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BPR | Fun Movies with Lauren Conway: Dr. Goblin

The doctor is in. The carrots are missing. And the director has a vision.

Today on Bit Public Radio, Lauren Conway welcomes director Jason Luna to discuss Dr. Goblin, a cinematic achievement that begins with questionable medicine and becomes an unexpectedly tender exploration of goblin-human relations.

Through improvised film clips and deeply serious analysis, we visit a town divided over its new doctor, its frozen yogurt shop, and the suitability of lavender walls. Meanwhile, one goblin discovers that humans might be worth knowing. Especially the ones with gardens.

What You'll Definitely Not See Coming

• A sinister medical conspiracy involving lollipops.
• A goblin school where everyone's a G.
• A meet-the-parents dinner with competitive arm wrestling.

Can love overcome generations of prejudice? Will the doctor accept your insurance, or just your produce? And who approved "Monster Mash" for the wedding reception?

Apologies to zebras, lavender enthusiasts, and goblins who expected more rigorous representation in their high school curriculum.

Credits

Director and Creator: Billy Merritt
Producer, Editor & Graphics: Hill Kane

Featuring:
Billy Merritt - Himself

Flannery Wilsons - Lauren Conway, BPR Host
Jason Luna - (Himself) Dr. Goblin's Director
Dr. Gary Yorke - Dr. Goblin

The BIT Crew (various and sundry characters):
Amber Bellsdale
Brent Kohler
Don Slovin
Jim Tripp
Hill Kane
Katya Vasilaky

Music: BPR Theme Song: Lyrics by Hill Kane, musical composition created on SUNO AI

Hosting: Libsyn

"The BIT" and "The BIT Improv Comedy Network" are trademarks owned by Billy Merritt.
© 2024–2026 Billy Merritt. All rights reserved.
Inquiries: TheBitComedyNetwork@gmail.com
Website: BITComedyNetwork.com

Production + Graphics: Hill Kane, Raising Kane Media + Marketing

Today on Bit Public Radio, host Cherry Sage asks a deceptively simple question:

How do people find their voice?

The answer, apparently, involves secret libraries, motivational shouting, naked civic festivals, billionaire coffee, sentient books, rogue robbers, labor-organizing cats, and at least one municipal unicycle.

As Cherry guides listeners through stories about confidence, volume, self-expression, and public-radio fundraising, BPR correspondents discover that finding your voice can be empowering, dangerous, expensive, and occasionally strong enough to rupture an eardrum.

Along the way, the annual pledge drive gets increasingly out of control as BPR attracts a demographic it has historically struggled to reach...Billionaires.

• A secret library where the books are considerably more opinionated than the patrons.
• A motivational philosophy so powerful it may actually rupture an eardrum.
• A public-radio pledge drive that somehow attracts billionaires, organized cats, and some deeply suspicious coffee.

Cherry Sage hosts Loud People, Soft Voices with the calm, thoughtful composure BPR listeners expect from public radio.

She is shy, introspective, soft-spoken...and somehow responsible for keeping control of a live fundraiser involving correspondents, wealthy callers, aggressive sponsors, free zucchini, duck eggs, suspicious coffee, and an increasingly organized feline population.

Her professional philosophy:
👉 Everyone deserves to find their voice.
👉 Some people should probably use theirs less.
👉 Never underestimate what can happen during a pledge drive.

BPR apologizes to sentient library books, wheat spies, The NeverEnding Story, motivational shouters, the Pied Piper, San Francisco robbers, fairy-tale mushrooms, naked unicyclists, mimes, zucchini farmers, billionaire coffee drinkers, exploited coffee cats, the Icelandic Christmas Cat, anyone who has ever paid $15,000 for coffee, and anyone who is now deeply concerned about where their morning coffee came from.

We would apologize to the billionaires. But frankly, they seem fine.

Credits

Director and Creator: Billy Merritt
Producer, Editor & Graphics: Hill Kane

Featuring:
Billy Merritt - Himself

Angela Washko - Cherry Sage, BPR Host
Hill Kane - Herringbone Hendrix, Correspondent #1
Brent Kohler - Robert Kennison, Correspondent #2
Amber Bellsdale - Aurora Lighness, Correspondent #3

BIT Crew (various and sundry characters):
Don Slovin
Jim Tripp
Flannery Wilson
Luke Bovard
Lisa Steckman

Music: BPR Theme Song: Lyrics Hill Kane, musical composition created on SUNO AI

Hosting: Libsyn

"The BIT" and "The BIT Improv Comedy Network" are trademarks owned by Billy Merritt.
© 2024–2026 Billy Merritt. All rights reserved.
Inquiries: TheBitComedyNetwork@gmail.com
Website: BITComedyNetwork.com

Production + Graphics: Hill Kane, Raising Kane Media + Marketing

Today on Bit Public Radio, host Lana Schur explores the ever-changing nature of cool.

Is "cool" determined by fashion? By celebrities? By invisible gravestones? By barbarian Goths invading Rome? Nobody seems entirely sure.

Correspondent Jimbo Brandywine travels to a Renaissance Faire to investigate the unexpected return of the Goths, only to uncover turkey economics, a family raised by actual turkeys, and one very confused human identity crisis.

Next, Flannery Wilson reports from Beverly Hills, where luxury shoppers have embraced the newest status symbol: gravestones that don't actually exist. The investigation somehow leads to ghost tourism, HOA disputes, Walt Disney, and a long-overdue confrontation with Mary Poppins.

Finally, former failed "CNN" investigative journalist Paisley Bowie uncovers an underground community living inside pottery kilns, where magical ashtray-producing fairies, eternal curses, and suspiciously enthusiastic smokers reveal the surprising intersection of ceramics and public broadcasting.

Throughout it all, Lana desperately attempts to keep an increasingly chaotic pledge drive on the rails—offering listeners everything from Butterball turkeys and job-shadowing opportunities to invisible burial plots and disgraced journalism awards.

Somewhere in there... someone might actually donate.

Butterball, Renaissance Faires, Goths (both Visigothic and Hot Topic), Vogue magazine, Patrick Swayze, pottery instructors, ceramics departments, ashtrays, smokers, non-smokers, Walt Disney, Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews, Disney Parks, cryogenic researchers, Beverly Hills, Rodeo Drive, Louis Vuitton, homeowners associations, psychics, ghosts, goblins, fairies, turkey farmers, Renaissance turkey vendors, Robert Smith, The Cure, BBC journalists, NPR pledge drives, public radio tote bags, kiln manufacturers, pizza ovens, anyone currently preserving their brain for the future... and anyone attempting to start a fashionable invisible cemetery.

Credits

Director and Creator: Billy Merritt
Producer, Editor & Graphics: Hill Kane

Featuring:
Billy Merritt - Himself

Katya Vasilaky - Lana Schur, BPR Host
Jim Tripp - Jimbo Brandywine, Correspondent #1
Flannery Wilson - Correspondent #2
Dean Aisles - Paisley Bowie, Correspondent #3

BIT Crew playing various and sundry characters:
Don Slovin
Hill Kane
Geoff Taylor
Brent Kohler
Angela Washko
Luke Bovard

Music: BPR Theme Song: Lyrics Hill Kane, musical composition created on SUNO AI

Hosting: Libsyn

"The BIT" and "The BIT Improv Comedy Network" are trademarks owned by Billy Merritt.
© 2024–2026 Billy Merritt. All rights reserved.
Inquiries: TheBitComedyNetwork@gmail.com
Website: BITComedyNetwork.com

Production + Graphics: Hill Kane, Raising Kane Media + Marketing