I wanted to write out something in my Retrospective to Episode 19 in my podcast that wasn’t exactly blurted out but came in explanation so naturally/rapidly, something I’ve discussed verbally with people, but I get the impression this is the part and why people keep re-listening to this one. I’ll try to transcribe what I said as follows. (How my cure worked.)
“And that’s the thing about The Pit of Ultimate Dark Shadows, is a lot of times, because I’m trying to re-adjust everything so it does make sense so some of the stuff in Dark Shadows that frustrates us will be worked out. So, quite a few times in The Pit of Ultimate Dark Shadows radio drama, you will hear a character say, ‘This is so weird because it’s making sense now. It’s all making sense now.’
“And that’s the thing about us Humans is that: We really thrive on problem-solving and team-work… that is the thing that gets us. Because it’s what’s kept us going so long. I mean, look at our history; it’s really group-stuff. And again, y’know, it’s so funny because there’s so many group-things that I love; There’s a lot of Star Trek crews that I’m quite… y’know, I look up to but then there’s also Monty Python, Beatles, Monkees, those groups or, or The Spice Girls and it’s like… They try to make a diversity of themselves fit and work and do stuff and a lot of rock groups are like that, a lot of pop groups are like that y’know they try to put that out there. Comedy troupes too like The Kids In The Hall, as well. But then there’s also Star Trek stuff… groups of human beings working together to create things or to solve things.
So. With The Pit of Ultimate Dark Shadows what you have is multiple layers of teams interacting and working together and intersecting and yeah! I think that is why it cured one of my ailments, I really feel strongly about this. When you think about it… Because humans thrive on team-work. When I look back at what was plaguing me it was so many things going wrong. But, as I’m healing all of these soap-opera characters, you’ve got all this data on them. And I grew-up with all this data on all these other shows and movies and re-established that.
“So, yeah, it would make sense that certain emotional debilitations would be healed when you just get into these roles and you absorb and re-absorb this stuff and get it working so well. I mean it really makes a lot of sense…
“Uh-h-h, I am not sure where I was, but hopefully that helped a lot of people if you are looking for an answer to uh, psychological or emotional difficulties, ‘cause we got a LOT of those going on now with what’s going on with Big Tech and everything and um, we had it, some of it before with just all the distractions with the other tech. So-o—o, going back to solving this particular problem of um, Elizabeth Stoddard…” [etc, etc, etc]
it starts around 1:15 of that show, meaning one hour and fifteen minutes, actually.