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14/12/2020

1: Chapter 1 - A Man Who Cannot Be Saved

When teenager Jacob Wells goes missing in Whitetail National Forest, it sends shockwaves through his small community. A frantic search ensues and what happens next will change his sister Peregrine's life forever. In Strange Woods is a production of Atypical Artists and executive produced by Jeff Luppino-Esposito, Brett Ryback, Matt Sav, Lauren Shippen, and Briggon Snow. Please visit instrangewoods.com for more information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

14/12/2020

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36 min
27/10/2023

31 - Our Flag Means Fandom

Previously recorded, summer 2022. Back when the first season of Our Flag Means Death ended, we talked about it, the fandom, and our predictions for the next season. Plus, discussions of Barry and just how realistic it is. Follow us on Tumblr at dashboarddiaries.tumblr.com to see the posts we talk about on this episode or email us at dashboarddiariespod@gmail.com! Dashboard Diaries is a production of Atypical Artists, hosted by Lauren Shippen and Cher McAnelly. Our theme was composed by Lauren Shippen and mixed by Brandon Grugle. Art by Shae McMullin. Transcription (which can be found on our Tumblr) by Laudable. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

27/10/2023

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37 min
19/05/2023

21 - We Are Eurovisionaries

Cha cha cha! Two Americans talk all things Eurovision--one of them watched this year and one of them experienced Eurovision through the Tumblr dash alone. Do either of them have any idea what happened? Listen and find out! Follow us on Tumblr at dashboarddiaries.tumblr.com to see the posts we talk about on this episode or email us at dashboarddiariespod@gmail.com! Dashboard Diaries is a production of Atypical Artists, hosted by Lauren Shippen and Cher McAnelly. Our theme was composed by Lauren Shippen and mixed by Brandon Grugle. Art by Shae McMullin. Transcript (which can be found on our Tumblr) by Laudable. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

19/05/2023

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36 min
19/06/2024

238 - Two Hundred Thirty Eight

[TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] I keep—I keep calling her Harriet. I hear it, feel the shape of her name in my mouth, and it feels…not wrong, but—well, I grew so accustomed to using her nickname—the nickname I had for her, the one that I’d use to talk about her to other people. But with her here, I find myself saying “Harriet” even when she’s not in the room. It’s…helping a little, in some ways. Helping me keep my distance, reminding me that she’s not just an abstract idea in my head, the way she has been the last year, but that she’s a real, three dimensional person who’s here and who I still… We finally talked about your latest messages, Birdie. And she—she agrees with me. That you’re probably saying that Junior needs to die in order for us to go back to where we’re from. Because…well, in that timeline we’d be free people, wouldn’t we? Are we? Do we exist back there too the way we do here? Are there infinite versions of us in infinite timelines? If we fixed things here the way that Fox says they can be fixed, would we just…be absorbed into whatever life we were in back there? I—I honestly doubt that Harriet and I even speak anymore. If we hadn’t escaped, we would’ve—according to Harriet—been let go and turned witness. I would’ve refused to testify and maybe…maybe that means the deal would’ve been bad and I’d just go to jail anyway. But even if I didn’t, even if I was somehow free, I don't think I’d have talked to her again after what she did. Fucking all of us over like that, out of some misguided fear about Pete…she’s the only other person in the universe who doesn’t want to kill me right now and I’m still not sure how to forgive her. If I can. Sometimes I think that maybe forgiveness isn’t necessary. For me to…for us to… I wonder how many versions of us figure it out. Figure us out. I wonder if any versions do. Or if we’re fated to get close, but never step over the line. [click, static] See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

