We're back for a little post-season producers chat! Chock full of snark, buffoonery, answers to a few listener questions, wild speculation about what comes next, and maybe even a secret or two! It's a monsterrific time!

Your Waiting For October Producers are: D.J. Sylvis, Tina Case, Sarah Mueller ... and now, Robin Regalado! Theme music by Trace Callahan.

Next month - one more behind-the-scenes chat, as Deej talks to Caroline Mincks and Trace Callahan about making the noises that brought October to life!

Transcript: https://monkeymanproductions.com/2025/06/wfo-producer-chat-transcript/

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Hi friends - Deej here with another show we wanted to share.

SO ... I can tell you first of all that a huge number of the folks who make audio drama - including myself - made their way here via the theatre-kid pipeline. And I suspect a lot of our audience is the same. Were you a theatre kid? Did you want to be in theatre, on stage or behind the curtains or maybe building sets, props, costumes ... was that whole theatrical magic something that fascinated you? Well, theatrical magic is what we've got!

Starfall is a fantasy adventure series about a traveling theatre troupe that uses magic to tell their stories, falling into everything from minor mishaps to grand political machinations while they strut their stage and construct their props ... but the show always goes on, before and behind the curtain! And the cast - we're talking an absolute powerhouse of so many of our favourite folks in audio fiction, including a big chunk of the casts of both Moonbase and Waiting For October!

How much more do I need to say before you listen to Starfall? We've got the first episode for you right here, so take a listen (and make sure you keep an ear out for Glenn!) - then go add Starfall in all your podcast apps to continue the story!

And now ... the curtains will part and the stage is revealed! 

Starfall Episode Transcript:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k0ovwIDdbxEVagIfrRm2YH7V4FAS-WWj-p8CbHx2J0g/edit?tab=t.0

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Karo takes some time to reflect with the help of a feline friend.

Transcript: https://monkeymanproductions.com/2025/04/wfo-s1-e8-5-transcript/

Waiting for October is written by D.J. Sylvis, with sound design by Caroline Mincks, and music by Trace Callahan. Additional music - "A Good Bass For Gambling," by Komiku. This episode featured Robin Regalado as Karo.

Our co-producers are D.J. Sylvis, Tina Case, and Sarah Müller. Our associate producers are Fool & Scholar Productions, Kathleen Lucas, Marcus Briggs, Martin Chodorek, Rebekah B.

A special thanks to our Patreon supporters who have helped make all of our stories happen! If you’d like to support our work or celebrate the folks who make it happen visit our Patreon at patreon.com(backslash)monkeymanproductions

Today our Crowdfundr shoutout is to Snickerdoodle. Thank you for your support!

And here we are, at the very end of Season One! It’s been quite an adventure, and I want to thank you so much for listening. Everything about this show has been a really personal, very emotional journey for so many of us involved, and we can’t wait to see where it takes us next. After all, remember – we write the story, it doesn’t write us!

Our next steps will be working on the first between-seasons miniseries – which as you’ve heard, might involve the Moon – and then starting to plot out Season Two. But while we’re taking a bit of a well-earned break and then diving in on that, we could use your help too! Your support of the show and participation in our community is just as important. When you share the show with friends, recommend or rate us on social media or your podcast app or places like Podchaser … when you join our Patreon or buy our merch … all of that is incredibly, vitally important and it means the world – all the worlds, really – to us when you do it. So another thank you for that to everyone who participates!

And one last note before we say farewell for a while. It’s a really rough time in the world for so many reasons, and it’s so hard to keep it together and to find ways to keep pushing back. Please, remember that self-care and connecting with others is a big part of resistance. Be good to yourself, be good to the people around you, and know that we are with you. So much love. 

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Karo and Yvonne reunite in the monster world, where the scene is set for what comes next.

Transcript: https://monkeymanproductions.com/2025/04/wfo-s1-e8-transcript/

Waiting for October is written by D.J. Sylvis, with sound design by Caroline Mincks, and music by Trace Callahan.

This episode, you heard Robin Regalado as Karo, Tina Case as Yvonne, Dallas Hawthorne as Grey, Adam Qutaishat as Karim, Rissa Montanez as Gabi, Elissa Park as Yujin, Cass McPhee as Hodag, and our own Sarah Müller, as the bus driver.

Our co-producers are D.J. Sylvis, Tina Case, and Sarah Müller. Our associate producers are Fool & Scholar Productions, Kathleen Lucas, Marcus Briggs, Martin Chodorek, Rebekah B.

A special thanks to our Patreon supporters who have helped make all of our stories happen! If you’d like to support our work or celebrate the folks who make it happen visit our Patreon at patreon.com(backslash)monkeymanproductions.

