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Plot Device
In a world where movies exist, three men dare to plot movies that don’t. Every episode of this podcast Matt Rea, Reg Wiebe, and Neale Barnholden turn pitches by listeners like you into full stories. Along the way? We all learn a little something. Then you hear a trailer!
S3.E02 VERY LEGAL & VERY COOL
Mo Yin is a budding Instagram influencer, always looking out for the hottest spots to take new shots. She is, very cool. Her friend and business partner, Elliott, is a nervous numbers man who likes to play things safe. He is, very legal. One day, while Mo Yin is snapping pics in an old alley in Detroit, a man claiming to be a talent scout offers to fly her to Jakarta to promote his product: garden gnomes. Mo Yin is thrilled but Elliott thinks it's all a setup. Could something so very cool also be so very legal? Tune into Plot Device and find out!
Special thanks to Mifi and Joyce for filling in on this episode.
Pitch us your movie idea at plotdevicepodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @PlotDevicePod
Music Credits: The Complex, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) In Your Arms, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
S3.E02 SUICIDE SQUAD
With Neale off for the week, Matt and Reg decide to remake the Oscar winning film SUICIDE SQUAD. Amanda Waller runs a top secret government sponsored program known as Task Force X that sends some of the DCEU's baddest criminals on high-risk missions with full deniability and little concern for collateral. The newest recruit: Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman. When a Russian oligarch places a bunch of armoured suits up for sale from the old Soviet Rocket Red Brigade, Waller sends her Suicide Squad on a retrieval mission. But when Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn and the rest of Task Force X arrive, they find the suits are not all empty...
Pitch us your movie idea at plotdevicepodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @PlotDevicePod or use our form at bit.ly.2MDlf7x
S3.E02 TRIPLE FEATURE
After she’s fired from her job, Charlotte gets a gig as a horoscope writer for an online magazine. What will she do when she discovers that her predictions have the habit of coming true? Will she try to find love? Will she try to get revenge? Will she try to pull a heist? What does any of this have to do with yetis? You don’t have to consult the stars! Just listen to Plot Device’s first TRIPLE FEATURE and see what your future holds.
Pitch us your movie idea at plotdevicepodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @PlotDevicePod or use our form at https://bit.ly.2MDlf7x
With another year of Plot Device in the can, Matt, Neale and Reg take a moment to reflect on the highs and lows and endless chaos that was season 2. Who were our favourite characters? What pitches challenged us most? What goes on behind the scenes of a Plot Device episode? All this plus a lot of self-congratulating on this very special episode of Plot Device!
Music Credits: The Complex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
S2.26 SKY HEROES
Just when you thought it was safe to strap on that jetpack, a new epic of elementary aged elocution emerges on the latest Plot Device! From the visionary mind that brought you The Ghosts Story and Super Team Unite! comes a tale that could only be told by a kindergartener. Something is stalking the skies, and it’ll take a five-year-old pilot and storyteller to save us! Witness the arrival of … SKY HEROES. Also, a kid sister trying to play video games in the background.
Music credits: In Your Arms by Kevin MacLeod
S2.25
Youths have been dying at an alarming rate in the town of Arnbalt, and Spencer thinks it's not a coincidence. The deaths just happen to overlap with the streaming release dates of major TV shows and movies and all the victims are known for spoiling content before it airs. Could it be that a killer stalks those who ruin plots? I could tell you but that would be a spoiler. Listen as Matt and Reg do their best to connect to youth culture on NETFLIX AND KILL.
Pitch us your movie idea at plotdevicepodcast@gmail.com or on twitter @PlotDevicePod
Music Credits: The Complex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
S2.24. An assassination attempt on a government agent goes awry, resulting in... LOVE?! Yes, Plot Device finally improvises a romantic comedy, under strict orders to not let this turn into an action movie. Arris is a contract killer whose shadowy employers may have an even more sinister agenda baked in; Zan is a government agent who believes against all the evidence that she's on the breadcrumb trail of a global conspiracy. Together they foil an evil plan, but more importantly foil each other's loneliness, and which is more important I ask you? From assassin and target, to falling into cahoots, to falling in love, in this episode Plot Device improvises one couple's relationship and also a murderous conspiracy of staggering proportions.
