5.5- Outreach
Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery
Audacious Machine Creative
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
by Jessica Best
Isn't there anyone on the air?
Big questions
WHO AM I
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This episode features: Anuja Vaidya as Norah, Kat Hoil as Abbie, and Amelia Bethel as Marisol. The chorus of Echoes in this episode is played by: James Ferrero, Lauren Grace Thompson, Nicole Knudsen, Jeffrey Nils Gardner, Tina Muñoz Pandya, Eric Eilersen, Adam Raymonda, Daniel Millhouse, Mark Soloff, Newt Schottelkotte, and Rob Kauzlaric.
The War of the Worlds radio broadcast was adapted by Howard Koch from the novel by H.G. Wells, and directed by Orson Welles. You can find complete credits here.
Written by Jessica Best, sound design by Jeffrey Nils Gardner, directed by Lauren Grace Thompson, theme music composed by Stephen Poon, recording engineer Mel Ruder, associate producer Ani Enghdahl, Theme performed by Stephen Poon, Lauren Kelly, Gunnar Jebsen, Travis Elfers, Mel Ruder, and Betsey Palmer, produced by haydée r. souffrant, Unwell lead sound designer Eli Hamada McIlveen, Executive Producers Eleanor Hyde and Jeffrey Nils Gardner, by HartLife NFP.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, listener. This is producer Jeffrey. Step into my time machine. Long ago, beginning in the |
| 0:08.0 | ancient past of 2009, we made a show called Our Fair City. Now, Our Fair City is a sprawling |
| 0:16.7 | epic story set in the dystopian future of Hartford, Connecticut. A climate disaster made the world |
| 0:23.3 | outside a frozen wasteland. What remains of humanity lives inside in a largely subterranean city |
| 0:30.4 | governed by the remains of an insurance company. Now, our fair city is darkly funny. You'll meet mad scientists, lightning rigors, |
| 0:40.8 | the Woken Dead, giant ants, time travelers, and mole people. We are currently re-releasing |
| 0:48.1 | Our Fair City weekly. So this is a great time to join us for a romp through the tunnels of heartlife. |
| 0:56.2 | After today's episode, we'll be sharing a trailer for the show. |
| 0:59.6 | I hope you'll check it out. |
| 1:00.9 | And I would love you to join us in our listen of Our Fair City, found wherever you're listening to this podcast right now. |
| 1:15.3 | Music found wherever you're listening to this podcast right now. Now the first machine reaches the shore. |
| 1:18.1 | He stands watching, looking over the city. |
| 1:24.0 | Steel cowlish head is even with the skyscrapers. |
| 1:28.3 | He waits for the others. |
| 1:31.3 | They rise like a line of new towers on the city's west side. |
| 1:36.3 | Now they're lifting their metal hands. |
| 1:40.3 | This is the end now. |
| 1:42.3 | Smoke comes out, black smoke shifting over the city. |
| 1:47.0 | People in the streets see it now. |
| 1:50.0 | They're running toward the East River, thousands of them. |
| 1:54.0 | Dropping in like rats. |
| 1:56.0 | Now the smoke's spreading faster. It's reached time square. |
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