Today our Crowdfundr shoutout is to Shade Oyemakinwa and Shae Salts. Thank you for your support!

This big an episode deserves a big recommendation – and I’ve got two in one for you today! Tau Zaman, friend of the show, cast member, and script consultant, runs two fantastic series of their own you really need to check out! Caravan is an incredible supernatural western adventure you have to hear to believe, and Rogue Runners is the best actual play podcast I’ve ever heard, set in the world of the video game Hades! Listen to both of them now!

And for us … this may have been the season finale, but it’s not the last you’re going to hear! Because more seasons, I’d hope, but right now we’ve still got one more monologue to share before we take a break – and that’ll be Karo letting us know where they’re at after finding a way forward. Get ready for that, and Happy Halloween – at least in the world of October!

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Hi folks, Deej here, and we've got another episode swap where we're introducing you to a show we think you should hear. Though honestly, I'm surprised if you haven't heard of this one! Greater Boston is one of the absolute juggernauts in the audio fiction sphere, and it's been one of my top listens since the very beginning. When I try to introduce it to someone new, I always wind up calling it Dickensian - not because it's a period piece, but because of the incredible scope of the story, the heightened reality while still being very real and very vital, and the focus on social issues and collective solutions. Their story ranges from very personal, deeply emotional moments to great sweeping adventures as a whole new city is born on the rails of the Red Line to  hilarious diversions into pop culture or characters clashing or the pizza ghost ... all brought to you by so many hugely talented writers and voice actors and technicians I admire. It's beautiful and earthy and important and exquisitely crafted and I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. 

The clip that comes next is an excerpt from the first episode of the series. Listen, let it seep into you, and then go find Greater Boston in your podcast apps or online at GreaterBostonShow.com to hear more. Because there is a lot more, and it just gets better and better. 

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Greater Boston Episode Transcript: https://www.greaterbostonshow.com/episode-1-family-riddles/

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Yvonne sits and waits for a bus, makes a little friend, and considers her story.

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Waiting for October is written by D.J. Sylvis, with sound design by Caroline Mincks, and music by Trace Callahan. This episode featured Tina Case as Yvonne.

Our co-producers are D.J. Sylvis, Tina Case, and Sarah Müller. Our associate producers are Fool & Scholar Productions, Kathleen Lucas, Marcus Briggs, Martin Chodorek, Rebekah B.

A special thanks to our Patreon supporters who have helped make all of our stories happen! If you’d like to support our work or celebrate the folks who make it happen visit our Patreon at patreon.com(backslash)monkeymanproductions

Today our Crowdfundr shoutout is to Sean & Jennifer Chrest.

Deej here with another recommendation for your drama-loving earholes – and this one has captivated me from Episode One – The Night Post! This is a podcast series about the couriers of a haunting, damaged city at odds with the ancient, arcane frontier that surrounds it. It’s dark and queer and absolutely incredible. 

Next time in our story, we’re bringing you the season finale! Karo and Yvonne come back together after their individual journeys and … where do they wind up together? You’ll find out very soon. Hold on tight to your friends and your stories until then!

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Karo takes a hero’s journey to see the Endling, who writes the world.

Transcript: https://monkeymanproductions.com/2025/04/wfo-s1-e7-transcript/

Waiting For October is written by D.J. Sylvis, with sound design by Caroline Mincks, and music by Trace Callahan.

This episode featured Robin Regalado as Karo, Leeman Kessler as the Raven, David S Dear as Enoch, Cole Burkhardt as Xavi, and our very own D.J. Sylvis as the Endling.

Our co-producers are D.J. Sylvis, Tina Case, and Sarah Müller. Our associate producers are Fool & Scholar Productions, Kathleen Lucas, Marcus Briggs, Martin Chodorek, Rebekah B.

A special thanks to our Patreon supporters who have helped make all of our stories happen! If you’d like to support our work or celebrate the folks who make it happen visit our Patreon at patreon.com(backslash)monkeymanproductions.

Today our Crowdfundr shoutout is to Mary Anne Matos and Whitney Frisk. Thank you for your support!

I thought after Karo’s journey today, it was a good time to suggest you listen to one of my favourite cryptid stories about watery adventures - Come On In The Water’s Fine, by friend of the show Shade Oyemakinwa. It’s an anthology of mermaid stories that is dreamy and engrossing and it all flows so beautifully in Shade’s amazing voice. Listen with your eyes closed. 

Getting back to October, next episode we’re going to hear a monologue from Yvonne, fresh off the mountain and her kaiju adventure! Until then, keep an eye out for interesting rock formations, never hand over your torch to a Raven, and don’t be a stranger!

