Episodes
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Found on the Elevator 205 W. 57 2-11-69 (Side 1)
I came across this forever ago on a BBS somewhere. I spent a LONG time tracking down a copy of the original record, which I encoded using Audacity and my turntable. Here's the description from Discogs: This recording is an "unauthorized experiment" that was made in the year 2058 C.D.S. (Carbon...
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Found on the Elevator 205 W. 57 2-11-69 (Side 2)
I came across this forever ago on a BBS somewhere. I spent a LONG time tracking down a copy of the original record, which I encoded using Audacity and my turntable. Here's the description from Discogs: This recording is an "unauthorized experiment" that was made in the year 2058 C.D.S. (Carbon...
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I Turned Myself To Face Me Performance One
Three pieces, one longer than the others, that I have never done in public before. I hoped they would all fit together to tell a story, and I was scared to death the the story they told wouldn't resonate with the audience. But I needed to trust myself, trust Anne and my friend who told me it...
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Is This Machine Recording?
Is this machine recording? I made this ambient audioscape thing years ago. I can't remember if I ever posted it.
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
This classic horror story, about a mad prince who ignores a pandemic and dooms his sycophants to death, is surprisingly timely.
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: The Invisible Man by HG Wells Chapter 10
Radio Free Burrito Presents: The Invisible Man by HG Wells Chapter 10 by Wil Wheaton
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: The Invisible Man by HG Wells. Chapter 9
Radio Free Burrito Presents: The Invisible Man by HG Wells. Chapter 9 by Wil Wheaton
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: The Invisible Man by HG Wells Chapter 7 and 8
Chapters 7 and 8 of The Invisible Man, by HG Wells.
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: The Invisible Man by HG Wells Chapter 6
Chapter 6 of The Invisible Man.
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: The Invisible Man by HGWells. Chapters 4 and 5
Chapters four and five of The Invisible Man by HG Wells.
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Radio Free Burrito Presents The Invisible Man by HG Wells. Chapter 3
Here's Chapter 3 of The Invisible Man. Artwork by Steve Dore. Used under CC License.
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Radio Free Burrito Presents The Invisible Man By HG Wells Chapter 1 And 2
Today, I am starting the big finale of this project. Over the next few weeks, I'll release one or two chapters of The Invisible Man every few days. We begin with chapters 1 and 2.
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Radio Free Burrito Presents The Fight with the Gorgon by Robert Silverberg
From the October, 1958 Issue of Super Science, a short adventure tale by Science Fiction master Robert Silverberg. https://archive.org/details/Super_Science_Fiction_v02n06_1958-10/page/n3/mode/2up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick
Today, I bring you a short story from Philip K. Dick that is about as different from our last episode as you can get, while staying with the same author. The image I used comes from emilylongbreak dot com: https://emilylongbrake.com/day-325-the-eyes-have-it/ And here's the original text I used:...
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: Tony and the Beetles by Philip K. Dick
The great Philip K. Dick wrote about the human condition as well as any speculative fiction writer of the 20th century, and I am incredibly lucky that this story of his is out of copyright. This was originally published in 1953. It's about racism and colonialism, about how the participants in a…
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Radio Free Burrito Presents Alibi Girl by Jack Nielsen
From the September, 1947 issue of Master Detective Magazine, comes "Alibi Girl", a pulp narrative of two police detectives, solving a murder case where their prime suspect confesses, but also has an air-tight alibi. This one was a lot of fun to read. I've been wanting to do a mid-century…
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Radio Free Burrito Presents Mr. 'Possum by Abbie Phillips Walker
This is a children's bedtime story that I recorded specifically for my nephew to hear. If you have children, or you're a child at heart, I hope you'll give it a listen. I think it's a sweet story. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/43558/43558-h/43558-h.html#mr-possum
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: Dagon, by H.P. Lovecraft
By request, a short story from HP Lovecraft, one of (if not the) first things he wrote as an adult, in 1917. This wasn't published until 1919, and was published again in 1923, so I take that as a reminder not to get discouraged when things take time in publishing....
