Wil Wheaton

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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._L._Moore https://www.pgdp.net/c/

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

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 the Pinnocchio ride in the Magic Kingdom, in 1993." https://craphound.com/fic/return.html

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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1243420.Can_Such_Things_Be_

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

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

A short Japanese myth. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/53033/53033-h/53033-h.htm#Page_15

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

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.

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.

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 specification. You can find out more about Dime Mystery Magazine, and a ton of other pulps, at https://www.pulpmags...

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 greatest story I've ever read (if I'd read it before I narrated it, I wouldn't have chosen it), but it...

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.

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 of miles of highway behind and ahead of you, five years after the world ended.

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 breakup messages from sensitive people. You have been warned. I have decided that doing show notes is not w...

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.

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.

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.

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/

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 clips that I eyeballed, thought were interesting, and tossed into the edit timeline. I grabbed a bunch of...

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 mixed and rendered before I realized it was there. I made the cover image by databending a creepy pictur...

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 Dating System), a "blue verbal data feed" sent backwards in time to "retro A.D." by Decker, T. L., index...

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 Dating System), a "blue verbal data feed" sent backwards in time to "retro A.D." by Decker, T. L., index...