Oz 9

Gated Galaxies

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It's Spring 2142 (a Tuesday), and Gated Galaxies has launched its 400 Oz-8000 ships, each carrying 50,000 "resting guests" to, hopefully, a new home on a shiny, brand-new planet. Except this whole "terraform and take over" idea isn't actually the plan; the real plan is far more nefarious and involves a great deal of cackling. But those aboard the ships don't know that, so off they toodle (those that make it out of Earth's atmosphere, at least), all shiny and optimistic. This is the story of one of those ships – the Oz 9 – and its tiny crew of hopeless incompetents. So far, they've been in space half an hour and several hundred people are dead. So... bright future, clearly.

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episode seventy-eight: Is anyone else seeing wings?

Oz 9

09/25/22 • 30 min

Is anyone else hearing a weird ... flapping sound? And feeling a tiny bit of a breeze? But like, a weirdly hostile breeze that's just coiled up and waiting to turn into a tornado, given even a hint of a reason?

Just me? Huh.

Well, it's episode 78, and if you haven't learned your lesson by now, I can't help you.

Also, there will be (WAS says voice from future) a live listen-along for season-ending episode 80, so keep your eye on our Twitter (@oz9pocast) and our website (https://oz-9.com) for that one.

You've been listening to:

Eric Perry as Howard, Joe, and Dr. von Haber Zetzer
Tim Sherburn as Colin and Emily
Richard Cowen as Leet
Bonnie Brantley as Jessie and Donna
Shannon Perry as Madeline and Olivia
Chrisi Talyn Saje as Julie
David S Dear as Dr Theo Bromae and Tiberius
Aaron Clark as Le Bichon Frise and Ben
Kevin Hall as Greg and Felonius
Sarah Golding as Mrs Sheffield
Lee Shackleford as Pluto
Kyle Jones is Narrator 2
Introducing Sarah Rhea Werner as Pipistrelle!
Chris Nadolny Gourley is your Narrator

We love hearing from you, so leave us a review if it strikes your fancy, or hang out with us on the Podcast Nexus Discord Server. You'll find the link on our website, https://oz-9.com.

Our theme and other music is composed and performed by John Faley. Our artwork is by Lucas Elliott (who also did our COMIC BOOK and our cool pin set!! https://oz9podcast.etsy.com). Sarah Golding is our dialogue editor. Oliver Morris is our sound desiger. Oz 9 is written by Shannon Perry.

Oz 9 is a proud member of the Fable & Folly network. Please support our partners here: https://fableandfolly.com/partners/. And be sure to check out the other great Fable & Folly shows at https://fableandfolly.com/.

Until next time, Space Monkeys, shoot for the stars. Just, not literally.

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episode one: What the f&#* is that smell??

Oz 9

11/18/18 • 19 min

HEY! HI! If you enjoyed this episode (and yes, I know, you probably haven't heard it yet, hush), you'll be thrilled to know it's also a COMIC BOOK. Which you can BUY! https://oz9podcast.etsy.com

On an otherwise unexceptional Tuesday in 2142*, Gated Galaxies fired off 400 of its Oz 8000TM ships, each with 50,000 “resting guests” tucked into stasis pods, plus a skeleton crew of up to half-a-dozen total no-hopers.

It was a win-win for G2, as they’re known, as the Oz 8000 model was about to be declared “unfit for journeying to the nearest 7-Eleven, much less interstellar space” and recalled. G2 had a very large fleet of the 8000s, and a slight head start on the recall, as they’d paid off the head inspector to delay her report by promising the ships would be stripped and sold for parts. Instead, the ships were spit-shined, outfitted with some black market YugoPodsTM, and space aboard quietly sold to very very rich people on the promise that somewhere up there, screamingly wealthy and privileged lives away from the riff raff of Earth were to be had.

To their credit, there was a lot of screaming, so they had that right.

This is the story of one of those ships, the Oz 9, and the utterly futile attempts of its crew to fulfill its stated mission: to deliver the passengers safely to their new, terraformed planet. At its unstated (and unknown) mission – to make Gated Galaxies even richer by doing some sneaky, underhanded and occasionally homicidal things – it was a massive success.

Oz 9 is a proud member of the Fable & Folly network! Please support our partners here: https://fableandfolly.com/partners/. And be sure to check out the other great Fable & Folly shows at https://fableandfolly.com/.

*Thanks, Space Cadet #420!

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episode eighty-two: Keep your knickers out of the biscuit tin

Oz 9

05/11/23 • 30 min

Our crew land on a strange planet ... and find someone truly strange.

