Category: Bonus Episode

Oz 9’s Beloved Narrator, Richard Nadolny

Oz 9’s Beloved Narrator, Richard Nadolny

Published September 25, 2023

If you’re the kind of person who reads show notes, you know how flippant we generally tend to be. And no one in this cast was more flippant and irreverent than Richard, our Narrator.

He loved this show, loved being a part of it, loved hearing that you loved him, and no one laughed harder at our goofy escapades than he did. He was basically the owner of our Discord channel, jumping in to keep the fun and silly going, giving updates on my writing “process,” engaging in pun battles, and sharing the wit and warmth that made him my favorite person to talk to.

There’s so much to say about him. Too much. Simply put: he is missed.

Please protect your mental health, and if you are at all concerned about yourself or someone else, seek professional help. You matter.

For crisis situations: Text 988 or text TALK to 741741
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: https://afsp.org/
Forefront Suicide Prevention (WA State): https://intheforefront.org/
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/suicide-prevention

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BONUS: Chat with Creator Jonathan Pezza

BONUS: Chat with Creator Jonathan Pezza

Published September 10, 2023

I know, I know, I skip a lot of bonus episodes too, but srsly, give this one a listen. Not only is Jonathan Pezza smarter than the entire crew of the Oz 9 concurrently and consecutively (yes, low bar, but still), he’s also got really fun things to tell us about. Hear the interview, then for goodness’ sake, stick around and hear his full-cast, immersive audio adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.”

And while I’m assigning homework, after listening, check out the links below and get ye over to Kickstarter to learn more about the Season 3 project, coming soon!!

TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW

Thanks as ever to John Faley for the gorgeous music!

Links:

Curious Matter Anthology: https://curiousmatterpodcast.com/episodes/
Support Season 3, The Exile on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonathanpezza/curious-matter-anthology-season-3-the-exile

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BONUS : That slice of Joe Pye-Weed pie

BONUS : That slice of Joe Pye-Weed pie

Published April 12, 2023

I tell ya, you turn your back for, like, three months, and someone just shoulders their way in there and takes over your ship, your characters… sheeesh.

ANYWAY, if you’re familiar with A Ninth World Journal or Deconstructive Criticism, you’ve already enjoyed the work of our own Dr. Theo Bromae, better known as David S. Dear.

In this bonus episode, he gives us a glimpse of life behind the curtain. And in front of the toilet door COME ON ALREADY SOME OF US HAD RICE KUDZPIES AT SNACKTIME.

TRANSCRIPT

You’ve been listening to:

Tim Sherburn as Colin
Bonnie Brantley as Jessie
Shannon Perry as Madeline
Kevin Hall as Greg
David S. Dear as himself
Kyle Jones as Narrator 2 and
Chris Nadolny Gourley as your Narrator

This bonus episode of Oz-9 was written by David S. Dear.

Our music is by John Faley; our artwork is by Lucas Elliott. Typically, Sarah Golding is our dialog editor, and Oliver Morris is our sound designer, but you have Shannon Perry to blame for those this time.

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BONUS: Discussing Oz 9

The Oz 9 ship against a starry sky. Some characters are visible through the windshield.

BONUS: Discussing Oz 9

Published April 12, 2023

Welcome to the Audiotorium. It’s Discussing Oz 9, with Narrator and Narrator 2, Pluto, and other assorted folks.

If you’re not familiar with the Discussing Network and their stable of shows, Discussing Who, Discussing Trek, and Discussing Comics, you really could be listening to that instead of this. (http://www.discussingnetwork.com/)

But in the style of Discussing Stuff, it’s a review of Oz 9’s season 4, so if you haven’t listened to all of season 4, well, spoilers, sweetie.

TRANSCRIPT

This episode was written by Kyle Jones and features …

Chris Nadolny Gourley as your Narrator
Kyle Jones as Narrator 2
(and far-too-briefly Clarence Brown as Narrator 2)
Lee Shackleford as Pluto
Tim Sherburn as Colin
June Clark Eubanks as the Albatros
Aaron Clark as Le Bichon Frise
Richard Cowen as Leet
Bonnie Brantley as Donna and Cpt Jessie
Steven Crider as Rock Brickwell
Richard Nadolny as the Alarm
Shannon Perry as Olivia

Our music is by John Faley, our artwork by Lucas Elliott. Be sure to check out all the shows at our very dear friends’ Discussing Network!

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BONUS: Enough with the toad orgy, Two

Published February 8, 2023

If you struggled through the classically complex and layered story of the last four seasons, you’re not alone. It was, as Mrs Sheffield has it, “more twisty-turny than my graduate teaching assistant’s insides after my AP Honours’ Intestinal Inversion lecture and practicuum.”

So Dr. Charles Tucket, who you may remember from another hiatus episode, The Oz 8000 Biosphere: Portrait of a Refuge, has been unthawed once again to provide some much-needed and hopefully not teeth-grittingly dull exposition and explanation.

Good luck. Take notes.

TRANSCRIPT

You’ve been listening to:

Kyle Jones as the tour guide and Narrator Two.
Chris Nadolny Gourley as your Narrator,
and David S Dear as Dr. Charlie Tucket.

Our music is by John Faley; our artwork by Lucas Elliott. Sarah Golding is the dialogue editor, and Oliver Morris is our sound designer. Oz 9 is written by Shannon Perry.

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BONUS: Episode X – 1

Published September 12, 2021

Written by Lee Shackleford of the awesome sci-fi audio drama Relativity, this bonus episode exposes you to yet more of Oz 9 that you were hoping to avoid.

Is it possible an advanced alien species is coming aboard the ship? Well, yeah, I mean — they’re in space. But, are they friendly? This is the Oz 9. What are the chances?

