Shadoe Stevens
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98 appearances
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1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Shadoe Stevens’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's a study in New England this last year of all of the cocaine that was seized. And they did tests on it and found that something like 97% of it had fentanyl in it. And something like 30% or 40%. I remember the numbers of xylazine, of Trank. The zombie drug, yeah, well, who wouldn't want that, the flesh-eating drug? It's like, oh, no, it's horrifying. And yet it's happening.
And, you know, we've got to reach out to people, anybody that's going like, maybe I have a, well, just, if you don't think you have a problem, don't do any for a couple of weeks. See if you can do that. You probably can't. Everybody thinks they're different. I'm smarter. I don't use that way. You know, I was that way. So was I. And until it gets really bad, you don't do anything. You can't.
And you have to be broken down in order to get to it. Unfortunately.
Anyway, what are you working on now? Well, my passion project started at the beginning of COVID and it was a lockdown and the whole world thought it's the end of the world and was terrified. And I'm sitting there with my studio and I thought, well, I've got to write something funny and uplifting. And so I started writing Mental Radio. It's mentalradio.net. And it started with me doing everything.
I did all the production, all the writing, all of the sound design, all of the marketing, all of everything. And then I started attracting enthusiastic support. And the first one came from the guy who was the director of my federated commercials. And he's also a world-class composer. And I said, Chuck, do you have any music that you own the publishing to that I could use for my stories?
And he goes, yeah, I've had all these movies I was paid to do that never came out. And you can have whatever you want in the library. It's like John Williams and Marconi and like the who's who. It's really world-class music. And this opened up my... And metal radio is all audio theater. It's stories, adventures, tall tales, serials, and parody and sketches.
And it all has a mythology behind it that gives it weight.
and it's all dedicated to um you know optimism and hope and uh big ideas and and it's grown and then pretty soon i've got people saying you know i do voices i do voice work you know if you got any characters and then i would write these things and i'd have them do it and we'd do it like um like an animated movie and they would send me their their pieces and i'd stitch it together to make it sound real and
It grew. Now there are 26 episodes. Each episode would take weeks to do. It wouldn't be like an interview where you sit down now and maybe edit it together. This is highly produced like doing a movie. Some episodes would take a month, six weeks. It would take as long as it would take. And now there are 12 hours of stories and a little over a half million downloads. It's got a bit of a following.
It's got great reviews. My favorite is it is... Audio Acid and Spiritual Crack. If you listen to the stories with headphones, sounds come from behind you. They move around in your head. It's very cinematic, and it takes you away from the world.
About a year and a half ago, the president of the Montauban Theater in Hollywood, Gil Smith, was married to Ricardo Montauban's daughter for decades, and she died just before COVID. And he called me and he said, as I sat alone in my house during COVID, one of the things that got me through was listening to metal radio and laughing and feeling uplifted.
And he said, what do you think about doing it as live theater? I think that's the greatest idea I've ever heard in my life. You think we can? He goes, yeah, I'm thinking giant screens, immersive 360 degree surround sound. So the kind of sound that you do in your shows actually happens in the theater, hard left to right, things coming from behind, things that is really an immersive experience.
So we've been working on it for about a year and a half and hope to have it up this year. The last nine months I've spent, I wrote and produced 16 songs. So it's not a real musical because characters don't break into song, but there's so much music in it. And the music is pretty fabulous. It's very uplifting and funny. There are songs like, there's always someone to blame.
In fact, I have a little piece of that if you want to play it. Yeah. But there's always someone to turn on, someone to behind all your pain. I think that sounds fantastic. Is that coming out? Yeah. Well, see what we're doing, we're trying to do the legal now and the legal part is like always cumbersome. Sure. But we're in an advanced state of development. The scripts are done.
We've done run throughs in the theater. The music is just finished in rough mixes, but the rough mixes are really fabulous. There's a song called Don't You Know Who I Am. I'm a self-made overachiever. I don't know how to explain some of these things. They're all different. The music is based on New Orleans second line music meets 1930s swing meets gospel. And the gospel is badass. It's real big.
There's so much recovery in this show. I mean, yes, we're learning to laugh at ourselves. Yes, we're laughing at being afraid. Yes, we're laughing at who we think we are. There's a song called You Gotta Keep Your Sense of Humor when it is hitting the fan, sung by teenagers. And it's really fun. Did I leave anything out?
I would like to say mentalradio.net and my art site is called shadowart.com. S-H-A-D-O-E-A-R-T, shadowart.com. Mentalradio.net and watch the skies because we should be able to roll this out sometime this year.
See you next Tuesday. Seriously.
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