The Lightning Bottler Transcripts

[annabelle--cane]

stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation with the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.

[skadissymphony]

15 MINUTES

[talesofthecog]

[brutusfeels]

[thelightningbottler]

[kaneandfeels]

YOU WANT THAT WHEEL SOUNDTRACK? GO GET THAT WHEEL SOUNDTRACK! AND THE REST OF IT!

CLICK HERE! FOR THE BANDCAMP

[orthoscheme]

supermarkets should have benches

[orthoscheme]

everywhere should have benches

[boombox-fuckboy]

I really like the "what does your podcast taste like?" but it has me thinking...

Podcast creators: what's the optimal way to listen to your podcast? Out for a walk on a warm morning? Tucked up in bed with a hot chocolate on a rainy day? Maybe on surround-sound speakers with a bowl of fresh buttered popcorn? Halfway up an old tree?

Something else entirely?

[thelightningbottler]

In a storm, at home, counting raindrops as they trickle down the window

[thelightningbottler]

New episode

The Lightning Bottler

With Oliver Morris, 19 episodes, 1 ratings & reviews. Picture a Bottle of Lightening, Keep it in your head, add details where appropriate A

[talesofthecog]

Ye.

[localfilesclub]

Bedtime has never been more magical—the Sleep With Me podcast is here with a very sleepy edition of Ms. Shipton’s Travelling Tea Shop!

Listen to it tonight in your favorite podcast app, and stay tuned for more sleepy crossovers very soon!

https://pod.link/sleep-with-me/episode/cHJ4XzEzN18xYzI2MjllYi0zYjQzLTRiYjUtYTQxMC0xYjlmZWQwYjFjMzY

[greaterblogston]

I made a whole visual companion to my audio drama concept album - The Perfect Sentence. It's a montage of copyright free videos, images, and stuff I found on YouTube.

Check it out. Also the transcript is now available on my website, vandreaonable.com.

Thanks!

[localfilesclub]

Network Files: Bandcamp Friday, 5 Dec 2025

Today is the last Bandcamp Friday of 2025, but it’s the first Bandcamp Friday where you can support Local Files Club! For the uninitiated: o

Local Files Club isn't the only crew sharing incredible audio fiction on Bandcamp. In honor of today's Bandcamp Friday, here are five suggestions for great audiodramas and experimental audio fiction for you to check out on Bandcamp!

Including:

The Tower

The Perfect Sentence

Night Swim

it was always worth it

DOG FM

Check out the post on Local Files Club for all the reasons why you should support these artists today! 👀

[greaterblogston]

Jeff here. Sorry for just taking over the GB feed with my own project. I'd post from my own Tumblr but LOL that gets even less than this page soooo yeah.

My Bandcamp page is live, and so is the pre-order for The Perfect Sentence! Pre-order it now and get three songs off it ready to download and stream before the release Friday (7/11). The price? $7.11. LOL. Get it?

It's also my birthday. So. You know. There's that!

Also also also! We're having a launch party on Thursday, July 10th at 10pm. Register for it on ZOOM at this link right here.

I've worked really hard on it. So have a lot of people. It's half memoir, half fiction. It's spoken word and it's music. It's a weird, audio fiction concept album about grief, regret, misinformation, memory, and truth. I get it's not everyone's cup of tea, but if you can spare an hour to listen, I'd really appreciate it.

[brutusfeels]

Episode 2 is OUT NOW! Transcripts available for FREE on our PATREON (link in discription)

[talesofthecog]

Put it in your pod feed then put it in your calender.

[talesofthecog]

Put it in your pod feed then put it in your calender.

[localfilesclub]

It's Bandcamp Friday

Which means if you haven't bought Ms. Shipton's Travelling Tea Shop yet, today is the perfect day to do so! Bandcamp waives their fee, so 100% of your purchase will go to Skadi's Symphony and Local Files Club.

“Ms. Shipton’s Travelling Tea Shop is nothing short of a modern miracle—a unique, charming audio picnic basket delivered to your ears, begging you to brew your own cup and enjoy warm sips as you take stock of the fun goodies within.” - Jeff Van Dreason (Greater Boston, The Perfect Sentence)

We’re travelling through the English countryside in the first Local Files Club release, Ms. Shipton’s Travelling Tea Shop, a five-part audiodrama from Skadi’s Symphony and starring Greta Clarkson as the eponymous witch. Best known for their series Kane and Feels, Skadi’s Symphony brings its unique take on witchcraft, tea-brewing, and cats to Local Files Club for our inaugural release.

Ms. Shipton’s Travelling Tea Shop follows the adventures of a tea witch who breaks down in the small village of Talford. As she waits for her van to be repaired, Ms. Shipton sets up shop and meets the locals—a farmer, a publican, and a priest—exploring themes of loneliness, companionship, and queerness through five vignettes.

This audiodrama is presented along with a bonus poem, five commentary episodes from the creators and stars, the soundtrack by Oliver Morris, and original art by Rosie Shooter and Stardust Mansion.

“Ms. Shipton started at a kitchen table with my friend Greta,” writer and director Oliver Morris writes. “As she flitted around the kitchen making tea, I was glum, exhausted from a day in the audio mines. Suddenly, this brew was put in front of me that healed my soul.” From there, the idea for Ms. Shipton started percolating—excuse the pun—starting with a 30-minute drama titled simply Girl in a Van.

“If it wasn’t for Amber Devereux, the piece may never have surfaced again.” Inspired by Devereux’s Hello Earth, a tiny audiodrama distributed via .zip file between friends in the know, Morris dug out the original script for Girl in a Van and took another crack at it. This time, Morris wrote “shorter episodes, with a greater emphasis not on everyday problems, but the more esoteric, like grief, guilt, and love.”

