[8] American Society, Room 36

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When a couple of two bit gangsters lose the man they were hired to kill, their employer has words with them.

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This episode contains audio surveillance audio captured by Oscar Garret at the Motel Americana in 1987. To hear a full account of Oscar’s tapes and how I came into possession of them, be sure to check out episode 1 and episode 2.

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Chapter 5: Stage Talking – Room 86

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Danger almost remembered inscribing the kid’s copy, that glassed over look they all get in their eyes while he’s doing it, ten bucks a pop. What had he’d written in this one’s? He’d been alternating all day between Use great care when playing hopscotch with a unicorn and Never underestimate the negotiating power of good hygiene. Looking at the kid now, he decided it was probably the latter. He thought he caught a whiff. He knew with certainty that he’d written Love, Danger in every one of them. Sometimes, though, he’d omit the comma.

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Stage Talking – Room 86

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Talk radio personality and self-help guru Remy Danger checks into the Motel Americana during a stopover on his book signing tour. When a die-hard fan tracks him down and knocks on his motel door, Danger tries to give the kid what he thinks he wants, but Danger just might get more than he bargains for. You can’t just talk your way out of the Motel Americana.

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[3 REDUX] Center of the Universe, Room 24

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This re-issue of Episode 3: Center of the Universe features the actual surveillance audio Oscar’s bugs captured weaved into the narrative:

A teenage runaway has a strange and remarkable affliction that’s become too much of a burden to bear. When she summons her hapless friend Noah to the Motel Americana for moral support, the situation gets a little better… before becoming apocalyptic. A sci-fi short story audiodrama.

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[4] Dream Writers – Room 74

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The solar storms are wreaking havoc across the country, but perhaps nowhere have they been felt as strongly as at the Motel Americana, where a troubled man called Lang has just checked in. Everywhere he turns he hears a mechanical voice– incessantly sputtering from TVs, droning on every radio station, spilling ceaselessly over the phone lines. He’s been trying to ignore it, but he can’t anymore. He finds that it’s been describing intimate details of his life, a life he may have misunderstood entirely.

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[1] Oscar’s Notebooks – The Lobby

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Jack describes how Oscar’s notebooks and surveillance audio recordings, the source material for this podcast, came into his possession one sweet summer morning in the mid 1980’s. This is the account of Jack’s first and only contact with Oscar and his beautiful sister, Mandy.

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