Onward to Season 3

We just wrapped the second season of our audio drama podcast, The Adventures of Captain Radio, and we think it’s one of the best things we’ve ever produced. But we’re not done yet. We’re heading straight into production for our third and final season, which promises to be our masked hero’s finest hour.

To make it a really, we need your help. For 20 years, we’ve done this because we love it, and paid for it out of our own pockets. But creating top-notch audio fiction takes talents we don’t have, from professional mixing and sound design to voice actors.

So here’s the deal. We need to raise $800 to make this next season of Captain Radio. It’s not a lot in the grand scheme and we’re confident that we can reach our goal with your help.

We’re offering awesome rewards when you pledge today on our Ko-Fi campaign page, from a co-producer’s credit to early access to the season premiere to a bonus episode only for backers.

When you back Obscure Studios, you’re helping us tell more stories. Your pledge will not only make it possible us produce The Adventures of Captain Radio Season 3, but you’ll be giving us the momentum to tackle our next creative endeavor. Whether you give one time, pledge monthly, or select one of our tiers, your support enables us to keep the lights on and pay some of the talented folks we work with.

Thank you for your support! Let’s do this.


Obscure Studios has been making podcasts and short films with dreams and a small budget since 2004.

Don’t Miss the Epic Season Finale: Obsession’s End

Movie poster for the season finale of Captain Radio and the Curse of the Primordial Planet.

The Adventures of Captain Radio Season 2 comes to a close this weekend with the release of “Chapter 5: Obsession’s End.” In this episode, Captain Radio and company must make their final stand against the malevolent Lithostar and the bloodthirsty treasure hunters who would claim it for themselves at any cost. To prevent an interstellar genocide, Captain Radio, Andromeda, Orion, and Ace must overcome impossible odds to save the galaxy once again.

We’re so excited to share this story with you. Our amazing cast has done a phenomenal job bringing the world of Captain Radio to life. Huge shout-out to our series regulars William McDonald, Abigail Stokley, DeLano Hays, Christian Carvajal, and Jonny Eberle, and to our guest stars Laura Burt, Richard Burt, and Hanna Wonders for contributing their talents to our show. And massive thanks to Trask Snow for sound designing and mixing the final three episodes of this season.

You can listen to every episode of The Adventures of Captain Radio on your favorite podcast player—Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and many others. Learn more about the show and how to listen at obscurestudios.net.

And we’re already working on Season 3. Captain Radio’s final adventure will pit him against his most diabolical enemy yet. If you love the show, please consider making a donation to our Ko-Fi campaign to help us cover the costs of production. Or you can buy merchandise to support us.

Obscure Origins: Obscure Studios Turns 20

Film strips with scenes from Obscure Studios projects of days gone by.

It’s hard to believe, but Obscure Studios is marking a major milestone—we are 20 years old! Founded waaaaay back in 2004, Obscure Studios has gone from a dream to a full-fledged independent production company, with over 100 creative projects to our name and more currently in development.

To celebrate our birthday, Jonny and Will sat down to discuss how it all began, reflect on our favorite moments, and share a sneak peek of what’s next for Obscure Studios. You can listen in the latest episode of our podcast, Dispatches with Jonny Eberle, or check out the extended video on our YouTube channel, complete with archival footage.

Twenty years in, we’re just getting started. It’s been a wild ride. Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm for our hare-brained schemes. To everyone who’s contributed their talents to one of our projects and all the folks who’ve cheered us on over the years, we are deeply grateful.

Want to help us celebrate? The easiest thing to do is share this blog post, the podcast, or the video on social media. Then, head over to our TeePublic store to browse Obscure Studios merch, from t-shirts to coffee mugs. Finally, you can support our creative endeavors by donating on KoFi. Every dollar raised goes towards keeping the lights on and making future projects possible. Thank you!

Logo designs for Obscure Studios' 20th anniversary merchandise, available on a wide variety of products.

About Obscure Studios

Obscure Studios is a small, independent production company making films and podcasts with big dreams and a small budget since 2004.

News Flash: Captain Radio to Return to the Airwaves

The Adventures of Captain Radio announces the start of production on Season 2

Don’t touch that dial! The Adventures of Captain Radio, the full-cast science fiction audio drama produced by Obscure Studios, is returning for a second season! The five-episode second season is written by Jonny Eberle and produced by Jonny Eberle and William McDonald, with original music by Simon Cunningham, and artwork by Tami King. The adventure sees our embark on a treasure hunt of galactic scale as they face deadly adversaries in search of an ancient power.

