D&D are hard at work on the script to Dark Legion: Hell on Earth, but they managed to squeeze in a quick bonus pod recording with all your favorite ongoing segments! Why has Dalton been seeing more movies, and why has Dylan been seeing less? What do they make of one of Wes Craven's l...
2025-05-24 20:21:51 +0000 UTC View PostSubmitted for your approval -- Dylan's Field of Nightmares script in its entirety, with the workshop and discussion portions clipped out. This version includes four deleted or extended scenes that were cut for time on the broadcast version!
To be clear, this isn't meant as a replac...
2025-04-20 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Dalton recovers from COVID, D&D record remotely to pitch the latest Studio Mandate: a grimdark live-action TV movie version of Snow White! PLUS: Dalton's Star Trek movie opinions grow even more controversial as the team discusses Nemesis, and Dylan has a bone to pick with Wim W...
2025-04-13 13:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostTune in here for the NARRATIVE-ONLY version of Dalton's Exorcist script, including a few deleted scenes that were summarized in the main feed version.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 - Station 1: Jesus is Condemned to Death
00:07:40 - Station 2: Jesus Takes Up His Cross
00:19:01 - Station 3: J...
It's an all-bangers episode of AYADD! First, on Studio Mandates, Studio Executive The78thDoctor has D&D reimagine one of Dalton's all-time favorite films, Carnival of Souls! Then, Treks Education diverges from canon to embark on a Galaxy Quest, and The Dalterion Collection p...
2025-03-16 13:21:38 +0000 UTC View PostOn the latest episode of AYADU, writer & video game narrative designer Stella Sacco joins us to pitch her darker, gayer version of THE INVISIBLE WOMAN, leading to address some recent criticism of our show’s wokeness levels!
Now streaming 2025-03-10 13:50:16 +0000 UTC View Post
On our latest main feed episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe?, a long-lost legend returns...and he looks dumb as Hell! Pour one out for the Scorpion King, brought back from the dead, more than once, only to become an embarrassing spectacle for your amusement.
2025-03-04 16:58:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Dive into the Patreon page of Dylan Roth and Dalton Deschain, hosts of the ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK UNIVERSE? podcast.
Every two weeks on the free podcast, Dylan and Dalton continue to build out a cinematic universe of classic movie monsters. Imagine the MCU, but instead ...
2025-03-04 16:23:08 +0000 UTC View Post
On the latest bonus pod, D&D stray from the path and grant one Patron's wish: To create a Dark Universe version of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods! Dalton has an unexpected reaction to one of Trek fandom's least favorite features, and Dylan auditions Audition!
Be aware that we ar...
2025-02-16 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
On the latest bonus pod, D&D stray from the path and grant one Patron's wish: To create a Dark Universe version of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods! Dalton has an unexpected reaction to one of Trek fandom's least favorite features, and Dylan auditions Audition!
H...
2025-02-16 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Dalton's script was just TOO BIG for a normal episode of AYADU! Listen through to this unabridged and uninterrupted reading of Dalton's The Old Dark House at the End of the World!
TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 - Act One
00:35:55 - Act Two
01:20:53 - Act Three
D&D are back to kick off the new year with one of our wackiest Studio Mandates yet! How will our haunted hosts reimagine the Disney classic THE PARENT TRAP for the Dark Universe?
PLUS: Dylan has a close encounter with Nobuhiko Obayashi's HOUSE, and Dalton makes First Contact with the ei...
2025-01-19 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
As featured at the end of "Another Dark Universe Holiday Special," here's "This Christmas is Yours" by Dylan Roth! Available to stream or download for all patrons. Dalton's tune "Fireside" is attached to the post just before this one.
2024-12-20 18:56:17 +0000 UTC View Post
As featured at the end of "Another Dark Universe Holiday Special," here's Dalton Deschain's "Fireside!" Available to stream or download for all patrons. Dylan's tune "This Christmas is Yours" is coming right up in our next post!
2024-12-20 18:52:16 +0000 UTC View Post
On this bonus episode, Dylan & Dalton look back at the year that technically still is! D&D each count down their top 5 movies and TV shows of 2024, reflect on how their lives have changed since last year, and answer a few fun fan questions like "What was the best egg-based meal you ate th...
