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Total monthly reach
Estimated from 23 chart positions in 23 markets.
By chart position
- 🇬🇧GB · Comedy Fiction#44100K to 300K
- 🇦🇺AU · Comedy Fiction#5830K to 100K
- 🇨🇦CA · Comedy Fiction#7030K to 100K
- 🇺🇸US · Comedy Fiction#7530K to 100K
- 🇩🇪DE · Comedy Fiction#9830K to 100K
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
299K to 951K🎙 Biweekly cadence·30 episodes·Long inactive - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
427K to 1.4M🇬🇧22%🇮🇳22%🇦🇺7%+20 more - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
128K to 408K
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Introducing: Let's Make A Sci-Fi
Mar 1, 2022
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A Message from Kirk Todd in Jail
Apr 29, 2021
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8: The Premiere
Oct 20, 2020
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7: Vegas
Oct 13, 2020
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6: Rotten Popcorn
Oct 6, 2020
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 3/1/22 |  Introducing: Let's Make A Sci-Fi | Producer Dave Shumka introduces a new show from the team behind This Sounds Serious: Let's Make a Sci-Fi, an eight-part adventure through the creative process as three comedians try writing a successful sci-fi pilot— with help from scientific experts and Hollywood screenwriting pros.In the first episode, hosts Ryan, Mark, and Maddy talk to producers Catherine Winder (Star Wars) and Jem Gerrard (Vagrant Queen) and learn how to identify great story ideas. Then, they pitch each other concepts for their science fiction pilot and land on a winning idea.Subscribe to Let's Make a Sci-Fi : Apple Podcasts | Spotify Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 4/29/21 | A Message from Kirk Todd in Jail | Kirk Todd is back in jail and he has an important message for you: He wants you to vote for This Sounds Serious in the 2021 Webb Awards for Best Writing in a Podcast. Click here to vote. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/20/20 |  8: The Premiere | With Kirk’s release from prison and a movie premier in the works, the truth comes into focus. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/13/20 |  7: Vegas | Gwen travels to Las Vegas, where crime writer Frank Reeves tells her that a casino robbery took place during the film shoot, and Kirk buried the movie to hide the evidence.Click here to get the entire season right now, ad-free. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/6/20 |  6: Rotten Popcorn | After tracking down Grand Casino, Gwen watches the movie and is underwhelmed. She calls on the goofball hosts of the “Rotten Popcorn” podcast to weigh in, and investigates a theory that maybe Kirk was the one who buried the movie.Click here to get the entire season right now, ad-free. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/29/20 |  5: The Con Man’s Handbook | Gwen finds out how Kirk finally got caught. Kirk insists Grand Casino exists and invites Gwen to use his “Con Man’s Handbook” dictaphone recordings to help uncover it.Click here to get the entire season right now, ad-free. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/22/20 |  4: Visiting Hours | Gwen travels to Maricopa County Prison to meet Kirk Todd and get inside the mind of a con man. She learns about his marriage to art forger Helen Chatham and the events that tore them apart.Click here to get the entire season right now, ad-free. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/15/20 |  3: How to Make a Fake Movie | In order to pull off the Grand Casino con, Kirk had to convince the studio and the crew that he was making the movie. How did nobody catch on?Click here to get the entire season right now, ad-free. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/8/20 |  2: We Were Filming a Crime Scene | Click here to get the entire season right now, ad-free.How did Kirk Todd put himself in the position to pull off this con? Gwen answers that question and reveals the events of the Grand Casino premier from the red carpet to the chaos in the lobby after the crime is discovered. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/1/20 |  1: Jeremy, Kenny, Karl, Klaus, and Kirk | A 9-1-1 call about a heart attack at a 1991 movie screening leads investigative journalist Gwen Radford to unearth the life story of con man, Kirk Todd, from his childhood crimes through his career as a TV producer, up to Grand Casino, the movie he never made.Click here to get the entire season right now, ad-free. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
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| 8/25/20 |  This Sounds Serious: Grand Casino | Click here to get the entire season right now, ad-free.In 1991, TV producer Kirk Todd was supposed to direct his first movie, Grand Casino, but the movie was never made. Kirk disappeared with the film’s budget and was revealed to be a con man named Jeremy Weaver. We follow host Gwen Radford as she tracks down the victims and puts together the pieces of this con three decades later. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/25/20 |  Introducing Record Club | From Kelly&Kelly, the studio that brought you This Sounds Serious comes Record Club - a live storytelling podcast that celebrates seminal albums and explores how these albums affect our lives. Hosted by musician Louise Burns, each episode features storytellers telling a true, personal story about how a particular record shaped them. Subscribe to Record Club here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 7/16/19 |  8: The Conclusion | Seriously, what is in those barrels? Surprise evidence found in the quarry leads to a confession, but maybe not justice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 7/9/19 |  7: The Barrels | The barrels in Rhoda Day’s backyard may hold the key to Melissa Turner’s disappearance. Gwen wants to find out what’s inside them, but it’s not going to be easy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 7/2/19 |  6: Theories | Gwen outlines the most likely scenarios about what happened to Melissa Turner. A surprise phone call by a key player bolsters one theory. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/25/19 |  5: The Mayor | Gwen’s focus turns to Rhoda Day, Jimmy’s mother and the longtime mayor of Tom Day. Just how many strings is Rhoda Day pulling in this town? And are they about to snap? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/18/19 |  4: Subcultures | Manhattan Media podcast “Here’s Some Information” teams up with TSS to learn about the online society of scent fanatics that could possibly link Jimmy and Melissa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/11/19 |  3: All About Jimmy | Gwen travels to Tom Day, Oregon the home of serial hostage-taker Jimmy Kline and learns about his criminal past through his mother, his neighbors, and the man himself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/4/19 |  2: Hostages | Gwen takes us on an audio tour of an incredibly bizarre 9-1-1 call that chronicles the 36 hours that Jimmy Kline held a bank hostage in Tom Day, Oregon, claiming the mayor killed his girlfriend, Melissa Turner. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/4/19 |  1: Missing Melissa | A 9-1-1 call from a 2017 bank heist leads investigative journalist Gwen Radford to the story of the country’s most missing person, Melissa Turner. And now Melissa has disappeared again, only this time it’s different. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 5/28/19 |  This Sounds Serious: Missing Melissa | After listening to a 9-1-1 call from the longest hostage situation in Oregon history, Gwen finds herself on the trail of America’s most missing person. Season 2 brings you another story so believable it can’t be true. Launching June 2019. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/16/18 |  8: The Finale | Daniel travels to Gwen to confront her about the podcast, the 911 call, and the truth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/12/18 |  7: The Trial | After all the other suspects were ruled out, Daniel Bronstadt went on trial for murder. With his life on the line, he decided to use a rookie attorney… himself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/5/18 |  6: The Weatherman Strangler | Could a serial killer who targeted weathermen be responsible for Chuck Bronstadt’s murder? Gwen looks to the classic true crime TV show, Last Known Whereabouts, for answers. Featuring Lauren Ash (NBC's Superstore). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 5/29/18 |  5: The Suspects | Despite the mountain of evidence against him, Daniel has always maintained that he didn’t kill Chuck. But if he didn’t, who else could have? Featuring: Paul F. Tompkins, Graham Clark. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
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Chart Positions
26 placements across 23 markets.
Chart Positions
26 placements across 23 markets.