Hopepunk Audio Dramas

Hopepunk Audio Dramas: Podcast Recommendations

July 15, 2022

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Why did you choose this theme?

Hopepunk is a word that means a lot of things, but to me, hopepunk shows are about making the best of the worst. These shows are stories about the end a world, with characters that persevere despite it. They're bittersweet, hopeful, dystopian, inspiring, and heartfelt, all wrapped up into one.

PODCAST PICKS:Click on the podcast art to listen 👂

Null/Void101Null/Void is a sci-fi show about a malicious tech company and a mysterious voice. It's also about love and resistance.

Tales of the EchowoodEmpire of the EchowoodTales of the Echowood is a fantasy anthology show about a world's creation and looming end. The narrator of this anthology tells stories to travelers, new to the world of the Echowood ⁠— a world he desperately wants to save.

What Will Be Here?GO FOR DEPLOYThis show is a sci-fi audio drama about living on a doomed earth and building things anyway. A story that was created during the pandemic, it's set in the future but feels like the present.

DesperadoSomething Older Than MexicoThis is a tale of three gods of death trapped on the same boat ⁠— literally at first, and then metaphorically. It's about fighting against invaders to preserve your history and who you are.

CARAVANRiders In The SkyCARAVAN is a story about getting through Hell with the people you love. It's exciting, romantic, and a full-out adventure.

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Listen to Square PegAn American suburban dad gets sucked into the bizarre world of a vengeful, one-eyed British curmudgeon on a decades-long mission to have his brother imprisoned...and things get weird.Square Peg tells a story about bitterness and the things we bury in the past. Listen to the entire series now.

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This week on our podcast...(Click on Tal to listen)Learn about EarBuds curator Tal Minear's podcast picks and their work in audio drama at Realm Media.ALSO: Newt Schottelkotte tells us about this week's spotlight pick, Mini Marconis!Feedback with EarBuds drops on Tuesdays!Subscribe now!

COMMUNITY:

🧛‍♀️This week in Podcast The Newsletter, Lauren Passell features That Vampire Show. "It’s meta, multi-dimensional, it’s creative on top of creative, it’s funny, and extremely listenable," she writes.

💸Someone Dies in this Elevator is part spoiler-driven anthology, part reverse murder mystery, and part full-cast horror audio drama. They are crowdfunding $13k for their 11-episode second season with over 65 cast and crew members. Help this independent show pay their cast and crew!

🙌SALT announced two new hires this week! Kenzi Wilbur (Luminary) joins the team as VP of Partnerships and Development and Robert Adler (Spotify) as Head of Post Production.

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💌Love & Noraebang is a podcast series that tells the story of Ana, a Mexican American entrepreneur, and Jaesun, an heir to a Korean chaebol, who unexpectedly fall in love in modern-day LA. After months of innocent flirting and one passionate karaoke session later, Ana finds out that Jaesun must return to Korea for his two-year military service. Will their love survive the long wait — and everything else?🔍In the new show FACING EVIL from Tenderfoot TV, sisters Rasha Pecoraro and Yvette Gentile from Root of Evil are back. They are now focusing on true crime stories aside from their own, and applying personal lessons of healing they’ve learned from finding their identities outside of their intergenerational trauma.🍰Go Love Yourself, the smash hit body confidence podcast co-hosted by Great British Bake Off star Laura Adlington and body positive icon Lauren Smith, is back. The podcast aims to inspire acceptance and help listeners unlearn harmful body image ‘rules’ and diet myths. Series two topics will include: sex while plus-size, food guilt and menopause, and the challenges larger bodies face when bringing children into the world. Out every Tuesday.

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PODCAST SPOTLIGHT:

Mini MarconisAfter starting their first fiction podcast at age fifteen, Newt Schottelkotte came of age in the industry, and wants to share their tips, trials, and experience with young creators. From overcoming imposter syndrome, to networking, to finding a work-school-more-work-life balance, this is a been-there-done-that series about how to be a fiction podcaster while still being a kid– in every sense of the phrase.

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