March 30, 2018

“The Red Panda” Audio Comes Alive — in Video!

“The Red Panda” Audio Comes Alive — in Video!

That’s right, Coffee Club devotees, this week you can not only listen to The Red Panda – you can watch him and his gorgeous kickass partner The Flying Squirrel in action! Here are two special episodes, selected by our Audio Arts barista Ruby Fink, which have been graphically depicted a la cartoon strip style. They’re just wonderful to watch as you listen, so have at it. We thank Decoder Ring Theatre for a whole month of their wonderful “audio adventures,” as Decoder Ring’s head honcho, Gregg Taylor, likes to call them. And if you’ve enjoyed these Decoder Ring Theatre presentations, please give them a click and check out how much more is available – all totally free. Gregg has been writing and producing his audio adventures since 1999 – almost twenty years. You can learn…

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March 24, 2018

New Audio Adventures From Decoder Ring Theatre!

New Audio Adventures From Decoder Ring Theatre!

Today we offer for your listening pleasure two episodes, personally selected by our Audio Arts Barista Ruby Fink, of Decoder Ring Theatre’s “Black Jack Justice” series. Yes, Jack is a bit darker character than the Red Panda. Each of these is a self-contained episode, so enjoy. Please click the arrow below to begin listening to “Justice Delayed,” Episode 4 from “Black Jack Justice,” Season One, Feb. 18, 2006. Please click the arrow below to begin listening to “Justice is Blind,” Episode 3 from “Black Jack Justice,” Season One, Feb. 4, 2006. Be sure to “tune in” next week for something extra special from the Decoder Ring Theatre!    

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March 16, 2018

Ruby’s Two Favorite “Red Panda” Audio Adventures

Ruby’s Two Favorite “Red Panda” Audio Adventures

Welcome back fellow listeners! Hi, it’s Ruby, your Audio Arts Barista, bringing you another audio adventure featuring the marvelous masked mystery man known as the Red Panda, and his trusty female partner, the Flying Squirrel!* Despite the 119 episodes the talented and prolific Gregg Taylor has written and produced, Episode 7, “Red Panda: Dead or Alive” [from Season One] will always hold a special place in my heart as the one that truly epitomizes the relationship between Kit Baxter, aka The Flying Squirrel, and the Red Panda. In every other superhero love story you can think of, the relationship between one superhero and one citizen (or two superheroes) features the tragic, at best, “I love you, but the life I’ve chosen will put you in danger, so we can’t be together.” Gregg Taylor thankfully, does…

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March 9, 2018

Audio: “Black Jack Justice” and a Bonus Web Video!

Audio: “Black Jack Justice” and a Bonus Web Video!

    This week, at your request, two episodes of “Black Jack Justice,” from the Gregg Taylor and the Decoder Ring Theatre cast, who also produce “The Red Panda.” As with the Red Panda, each of these Black Jack episodes are complete stories. We’re offering Gregg’s brilliant work all this month, and today you get a sneak peek inside the studio as the cast performs. You’ll get to see a group of real professional voiceover actors in their natural habitat – in front of microphones! Please click on the arrow below to listen to “Black Jack Justice, episode 55. Please click on the arrow below to listen to “Black Jack Justice, episode 56. BONUS VIDEO: Please click on the arrow below to watch the Decoder Ring Theatre cast perform.          

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March 2, 2018

Friday Night Audio: “The Red Panda”

Friday Night Audio: “The Red Panda”

Thanks to Ruby Fink, our Audio Arts Barista, for selecting the work of one of her storycasting heroes to launch our March audio/podio books. Gregg Taylor, an author and podcaster from Toronto, not only makes great stories, but he’s incredibly prolific, having been at it for about 15 years. From his website: “In the tradition of the great mystery men of radio, pulp fiction and the golden age of comics comes The Red Panda, famed protector of 1930s Toronto! “Hiding his true identity as on of the city’s wealthiest men behind a bright red domino mask, The Red Panda dispenses two-fisted pulp justice with strength, courage and eerie hypnotic powers. Joined in his quest by that Famed Fighting Female The Flying Squirrel, this Terrific Twosome holds high the lamp of justice in a dark time!”…

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