BUT: here's your chance to hear a chunk of Dr. Theo's novel as our turnip greens attempt to evade what Joe refers to as "the stupidest way to die we've come up with yet."

You've been listening to:

Chrisi Talyn Saje as Julie
Shannon Perry as Madeline
Sarah Golding as Mrs Sheffield
Tim Sherburn as Colin
Eric Perry as Joe
Bonnie Brantley as Jessie
Kevin Hall as Greg
Kyle Jones as Narrator 2 and
Chris Nadolny Gourley as your Narrator

**Guest starring Ash Hunt as Officer Lowell, courtesy of Oblivity, the brilliant podcast by Rob Stringer.**

If you're not familiar with Oblivity podcast, you're really missing out. Stay tuned for a tasty sample, then find more here: https://www.oblivitypodcast.com/. Oblivity is one of our favorite shows of all time, so make sure you check them out!

John Faley writes our music; Lucas Elliott is responsible for our artwork. Sarah Golding is our dialogue editor, and sadly, Shannon Perry sound designed this mess.

Thanks for listening, space monkeys. Now go do something useful to make up for it.

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Bonus: Enough with the toad orgy, Two

Oz 9

02/08/23 • 12 min

If you struggled through the classically complex and layered story of the last four seasons, you're not alone. It was, as Mrs Sheffield has it, "more twisty-turny than my graduate teaching assistant's insides after my AP Honours' Intestinal Inversion lecture and practicuum."

So Dr. Charles Tucket, who you may remember from another hiatus episode, The Oz 8000 Biosphere: Portrait of a Refuge, has been unthawed once again to provide some much-needed and hopefully not teeth-grittingly dull exposition and explanation.

Good luck. Take notes.

You've been listening to:

Kyle Jones as the tour guide and Narrator Two
David S Dear as Dr. Charlie Tucket, and
Chris Nadolny Gourley is your Narrator

Our theme and other music is composed and performed by John Faley. Our artwork is by Lucas Elliott (who also did our COMIC BOOK and our cool pin set!! https://oz9podcast.etsy.com). Sarah Golding is our dialogue editor, and Oliver Morris sound designed this episode. Oz 9 is written by Shannon Perry.

Until next time, Space Monkeys!

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episode three: Great heaving chesticles

Oz 9

12/04/18 • 16 min

Have you ever thrown the last of your milkshake out the car window, only to have it splat on the windshield of the car behind you? OK, imagine doing that with liquified human remains, in space, where there are no windshield wipers. Or gas stations with handy squeegee things. What happens next? You might get a really irritated comms call from the next ship in line, who are, incidentally, also about to hit you.

You're listening to:

Bonnie Brantley as Jessie
Richard Cowen as Leet
Richard Nadolny as The Narrator
Eric Perry as Joe
Shannon Perry as Madeline and Olivia

Theme and incidental music composed and performed by John Faley. Our artwork is by Lucas Elliott (who also did our COMIC BOOK and our cool pin set!! https://oz9podcast.etsy.com). Oz 9 is written by Shannon Perry.

Sound effects available on Freesound:

Spaceship Engine – just noise.wav by Nexotron

Sci fi door by peepholecircus

Electric zap by JoelAudio

Bridge ambient sounds: https://freesound.org/people/Diboz/sounds/211683/

Car handbrake sound by audible-edge: https://freesound.org/people/audible-edge/sounds/76804/

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Bonus Discussing Oz 9: Hiatus Episode

Oz 9

02/22/23 • 27 min

Welcome to the Audiotorium. It's Discussing Oz 9, with Narrator and Narrator 2, Pluto, and other assorted folks.

If you're not familiar with the Discussing Network and their stable of shows, Discussing Who, Discussing Trek, and Discussing Comics, you really could be listening to that instead of this. (http://www.discussingnetwork.com/)

But in the style of Discussing Stuff, it's a review of Oz 9's season 4, so if you haven't listened to all of season 4, well, spoilers, sweetie.

This episode was written by Kyle Jones and features ...

Chris Nadolny Gourley as your Narrator
Kyle Jones as Narrator 2
(and far-too-briefly Clarence Brown as Narrator 2)
Lee Shackleford as Pluto
Tim Sherburn as Colin
June Clark Eubanks as the Albatros
Aaron Clark as Le Bichon Frise
Richard Cowen as Leet
Bonnie Brantley as Donna and Cpt Jessie
Steven Crider as Rock Brickwell
Richard Nadolny as the Alarm
Shannon Perry as Olivia

Be sure to check out all the shows at our very dear friends' Discussing Network!