19/06/2024

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3 min
07/09/2023

034 - Thirty-Four

Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey's radio. Breaker Whiskey is an Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen. If you'd like to support the show, please visit patreon.com/breakerwhiskey. ------ [TRANSCRIPT] [beeps] [click, static] Hey Birdie. Thanks for being so fast in giving me a new message. I’m telling you, maybe we can figure out a way to sign on at the same time, do a little back and forth. But in the meantime, you said—“Am alone. No physical voice. No idea what happened.” [click, static] That makes two of us. On the “doesn’t know what happened” front anyway. And the “alone” front. Though, maybe we’re not really alone anymore? [click, static] I’m not going to say I’m sorry that you can’t physically speak because I don’t know your situation and I know I hate it when it seems like someone is pitying me for something I don’t feel badly about. Did that make sense? I guess, what I mean to say is—I’m sorry if something happened to you that was, you know, traumatic, that made things that way, but also maybe you’ve never been able to speak and it’s not a big deal to you. Either way, I’m thankful you’ve taken the time to figure out how to talk to me in spite of it. And I swear I’m not going to be a jerk anymore. [click, static] Well, a jerk about this specifically. You tell me you can’t do the voice-to- voice thing and that’s fine. But I still want to, you know, know things. I still find other aspects of this whole deal frustrating as hell. But, well, if we’re gonna do this, if we’re going to be not alone together, I figure things should be fair. You answered a question of mine, so now I’ll answer one of yours. You just let me know. [click, static] Oh, also, wait, I do have one more question that I think is relevant to this whole getting on even footing thing—or really, a clarification of an answer you’ve already given. Have you seen or heard from anyone else in the last six years? [click, static] Alright, signing off. [click, static] See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

07/09/2023

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3 min
09/11/2023

079 - Seventy-Nine

[TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] Hey Birdie. I’m, uh, I’m on route to Santa Fe, now, I guess. It’s a place I’ve always wanted to go—it’s supposed to be beautiful, and cultural, and it’s very much on my route, so…  Not that I have a route. I have to stop following invisible rules. Just because it’s the next major city on the highway I’m currently following doesn’t mean that— (sighs) Harry fucking loves Santa Fe. She’s been a bunch of times. I guess they have—had—a pretty vibrant art scene out there and she used to talk about how gorgeous it was, how delicious the food was, how much she’d like to show me— [click, static] Actually, maybe I don't want to go, I don’t know. I’m not sure I want to see it with— [click, static] No, no, I should go. I’ve never been. I haven’t traveled very much and basically never for the purposes of leisure—a trip taken for the sole purpose of eating and drinking and looking at extraordinary things, that’s… …well, I guess that’s what I’m doing now, kind of. Even if it…feels different. If I really could send a postcard, I’d put one right in the mail for her from…whatever Santa Fe’s most famous museum is. Show her what she’s missing. Show her what she could be doing if she would just stop— [click, static] That—that was our last fight. Well, our last huge fight. I think I—I maybe mentioned that we weren’t talking all that much the last few months before I left and that’s true. What we did say to each other wasn’t particularly civil, but it was all…inconsequential. Bitching to each other about house chores or making snide comments… The fight that led to that cozy atmosphere was—it wasn’t about Santa Fe, specifically, but about…the outside world. I wanted to—well, I wanted to do this, what I’m doing, right here. What I’ve been doing, for the last four months. And she… [click, static] She wanted to stay inside. She wanted to protect us from the world by keeping us from it. Even though we had every reason to believe that we wouldn’t get caught if we ventured further out. And I tried to convince her, I tried to explain that even if there were other people out there, clearly we wouldn’t be a priority. I tried to make her see that the likelihood of running into anyone who even knew who we were or what we did was so slim, but she just… She dug her heels in, like she always fucking does. She’s intractable when she wants to be, and trust me, she wants to be a lot. It’s what made living with her such a fucking nightmare. Everything had to be just so and she would be so condescending when I didn’t get the temperature of the tea right or whatever the fuck it was and the most infuriating thing is that I know she didn’t actually care if I did it right, she just enjoyed riling me up, wanted to pass the time somehow, wanted to exert control over whatever she could, which I get because I was the same way with the endless house repairs, which drove her insane because she wanted to build a home and “how can you turn a house into a home when you treat it like the Winchester mystery house!” That’s what she’d say. “Not even the spirits would put up with the constant work.” It’s good. Yeah, it’s good that I got out of there. Because I haven’t been to Santa Fe, I hadn’t been to Colorado, I haven’t seen the Pacific. She has. She’s done all of that. She could stay inside and be content and root where she was planted or whatever but I need sunlight to grow and I tried to tell her that. I tried to tell her that I couldn’t see a future for us if we stayed stuck— [click, static] Jesus christ, I’m—I don’t know what I’m saying. She really…she drives me up a wall and I miss her and— [click, static] I—I’ve gotta— Whiskey, signing off. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