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: The World of Poltergeists from Mind Over Matter by Time Life Books
In the 70s, Time Life Books started putting out these collections of paranormal stories, culminating with the massively successful series Mysteries of the Unknown, starting in 1987. None of these stories are scientifically sound, or based in fact. They are just stories that people told and handed...
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: The Door in the Wall by HG Wells
This is the title story from a collection of Wells' work that was published in 1911. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells https://www.gutenberg.org/files/456/456-h/456-h.htm#link2H_4_0001 http://sittingbee.com/the-door-in-the-wall-h-g-wells/
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: Luana the Living by Ray Bradbury
I've been looking for some classic Bradbury to narrate, and last night, I finally found some! This story was written in 1940, and collected into this paperback in 1973. It is *exactly* the kind of book I would have picked up from the spinning rack of fifty cent paperbacks in the drugstore....
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: Ur-Fascism by Umberto Ecco
By popular request, here is Umberto Ecco's essay UR-FASCISM, published in 1995. In this essay, he talks about living in Fascist Italy as a child, growing up under that system during the Second World War. Then he details 14 qualities that define Fascist movements, regardless of the time and place...
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
I am embarrassed to admit that, until last week, I had never read this essay. I knew it existed, but I never made the effort, and I am so glad that I finally did. A Modest Proposal is brilliant, biting, hilarious satire, that is as horrifyingly relevant in 2020 as it was in 1729. This reads like...
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Radio Free Burrito Mixtape: This Ain't No Picnic
Remember mixtapes? I always put dialog, commercials, and bits of spoken word into mine. This is mostly punk, with some surf, a little mid-century easy listening, some William S. Burroughs, and a few bits of audio weirdness I had in a directory that exists solely for that purpose.
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: Satellite of Fear By Fred A. Kummer Jr.
Today's story is a really fun space adventure mystery from the Spring, 1941 issue of Planet Stories. "Inside the crippled Comet, a hard-bitten crew watched the life-giving oxygen run low. Outside, on Ceres' fabled Darkside, stalked death in awful, spectral form."...
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: Song in a Minor Key by CL Moore
I'm trying my best to choose from a wide variety of authors and genres, but I loved Tree of Life so much, I had to bring you another story from the brilliant mind of CL Moore. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28550/28550-h/28550-h.htm
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Radio Free Burrito Presents The Coffin Maker of Carbunari
Published in 1970, today's short story comes from a battered old paperback I own called SUPERNATURAL STRANGERS, by Robert Tralins. Because it's Earth Day, I recorded in my back yard. I hope you can hear some of the birds, and sounds of beautiful Spring life, behind the spooky tale.
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: The Tree of Life by CL Moore
From the October, 1936, issue of WEIRD TALES comes a wonderfully weird, supernatural horror story with just enough science fiction elements to tie the room together. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32850/32850-h/32850-h.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Smith...
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: No Hiding Place by Richard R. Smith
No Hiding Place comes from the November, 1956 issue of Fantastic Universe. It's a fun, Outer Limits-style science fiction adventure. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29272/29272-h/29272-h.htm
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: Return to Pleasure Island by Cory Doctorow
Today's RFB Presents comes from my friend, Cory Doctorow. Cory says, "This is the story of the ogres who run the concession stands on Pleasure Island, where Pinnocchio's friend Lampwick turned into a donkey. Like much of my stuff, this has a tie-in with Walt Disney World; the idea came to me on…
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce
A wickedly funny, beautifully written, tale from one of the great American authors. More info for my fellow nerds who like to know this sort of stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Middle_Toe_of_the_Right_Foot https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15143/15143-h/15143-h.htm#Middle...