HUGE thanks to Lee Shackleford, who wrote AND produced this episode despite all our mostly unintentional efforts to thwart him. BTW, Lee is an amazing voice and stage actor, writer, and human being, so if you want to get in contact, find him at shacklefordfreelance.com.

TRANSCRIPT

You’ve been listening to:

Shannon Perry as Madeline and Olivia
Bonnie Brantley as Jessie
Tim Sherburn as Colin
Eric Perry as Dr. Friederich von Haber-Zetzer
Richard Cowen as Leet
Sarah Golding and Clarence Brown as Etaoin Shrdlu, and
Richard Nadolny as your Narrator

Our music is by John Faley; our artwork is by Lucas Elliott. This episode was written by Lee Shackleford.

Until next time, Space Monkeys!

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BONUS: Mission: *FWIP*!

BONUS: Mission: FWIP!

Published March 29, 2021

A rift in time and space causes four members of the Oz 9 crew to get pulled off the space ship (bringing the median IQ up a significant number of notches) and swapped with four members of the EMF (aaaaaaaaaaand we’re back to where we were, IQ-wise).

This is part two of a special two-part crossover with the frankly hilarious secret agent comedy, Mission: Rejected. If you haven’t heard part one yet, stop, put us on pause, go out, listen to part 1 on the Mission: Rejected feed, come back, take us off pause, because from this moment forward….

I’d say “spoilers,” but let’s face it… it’s mostly nonsense.

Be sure to listen to the fantastic comedy being dished up at Mission: Rejected (https://missionrejected.simplecast.com/). You won’t regret it. Much.

TRANSCRIPT

You’ve been listening to: (In alphabetical order)

Ashley Banks as Athena O’Brien
Pete Barry as Kristatos O’Brien
Bonnie Brantley as Jessie
Aaron Clark as Le Bichon Frise
Richard Cowen as Leet
J. Michael DeAngelis as Larry Hastings
David S. Dear as Dr. Theo Bromae
Faith Dowgin as Section Chief Zelda Anders
John Dowgin as Dr. Biff Studebaker
June Clark Eubanks as The Albatros
Sarah Golding as Mrs. Sheffield
Kevin Hall as Greg
Jill Ivey as the Western Union Woman
Bob Killion as The Admiral and Orin
Chris Klaniecki as Skip Granger
Paige Klaniecki as Gloria Kovak
Eric Perry as Doctor von Haber Zetzer and Joe
Shannon Perry as Olivia, Madeline, and Dr. Pickle
Dave Sanger as Bowden Montcrief
Nazli Sarpkaya as Mackenzie McGrath
Tim Sherburn as Colin
Kirk White as Chet Phillips
Karen Yang as Dr. Karol Legrange
with Richard Nadolny as your Narrator
and Kevin McGrath as The Mission Voice

Our music was by Pete Barry and John Faley. This episode was directed by June Clark Eubanks and J. Michael DeAngelis. (Do all podcast directors have three names?)

This episode was written by Shannon Perry, Pete Barry, J. Michael DeAngelis and John Dowgin. Sound mixing and editing was by Pete Barry. Mission Rejected is written and produced by Pete Barry, J. Michael DeAngelis, and John Dowgin. Oz-9 is written and produced by Shannon Perry.

Sound effect attributions below. All other sound effects by Pete Barry (https://freesound.org/people/PeteBarry/) and Shannon Perry.

Sci-Fi Office by Red Sky Lullaby used under license
Party by 7by7, license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Slosh by Razzvio, license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Whip crack by CGEffex, license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Exercise machine by CGEffex, license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Bubbles by lonemonk, license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Breaking glass by m1a2t3z4, license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Zap by BigKahuna, license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Space door by peepholecircus, license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Gun cock by SmartWentCody, license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Space bridge by Diboz, license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Ouch! by Adam N, license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Wooden destruction by inspectorJ, license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Space engine by Nexotron, license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Water draining by coltures, license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Electric sparks by InspectorJ, license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Gasp! by dersuperanton, license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Flying drone by Sheyvan, license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Crickets by Defelozedd94, license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Popcorn by Sunejackie, license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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BONUS: It doesn’t get much more trivial than this

Published January 3, 2021

To punish Kevin Hall for having the gall to … something, I can’t remember what it was he did, but for sure he did something really bad to merit this kind of response…. Anyway, maybe just to be mean, we made him relisten to Oz 9, write a bunch of trivia questions, then ask them to four people who between them could barely scrape up an answer to the question of what they had for breakfast on that particular day.

It’s nearly 90 minutes of “uhhhhhh…..” and “hang on, I know I know this one,” and “seriously, Kevin, where are you getting these questions?!” and very few answers, but if you like that sort of thing, it’s good for an occasional laugh.

Seriously, thanks to Kevin for enduring, and for Bryan, Corey, and Jess for being amazing, fantastic sports.

BONUS: Diary of a Oz9ivist: Is this a cheese dream?

Published January 3, 2021

What happens when the alien aboard your ship gets hungry?

Usually really gross things involving lots of blood and gore and that, but fortunately for us, the grossest thing in this episode is a small critter popping out of an orifice. Which is actually less gross than it sounds. Wait for it.

The ships of Samantha Lyons and the Oz 9 have stumbled into one another in space, and Leet’s had lots of caffeine, and there’s some dancing.

Our thanks to the glorious Beccy Stirrup, creator, writer, and actor on Diary of a Space Archivist for creating this with us!

Please note that Oz 9 will be taking a brief holiday hiatus and we’ll be back in January of 2021. Happy hols to alls!

TRANSCRIPT