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The Hog Who Roared: A Bedtime Story for Weird Kids Mar 19, 2024

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What happens when Disney tropes go sideways? With a little bit of Bambi, some Dumbo, and a splash of Fox & the Hound, join us for an episode about an orphan hog with a traumatic past and a terrifying future.
Guest vocals by the one and only Dan Jopling
Story inspiration from Brett Jarboe
Music provided by:
Andrew howes, pigs out
Axletree, the silent grove
Big Blood, frost farm
Smallpox, squeal like a pig, ned
Soft and furious, green pig

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Revelations Mar 09, 2024

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The serial killer and the orphan sat down in the kitchen, and over a few pints of Ben & Jerrys, he explains to her the true nature of evil in the world. Death, the universe, and everything sinister are laid bare in this eye-opening tale that has been in the making for over 200 episodes.
guest voices: Chris Kaufmann, Kelly Kaufmann, Dan Jopling, Buck Rogers, and the lovely Jamie Lee Hensley
Music by:
Beat Mekanik with thumper
and Lisa Hammer with cold dread, deep note, ethereal dread, graveyard picnic, high pitch, and night terror.
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Doomsday Clock Feb 28, 2024

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The world stopped to watch the funeral of Lilah Ambrose. But her master plan of revenge against the Ghastly Ones is not over -- in fact, the Doomsday Clock has starting ticking. The countdown to extinction has begun.
Featuring the music:
Damiano Baldoni – Bewitched Hell, Funeral Battle, and World of Ruin
Serge Quadrado – Funeral piano, and Funeral
Squire Tuck – Add another log to the funeral pyre

All of these songs are available to download at Freemusicarchive.org
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A Friendly Game of Tag Feb 19, 2024

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It was supposed to be a simple, relaxing camping trip... at the site of a massacre and a forest fire, Joan and Lenny have no idea that something is waiting for them, and that it wants to play a game.
Featured music:
Orbits – feel burn it
Pressor – the smell that you like
Soul on Strings – burn the unbeliever
Tag Cloud – a controlled burn
and Chelsea Oxendine with the theme music

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Fiends in Low Places Feb 06, 2024

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Lurleen Stokes is headed back home to West Virginia to contend with the Kill Car. Along the way she crosses paths with a familiar face -- the legendary phantom hitcher known as the Southern Gentleman. Buckle up.
Featured music:
Horror by Jesse James,
Lonesome valley by Black Twig Pickers
El diablo by Cletus got Shot
Aces and twos by Devil Makes Three
Southern born by Waylon Thompson,
and theme music from Beat Mekanik
All of these songs are available to download at Freemusicarchive.org
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Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Jan 23, 2024

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A strip-mall lawyer gets the client of a lifetime when billionaire and humanitarian Lilah Ambrose hires her for a special job. But this woman has a lifetime of dark and horrific secrets, and needs the lawyer to tie up some loose ends. What she sees will change her forever.
Music by:
Beat Mekanik -- Glow and Submission
Snailpoison – Bone flag
Wave Debb – Essex lodge surgery

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My Life with the Kill Car Cult Jan 18, 2024

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A sequel to the classic HELLBOUND AND DOWN, a quiet holler in West Virginia is about to revisited by an old ghost. Grass roots occultism, a notorious local witch, and an obsession with Earl Joe Hendershot can mean only one thing -- The Kill Car is coming back. Unless one out-of-his-depth lawman can stop it.
Music by:

Beat Mekanik – Harley Davidson and Long way home
Devil Music – Transformation
Lobo Loco - Man in the River and River side blues

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The Executioner's New Hobby Jan 08, 2024

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He thought it was a home invasion... but it was something much worse.
Join a typical suburban family in a typical American backyard. A fire, smores, some scary stories. And then a sinister visitor makes his presence -- and his agenda-- known.
Music by Tramos and Universfield, available on FreeMusicArcive.org
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A Plague of Wicked Thoughts Jan 01, 2024

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When the stars are perfectly aligned, one night every 8 years, the town of Silver Hollow descends into murderous madness. Insanity infects the entire area, inciting horrific atrocities. DRO agent Kevin Koja has a plan to enter the heart of the Plague of Wicked Thoughts, and find the answer to the sinister riddle.
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The Virgin Homicides Dec 18, 2023

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In the 80s, losing it can be murder. Join Ape Drape, Beezer, Jayce, and Rudy as they play pranks, raise hell, and start their newest project -- making Beezer a man. What comes next is a fun romp that quickly turns into something truly abominable.
All of the amazing music this episode comes from the mighty, mighty Beat Mekanik.
warning
nuthouse
savage
circles
confetti
insomnia
just a taste
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