Excuse Us

Excuse Us

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Excuse Us episodes

  • Episode 4 - The Cover - Side A
    The Cover (Side A)
    You might have heard eight tapes. You have never heard this reel. In a room with no number at the top of the Mors Delectamenti Hotel, a captive knight sits across the table from a reel-to-reel recorder that talks back. It calls itself Lou Phillips. It used to work in radio. It has notes, and the first one is brutal: too sane, burn it, nobody climbs a mountain for sane. Side A takes you behind the first four tapes: the burned takes, the talk between takes, and the long, strange business of manufacturing a summons in a voice that isn't quite his own. There's a bartender who tells the same joke wrong on purpose, a Manager who hums a lullaby older than the building's ledgers, and an invitation on cream stock requesting the pleasure of his company. At brunch. Everything records. Whether it happened is a mixing decision. Side B picks up with Track Five.

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    51 min
  • Episode 3 - The Operative
    Massima Venturelli is very good at her job. Sent by her father to steal the Crown of the Fallen Prince, she rides a glass tram through the rain toward the most dangerous hotel in Europe, where for the first time in her life, everyone is glad to see her. That's the problem. A musical episode of The Mors Delectamenti Hotel, told through New Orleans jazz, blues, indie folk, and Americana. Six songs. One woman. A room that knows exactly what she's been asking for.

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    This episode includes AI-generated content.
    51 min
  • Episode 2_The Vizier
    THE MORS DELECTAMENTI HOTEL — Episode Two: "The Vizier" A man who has spent thirty years deciding which version of events is permitted to survive is now making a record of his own. By choice, he insists. On a device he carried up the mountain himself. Izlanor Leohanart, Royal Vizier to the Principality of Vintenshad, ascends Carbowee Mountain in a private carriage, stripped of his wards at the gate, permitted to keep only a book and a recorder. He has been to this hotel before. He knows what stands on the summit. He knows what is appointed to occur beneath it tonight. And he is climbing anyway, because the only alternative is to remain at a gate in the cold and say aloud the reason he cannot. Three weeks ago, a knight of the Cerulean Academy played him a recording of a young man's voice and studied his face to learn what it would do. The knight recorded what he saw as a confession. Let him. The second guest checks in. The vizier does not remain at gates. The hotel has been expecting him — it remembers all its guests, especially the ones who insist they are only here on business of the crown.

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    1 hr 19 min
  • THE HAWK OF VINTENSHAD — A Special Episode
    THE HAWK OF VINTENSHAD — A Special Episode In 1961, a folklorist named Emeric Sallow published the only study ever written of the folk culture of Vintenshad: the proverbs, fables, hymns, and nursery songs of a small mountain principality that taught its children to be still beneath the bird. The book was withdrawn by its publisher within eleven months. No reason was ever given. Sallow returned to the region in 1962 to complete his fieldwork and was never seen again. This is that book, read aloud, reproduced as found. Listeners of The Mors Delectamenti Hotel may notice that the tales of Vintenshad are peopled, over and over, by the same small company of figures: a stranger who comes to watch, a counsellor with a soft voice, a second son sent away, a house on a hill that asks so little of its guests. Sallow noticed it too. The name changes. The hawk does not.

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    36 min
  • Episode 1 - The Arrival
    THE MORS DELECTAMENTI HOTEL — Episode One: "The Arrival"
    Excuse Us, Season Three Short (Spotify/Apple): June 15th, 1933. Nadine Luttrell — disgraced detective, exile, father to a daughter he has never held — takes a cable car up a bad mountain because a stranger's voice on a recording asked him to come and get him now. At the top waits the Mors Delectamenti: a hotel on Carbowee Mountain that curates its guests, pours a drink the colour of old garnets, and does not intend to let anyone leave. A doctor unmakes himself between one breath and the next. An inspector predicts a return that sounds too much like a memory. And beneath the Blood Moon, a cult called the Voraxi prepares to open a dead man's door. Nadine has a pardon he wants, a mission he chose, and no idea yet that the door he walks through tonight is one he will one day open himself. Lena. Ewan. The mission. In that order.

