Welcome to the mid-season break!  Up first- our first blooper reel from the first half of Season Eight.  Regular episodes of Our Fair City will return on February 28, 2018.

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• Is this the end of Archie?—Mark Soloff
• As evil as I’ll get—Hank Hewit
• Roughly Hamlet—Jim McDoniel
• My wife the Aunt—Clayton Faits
• Absolutely Not—David Rheinstrom
• Boop!—Jared Latore
• I apeat!—Jeffrey Gardner
• Real Brooklyn, Real Quick—Julia Schifini
• This is what it’s like to hang out with us!—Amanda McLoughlin
• Scariest Yes—Cecil Baldwin
• Great Akewsitcs—Ginneh Thomas
• Gimme Some Pie!—Kat Evans
• No Swears—Stephanie Murphy
• I don’t just mean he’s bad at his job!—Ansel Burch
• So many words!—Abby Doud
• I’m a HERO—Marsha Harman
• Good Milkshakes—Saren Nofs Snyder

Compiled and produced Jeffrey Gardner.  Photo by Sebastian Orr Photography. Music by Latché Swing.  A huge thank you to our episode sponsor Simplecast, through the Chicago Podcasting Cooperative.

Loyal Policies- welcome to the Our Fair City 2017 Exclusion Day Special! This year we’ve got a special treat- the first episode of “Spookies Podcast” from the Andrew Snidge Podcast network.  This crossover with Spirits podcast was recorded live at Podcon 2017 in Seattle, and was a whole lot of fun.  You can listen to spirits podcast wherever you find your podcasts, or on the web at spiritspodcast.com.

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• Opal— Julia Schifini
• Amber—Amanda McLoughlin
• Ash— David Rheinstrom
• Ferrous— Jeffrey Gardner

Written by Jim McDoniel. Directed by  Jeffrey Gardner. Sound Environments Designed by Ryan Schile. Music by Stephen Poon.  Produced by Jeffrey Gardner. Created by Clayton Faits.  Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode, Simplecast.

We’re happy to share our 2017 Halloween Special, with special guest sound design by Eli McIlveen!  Go check out his show Alba Salix, Royal Physician– we think you’ll really enjoy it.

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• The Bookseller— Clayton Faits

Written by Jim McDoniel. Directed by  Jeffrey Gardner. Sound Design by Eli McIlveen. Episode art by Daniele Levis Pelusi. Produced by Jeffrey Gardner. Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode, Cards Against Humanity.

Loyal Policies: today we bring you a short vignette from Composer Stephen Poon on the making of the Our Fair City theme song, featuring several as to now unreleased pieces of music!

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• Composer— Stephen Poon

Produced by Ryan Schile. Photo by Sebastian Orr Photography

Loyal Policies: today we bring you a short vignette from Lead Sound Designer Ryan Schile on his favorite sound moments in Our Fair City!  We hope you enjoy this look behind the scenes as we continue to prepare for Season Eight’s launch.

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• Lead Sound Designer— Ryan Schile

Produced by Ryan Schile. Photo by Sebastian Orr Photography

Loyal Policies: today we bring you a recording from our panel at the Oak Lawn Public Library: “Bringing Your Sci-fi Story to Life.”  If you’d like us to join you at a convention, library, or other special event, contact our Director of Live Engagements Betsey Palmer at [email protected].

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• Panel Moderator— Lauren Faits
• Composer— Stephen Poon
• Foley Artist/Cassandra Wilkins/Switchblades Cobalt— Ele Matelan
• Narrator— Ansel Burch
• Writer/Agent Chamberlain— Jim McDoniel

Produced by Jeffrey Gardner. Photo by Lauren Faits.

Loyal Policies: we return with another episode of listener questions!  Please note that this episode contains spoilers for Seasons One through Seven of Our Fair City.

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Special thanks to Smilodonmeow, JoeGee, S.P. Moran, Alex Generous, Soaplady, Vraik, Snail Army, Jervistetch7, Prepare to die obviously, Prunella-modularis, Antigonefunns, Mrtappan, dblplsgoodful, IndigoBryan, and everyone else who sent a question in!

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• Managing Director— Eleanor Hyde
• Andrew Snidge— Frank Sjodin
• Cassandra Wilkins/Switchblades Cobalt— Ele Matelan
• Doctor Emily Caligari— Marsha Harman
• Writer/Agent Chamberlain— Jim McDoniel
• Recording Engineer— DJ Catnip
• Executive Producer— Jeffrey Gardner

Produced by Jeffrey Gardner.  Recording Engineering by DJ Catnip.  A huge thank you to our sponsor for this episode, Cards Against Humanity!

