Radio Free Burrito Presents: The Invisible Man by HG Wells Chapter 4 and 5.

Chapters four and five.

Radio Free Burrito Presents: The Invisible Man by HG Wells. Chapter 3.

Here’s Chapter 3. Enjoy!

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.

• The logo was designed by WWdN:iX reader Marc, who asked that I not link to his “in progress” website. Thanks, Marc!
• 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.
• The theme music is from the unofficial Night of the Living Dead Soundtrack.
• The Devil in the White City tells the true and compelling story of H.H. Holmes.
• The Lore podcast did an episode about Holmes.
• Sean Bonner’s newsletter is always worth reading.
• It takes three episodes for American Horror Story: Hotel to find itself, but it’s still on a show-by-show probation for me.
• Josh Dean’s story, American Horror Story: The Cecil Hotel is both the focus of and inspiration for this episode. There are a number of interesting and relevant footnotes in Josh’s story, as well as a lot of photos. There are also comments and links from readers that you can read and follow if you really want to fall down a deep rabbit hole.
• Josh wrote this story for Matter. I can’t think of a clever way to encourage you to check out the stories at Matter, so this sentence will have to do.
• I realized while I was reading this story that I drive by the Cecil Hotel on my way home from every Kings game, but I only saw the hotel for the first time about a week ago … that’s a strange and unsettling coincidence.
• I used a lot of music for this episode. It’s all under license from Magnatune.com, and includes: Edible Arrangements by Kalabi, Illumination by Robert Rich, Mandala for Chaos by Sampson-Carroll, Into the Void by Subsonic Information, and Touch by Falling You.
• I already had a lot of respect for the production quality of podcasts like Lore, Limetown, The Black Tapes, You Must Remember This, Welcome to Night Vale, and The Memory Palace, but until I tried to replicate their style, I didn’t realize just how challenging it is to find music that goes with the words in exactly the right way, emotionally hits the right way, and is mixed the right way. I don’t think I got there, exactly, but I came close.
• This episode is one of the longest I’ve ever made, at 1h33m It’s a VBR file, though, so it’s not too huge, and weighs in at 62.3MB.
• This is the end of the show notes.

Here’s your embed:

And here’s a direct link to 044-RFB.

Happy Halloween, everyone.

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We’re (almost) baaaaaaack

So this should technically be episode 35, but it’s really just an experiment to see if I can keep making burritos, so we’re just calling it Radio Free Burrito’s Experimental Episode.

Here’s a cut-n-paste from the mothership:

I had an idea, so I tried it out. I’m publishing it now, before I have a chance to back out and change my mind.

• Show Notes:
• The audio isn’t perfectly clean. That is by design. This is an experiment.
• Radio Free Burrito doesn’t work as hard as Memories of the Futurecast did to earn its NSFW rating, but listener discretion is still advised.
• If you want to introduce yourself, join this post. Maybe you’ll make a new friend.
• The theme music was just called “flight.mp3” and I have no idea where it came from.
• There’s no art, because it’s an experimental episode.
• I’m not sure if this will work with typical podcast clients. Apologies in advance if it isn’t available in your preferred thing.
• The episode is 19.26 and is 28MB.

Enjoy the Burrito!

If the embeded player doesn’t work, try this link: RFB-Experimental

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Radio Free Burrito: Episode Fifteen

Holy Crap, it's time for a new episode of Radio Free Burrito!

I started this episode on Monday, and real life (and trying damn hard not to suck) kept me working on it until Thursday. Let's find out if it was worth the wait!

Show Notes:

• The logo was designed by WWdN:iX reader Marc, who asked that I not link to his "in progress" website. Thanks, Marc!
• Radio Free Burrito doesn't work as hard to earn its [EXPLICIT] tag as Memories of the Futurecast does, but it still manages to upset mom and get Twitter breakup messages from sensitive people. You have been warned.
• Very special thanks to Monsters From Mars for making incredible music and making it possible for me to play it on my show.
• If you, like me, want more Monsters from Mars, they have a pretty rockin' playlist at YouTube that makes me want to see them perform live.
• Thanks to everyone who posed a question on Twitter. I would have answered more of them, but I started to feel like I was getting boring and the show was running long. In fact, I think it's probably the weakest part of the show, and I probably won't try to do the Q&A in future episodes.
• Here are some screenshots of the pdf version of the unpublished Twitter book.
• You can follow Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Platt on Twitter.
• You can get more information about voice Over Voice Actor at Voiceovervoiceactor.com.
• All we want to do is eat your ganache-filled cupcake brains. (via Bear.)
• This episode is just over 41 minutes long. 
• This episode is about 56MB. Um. Wow. That's a lot of MBs.
• This is the end of the notes. 

Ready? Then now would be a perfect time to

Download Radio Free Burrito Episode 15!

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Radio Free Burrito: Episode Fourteen

Holy Crap, it's time for a new episode of Radio Free Burrito!

I'm feeling creatively stuck and frustrated these days, so in an effort to escape from the chains of creative oppression, I thought I'd cook up a little burrito for the people. I hope you enjoy it, and remember to chew your food.

Show Notes:

• The logo was designed by WWdN:iX reader Marc, who asked that I not link to his "in progress" website. Thanks, Marc!
• Radio Free Burrito doesn't work as hard to earn its [EXPLICIT] tag as Memories of the Futurecast does, but it still manages to upset mom. You have been warned.
• As promised, here is a link to Hard 'N Phirm's website.
• Here's Chris Hardwick on Twitter.
• Here's Mike Phirman on Twitter.
• Here's Elliot Gould selling you Jim Beam. (via)
• Here's a line which has no link. Yay!
• WFMU's 365 Project is magnificent.
• Ficly is a whole lot of fun. My contributions are here.
• This episode is just over 18 minutes long. In fact, it's ten seconds over.
• This episode is 17.5MB
• This is the end of the notes. 

Ready? Then now would be a perfect time to

Download Radio Free Burrito Episode 14

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Welcome to Wil Wheaton’s Radio Free Burrito Podcast

Hi there. I'm Wil Wheaton, and I'm from the Internet.

I grew up in Los Angeles, listening to great broadcasters like Jim Ladd, Richard Blade, and Doctor Demento. I listened to radio stations like KLOS, KROQ, and KMET, all during their glory days from the late 70s until the late 80s. I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't love music, and didn't want to be on the radio.

I got a little sidetracked by an acting career, but even when I was at the height of my acting success, my dream of broadcasting never entirely went away. I was never able to make it into actual radio, but when the internet made podcasting possible, I seized the opportunity to play music, tell stories, and finally satisfy my delusions of DJ grandeur.

Radio Free Burrito is an infrequently-updated podcast, mostly focused on podsafe or creative-commons-licensed music. The first 13 posts here at the RFB homepage are considered the archives, and they cover a time period from 2005-2008. Comments are closed on all the archive posts, but as new episodes of RFB are added, those comments will be open.

A note to the listener: these podcasts are old, and the e-mail addresses I mention in them were sent to the land of wind and ghosts a long time ago. You can send all the mail you want to them, but it's just going to bounce.

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you enjoy the Burrito.