Season 2 · Episode 9

Audiobook Narrating Challenges and Marilyn Manson

March 29, 2026 · 34 min
“What the fuck has happened in the world that Marilyn Manson is now a joke?”

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Misanthrope Radio – Season 2 Episode 8

In this episode, Lorenzo confronts the practical challenges of turning his distinctive voice into a profitable side hustle while staying true to the unapologetic spirit of Misanthrope Radio. He explores the realities of audiobook narration, demonstrates his impressive (and completely inappropriate) vocal range, reflects on the faded stardom of Marilyn Manson, and ends with an important disclaimer rooted in real-life stories.

Segment 1: The Audiobook Narrating Job I Cannot Get

Lorenzo opens up about his attempts to diversify his income through voice-over work, particularly audiobook narration. After completing five audiobooks with limited success, he identifies the core obstacle: the current market preference among independent authors for voices that do not sound like a “Judeo-Christian white male.”

Rather than complain, he decides to give the industry exactly what it claims to want — with hilarious and explicit demonstrations of female romance narration, flamboyant gay romance, street-level crime drama, and even an elderly memoir voice. The segment showcases both his talent and his frustration with being judged by his default voice and appearance.

“Nobody wants a fucking white guy who sounds like a white guy to read their fucking audio books anymore. Unless it’s some kind of self help book or a book about saving money.”

“If you can’t beat them, join them. Give them exactly what they want.”

Segment 2: What Happened to Marilyn Manson

Shifting gears, Lorenzo wonders aloud why Marilyn Manson — once considered the most dangerous man in music — has largely faded into obscurity and become something of a joke. He revisits the artist’s peak era, plays dramatic readings of lyrics from “This Is the New Shit” and “The Beautiful People,” and questions whether the songs ever held real substance or if nostalgia and parental disapproval drove their appeal.

The discussion touches on how society’s definition of “evil” has shifted dramatically in two decades.

“What the fuck has happened in the world that Marilyn Manson is now a joke?”

Segment 3: Disclaimer and Show Close

Lorenzo feels it necessary to clarify that the outrageous “man training” story in the audiobook demo was based on a real conversation with an elderly relative, though dramatized for comedic effect. He stresses that he does not condone such behavior, but notes how normalized certain stories seemed to previous generations.

The episode closes with a call for listeners to leave reviews, bring cool guests, and resist overly sensitive outrage culture.

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Welcome to season two episode eight of Misenthrop Radio.

Misenthrop Radio.

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Misenthrop Radio.

International cream corn fuck headdery.

Misenthrop Radio.

Simply a dirty Jew.

Misenthrop Radio.

And as the young man knew full well,

chicken fried steak couldn't fuck back.

All it could do was be delicious.

Misenthrop Radio starts now.

My attempt to build a multimedia empire

on the back of Misenthrop Radio.

I have come around the idea of diversifying.

Using my voice in other ways to try to make a buck

while I'm not making a fucking dime,

a podcast, getting paid to fucking podcast

was never really in the cards for me.

Misenthrop Radio is not exactly Commission.

Add revenue friendly.

If you know what I mean.

Kalken balls dick bitch,

can't pussy fuck rape murder arson and rape.

You see what I mean?

There's no advertisers out there

there wanting to spin their fucking dollars

on a show like this one.

And that's perfectly fucking fine.

I don't want to tow the line in order to keep advertisers happy.

I wanna do what I wanna do here when I wanna do it.

But if Misenthrop Radio is my hobby slash therapy

and my regular job is my regular job,

there's nothing wrong with side hustles.

So I've been kind of dabbling and freelancing.

I do the occasional TV or radio ad.

I've started dicking around with imaging a little bit.

I keep auditioning for video games

and voiceover stuff for like cartoons and shit like that.

I've gotten close a couple times

but I haven't really got there yet.

But the medium I think I have the most potential

to see some to see some degree of success in is audiobooks.

So your voice is an unpleasant, yeah I know that.

But nobody wants a fucking white guy

who sounds like a white guy to read their fucking audiobooks anymore

unless it's some kind of and saving money about.

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I have modern recording techniques.

I have a modicum of talent.

Why don't I just give them what they say they want?

It's a running joke that the most popular genre of books out there right now

are Lady porn.

I actually did a bit in season one

where I was kind of mocking the fucking Lady porn genre

and how crazy it's getting.

To say that they're blending fantasy with romance

would be to put it mildly.

Here's an excerpt from that episode.