09/11/2023

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4 min
12/02/2024

146 - One Hundred Forty Six

[TRANSCRIPT] [content warning: reference to vomiting, dead bodies] [click, static] “Call me Fox”. That’s all you have to say for yourself? After what you just— [click, static] I’m not going to call you anything. I don’t know what—or who— Do you know Birdie? You must, right? Birdie and Fox, both communicating only through morse code…who the hell are you people? What did you do to that— [click, static] (a dark laugh) Well, now I know. Now I know that there are other people in the world. Or, were. There have been, this whole time. If I had to guess, I’d say that that woman had been dead for…a few months maybe? If I had just— [click, static] Why would you do this? Why would you send me to find a stranger’s corpse? [click, static] I…I slept in my car last night. Which isn’t exactly new for me, but it felt different, knowing that I was parked outside a perfectly good house with a perfectly good guest room—I’ve slept in plenty of strangers’ homes, in plenty of guest rooms and master bedrooms and children’s rooms and all of them—all of them—have been empty. For the past six months—hell, for the past six years, I have dreamt about finding a house that isn’t empty. I’ve imagined what it would be like, not just to sleep in a guest room, but to be someone’s guest. I cannot be a guest in that house. You can’t be guest when the host is lying in their own bed, eyes shut like they’re— [click, static] I got sick. In the house, yesterday, about fifteen minutes before I tried to contact you. I, um, I threw up right on their bedroom carpet. I—I cleaned it up eventually. I don’t know, it felt like the right thing to do, like, polite, you know even if the whole house already smelled like— [click, static] I’ve seen a dead body before. It isn't that. I watched both my parents die, I saw a really terrible motorcycle accident on the highway once. But those were…for lack of a better term, they were, um, fresh. Which is its own kind of horror, but what’s in there, what’s in that house, the decay of it. The…the loneliness. [click, static] I don’t want to be found like that. I don’t want to find Harry like that. But if we both—I mean, is there anyone left to do the finding? There—I still can’t get over the fact that someone was here. Not a person from six years ago with a body that somehow stuck around, but someone who has been here, who died, it seems, peacefully in their sleep sometime in the last year. I don’t know anything about what happens to a body after it dies, but I know that the body inside that house has not been lying there for six years. Why? Why did you do this? Do you have any idea just how cruel it is? To show me that someone was here all along, and that I’m too late? [click, static] [beeps] didn't know See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

