10 episodes
Vaudeville For The Frightened iHeartPodcasts
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4.4 • 21 Ratings
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Ian Punnett's Vaudeville for the Frightened explores the darker forces that motivate us: superstition, fear, and jealousy. It’s a podcasting original.
About Ian Punnett: After three decades in multi-platform, commercial content creation for national brands such as iHeartMedia, Hubbard Broadcasting, and Random House, Ian Punnett completed his Ph.D. in Journalism and Mass Communication from Arizona State University by turning his doctoral dissertation into two books: Toward A Theory of True Crime (2018) from Routledge and the trade book, A Black Night for the Bluegrass Belle (2017). After joining the faculty of the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kansas State University as a professor of practice and chief operator of KSDB-FM, Punnett co-edited and wrote Moving Sounds: A Cultural History of Car Radio (2019) from Peter Lang Publishing and two chapters for Praeger’s Religion and Technology Series: How Religions are Embracing Virtual Media, Social Networks, and Mobile Devices (Vol. II) (2019). In addition, Punnett has co-produced television productions seen on PBS’ Great Performances, and continues to write and perform in national podcasts and the 600-station syndicated Coast to Coast AM.
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Episodes 9 and 10: "The Big Replay"
"The Big Replay" presents all of the vignettes back-to-back as one long audio movie.
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Episode 8: "The Big Recap"
A look back at the real stories behind the fictions as well as a look forward at our potential future from a vision by Ernie LaPointe.
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Episode 7: “The Big Surprise”
So, what was on "bottom of the box?" Do we know? Could it have been two things? A Wildcat Community Theater of the Air double feature: Two cold-case detectives several hundred miles away make an eerie discovery.
Dr. Dan Friedman, Jack the Ripper researcher, puts the finishing touches on what we thought we knew.
But then, just as we thought the story is resolved, the true, horrible meaning of “The Bottom of the Box.” Check your answer sheet, did you see this surprise ending coming?
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Episode 6: “The Big Reveal”
The investigators the opportunity to prove they aren't as clueless as they might have appeared. The killer of Mary Kay Campbell is...
Researcher/writer Kevin David explores the criminal brain itself; Katherine Ramsland
Did you get it right? Was it a "big surprise?"
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Episode 5: "The Little Reveal"
In this part of the story, in some respects, the police have to start over. If not Mark, and not somebody else already explored, then who? What would be the motivation to shoot somebody sitting at a desk in the middle of the night. Acting on a hunch, progress is made.
The police, suspects, and false leads: Famed, former FBI profiler John Douglas, serial killed researcher, Dr. Katherine Ramsland, and real-life detective instructor Greg Lawson pull back the curtain on the fictional investigation.
Finally, a breakthrough. Do we know what it’s in the “Bottom of the Box?"
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Episode 4: "The Big Little Lie"
The neighborhood predator, Solomon Talbert, was on the local police radar ever since Mark lied to the cops. It was a “big little lie” that taught Mark how easy it was to fool police, one that may or may not have inspired Solomon Talbert to track down Mark after all these years. From a child’s perspective, it’s a horror story.
This part of the story is informed by interviews with FBI profiling legend, John Douglas, and a police academy instructor who believes strongly in investigative intuition, Greg Lawson.
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Customer Reviews
Excellent!
RIP, Ian. I enjoyed your voice acting very much even though you said you weren’t that comfortable with it. You are terribly missed…
Ready for Episode 4
First three episodes live up to expectations and looking daily for episode 4
Too many of a single ad!
In one episode there commercial breaks in all the wrong places. Whoever is editing this podcast is doing poorly. I understand the point of ads. But having one add and two minutes later the same ad. I stopped after the second episode.