Uncanny Robot: AI Meets Old Time Radio Drama Uncanny Productions

Have you ever seen those dogs on Instagram that communicate by pressing buttons that play recorded words? In April 2021, Terrie tamed a wild tanuki, brought it home, and taught it to communicate with buttons. Then things took a turn for the worse.
Our end trailer is from Hell Gate City. It's a rollicking sci-fi comedy podcast with a macabre underbelly and satirical takes about dystopian current events. Listen here: http://hellgatecity.com
Uncanny Robot is Bram Stoker Finalist and Clarion West 2015 graduate Thersa Matsuura and audio editor/sound designer Rich Pav. Our other shows are Uncanny Japan and The Soothing Stories Podcast. Check out Terrie's books including The Carp-Faced Boy on Amazon.
Our website has trigger warnings and transcripts for every episode. If you'd like to help support the show, please visit Patreon.
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Credits Researched, written, directed, & produced: Thersa Matsuura
Mixed, edited, & sound engineered: Rich Pav
Voice of Terrie and Richard: Terrie and Richard
Voice of tanuki buttons: Julyan Ray
Sniffles, snorts, and chomps of tanuki: Alan Smithee
Foley: Richard and Terrie
That one line about Caligula: Joe Robson
Intro and outro music by Julyan Ray Matsuura.
Atmospheres #9 – Outskirts Of Town by Brian Holtz Music
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Mourning Background by MusicLFiles
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Freedom by Alexander Nakarada
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Divertimento K131 by Kevin MacLeod
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Peek-A-Boo by Brian Holtz Music
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The Expanse by Alexander Nakarada
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Dawn Of The Apocalypse by Rafael Krux
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5 Am by Denis Sivtsev
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Take a trip to the moon with the world's saddest clown and his best friend, a rat named Singer Boy.
Uncanny Robot is Bram Stoker Finalist and Clarion West 2015 graduate Thersa Matsuura and audio editor/sound designer Rich Pav. Our other shows are Uncanny Japan and The Soothing Stories Podcast. Check out Terrie's books including The Carp-Faced Boy on Amazon.
Our website has trigger warnings and transcripts for every episode. If you'd like to help support the show, please visit Patreon.
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Join our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/uncannyrobotpodcast
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uncannyrobotpodcast/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgdzFk8yoR1pQp2HpHArrgA
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Our commentary about three episodes:
Asteroid Annie and the Mushiblooms Asteroid Arnie and the Mushiblooms A Spotify/Parcast True Crime Parody: Peppers and the Screaming Yoof Uncanny Robot is Bram Stoker Finalist and Clarion West 2015 graduate Thersa Matsuura and audio editor/sound designer Rich Pav. Our other shows are Uncanny Japan and The Soothing Stories Podcast. Check out Terrie's books including The Carp-Faced Boy on Amazon.
Our website has trigger warnings and transcripts for every episode. If you'd like to help support the show, please visit Patreon.
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/B0B7AO84P
Join our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/uncannyrobotpodcast
Website: https://www.uncannyrobotpodcast.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/UncannyRobot
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thersamatsuura
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uncannyrobotpodcast/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgdzFk8yoR1pQp2HpHArrgA
Discord: https://discord.gg/XdMZTzmyUb

A comedy/sci-fi auditory extravaganza four months in the making.
Asteroid Annie, the all-time greatest intergalactic superheroine and her trusty sidekick What's-His-Name, face off against the evil Mushiblooms and their villainous leader Hutt Poppa. Will they be able to save this alternate universe?
In Episode 5 we brought you the story of how Asteroid Arnie, the greatest intergalactic superhero of all time and his trusty sidekick Moomaroof, saved the entire race of adorable, fuzzy little Mushiblooms from certain death at the hands of the Stinky Lollies.
Uncanny Robot is Bram Stoker Finalist and Clarion West 2015 graduate Thersa Matsuura and audio editor/sound designer Rich Pav. Our other shows are Uncanny Japan and The Soothing Stories Podcast. Check out Terrie's books including The Carp-Faced Boy on Amazon.
Our website has trigger warnings and transcripts for every episode. If you'd like to help support the show, please visit Patreon.
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/B0B7AO84P
Join our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/uncannyrobotpodcast
Website: https://www.uncannyrobotpodcast.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/UncannyRobot
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thersamatsuura
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uncannyrobotpodcast/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgdzFk8yoR1pQp2HpHArrgA
Discord: https://discord.gg/XdMZTzmyUb