12/02/2024

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6 min
26/04/2024

200 - Two Hundred

Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey's radio. Breaker Whiskey is an Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen. If you'd like to support the show, please visit patreon.com/breakerwhiskey. As a patron, you will also receive each week's episodes as one longer episode every Monday. ------ [TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] Okay, I think I’m—I’m ready to read this note now. Beyond just the date and the first few lines. “April 6th, 1975 Abigail— I’m okay. If you do find this, I have a feeling you’re going to have questions about the blood. You always have questions about everything. It’s one of your best qualities and also one of your most infuriating. Though I suppose I should be grateful you’ve been dogged in your pursuit of the truth. Maybe this can be repaired.” I don’t know if she means the jacket or… “It’s chicken blood. I am not as capable as you when it comes to butchery.” That’s…that’s as far as I got after finding the note. The relief hit me like a freight train but… I don’t want to be capable of butchery. I know that’s not what you meant but I… Anyway. Moving forward. “I’m sorry I didn’t reach our meeting in time, but after that man came to the house, I went to ground. I heard a car in the distance a few times over the last few days, but I couldn’t be sure it was you. I got the car you left me. And the radio. I’ve been transmitting out regularly but I’m going to guess that you haven’t heard me. That’s what I’m choosing to believe anyway, given I’ve sent you more than a few messages over the months, with no reply. And, yet, somehow, I’ve heard many of your transmissions—not all, and they are very often full of static and breaks in the signal, but you have reached our garage even from Los Angeles.” She crossed out something here. I think it says…(crinkle of paper) "I thought about joining you” but I can’t read the rest. Goddammit, Harry… “Do you remember that one diner that we went to every month for all of ’69? I know that you’ve been to a lot of roadside diners in the last ten months, so maybe they’ve run together in the way that they’re almost purpose built to do. The one down the street, the one we could walk to—we haven’t been back in ages, because I got spooked the one time the neon sign flickered back to life, but we’d carry thermoses of tea and pretend that we were going out for a morning cup, because the monotony of our existence was threatening to destroy us both. Whether you remember it or not, that diner has a working radio. I believe it too spooked me when there was a power surge, even if it was just static. In any case, I’m no longer at that diner, but I was briefly and heard several of your transmissions. There was no way to speak back to you, as it wasn’t that kind of radio, but it was picking up your signal just the same. I’m not in the state anymore. I threw the jacket from the car as I drove out of town, a final ditch attempt to contact you. I had a feeling you would take it with you if you found it, despite the state of it, and just had to hope that you would find these pages sewn inside the lining. I’ll keep transmitting, so we can find a time and place to meet, but there are conversations I don’t want to have over the airwaves, or in a letter. So I’m going to give you instructions now, that I’ll keep repeating on the radio, in the hopes that you’ve found this even if you can’t hear me. Do you remember the show I did up north at that gallery near the water? You’d been in Provincetown with Francis for a few days and he drove the both of you up for the opening. It wasn’t a particularly short journey, but manageable. You both stayed the weekend, at that little B&B that shares its name with one of the planets. I don’t think you thought very much of my show. It was one of my more abstract periods. I know you never cared much for that style, but I do have to wonder if you’d have been more generous to it if you’d known what inspired it. Then again—” And she crossed that out too… “It was still nice having you and Francis there. I always wondered why you’d agreed to come. You seemed so unhappy to be there. It makes me wonder if my demeanor made you think that I was unhappy to have you there. That was never my intent. I’m headed there now. I think you left me with enough fuel to make the journey, and I want to get somewhere familiar that isn’t terribly close to where we've been. Meet me there. I don’t want to write the name down, for fear that someone else will find this jacket and this note, but I’m going to assume you remember. I remembered. The place where we had the picnic. I remembered. And I always knew that you were winding me up about Rothko, but I liked arguing with you. It’s why I never told you that I like Hank Williams. At least, I learned to. Harriet”. [click, static] See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

26/04/2024

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6 min
01/07/2018 • ATYPICAL PLUS ONLY

JULY '18 Patreon Livestream Q&A (feat. Julia Morizawa)

Atypical Artists Livestreams

01/07/2018

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1 hr
01/05/2018 • ATYPICAL PLUS ONLY

MAY '18 Patreon Livestream Q&A (feat. Ian McQuown Mischa Stanton)

Atypical Artists Livestreams

01/05/2018

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1h 5m

A new podcast musical from the producer of The Bright Sessions and creators Jeff Luppino-Esposito, Brett Ryback, and Matt Sav. After a tragedy in the Whitetail National Forest, 18-year-old Peregrine Wells seeks out survivalist skills from an enigmatic old recluse. In this fictional documentary musical with an original folk-pop score, listeners will follow producer Brett Ryback as he explores themes of grief, adolescence, and our precarious relationship to the wilderness - all set against a sleepy northern Minnesota town reeling from a loss of innocence it will never get back. In Strange Woods is a production of Atypical Artists. It is created and executive produced by Jeff Luppino-Esposito, Brett Ryback, and Matt Sav.

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A sci-fi(ish) romantic comedy podcast starring a repressed lawyer, a criminal client, a pesky sister and her fiance, an infuriatingly sexy coworker, and an android in the mood for love.Jeanine Bell is a robotics intelligence lawyer whose laser focus on her career has come at the expense of her romantic and social lives. After successfully keeping AI genius Penelope Lane out of prison, Jeanine receives the gift of LEO(h), an android with Synthetic Sentience. LEO(h) is Loving, Empathetic, Optimistic, and (only sorta) helpful. He's programmed to love Jeanine. He’s also very, very illegal.Created by Octavia Bray and produced by Atypical Artists.

