As a special treat to announce the release of the season one remaster (available now), we've decided to give you a special insight into our process with a full creator commentary.

We have no idea why nobody has thought to do this with podcasts before.

Season 5 is in production and should be out in May! Thanks cuties for all your support!

[The remaster is not a joke. It's real and amazing. Go check it out, it's ad-free!]

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Relax, while Josie goes to Hollywood. Or at least, she tells us about the new Hollywood drama from the Good Story Guild from the comfort of her booth. Head over to the feed now and get hooked on this sharp new series.

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In Media Res: A Hollywood Odyssey in Five Acts

When Alex Eli (Kyle Prue) is plucked from obscurity and offered the role of franchise megalith Jack Stellar, booking the gig is only the beginning. In a whirlwind week of media training, he is thrust into the deep end of shark-infested Malibu waters. As he’s broken down and molded into "Xander Eli," he can’t tell who to trust. There’s the agent who needs him. The director who mentored him. The father who abandoned him. Loyalties are tested as the clock runs down to Xander’s livestreamed reveal. When the cameras start rolling, who will be at his side…and will he even be himself anymore?

Best enjoyed with headphones.

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Directed by Rachel Music.

Written by Gesley Alexis, Anna Nuria Francino, Chris Murphy, Matty Pipes, and Connor Pritchard.

Starring Kyle Prue as Xander, Nicole Kang as Kat, and Christopher Gebauer as Coen.

Special Guests John Ales, Jacqueline Landgraf, Anthony Misiano, Mather Zickel, Neill Fleming, and James Urbaniak as Hobart Frunk.

Featuring Alyssa Mann, Nick Reinhardt, Caitlin Carleton, Raechel Wong, and Simone Kisiel.

Trailer Narration by Frank Romeo

Sound Design by Adam Joseph Monaghan

Music composed and produced by Michelle Sudduth

Original songs by Michelle Sudduth and Rachel Music

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Evan Chambers

Produced by Simone Kisiel, Maximilian Clark and Elspeth Hunt

Executive Produced by the Good Story Guild, recorded under a SAG-AFTRA agreement.

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Hello Cuties!

Phew. What a year, amirite? Having taken two months off to rest, the Josie's creative team (Rachel and Maximilian) wanted to check in and give you all some updates. Don't have time to listen? Here you go:

• New episodes coming this April.
• We're switching to twice a month releases with no breaks ever until we're all dead.
• We're animating more Josie clips that will go on our socials @Goodstoryguild
• Season five is gonna be our Soap Opera season so get ready for some freakin cliffhangers.
• We love you a lot and are so glad you've found us.
• The Good Story Guild Patreon will have early episodes and more BTS coming. You can also see this message as a video.
• In the meantime Good Story Guild has a show launching in two weeks and two more full series in our catalogue. If you haven't heard them. search "Divorce Ranch" and "Leylines" in the podcast app you're in.

Holding you all in our hearts as we start our Josie Machine back up. See you again soon.

Night, night cuties.

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We're hoping Yuletide yourselves over to 2025 with this extra-special Christmas episode! Frank and Joanne get an unexpected present and a night off as they showcase a hilarious holiday audio series from comedian Ella Gale. Stay tuned for more in the new year, cuties!

xo F&J

MORE ABOUT CANDY CLAUS:

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Santa's bastard daughter solves hardboiled Christmas crimes on the North Pole in this half-hour audio comedy. Candy is a death-metal-loving, peppermint-schnapps-swilling PI trying to solve the North Pole’s first murder in 500 years without learning the true meaning of Christmas. A sendup of toxic positivity and prodigal homecomings, the show introduces characters like SANTA BLOB (a deformed snowman built as a surrogate Santa Claus), MOPPET (a gingerbread man baker conscripted as a pathologist) and GUMDROP THE WINTER SQUID (a Krampus-esque calamari committing unspeakable acts on the seafloor).

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Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club is brought to you by the Good Story Guild. Keep track of us on Instagram @goodstoryguild and join our Discord. If you enjoyed the show, consider leaving a rating and/or review on your preferred podcast listening platform.

Nighty night, cuties.

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Clean out your crock pots, we're talking about slow burns this week. Our callers are simmering with stories of workplace romances, illicit love affairs, and romancing from a court-ordered 60 feet away. As people recount stories of finding love with the people they already know, Joanne and Frank talk about rocks, adrenaline, and fancy personal scooters. Stay tuned until the end to see a familiar face; you know how we do season finales by now!