Julian comes around behind that tiger with two glass ash trays

and starts clapping the fucking tigers giant sack

between those two glass ash trays over and over and over again

with brutal crushing force that tiger

and I run across one of these Lady porn books

and they say that they're looking for a young sounding female

to narrate and voice act their latest

werewolf breeding king fucking romance adventure.

Then I've used my knowledge of modern recording techniques

and my considerable talent to give them exactly what they say they want.

His powerful wolf form pinned me harder against a rough bark

thur brushing my bare skin as the full moon lit his massive

throbbing cock thick veined with a swelling knot at the base

already pulsing with need.

I mowned and spread my legs wider my pussy dripping wet

fuck me I begged.

He snarled and slammed in deep with one brutal thrust

stretching my tight walls around his huge shaft.

Each savage pump drove him balls deep

the knot battering my entrance until it popped inside

locking us together. His hips jack hammered

not grinding my g spot while his claws dug into my ass

I screamed an ecstasy squirting hard around his swelling

cock as endless waves of orgasm ripped through me

his hot seed flooded my human womb.

Fuck see what I'm saying if you can't beat him

join him give him exactly what they want they don't want

the Judeo Christian fucking white dude narrating their

audiobooks anymore and to be completely honest how

how the fuck would I sound narrating that let me give it a shot here real quick

his powerful wolf form pinned me harder against a rough bark

for brushing my bare skin as the full moon lit his massive throbbing

cocked. How's that how's that gonna fucking sound

you know what I'm saying obviously Judeo Christian white dude can't read that

audiobook so I give him exactly what they want

another real popular genre right now is the gay romance novel

big up and coming thing so if you say you want a young sounding gay male to

narrate your fucking gay romance novel I got you I can do this I give you

exactly what you want his eyes darkened with hunger as he

backed me against the wall one strong hand sliding up my chest

thumb brushing my nipple through and my shirt you've been teasing me all night

he murmured voice low and rough lips inches from mine

his other hand gripped my hip pulling me flush against his hard bulge I shivered

breath catching what if I want you to lose control I said it in my bitchiest fucking

most challenging voice he's smirked leaning into graze his teeth along my neck

hot breath

sending sparks down my spine then strip slowly show me how badly you need this

cock he said my hands tremble desiobade peeling off my shirt then pants

standing naked and aching while his gaze devoured every inch of my naked

form he stepped closer fingers tracing my cock stroking once teasing good boy now

get on your knees as if bitch you know you know you know you want to flamboyantly

gay man to read your gay fantasy book dude I got you I can fucking do that

your boy Lorenzo has the talent the skill and the will to be whatever you want your

audio book to be you don't need to fucking go on these long drawn out searches

to find the perfect voice just call me you want wide Anglo-Saxon male obviously

I can do that you want the fucking bitchy chick who's gonna fucking bang the

werewolf I can do that too clearly and you want the gay dude for your gay romance novel

I've got you let's just say for example that you have a crime drama that you need to be

fully fucking produced with more than one voice look no further than your boy Lorenzo I got you

diamond trembled on her knees make up smeared as trail towered over her in the dim motel room

where the fuck am I money bitch he snarled belt already sliding through the loops

she whispered the count was short again his hand cracked across her face

right he had a bucket be gay bitch pussy ass crack ass ho has bitch

cream cone fucking poor poor cold red bitch

with my fucking money I want my fucking money I on about that killed it and that fucking robbing

I want that motherfucking money she quickly emptied her purse cash-spilling trail snatched it

counting every bill before stuffing it in his pocket good bitch these are just a few

poultry fucking examples of the range that I bring to bear on your audiobook project come in here

and sit down my father was not a very nice man and he did things that would be considered questionable

in today's environment but he did it all in the name of trying to make us in the better proper man

now he used to beat us that's true he used to beat us about the face and the breast and the neck

and the chest and all about the head and the ass and of course across the genitalia

our dad our father used to just beat us unmerciful for any perceived slight or failing on our part

but then sometimes he would have what he called man training and my brother Sean

and I did not look forward to that it seemed crazy at the time but look him back on it now I

understand what he was trying to do there was this one time that he sat us down in front of him and

he took out his giant fucking meady cock and he fucking beat her up in front of us of course we

didn't know what was going on we didn't understand what beating of

and then he fucking pounded beat that fucking cock at mercy for right in front of us no lotion no fucking vaseline

and nothing he said you beat it fucking rollo and you beat it fucking dry so you build up the galleases

because the world is a very unforgiving place for a weak man and a weak man is one who uses lubrication

when he's beaten off any fucking jack that fucking pork sword and it fucking erupted with this white

shit all over the room all over the room he was spraying ropes onto the windows and the fucking

drapes and all over the carpeted floor he even in his convulsions got a dribbler that shit all over Sean's

bottom lip and before Sean could even realize what he done he'd instinctively sucked in into his mouth

and that one moment changed Sean's entire life trajectory he grew into a fanook now nowadays they

would call that sort of thing the deviant sexual behavior of pedophilia but really it was man training

except for Sean the fanook but for me it was man training and I understood boys and I went a long

time before I allowed myself to get hood winked by some goddamn coups you see what I'm saying

