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Winner of the 2025 ARKast award for Best Drama podcast, "Purgatory, Missouri" is a suspenseful and darkly comic supernatural mystery/drama that explores the boundaries of consciousness and questions our day-to-day reality. What is a dream? What is the Afterlife? Can they collide? It features atmospheric and immersive sound design, a large professional cast and is based on the Dark Americana songs of Stuart Pearson and Hunter Lowry.It stars Dave Foley (Kids in the Hall, Fargo), Mindy Sterling (Austin Powers, The Goldbergs), Crissy Guerrero (In the Heights, American Mariachi) and Alina Foley (The Spy Next Door, The League). In "Purgatory, Missouri", an epileptic woman falls into a coma and finds herself in a grimy, rundown carnival, where the sky is grey and danger is everywhere. Each Newcomer gradually loses their memories of who they were while the carnival itself seems to be ripping apart. Why do people meander aimlessly in a constant state of terror? Trouble is everywhere - are
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- Feb 11, 20267 min
Hal Eisner interview by Hunter Lowry
Help us fund season two! buymeacoffee.com/PurgMoHunter Lowry interviews legendary radio and television reporter Hal Eisner, who plays Mal Pysner in Purgatory, Missouri's mini-episodes (and returns for Season Two!) Hal just retired from 50 years of reporting news in Los Angeles and has released his memoir "An Accidental Career" full of great stories of celebrities and behind the scene anecdotes behind famous news events of the past five decades. It's available everywhere.For more information, please visit our website: purgatorymissouri.com
- Sep 10, 20259 min
Dave Foley, Crissy Guerrero and Alina Foley interviewed by Hunter Lowry
Help us fund season two! buymeacoffee.com/PurgMoHunter Lowry interviews Dave Foley, Crissy Guerrero and Alina Foley about family, radio theater and all things supernatural. The interview took place on the first day of recording our supernatural drama series "Purgatory, Missouri." The show is streaming on all podcast platforms worldwide. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts!For more information, please visit our website: purgatorymissouri.comDave Foley has a podcast with Tom Wheeler called "Really?!." where they discuss UFOs and the paranormal: https://www.youtube.com/@ReallywithTomandDaveCrissy Guerrero has a podcast with Claudia Dolph where they discuss... well,... everything: https://www.youtube.com/@studiocandc
- Sep 9, 202510 min
Mindy Sterling interviewed by Hunter Lowry
Help us fund season two! buymeacoffee.com/PurgMoHunter Lowry interviews Mindy Sterling, who plays "Five" in the supernatural drama series "Purgatory, Missouri" that premiered March 18th, 2025 on all podcast platforms worldwide. Sterling is known for her portrayal of the hilarious Frau Farbissina in the Austin Powers series of comedy films. she also appeared in "Drop Dead Gorgeous," "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," and "Bobcat Moretti." On television she's been in everything from Nickelodeon's "iCarly" to "Desperate Housewives and the ABC series "The Goldbergs." You've also heard her voice on the Cartoon Network series "Chowder," the movies "Monsters University" and "Despicable Me 3."For more information, please visit our website: purgatorymissouri.com
- Sep 8, 202520 min
Richard Malmos interviewed by Hunter Lowry
Help us fund season two! buymeacoffee.com/PurgMoHunter Lowry interviews our director, Richard Malmos, who along with directing "Purgatory, Missouri", also wrote and narrates the prologue for each episode and plays "One", the mysterious leader of the Carnival. Richard is a legend in the voiceover world. For ten years he was THE VOICE of "The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson" on NBC. Beyond that, Richard has voiced an enormous amount of national commercials and you have heard his voice in what seems like every introduction to every nightly news program in the U.S.For more information, please visit our website: purgatorymissouri.com
- Sep 7, 20257 min
Nathan Smythe interviewed by Hunter Lowry
Help us fund season two! buymeacoffee.com/PurgMoHunter Lowry interviews Nathan Smythe, who played several roles in "Purgatory, Missouri" including various carnies, pinbots and The Void. Nathan is a man of a trillion voices. When he stepped up to the mic during the audition, I said “Go over the top on this.” That was the scene at the end of Episode 4 when Thirty Eight encounters his first Pinbot. When his cold read was finished, Richard, Maureen, Allyson and I looked at each other like a hurricane just blew back our hair. Recording the scene in the studio with Dave Foley, he delivered again. Hunter was wiping back tears. Along with his alter ego of "DJ Nate" spinning records around town, he has voiced numerous commercials, video games and anime. You have heard him in White Castle commercials, Japanese anime TV shows, gamers know him from his work on the English version of “Fighting Spirit”, “Victorious Boxers: Revolution”, and many, many more.For more information, please visit our website: purgatorymissouri.com
- Sep 6, 20256 min
Tonoccus McClain interviewed by Hunter Lowry
Help us fund season two! buymeacoffee.com/PurgMoHunter Lowry interviews Tonoccus McClain, who plays "Tunnel of Love", the huge, hyperactive carnie who becomes Highstriker's muscle in "Purgatory, Missouri." Tonoccus has had a wildly varied career, working as a vocalist in movies such as "Avatar", "A Wrinkle in Time" and "Watchmen", touring in companies for "The Lion King", and working as a correspondent on "Channel One News," where he interviewed figures such as Bill Clinton, Al Gore, drug czar Barry McCaffrey, and legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager. In this interview, he reveals his thoughts on "Tunnel of Love" as well as some harrowing paranormal experiences he has endured.For more information, please visit our website: purgatorymissouri.com
- Sep 5, 20258 min
Gary Lamb interviewed by Hunter Lowry
Help us fund season two! buymeacoffee.com/PurgMoHunter Lowry interviews Gary Lamb, who plays the malevolent domestic abuser "Tony" in episode 2 of "Purgatory, Missouri". Gary has toured in numerous Shakespeare productions across the country. Here he talks to Hunter about playing "the bad guy," dreams, the afterlife and ghosts in his house.For more information, please visit our website: purgatorymissouri.com
- Sep 4, 20259 min
Julia Albert intervewed by Hunter Lowry
Help us fund season two! buymeacoffee.com/PurgMoHunter Lowry interviews Julia Albert, who played "Marie" and "Nurse Kayla" in "Purgatory, Missouri" as well as various carnies and pinbots. Julia's portrayal of "Marie" in Episode 2 would so bone-chilling we had to take a moment to compose ourselves. One take - all terror.For more information, please visit our website: purgatorymissouri.com
About Purgatory, Missouri
Winner of the 2025 ARKast award for Best Drama podcast, "Purgatory, Missouri" is a suspenseful and darkly comic supernatural mystery/drama that explores the boundaries of consciousness and questions our day-to-day reality. What is a dream? What is the Afterlife? Can they collide? It features atmospheric and immersive sound design, a large professional cast and is based on the Dark Americana songs of Stuart Pearson and Hunter Lowry.It stars Dave Foley (Kids in the Hall, Fargo), Mindy Sterling (Austin Powers, The Goldbergs), Crissy Guerrero (In the Heights, American Mariachi) and Alina Foley (The Spy Next Door, The League). In "Purgatory, Missouri", an epileptic woman falls into a coma and finds herself in a grimy, rundown carnival, where the sky is grey and danger is everywhere. Each Newcomer gradually loses their memories of who they were while the carnival itself seems to be ripping apart. Why do people meander aimlessly in a constant state of terror? Trouble is everywhere - are
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