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When Shirley decided to open her dream nail salon, she knew it wouldn’t be easy, but she never expected it to be such an explosive catastrophe filled with debts to the mob, misogynistic creeps, and worst of all, her mother.

Silver Shorts is very excited to announce an excerpt from a longer piece by Pop Lightning. This feed will host a series of three parts, but keep an ear out for the full episode.

Written and Created by Pop Lightning

Executive Producers: Pop Lightning, Gabriel Shalom, Cory Choy, and Cameron Bossert

Produced and mixed by Cory Choy 

Editing & Sound Design by Christian Cuciniello & Wenrui Zhao 

Featuring: Jenna Laurenzo as Shirley; Ariella Mastroianni as Mia; Delia Kemph as Adele; Suliya Gisele as the 1st AD; Jeremy Cohen as Nicky, the Director, and the Muscle; Cameron Bossert as Mike, the Narrator, and the Doctor; and Kevin Jacobsen as Ray. 

When Shirley decided to open her dream nail salon, she knew it wouldn’t be easy, but she never expected it to be such an explosive catastrophe filled with debts to the mob, misogynistic creeps, and worst of all, her mother. 

Silver Shorts is very excited to announce an excerpt from a longer piece by Pop Lightning. This feed will host a series of three parts, but keep an ear out for the full episode.

Written and Created by Pop Lightning

Executive Producers: Pop Lightning, Gabriel Shalom, Cory Choy, and Cameron Bossert

Produced and mixed by Cory Choy 

Editing & Sound Design by Christian Cuciniello & Wenrui Zhao 

Featuring: Jenna Laurenzo as Shirley; Ariella Mastroianni as Mia; Delia Kemph as Adele; Suliya Gisele as the 1st AD; Jeremy Cohen as Nicky, the Director, and the Muscle; Cameron Bossert as Mike, the Narrator, and the Doctor; and Kevin Jacobsen as Ray. 

Take a listen as Spencer Hunt from Geographicus Rare Antique Maps explains the origin of modern day road traveling.

Check out the Geographicus website here: geographicus.com

Featuring Spencer Hunt from Geographicus Rare Antique Maps

Produced by Cory Choy, Tom Fama, and Christian Cuciniello

Music by Luke Allen and El Buru

Sound by Silver Sound

Discover the hidden history beneath the streets of San Francisco in this episode of CartoCuriosity, where Kevin Brown of Geographicus Rare Antique Maps and Michael Jennings of Neatline Antique Maps examine a unique 1850 manuscript map documenting the city's legendary buried ships. Created during the height of the California Gold Rush, this extraordinary map captures the explosive growth of early San Francisco, revealing its original shoreline, Central Wharf, and abandoned vessels that were engulfed by land reclamation as the city expanded. Learn how one of these ships, the Arkansas, was identified through modern archaeology, and discover why this remarkable artifact offers an unparalleled window into Gold Rush history, 19th-century cartography, maritime archaeology, and the forgotten city buried beneath modern San Francisco.

Here at Silver Sound, we get to collaborate with and highlight a lot of incredible people. Today, we would like to introduce you to Mimo Magri as she tells us about her path to becoming an established, multitalented performer and some of the struggles she encountered along the way.

Featuring Mimo Magri

Produced by Cory Choy and Christian Cuciniello

Music by Mimo Magri

Sound by Silver Sound

What now? We fight, and we make them stop scrolling. We fight again, and then we make them turn it off. When they start chanting, "Hate, hate, hate. Great, great, great," it's too late.

Enjoy this precursor to a larger cyber-drama that is yet to unfold in the Silver Podcast Network and stay tuned for more Dimo updates!

Hosted by James Brown-Orleans

Written by Cory Choy

Featuring Jada Mackinnon, Dalton Miksa, and El Buru

Produced by Cory Choy, Jada Mackinnon, Dalton Miksa, and Christian Cuciniello

Sound by Silver Sound

In this episode of CartoCuriosity, Spencer Hunt of Geographicus Rare Antique Maps explores the Storming of the Bastille, the event that ignited the French Revolution, and the unlikely entrepreneur who profited from its destruction. While the Bastille has become synonymous with the fall of royal authority, its enduring place in history owes much to Pierre-François Palloy, a Parisian entrepreneur who transformed the fortress's demolition into a public spectacle, a propaganda campaign, and a thriving business. Through broadsides, souvenirs, and relentless self-promotion, Palloy helped turn a prison into a revolutionary icon and ensured that the Bastille would live on long after it disappeared.

In this episode of CartoCuriosity, Kevin Brown of Geographicus Rare Antique Maps explores Gerard Mercator’s extraordinary first map of the North Pole—a landmark of 16th-century Arctic cartography where geographic knowledge, scientific theory, maritime legend, and pure imagination converge. Discover how the creator of the Mercator projection envisioned a vast polar maelstrom, four mysterious Arctic islands, and a magnetic mountain at the top of the world, drawing upon explorers’ reports, medieval sources, and lost works such as the Inventio Fortunata. Rare, visually striking, and historically influential, Mercator’s speculative map reveals how early cartographers transformed the unknown Arctic into a compelling geography that shaped European thought about the high Arctic for generations.

Waliek Crandall reminds us what matters most in this world with a message of love. With a very unique perspective, he tells us what his perfect world would look like.

Featuring Waliek Crandall

Produced by Cory Choy and Christian Cuciniello

Music by Christian Cuciniello and El Buru

Sound by Silver Sound

In this episode of CartoCuriosity, Kevin Brown of Geographicus Rare Antique Maps explores the Peutinger Table, or Tabula Peutingeriana - an extraordinary 12-foot-long Roman road map that reveals how the ancient world understood geography, travel, and imperial infrastructure. Stretching from Britain across Europe, the Mediterranean, Persia, and India, this remarkable itinerary sacrifices geographic accuracy to trace the roads, cities, ports, and staging posts that connected the Roman Empire. From its possible origins in the monumental map of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa to its survival as a medieval vellum manuscript and later publication by Abraham Ortelius and Jan Jansson, the Peutinger Table offers an unparalleled window into Roman cartography and a radically different way of seeing the ancient world.