THE KRAKEN BUSTERS
39 episodes
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Database Creators: Keith PilleSynopsis:
Telling the story of America's strangest conflict, the largely forgotten war between the United States and an ocean full of angry sea monsters in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Language: English
Format: Audio Drama
Continuity: Serial
Writing: Scripted
Voices: Solo
Narrator: First Person
Genres: Science fiction, Alt history
Framing device: Show within a show
Soundscape: Voices only
Completion status: Partial
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Episodes:
Announcing The Kraken Busters: The Comic
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 20:07:56 +0000
Short version: I've started making a comics adaptation of the first season of The Kraken Busters; 6 episodes or installments or whatever are done and you can find them at https://www.keithpille.com or just google "Keith Pille" (the comics will be pretty easy to spot once you're on my site). For the longer version, listen to the update!
Mon, 24 Jul 2023 06:59:00 +0000
To be honest, this isn't so much an episode as it is an announcement for an entirely new show. But if you like The Kraken Busters, you'll dig this new one!
Wed, 26 Apr 2023 20:09:27 +0000
I just realized that a wordpress setting had made the first season slowly disappear from the feed. DAMMIT! Should be fixed now. Sorry, confused new listeners!
Mon, 17 Apr 2023 06:36:00 +0000
Every word I've said to you for the past 14 episodes has been 1000% true. But just for the sake of argument.... Also: the future!
Mon, 10 Apr 2023 06:45:00 +0000
You all remember what happened next, right?
Mon, 03 Apr 2023 06:56:00 +0000
Juliana Burke tries to stop a misunderstanding about sea monsters from ending the world
212 How I Learned to Stop Worrying
Mon, 27 Mar 2023 06:44:00 +0000
Matters come to a head in the north Atlantic.
Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:44:46 +0000
Two fleets stare at each other across choppy waters. And a crab visits a pleasant fishing village in Iceland
Mon, 13 Mar 2023 06:41:00 +0000
RFK lets the Navy off the leash.
Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:11:00 +0000
The Russians are getting tired of Kennedy's BS.
Mon, 27 Feb 2023 07:32:00 +0000
Kennedy prepares to go public with his bullshit, to the disbelief of Colorado's most colorful senator. But first: let's talk about repelling sea monsters
Mon, 20 Feb 2023 07:40:00 +0000
Detachment 69 heads into the sea monster exclusion zone to plant some evidence. Also: a digression on ship names
Mon, 13 Feb 2023 07:49:00 +0000
It turns out that it takes a lot of work to get an international maritime cover-up rolling!
Mon, 06 Feb 2023 10:42:00 +0000
Robert Kennedy asks himself (and his advisors): what if I didn't have to tell the public that there was a sea monster outbreak?
Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:08:00 +0000
Delgado and the Fearless Freaks arrive in the waters off Iceland and ponder psychedelic literature, among other things
Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:42:00 +0000
Unsure of what's actually going on in the North Atlantic, Robert Kennedy has only one resource he can turn to for clarity: the shadowy detachment known (currently) as Detachment 69.
201 A Press Conference in Reykjavik
Mon, 09 Jan 2023 10:57:00 +0000
In May of 1987, a government minister in a minor country (sorry, Iceland, still love you) schedules a press conference and ruffles feathers in Washington.
21 Announcing Kraken Busters Season 2
Tue, 13 Dec 2022 20:16:26 +0000
January of 2023 we're journeying back (or forward, I guess) to 1987!
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 13:37:32 +0000
Every word I've said to you was 1000% true. But for the sake of argument...
Sun, 05 Dec 2021 12:17:00 +0000
Victory is within reach, despite a setback in Long Beach. Also: enter Richard Nixon.
17 The Fall of Black Jack Kraken, 1950
Sun, 28 Nov 2021 13:37:00 +0000
The war in the Pacific reaches a major turning point.
Sun, 14 Nov 2021 13:45:00 +0000
The Trumble Group and Kay Hendry's office hatch a simple plan for blowing up monsters. But will it blow up enough of them? And will it blow them up hard enough?
Sun, 07 Nov 2021 13:21:00 +0000
As the nation reels from the combined disasters surrounding San Francisco, a new president takes office and sees both gloom and points of light within it. Also, Woody Guthrie writes a song.
Sun, 31 Oct 2021 12:28:00 +0000
Once the sea creatures are in possession of San Francisco Bay, what do they want with it? CONTENT WARNING: THIS EPISODE INCLUDES AN ACT OF EXTREME SELF-HARM.
Sun, 24 Oct 2021 13:32:00 +0000
Harry Truman hoped for a decisive encounter with the sea creatures before the election. Then he got one.
Sun, 17 Oct 2021 13:33:00 +0000
Is losing a war to sea monsters a good reelection campaign strategy? Also: enter Ernest Hemingway.
Sun, 10 Oct 2021 13:44:58 +0000
Dominoes continue to fall throughout the Pacific after it becomes the sea monsters' private lake. Also, the Navy reorganizes some deck chairs and tries out some new accessories.
Sun, 03 Oct 2021 01:46:00 +0000
After the confluence of disasters in February 1947, the American presence throughout the Pacific withers away, with catastrophic results. Can wealthy aviator Howard Hughes help?
08 The Second Battle of Pearl Harbor, 1947 (part 2)
Wed, 29 Sep 2021 16:20:22 +0000
After laying waste to the handful of ships and boats on hand to defend Pearl Harbor, the Kelp Man and a mass of sea creatures move deeper into the base.
07 The Second Battle of Pearl Harbor, 1947 (part 1)
Sun, 26 Sep 2021 13:34:00 +0000
While Operation TYPHOON had been a debacle, the Navy had thought that Adm. Halsey had at least tied down all of the major creatures for a while. The Navy was wrong.
Sun, 19 Sep 2021 13:04:00 +0000
At a high-level conference in Washington, one of America's best-known naval warriors says he has a plan to deal with the sea monsters. Can he deliver?
Sun, 12 Sep 2021 13:54:52 +0000
Facing a de facto blockade by sea monsters, the American presence on Hawaii becomes untenable.
04 The Wrong Tools for the Job, 1946
Sun, 05 Sep 2021 14:16:35 +0000
After President Truman insists that somebody do something about the sea monster problem, the Navy tries to do something about the sea monster problem. And Adm. Marc Mitscher and the Third Fleet learn some harsh truths in the process.
Sun, 29 Aug 2021 11:38:00 +0000
The Navy brass felt that the best thing to do with the sea monster problem was to try to sweep it under the rug. The creatures had other ideas, and it's hard to sweep the wreckage of a major canal under a rug.
02 This Might Be a Problem, 1945
Sun, 22 Aug 2021 20:30:00 +0000
The US Navy has its first direct encounter with the sea creatures as Black Jack Kraken attacks a convoy and is driven off by the USS Dahlgren.
Tue, 17 Aug 2021 15:08:27 +0000
We begin our exploration of the US-Sea Monster Conflict with a look at the murky origins of the crisis, a rash of missing ships during the end of World War 2. Also, a short overview of the project.