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Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 1d

Just wrote my first audio drama Christmas special in a few years. Pumped! I love Christmas specials as a genre.

Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 1d

This trailer told me far more about this show than anything else they've put out, probably by design. And I was already pretty pumped.

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Pluribus — Official Teaser | Apple TV+

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Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 2d

I always read OTP as "one true pairing" instead of "one-time password," but it mostly still works.

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Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 2d

Ever wanted to play some bad DOS games I made when I was a teenager? I've got you covered.

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I Was A Teenage Game Maker: Me and ZZT < Bill Meeks

You can finally play the video games I made when I was 14 in your browser! Or just watch me play them. Either way, the legend of Ultraware in the Land of ZZT lives on in this blog post!

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Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 3d

In which I talk to Beakman for over an hour.

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Paul Zaloom on Beakman’s World, Puppetry, and the Art of Curiosity | Everly Heights Tales Podcast | Everly Heights | Stories set in the fictional town of Everly Heights, Ohio

I talk to an actor I have an awful lot of nostalgia for: Paul Zaloom, best known as Beakman from the hit ’90s educational series Beakman’s World. This hour-long interview traces Zaloom’s journey from ...

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Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 5d

Everly Heights goes edutainment! What started as a challenge for America's Next Top Podcaster is now an official Everly Heights Tale! It always kinda was, but now it's official. everlyheights.tv/everly-heigh...

Hey, Marie Molecule! | Everly Heights Tales Podcast | Everly Heights | Stories set in the fictional town of Everly Heights, Ohio

In the spirit of a classic 90s educational science show like Beakman's World or Mr. Wizard, "Hey, Marie Molecule!" follows a young girl named Eliza, who visits the titular scientist with an anxiety-fu...

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Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 5d

#Gotham

Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 6d

Wait. Doja Cat is a person? I thought people were just really into a Nyan Cat meme sequel or something.

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Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 8d

For the next few days, my comedy novella THE FAKIST: BREAKING NEWS is free in the Kindle store.

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The Fakist: Breaking News

Amazon.com: The Fakist: Breaking News eBook : Meeks, Bill: Kindle Store

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Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 8d

Somehow, Reading Rainbow returned.

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Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 10d

Join me on a tour through the real Everly Heights (Wheeling, West Virginia). I'll take you to the places that shaped my imagination, my life, and most importantly, my new audio drama Everly Heights Tales. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEnd...

The Real Everly Heights: Wheeling, West Virginia

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Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 11d

Now that you've heard my musical, sit back while I tell you about the real people, locations, and emotional situations that inspired "The Museum of What Was."

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My Musical Tribute to the People Who Made Me

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Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 11d

From the random file: I tried to remake a classic student animated film (Bambi Meets Godzilla) in After Effects a million years ago.

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Man vs. Machine

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Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 11d

You "Brando bros" can whine all you want. This is MY Streetcar. #ReleaseTheJordanCut

Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 11d

New episode is up! This one's a musical. "When failing salesman Don House returns to his hometown, he’s confronted by the ghosts of his past, all while exploring if it’s possible to ever truly go home again." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Podcast Episode · Everly Heights Tales · EP3 · 50m

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Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 14d

After avoiding it for far too long, considering I’ve read the books, I watched Wicked (Part 1). Y’all weren’t kidding about Defying Gravity. I’ve heard it, thought it was decent, but in context it is on a whole other level.

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Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 16d

A roundtable discussion with voice actors about voice acting over the internet, concerns about AI in audio drama, improv in recording sessions, and more. Also sort of a wrap party for our latest Everly Heights Tale "Welcome, Freshmen". #audiodrama #voiceoverartists

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Making "Welcome, Freshmen", a Roundtable Discussion with the Cast | Everly Heights Tales Podcast | Everly Heights | Stories set in the fictional town of Everly Heights, Ohio

In this bonus episode, the cast of "Welcome, Freshmen" celebrates the final recording session with a virtual cast party! They talk about the process of making an animated series over the internet, wha...

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Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 17d

After I got home, I wrote a character based on that high muckity-muck for my podcast The Fakist (Bertram Kcom, a character in all three seasons). Yes, he was a villain. A really nasty one too.

I didn't like the speech, obvi.

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Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 17d

I'll just say that when I used to work in television, I went to a broadcasting tech convention where a high muckity-muck from Sinclair Broadcast Group gave a speech about the future of television.

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Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 18d

On this Everly Heights Tale, we expose Crystal Pepsi's perils and explains why you never trust a math teacher's "creative accounting" in our sitcom pastiche "Welcome, Freshmen".
TIP: Don't drink the Crystal Pepsi.

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Welcome, Freshmen | Everly Heights Tales Podcast | Everly Heights | Stories set in the fictional town of Everly Heights, Ohio

Meet the Special family, a theater-loving, stoner couple and their three very different kids. It’s 1994, and Michael and Jennifer Special are just trying to help fund in the arts in their community, b...

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Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 22d

I just spun out a Windows version of my Everly Heights ClipFrame webapp, designed to build shot sheets, add notes, take organized screenshots, and do other clerical video logging work. Web app is still free!

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Everly Heights ClipFrame: Your All-in-One Tool for Frame-by-Frame Insights | Everly Heights | Stories set in the fictional town of Everly Heights, Ohio

From broadcast branding to creative production, Everly Heights ClipFrame empowers professionals and creators to extract, analyze, and organize video content in one simple tool.

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Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 23d

I would like everybody to know that whenever I kick the bucket, the only celebrity I authorize to speak on my behalf is Steve Buscemi.

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The Audio Drama Directory @audiodrama.bsky.social · 25d

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Everly Heights Tales

Dramatized Multigenre Anthology Everly Heights, Ohio—where the past clings like smoke, and every escape route loops you back to Main Street. In each standalone episode of this scripted anthology, y…

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Everly Heights @everlyheights.tv · 26d

The first episode of Everly Heights Tales is out! Take a tour of the town with Louie Loop, the third-biggest YouTuber in town. Fun, funny audio.

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Everly Heights: A Local's Guide | Everly Heights Tales Podcast | Everly Heights | Stories set in the fictional town of Everly Heights, Ohio

Third-ranked local YouTuber (and yo-yo enthusiast) Louie Loop takes listeners on a walking tour of Everly Heights. From square-cut pizza served by aspiring actors and the mistakenly named Franklin W. ...

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Bill Meeks @billmeeks.com · 26d

The first episode of Everly Heights Tales is out! Take a tour of the town with Louie Loop, the third-biggest YouTuber in town. Fun, funny audio.

everlyheights.tv/everly-heigh...

Everly Heights: A Local's Guide | Everly Heights Tales Podcast | Everly Heights | Stories set in the fictional town of Everly Heights, Ohio

Third-ranked local YouTuber (and yo-yo enthusiast) Louie Loop takes listeners on a walking tour of Everly Heights. From square-cut pizza served by aspiring actors and the mistakenly named Franklin W. ...

everlyheights.tv

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