#minisodes

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Minisodes are 25 minutes long history scenes similar as S1 cold opening ones :) There are three and within episodes :).

Biblical times minisode called A Companion To Owls by John Finnemore in Episode 3, in all likelihood about Job played by Peter Davison

Victorian times minisode called The Resurrectionists by Cat Clarke in Episode 2 in Edinburgh 1827 - our favourite angel and demon get into a wee bit of a pickle there, there’s little stint of body snatching in the era.

Blitz minisode called Nazi Zombie Flesh Eaters by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman which takes up much of Episode 4. Andy Nyman called it ‘very naughty’.

If you’re not familiar with our show, True Tales of the Illuminati is a full cast audio comedy about conspiracies gone wrong, featuring a team of hapless illuminati goons as they bounce throughout history snatching defeat from the jaws of other, weirder defeat. We’ve been described as “Inside Job meets The Emperor’s New Groove,” “An absolute farce” and that “True Tales nails it with colorful characters, playful language, and absurd situations”.

This is the final week of the True Tales of the Illuminati season 3 crowdfund, and we’ve  just hit the ⅔ funded milestone! That means we get to drop the third of our four crowdfunding milestone minisodes, and that we’ve raised over 6 thousand dollars towards making our third season.

That’s pretty incredible, but we’re not done yet. No, we’ve caused ourselves far more trouble, in wanting to make this show sound as good as a big-budget BBC production. Our hubris has angered the gods and they are right to smite us, because the crowdfund ends on April 2nd, so we only have a week to raise the remaining $3,000 to make our next season happen FOR REAL.

Are we going to make it? We don’t know. But what we do know is that we have a hilarious half-hour minisode lined up to release when we hit $9k, written by and guest-starring the one and only Tom Crowley, who you may know as one of the stars and writers of Wooden Overcoats.

If you’ve donated, thank you, from the bottom of our hearts.  If you haven’t yet, now is the time; we’re a completely independent production, and we don’t run ads for junk merch and sports gambling. The only way the show gets made is from listeners donating directly, and all that money goes right into the cast and the sound design and engineering. We here on the writing staff don’t take a cut, we do it because we love making the show, so if you enjoy listening to it and want more, even if it’s only $5, please give what you can.

Raising this money is necessary to produce this show the way that we do it and the way that makes it special, and we truly hope that to keep ourselves viable going forward. To get all of our third season out, we need to make this happen, and it has to happen this week. Does this show: independent, listener-funded, everyone gets paid; work?  That is now up to you!  

If you can’t give anything, you can still make a post or leave a review or tell a friend, because that’s how we’ve gotten to where we are, and it means a lot to us, so thank you.