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Southern Gothic

Introducing: BlueLife

Southern Gothic

Southern Gothic Media LLC

Documentary, True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.7974 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

BlueLife⁠ is a new post-apocalyptic sci-fi audio story which has its world premiere on September 1st. I'd love you to listen, and if you like what you hear please subscribe to the email list on the website so you will be one of the first to hear the episodes when they are launched. The ⁠BlueLife⁠ script was an Austin Film Festival semi-finalist. It received a staged reading at the Festival where it was roundly praised. The creators Mark Vashro and Kenneth Heaton both have lengthy experience in stage and film. Mark produced the short film Thunder Road, which won the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, and his bicycling documentary Bike Against the Wind earned him top honors as Best Director at the Boise Film Festival. Mark is also a well-known Bay Area actor, having appeared in numerous stage productions. Ken’s play The Ontological Detective was produced off-Broadway, and his Mustard Seed won the Southern Playwrights Competition. As an actor, Heaton has appeared in the Academy Award-nominated short, The Letter Room, and on Hulu’s Chance. Both Vashro and Heaton play roles in BlueLife.The seasoned cast includes, among many others, Mapuana Makia (Apple TV’s Invasion, the CW’s Family Law, Doogie Kamealoha, M.D., Two Sentence Horror Stories) as Persephone, Joel Marsh Garland (Poker Face, Orange is the New Black, Birdman or [The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance], The Last OG, Hello Tomorrow) as The Clown, Donna Jay Fulks (X-Men ’97, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, I Love That for You) as Fiona Thomlinson, and JillMarie Lawrence (Dexter: Original Sin, Ocean’s Eight, City by the Sea, Law & Order) as Faye Emma MacArthur. Vashro and Heaton have teamed up with Audio Producer/Sound Designer Rachel Boyd (Audio Producer on Fear Daily, Producer, Editor and Voice Artist for Codename: Blank!, Lead Producer for Hearing the Haunted).  BlueLife is a character-driven series set in the post-apocalyptic city-state of Los Angeles, which is believed to be the last bastion of humanity on the planet. In the midst of environmental collapse, two warring factions fight for control of a life-saving drug, ⁠BlueLife⁠, which will determine the outcome of the human race. Set in the year 2088, shortly after the ‘Second Blood War,’ our story deals with the ideas of class and power. This series combines the styles of Blade Runner, LA Confidential, The Matrix, and the series Firefly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Fall Line is a true crime podcast covering the coldest cases in the southeastern United States and occasionally beyond.

0:08.4

We focus on the missing persons, the unsolved murders, and the unidentified doze that don't get media attention.

0:15.7

Empathetic and intensively researched, the fall line will take you on deep dives into unsolved cases that you've never heard of,

0:22.8

and make you wonder why you haven't.

0:25.6

Find us wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:32.5

I'm Rob Kirkup, and I am the host of How Hounded, the podcast where we explore the dark history and terrifying ghost stories of some of the UK's most haunted places, with the occasional trip overseas.

0:47.9

Every other Friday, you'll hear tales of horror, chilling investigations with real audio from ghost hunts, and even the occasional

0:56.4

guest, or polter guest, as I prefer to call them. Every October, we go weekly for spooky season,

1:04.9

with a month of themed episodes building up to a huge Halloween spookacular. And at Christmas, I share your own real-life ghost stories

1:13.9

in the nightmare before Christmas special.

1:17.2

So search for How Haunted, wherever you get your podcasts.

1:21.5

And join me every fortnight as we ask the question.

1:25.7

How Haunted.

1:43.1

Thank you. Well, actually,

1:45.4

maybe a lot different for you here today.

1:51.0

And some of y'all might not like it, but please, I want each of you to give it a chance first.

1:59.6

It's a new podcast called Blue Life. And look, I'm just going to warn you now, it is nothing like Southern Gothic.

2:03.5

No, this is a full cast, fully sound design,

2:11.0

post-apocalyptic sci-fi audio drama. That's a mouthful, isn't it? A full-cast, fully sound design, post-apocalyptic sci-fi audio drama. Well, look, if you're a fan of fiction podcast,

2:17.0

this is definitely one you're going to

2:19.2

want to jump on. But if you haven't ever listened to an audio drama before, look, this,

2:24.8

you're in for a treat. I'll just say that. You're definitely in for a treat with Blue Life.

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