! Find Unwell merch at https://www.audaciousmachinecreative.com/store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feed drop- Of Mice and Men and Monsters

Released on 02/01/2023

Hello, Jeffrey here. As we approach Season Five, we’ve got anothrt feed drop for you- the fantastic actual play podcast Of Mice and Men and Monsters. The show’s Dungeon Master is Katelyn, who also happens to be a high school English teacher. She creates adventures that weave classic literature with dungeons and dragons- so far they’ve tackled Frankenstein, Moby Dick, Robin Hood, The Count of Monte Cristo, Oliver Twist, Robinson Crusoe and The Great Gatsby, with many more to come. We’re here with the first episode of Frankenstein- you can find out more and listen to later episodes at www.omamam.com, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Enjoy! ==== In the pilot episode of Of Mice And Men And Monsters, our players Penelope, Bertram, and Awen are brought together because of a mysterious flyer by Dr. Frankenstein. A flyer that describes Frankenstein's latest experiment -- a race through an intricate maze in his castle where the winner will be lavished with riches and prizes. But in this race, not everyone will make it out alive. Support our show by visiting our Patreon page -- https://www.patreon.com/omamamshow Visit our website -- https://www.omamamshow.com Find and support our sponsors at: fableandfolly.com/partners Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unwell Season Five Trailer: Lost

Released on 01/25/2023

Coming March 1, 2023: the final season of Unwell. Find content warnings here, and a transcript here. === Trailer featuring Marsha Harman, Michael Turrentine, Anuja Vaidya, Clarissa Cherie Rios, Joshua K. Harris, Pat King, and Kat Hoil. Written by Jessica Best, Bilal Dardai, Jim McDoniel, and Jessica Wright Buha. Sound design by Jeffrey Nils Gardner. Produced by Eleanor Hyde and Jeffrey Nils Gardner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unwell Season Four AMA Part 2

Released on 01/18/2023

Time for more listener questions! This week, Jeffrey and Eleanor sit down to talk about writing and structuring the series, the inspirations behind Unwell and lots more- including an appearance from our favorite waitress, Ele Matelan! Like this show? Want to help support the artists who made it? You can join Audacious Machine Creative's Membership program at https://audaciousmachinecreative.memberful.com/join. $5 a month gets you ad free feeds of all of our podcasts, and goes directly to supporting the artists making new audio fiction podcasts! Find Unwell merch at https://www.audaciousmachinecreative.com/store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unwell Season Four AMA Part 1

Released on 01/04/2023

While recording for Season Five, we took a bit of time out to record answers to some questions you folks sent in. In this session, Joshua K Harris, Kat Hoil, and Marsha Harman jumped in with some answers- and we’ll have some more answers from other questions in a later episode. Enjoy! Like this show? Want to help support the artists who made it? You can join Audacious Machine Creative's Membership program at https://audaciousmachinecreative.memberful.com/join. $5 a month gets you ad free feeds of all of our podcasts, and goes directly to supporting the artists making new audio fiction podcasts! Find Unwell merch at https://www.audaciousmachinecreative.com/store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feed Drop- Museum at Tomorrow

Released on 12/21/2022

This week, we've got another feed drop for you- this one is the first episode of an audio fiction miniseries created by Unwell executive producer Jeffrey Nils Gardner. It's a much more abstract show- we hope you enjoy it! If you want to hear more, search for "Museum at tomorrow" in your podcast app! === A beginning. A new way of listening. “Through me the way into” Learn more at www.nilsgardner.com/the-museum-at-tomorrow Read a transcript of this episode here. Content advisories for this episode here. Created and produced by Jeffrey Nils Gardner Interviews with Bates Slayer, Makena Levine, and Eleanor Hyde. Museums toured include the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago History Museum, and the Northwestern Block Museum of Art. Music by Jeffrey Nils Gardner, with additional tracks from the Blue Dot Sessions. Special thanks to Neil Verma and Sarah Geis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