2024-12-08 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Dylan needed an extra week to get his Night of the Living Dead script up to code, so as a consolation we're releasing this month's bonus episode to the main feed, plus we're making the video version available to all paid subscribers.
Dalton Deschain & Dylan Roth answer a challenge from ...
2024-11-10 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Dylan needed an extra week to get his Night of the Living Dead script up to code, so as a consolation we're releasing this month's bonus episode to the main feed, plus we're making the video version available to all paid subscribers.
Dalton Deschain & Dylan Roth answer a challenge from ...
2024-11-10 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This episode is also available as a video for Patreon subscribers at the $8/mo level and higher. If that's you, check your Patreon feed for that post!
By order of Studio Executive Soonmot, D&D must come up with a pitch for a Dark Universe version of the cult classic Josie & the Puss...
2024-10-20 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostHello Patrons! For the past few months, new members have been frustrated to find that the Patreon-provided links to join the AYADD Discord have not been functional. We've had to send out individual invites through direct messages in the meantime, which has been a hassle for everybody. I've been i...
2024-10-20 00:44:12 +0000 UTC View Post
We're releasing this episode to the general public to spread the news about the cool new stuff we're doing on the bonus feed! It's also on YouTube.
We're starting an exciting new project called Studio Mandates, in which pa...
2024-09-13 16:52:26 +0000 UTC View PostUpdated 8/19 - Missing "Bev Check" audio fixed. (There's still no theme song. Maybe someday!)
BREAKING NEWS! There is a VIDEO VERSION of this podcast available! If you're interested in seeing D&D's handsome and animated faces as they discuss these topics, pop over to the Patreon...
2024-08-18 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATED 8/19 with the missing Bev Check audio and video restored.
BREAKING NEWS! This is the VIDEO VERSION of this month's bonus pod! If you're interested in seeing D&D's handsome and animated faces as they discuss these topics, watch the unlisted YouTube video above. Your usual...
2024-08-18 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostDylan and Dalton are running on all cylinders! First, they discuss their latest musical compositions (no clips to share yet, sorry), then discuss a wide variety of new and old first-watch films before getting into the nitty gritty of their recurring segments. Everything goes topsy turvy as Dalton...
2024-07-14 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Quentin Reese is back, baby! In this Patreon bonus episode, QR takes a look at the way WWE has positioned itself as pro wrestling's mountaintop rather than an island, with wrestlers and titles crossing over in every direction.
The next main feed episode is coming right up, and folks, it's a...
2024-07-10 17:36:20 +0000 UTC View PostIt's beginning to look like Dalton may just not like Star Trek! Their quest through the Trek film franchise continues to be a struggle. Will they throw in the space towel (do they have towels in space? no one knows) or knuckle through at warp speed? Meanwhile, The Dalterion Collection continues w...
2024-06-16 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostDylan finally watches Before Sunset! Dylan and Dalton talk about romance, growing up, and the way that stories change when we look back at them. Y'know, real light conversational stuff. Meanwhile, Dalton embarks on a voyage through the final frontier, in a recurring segment we're ca...
2024-05-19 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLate on a Monday night, less than an hour after recording Cat People, an exhausted Dylan & Dalton power through a bonus pod without waking up Dalton's downstairs neighbor! In a sequel to Dalton's "Hammer or Scammer?" game, Dylan has made up a bunch of imaginary Star Trek synopses and...
2024-04-21 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe second musical episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe? is finally here! Download the entire soundtrack album, including the versions with Dalton's original demo vocals, in the attachments of this post on Patreon. There are SPOILERS ABOUND in this album, so ma...
2024-03-31 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostD&D are having a flare-up of the chronic, relapsing and remitting condition known as WrestleMania and simply have to talk about it. Hear how they each got into professional wrestling at an uncommonly late age, how it fanned the flames of their friendship and also of Dylan's marriage?...
2024-03-24 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, Dylan here. I wanted to update all of you kind Patrons about my latest creative venture, a YouTube series called Future Endeavors. Like Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe, it's the kind of bizarre, unmarketable concept that takes way too long to explain.
Wha...
2024-03-22 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post