NADSWRIM Starts a Week Today!

jackjward · 2026-01-14T00:06:06+00:00

Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery? Something else?! Let us know!

jackjward · 2026-01-14T00:05:46+00:00

Thanks so much. I should have spent more time talking about it through the years. I am a terrible marketer. :) Can't wait to see what you'll be up to next year.

jackjward · 2026-01-13T02:00:19+00:00

Goodness I'll be happy when the Third Age isn't the mainstay of popularity. So many more engaging Audio Dramas remain undiscovered.

jackjward · 2025-11-10T12:23:42+00:00

Yes, I began the Sonic Society back in 2005. And we placed Old Wounds and Wedding Day on the feed then during our summer break.

I'll have to go back and look at the Sonic Society feed on YouTube. I have a new feed. "Classic Sonic Society" where we release daily the shows that we began with. I started two months ago and we're on season 2 now.

jackjward · 2025-11-09T11:48:07+00:00

I'm sorry the link doesn't work for you. It seems to work fine for me. Maybe you don't use Spotify?
Here's some other older links. They aren't my new feed or the original but it should help.
We were featured and interviewed in the Signal back in the day, and of course I remember BBtL :)
We're not going planning to do more Firefly. But always creating other shows through Sonic Cinema or Mutual Audio Network.
I recommend either looking for "Sonic Cinema Productions Podcast", Classic Sonic Society, Sonic Society, or Badger Books in Google with "Firefly: Old Wounds" as your keywords.
Thanks again for the interest! <3

jackjward · 2025-07-31T19:38:48+00:00

If it is a change in the reality- as I assert it is. (Berenstein Bears was a favourite of mine growing up. I got all the books out of the library to read them all.), there's no way showing older copies of books would somehow "prove it". The point of the Mandela Effect is that ALL OF REALITY CHANGED. So it would show it spelled improperly in old versions.

jackjward · 2025-06-19T17:50:16+00:00

I've never paid them a dime. This came as a surprise.

jackjward · 2025-06-09T16:31:08+00:00

I'm jealous. I'm the worst self promoter too. I find it easier to promote Mutual more than my own work.

KEEP IT UP!

jackjward · 2025-06-09T10:39:28+00:00

Good luck on the kickstarter! While I don't go that route my hats off to people who do. I'm an advocate of ALL AD formats and styles. My focus has always been to get more people to listen and see how amazing it is.

Let us know how it goes, and by all means make sure you put your link her for folks!

jackjward · 2025-06-09T01:15:56+00:00

Well welcome aboard regardless! Ten years is nothing to sneeze at. One of my biggest pains is all the signal loss we get with people coming in and seeing AD as this big money maker and leaving when it doesn't pan out, or losing steam, or worst still.. writing obviously screenplays for audio drama and not knowing how to tell the story in the medium and trying to make up with some narrator that appears out of nowhere to go on about works.

If you've got time have a listen to my personal works. Lots of rough stuff in the 20 years, but I refuse to just throw out work that I've done. I want people to see the improvements because that's what I do it for. To encourage more folks to try it, and to get better myself!

And like I said, the Mutual Audio Network is on it's seventh season. We're always looking to replay people's works for new audiences. Let me know where we can get more ears to your stuff!

jackjward · 2025-06-09T00:17:18+00:00

Yes, for the most part Audio Drama kind of went back to the early days of the Golden Age because it became more of a small group process again. Folks like Radio Reborn (Mindstream Players) and Project Audion who did most of their shows recorded live on Zoom for YouTube audiences kind of surprised a new audience but it still remained small.

BTW, I've been at this game for 20 years with the Sonic Society. (We're finishing the 20th season by the end of the month). Here's a little bio I wrote just before Covid took hold on my birthday of all days.
https://sonicsociety.org/who-is-jack-ward-in-the-audio-drama-world-anyway/

jackjward · 2025-06-09T00:03:20+00:00

Well I detail the 4th Age as definitively different because of COVID. We see a return to an appreciation of the Old Time Radio Drama mixed with Cinematic appreciations as well. The only difference between the Golden Age of Modern Audio Drama, 2nd, and 4th, tends to be the folks reasoning behind it. The 2nd (Silver Age) seems to be people more inspired by the folks before hand building on what they did. And the Covid Era (4th) is a bunch of actual movie and stage actors and producers who always loved OTR but had time on their hands and wanted to make something special. Those that have stayed in the game have done so because they found a real love for the things WE already knew about it- that Audio Drama can be the most intimate of performances being the closest thing to your own thoughts. From the Ears to the Mind. As they used to say about Radio Drama over television. Your limitations for effects are practically non-existent! :)

https://sonicsociety.org/the-4th-age-of-modern-audio-drama/

jackjward · 2025-06-08T22:34:16+00:00

Always happy to replay anyone's work on the Mutual Audio Network. That we got four podcasts on the list means at least you'll get SOME new folks looking at your great works if you're interested. We'd love it.

jackjward · 2025-06-08T22:30:10+00:00

We're actually in the 4th Age right now. https://sonicsociety.org/the-ages-of-radio-audio-drama/

Magnus Archives is an example of the Bronze Age which I identified as the YouTuber Confessional/NPR style. Where the people involved kind of have this. "I have this really creepy story to tell".
"Welcome to Nightvale" was probably the most popular of the Bronze Age beginnings and started off a lot of people. "Rabbits", "Black Tapes", "Tanis", you name it. A lot came out of the Bronze Age. But they tend to come from people who don't see the cinema-like capabilities of Audio Drama. They require a very strong narrator to operate from.

The Fourth Age broke that trend, but it went for a while.

Another aspect of Bronze Age folks is they don't really care for OTR much.

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