<p>This one is for the diehards.</p><br><p>On Friday, August 29th, 2025 we held a Launch Party for Episode 500 in the NoPro Discord. We had no idea who would show up.</p><br><p>To our delight <strong>Jacob Patterson</strong>, who you had a chance to hear in the last part of the marathon, <strong>ARGN’s Michael Anderson</strong> — who gives us a spoiler-free expectation set on <strong><em>Masquerade</em></strong>, the immersive <strong><em>Phantom</em></strong> currently in previews in New York City, NoPro correspondent<strong> Briana Roecks</strong> who shares some <strong>Spooky Season</strong> anticipation for both LA and Las Vegas, and drop-ins from <strong>Laura Hall </strong>and <strong>Cameo Wood</strong> as well.</p><br><p>It’s a hangout episode and fair warning: the audio quality is sub-par in the extreme! I’m even on my Airpods because I was so exhausted from editing and being on the Yeti for hours on end that I just jammed the Pods in my ears and forgot how bad they would sound. So if you skip this because it sounds mid, I won’t take offense. This one, as they say, is for the sickos.</p><br><p>But if you do stick around, well: you’re a real one, and all the copious links in the show notes below are going to make sense.</p><p><br></p><h3>SHOW NOTES</h3><ul><li><a href="https://mjandersen.substack.com/p/tammany-hall-is-a-petco-zohrans-summer?triedRedirect=true" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tammany Hall is a Petco: Zohran's Summer Scavenger Hunt</a></li><li><a href="https://masqueradenyc.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Masquerade</a></li><li><a href="https://www.majesticrepertory.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Majestic Rep Las Vegas</a></li><li><a href="https://everythingimmersive.com/events/people-in-the-dark-an-immersive-ghost-story" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">People In the Dark: An Immersive Ghost Story</a></li><li><a href="https://everythingimmersive.com/events/the-willows-2025" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Willows</a></li><li><a href="https://hauntedsoiree.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Haunted Soiree</a></li><li><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/pursuit-scavenger-hunt-san-francisco/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Wild, Citywide Scavenger Hunt That Ate San Francisco</a> (Wired)</li><li><a href="v" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Santa’s Village</a>&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://www.secretcityadventures.com/in-person-games/dark-things" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Where Dark Things Dwell</a></li><li><a href="https://www.rwlasvegas.com/dining/juniors/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Junior’s at Resorts World</a></li><li><a href="https://area15.com/eat-drink/the-beast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Beast @ Area 15</a></li><li><a href="https://playdash.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">DASH – Different Area, Same Hunt</a></li><li><a href="https://www.thewrap.com/the-long-walk-treadmill-challenge-screening/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">‘The Long Walk’ Turns Screening Into Endurance Test With 3 MPH Treadmill Rule </a>(The Wrap)</li><li><a href="https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/what-the-f-is-this-what-darren-aronofsky-has-to-do-with-new-payphones-in-nyc" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">'What the f--- is this?': What Darren Aronofsky has to do with new payphones in NYC</a> (Gothamist)</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/theater/a24-cherry-lane-theater.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why Did the Indie Film Studio A24 Buy an Off Broadway Theater?</a></li></ul><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>