Our callers this week included the talents of Ross Childs, Meghan Falcone, Pat Harvey, Taylor Coriell and Hannah Schooner. Our story editor is Aliza Brugger.

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Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club is a semi-improvised audio drama set in the studio of New Mexico’s 2nd-best relationship call-in show. On-air, Josie mends the broken hearts of a weekly collection of hilarious improvisers. Off-air, listeners get to eavesdrop on the life of Josie’s secret identity: shy, unassuming Joanne Holtzinger. Join Joanne and her puckish producer Frank as they navigate the pitfalls of love and fame as the show slowly becomes a national sensation.

Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club is brought to you by the Good Story Guild. Keep track of us on Instagram @goodstoryguild and join our Discord. If you enjoyed the show, consider leaving a rating and/or review on your preferred podcast listening platform.

Nighty night, cuties.

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Grab a drumstick and sweeten your potatoes, because this week we're getting stuffed. Frank and Joanne arrive for their long-awaited Thanksgiving Day celebration and the tea -- and the gravy -- is piping hot. Meet Frank's family.

That's it. No puns or wordplay, just ...Frank's family. Buckle up.

The Good Story Guild is thankful for YOU this season! In less than a year, we have shared ups and downs and milk out our noses, and the gratitude is irrepressible. If you'd take a moment to review the show, or share us with someone you're thankful for, we can keep this virtuous cycle of goofs and love going strong.

Our cuties this week are Kyle Prue, Sarah Ellis, Amanda Sykes, Frank Romeo, Johnny Pirkis, Jennifer Jiles, Martin Olson, River Romeo and Grace Gladstone.

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Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club is a semi-improvised audio drama set in the studio of New Mexico’s 2nd-best relationship call-in show. On-air, Josie mends the broken hearts of a weekly collection of hilarious improvisers. Off-air, listeners get to eavesdrop on the life of Josie’s secret identity: shy, unassuming Joanne Holtzinger. Join Joanne and her puckish producer Frank as they navigate the pitfalls of love and fame as the show slowly becomes a national sensation. Created by Maximilian Clark and Rachel Music. 

Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club is brought to you by the Good Story Guild. Keep track of us on Instagram @goodstoryguild and join our Discord. If you enjoyed the show, consider leaving a rating and/or review on your preferred podcast listening platform.

Nighty night, cuties.

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Brush up your Shakespeare and Feed the Birds, this week we try to class the joint up a little. We're catching Joanne mid-glow-up, doing her best to be Our Fair Lady. Time is ticking down to Thanksgiving, and Fr--er, Pennybutt--seems even squirrellier than usual. In the spirit of impersonation, the show's theme is sweet little lies, and Josie navigates a bevy two-faced cuties. Meet a faux-dio clown, a wrestler with a dark and smelly past, a veracity-challenged individual, and perhaps the best (and definitely real-est) boyfriend ever!

This week's callers included Al Pagano, Laura Holliday, Ashley Adler, and Brendan Sokler. Our story editor is Aliza Brugger. 

Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club is a semi-improvised audio drama set in the studio of New Mexico’s 2nd-best relationship call-in show. On-air, Josie mends the broken hearts of a weekly collection of hilarious improvisers. Off-air, listeners get to eavesdrop on the life of Josie’s secret identity: shy, unassuming Joanne Holtzinger. Join Joanne and her puckish producer Frank as they navigate the pitfalls of love and fame as the show slowly becomes a national sensation. Created by Maximilian Clark and Rachel Music. 

Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club is brought to you by the Good Story Guild. Keep track of us on Instagram @goodstoryguild and join our Discord. If you enjoyed the show, consider leaving a rating and/or review on your preferred podcast listening platform.

Nighty night, cuties.

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How do you plead? Tonight's show is inspired by favors, and Frank is on his knees trying to coax Joanne into his scheme. Joanne gets settled in the catbird seat as Frank, the dog, learns to beg. Our cuties spin stories of tit for tat involving an x-rated chore wheel, a prowling cougar, a friend cashing in his IOU and handywoman ready to do some mounting.

Our callers this week included the talents of Ross Child, Meghan Falcone, Pat Harvey, and Hannah Schooner. Our story editor is Aliza Brugger.

Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club is a semi-improvised audio drama set in the studio of New Mexico’s 2nd-best relationship call-in show. On-air, Josie mends the broken hearts of a weekly collection of hilarious improvisers. Off-air, listeners get to eavesdrop on the life of Josie’s secret identity: shy, unassuming Joanne Holtzinger. Join Joanne and her puckish producer Frank as they navigate the pitfalls of love and fame as the show slowly becomes a national sensation.

Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club is brought to you by the Good Story Guild. Keep track of us on Instagram @goodstoryguild and join our Discord. If you enjoyed the show, consider leaving a rating and/or review on your preferred podcast listening platform.

Nighty night, cuties.

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Can someone put on a pot of coffee? After Ruby's reaction on Halloween, Frank is single and ready to mope. Scratch that: Frank is sloshed and ready to boot and rally. Joanne plays serious defense on and off air as the show explores breakups, leading to miscommunications of all stripes. Our testy twosome duke it out until a surprise visitor issues a summons they can't refuse. Meet a regretful billboard marketer, a wrong number gone wronger, a specter from seasons past, and an emoji archaeologist.

Our callers this week included the talents of Brendan Sokler, Laura Holliday, Ashley Adler, and Al Pagano

Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club is a semi-improvised audio drama set in the studio of New Mexico’s 2nd-best relationship call-in show. On-air, Josie mends the broken hearts of a weekly collection of hilarious improvisers. Off-air, listeners get to eavesdrop on the life of Josie’s secret identity: shy, unassuming Joanne Holtzinger. Join Joanne and her puckish producer Frank as they navigate the pitfalls of love and fame as the show slowly becomes a national sensation.

Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club is brought to you by the Good Story Guild. Keep track of us on Instagram @goodstoryguild and join our Discord. If you enjoyed the show, consider leaving a rating and/or review on your preferred podcast listening platform.

Nighty night, cuties.

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Spirits are high and spooky season is nigh -- let's scare up a few cuties for this special Halloween episode! This week Frank and Joanne are "exorcizing" their rights, driven to desperate measures to rid their studio of its meddlesome poltergeist. There's also a pretty fundamental costume mix-up, it'll take more than a sugar cube to butter up Ruby this time. Meet a forgetful barfly channelling Karloff, a mistaken identity that might get murderous, a hottie lost on a campsite, and one fella who's really been playing the (potter's) field.

Our callers this week included the talents of Levi Penley, Steve Hayes, Kat Letwin and Kristi Boulton.

Our story editor is Aliza Brugger.

Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club is a semi-improvised audio drama set in the studio of New Mexico’s 2nd-best relationship call-in show. On-air, Josie mends the broken hearts of a weekly collection of hilarious improvisers. Off-air, listeners get to eavesdrop on the life of Josie’s secret identity: shy, unassuming Joanne Holtzinger. Join Joanne and her puckish producer Frank as they navigate the pitfalls of love and fame as the show slowly becomes a national sensation. Created by Maximilian Clark and Rachel Music. 

Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club is brought to you by the Good Story Guild. Keep track of us on Instagram @goodstoryguild and join our Discord. If you enjoyed the show, consider leaving a rating and/or review on your preferred podcast listening platform.

Nighty night, cuties.

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We hope you're sitting down for this - the KDNM family just got a little smaller, and Josie decides to turn the show into a remembrance ceremony. Plus, Frank's being kind of squirrelly. What's that about? When the lines open up, Josie pitches a novel to a murder suspect, counsels a paranormal throuple, audits a recent widow, and mediates a marriage bedeviled by daredevilry (that's very fun to say out loud - go ahead, try it).

Josie's was created by Maximilian Clark and Rachel Music. Our callers this week included the talents of David Lawson, Aria Tereza Salai, Nick Reinhardt and Avra Friedman. Our story editor is Aliza Brugger. 

Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club is a semi-improvised audio drama set in the studio of New Mexico’s 2nd-best relationship call-in show. On-air, Josie mends the broken hearts of a weekly collection of hilarious improvisers. Off-air, listeners get to eavesdrop on the life of Josie’s secret identity: shy, unassuming Joanne Holtzinger. Join Joanne and her puckish producer Frank as they navigate the pitfalls of love and fame as the show slowly becomes a national sensation. Created by Maximilian Clark and Rachel Music. 

Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club is brought to you by the Good Story Guild. Keep track of us on Instagram @goodstoryguild and join our Discord. If you enjoyed the show, consider leaving a rating and/or review on your preferred podcast listening platform.

Nighty night, cuties.

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