University of Pittsburgh Queer Horror Week: Podcasting 101

Released on 12/09/2022

We're so excited to share this live recording of another of our talks at the 2022 University of Pittsburgh Queer Horror Week- this one on how how we make Unwell! Enormous thanks to the University of Pittsburgh Horror Studies Working Group for hosting us, and in particular to Dr. Bridget Keown, who lead this fantastic talk. This talk was recorded live in a classroom- so the audio is a little rougher than our usual fare- but we hope you enjoy this fantastic chat! You can also take in a version of this talk via video (with captioning) hosted by the University of Pittsburgh here. Like this show? Want to help support the artists who made it? You can join Audacious Machine Creative's Membership program at https://audaciousmachinecreative.memberful.com/join. $5 a month gets you ad free feeds of all of our podcasts, and goes directly to supporting the artists making new audio fiction podcasts! Find Unwell merch at https://www.audaciousmachinecreative.com/store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feed Drop- Our Fair City

Released on 11/30/2022

Welcome, Loyal Polices...to Our Fair City. We're so excited to share this feed drop- the show that kicked off our work in audio fiction with HartLife NFP. If you enjoy this episode- we hope you'll take a moment to check out the rest of Our Fair City. The following audio record comprises Season One of the glorious True Histories of the HartLife Corporation in its entirety. We hope you enjoy this remastered and reissued version. To read more about this new edition of Season One, click here. Support Unwell and HartLife NFP on Patreon at www.patreon.com/hartlifenfp The Narrator— Ansel Burch Nathan Rourke— Clayton Faits Jack— Mark Soloff Neal Henderson— Sebastian H. Orr Old Lady— Lauren Faits Alison Dalton— Nina O'Keefe Elizabeth Rourke— Tara Schile Andrew Snidge— Frank Sjodin Clay— Tyler Samples Sandy— Abby Doud Peat— Jared Latore MolePerson Overseer— Jeffrey Gardner Vice President Davenport— Ben Aldred Special Agent George Chamberlain— Jim McDoniel Doctor Emily Caligari— Marsha Harman The Professor— Ginneh Jolan The Dean— Jim McDoniel The TA— Mark Soloff Doctor Herbert West— Ryan Schile The Voice of HartLife— Jeffrey Gardner Written by Clayton Faits, with Ansel Burch, Jim McDoniel, Frank Sjodin. Directed by Jeffrey Nils Gardner. Sound Design by Ryan Schile. Music by Stephen Poon. Episode art by Robin Billadeau. Produced by David Rheinstrom. Production Management by Betsey Palmer. Created by Clayton Faits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

University of Pittsburgh Queer Horror Week: Meet the Podcasters

Released on 11/09/2022

We're so excited to share this live recording of one of our talks at the 2022 University of Pittsburgh Queer Horror Week! Enormous thanks to the University of Pittsburgh Horror Studies Working Group for hosting us, and in particular to Dr. Bridget Keown, who lead this fantastic talk. This talk was recorded live in a classroom- so the audio is a little rougher than our usual fare- but we hope you enjoy this fantastic chat! You can also take in a version of this talk via video (with captioning) hosted by the University of Pittsburgh here. Like this show? Want to help support the artists who made it? You can join Audacious Machine Creative's Membership program at https://audaciousmachinecreative.memberful.com/join. $5 a month gets you ad free feeds of all of our podcasts, and goes directly to supporting the artists making new audio fiction podcasts! Find Unwell merch at https://www.audaciousmachinecreative.com/store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unwell Season Four Blooper Reel

Released on 10/31/2022

For today's release- we're back with the Season Four Blooper Reel. Spoilers for Season Four of Unwell (obviously). A transcript for this episode is available here. Like this show? Want to help support the artists who made it? You can join Audacious Machine Creative's Membership program at https://audaciousmachinecreative.memberful.com/join. $5 a month gets you ad free feeds of all of our podcasts, and goes directly to supporting the artists making new audio fiction podcasts! Find Unwell merch at https://www.audaciousmachinecreative.com/store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices