S4E5: "Buying America", by Daniel Foytik
Victoria's Lift
9th Story Studios LLC
4.7 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Thanks to our supporters, we've put together an episode based on a story from our written Anthology, written by Daniel Foytik and adapted for audio by Scarlet R. Algee. This was previously an exclusive episode heard by supporters in July of 2019.
John Gate is a wealthy businessman from New York who wants to return to an era from the past. He thinks he will find this by going back to his home town and buying the small town hardware store, Great America, from the retiring Joe Thomas.
When he realizes the town is no longer the way he remembered it, his anger rises, but more is going on than he realizes. When he meets a little girl dressed in clothing right out of the 1900's named Victoria, he starts to realize that things are really not what they seem.
"BUYING AMERICA", by Daniel Foytik
Adapted for audio by Scarlett R. Algee
Score by Nico Vettese, of We Talk of Dreams
CAST:
Victoria Bigglesworth-Hayes: Amber Collins
John Gate / Donald: Craig Weber
Narrator: Mike DelGaudio
Jimmy: Graham Rowat
Councilwoman Baxter / Bethany Mills / Riley Jackson / Mayor Anderson: Cynthia Lowman
Councilman Wallace / Gary Wilson / Newscasters / Jerry Benson: Daniel Foytik
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Art: Jeanette Andromeda
Score: Nico Vettese, We Talk of Dreams
A 9th Story Studios Production | Foytik, Lowman, Collins, Vettese, Pyles
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | 9th Story Studios, giving story a voice. |
| 0:11.5 | This podcast is part of the Darkness Collective. |
| 0:16.1 | Visit Darkniths.org to discover more shows like this one. |
| 0:21.2 | The Darkness awaits. |
| 0:27.7 | Welcome to the lift. |
| 0:30.2 | Get ready to take a ride. |
| 0:31.8 | Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Hello, and welcome to a special bonus episode of The Lift. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm Daniel Foyek, and we will actually be returning with the Lyft later this month for season four, |
| 1:00.1 | but you're hearing this special bonus episode because you are either a supporter of the show on Patreon, |
| 1:05.7 | you donate to us on PayPal, or you picked up a copy of the book. |
| 1:10.4 | When I say the book, I'm talking about our anthology that came out last year, which has |
| 1:14.7 | nine stories that have never been heard on the show before, written by authors of the show, |
| 1:20.2 | and you get special bonus extras in there, like artwork from Jeanette Andromeda, |
| 1:24.5 | as well as content from Cynthia Lohman and myself. |
| 1:28.1 | They give you a little bit of a deeper dive into the world of the Lyft, including |
| 1:31.5 | blueprints of the music box and more. |
| 1:34.5 | You can pick that up over at Victoria's Lyft.com forward slash read if you haven't already. |
| 1:40.5 | Now today is something a little bit extra special just for you guys for supporting the show in the way that you do. |
| 1:46.1 | Bringing today's episode to life are, of course, Amber Collins. |
| 1:49.5 | My good friend, Craig Weber, who I used to do the ninth story podcast with. |
| 1:53.3 | Mike Dalgado is the main storyteller, Graham Rowett in a small but fantastic little role. |
| 1:59.8 | Me and Cynthia Lohman. |
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