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🎙️ Episode Description — Condensed Holiday Stories: ELF Get ready to pass through the candy cane forest, hop across the sea of swirly twirly gumdrops, and land straight into another bite-sized holiday classic! In this episode, we condense Elf into a fast, funny, sound-packed retelling filled with Christmas cheer, chaotic escalators, flying snowballs, and of course — an aggressively joyful Buddy the Elf. Follow Buddy as he leaves the North Pole, discovers he’s very different from everyone in New York City, reunites with his grumpy human dad, and spreads enough holiday spirit to power...
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🎙️ Episode Description — Condensed Holiday Stories: Home Alone ’Tis the season for gingerbread, twinkle lights… and accidental child abandonment. In this episode, we retell Home Alone in our signature fast, funny, sound-filled style — complete with holiday chaos, cartoon-level booby traps, and enough screaming to make Kevin McCallister proud. Join us as we condense the entire adventure: the frantic airport dash, the Wet Bandits’ extremely questionable career choices, and Kevin’s unexpectedly heartfelt journey toward independence (and, of course, creative violence). Whether...
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Condensed Holiday Stories: Planes, Trains and Automobiles Holiday travel is stressful — which makes it the perfect story to condense. In this episode, we retell Planes, Trains and Automobiles in a fast, funny, chaos-packed recap filled with sound effects, snappy pacing, and all the heart this classic deserves. And since we’re releasing this episode on Thanksgiving Day, it’s the perfect moment to revisit Neal and Del’s hilariously disastrous journey home for the holidays. From missed flights and burned cars to motel mayhem and unexpected friendship, we’ve packed every memorable moment...
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After slashing our way through spooky season, we’re hanging up the knives (well… most of them) and switching gears for something a little cozier. Welcome to Condensed Holiday Stories — where we take beloved seasonal classics and retell them in the same fast, funny, sound-filled style you loved from our horror episodes. New vibe, same chaotic energy. Less screaming… more caroling. (Okay, maybe still a little screaming.) Our first festive episode: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving — served warm and condensed to perfection. 🦃 Condensed Holiday Stories: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving We know...
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💀 Episode Description: The spirits have clocked out of Halloween… but they’re not done haunting yet! On this Day of the Dead, our wisecracking knife mascot returns to the suburbs, where a haunted TV won’t stop buzzing and the afterlife has gone off the rails. Tune in for a short, sharp, and hilariously haunted retelling of Poltergeist — perfect for keeping the spooky season alive one more day. Condensed Horror Stories — because who has two hours to KILL… even on the Day of the Dead?
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🎃 Condensed Horror Stories – I Know What You Did Last Summer 🎃 🕯️ Episode Description: Halloween’s here, and so are the screams! This spooky season, our wisecracking knife mascot takes a coastal detour through one of the most notorious summer slashers ever made. Secrets resurface, the fog rolls in, and someone knows exactly what you did… last summer. It’s short, sharp, and just the right mix of tricks and treats for your Halloween listening.
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We're back — this time, creeping through the creaky cabin where the real terror (and maybe a hockey mask) lurks outside the window. Condensed Horror Stories – Friday the 13th: Part 3 slices deeper into the comedy of classic slasher chaos — short, spooky, and just dangerous enough to make you laugh nervously in the dark.
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🎧 New Episode! Condensed Horror Stories – Friday the 13th Part 2 We know you’re busy — so we’ve taken your favorite scary movies and shrunk them down to bite-sized audio experiences. This week, we’re diving back into the woods for Part 2 of the Friday the 13th saga — complete with new screams, fresh sound effects, and twice the chaotic campfire energy. It’s another fast, funny, and frightfully immersive retelling that proves even horror sequels can be short and sweet (and a little stabby). 👻 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. 🔪 Condensed Horror Stories —...
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We know you’re busy — so we’ve done you a favor. Condensed Horror Stories delivers classic horror films retold in bite-sized, blood-soaked episodes, complete with creepy sound effects, eerie atmospheres, and a wink of dark humor. Each episode takes a full-length horror movie and condenses it into a fast, funny, and frightfully immersive audio experience. From slashers and supernatural thrillers to campy cult favorites, we’ll give you all the chills (and laughs) without the two-hour commitment. So dim the lights, put on your headphones, and get ready for your favorite horror movies —...
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One of Boutwell Studios’ favorite musicians, a one-man orchestra who can play nearly every instrument you can imagine. He has composed and performed hundreds of tunes for Ken Burns documentaries. Greg Bass and Mark Harrelson join Kelley Buttrick in this episode along with a variety of instruments that Bobby brought along to the studio for this episode. Bobby loves history and music and the relationship between the two. Even before people could read and write, they used songs to pass down information from generation to generation. Music has always been used to tell stories and convey...
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Join host, Kelley Buttrick, voiceover artist, and the audio experts at Boutwell Studios as we chat with John Montgomery of Big Communications.
John shares his stories of starting an agency from PR to strategy, to business development and production. He has had a passion for promoting all things Birmingham throughout his career. A career in marketing gave him the opportunity to produce content ranging from automotive industry campaigns to music videos for rock bands.
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