Sorry About The Murder

Today I would like to share a phenomenal show that I fell in love with a while ago, just as I was discovering audio drama podcasts. Actually, this one is so good I used it as a measuring stick - this was the level of a truly great show.

Dirt - an Audio Drama follows Joseph Elo, a Seattle based tech celebrity who, one day, gets a mysterious letter in the mail from his grandfather - who passed away 30 years ago. This mystery leads Joseph on a hunt through the darkest corners of Washington state - and his family history.

It’s a fascinating slow burn mystery with truly immersive sound - Kris the creator goes all over hell's half acre to record location sound, and really take you to these incredible places in the Pacific Northwest.

There’s 3 full seasons to immerse yourself in, with the final Season 4 coming out very soon. 

The show is brilliantly written, produced, and stars Kris Kaiyala.

Listen and subscribe to Dirt: An Audio Drama on this very podcast app.

Check out the site and the amazing true story that served as the inspiration for this tale HERE.

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In this special episode we pay tribute to the greatest Canadian who ever lived, Terry Fox.

Like Terry said, cancer can be beaten. Donate to the Terry Fox Foundation now.

Narrator: Tom Goudie

Announcer: Natalie Antaya

Auntie Doris: Renée Chouinard

Rádio Canada Reporter: Liana Bdewi

Recording: Andrew Fumerton, Tae Sax

Sound Design: Selina Fiorini

Mix: Adam Ive

Music: Steve Gadsden, Oliver Wickham

Production: Drew Thomas, Dana Gadsden

Executive Producer: Steve Gadsden

Artwork: Michel Lang

Created, Written and Directed by Drew Frohmann

Many thanks to Tanya Buchanan, Renée Chouinard and Tom Goudie. 

Special acknowledgement to Elder Waupoos and Laverne Lewis of the Ojibwe First Nation for their advice and approval.

Sorry About The Murder is a TA2 Original Production and is recorded at TA2 Sound + Music in the one place no Canadian would EVER want to live, Toronto, Ontario.

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Yes we're still between seasons you greedy little monkeys. So here is another show we know you will find hilarious.

Candy Claus, Private Eye is a half-hour audio comedy about Santa’s bastard daughter solving hardboiled Christmas crimes on the North Pole. Candy is a death-metal-loving, peppermint-schnapps-swilling P.I. trying to solve the North Pole’s first murder in 500 years without learning the true meaning of Christmas.

It's as funny as it sounds. And the acting and writing is razor sharp.

The show actually won Best Comedy at the LA Webfest this year.

Enjoy!

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Today's featured episode is from a show we've admired for a while now.

Fawx & Stallion is a Victorian mystery-comedy fiction podcast about Hapton Fawx and James Stallion, the best detective team on Baker Street not named Holmes & Watson.

The dialogue is as funny as the premise, and the comedy is fast paced and razor sharp.

If you like the banter of shows like AbFab, Fawlty Towers or Blackadder this show is for you.

Fawx & Stallion is on all the podcast apps including this very one.

They are also fellow members of the Fable & Folly Network.

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Today's featured episode is from a show that is completely different from Sorry About The Murder. This one isn’t a quaint story about cute characters. It’s actually pretty hardcore. It’s raw, brutally honest, insanely dark at times, but also laugh out loud funny, sometimes all at once. 

It’s called Sick Man Talking. And that’s what it is. Brad Cartner is a man wracked with innumerable pains and aliments who has been trying to stay sane all these years by recording his thoughts. And now some good friends are helping him turn it into a podcast series.

Each episode is wildly different in subject and tone: In one he talks about his obsession with Elvis. Another is a series of adorable messages he left to his best friends kids over the years. Another is a live chronicle of a hospital ward. To be honest I still haven’t worked up the nerve to listen to that one.

It’s not for the faint of heart. But it’s maybe the most human podcast I’ve ever listened to. 

In the episode we have for you today, Brad tells a darkly hilarious story about his first kidney stone, he talks about AI, and recalls a spiritual experience he had while being stretchered out of his apartment.

Sick Man Talking is available on all the podcast apps including this one.

Warning: Listener discretion is strongly advised. 

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Today we're featuring another fantastic show. This one is an all-time favourite.

