The Thin Air Podcast is an episodic anthology of short stories, novellas and poems, including fantasy, science fiction, suspense, thrillers and the macabre. Featuring tales penned and narrated by Lonsdale, this program could be described as a fascinating blend of audiobook and modern-day old-time radio. Episodes are presented as dramatic readings with background sound F/X and original music. The premiere episode, titled “The Uncanny Valley of the Shadow,” is the opening chapter, kicking off ...
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Egghead - 2024 Thin Air Halloween Special
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Jacob Barlowe has a lot on his mind these days as he makes his way down a rain-soaked sidewalk leading to his psychologists’s office. Stress at work and a series of excruciating migraine headaches have prompted his doctor to recommend extended therapy in the hope that it will help to uncover the root cause. Unfortunately for mister Barlow and subse…
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Bound for the raucous frontier town of Tombstone, Arizona, to play a series of engagements at the notorious Birdcage Theater, famed actress Ezmarelda Culpepper boards a stagecoach hoping this will turn out to be the last of her less than desirable bookings. What she doesn’t realize yet is that the Tombstone Express will be, by necessarily, rerouted…
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WAIR - Thin Air Radio, An Interview with RJ Lonsdale
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Writer, director and producer of the Thin Air Podcast, RJ Lonsdale, joins WAIR talkshow host Clayton Lomax for a candid discussion of the show. Get the inside scoop about the origin of Thin Air and many of the episodes that are currently streaming. In addition to the chat with Lonsdale, you can also catch an exclusive tale that will only air on thi…
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Imperium - Chapter One, Dawn of Darkness
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A veil of darkness is falling upon the Queen’s Imperium. As a frightening series of events start to unfold across the boundless reaches of the cosmos, none other than Queen Ophelia Droxine Oberon herself rockets off from Imperious Prime to investigate, accompanied by Captain Nix Orlan, long-time Aeronaut to the royal family. One by one, the stars a…
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Long Cold Night by Allan Vaughan Elston
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Long Cold Night, a classic tale of maritime intrigue and adventure by author Allan Vaughan Elston, comes vividly to life, here on RJ Lonsdale’s Thin Air Podcast Anthology. Lost and run aground somewhere in the grim arctic darkness, all that remain of the whaling vessel Norwhaal’s crew are Cabin Boy David Jones and four prisoners that had been locke…
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You Can Trust Your Car, to the Man From Another Star E2 (A Travelogue to Invasion)
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The plot thickens. Thin Air Radio broadcast newsman Chet Huxley continues his “Travelogue to Invasion” just outside the odd little town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, that infamous point on his star map known in the annals of UFO folklore for a flap of flying saucer, men in black and, of course, legendary Mothman encounters. What will he discove…
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The Fall of the House of Escher
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Alister Fairfax has received and is in the process of responding to a dire correspondence from his long, lost love, Matilda Escher. What dark destiny awaits his arrival and what strange manifestation of upended reality will he encounter as he passes through a broken pane of glass to save Miss Escher from cruel fate? Travel along and discover for yo…
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Commander Ruth Mae McKenna is about to make history. Her own, that is. With the flip of a switch, McKenna will plunge headlong into an infinite field of wandering space time, a journey not only across vast distance but also into the far flung future, leaving all that she has ever known in her wake, transforming present to long ago past in the wink …
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You Can Trust Your Car, to the Man From Another Star E1 (A Travelogue to Invasion)
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Happy Halloween 2023! Thin Air Radio broadcast newsman Chet Huxley has stumbled upon the story of a lifetime, veiled deep within the wilderness of New Hampshire’s mysterious White Mountains. An unscheduled stop for gasoline has revealed a dark and insidious plot by aliens from outer space to covertly invade and take over the world. Follow along wit…
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Leroy King, B-47 bomber pilot for the Strategic Air Command, awakens to find himself facing down the end of everything. As the DEFCON siren cuts through the early morning normalcy, signaling the beginning of the end, Leroy and his crew take to the sky with orders to deliver their multi-megaton payload to a target inside Russia. The balance of power…
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The Passenger, Chapter 6 - Time Squared
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Tate Addison is a passenger once again, boarding a flight bound for Thailand in a desperate attempt to find his way back to the future. Driven on by the unlikely inspiration of a Rubik’s Cube, Mr. Addison will soon discover the truth concerning yet another iteration of the S.S. American Star, a so-called casual loop that might just take him on a un…
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Clover Delaney has just been passed over for a part in an upcoming Broadway musical production called, One Rush. Alone on the curb of the legendary Richard Rodgers Theatre, she sits in the rain lamenting, another lost shot at her first big break into… the business. Unbeknownst to her, opportunity is about to knock, or, in this case, tap her on the …
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Abigale Perrish awakens with a start, face down in the mud, somewhere out in a darkened cornfield in the rain. Desperately trying to find her way home, Miss Parrish begins to slowly unravel a mystery, not unlike that which has plagued humanity for a long, long time. From Ezekiel’s wheel to the Interrupted Journey of Betty and Barney Hill, alien vis…
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WAIR - Thin Air Radio, An interview with Wild Bill TikTok
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Star of the latest Thin Air Podcast episodes, "The Parlour Soldier" & "Brightside Crossing" takes a few minutes out of his busy schedule to stop by the WAIR studio for a little 1-on-1 chat with Thin Air Radio host, Clayton Lomax. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thin-air-stories/support…
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Brightside Crossing by Alan Edward Nourse
