The First Draft of My Murder Mystery Podcast Starred A Wife-Killing Russian Mortician
Character Development: A Comedy Podcast Where Actors Perform My Cringiest Old StoriesShow Notes
Before I published a murder mystery podcast, its first draft starred a 70-year-old Russian mortician who talks to ghosts and murdered his wife.
Voice actor Sarah Golding joins me to perform the original unaired pilot, Russian accent and all, and we find out how much changed before 'How i Died' ever got made.
0:00 Welcome Sarah Golding
4:11 How to do a Russian accent
5:46 Cold open: the morgue standoff
9:55 Meet Victor Spader
16:34 The viewing (and 20 kids?)
26:12 The ghost who was murdered
30:42 Act 2: Victor refuses to help
38:19 Enter Coroner Crowley
46:26 The secret in Victor's apartment
55:39 Victor's wild deductions
58:54 "I killed my wife"
1:01:08 Breaking down the twist
1:07:43 Sarah's own horror writing
1:12:27 Where to find Sarah
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