EXCLUSIVE: Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci are doubling down on their podcast partnership.The two companies have signed a slate deal that includes three series – Operation Morning Light, The Paddlefish Caviar Heist and The Cost of Happiness.It comes after they previously partnered on true-crime audio series Bonaparte, which launched last year.Operation Morning Light tells the story of how on a January night in 1978, a white light burned through the sub-Arctic sky.
Cosmos 954, a nuclear-powered Soviet espionage satellite that had malfunctioned and fallen to earth. As the satellite disintegrated, it scattered dangerously radioactive debris across the vast traditional lands of the Dene, Métis, and Inuit in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
Operation Morning Light explores the disaster, its impact on the land, and the resilience of the communities in the debris field.The series is hosted by Dëneze Nakehk’o, a Denesuline and Dehcho Dene father from Denendeh.The Paddlefish Caviar Heist is set in Warsaw, Missouri, a small, rural town of just over 2,000 people in the American Midwest.
Locally, it’s known for its retro Sonic Drive-In burger joint. Very few realize that it’s the paddlefish capital of the world.
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