Feed Swap | Give Me Away

Feed Swap | Give Me Away

Author: Renee Taylor Klint March 30, 2023 Duration: 33:59

Hi listeners! It's Renee, and today we're doing something a little different with the feed.


Now that Badlands Cola is complete (for now) we thought we would use this post-season downtime to share some really cool shows with you. Today, we're swapping feeds with a show called Give Me Away!


Give Me Away is an ensemble science fiction podcast about a spaceship that crashes in the Nevada desert...and screams.

The screams of thousands of extraterrestrial political prisoners uploaded into its horrific mainframe. The only way to free them... is to transfer them into the bodies of humans willing to share their minds with an alien second consciousness. But who would volunteer for that? Graham Shapiro, divorced and adrift at age 50, is one of the first to raise his hand.


I don't know about you, but this is the time of year where I crave bingeable content. Hook me in the first few minutes, and then throw me a pile of episodes that I can sink my teeth into, lose an afternoon to. And...oh wow, Give Me Away is 100% that. I'm so grateful that their team reached out to me because this...might be my favourite show right now?


The pacing is impeccable, there's this beautiful prickly tension that just slowly ramps up throughout, and most of all, it does the thing that I personally think the best sci fi does, which is capture your imagination with some seriously human questions like...how much of your mind, body, and soul would you give up (honestly!) to save a stranger from the outer reaches of space?


Give Me Away is an expertly produced show about radical hospitality, so give their pilot episode a listen now, and then make sure you check Episode 2 out at Gideon-Media.com, or wherever you get your podcasts. Enjoy!

TRANSCRIPTS:

Transcripts for Give Me Away are available at www.gideon-media.com/transcripts.


CREDITS:

Give Me Away is written by Mac Rogers, directed by Jordana Williams, sound designed by Bart Fasbender, music composed by Adam Blau, assistant directed by Marty McGuire, and produced by Cara Ehlenfeldt. Cover art by Kate Kosma.

Featuring Sean Williams, Hanna Cheek, Kevin R. Free, Nat Cassidy, Diana Oh, Dani Martineck, Rebecca Comtois, Alba Ponce de León, Jorge Cordova, Lori Elizabeth Parquet, and Stephanie Willing.


Deep in a sun-bleached desert town, where the past feels less like history and more like a bone waiting to be uncovered, Badlands Cola | A Strange Audio Drama unfolds. Created by Renee Taylor Klint, this fiction podcast builds a world where the line between mystery and horror is as thin as the desert air. Listeners are dropped into a place defined by strange fossils and even stranger residents, where every shadow holds a story and every discovery feels unnerving. The narrative follows two unlikely allies: a hard-hearted private investigator and a broken-down radio DJ, whose fates become tangled as they attempt to excavate the skeletal history of a dangerous cult that threatens to reassemble itself. This isn't just a story you hear; it's an atmosphere you inhabit, blending cinematic tension with elements of eldritch dread and sharp, hate-flirting dialogue. The liminal nightmares here don't just lurk-they yawn wide in the night, pulling you into their grasp. Each episode of this audio drama is a layer of sand brushed away, revealing more of the unsettling truth buried beneath. For those who crave a narrative that feels both vast in its mystery and intimately claustrophobic, this podcast offers a deeply immersive escape into the weird and the wired.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 17

Badlands Cola | A Strange Audio Drama
Podcast Episodes
1.12 | Some Velvet Morning [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 33:29
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Duration: 26:55
Mel's wrath makes craters. CONTENT WARNINGS: This episode contains gunfire, death, explicit language, horror themes, blood/injuries, physical violence, misogyny, emotional abuse, and references to cults. TRANSCRIPT: http…
1.11 | The Mud, Pt. 1 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:17
The final call. CONTENT WARNINGS: This episode contains explicit language, horror themes, claustrophobia, blood/injuries, emotional breakdown, and references to physical violence, death, and cults. TRANSCRIPT: https://bi…
1.10 | EXIT [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 33:51
IT NEVER ENDS IT NEVER ENDS IT NEVER ENDS IT NEVER ENDS IT This week's recommended show is one of the best Weird Fiction audio dramas out there! It's time to take a trip to the ranch: Wireland Ranch, that is. Seriously,…
1.09 | Sparville [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:00
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1.08 | Get Thee Behind Me [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 29:06
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1.07 | Melinda, More Or Less [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 24:24
An empty electronics store. A beacon in the Badlands. Call me. CONTENT WARNINGS: This episode contains explicit language, horror themes, physical violence, and references to cults, blood, abduction, and death. TRANSCRIPT…
1.06 | Rewind [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:37
A midnight shower. A 2AM truth. A severed foot. CONTENT WARNINGS: This episode contains a moderate jump scare, explicit language, horror themes, physical violence, and references to cults, death, and blood/gore/body horr…
1.05 | Buried [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 39:51
Something that is missing. An unwelcome warning. Secrets on tape, shuffling in the dark. We once again have a wonderful podcast recommendation for you! Stay tuned to the end of this episode for a trailer from a show we t…
1.04 | The Big Dinosaur [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 24:48
A grudging partnership. An empty paleontology centre. A disturbing vision in the dead of the desert night. Stand up for reproductive freedom: https://www.podvoices.help/ CONTENT WARNINGS: This episode contains explicit l…