Podcast Wednesday: Bubble

Here's a thing I haven't done yet in this weekly post: Write about a podcast I have nothing to do with that hasn't had its first episode. And yet, that's what I'm here to do, and I trust you'll understand the reason for it, and my excitement. This is Podcast Wednesday, and I'm here to get y'all to subscribe to Bubble.

So last year, a very different episode was dropped in the Jordan Jesse Go! feed. JJGo is usually a very random show, where the two hosts - Jordan Morris and Jesse Thorn - have a very freeflowing conversation with a guest, usually a comic. But the thing they dropped in the feed wasn't really an episode of the podcast. Instead, it was a dramatic reading of a pilot Jordan wrote for TV. The pilot wasn't picked up anywhere, and they thought maybe that would be a way to get some interest in it. And that did happen. Many, such as myself, listened to it and loved it. Many, such as myself, were also blown away by the cast. I really hoped we'd get the show, with that cast.

On TV, we won't. It was judged too offbeat, too expensive, too odd. I mean, action comedy? That never works, right? Oh, I'm being told action comedies actually do really well when they're well done, and that studio execs are idiot. Okay.

But we are getting it as a podcast. Oh, yes we are! It's been reworked for audio, and the story will start from scratch on the podcast, so that should be a great starting point. And the cast is great: Alison Becker, Keith Powell, Cristela Alonzo, Mike Mitchel, and Eliza Skinner are the main cast. And, hey! That's most of the same cast as the original recording! With guest appearances by last week's subject Paul F. Tompkins, super faves Judy Greer and John Hodgman, Silicon Valley's Martin Starr and "many, many more."

Here's what it's about: Fairhaven is a corporate utopia hipster city surrounded by a bubble. Outside the bubble, there's the brush. In the brush, there are monsters. Sometimes, they get in. Our heroes are monster hunters, which are basically like Uber drivers, but without the cab and with the killing of monsters. They have an app that lets them know a monster has been sighted, they go and kill it, they get paid. It's the gig economy, but with monsters. And funny.

While doing it as a podcast makes it much cheaper than on TV, this is still a much bigger production than podcast network Maximum Fun usually does. So early support is crucial for this experiment to succeed and continue. Basically, I want y'all to subscribe so I get to enjoy this thing, which I trust will be terrific.

Podcast Wednesday: Bubble

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