
Nathan Smythe interviewed by Hunter Lowry
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05/20/25 • 7 min
Hunter Lowry interviews Nathan Smythe, who played several roles in "Purgatory, Missouri" including various carnies, pinbots and The Void. Nathan is a man of a trillion voices. When he stepped up to the mic during the audition, I said “Go over the top on this.” That was the scene at the end of Episode 4 when Thirty Eight encounters his first Pinbot. When his cold read was finished, Richard, Maureen, Allyson and I looked at each other like a hurricane just blew back our hair. Recording the scene in the studio with Dave Foley, he delivered again. Hunter was wiping back tears. Along with his alter ego of "DJ Nate" spinning records around town, he has voiced numerous commercials, video games and anime. You have heard him in White Castle commercials, Japanese anime TV shows, gamers know him from his work on the English version of “Fighting Spirit”, “Victorious Boxers: Revolution”, and many, many more.
For more information on "Purgatory, Missouri", please visit our website:
Hunter Lowry interviews Nathan Smythe, who played several roles in "Purgatory, Missouri" including various carnies, pinbots and The Void. Nathan is a man of a trillion voices. When he stepped up to the mic during the audition, I said “Go over the top on this.” That was the scene at the end of Episode 4 when Thirty Eight encounters his first Pinbot. When his cold read was finished, Richard, Maureen, Allyson and I looked at each other like a hurricane just blew back our hair. Recording the scene in the studio with Dave Foley, he delivered again. Hunter was wiping back tears. Along with his alter ego of "DJ Nate" spinning records around town, he has voiced numerous commercials, video games and anime. You have heard him in White Castle commercials, Japanese anime TV shows, gamers know him from his work on the English version of “Fighting Spirit”, “Victorious Boxers: Revolution”, and many, many more.
For more information on "Purgatory, Missouri", please visit our website:
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Ep5: Carnies
Welcome to Purgatory, Missouri.
What is sleep? What is the Afterlife? Do they collide? The Carnies hold a Mandatory Carnie meeting, giving us our first glance at the inner workings of the Carnival. Blanca gets troubling news from the Void. Roger ballys his first Boogieman.
The songs included in this episode are:
"We Are The Falling Rain" and "The Devil Whammy" from American Gothic
"It's Loney Inside Your Mind", "When The Truth Runs Out", and "Now We Kiss" outtakes from American Gothic
All songs from the "Dark Americana" series by Stuart Pearson and Hunter Lowry.
Purgatory, Missouri is brought to you by Stage for a New Age Productions, a SAG actor signatory.
Produced by Maureen Davis and Allyson Sereboff in cooperation with We Make Movies and Rock'n'Roll Radio Theater
Directed by Richard Malmos
This episode features (in order of appearance):
Richard Malmos as One
Dave Foley as Roger
Mindy Sterling as Five
Gina Elaine as Carnie
Annette Homewod as Three
Tonoccus McClain as Twenty Seven
Brent Cho as Thirty Two
Alina Foley as Twelve
Julia Albert as Seven
Crissy Guerrero as Blanca
Nathan Smythe as Void and Pinbot
Carnie and Pinbot voices by Gary Lamb, Samuel Johnson and the cast.
Purgatory, Missouri was written by Stuart Pearson and Hunter Lowry
Script editing and supervision by Maureen Davis.
Recorded at Studiopolis in Studio City, Ca. and engineered by Bryan Showalter
All mixing, foley and post-production by Stuart Pearson
For more info, visit www.stuartpearsonmusic.com
Dave Foley has a podcast with Tom Wheeler called "Really?!." where they discuss UFOs and the paranormal: https://www.youtube.com/@ReallywithTomandDave
Crissy Guerrero has a podcast with Claudia Dolph where they discuss... well,... everything: https://www.youtube.com/@studiocandc
Next Episode

Ep. 6 Prologue
Our brilliant director Richard Malmos wrote and narrates the prologues for each episode. Here he lifts the veil slightly to give you the briefest view of Episode 6: Belinda.
When your worlds cross, which one is the "real" one?
Episode 6 premieres May 27th, 2025. Subscribe now wherever you listen to podcasts.
For more information, please visit our website:
https://www.stuartpearsonmusic.com/purgatory-missouri
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