Optophobia Solar Driftwood
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Optophobia is the fear of opening one’s eyes. Our show is dedicated to encouraging you — our listeners — to move beyond that fear. To solve riddles they don’t want us to unriddle. To investigate supposedly ironclad truths. To unearth evidence, buried for so long they believed it would stay buried. Each season we tackle a new investigation into what is often dismissively called a “conspiracy theory,” and each week a new guest weighs in. Are you bored by the lies? Open your eyes.
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S4Ep1 | Some Dreamers of the Bloody Dream
Meet our Season 4 cohosts: Lydia Coffeematé worked on the "Relentless" set as a personal assistant to one of its producers. Jeffrey Dalmer works at the last Hollywood Video where he slips "Relentless" DVDs into the bags of unsuspecting customers...at the behest of a mysterious "they."
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S4Ep2 | MISSING: Tracy + Judds Nelson, Apatow and Judy (R.I.P.)
Dan Hammer, a community theater actor from upstate New York who told the harrowing tale of his fiancee Tracy's mysterious disappearance in Season 1, has decided to try and remake "Relentless" in a way that "feels more real" by filming it entirely in his mother's house, basement and backyard.
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S4Ep3 | Never Time the Markets
Lance Bloomberg's father was a big influence on his son. There was the fascination with money and finance that Lance inherited, and there was also the violence. Beaten regularly as a child with an abacus, Lance would eventually teeter between a career in financial analysis and serial murder. Seeing "Relentless" nearly sealed the deal.
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S4Ep4 | Deadlike Rasta
Buffalo, NY musician Brad Meglin was playing Black Sabbath covers with his band The Buffalo Soldiers in 1988, when William Lustig inexplicably got up on stage, mid-song, and asked Brad to compose music “that would make people want to kill” for his coming movie, “Relentless.”
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S4Ep5 | 31 Flavors and a Kick in the Crotch
Baskin-Robbins greeter Alicia Nicely was just minding her own business, trying on a fitted purple sweatshirt at Gap, when she was attacked by a "Relentless"-inspired wanna-be serial killer. As happens in these situations, the attacker — Sarah Pinch — couldn't close the deal. But might there be an army of Sarah Pinches out there, stalking America's retail dressing rooms?
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S4Ep6 | Little Bulbs, Big Dreams
Around the time Darrell Klep first saw "Relentless" in the late 1980s, he also began his career as a farmer. Eventually, he started working weekend farmer's markets, following his customers and sitting in his car outside their homes. Creepy? Yes. Coincidence? Probably not.
Customer Reviews
Tim Townsend Is Brilliant
“Optophobia” is another fine example proving that there ARE quite a large amount of incredibly intelligent, funny, surreal, and original podcasts out there - and yes, I do mean all four at the same time. You just need a good hunting dog, a metal detector, and a Ouija Board (and a lot of free time) to find some.
(March 9, 2021 - had to fix an incomplete sentence in my review. My sincere apologies.)
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Such a fun, easy listen! Can’t wait for more!!!