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Fireside Mystery Theatre

53.3 1918/2020: "The Carrier"

Fireside Mystery Theatre

Fireside Mystery Theatre

Drama, Arts, Fiction, Performing Arts

4.5626 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A carrier delivers a ticking box to an isolated mansion. What could go wrong?

"The Carrier" is the third installment in our pandemic series, 1918/2020, original audio plays inspired by the past and present.

Cast featured in this episode:
Chris Woolsey as C.W.C. Woolsey
James Kleinmann as the 1918 Carrier
Eirik Davey-Gislason as the 2020 Carrier
Ali Silva as the Mad Genius

“The Carrier” written by Lizz Leiser & Ricardo Delgado
“PLOGs” written by Lizz Leiser & Chris Woolsey
Directed by Ali Silva

Produced by Gustavo Rodriguez & Ali Silva
Music by Nico Sleator
Production operations: Lizz Leiser
Social media: Kacie Laforest
Production coordinator: Faith Johnson
Theme music by Jason Graves
Audio production & sound design: Ali Silva
Assistant sound design: Ricardo Delgado

Additional music (Artlist):
Suspended Souls by Michele Nobler

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a story about the best of intentions. Tell me, do you ever still feel isolated,

0:12.6

alone, lost, like the world is a heavy summer blossom falling open all around you, but here

0:20.7

you are still locked up inside the quarantine of your own mind.

0:23.6

Enough to make a person tip just slightly over the brink.

0:27.6

How close are you to your own dark side?

0:31.6

Have you asked yourself,

0:32.6

What kind of time bomb is ticking inside the confines of my own soft flesh?

0:38.7

Maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe nothing does.

0:42.0

So why not enjoy a little frivolous entertainment?

0:46.1

This is the third thrilling installment in a series of four world premiere audio dramas entitled

0:51.7

1918, 2020.

1:01.0

Each episode takes you between two worlds vastly different, yet sickeningly, so similar. We's me, CWC. Woolsey. You're calm in the storm. You're canary in the coal mine. Your voice of reason ready to vaccinate the virus of pandemic panic.

1:33.7

I am proud to pen this weekly editorial as presented by the New York Gazette Post Tribune Globe,

1:38.4

America's finest and most historically accurate periodical paper.

1:43.0

I call this column the pandemic log or plog.

1:50.3

Well, then I, CWC. Walsy, will deliver you tips, tricks, and sound advice to thrive in these trying times.

1:57.7

Now that the Spanish flu, or as I like to call it, the forbidden dance of the flumenco, has forced us all to stay at home.

2:01.4

Have you found yourself saddled with your offspring and forced to take up the mantle of educator? Allow me to be of service. Many of you may be stuck at home with children,

2:08.0

and of course by children, I mean anyone under the working age of eight years old. So if your

2:13.5

progeny hasn't gone off to work at a factory or in a mine, you'll want to make sure they are getting a good, proper American education.

2:21.4

Here's what I do.

2:22.6

I wake them up at 4.30 a.m.

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