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James Baron is preparing for an expedition, an attempt to cross the hellish Brightside of planet Mercury, closest of all worlds in our solar system to the sun. As he waits alone in the dark, cool recesses of the Red Lion Lounge, a strange, disfigured man seats himself at Baron’s table with an incredible story to tell. Written by Alan Edward Nourse …
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The Parlour Soldier (Dead to Rights)
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In the midst of raucous musket and cannon fire exchanged between north and south during the infamous Battle of Bull Run, Union Army Soldier Ezekiel Ambrose decides that he no longer wishes to stand, fight and potentially die for the cause. Quietly wandering away from the carnage down the middle of a shallow stream, he encounters what he refers to a…
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The Passenger, Chapter 5 - Lost & Found
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Following his ordeal in the Canary Islands, Tate Addison unceremoniously returns to his life. As the days slowly drag on through the Covid pandemic, he watches from his lofty home in the Colorado Rockies while the American Star shipwreck finally collapses beneath the waves, seemingly leaving him marooned in the loneliness of a world without Kapera …
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Sh*t 4 Brains & Tooth Decay - 2022 Thin Air Halloween Double Feature
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Part One - Sh*t 4 Brains They say that history is bound to repeat itself. In this case, you can flush that theory right down the old fudge pot. Introducing Sh*t 4 Brains, one of Woodstock 99’s extremely diehard fans, a rotten little brown apple who checked into a Porta Potty and then checked out for good. Now he hangs around like a lingering trouse…
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The Century Unlimited, Book 2 - A Brief History of the Future
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Constance Weathersbee has returned to her life, such as it is, albeit without the one spark that matters to her most of all. Her dearest love, famed inventor Nikola Tesla. Tasked by Tesla himself to follow a set of cryptic instructions across the hourglass sands of time, Constance will once again board the mysterious Century Unlimited in a desperat…
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The Century Unlimited, Book 1 - Postcards from the Red Sky Café
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Constance Weathersbee, star reporter for the New York Herald Examiner, has just been given a new assignment by her editor. Early this morning, she will travel out to a remote location called Wardenclyffe and get the inside scoop on the latest project being readied for full-scale, plugs-out testing by famed scientist and inventor, Doctor Nikola Tesl…
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The Imaginaries - 2021 Thin Air Holiday Special
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Tabitha Bronson, real estate developer from Phoenix, is on a mission. Just as she has done countless times before, Tabitha is headed out to a job site slated for demolition. Unlike before, this particular location happens to be situated in a most desolate locale, an abandoned holiday theme park rotting away along a lonely stretch of highway in the …
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Collect Call - 2021 Thin Air Halloween Special
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Gideon Jeffries has just pulled off the crime of the century, the largest single bank heist ever. Making his getaway into the Louisiana bayou, Gideon takes a wrong turn toward a fate he could have never imagined, an encounter forced upon him by the very consequence of his actions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/th…
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Kate and June, two little girls with big dreams of someday becoming professional entomologists, head out into a field of corn to capture and collect a mason jar full of crawly, wiggly bugs. Little do they know, these kids may just end up being caught inside a bug jar of their own.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thi…
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The Passenger, Season 1 - Epilogue
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Profound loss and the passionless hands on a clock have delivered Tate Addison back to where he started, alone on a desolate beach in Fuerteventura. There before him, rotting in the placid tide, his first of many methods of transport is nearly gone now, a tormented metal skeleton, telltale proof of how nothing escapes relentless years, at least not…
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Nearly taken out of the game by an avalanche of falling debris, Tate Addison lunges across yet another dimensional gateway to find himself sprawled across a well-manicured lawn in a cool shower of sprinklers. Pleasantly surprised that this time, the surroundings aren't outwardly life threatening, he takes a well-earned walk in the park, only to dis…
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The Passenger, Chapter 3 - Space Inbetween
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Narrowly escaping a bizarre, cryptozoological nightmare in the wilderness, Tate Addison regains consciousness strapped down inside a strange chamber, the only sound being that of his own labored breathing and a mysterious static coming to him through a set of headphones. Transmitted by an unknown voice out of the past, it is a countdown and launch …
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The Passenger, Chapter 2 - A Fine Line
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Tate Addison reemerges from his solitary ride on the SS American Star, only to find himself stranded in yet another life or death situation, riding aboard an empty railroad car, somewhere high in the mountains of the pacific northwest. Travel alongside our reluctant hero as he braves a new fight to stay alive and to solve the mystery of where, and …
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The Passenger, Chapter 1 - Star-Crossed
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In this first chapter of The Passenger, Tate Addison has ventured to the desolate shoreline of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands, only to be caught up in a raging tide of space and time. Pulled kicking and screaming out to sea, Tate is on course to be an unwitting passenger aboard the SS American Star, a broken shipwreck that will become the firs…
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The Uncanny Valley of the Shadow
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In this, the premiere episode of RJ Lonsdale's Thin Air anthology, 3D Artist and Software Engineer Paul Abernathy heads home from work one day with a nagging question on his mind. What is the underlying cause of the so-called Uncanny Valley, an adverse reaction that people experience when confronted by a human-like robotic or virtual creation? This…
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