Episodes
From ars PARADOXICA and Whisperforge Radio Stories on the Air Except It's the Internet Now, it's Timeswimmers!
Story by Daniel Manning & Tyler Pomponio, written by The Koch Brothers Mystery Show kochbrothersmysteryshow.com
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Published 08/08/17
Swearing's come a long way in 70 years, but Sally's getting impatient. She's ready for a new age in linguistic expression.
**WARNING: This episode contains very, VERY strong language. Listener discretion advised.
Created by Daniel Manning & Mischa Stanton. Written by Alexander Danner & Jeff Van Dreason, the creators of Greater Boston: GreaterBostonShow.com. Directed & produced by Mischa Stanton. Featuring Kristen DiMercurio as Sally Grissom, Katie Speed as Esther Roberts, Robin...
Published 07/01/17
The Far Meridian. A new audio drama podcast from the hivemind responsible for ars Paradoxica. Season 1 airs every other Monday, starting June 5th. Subscribe today: TheFarMeridian.com
Created & written by Eli Barraza, directed & produced by Mischa Stanton. Music by The Album Leaf.
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Published 06/05/17
A day in the life of Sally's cat Archimedes. Follow the Cat About Town; surely he can't get into more trouble than his owner. Can he?
Created by Daniel Manning & Mischa Stanton. Story by Daniel Manning, Danielle Shemaiah & Julian Mundy, written by Julian Mundy, directed & produced by Mischa Stanton. Featuring Kristen DiMercurio, as Sally Grissom, Reyn Beeler as Chet Whickman, Katie Speed as Esther Roberts, and Robin Gabrielli, as well as Julian Mundy, Mischa Stanton, and Erin...
Published 06/01/17
The Far Meridian. A new audio drama podcast from the hivemind responsible for ars Paradoxica. Season 1 airs every other Monday, starting June 5th. Subscribe today: thefarmeridian.com
Created & written by Eli Barraza, directed & produced by Mischa Stanton. Music by The Album Leaf.
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Published 05/29/17
A training tape shown to new ODAR recruits.
Created by Daniel Manning & Mischa Stanton. Written by Julian Mundy, directed & produced by Mischa Stanton. Featuring John Wallis as the Narrator. Original music by Mischa Stanton and by Eno Freedman-Brodmann.
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Published 05/01/17
Chet draws a line in the sand; the Anchorites are trapped. But sand is easily washed away by a rising tide.
ars PARADOXICA is created by Daniel Manning & Mischa Stanton.
Written by Tau Zaman, directed & produced by Mischa Stanton. Featuring Kristen DiMercurio as Sally Grissom, Reyn Beeler as Chet Whickman, Katie Speed as Esther Roberts, Robin Gabrielli as Anthony Partridge, L. Jeffrey Moore as Lou Gaines, Preston Max Allen as Bridget Chambers, Lia Peros as Petra, Gabriela Milo as...
Published 03/15/17
The last remaining record of Dr. Nikhil Sharma, friend to Sally Grissom and foe to ODAR. His presence in only three days of 1949 caused deviations to the timeline not even the Blackroom could predict. What led this rogue element to betray his allegiances and leave everything behind?
Created by Daniel Manning & Mischa Stanton. Written by Tau Zaman, directed & produced by Mischa Stanton. Featuring Arjun Gupta as Nikhil Sharma, and Bernardo Cubría as Mateo Morales, as well as Jade...
Published 02/15/17
The team has assembled, and it's time to take the fight to ODAR. Step 1: get Victor Lambert out of an ODAR prison facility, with a passcode from the desk of Director Chet Whickman himself. To pull this stunt off, they'll need help from an unlikely source.
Created by Daniel Manning & Mischa Stanton. Written by Daniel Manning, directed & produced by Mischa Stanton. Featuring Kristen DiMercurio as Sally Grissom, Reyn Beeler as Chet Whickman, Katie Speed as Esther Roberts, Lia Peros as...
Published 02/01/17
June Barlowe's done biding her time. She's out for vengeance for her late husband Quentin, and heaven help ODAR and anyone else who stands in her way–except for a face she never thought she'd see again...
Created by Daniel Manning & Mischa Stanton. Written by Eli Barraza, directed & produced by Mischa Stanton. Featuring Hannah Trobaugh as June Barlowe, Lee Satterwhite as Quentin Barlowe/Ben Quigley, Susanna Kavee as Helen Partridge, L. Jeffrey Moore as Lou Gaines, Lia Peros as Petra,...
Published 01/01/17
Lou Gaines is on a mission to find his friend David Marian, and in the course of his search ropes in others who have fallen beside ODAR's wake.
Created by Daniel Manning & Mischa Stanton. Written by Julian Mundy, directed & produced by Mischa Stanton. Featuring L. Jeffrey Moore as Lou Gaines, Hannah Trobaugh as June Barlowe, Preston Max Allen as Bridget Chambers, Lauren Shippen as Maggie Elbourne, Lia Peros as Petra, and Kristen DiMercurio as Sally Grissom, as well as James Oliva,...
Published 12/01/16
Anthony’s poking at the limits of the Blackroom, and facing his inevitable lonely demise, conspires with Sally to look for a way out. But when Esther and ODAR get word of the team-up, their concern for their future brings them to conflict.
Created by Daniel Manning & Mischa Stanton. Written, directed & produced by Mischa Stanton. Featuring Kristen DiMercurio as Sally Grissom, Reyn Beeler as Chet Whickman, Katie Speed as Esther Roberts, Robin Gabrielli as Anthony Partridge, Richard...