Music Credits: The Complex, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) In Your Arms, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
S2,23.2
Welcome, dear listeners, to the Island of Plot Device! Here, your hosts hunt the most dangerous game of all: a cinematic universe that lasts for more than three movies. Yes, you may well think it quite uncivilized! After all, by the rules we are allowed to pitch movie after movie in the pursuit of extending the so-called DARK UNIVERSE of classic horror monsters. But I am a sporting man! I will give you a head start of some forty-five minutes, and you may choose your weapons: either an army of invisible soldiers; a shape-changer from beyond the stars; or a streetwise wizard. Do be quick about it, we wouldn’t want to run afoul of the size-changing… ah, but that would be telling, wouldn’t it? There must be some surprises in podcasting, as in life, dear guest. Let the games begin—and to the victor, the spoils!
Music: “The Complex” by Kevin MacLeod “Winter Chimes” by Kevin MacLeod
S2,23.1
Three men sit down at a table, armed with a dark purpose. “Imagine,” they say, “imagine a whole universe, a DARK UNIVERSE, of monsters and legends.” As they sit, they conjure beasts from the black – an Adam stitched-together of broken bodies, a Phantom haunting the Paris opera house, an Egyptian princess cursed and doomed – and pit the beasts against each other. I promise you this, dear listener, by the end of this episode of Plot Device, not one of those men will have left that room alive!
Music Credits: The Complex, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
S2.22
Doom's Corner is a small town with a big secret .... DOOM! More people than average die in Doom's Corner, but none of the deaths are ever ruled suspicious. That's because the town coroner, who has held the position for 40 years, always rules the deaths accidental. So when a young reporter named Cheryl Crowe (different spelling!) starts poking her nose into some hay bailing related deaths at the annual pumpkin festival, she quickly finds herself at the corner ... of DOOM! Will Crowe follow the winding road and unravel the mystery behind Doom Corner's death rate? Or will she discover that the last cut is also pretty deep? Brace yourself for an hour of improvised terror in THE CORONER STORE!
Music Credits: The Complex, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) In Your Arms, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
S2.21
Plot Device hits the big 4-7 and to celebrate this milestone, the podcast improvises a tale of terror and the remarkably elderly, a story we had to call SUPERCENTENARIANS. At Willow Park, a memory village for the over-100s, an evil entity is at work harvesting memories and causing mayhem. Can a band of extremely old friends solve this mystery, or will this be the thing that, after the entire past century, does them in? Can Plot Device improvise a story that doesn’t feature anybody between the ages of 25 and 80? How do you use a reverse phone directory? And what is the shocking secret behind why jai alai isn’t very popular in North America? Also, would you care for a Werther’s Original? There’s a bowl on the coffee table.
Music Credits: The Complex, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Distant Tensions, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
S2.20 BOND 25
His name is Bond, James Bond, and he's back in the latest episode of Plot Device! When a dictator is assassinated, and MI-6 can't be sure they didn't do it, there's only one man they trust to resolve a geopolitical crisis: a high functioning alcoholic, sociopathic spy whose identity is public knowledge. Can a contemporary Bond movie still contain a secret volcano lair? Does Bond know that a shaken martini actually dilutes the alcohol with water? Will Bond survive his greatest villain: skepticism of his narrative tropes? Plot Device was denied a license to kill, but has a gift certificate for a hot stone massage which is much more useful, in … BOND 25!
MUSIC CREDITS: The Complex, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) In Your Arms, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Grim Idol, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
S2.19
Internet celebrity Harper and her crew are manipulated into deadly ethical tests in an abandoned mine in the latest, completely improvised tale spun by PLOT DEVICE. I hope you already knew that this show is all made up, because hoo boy is this a bad episode to come into thinking this is all true. Can Harper, Isabella, Liam, Benji and their other friends escape without doing the wrong thing? Or can they escape at all unless they do the right thing? It's a real head game—oh, I just got the title. That's clever podcasting, right there, friends.
