Steven James Scearce
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196 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Jun
Steven James Scearce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Good or bad. We are, of course, fictionalizing a lot of it. Stole Kansas shows up. Anybody who knows anything knows of some of the backstory of Stole Kansas, all of the myths and legends. We play with that. But, you know, in the end, we also kind of downplay some of that because people don't want.
Don't go to Stull. Don't go to Stull. Just leave those people alone. Leave those people alone. That's right. You will be arrested. So let's make sure that this is on record. Don't go to Stull. Don't go to Stull, Kansas. But when we say supernatural, I set up some rules very early on that I think probably proved challenging, at least somewhat for you.
in that we wouldn't have kind of standard tropes of horror no ghosts no no devils or demons no um we aren't doing religious horror or any of that kind of stuff um it's it's a little weirder i think um what do you what do you think
You know, I think that I understood it when you told me, like, hey, we're going to do this a little bit differently. And I got it. I think I probably would have pushed back on, you know, ghosts and witches and demons and religious aspects and all the usual tropes had you pitched it, because it seems like that's probably over-served at the moment. And we wanted to do something different. Bear, you mentioned something about
You know, here we are in the Midwest. We're in Kansas. There's a lot of creepy stuff that goes on around the Midwest. Sure. Things that you've already mentioned. But, you know, there are aspects of the Midwest that are strange and creepy and unknown. And there was plenty to play with. So I didn't have a problem fitting into that at all. Yeah.
And you kind of brought me on. I think originally you brought me on as just co-writer and I started writing on one of the narrator episodes and then realized that I could not do that like you do that. So yeah, you gave over and allowed me to start playing with some of the audio drama episodes. And then I ran with that. Right. So the original original thinking was that this would be a series that would have two narrators.
One would be what we now consider the narrator, and that is the 13 episodes that you will hear. But there is going to be a different storyteller slash narrator in the professor. And the idea was originally that the original colonel was the professor himself.
telling stories in a different way. Probably maybe getting stories in from other people and relating their experiences and then him kind of pontificating in a professorial kind of sense about what this might mean and what is it about. And so you started, the very first thing you wrote was the Stole Kansas episode. You ended up gutting a lot of it and we rewrote it and changed it because we added another character. True.
Um, but that was, we, um, that was thinking because we, like I was going to do the, the narrator voice. You were then going to do the professor voice. Right. And then we had a lot more characters and I think it made a lot more sense. Obviously the direction we've now gone makes a lot more sense. Um, you playing Casey instead of a professor is, um, I think much more your style. I think it's more authentic for your voice. Um,
And just probably a lot more fun anyway. And we found a great professor in W. Keith Timms who just nailed it. Absolutely. Yeah.
I remember that now. Yeah. I'd forgotten. Yeah. It was going to be, I think it was probably going to be weird. Right, there you go. Yeah, there you go. Right. But as you say, you know, with the Midwest, there is definitely something about, there's a lot of big open spaces. There's certainly abandoned old buildings from the late 1800s and 1900s. And I know if you guys are in Europe listening to this, you're laughing at that as an old kind of thing. I get it. But, you know,
You and I have tromped through the west bottoms of Kansas City where there's a bunch of these old buildings that haven't been touched for years. And unfortunately, now they're tearing them all down and gentrifying the whole place and changing it really up. But, you know, there is something special about these buildings that are crumbling but still have some solidity there. And it's quiet and it's creepy. And especially in the evenings or nights when you're kind of going through these places again.
Um, and I really wanted to capture that essence. Um, uh, but as I said, you know, as we kind of work through it, we realized there's a lot more, there's a lot more we could tell through audio drama parts. And, um, and we really liked producing that, you know, station one 51 is full audio drama. Um,
We aren't big fans of big cast shows. Audiodrama is tough because, you know, you're only hearing the voices. So it's a little harder to remember who is speaking unless the voices are very distinct and different and all of that. So we really wanted to keep the cast reasonably tight.
But there's a lot of story and a lot of things that we could tell. And if we had different cast members doing it, we could explore different kinds of stories and bring them in in different ways. And each one has their own backstory and reason for being in the show and possible conflicts with the other cast members and all of that. Yeah.
Do we want to introduce? You know, let's talk about cast because we assembled an incredible cast. We held auditions. There were some folks that we knew from working with them on Station 151. Yep. Aiden. Like Aiden Dawn, who is absolutely fantastic as Selina. Yep.
And obviously very, I consider her kind of so much of a part of the show anyway, because she has not only brought her talent for voice acting, but also really assisted in bringing a lot of other cast members to us. She's well connected. She also works as a casting director and as well as a director of stuff. So she really brought a lot to the show, not just in her voice work.
Yes. Thank you, Aiden. Yes. And we talked about, obviously, I play Casey Krieg, one of our two, would you call them ghost hunters or podcasters? They're a podcast team, two guys that are...
trying to make it as kind of a ghost hunter slash urban legend. They've kind of probably plateaued. They aren't making a lot of money. This is a tough business.
Um, but having that podcast within a podcast adds a lot of, a lot of fun, but yeah, so, um, so, uh, you play a Casey, but, uh, his met his, uh, Casey's partner is a Dante Bennett, right? Dante's a little bit more wisecracking. Um, and he is played by Elliot Schiff. Yep. And, uh, um,
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