Published 11/01/16
Petra and Carmen have been recruited for a special training protocol within ODAR. Their mission: Grow up through history backwards, make no connection with the world around them, in an attempt to Stave Off the deadly effects of Butterfly Syndrome. Helped along by their chaperone Van, their peers, and a mysterious guide who offers lemon drops with a side of dissenting opinions on the way things ought to be, can the girls become proper ODAR agents before their last connection to anything in the...
Published 10/01/16
A visitor appears. [http://thebrightsessions.com]
Published 09/15/16
Sally starts gardening and digs up something from her past. Esther falls back on old habits. Chet realizes he’s not here to make friends.
Created by Daniel Manning & Mischa Stanton. Written by Danielle Shemaiah, directed & produced by Mischa Stanton. Featuring Kristen DiMercurio as Sally Grissom, Reyn Beeler as Chet Whickman, Katie Speed as Esther Roberts, and Richard Penner as Dr. Fitzgerald, as well as Fionna Thraille, Heather Auden, Thea Rodgers, Austin Beach, and Jean DiMercurio...
Published 09/01/16
Still shaken since Sharma, Sally seeks a shrink. Meanwhile, mild-mannered Maggie manipulates mice.
**WARNING: This episode contains depictions of animal cruelty. Listener discretion advised. (No animals were harmed in the making of this episode.)
Created by Daniel Manning & Mischa Stanton. Written by Daniel Manning & Mischa Stanton, directed & produced by Mischa Stanton. Featuring Kristen DiMercurio as Sally Grissom, Katie Speed as Esther Roberts, Dan Anderson as Hank...
Published 08/01/16
What’s an ODAR agent doing in the Philadelphia harbor? Nikhil Sharma is from a future dangerously close to Sally’s own, and he claims to have forgotten his orders. Claims. Happy to meet someone who gets all of her Back to the Future references, Sally ditches Esther to road trip back to Point-of-Exile with Nikhil. What awaits them at their destination?
**WARNING: This episode contains graphic depiction of gun violence. Listener discretion advised.
Created by Daniel Manning & Mischa...
Published 07/01/16
Sally and Esther fly out to the east coast. Sally has found a way to communicate with Anthony in the Blackroom, and needs to go to Philadelphia and commit a few crimes and put her life in mortal danger to make it happen– y’know, the usual. Meanwhile, Esther says she’s going to New York for boring supply line reasons, but instead meets with someone from her past.
Created by Daniel Manning & Mischa Stanton. Written by Daniel Manning, directed & produced by Mischa Stanton....
Published 06/01/16
Louis Gaines is a journalism professor in trouble for introducing taboo concepts to his students. David Marian is a chess prodigy with an anger streak. The two war buddies are recruited by a mysterious government agency. Is it ODAR? Of course it is. But will their new employer mean the end of their friendship?
Created by Daniel Manning & Mischa Stanton. Written by Julian Mundy, directed & produced by Mischa Stanton. Featuring L. Jeffrey Moore as Lou Gaines, Alexander Cole as David...
Published 05/01/16
As punishment for his crimes, Anthony Partridge is exiled to the Blackroom, ODAR’s communications hub situated at the anchor point. He’s not so sure he wants to be ODAR’s slave until the end of his days, but that all changes when he’s the only one who can get Sally Grissom the care she needs. Sally’s fallen into a coma after a meeting with her future self, and ODAR’s off and running without her. What world will Sally find waiting for her outside the hospital?
Created by Daniel Manning &...
Published 04/01/16
When Anthony seeks revenge on Bill Donovan for his crimes, he finds more than he’d bargained for: due to the effects of CAGE therapy, he’s a frail old man, confined to a bed, but otherwise healthy. But that won’t be enough to stop Anthony Partridge when he’s got an axe to grind. Meanwhile, Sally gets a visit from her future self, and if you though one Sally was a lot to handle… Oh man. Just you wait.
**WARNING: This episode contains graphic depictions of violence. Listener discretion...
Published 03/15/16
Anthony Partridge has stumbled across a box full of tapes in Bill Donovan’s office. Spoilers: Bill’s had the whole town wired for years, and he’s recorded EVERYTHING. And that’s not all–he’s been blackmailing politicians, he manipulated Helen, and he’s bending the fabric of spacetime to keep himself in power. He doesn’t stop for breath, even when his health starts to fail. Is there anything Bill Donovan won’t do?
Created by Daniel Manning & Mischa Stanton. Written, directed &...
Published 03/01/16
It’s Christmastime again, and the team is on the verge of a breakthrough. Anthony Partridge has been working nonstop to finish his latest invention, and though he’s made substantial gains, he may stand to lose even more. Jack Wyatt is done with the whole ODAR game and wants to take his girlfriend Penny with him, but Esther’s just stuck one foot further in and might need his help. And Sally, all alone on Christmas, finds solace—and the answers she’s been looking for—in her new 20th-century...
Published 02/01/16
An accident finally leads to a practically-demonstrable use of the Timepiece: the CAGE, a bubble of time outside the universe. Chet isn’t too happy with Esther’s decision to spend 24 (relative) hours trapped inside it. But when he is trapped inside with her, it gives these two time to talk about the only thing they have in common: ODAR, and its potential future without Bill Donovan.
Created by Daniel Manning & Mischa Stanton. Written by Daniel Manning, directed & produced by Mischa...
Published 01/01/16