Music Credits: The Complex, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) In Your Arms, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
S2.18 TRUE KILT
The orphan Polly McGee rides a dusty trail of vengeance in this non-western tale of duels that definitely isn’t a western! Can legendary duellist Lachlan MacCavity live up to his own legend as the fastest gun in a place that is not the western United States? Can sharpshooter Marsail keep the tide of violence at bay? Can Polly and her ragtag posse of hired guns take down the owlhoot who shot down her father? Once again, this is not a western.
Music Credits: The Complex, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) In Your Arms, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
S2.17 ESCAPE FROM DANGER
What’s worse than being caught in a fight between a giant robot and a giant dog? For Glen Harold, American ex-pat in Japan, it’s leaving his apartment. When this titanic tussle forces him to flee with a pair of siblings who don’t speak much English, Glen’s chances of escape seem to diminish with each seismic blow of the battling behemoths. Will a chance encounter with the Japanese military provide an escape route? Will Glen’s tortured past have any bearing on this adventure? And, perhaps most importantly, who’s a good boy who’s a good boy you are yes you are. Join your hosts as they explore the fallout of a radioactive rumble!
Music Credits: The Complex, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) In Your Arms, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
S2.E16 ALTER EGOS
Terri Tillby knows a lead when she sees one. Famous as the reporter who first introduced the world to Centurion, a crime-fighting super hero from another planet, Tillby trains her investigative sights on her boyfriend: billionaire playboy Kenton Clarkson. Convinced that Kenton is Centurion in disguise, Tillby is disappointed to learn that he is actually The Sentinel, a brooding, gadget-wielding, retired crime-fighter. Wanting to patch up their relationship, Clarkson invites Tillby to his highschool reunion so she can meet others just like him. But when a super-villain interrupts the party, Tillby is forced to find the hero within.
Music Credits: The Complex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Time for Adventure Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) In Your Arms Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
S2.E15 PANDEMIC: AFTERMATH
Burned out from barely staving off the apocalypse, Colonel Chow is pulled back into a life of military squads and top-secret operations when the woman who betrayed his team resurfaces. Dot is back, and she’s stolen the virus that almost destroyed the world. What does Dot want this time? And will Chow be able to set aside his drive for vengeance long enough to find out? It’s a world of international intrigue as guest host Joyce helps ask how much you can forgive to save the world.
Outfoxing the Fox by Kevin MacLeod In Your Arms by Kevin MacLeod
S2E14: SUPER TEAM UNITE!
Plot Device plans its own obsolescence when they invite a 4 year old to create his own fake movie. The Super Team Unite is an all-girl assortment of aliens that look like Earth animals…only they're really tiny. And they have a theme song. Slap on a jetpack and explore the world through new eyes in SUPER TEAM UNITE!
Music Credits:
Digital Lemonade by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) The Complex by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) In Your Arms by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
S2E13: SELFIE 2: CLAUDIA'S REVENGE
Matt Reagoucher and his gang of Matts from other Earths are back! After the events of SELFIE the Matts are called upon to help their pal Claudia. On her Earth, technology has been wiped out by a mysterious virus and a woman known only as the Baroness rules the land with little concern for those beneath her. After portaling in, the Matts, Steve and Claudia must navigate this brave new steampunk world, deal with the Baroness and reverse the tech-stopping virus before it destroys their portal-tech leaving them trapped on this Earth forever. It's an introspective journey through worlds in SELFIE 2: CLAUDIA'S REVENGE.
Music Credits: The Complex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) In Your Arms Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Crypto Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
S2E12: CONDITIONS REMOVED
This week: guest host Joyce joins Reg and Matt as they navigate the unsettling waters of REAL ESTATE. Erica Edwards was born into a realty dynasty. She's a natural at selling homes but she'd rather restore mid-century gems then move new builds. Considering a means to a career change, Erica takes up an offer from her famous uncle, The Realty King, to show an old mansion that needs sell fast. But when her showing is interrupted by a gang of German art thieves, Erica must use all her property knowledge to fend off the thieves and still make the sale.
Music Credits: The Complex Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Cheery Monday Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/