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: Thoughts on the Worldstate by Henry Kuttner
From the Spring, 1940 issue of Fantasia Something, edited by Ray Bradbury, today's short story is a goddamn delight. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41651/41651-h/41651-h.htm#THOUGHTS_ON_THE_WORLDSTATE
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: The Ghost of Harrowby Hall
Today's reading is a satirical Victorian ghost story from the 1890s. Found at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8377/pg8377-images.html
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Radio Free Burrito Presents: The Sun Goddess by Wil Wheaton
A short Japanese myth. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/53033/53033-h/53033-h.htm#Page_15
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Radio Free Burrito presents: Star Mother
From Amazing Stories, published in 1959. Written by Robert F. Young. Narrated by Wil Wheaton. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26957/26957-h/26957-h.htm
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Another Punk Mix Tape
I made a mix tape of mostly early 80s punk, with a couple new wave songs from the era that I like, and some audio rarities that entertain me.
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Wil Wheaton PAX Keynote 2007
This is a recording of my 2007 Keynote to the Penny Arcade Expo in 2007. It's the first time I suggested Wheaton's Law (Don't Be a Dick) in public.
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Help Me To Die! (1938)
From Dime Mystery Magazine's July 1938 issue, here is a short story by Leon Byrne that is surprisingly good. The recording is not great. I needed a pop filter, and my mic was a little hot, but I promise to give you a full refund on your purchase price if it doesn't meet your exacting…
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The Cave Of Horrors 1931
I needed to get out of my comfort zone, so I went to Project Gutenberg, clicked through a few bookshelves until I got to classic Science Fiction, and decided to do an unrehearsed, essentially live narration of a story that was published in Astounding Stories of Super Science in 1931. It's not the...
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If This Be Sin - A Radio Free Burrito Mixtape
Another mixtape, built from a bunch of weird and random files I've accumulated over the years. Includes: Telly Savalas, some random preacher who is really into UFOs, Asian covers of popular tunes, surf tunes, early punk, Shatner's balls, and something that's Incredible, but True.
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They mostly come out at night mostly.
Scrolled through Banshee and pulled out a bunch of random tracks, leaning toward punk, new wave, rockabilly, and some random weirdness I had in a folder called RANDOM WEIRDNESS. While putting this together, I imagined a midnight college radio station, somewhere between two small towns, hundreds…
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Radio Free Burrito Episode 50 - an episode of arbitrary significance
Stuff and things and other things, and moog synthesizer music. Yes, it is all in one place, and it’s all for you, Damien! IT IS ALL FOR YOU! Radio Free Burrito doesn’t work as hard to earn its [EXPLICIT] tag as Memories of the Futurecast did, but it still manages to upset mom and get Twitter...
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Radio Free Burrito 49 - farewell, old chum
I have a pair of stories this week. One is about my family’s connection to the Los Angeles Dodgers. The other is about the first time I met Adam West. There’s some music here for you, too.
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Radio Free Burrito Episode 48 - Big Canned Pasta
This week, I brave an unexpected headache from hell to bring you music from some friends, the origin story of a nemesis, SPORTS!, and some thoughts about this moment in history.
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Radio Free Burrito Episode 47 - time is like weird man
Who has kept to a weekly schedule for one whole week in a row? THIS GUY! Radio Free Burrito doesn’t work as hard to earn its [EXPLICIT] tag as Memories of the Futurecast did, but it still manages to upset mom and get Twitter breakup messages from sensitive people. You have been warned.
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Radio Free Burrito Episode 44 - The Cecil Hotel
It's a Halloween episode, sort of, with a spooky, creepy, weird story that gets really dark by the end. Extensive show notes and links at https://radiofreeburrito.com/
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Ephemeral Nightmare
This is the audio from a proof of concept video I made. to test out a project idea I've had for a little while. If I like it, and feel that it was worth the time, I'll make some more like this that actually have more deliberate cuts and choices in the content. At the moment, this is primarily…
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Nine Lives
I was goofing off with Audacity and GarageBand, and I came up with this track. It's inspired by woob, Pete Namlook, FAX Records, and some dark ambient artists I've forgotten. There's a little bit of a happy accident in this mix, because I muted a track in the recording, forgot to delete it, and...
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