I'm a one stop voice over shop I can do any kind of audiobook you want you have the world of

literary voices at your fingertips all you have to do is reach out to me I will fucking narrate

your audiobook no matter what you're looking I think I've illustrated that here today I can do

whatever you fucking want another time he called us in from hand training and he had us take our

fucking cocks out of our pants and he handed us each a water toilet paper and he had us rub all

over and around our little underdeveloped weeners with this water toilet paper and we had to do it

faithfully every night before we went to bed and we were rubbing and we were rubbing and we

were rubbing faithfully every night before we went to bed but we never dared question him until

finally one day my brother Sean the fanook finally went to dad and said hey pops why do we do this

thing with toilet paper all over our little weeners before we go to bed and my father looked at him

and said it's to make you weener get nice and big and Sean said how's rubbing it with toilet

paper gonna make our weeners nice and big and my father who had been in the drink a little bit

that night said well I don

in front of you and that's just me fucking around that's not that's just me without any real scripts to read

I come at you with a very convincing sounding young female who likes to fuck wear wolves right off the

top of my head I come at you with the best sounding gay man of all time for your gay romance novel I come

at you with a narrator voice and a fucking black pimpe for your fucking crime drama and then I come at

you with an old man telling his life story in biography form what the fuck more are you looking for god

damn it well someone please give me a fucking audiobook narrating job so I can get the side hustle going

I don't know what more I can do to sell myself to you you fucking idiot how have you not already

employed me it's just so frustrating to have all this fucking talent and nobody fucking sees it all they

see is the white guy in my fucking profile picture and they go nope they're not willing to peel back the

fucking layers and see everything that I have to offer I'm gonna ask you the indie author to look beyond

the white face to look beyond the proper diction and non-regional

dialect

gaming sci-fi and fantasy one puff at a time nerd chronicles baked law out now on all platforms hit

subscribe and settle in segment to you you know who I was thinking about the other day

Maryland Manson remember that fucking guy Maryland Manson now admittedly I'm kind of out of touch

Maryland Manson made still be out there doing his thing putting out records and people

may love him he may be more popular than he's ever been but I don't think so I haven't heard

anything about Maryland Manson in a long fucking time I vaguely remember now that I think about it

he was imbrialled in some kind of fucking controversy some controversy that he wasn't going to be

able to shake out of I mean controversy's always been his thing that's how he made his money

to be able to shake out of that would simply be a

Google search away but I don't really do research from his in throw up radio I haven't in the past

and I'm not going to now why would I start I just vaguely remember hearing somebody say something

about Maryland Manson got canceled some kind of way but anyway controversy was always

changed in the world to where the most evil thing on the fucking airwaves around tv 20 years ago

is now a joke I don't know it could be that the world has devolved and gotten so fucking

abnormally goddamn evil that Maryland Manson's fucking garden variety evil seems just quaint

almost like a joke like this is contrived evil obviously

Of course Maryland Manson puts on this makeup and sometimes he has a bump instead of a cock like a

fucking candle oh sometimes he dresses like Hitler he's got two different colored eyes he wears rouge

okay that's quaint evil that's fun evil that's silly evil in 2026 in 2006 2004 2001

you know the late 90s Maryland Manson was the most evil thing alive church groups were

protesting him like I said earlier he was getting blamed for school shootings

haha the fucking responsibility was was being laid at his feet and now 20 years later he's a joke

what the fuck happened what the fuck is happened in the world that Maryland Manson is now

a joke I remember actually buying his album of the golden age of grotesque that came out in 2003