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Hey pals! You can find audio only versions of our Q&As here, including ones from both the 10th anniversary and the old Bright Sessions days! The episodes where the months are in ALL CAPS are from the old Bright Sessions Patreon. This feed also includes audio of my monthly public audio drama office hours. The feed is separated into "seasons" as an organizational tool. Here's the breakdown: Season 1 - The Bright Sessions livestreams Season 2 - Plus Pals Q&As (Patreon Only) Season 3 - Audio Drama Office Hours Season 4 - Miscellaneous

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COMING SOON! Sign up to our Patreon for free to stay up to date. From the creator of The Bright Sessions comes a thrilling new original rock audio drama. Phantom Pulse is the story of a 90s rock band going out on their very first tour. But this band isn't like any other–they don’t just play music, they exorcise ghosts with it. In 1998 Phantom Pulse is setting out on their first real tour–weeks of dive bars and underground venues across the Midwest. They’ll have a chance to perform on real stages and perform their real (secret) job: using their music to exorcise ghosts. When Phantom Pulse hits the road, they have high hopes for the tour–that it’ll give them their big break and keep them from going broke if enough people pay them for their ghost-busting services. What they don’t expect is for the tour to change everything they think they know about the world (both physical and spirit). Again.

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BREAKER WHISKEY is an ongoing, daily microfiction podcast exploring one woman’s journey to find additional survivors in an America made empty by an unknown event in the late 1960s. In 1968, two women find themselves in rural Pennsylvania during what turns out to be some kind of apocalyptic event. By the time they discover that everyone else is gone, it’s too late to figure out what happened. Despite not liking each other at all, the women work together to survive, until six years later one of them sets out on her own, driving around the country to find other survivors. This is her, calling out to anyone who might listen. BREAKER WHISKEY is made by Lauren Shippen and recorded on a 1976 Midland CB Radio. Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey.

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The Bright Sessions is a science fiction audio drama that follows a group of therapy patients. But these are not your typical patients - each has a unique supernatural ability. The show documents their struggles and discoveries as well as the motivations of their mysterious therapist, Dr. Bright. The show was created by Lauren Shippen and is a production of Atypical Artists. The show has seven seasons, including the previously paywalled Seasons 6 and 7, The AM Archives and The College Tapes. The Bright Sessions has been downloaded tens of millions of times and cemented itself as a classic of audio fiction. Three spin-off novels were published through Tor Teen: The Infinite Noise, A Neon Darkness, and Some Faraway Place. If you enjoy this show, check out the rest of Atypical Artists' shows!

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Atypical Artists is a producer of audio fiction that spans genres, scope, and formats, from a diverse set of creators, all focused on one singular mission: make neat stuff with neat people. After creating the popular audio drama The Bright Sessions, Lauren Shippen founded Atypical Artists in 2019 and it has served as executive producer on both Lauren’s new series, including two additional seasons of The Bright Sessions, as well as brand new fiction podcasts from talented creators, both established and up-and-coming. Whether you're looking for thrilling science fiction or heart-warming romance, Atypical has a show for you. If you'd like to enjoy our entire catalogue ad-free, you can subscribe to Atypical Plus right here in Apple Podcasts! You'll also receive episodes of our daily show Breaker Whiskey early - every Monday, you'll get all 5 of the episodes for that week, instead of having to wait for them to release each day. Thank you for supporting Atypical Artists!

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Genre-spanning fiction shows and weekly stories

1: Chapter 1 - A Man Who Cannot Be Saved

31 - Our Flag Means Fandom

21 - We Are Eurovisionaries

238 - Two Hundred Thirty Eight

034 - Thirty-Four

079 - Seventy-Nine

146 - One Hundred Forty Six

200 - Two Hundred

JULY '18 Patreon Livestream Q&A (feat. Julia Morizawa)

MAY '18 Patreon Livestream Q&A (feat. Ian McQuown Mischa Stanton)

Genre-spanning fiction shows and weekly stories

JULY '18 Patreon Livestream Q&A (feat. Julia Morizawa)

MAY '18 Patreon Livestream Q&A (feat. Ian McQuown Mischa Stanton)

AUGUST '18 Patreon Livestream Q&A (feat. Anna Lore)

Weekly Livestream Playback: chatting about video games!

38 - The Neverending Neil

0.4 - The Lost Demo (Finding Phantom Pulse)

0.1 - The Mystery of Phantom Pulse (Finding Phantom Pulse)

0.2 - The Haunted Tape (Finding Phantom Pulse)

0.3 - The Forgotten Website (Finding Phantom Pulse)

NOVEMBER '18 Patreon Livestream Q&A

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