In this episode Mur recaps five of the original Stories of the Third wave that were found on the Playing for Keeps feed or in the PDF files that were released.  She’s added her own commentary regarding how these short pieces of fiction came about.  You’ll have to tune in for those and for the rest of the humor too.

This episode kicks off with JC Hutchins as he gives new life to the opening of the story.  Now I’m going to put a fine point on this one, when it was originally released in the PFK feed I had no bloody clue that it was JC doing the work.  None!  Now I admit, I laughed my tush off when I heard him turn the perfectly groomed, immaculate White Lightning into the mulleted White Trash Lightning.  It just made it ten times funnier for me knowing now to the voice belonged to.  A large part of me would love to see JC continue this alternate look at Seventh City’s hero and his flying Dodge Charger.  Yeeha!

The second part of this episode is all Christiana Ellis.  Here she offers a lesson every villain needs, the evil laugh.  She gives easy lessons and even a moment to practice.  I can think of a few villains who could take classes from Ms Ellis.  She’ll walk you through the vile “ha ha ha” to the sinister “lunatic scream,” and then some.  Though, something about her lunatic scream reminds me of The Wicked Witch of the West.  Trust me, you don’t want to miss this lesson.  Matter of fact, why don’t you hand me the class schedule, I want to see what else she’s teaching.

Third up is the always fun Future Dark Overlord and it’s as short and sweet as he can make it.  Ringside announcement of a Seventh City tag team battle royal between … well, if I told you that then you wouldn’t need to listen would you?  Still, it’s a match I wouldn’t mind putting money on.

The ever snarky Evo Terra takes over for part four and he’s blended Seventh City’s Third Wavers with the Heroes from NBC.  I can attest that this part had me giggling wildly and I haven’t even see Heroes yet (why yes, I do live under a rock, thank you for asking.).  I think what made this part fun for me wasn’t the mixing of the two things, but the awesome comments about poor television writing.  Definitely worth listening to.

The last segment in this episode belongs to Chris Lester and let’s just says it rocks.  He took Third Waver Peter and went back into his teenage years, dropping him into the world of his first ever Convention.  Poor Peter, his superpower against the unwashed convention masses.  The story is a hoot, has a throw back to Heroes once again, but I love how Peter is such a devoted Babylon 5 fan.  What makes this last part more fun is the number of podcasting names he drops in this segment.  Can you catch them all?  I think I did.

So that’s Episode 1 of Stories of the Third Wave.  There will be more of the original easter eggs from the PDFs included as August progresses.  They’re a fun, short reminder that we can get our greedy hands on Playing for Keeps on August 25th from Amazon.com.  Don’t know what the start time is for the chart race, but at least I’ll be able to get my copy on time.

Now..how to get it signed…

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