Podcast Elevator Pitch

Guy Larson pitches us on the "Up in Smoke" podcast

Guy Larson is one of the creators behindUp in Smoke.On this episode of Podcast Elevator Pitch, Guy tells us about the show and makes his pitch. Links: * ⁠Pitch your show to our show⁠ [https://962udey3mps.typeform.com/to/sgF6ovIW] * Meet our host,⁠Arielle⁠ [https://www.ariellenissenblatt.com/] * Up in Smoke [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/up-in-smoke/id1770964068] Credits: Written & directed by Guy Larson and Cambria Bailey-Jones. Starring Mae Mac and Adam Buxton. Sound designed by Dan Pugsley. Studio producer is Gabriella Jones. Transcript: [00:00:00] Welcome to Podcast Elevator Pitch. My name's Arielle Nissenblatt and I'm your bellhop for the next few minutes. On this show, I ask podcasters to pitch us on why we should listen to their shows. Specifically, their limited run series. I'm interested in these because they're hard to make and even harder to market.   So a lot of them fall by the wayside without getting the listenership that they deserve.    So in this episode of Podcast Elevator Pitch, we'll hear from Guy Larson on why we should listen to a show called Up In Smoke. First, I'll hit play on the trailer of the show, and then you'll hear from Guy himself. Let's do it. In 2014, in a remote English village, a couple are woken up to their worst nightmare. Their family home is burning. Otto and Lindy Miller make it out of the blaze, but their [00:01:00] teenage son is trapped. Mason does not. Clear this area, please, everyone. Everyone out. Thank you. We're going to need the space. When police finally comb through the ashes, Mason's body is nowhere to be seen. Please, sweetheart, if you can. All I had to do was check his bloody room. Any ideas on what happened here? I was teaching the young Mason just last night, and all seemed well. The mystery will bring the world's media flooding into our village. Police. We are now conducting a missing persons investigation. Reporters. Did he have a sexual relationship with Mason? No! Well, we don't know. I don't hurt children in any way. Psychics. I sense Mason isn't truly in the spirit realm. All asking one question. Where is Mason Miller?[00:02:00]  Up in Smoke. A dark, mystery thriller from Penny Fall. Written and directed by Guy Larson and Cambria Bailey Jones. Starring Olivier Award nominee, May Mac. Follow along at upinsmoke. podcast on Instagram. Subscribe and listen to Up In Smoke wherever you get your podcasts. Now let's get to Guy's pitch. Here's why we should listen to Up In Smoke. My name is Guy Larson. I wrote and directed Up in Smoke, an eight part supernatural thriller series with Cambria Bailey Jones, starring Mae Mack and Adam Buxton. The best way to think of Up in Smoke is it's a true crime podcast about a fictional event. It all takes place around a house fire in 2014 that claims the life of one teenage boy called Mason Miller. And when police combed through the ashes, they realized that his body isn't there, sparking this huge media [00:03:00] storm. Police and journalists and psychics all descend on this tiny English village all asking the same question Where is Mason Miller? May Mack plays a local tabloid journalist called Kay McAllister who ten years on starts this podcast to try and prove that the wrong person was convicted and Adam Buxton who is known for his massive podcast The Adam Buxton Show among many other things is He plays a police chief called DCI Roy Burgess, who suddenly has the world's eyes on him and is very much way over his head. My partner is one of these people that loves falling asleep to true crime podcasts. She finds the voices very relaxing. I do not necessarily share that feeling, but we were listening to a podcast about a family in the 1940s whose house burns down. Four of the nine children escape, but five die. do not, and their bodies are not found in the rubble.

Danielle pitches "Rom Com Vom" from the "Sex Ed with DB" podcast

Meet Danielle, host of Sex Ed with DB. On this episode of Podcast Elevator Pitch, Danielle pitches a mini-series within her podcast, Rom Com Vom. [https://open.spotify.com/episode/12bzZbFp1Zza5F0HCenDtC] Links: * Pitch your show to our show [https://962udey3mps.typeform.com/to/sgF6ovIW] * Meet our host, Arielle [https://www.ariellenissenblatt.com/] Credits: Creator, Host, Executive Producer: Danielle Bezalel (DB) Producer: Sadie Lidji Communications Lead: Cathren Cohen Content Creation: Mitch Coburn and Emm-Kirsty Fraser Transcript: Arielle: [00:00:00] Hey, it's Podcast Elevator Pitch. Welcome to the show. I'm Arielle Nissenblatt, your host, but it's not all about me. It's about the podcasts that have pitched us. Arielle: This is the first episode of the show. The show in which I ask podcasters to call in and tell me about their work. Specifically, their limited run podcast work. Picture this. We're on an elevator together and you're pitching us your show. It's as simple as that. Why do we focus on limited run? Well, series like this are super hard to market and they take a lot of work and so many of them go under listened because the window for promotion is often super short. Arielle: So this is the show trying to breathe a second wind into those shows, those limited series. Arielle: The way this show works is that people can submit their audio via the submission form in the show notes. All of the instructions are there for you, podcaster. I [00:01:00] then hit play on your audio, and then you, listener, decide if you want to navigate over to that featured show on your podcast player of choice to listen to the series in full. Arielle: From time to time, if the podcaster also submitted a trailer for their show, I'll hit play on that in order to give you a taste of the soundscape. Without further ado, let's get to today's Podcast Elevator Pitch.  DB: Hello. My name is Danielle Bezalel and my show is called Rom Com Vom. The general premise of the show is that it is a Sex Ed with DB podcast mini series, focused on exploring popular rom coms from the 90s and early 2000s that gave us toxic messages about love and sex. DB: I am so thrilled to have made this mini series. I think that it's very funny and it allows millennials to do a re watch of some of our favorite rom coms ever and really [00:02:00] dissect the messed up messages that we received from them. The kinds of rom coms we go over in this mini series are Never Been Kissed, Love and Basketball, Twilight, 50 First Dates, Hitch, and much much more. DB: I think it's really unique because I think that there are other rom coms podcast conversations out there, but I don't think they're specifically for millennials who want to do a rewatch and kind of a new dissection of how these rom coms completely messed up our brain when it comes to expectations around love and sex and romance. DB: The show is perfect for anyone who loves rom coms, specifically for people who have a space in their heart for 90s and early 2000s rom coms, [00:03:00] for anyone who is obsessed with Meg Ryan or Drew Barrymore. Or Julia Roberts, or any of our girlies who we absolutely love and who are iconic. Thank you so much for considering me, and I really hope to chat soon. Arielle: Thank you for listening to this pitch. We'll close out this episode with the trailer for the show that you just heard. We're back soon with more elevator pitches.  DB: Did the rom-coms of the nineties and early aughts totally mess up how we think about love and sex? Spoiler alert. DB: Yep, they definitely did. I'm DB and this is Rom Com Vom, a new podcast miniseries from Sex Ed with DB, where we dive into the iconic rom-coms that made a swoon and cringe at the same time. We're talking You've Got Mail, Never Been Kissed, Twilight, and more, with hilarious guests who will help me pick apart the scenes that sent us all the wrong messages about love and sex. DB: Plus, we'll reimagine how these films could have gotten it right. First episode drops October 9th. [00:04:00] See you there. Just type in sex ed with DB wherever you get your podcasts.

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