Midnight Burger is a sci-fi comedy set in a perfectly ordinary diner except for the fact that it travels through time and space to avoid being devoured by the very universe it inhabits. At once hilarious, scary and beautiful, Midnight Burger is on almost every Best All-Time Podcast list, won tons of awards, and has been featured on BBC and The Guardian.

If you like Hitchiker's Guide, Doctor Who or Everything Everywhere All At Once, you will LOVE Midnight Burger.

Today we're featuring where it all began - Episode 1: The Transdimensional Haboob. Enjoy!

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While we're making our next season, here is another show we think you'll enjoy.

Madame Magenta: Sonos Mystica is a mystery/comedy featuring powerful but over-it psychic Madame Magenta and her ever-so patient husband Bernard. Join them on their hilarious run-ins with spirits, fae, and annoying dead exes.

If you like the smart but silly banter of British sitcoms like Blackadder or AbFab, this show is for you.

Listen and subscribe to Madame Magenta: Sonos Mystica HERE.

Today we are featuring Chapter 1. (Madame Magenta's recommended cocktail is called The Gum Clinic: Four shots of tequila, two sticks of Juicy Fruit, and a Glacé cherry.)

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This year the July 'Buck' Moon is today, July 21. So we're featuring a special standalone episode we made last year called The Ballad Of Buck Moon.

The Ballad Of Buck Moon was originally made for an anthology series called Tales For Howling At The Full Moon. (there are some incredibly good one-off stories in that show, so please check it out.)

Drew wrote and voiced the main storyteller - but it's brought to life by Jeff Lurie's beautiful guitar and gorgeous singing as our Balladeer.

An early draft of Sorry About The Murder had already been written when we did The Ballad Of Buck Moon. But this is where we really honed that relationship between a homespun narrator and a simple guitar, which greatly informed our subsequent drafts and production of Murder.

We hope you enjoy this cheeky episode while you enjoy the Buck Moon tonight.

Recording: Selina Fiorini

Mix: Adam Ive

Original Music & Balladeer: Jeff Lurie

Writer & Narrator: Drew Frohmann

Art: Rob Collinet

Production: Dana Gadsden

Special Thanks to Steve Gadsden and Hannah Radcliff

Recorded at TA2 Sound + Music in Toronto, Ontario

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Season 1 is over, so let's talk about it! In our Canada Day Interview Special, meet creator Drew Frohmann and Narrator Tom Goudie as they talk about the show, the creative process, small town Canada, writing, directing, Jeff Tremblay's incredible acting, Michel Lang's magical artwork, and news about Season 2.

Plus we get our very first sponsor LIVE!

Warning: Swearing, Canadian cliches, pretentious twaddle about creativity

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Thanks to Eat My Shortbread, murder has never tasted so good!

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Recording: Andrew Fumerton

Mix: Adam Ive

Production: Dana Gadsden

Executive Producer: Steve Gadsden

Artwork: Michel Lang

Created, Written and Directed by Drew Frohmann

Many thanks to Steve Gadsden, Jake Bogoch, Tom Goudie, Michel Lang, Andy Burdenay, Laura Waters, Adrian Newbould, Brad Cartner and Greg O'Brien,

Special acknowledgement to Elder Waupoos and Laverne Lewis of the Ojibwe First Nation for their advice and approval.

Sorry About The Murder is a TA2 Original Production and is recorded at TA2 Sound + Music in the Sodom and Gomorrah of Toronto, Ontario.

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In the explosive Season Finale, Frenchie springs a trap to expose the real killer…but can he solve the murder in time to ready the ice for tonight’s hockey game??

Content warning: Violence, excessive drinking, unsafe driving...and murder.

Narrator: Tom Goudie

Frenchie: Jeff Tremblay

Announcer: Natalie Antaya

Recording, Mix, Sound Design: Adam Ive

Music: Oliver Wickham

Production: Dana Gadsden

Executive Producer: Steve Gadsden

Artwork: Michel Lang

Created, Written and Directed by Drew Frohmann

Many thanks to Steve Gadsden, Jake Bogoch, Tom Goudie, Michel Lang, Andy Burdenay, Laura Waters, and Adrian Newbould. 

Special acknowledgement to Elder Waupoos and Laverne Lewis of the Ojibwe First Nation for their advice and approval.

Sorry About The Murder is a TA2 Original Production and is recorded at TA2 Sound + Music in the Sodom and Gomorrah of Toronto, Ontario.

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