Start with episode 101. Dr. Bright provides therapy for the strange and unusual; their sessions have been recorded for research purposes. Visit www.thebrightsessions.com for more information and additional content. Created by Lauren Shippen
A podcast hosted by Robert Smythe and Rafael Mantesso, two autistic artists having fun talking about being neuro-atypical. Only when they were well into adulthood did Mantesso and Smythe learn they are autistic; Mantesso was in his 30s and Smythe in his 50s. Their diagnoses explained a lot, but it wasn't until they met that each finally had the experience of talking to someone who thought just like them. Their freewheeling conversations have helped other people, autistics and neurotypicals a ...
GREENHOUSE is an anxious audio love story about a recluse writer and a lonely florist who learn, letter by letter, that the world is a whole lot brighter when you have someone to share your story with. It was created by Lillian Holman and produced by Atypical Artists. For more information, please visit atypicalartists.co/greenhouse
A young adult whodunit with a choose-your-own-adventure twist from audio drama creator Lauren Shippen. It’s the fall of 1997 in Hastings, New Hampshire and autumn is the time of year this small town shines. Apple cider, pumpkin patches, farmer’s markets...its idyllic New England. Picturesque, plaid-filled, and, for fifteen-year-old, Maxine Miles, plodding. Suddenly, Max’s school year starts to look a bit more interesting when a fellow student vanishes. With the help of her misanthropic class ...
A new podcast musical from the producer of The Bright Sessions and creators Jeff Luppino-Esposito, Brett Ryback, and Matt Sav. After a tragedy in the Whitetail National Forest, 18-year-old Peregrine Wells seeks out survivalist skills from an enigmatic old recluse. In this fictional documentary musical with an original folk-pop score, listeners will follow producer Brett Ryback as he explores themes of grief, adolescence, and our precarious relationship to the wilderness - all set against a s ...
Two young men meet on a beach every night with a telescope and the unanswered questions from years of a friendship lost as they await their parent’s return from a mission to Mars. As re-entry draws closer...so do they. Starring Evan Bittencourt (Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists) and Briggon Snow (The Bright Sessions). Produced by Atypical Artists and created by Briggon Snow.
A sci-fi(ish) romantic comedy podcast starring a repressed lawyer, a criminal client, a pesky sister and her fiance, an infuriatingly sexy coworker, and an android in the mood for love.Jeanine Bell is a robotics intelligence lawyer whose laser focus on her career has come at the expense of her romantic and social lives. After successfully keeping AI genius Penelope Lane out of prison, Jeanine receives the gift of LEO(h), an android with Synthetic Sentience. LEO(h) is Loving, Empathetic, Op ...
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Rebel Robin: Surviving Hawkins (A Stranger Things Podcast)


October, 1983. There’s a monster lurking in Hawkins, Indiana. Chewing people up, spitting them out, changing them in terrible ways. Yet for some reason, everyone is acting like it's all perfectly normal. Except for Robin Buckley. She alone knows exactly what this monster’s name is: Hawkins High School. Starring Maya Hawke as Robin and Sean Maher as her favorite teacher, Mr. Hauser, Surviving Hawkins is the podcast companion to the YA novel, Stranger Things: Rebel Robin, by A.R. Capetta. Writ ...
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Soft Valkyrie


