Press — HUMAN-B-GON

Press Kit

The Facts

Human-B-Gon is a full-cast scripted sci-fi dark comedy podcast about robots capturing stray humans.

It is recorded at TA2 Sound + Music in Toronto, Ontario.

Season 1 dropped Dec. 13, 2022. Episodes will drop bi-weekly until the Season Finale on April 18, 2023.

Human-B-Gon is a proud member of the Fable & Folly Network.

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Synopsis

Excited about the AI Takeover? Lol at a future where robots capture stray humans.

Set in the (terrifyingly near) future, we follow a crew of emotionally unstable robots as they capture stray humans, who the machines regard as chittering pests.

Using Reality TV as a sonic template, Human-B-Gon is a darkly comic look at self-awareness, insecurity, love, denial, existential dread, class struggle, and humanity’s adorable sense of self-importance.

The Details

Website:

https://www.human-b-gon.com/

Email:

humanbgon@gmail.com

Schedule

Season 1 launched Dec. 13, with episodes dropping bi-weekly until the mind-bending Season Finale on April 18, 2023.

Download/Subscribe

The show can be subscribed and listened to on all major podcast platforms like Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon and more. Episodes are also available on the website.

Social Media

Twitter: https://twitter.com/HumanBGon

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/humanbgon/

Mastodon: https://podvibes.co/@humanbgon

YouTube: Human-B-Gon Podcast

Nice quotes!

“My face hurts from laughing!” - H.M. Radcliff, The Madness Of Chartulean

“Holy #$&%. I had no idea what I was getting into but I loved every second of it.” - Derrick, October’s Children

“So many moments had me laughing out loud!” - AMC, The Vesta Clinic

“A freakin’ delight!” - Kristi Boulton, Civilized

Main Cast

Paul JP

Paul J. Piekoszewski plays Kit and is an actor, writer, and comedian with almost 20 years of experience on stages in Europe and central Canada. His love of pop-culture led him to co-produce Toronto’s MCU Improvised, as well as create and host comedy-erotica podcast The Pen Is Mightier on the PodCavern Network.

If you like how he sounds as a neurotic, sobbing mess on Human-B-Gon, you can hear him make more sounds (including occasionally with his real voice!) via guest appearances on shows such as Break A Wish, Caverns & Comedians, Heroes Don’t Do Paperwork, and Ranked.

Kat Letwin

Kat plays Hundo and is a Toronto-based actor, writer, and comedian originally from Brantford ON (home of Wayne Gretzky, but most importantly home of Fast Eddie’s). She’s won critical acclaim and a few awards for her work at Soulpepper Theatre, Storefront Theatre, Toronto Fringe, Comedy Bar, Toronto Sketchfest, and Mirvish. She can be seen in season three of The Amazing Gayl Pile on CBC Gem, and heard on such podcasts as Dumb-Dumbs & Dragons, Killed To Death, The Pen Is Mightier, Break A Wish, Escape Capade, and Deep Feels. Coming soon, you can see her work with The Boundless Library, a subscription-based narrative experience delivered to your door through mail, videos, and podcasts.

Ian Slessor

Ian plays Influx and is a full-time voice actor with a background in radio broadcasting. Smooth and persuasive, Ian’s range includes strong and authoritative, to personable, friendly and funny as well as distinctive character voices. Clients have included ROGERS, Days Inn, 3M, Ancestry.ca, all levels of government from municipal to federal, e-learning for major American universities, award winning independent video games like 911 Operator and its sequel 112 Operator.

Greg Allen

Greg plays Poopoo, a sad robot, and many other humans. He became a voice actor when he realized he could combine his two loves of being alone in dark rooms and talking to himself into a career. When further pressed he said "Someone needs to re-make Phantasy Star 4 for the Sega Genesiiiiiiiiis!" and exploded into a cloud of bats.

Supporting Cast

8 Blanchett is voiced by Caroly Larson

SAPEMU is voiced by Vanessa Chiu

EPROM is voiced by Jordan Sparks

Buggy Eddie is voiced by John Gallagher

Wins10 is voiced by Amos Phillips

Dr. Euclid is voiced by Ryan Abedi

Scrub Connors is voiced by Darryl Henry

Spool is voiced by Kristi Boulton

5318008 is voiced by Keegan Vaillaincourt

Hermite is voiced by Darren Street

ADM is voiced by Adam Ive

Ren-4 is voiced by Dave Yonathan

Additional voices by Heather Ngo, Renee Jensen, Natalie Antaya, Clive Desmond, Tom Goudie, Martin Yap, Charlie Rosenberg

Production Team

Drew Frohmann

In Grade 4, Drew had a group assignment: to develop a short audio play. He wrote, produced and directed his group’s play...plus another group’s (in exchange for chocolate). Since then, he’s spent his life writing and developing audio (in exchange for money (which he exchanges for chocolate)).

As Voice Director at TA2 Sound + Music, Drew has written, cast, and directed hundreds of audio and video ads, animated series like Crack-Duck, and podcasts like Breadwinners.

The idea for Human-B-Gon came from Drew worrying about the advance of AI, thinking The Terminator movies’ view of the future is adorably optimistic, and wondering if self-awareness will render machines as neurotic, insecure, and emotional as we are.

TA2 Sound + Music

TA2 Sound + Music is an award-winning, full-service audio production studio based in Toronto, Canada. For over 20 years, TA2 has produced high quality post audio for world-famous productions and artists (Alanis Morrissette, Drake) in every medium that makes a sound: podcasts, movies, series, games, audiobooks, ads, even transit chimes.

Oliver Wickham

Oliver Wickham is our Composer and primary vocalist. Oliver studied classical piano then moved into melodic house music and techno. He is a regular contributor to esteemed record label Anjunadeep, with singles such as ‘Indigo’ and ‘World Away’. Other scoring projects include the sci-fi thriller ‘Project Ithaca’ and the CBC series ‘Queens’. He is also a composer/director at TA2 Sound + Music.

https://www.oliverwickham.com

Adam Ive

Adam is Lead Sound Designer and Supervising Engineer. He’s the one responsible for mixing Antrum, ‘the deadliest film ever made’. Adam also plays ADM, a feeding robot that’s too intelligent for his own good.

Additional sound design by Selina Fiorini, Andrew Fumerton and David Stinson

Executive Producer is Dana Gadsden

Project Manager is Heather Ngo

Logo & cover art by Rob Collinet