Returning members of the cast include William McDonald as Captain Radio, Abigail Stokely as Andromeda, DeLano Hays as Ace, and Scott Kennedy as the Narrator. Returning voice actor Simon Cunningham will be voicing a new character, Pollux Von Luna, and Jonny Eberle will take on the role of the Newscaster. New voices joining the crew of the Phaeton include Laura Burt as Madame Celesta, Richard Burt as Magnus Hostillian, and Hanna Wonders as the mysterious Lithostar.

The Adventures of Captain Radio Season 2 will debut in mid-2024 on all major podcast platforms, including Apple PodcastsSpotify, and Amazon Music. All their work is available for free, but you can support Obscure Studios by donating on Ko-fi or you can purchase exclusive Captain Radio merchandise, including t-shirts, hoodies, pins, mugs, and magnets on the Obscure Studios TeePublic store.

Founded in 2004, Obscure Studios is a small, independent production company making podcasts and short films. Their first audio drama, The Adventures of Captain Radio, premiered in 2021, and Dispatches with Jonny Eberle, a podcast about writing, travel, and the creative process, premiered in 2022. You can find them across the social universe on Follow us on FacebookInstagramYouTube, and Tumblr.

Stay tuned for more details, a trailer, and an official release date soon!

Remembering Our Friend, Rob Peters

In loving memory of Robert Lewis Peters (1975-2024)

We are devastated to announce that our dear friend Rob Peters has passed away at the age of 48. Rob was a huge supporter of Obscure Studios as well as a talented actor. Not only did he lend his talent and voice for Captain Radio in the role of Orion, but he was also a thespian with Theatrikos Theatre Company in Flagstaff, Arizona.

We are so grateful to have been able to work with someone so talented and passionate about everything he did. We here at Obscure Studios send our love and condolences to Rob’s family and friends. He truly was a man with a great heart and a love of all things theatre. He will forever live in a special place in our hearts. Rest easy, sir.

Rob’s family has organized a GoFundMe campaign to cover some of their expenses. You can help by making a donation here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/2500-to-bring-him-home-to-rest. Thank you for your kindness and generosity. A memorial service will be held on what would have been Rob’s 49th birthday—now officially known as Rob Peters Day—May 18, 2024, at Theatrikos Theatre Company in Flagstaff, AZ. The memorial will begin at 10 a.m. and will be followed by continued story sharing at Uptown Pubhouse.

You can read more about Rob’s life and legacy in his obituary, which was recently published by the Arizona Daily Sun.

Announcement: Captain Radio Season 2 and the AVAs

We have big news to share about our retrofuturistic science fiction podcast, “The Adventures of Captain Radio.” First, we’re excited to announce that season 2 will be coming in early 2023. We’re polishing off our scripts, rounding out our cast, and will hit the recording booth soon to bring you more adventures with Captain Radio, Andromeda, Ace, and Orion in the distant future.

Second, our show has been nominated for the Audio Verse Awards, which honor the best audio dramas of the past year. Voting for the finalists is now open and we could really use your help. You can vote for “The Adventures of Captain Radio” and help us make it to the next round by going to audioverseawards.net/vote.

The ballot isn’t very mobile-friendly, so you may want to use a desktop or laptop to submit your vote (or you can switch to the desktop view on a mobile device by clicking the “Aa” symbol near the top of the page). On the New Productions category, simply find our show art in the lefthand column and drag it to the right column to rank us as one of your choices. The more shows you rank, the more weight your vote will carry. Voting closes October 30, 2022.

We’re a small, independent production and we couldn’t do it without your support. Thank you for your vote and until next time, keep your eyes on the stars…

Obscure Studios Talks Audio Drama on the Grit City Podcast

This week, you can catch Obscure Studios president Jonny Eberle on The Grit City Podcast! The Grit City Podcast has a simple premise—in every episode, the hosts sit down with Tacoma-based creatives and entrepreneurs over a couple of drinks to learn more about them and their projects.

In this episode, Jonny joins the crew for a hard cider and talks about the inspiration behind the creation of our science fiction audio drama podcast, “The Adventures of Captain Radio,” learning to be his own foley artist, his enduring love for Sherlock Holmes and why he’s drawn to storytelling in the first place, the prospect of artificial intelligence replacing writers, and the good ol’ public domain.

Listen to the episode on The Grit City Podcast website or find the complete conversation below:

“The Adventures of Captain Radio” is a scripted, serialized science fiction audio drama podcast. It’s distributed free through all major podcast players, including Apple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsSpotify, and Amazon Music; directly via RSS feed; and anywhere fine audio fiction is found. If you like your rocket ships with a side of robots and rayguns, you’ll love this retrofuturistic show. Listen now on obscurestudios.net. You can support the show and help fund future seasons by donating on Ko-Fi or buying merch on TeePublic.