We spent all last month filling in the world's longest and most detailed application for a multi-week accelerator training program designed to "help mid-career podcasters 'level up' with a renewed focus on business development, audience growth, optionality, video strategies, and long-term sustainability."
Hey, that's exactly what we need!
They said they're looking for "applicants that have already been producing media and podcasts for at least 3 years. Specifically, creators looking to take a current podcast past creative development and into business strategy."
That's us!
Applicants "must be able to demonstrate success and enthusiasm with current or past podcast(s) either through audience retention and growth, conceptual rigor, diversification of podcast offerings, revenue and/ or partnerships"
That's us too!
Also, applicants "must be willing to pause production during the program," "represent a range of geographies, backgrounds, views, voices, and styles," have "baseline technical and editorial skills," and be "interested in making their podcast sustainable through teamwork, openness to iteration and change, and pursuing revenue and audience growth."

That's four more yeses! We figured we'd be a shoe-in for the program.
...we weren't. The rejection email arrived yesterday.
But we did spend weeks creating a bitchin' Hollywood blockbuster cinematic audio trailer for our Asteroid Arnie episode and a mock interview episode to answer their questions:
1. Explain to us what this podcast, brand, and/or creative project would look like in its most fully realized form.
2. What are the key accomplishments and milestones you are striving to reach?
3. If you had unlimited resources and support, where would you take it?
The way we figure, they're both pretty darn good pieces of audio we spent a long time making, so why let them go to waste?
Enjoy!
[Promo] A Happy Bureaucracy: Dark humor abounds as a tax agent tries to tame a post-apocalyptic hellscape. https://pod.link/1606645977
Uncanny Robot is Bram Stoker Finalist and Clarion West 2015 graduate Thersa Matsuura and audio editor/sound designer Rich Pav. Our other shows are Uncanny Japan and The Soothing Stories Podcast. Check out Terrie's books including The Carp-Faced Boy on Amazon.
Our website has trigger warnings and transcripts for every episode. If you'd like to help support the show, please visit Patreon.
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/B0B7AO84P
Join our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/uncannyrobotpodcast
Website: https://www.uncannyrobotpodcast.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/UncannyRobot
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thersamatsuura
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uncannyrobotpodcast/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgdzFk8yoR1pQp2HpHArrgA
Discord: https://discord.gg/XdMZTzmyUb

One of the most bizarre and gruesome murders ever to take place in the continental United States occurred on April 1, 1969. Two couples were on a road trip when bad weather forced them to make an unscheduled stop. Their lives were forever changed.

Hey, guess what: It turns out lots of people wish April Fool's Day would die in a fire.
It's a good thing this definitely is not an April Fool's episode. Nope, no-sir-ree. Never was. Don't believe the rumors that we replaced the original with a version that has all references to April Fool's removed.
Uncanny Robot is Bram Stoker Finalist and Clarion West 2015 graduate Thersa Matsuura and audio editor/sound designer Rich Pav. Our other shows are Uncanny Japan and The Soothing Stories Podcast. Check out Terrie's books including The Carp-Faced Boy on Amazon.
Our website has trigger warnings and transcripts for every episode. If you'd like to help support the show, please visit Patreon.
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/B0B7AO84P
Join our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/uncannyrobotpodcast
Website: https://www.uncannyrobotpodcast.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/UncannyRobot
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thersamatsuura
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uncannyrobotpodcast/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgdzFk8yoR1pQp2HpHArrgA
Discord: https://discord.gg/XdMZTzmyUb