I remember buying that album because I remember buying that album because I thought it was good

it all right I was good, I had songs on it like mob scene and the golden age of grotesque and slut garden

slught garden slught garden sl

and

� the

first song on the album called this is the new shit

now mob scene was released as a single for air play first and then I think this is the new shit was the

second release off the album but I already owned the album by the time you know radio station started

playing that song so I discovered it you know quite on my own you know with Maryland Manson on my

mind and wondering what the fuck happened to him I pulled out the old CD fucking collection and I

put in the golden age of grotesque and listen to his song this is the new shit and again I remember

thinking at the time what a fucking cool song it had a groove and the the guitars were fucking cool

and I really really liked that song fast forward to 2026 I loaded up and I sit there and I listen

and I'm like fucking god damn this was just fucking terrible it's just a fucking awful song and that

got me looking at other songs of his going back and listening to excerpts from the Maryland Manson

catalog and it all sounds dated it all sounds shitty it's just it's just not good and now I'm

questioning whether it ever was maybe I was one of those guys back in the early 2000s and late 90s

who was in demands and just because my parents would fucking hate him now you should know I have

a learning disability I don't have the ability to listen to a song and tell you what it fucking means

I've never been able to decode it I don't understand poetry either nor have I ever tried to remedy it

I can remember the lyrics to hundreds of fucking songs but I couldn't tell you what a single one of them

means I have no idea unless you beat me over the head with the fucking meaning like Michelle by the

Beatles probably about some fucking broad name Michelle if I had to guess so I thought we would take

a relative obscurity the song that Nigel is going to do for us now is called this is the new

shit off of the golden age of grotesque album from 2003 everything has been said before there's

nothing left to say anymore when it's all the same you can ask for it by name

Babel Babel bitch bitch forever rebel party party sex sex sex and don't forget the violence

blah blah blah got your lovied of his sad and lonely stick your stupid slug it in everybody sing along

Babel Babel bitch bitch rebel rebel party party sex sex sex and don't forget the violence

blah blah blah got your lovied of his sad and lonely stick your stupid slogan in everybody sing

all you motherfuckers ready for the new shit stand up and admit tomorrow's never coming this is the

new shit stand up and admit do we get it no do we want it yeah this is the new shit stand up and

admit this is the new shit by Marilyn Manson from 2003 Babel Babel bitch rebel party party sex sex

don't forget the violence I just can't imagine why Marilyn Manson's faded into obscurity with

fucking deep goddamn meaningful lyrics like that are you motherfuckers ready for the new shit stand

up and admit tomorrow's never coming stand up do we get it no do we want it yeah that's fucking

deep dude that's real deep that's fucking deep as fuck Marilyn I just can't figure out why

Marilyn Manson's faded away with meaningful shit like that in his songs really stands the

test of time when you come at us with fucking songs like that this is the new shit from 2003

Marilyn and again I don't understand the social or legal ramifications I don't know what he's

fucking going through as far as the controversy that he was embroiled in that he may or may not have

been able to shake out of it and I don't care I'm judging his music on face value and all I know

that if you walk up to 100 fucking people who were alive and in prime music listening age

in the late 90s early 2000s who have a

beach back in the fucking mid the late 70s nobody admits to fucking getting down to stay in a

live or fucking November woman or anything like that nobody admits to being a beegee's fan from

that time period but there was a hell of a fucking lot of them nobody admits to loving Barry Manolo

but the motherfuckers sold 80 million records records nobody admits to

to enjoying Oingo Bingo in the fucking 80s but they were a fucking platinum artist nobody admits

to going to see winger in fucking concert in the late 80s but all I know is they sold 12 million

fucking records worldwide I think I'm relatively safe now in saying the late 90s through early 2000s

version of the beegees is Marilyn Manson let's pick another song for Nigel Dureyde and see what

else I can find here it's going one of his older albums, from 1996 the anti-Christ superstar album

let's pick a song off of here one that you may have heard minute of decay okay de-formography I

don't know any of these songs tourniquets dried up tied and dead to the world are the beautiful people

okay I know that one let's click on that one and have Nigel do a dramatic reading of the lyrics

to the beautiful people by Marilyn Manson and see if this gives us any clues as to why he may have

faded into obscurity the worms we live in every host it's hard to pick which one they hate the

most the horrible people the horrible people it's all anatomic is the size of your steeple

capitalism has made it this way old-fashioned fascism would take it away hey you what do you see

something beautiful something free hey you are you trying to be mean if you live with

apes man it's hard to be clean there's no time to discriminate hate every mother

fucker that's in your way the beautiful people the beautiful people repeated eight times

it's really difficult to understand why Marilyn Manson faded away with deep fucking meaningful