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    1 hr 16 min
  • Excuse Us_Review S1 and S2 - NotebookLM
    Welcome to Joyceville, North Carolina, where the pancakes are hot and the corporate conspiracies are deadly. Miss Dee (Katherine Lynn D) is just trying to manage the Super Awesome Diner, but a forced partnership with Blind Corp unleashes a mutagenic energy drink called "Hawk Juice" upon the town. Now, as the infected "audience members" overrun the streets, the lone survivor sits in a sterile interrogation room. Under the watchful eyes of Agents Wilson and Doris, she must sift through her fragmented memories to explain how a thermonuclear bomb was disabled—and what Blind Corp's top scientists were really doing at the diner.

    Reviewed by Google NotebookLM (not sponsored) 

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    1 hr 3 min
  • Season 2 Episode 8 - The Memo Went Out in Bold - Part 1
    Episode 8: “The Memo Went Out in Bold”
    A suspiciously cheerful Blind Corp memo sends Joiceville’s offices into chaos while Susan Dee and a secret circle of coworkers plan a quiet, HR-friendly coup. Inspired by the fall of Julius Caesar, Liam Newton Johnson walks into his own corporate Ides, unaware that the floor, the walls, and the “audience” are already turning against him. When the knives finally come out, the boardroom becomes a stag,e and Rejoicing begins whether anyone wants it or not.

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    31 min
  • Season 2 Episode 7 -The Hawk and the Fox
    The walls of Joiceville close in as truth unravels. Lynn wakes on the diner floor, staring into the impossible face of her sister Susan—alive against all odds. But survival is no gift. In Blind Corp’s shadow, secrets twist into weapons: Thomas is locked away with only betrayal for company, Susan sharpens her case before the board, and Lynn’s grip on reality fractures in a haunted apartment where appliances whisper and ghosts of family echo through static. By the time the Bunny King names her a fox, the line between truth, madness, and Blind Corp’s designs is long gone.

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    33 min
  • Season 2_Episode 6_The Mus.ai.cal
    Episode Description Blind Corp is proud (and legally obligated) to present Excuse Us: The Mostly Musical Episode. This ambitious experiment features an almost-coherent lineup of songs — from heartfelt piano ballads to questionable K-pop choreography — all “generated” in partnership with advanced artificial intelligence, overseen by the late, great Geraldini de Arce. Yes, that Geraldini, the acclaimed music director whose final ten minutes of life were spent furiously composing the score you are about to hear. Was it a triumph of art and technology, or a cautionary tale about what happens when you put too much trust in both Hawk Juice and computers with feelings? Blind Corp refuses to comment. What we can confirm is that no artificial intelligence was harmed in the making of this program. Several, however, were disappointed in the final mix. From “Still Blind,” the heartfelt lament of a man turning into the audience, to “Gold-Plated Heart,” a brassy ode to pettiness and profit, and the unforgettable “Donkey Poop,” a protest anthem about narrative fertilizer, this episode has it all — except polish, rehearsal time, and Geraldini. Please enjoy responsibly. Blind Corp reminds you that applause is mandatory, refunds are not, and Accultis Regimus.

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    27 min
  • Blind Corp Annoucement_002
    Episode Description:
    Hey, folks. So… I’m dropping in today to let you know what’s up behind the scenes. I’ve been head-down, half-sane, piecing together the final three episodes of Excuse Us Season 2 — the big mid-season finale stretch. It’s messy. It’s weird. It’s probably going to get me in trouble. But you’ll love it. In the meantime, I need a favor. Go vote for Excuse Us in the Podcast Awards — we’re up for People’s Choice and Fiction, so head to podcastawards.com, sign up, click some boxes, pretend you care about the other categories. And if you need more reasons to believe we don’t totally suck, check out the lovely review from The Podcast Geek: Read it here. Also, we’re on Facebook at facebook.com/excusemecomedy. Drop by, say something nice, tell me I’m doing fine — or tell me you hate it, I’m here for the emotional rollercoaster. Alright. Back to the basement. Talk soon.

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    21 min

About Excuse Us

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*Excuse Us* is a darkly humorous, post-apocalyptic radio play set in the quiet town of Joiceville, where something went wrong at the local diner. The series is told through the perspective of…