Finished last year, Ms. Shipton’s Travelling Tea Shop was originally distributed as an audio zine. The Local Files Club release marks the first time it has been available for wider listening, featuring brand new, never-before-heard bonus materials. “I love Ms. Shipton. It’s short, messy, and weird. I wouldn’t have it another way.”

[boombox-fuckboy]

2025 Bandcamp Friday Fiction Podcast Catalogue

Bandcamp Friday means artists on Bandcamp get more out of your purchases. Support your favourite fiction podcasters and get some crisp audio in the process.

Dates

(Starts at midnight, runs all day)

Friday, March 7th (UTC-08:00)

Friday, May 2nd (UTC-07:00)

Friday, August 1st (UTC-07:00)

Friday, September 5th (UTC-07:00)

Friday, October 3rd (UTC-07:00)

Friday, December 5th (UTC-08:00)

Fiction Podcasts

Anamnesis (Full Audio Drama + Soundtrack)

Awake (Full Show)

Camlann (Season 1)

The Dungeon Economic Model (The Complete Series)

Folxlore (Part 1 • Part 2)

Generation Crossing (Full Narrative Album)

Inn Between (Season 1 • Season 2 • Season 3)

Old Gods of Appalachia (Season 1 • Season 3)

Sidequesting (Season 1 • Season 2)

The Tower (Part I • Part II • Part III)

What Will Be Here

Podcast Specials

The Deca Tapes (Puzzle Box)

The Dungeon Economic Model (Halloween Special)

Leaving Corvat (TEMPLE OF SLEEP)

Welcome To Night Vale (Live Shows: Condos • The Debate • The Librarian • The Investigators • Ghost Stories • All Hail • A Spy in the Desert • The Haunting of Night Vale)

Where The Stars Fell (The Christmas Chronicle)

Podcast Music

The Adventure Zone

Aftershocks (Soundtrack)

Alice Isn't Dead (Music From)

All My Fantasy Children

Among The Stars and Bones (OST)

ars PARADOXICA (When I'm Not Here • Electric River (End Theme))

The Ballard of Anne & Mary (Soundtrack)

The Big Loop (OST: FML • The Fugue )

Camlann (Keep the Fires Burning: The Original Soundtrack)

The Deca Tapes (OST)

The Department of Variance of Somewhere, Ohio (OST: Season One • Season Two)

Dreamboy (Silent Night, Holy Night)

The Dungeon Economic Model (Royal Musical Accompaniment • Chill Beats to Build Profitable Dungeons To)

Eeler's Choice (OST)

The Fall of the House of Sunshine

Folxlore (Music To Dance With Your Inner Demons To)

Friends At The Table

Gospels of the Flood (Soundtrack)

Greater Boston (Soundtrack, Seasons 1-3)

The Grotto (Soundtrack)

Hello From The Hallowoods (Starcrossed Gods OST)

It Makes A Sound (Wim Farros: The Attic Tape)

Kane and Feels (OST: Volume 1 • Volume 2)

Lake Clarity (OST)

Leaving Corvat (Re-mastered soundtrack)

Liars & Leeches

The Lost Cat Podcast (Musical Features)

Malevolent

Midnight Radio (OST)

Mockery Manor (The Music Of: Season One • Season Two • Season Three • A Midwinter Night's Dream)

Neoscum

Nowhere, On Air

Old Gods of Appalachia (What is Sung Under The Mountain Vol. 1 • The Land Unknown (Theme) • The Bride • Familiar & Beloved)

Our Fair City

The Pasithea Powder (Theme • Mary Ann • Odysseus)

The Penumbra Podcast

The Polybius Conspiracy (OST)

Re: Dracula (Concept Album)

ROGUEMAKER (Soundtrack)

Rogue Runners (OST)

Skyjacks (Call of the Sky)

Station Blue (OST)

The Strange Case of Starship Iris

This Planet Needs a Name (Albums: The Nameless Songs - Landing - Growing - Shifting)

The Tower (Original Score: Part I • Part II • Part III)

Unplaced (Soundtrack)

Unseen (Soundtrack)

Where The Stars Fell

WOE.BEGONE

Wolf 359 (OST: Volume One • Volume Two • Volume Three)

Zero Hours

Additions encouraged.

[boombox-fuckboy]

Tumblr won't let me add any more links into this post so here's a few recent releases.

Fiction Podcasts

The Tower (Finale)

Ms Shipton's Travelling Tea Shop (Full)

[boombox-fuckboy]

Last Bandcamp Friday of the year is HERE!!!*

*For the next 24 hours

Please consider supporting your favourite artists: during Bandcamp Friday, creators get 100% of the revenue. In the age of streaming services that give musicians literally less than a cent per listen (TIDAL reportedly paying the most at $0.013 per stream), and where podcast creators are the ones paying for their work to be hosted, supporting artists directly can make a huge impact!

If you're Iooking for a good app to play your music purchases, I can highly recommend Musicolet. I personally like to add the podcasts I acquire to my CD collection. If you're the kind of person to give gifts this time of year, you might consider making someone you like a digital care package with a copy of shows you think they'd enjoy.

[boombox-fuckboy]

Some last-minute additions:

Fiction Podcasts

Hearthbound (Full Series • Supercut/Road Trip Version)

Podcast Music

Dining in the Void (Season 2)

Hearthbound (Original Soundtrack)

Interstitial (Authority • Proximity)

[localfilesclub]

Counting down the days until Ms. Shipton's Travelling Tea Shop crashes into an audio player near you... our first release is out this Friday! Pre-order it today to get the files as soon as humanly possible. More info: https://www.localfiles.club/lfc-001-ms-shipton/