Hey there. This is Chris Cuylla, writer, director, and producer of Dirt and audio drama.

Welcome to this bonus director's commentary episode. I'll use this time to go into things like

where and how specific sound effects were created, what inspired certain scenes or character interactions,

the recording process, both for background sounds and actors' voices,

and in some cases, how things change during production from my original script,

and, I guess, pretty much anything else that comes to mind that I think might be

interesting. For this commentary episode, I've chosen Chapter 8. As I said elsewhere, I absolutely

love every episode of Dirt. But Chapter 8 is really special to me, because it's where, while I was

building content for season 2, I really started to feel like it's where, while I was building content for season

two, I really started to feel like I was getting back into my groove as a producer and sound

designer. A lot goes on in Chapter 8, yet strangely, it was probably the easiest one for me to put

together. From the dialogue to the background sound effects to the music, everything

just seemed to flow into place on the first or second try, which in my experience doesn't

happen very often. So, let's get started. Call Kim.

The chapter opens with Joseph driving away from the small town of PL, not far from the Pacific

coast in southwest Washington.

Hi. Hey, can I call you back in a bit?

Uh, sure. In real life, PL really does factor into my family history. My grandparents

live there briefly as a young married couple, and my dad, their oldest child,

was born there.

They didn't stay in PL for very long, unlike Carl, who's a lifer.

But I thought the tie-in would be fun to use for the story, even though the story is, of course,

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