This is all anatomic to the size of your steeple that's fucking deep dude that's real deep he's

delving deep into the fucking human psyche with that one it's all anatomic as the size of your

your steeple god damn Marilyn man you're blowing my mind over here I don't understand how you

faded away either bro there's no time to discriminate hate every mother fucker that's in your way

fuck yeah dude tell us tell us all about whatever the fuck it is you're talking about worms or

something right worms that live in every host or horrible people or beautiful people or apes there's

apes in there too man that's fucking deep bro you're really delving into the problems in society

or something I think go Marilyn you do your thing what the fuck have we lost our fucking minds

we must have been absolutely insane in the late 90s and early 2000s to buy into this fucking

guys or shit and I'm sure he's a fucking member of Manson he's probably a certified

fucking genius or something the way he wrapped the young generation of people coming up around his

fucking disgusting little pallid white finger he had us all licking his fucking platform boots

but 20 years later the wool has been pulled back from our eyes and maybe it's entirely possible

that we're just cynical now because the most evil things that we see nowadays aren't people

like Marilyn Manson they're our politicians real villains don't wear fucking latex tits and

and different colored eye context real villains wear suits and expect our vote every few years

we've been exposed to what evil really is and it's not fucking Marilyn Manson but we believed

it was in the 90s man fuck they hated his ass in the 90s I think he got thrown out of Florida I

don't think he can go back I don't think he can go back there one thing I wanted to touch on here

real quick I have a real problem with one upsmanship I don't know if that's if if that's how you say

that word one upsmanship did I say that right I have a problem with one upsmanship see I see I

keep all these notes on my phone it's all stuff that I think might be a good segment for

Missonthrope Radio and the overwhelming majority of them are good segments and I just never get to

them because I'm constantly trying to do better than my previous episode I'm sure that that's

some kind of fucking mental illness but again that could be construed as um healthy growth or some

shit like that like I'm always trying to improve but I'm not trying to hold myself to the standard of

anyone else I'm trying to beat my own standard every week you would say that that's uh that that's

growth or some shit right but I have this gigantic fucking list of like 200 fucking topic ideas

that I just don't get to because I don't feel like there is good is what I did the week before

and it's driving me fucking crazy so I'm gonna start rolling through this list the Marilyn

Manson thing I've been rolling around in my head for months trying to explain to myself why the

sudden complete and utter drop off when he was one of the biggest draws in the world at one time

and now a Betty doesn't sell out casinos but again I don't know I'm completely out of the loop he

might be hosting concerts on the moon for all I fucking know I have no idea what he's doing segment three

you know in regards to that first bit that I did with the specifically with the old man um telling his

autobiography in the most obscene and disgusting way possible I feel it necessary to say that I don't approve

of that sort of thing it's not okay and you know what nowadays they would definitely consider

that to be deviant sexual behavior in pedophilia however have you ever sat down and talked to old

men like wicked fucking old dudes they all have stories stories like that all of, them and that particular

story I got from a real person now I dramatized it a little bit to make it

fucking ridiculous and obnoxious and fucking gross but I actually sat down one time and talked to a

guy who I was half-ass related to in some kind of way whose father literally taught him how to beat

off it's it's it's like the dad didn't get his rocks off teaching him how to do that he taught

him how to do that in the same way he would teach him how to use a steel square or a tape measure

and maybe this sort of thing was fairly common back in the day that was man training

part of it I can't fucking I can't fucking imagine that nobody taught me how to beat off

I figured it out on my own but yeah his dad his dad actually sat him down and taught him how to beat off

by showing him what to do and I don't know I guess what giving him pointers I have no fucking idea

exactly how it all went down I just kind of fucking tuned it out but that's a fucking real story

in a roundabout way that happened so yeah missing through a radio disclaimer I don't approve of

any of that shit but I did feel the need to say that that is from a fucking actual story that I sat

there and had an old guy wearing fucking double knit pants and a fucking snap button down

shirt with his legs crossed sipping coffee that's that's a story he actually fucking told

not quite as graphic as that but pretty fucking graphic and he didn't even give it a second thought

it was just you know yeah my dad told me how to beat off I said what oh yeah and again the way

told the story and the way he made the instruction sound it's like it was just that's just what

you did you just thought you're signing out of beat off all right son you're 13 years old come on

in here so I can show you how to beat off but anyway thanks for joining me for this episode of

Missing Throat Radio leave a review bring me cool people as you find them don't bring me any

fucking twats who are gonna get super offended by what we do here we do a lot of things in a

ton in cheek and satirical manner that most people would consider off limits to even chuckle about

and that's we gotta we gotta

get away from that it's time to get back to not taking ourselves so seriously don't you think

all right until next time