Winner of 5 Signal Awards, including Best Kids Podcast, Best Road Trip Podcast, and Best Writing (Fiction)!
Whether it’s a kid hiding a baby dragon in his attic, a high school mascot protecting the football team from an ancient Viking curse, or a little sister vanishing when a teleportation experiment goes wrong, Kaboom has an audio adventure for you! The whole family will love listening to these original fiction stories together, which feature full casts of talented voice actors and cinematic sound design.
New to Kaboom? Each episode is a completely new adventure in just one episode, so you can start anywhere. Here’s some of our favorites:
• Hunt of the Nydralisk (Season 3 Episode 3): When a dangerous alien creature called a Nydralisk escapes from the space station lab, it’s up to three teenage cadets to stop it after it incapacitates the rest of the crew.
• Summer Camp: An Intergalactic Report (Season 2 Episode 8): An alien student disguised as a preteen boy infiltrates a summer camp in order to conduct research on the humans’ nefarious plots, but an encounter with a curious young boy makes Eric question if humans are as evil as he was taught.
• The Viking Mascot (Season 1 Episode 2): A normally shy boy gains swagger when he puts on his high school’s mascot costume, but his confidence is tested when a mythological threat arises on the football field.
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Kaboom: An Audio Adventure Podcast comes from the producers of The Apple Seed, another podcast full of stories for families.
Ainsley and her family travel to Scotland to unravel a mystery: why was she abandoned on a seal-filled beach as a baby?
| Ainsley and the Selkie Skin (A Celtic Folklore Adventure) was written by Keri Griggs and directed by Brian Tanner. The cast included Aliyah Hall as Ainsley, Revelle Skousen as Sophie, Alexandra Mackenzie Johns as Mara, Nathan Bowser as Rory, Liz Christensen as Kenna, and Peter Johns and JP Wright as Additional Selkie Voices.
| The sound team was led by Trent Reimschussel, with engineering by DJ Cromarty, James Call, and Gracie Davis; dialogue editing by DJ Cromarty and Taehyeon Kim; sound design by Taehyeon Kim; music editing by Hayden Thompson; and mixing by Taehyeon Kim and Hayden Thompson. This episode was produced by Brian Tanner, Keri Griggs, Wendy Folsom, and Sam Payne.
| The Kaboom writing team includes Kay Hendrickson, Garrett Gunnell, Keri Griggs, and Paige Jensen-Rutter. Our theme music was written by Sam Clawson. All Kaboom original art was created by Adrian Walsh, and Ikaika Kamimoto is our marketing manager.
| For more great storytelling for families check out our companion podcast The Apple Seed, available wherever you get your podcasts.
Kaboom is a production of BYUradio.