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episode seventy-four: You know where the porn stash is

Oz 9

07/17/22 • 23 min

Note: This episode is narrated by Richard Nadolny, so guard your heart.

It's episode 74, and you know what that means.... DO you know what it means? Could you write it on a note and slip it to us during study hall, because we've got nothing.

Things are just Nutty McNutface with this crew, and everyone's in the dark, literally and figuratively. Who can you trust when everyone's skulky and half the crew went to spy school but apparently no one actually read O Captain You're a Captain?

Our favorite cabbage-heads are once again struggling to survive, and the smart money is on the plants.

You've been listening to:

Introducing Chrisi Talyn Saje in the role of Julie
Aaron Clark as Ben and le Bichon Frise
David S Dear as Tiberius and Dr. Theo Bromae
Shannon Perry as Olivia and Madeline
Richard Cowen as Leet
Tim Sherburn as Colin and Emily
Bonnie Brantley as Jessie and Donna
Kevin Hall as Greg J
une Clark Eubanks as the Albatros
Eric Perry as Dr von Haber Zetzer, Joe, and Howard
Kyle Jones is Narrator 2 and
Richard Nadolny is your Narrator

Until next time, Space Monkeys!

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episode seventy-three: Is that a Giant Turnip?

Oz 9

06/30/22 • 25 min

Warning: this is narrated by Richard, so take care of you. He didn't mean to make you sad.

Brugmansia, it turns out, isn't a type of Italian leather shoe. Nor is it the third movement of something by Beethoven. And it is definitely NOT edible.

But it can be stuck in one's mouth and swallowed, so of course, the bumfluff crew of Oz 9 did.

BTW, St. Leonard's Day isn't a real thing. But it should be.

You've been listening to

Bonnie Brantley as Jessie and Donna
Richard Cowen as Leet
Tim Sherburn as Colin
Aaron Clark as Ben and le Bichon Frise
June Clark Eubanks as the Albatros
Kevin Hall as Greg
Shannon Perry as Madeline
Iri Alexander as Julie
Eric Perry as Dr von Haber Zetzer, Mr Southers, and Joe
David S Dear as Dr. Theo Bromae
Lee Shackleford as Pluto
Sarah Golding as Mrs Sheffield
Kyle Jones is Narrator 2, and
Richard Nadolny is your Narrator

Until next time, Space Monkeys!

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episode seventy-seven: Mind the disco ball

Oz 9

08/28/22 • 31 min

Content warning: There are some big emotions in this one, so please take care of you.

We're getting closer to the end of Season 4, and ... well, that's it, really. We're getting closer. Break out the confetti because you get a break from us!

Well, probably. We're kind of like barnacles — we have to be scraped off and then we still leave a sticky residue.

Anyway, lots going on in here, so I'll just leave you to it. Pass the sandwiches. And the tissue....

Eric Perry as Dr von Haber Zetzer and Joe
Shannon Perry as Madeline and Olivia
David S Dear as Dr. Theo Bromae
Tim Sherburn as Colin
Kevin Hall as Greg and Felonius
Richard Cowen as Leet
Aaron Clark as Le Bichon Frise and Ben
Bonnie Brantley as Jessie and Donna
Chrisi Talyn Saje as Julie
Sarah Golding as Mrs Sheffield
June Clark Eubanks as the Albatros
Kyle Jones is Narrator 2, and
Chris Nadolny Gourley is your Narrator

Until next time, Space Monkeys!

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episode seventy-five: Mad stories of trampled relatives

Oz 9

07/31/22 • 25 min

Note: This is the final episode narrated by Richard Nadolny. His fabulous daughter Chris Nadolny Gourley takes over the mic in 76.

Other note: despite what the credits say, this episode was edited by Sarah Golding and sound designed by Oliver Morris. (Both geniuses; give them lots of gigs and money.)

Note 3: The subtitle is just in case he's googling himself. :)

We'd say the pace is picking up, but seriously, when you're just going around in circles because half of your engines are blown out, does pace really matter?

Also, did YOU know National Geographic has a Narrators' Lounge? Who do you suppose hangs out in there? Freeman and Attenborough, obv; surely Ron Howard drops by now and again, Benedict Cumberbatch probably quit coming by after that whole "peng-wing" incident... Oprah has her own wing...

Sorry, got a little distracted there. What were we talking about? Oh hell, I'm sure whatever it was, it wasn't very important.

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