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Dark Air with Terry Carnation

13: Carnation Nation

Dark Air with Terry Carnation

Audioboom Studios | Kelly&Kelly

Comedy Fiction, Comedy, Society & Culture, Fiction

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Terry’s on-air meltdown goes viral and his show is picked up coast to coast. He enlists the Carnation Nation to help him track down the source of the mysterious audio of his dead wife, which points to a location south of the border.

Dark Air with Terry Carnation was created by Rainn Wilson and Aaron Lee and is produced by Thom Harp and Chris Kelly.

Starring: Rainn Wilson as Terry Carnation, Karan Soni as Jeet, Al Madrigal as Al, Yvette Nicole Brown as Dr. Lizzie, Aaron Lee as Dr. Kesden and Jennifer MacLean as Veronica.

Featuring:
Mildred Moreno – Mindy Sterling
Mysterious Caller ("Duyloan") – Tien Tran
Dark Air Callers: Juan Pacheco, H. Michael Croner, Emily Pendergast

Dark Air with Terry Carnation is produced by Imperial Mammoth, Audioboom and Kelly&Kelly.

For a full list of credits head to terrycarnation.com/credit

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Dark Air.

0:10.0

Dark Air with Terry Carnation, the podcast about the audiobook, about the radio show, also

0:16.0

called Dark Air with Terry Carnation.

0:19.0

Episode 13.

0:21.0

The Dark Air

0:46.0

Find that audiobooks presents Dark Air, the Terry Carnation story written by Terry Carnation,

0:52.0

Red, by Terry Carnation, produced by Gordon Fine at Find that audiobooks.

0:59.0

Previously on Dark Air.

1:02.0

Thanks to a poorly refrigerated pyramid of putrefrying prawns at the annual KSB radio gala,

1:08.0

I was the last man standing, or sitting as we don't have standing desks in the recording booth,

1:13.0

we really should have had a look into that.

1:16.0

It was up to me, Terry Carnation, to save radio as we know it.

1:20.0

I hosted three different shows in 12 straight hours, pushing my mind and body to the limit,

1:27.0

and beyond.

1:28.0

I stared into the abyss and it vomited in my face.

1:33.0

My audience turned on me, tormenting me with gallows humor about my dead wife.

1:39.0

There was no escape, I was locked in the studio, forced to perform like a trained minor bird,

1:46.0

and truly, I know why the caged bird sings.

1:51.0

In my rage, I destroyed any and everything blocking my path to freedom.

1:57.0

I smashed a window, I threw my engineer and my only friend, Jeet, into a vending machine.

2:04.0

And as I fled the scene, I knew I was throwing away the thing I valued most in the world.

2:11.0

My job.

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