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Soft Valkyrie
Richard Wagner, David Kanaga (composition and arrangement), Stephen Fry (narrator), Bryan the Mensah (Siegmund), Hailey Clark (Sieglinde), Attila Csihar (Hunding), Mattijs van de Woerd (Wotan), Nadine Secunde (Fricka), Claron McFadden (Brünnhilde)
Can someone whisper Die Walküre in your ear? With opera, you do not think of whispers or sighs but of strong classical voices in grand, spectacular set pieces. But the composer and game designer David Kanaga has turned Richard Wagner’s famous opera into a podcast. In Die Walküre, the second part of Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen, the supreme god Wotan punishes his daughter Brünnhilde for not following his orders. He makes her mortal and locks her up in a mountain surrounded by fire. While clos ...
In this episode, Brian, a recent college graduate who wants to go into the entertainment industry, asks Robert for advice. They talk about puppetry, how to tell stories, the catch-22 of getting a diagnosis, building networks that lead to jobs, the great thing about being 24, and how to have a coffee meeting with someone you want to talk to… and wha…
Robert talk with Danielle, a standup comedian and master of social work (MSW) about toxic behaviors that can sabotage you, trauma bonding, autistic-affirming jobs, and the funny side of being openly autistic.By Robert Smythe and Rafael Mantesso
Bobby from Season 1 is back, talking with Quinn in Auckland, New Zealand, about their careers as artists and their experiences of realizing they’re autistic, “emotion blindness” (Alexithymia) and dealing with grief and guilt. They also discuss the horrors of bare feet! 🦶By Robert Smythe and Rafael Mantesso
You did it, sleuths! You solved the mystery of the missing teen, and now it's time to talk about which ending the majority of you chose. Listen to find out which ending won out and then prepare for Season 2, which will pick up where the winning ending left off...consequences and all. To stay updated with everything Maxine Miles, follow us @atypical…
Robert talks with Mykola Bilokonsky, who wrote the incredibly useful guide How to Talk About Autism Respectfully (https://coda.io/@mykola-bilokonsky/public-neurodiversity-support-center/how-to-talk-about-autism-respectfully-84), which has gotten over two million hits on Twitter. They talk about burnout, giving yourself permission to slow down, spea…
ENDING C - You've chosen to go to the mine, where a massive detonation is about to take place. The whole town is there, including someone who knows a lot more than they've been letting on...For cast and crew information, transcripts, and more please visit maxinemiles.com. MAXINE MILES is written and directed by Lauren Shippen and is a production of…
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Chapter X, Ending A - The Stolen Inheritance
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ENDING A - You've chosen to confront Ransom Archer with the files you found at the inn. But when an unexpected person joins the conversation, secrets long buried are laid bare...For cast and crew information, transcripts, and more please visit maxinemiles.com. MAXINE MILES is written and directed by Lauren Shippen and is a production of Atypical Ar…
ENDING B - You've chosen to go looking for Riley at Mr. Beatty's cabin. There are answers to be found in the middle of the woods, but they might not be the answers you're expecting...For cast and crew information, transcripts, and more please visit maxinemiles.com. MAXINE MILES is written and directed by Lauren Shippen and is a production of Atypic…
Robert and Michael talked with Jesse, who wrote and asked to join them in a conversation. They talk about the joys of stimming, using cannabis, self-acceptance, and what not to say when telling a joke. Bald heads rule! 👨🦲By Robert Smythe and Rafael Mantesso
To automatically receive your ending of choice, click here or visit findriley.maxinemiles.com. All the evidence is gathered and there are three possibilities for what happened to Riley. Was it the Archer family, trying to hide a dark family secret? A lonely old man trying to relive his less lonely past? Or a mining company desperate to protect thei…
We’re back! We talk about how autistic life is going for us, our first 16 episodes, and what lies ahead in Season 2. Surprise! Somebody cries in this one… it might even be you! 😭By Robert Smythe and Rafael Mantesso
Max acting as detective to individual locals continues when Ransom Archer enlists her help. Ransom had some files stolen last night, a night he doesn't at all remember, and Max is tasked with finding the papers. But, much to her surprise, one mystery leads into another and by the time she has a lead on the files, Max has more questions than answers…
After her ordeal in the cabin - and the new evidence it brought up - Max is almost relieved to be investigating a "haunting" at the local inn. But what begins as a nice afternoon with a woman Max looks up to becomes strange as Honeywell begins to warn Max against trusting Ross. Before they're able to finish their conversation, they realize they're …
Max and Ross are trapped. Together. Very close together. And Mr. Beatty - who might be responsible for kidnapping Riley - is just outside. Will Max and Ross escape? Whatever happens next, what they find is going to change things forever...For cast and crew information, transcripts, and more please visit maxinemiles.com. MAXINE MILES is written and …
Crushes are revealed, secrets come out, and new friendships forged. But Max is still Max, and she puts herself right in the middle of where she's not supposed to be once again. But her instincts are strong and when she sees someone acting suspciously, she can't help but follow...For cast and crew information, transcripts, and more please visit maxi…
As she learns more about what Riley was doing before he disappeared, Maxine is briefly sidelined from her search by another mystery. But, unbeknownst to her, this mystery might hit even closer to home...For cast and crew information, transcripts, and more please visit maxinemiles.com. MAXINE MILES is written and directed by Lauren Shippen and is a …
With her uncle breathing down her neck after finding her trove of evidence, Maxine is forced to make an unlikely ally. And using her neighbor's treehouse to run her investigation out of is only the first strange thing to happen to Max - as she starts her new job at the general store, new information about Riley comes from an even unlikelier source.…
Against the wishes of all the adults in her life, Maxine immediately inserts herself into the investigation around Riley's disappearance. But when she joins the search party going through the woods around Hastings, things take a turn for the worse...For cast and crew information, transcripts, and more please visit maxinemiles.com. MAXINE MILES is w…
In the fall of 1997, Hastings, New Hampshire is a sleepy town. But when someone graffitis the town square, fourteen year old Maxine Miles decides it's her job to figure out who did it. But before the day is done, there's an even bigger mystery for her to solve...For cast and crew information, transcripts, and more please visit maxinemiles.com. MAXI…
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The Bright Sessions


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MAXINE MILES - New Show from Lauren Shippen!
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I'm so excited to announce a brand new show: Maxine Miles, a new mystery show that involves you, the listener. It's the start of a new school year in small-town New Hampshire and Maxine Miles is ready to start off high school right. But when a fellow student goes missing, Max decides to solve the disappearance herself. And YOU will help her. During…
⏳By Robert Smythe and Rafael Mantesso
In a sleepy New England town, Maxine Miles’ humdrum life is shaken up when a fellow teen goes missing. When Maxine starts to sniff around town, she uncovers a dark secret which puts her - and everyone she cares about - in danger. From the creator of The Bright Sessions, Lauren Shippen, comes this brand new young adult mystery, with a choose-your-ow…
The College Tapes | CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains violence. Listener discretion is advised. Caleb and Adam and the gang confront Blackwell and his disciples on Halloween, putting new beginings in danger, and old threats into view of a full moon. For more information, please visit thecollegetapes.com…
The College Tapes | Caleb and Adam; past, present and future laid to bare on the eve of a sacrifice. For more information, please visit thecollegetapes.comBy Atypical Artists
The College Tapes | Caleb and Oliver grapple with the book and themselves, and Caleb makes a big decision that comes at a cost. For more information, please visit thecollegetapes.comBy Atypical Artists
The College Tapes | CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains violence. Listener discretion is advised. The gang goes in after Caitlin. For more information, please visit thecollegetapes.comBy Atypical Artists