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Hey everyone. My name is Tina, I’m one of the producers here on Waiting for October, and I wanted to talk to you today about another show that we have been listening to and we love, and we wanted to share it with you. This one’s kind of interesting, because– I know that, like what we do in the audio drama community is –we share each other’s shows. Uh, “Every audio drama is like a gateway drug,” right? You listen to one and then you track your favorite voice actors down, or you hear an ad and you go listen to it. But I am so bad about– I will not listen to a show if I don’t know what it’s about. And sometimes, even if I do, my brain goes “Nope. Not today!” 

But for whatever reason, I decided to “yolo” this one, like– The show is called, Give Me Away, right? And I’d heard people talk about it, I knew people who had listened to it, had worked on the show. And I’m still like, “That’s nice, and that exists.” But eventually [pause] it became a little bit of –the show is written by Mac Rogers, right? And I had listened to The Message. I had listened to Life After. (We don’t need to talk about how long ago that was, because I didn’t realize it until I started recording this. And boy, does that make me a little sad.) But, um, anyway, like there was that faith in the creator, so I was like, “Hmm, okay, let’s try it. I’m still not real clear about what this is about, but we’re gonna try it.” And I did, and it was [an] immediate like, “Oh, good. It’s a married couple fighting, my favorite genre ever,” [pauses in divorcee] but I stuck with it, and I’m so glad that I did, because they’re fighting and it gets awkward, and it is immediately apparent that there is a Big Event that happens, something happened to do with aliens. And you’re like, “Wait what? I thought we were just having a domestic dispute?? And like, the Give Me Away part– that makes sense!!” [because marriage context] And no, no, it turns out that’s not what the show is about at all. 

Find the rest of the intro transcript at: https://monkeymanproductions.com/2025/04/wfo-give-me-away-intro/

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Give Me Away Episode Transcript: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59bdb80ce3df28bd2da397e0/t/60f0d40106e5cb5c82603e24/1626395656235/GMA+E1+Transcript.pdf

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Enoch tells Karo his story as a life lesson.

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Waiting for October is written by D.J. Sylvis, with sound design by Caroline Mincks, and music by Trace Callahan.

This episode featured David S. Dear as Enoch, Robin Regalado as Karo, and Caroline Mincks as Young'un.

Our co-producers are D.J. Sylvis, Tina Case, and Sarah Müller. Our associate producers are Fool & Scholar Productions, Kathleen Lucas, Marcus Briggs, Martin Chodorek, Rebekah B.

A special thanks to our Patreon supporters who have helped make all of our stories happen! If you’d like to support our work or celebrate the folks who make it happen visit our Patreon at patreon.com(backslash)monkeymanproductions

Today our Crowdfundr shoutout is to Jenny Sylvis and Marissa Robertcop.

Today, I’m recommending an audio drama from one of our cast members - Adam Qutaishat, who plays our werebear Karim - you’ll hear more from him soon! The show is called Vigil, and it’s an intense, engrossing superhero thriller that’s uniquely told and performed. Find it anywhere you listen, and let them know we sent you. 

Next episode here, it’s Karo’s turn for a solo quest, where they’re headed … do you know? Can you guess? Would it help if I told you the guest stars are our Raven, Cole Burkhardt playing one of the Gill folks, and … no, I’ll hold back that last one, that gives it all away! For now, keep an eye on the treetops when you’re out at night, praise the lord and pass the taters!

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Yvonne takes her solo expedition - which doesn’t wind up quite as solo as expected - to see the kaiju.

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Waiting for October is written by D.J. Sylvis, with sound design by Caroline Mincks, and music by Trace Callahan.

This episode featured Tina Case as Yvonne, Dallas Hawthorne as Grey, Mette Marie Fisker as Bergen, Cass McPhee as Hodag, and as always, Cat Blackard and Josh Rubino as our kaiju.

Our co-producers are D.J. Sylvis, Tina Case, and Sarah Müller. Our associate producers are Fool & Scholar Productions, Kathleen Lucas, Marcus Briggs, Martin Chodorek, Rebekah B.

A special thanks to our Patreon supporters who have helped make all of our stories happen! If you’d like to support our work or celebrate the folks who make it happen visit our Patreon at patreon.com(backslash)monkeymanproductions.

Today our Crowdfundr shoutout is to James Des Cotes and Jeff Xilon. Thank you for your support!

This time around, I’m here to recommend a story steeped in a world of myth – Forged Bonds, an emotionally captivating retelling of the story of Aphrodite and Hephaestus. I’ve been caught up in it since the first episode, and if anything about mythology, love stories, and political entwinement catches your interest, you should check it out. 

For us, we’ll be getting ready for our next monologue minisode – and Karo is visiting an old friend but someone completely new to us – Enoch, the Mothman! It’ll be a quieter story after this episode seeing the kaiju, but I think you’ll enjoy! Until then!

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