The Machine In Shaft Ten: The Machine Beneath the World That Ran on Human Misery | #RetroRadio

About this episode

The episode explores a world where human emotions are exploited as fuel for a mysterious machine, leading to societal chaos.

When a geologist proved that human grief and human joy were being siphoned to the stars as fuel for somebody else's machine, the world spun into cults and suicides and small wars — but the professor had a wooden crate, a Cumberland cottage full of secrets, and a private answer he wasn't ready to share with the man writing the checks. | #RetroRadio EP0640 Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “First Childhood” (September 12, 1977) 00:46:21.651 = Philip Marlowe, “Torch Carriers” (January 07, 1950) 01:15:58.500 = Pursuit, “The Loch Ness Killer” (ADU) ***WD 01:40:29.807 = The Black Mass, “Bartleby the Scrivener” (September 14, 1965) ***WD 02:14:04.032 = Michael Shayne, “Meet Me AT Oakland Depot” (April 02, 1945) 02:43:45.557 = Beyond Midnight, “The Locked Room” (1969) ***WD 03:13:19.062 = MindWebs, “The Machine In Shaft Ten” (1975-1984) ***WD 03:41:42.191 = The Humphrey Bogart Theater…

People in this episode

Host: Darren Marlar

Topics covered

• human emotion
• cult behavior
• mystery
• science fiction
• geology
• psychological drama

Keywords

• human misery
• geologist
• cult
• suicides
• small wars
• Cumberland cottage
• secrets
• machine

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Machine In Shaft Ten, CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Philip Marlowe, Pursuit, The Black Mass, Michael Shayne, Beyond Midnight, MindWebs, The Humphrey Bogart Theater, Mystery in the Air

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