Description

Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club is a semi-improvised audio drama set in the studio of New Mexico’s 3rd-best romantic advice call-in show. On-air, listeners eavesdrop as Josie (Rachel Music, How Do They Bone?) squares off against top improvisers and her engineer Frank (Maximilian Clark, Superhuman Public Radio). Each episode’s off-air vignettes chart her journey from melancholy Joanne Holtzinger to nationally syndicated sensation Josie Heller. What results is an often hilarious and surprisingly human show exploring the risks we idiots take every time we fall in or out of love.

Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club was created by Maximilian Clark and Rachel Music. Our story editor is Aliza Brugger. This show is brought to you by the Good Story Guild. Keep track of us on Instagram @goodstoryguild and at goodstoryguild.co

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Transcription

• Speaker #0

  All right, 90-second trailer. Let's get it.

• Speaker #1

  Good night, cuties, and welcome to Josie's Lonely Hearts Club. I'm your host, Josie Heller. Let's spend the night together.

• Speaker #0

  Oh my god, Jo, you're killing me. What?

• Speaker #1

  I was doing great, Frank!

• Speaker #0

  It's 90 seconds. You can't tease it out. Get to the best part. Talk about the callers.

• Speaker #1

  I thought that I was the best part. The show kind of has my name on it.

• Speaker #0

  Well, we couldn't call it the show where improvisers call in for advice and Josie doesn't know what's coming next.

• Speaker #1

  But what about my monologues? People like those. I do the sexy voice.

• Speaker #0

  Oh, and mention the slow burn narrative around your secret backstory.

• Speaker #1

  Gosh, that's a lot to throw into a trailer.

• Speaker #0

  Don't you watch trailers now? They give the whole movie away.

• Speaker #1

  Okay, so I tell them about the improvisers and the overarching narrative.

• Speaker #0

  Don't forget the banter. We're great at that. Tell them we have a will they, won't they thing.

• Speaker #1

  Ugh,

• Speaker #0

  you wish. Hey, you wish. I couldn't list all the people that are just waiting to get a piece of Frank, okay?

• Speaker #1

  Sure you can. We've got 90 seconds. Okay, improvisers, banter, backstory, ciao. Can I get it in plain English, please?

• Speaker #0

  Fine. You, Joanne Holzinger, moonlight as Josie Heller, New Mexico's favorite romantic advice radio host. Each week, you field calls from top improvisers while pretending to have all the answers, when in fact, you are a woefully unlucky, largely inexperienced something-something-something, because even I don't know your super-secret backstory, but that's the stuff that we flesh out each episode in our scripted off-mic vignettes. Easy.

• Speaker #1

  I hate to compliment you, but that was so succinct.

• Speaker #0

  Yeah, well, practice makes perfect. You ready?

• Speaker #1

  Sure.

• Speaker #0

  Alright, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.