Loyal Policies: we’re back with another group of questions submitted by Listeners Like You.  We got way more questions than we could handle in a single podcast, so we’ll be answering your queries over the next few weeks—if you submitted a question and didn’t hear it answered here, sit tight–we will most likely answer it in the next session.  Please note that this episode contains spoilers for Seasons One through Seven of Our Fair City.

If you’d like to support HartLife NFP and Our Fair City, you can join the amazing community on our Patreon page at http://www.patreon.com/hartlifenfp.   By pledging monthly, you can ensure the growth and stability of our company and  get great rewards like Our Fair City ringtones, Herbert West on your voicemail, personalized HartLife policy certificates, and more.  You can also help spread the word by rating and reviewing on iTunes or whatever podcasting service you are listening to us on!

Special thanks to Smilodonmeow, JoeGee, S.P. Moran, Alex Generous, Soaplady, Vraik, Snail Army, Jervistetch7, Prepare to die obviously, Prunella-modularis, Antigonefunns, Mrtappan, dblplsgoodful, IndigoBryan, and everyone else who sent a question in!

Content advisories for this episode can be found here.

• Managing Director— Eleanor Hyde
• Andrew Snidge— Frank Sjodin
• Cassandra Wilkins/Switchblades Cobalt— Ele Matelan
• Doctor Emily Caligari— Marsha Harman
• Writer/Agent Chamberlain— Jim McDoniel
• Recording Engineer— DJ Catnip
• Executive Producer— Jeffrey Gardner

Produced by Jeffrey Gardner.  Recording Engineering by DJ Catnip.  A huge thank you to our sponsor for this episode, Cards Against Humanity!

More of our Season Seven Blooper Reel, with a perhaps unhealthy fixation on shacks and trains.

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• Talkin’ into the Mic—Stephanie Murphy
• Like Rastlin Majere—Mark Soloff
• Won’t fuck up the flow of the sentence—Ansel Burch
• YOU MEAN TO TELL ME—Tyler Samples
• Shack Facts— Clayton Faits
• Good morning Caaaatnip—Kat Evans
• Final Fantasy Train Song—Whitney Kraus Jones
• Stable Solutions—Nina O’Keefe
• Amazing Laugh—Tara Schile
• Come on down to Valentine’s Shack—Jonah Winston
• I don’t got a shack—Jeffrey Gardner
• You get what you deserve if you don’t pay attention—Marsha Harman
• Dealing with extra snot—Frank Sjodin
• Gonna say what the script actually says—Ryan Schile

Compiled and produced Jeffrey Gardner.  Photo by Jenna Braunstein Photography. Music by Latché Swing.  A huge thank you to our episode sponsor Cards Against Humanity, through the Chicago Podcasting Cooperative.

We are pleased to begin our between-season break with the second part of our Season Seven Blooper reel!

If you’d like to support HartLife NFP and Our Fair City, you can join the amazing community on our Patreon page at http://www.patreon.com/hartlifenfp.   By pledging monthly, you can ensure the growth and stability of our company and  get great rewards like Our Fair City ringtones, Herbert West on your voicemail, personalized HartLife policy certificates, and more.  You can also help spread the word by rating and reviewing on iTunes or whatever podcasting service you are listening to us on!

Content warnings for this episode can be found here.

• Not music—Marsha Harman
• I took those words out—Ansel Burch
• Wherever he wants to be—Clayton Faits
• Needs an ass-map—Mark Soloff
• AAAAAAAAAAAAAgony!—Tara Schile
• Has been working on Christopher Cross covers—Tyler Samples
• Giving bad notes—Jeffrey Gardner
• Train to Georgia—Kamron Palmer
• Hears trains—Whitney Kraus Jones
• Feels very silly—Laura Bramblette
• Cumulus Jane is takin’ it down—Kat Evans
• Didn’t warn Catnip about yelling—Ryan Schile
• Titanic burps and farts—Frank Sjodin
• Goodbye Catnip!—David Rheinstrom

Compiled and produced Jeffrey Gardner.  Photo by Sebastian Orr Photography. Music by Latché Swing.  A huge thank you to our episode sponsor JackBox Games, through the Chicago Podcasting Cooperative.