Author: Jack (Page 20 of 174)

Happy New Year Everyone!

With a brand new year, and our continued focus on bringing more to you, we now have a Mutual Reddit thread. If you’re a fan of reddit and need another place to talk about Audio Drama you have found or hope to find on Mutual please join us and tell us your thoughts!

From our first post:

Nearly six years ago, I had gotten off a plane from Texas.

I had met up with three other people to scatter the ashes of Bill Hollweg (Broken Sea Audio) a pioneer in the Modern Audio Drama movement.

By that time, I had spent nearly a decade and a half making audio drama- writing, producing and acting in hundreds of various shows many of my own. I had hosted and created the world’s largest collection of modern audio drama/audio fiction showcase- The Sonic Society.
I had created the Audio Drama Rating System which dozens of companies have kind adopted to help provide a clearer perspective of age expectations for listening. I had begun the first audio drama script writing annual event (NADSWRIM- National Audio Drama Scriptwriting Month of February) and I had begun the process of putting together the world’s first convention of modern audio drama (MAD-CON).
I had put my tent poles down, not because I wanted to be the face of this medium but rather to help raise of those who, like me, loved telling stories and wanted to have those works out there. I made it a point to interview some of the important innovators of the day, found new friends, and spent a lot of time writing about the various “Ages” of the audio drama movement, but still I had found so much more to be engaged with.
Audio Drama has become like every other community. Folks find their own “tribe” and create their own stories and often times stovepipe from each other opportunities to grow and find new listeners.
We see this in different tenors in different social media platforms. Reddit users are different people from X/Twitter users, from Facebook users, and especially Discord users.

I had seen people put together networks but found little benefit for me, as the people in my network would be the people I would connect with always.
So what kind of network would I want to be a part of?
I wanted a group of artists (a United Artists of Audio one might say) where we were inclusive based on ideas alone. Where someone regardless of their station in life could say, “Cool. I love that” and jump on board.
When I considered names, one kept coming up to me: MUTUAL.
Not only did I want our love of Audio Drama to be mutually beneficial, but the Mutual Broadcasting System was one of my favourite sources for radio drama of the past. The Shadow, The Mysterious Traveler, Arch Obeler, Captain Midnight, even Superman were all gifts to the future from the MBS.

And the rest is history. The Mutual Audio Network now has eight podcasts- seven daily podcasts dropping audio dramas based on the various genres (Monday Matinee, Tuesday Terror, Wednesday Wonders, Thursday Thrillers, Friday Follies, Saturday Story Circle, and Sunday Showcase) along with the full Mutual Broadcast Feed. There are other podcasts as well including Role Playhouse, Story Circle Theatre, and the Mutual Book Club. Coming soon there will be several more that will at least have monthly if not bi-monthly releases.
This reddit thread is meant for people who LOVE Audio Drama and/or would LOVE to see their works replayed on Mutual’s feed where we reach a wide audience of folks who may not be able to find your works. Our purpose, like the Sonic Society, is strictly to bring Audio Drama to the world, and hope that your audience finds YOU and supports you to make more.

We at Mutual love this medium and are working to see it grow beyond those who have already found it. We have always insisted there are new listeners out there just waiting to find us, and old fans of radio drama who have difficulties just using the technology to make it happen.

Welcome. Whether you’re new here, or your new to Mutual, or you’ve been a long-time listener, we’d love to talk to you.