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For this special Halloween 2023 edition of the Nothing Is Real Radio Hour, NIRRH creator Sam Sebren presents a remastered version of his work-in-progress, the "Ultra Real Cronenberg Remix”. First premiered on Wave Farm radio on October 29, 2016, the ongoing radio theatre collage is made with a script using hundreds of clips of characters' dialogue from eight different movies by Canadian film director David Cronenberg. Mixed with field recordings and electronic soundtracks made by Sebren, the result is a new, quasi-narrative "movie" that blurs reality in search of some new level of truth. Obtuse money issues, political conspiracies, drugs, dreams and hallucinations, technology, our bodies, riots, war, and psychological examinations are all melded together using Cronenberg's oeuvre as a jumping off point into some whole other abyss of mysterious characters and sounds living in a transmogrified reality that questions its own existence as a giant game, all in homage to Cronenberg's uncompromising work.