You can learn more about Jonny Eberle and his writing projects outside of Obscure Studios on his personal website: jweberle.com.

Our Commitment to Telling Diverse Stories

When I started Obscure Studios as a high school student interested in making short films, I’m not sure the words “diversity” and “inclusion” were in my vocabulary. I was a middle-class, straight, white kid—I had the privilege to ignore injustice and racism. As a rather clueless high schooler and later, as a still mostly clueless college student, many of my early works of creative output were riddled with stereotypes. We were making comedic videos for YouTube and our brand of comedy sometimes relied on hurtful stereotypes for the sake of a joke.

As I got older and my worldview expanded, I realized that even though my words didn’t come from a place of hate, they could still inflict harm. And I slowly began to perceive the injustices around me. Living in a border state, I became aware of immigration issues. I learned about the history of the native peoples whose land (upon which I was living) had been stolen. Many of my friends came out as gay, lesbian, or trans as debates about LGBTQIA+ rights began to dominate American cultural politics.

I knew that I, and by extension, Obscure Studios, couldn’t sit on the sidelines anymore. We had to take a stand in support of marriage equality, women’s rights, trans rights, immigrant and refugee rights, anti-racism, and a slew of other issues where we could lend our voice.

We had to be the best allies we could be.

It’s been a long road, but I’m glad to say we’ve taken steps as creators to empower and lift up diverse narratives whenever we can. Diverse voices matter more than ever. Today, I’m proud to announce Obscure Studios’ official diversity and inclusion statement, clearly outlining our commitments and goals to foster a storytelling community where everyone is welcome.

We still have a long way to go, but it’s a start.

With gratitude,

Jonny Eberle, President

First Listen: New Podcast Coming Soon from Obscure Studios

We didn’t set out to make a podcast, but these things happen when you least expect them. What started out as a throwaway gag movie title in a video we made a decade ago found new life in the dark days of the pandemic. Now, over a year after Jonny started writing the first script for Captain Radio and the Mutant Mole People from the Eleventh Dimension, we’re nearly ready to share it with the world.

The Adventures of Captain Radio is set in the distant future. Over the course of a six-episode series, we join Captain Radio, a masked vigilante fighting the forces of evil, his trusty robotic sidekick Ace, and interstellar criminal Orion as they travel across the stars to rescue Andromeda from the clutches of a mad scientist, outwit deadly space sirens, seek the mysteries of a reclusive order of monks, and race to stop a conspiracy to destroy the known universe. The show is fun and campy—and every episode ends with a cliffhanger in the style of the great radio dramas of the 1930s and ’40s.

New episodes will start beaming to your earbuds in early 2022, but you can listen to a trailer for the season right now wherever you enjoy your favorite podcasts. Just search “The Adventures of Captain Radio” in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and other fine purveyors of audio drama. If you like what you hear, do us a favor and subscribe to the feed. That way, you’ll be notified when the first episode drops. Once we’re in the swing of things, we also hope you’ll leave us a rating and review, and share it with your friends.

This podcast has been a labor of love. In addition to being produced by Jonny Eberle and Will McDonald, our talented main cast includes Will McDonald, Rob Peters, DeLano Hays, Scott Kennedy, Abigail Stokley, Jonny Eberle, and Bailey Cunningham. Tami King designed our gorgeous logo (coming soon to some merch near you), and Bailey Cunningham composed our theme music. We’re so thankful for everyone who’s contributed their time to make this a reality.

Now, without further ado, check out the brand new trailer for our first-ever podcast, The Adventures of Captain Radio:

Social (Distance) With Us on Instagram

Here at Obscure Studios, we love social media. We love connecting with our friends and fans, we love endlessly scrolling through photos that look like they were lifted straight out of a Wes Anderson movie (because symmetry and pastels are necessary for inner calm in 2020), and messing around instead of doing serious creative work. If you like our website, have perused our YouTube channel and retweeted our entire Twitter feed (sounds exhausting), the time is now to follow us on Instagram.

Over on the ‘Gram, we’ll be sharing behind the scenes moments from your favorite web series and short films, reflect on turning points in our journey as filmmakers, and share sneak peeks of upcoming projects (oh yes, we have upcoming projects). We’ve already shared some never before glimpsed moments from Obscure Studios history, an ode to our dearly departed Canon FS-10, and our hilarious first attempt at a professional lighting setup (Spoiler Alert: It was not very professional).

We’re planning to keep things fun and light on IG and we hope you’ll join us as we get social while social distancing. Thanks!

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