A fictional chat show about friendship at the end of the world From the creators of Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery www.audaciousmachinecreative.com/world-gone-wrong
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Season One of The Harbingers - produced by Audacious Machine Creative and created by Gabriel Urbina - is coming to a close in just a few wee
Season One of The HarbingersĀ is right around the corner! We've got just four more episodes this season, with the BIG FINALE on June 18th! But we've had so much fun making this season and sharing it with all of you, and we want to do something special to mark the occasion.Ā
So we are trying to put together two special, live, in-person listening events for our finale aheadĀ of its full release. That's right - it won't just be a chance to hear the finale with other fans, but also to be the first people to hear it! There'll be laughs, tears, hugs, some learning, some fun twists and turns, maybe a talkback with the show's producers and its cast - we'll see!Ā It'll basically be like one of the livestreams that we've been doing for most of this season, but in real life!
We're trying to do two of these events around the middle of June, one in Chicago and one in New York City. The key word there is trying! And one of the big things that will get us over the hill is knowing that there's an audience who'd be interested in coming out to hear our final episode (for now) with other fans of the show. So if you live in either NYC or Chicago (or could feasibly get yourself to one of them) and would want to attend one of these, please let us know! Sign up on this form to show your interest, and we'll be in touch as soon as we have details set and ready to go. Just please only sign up once, as we'll be using information from this form to try to sort out some logistics for these events!Ā
A big week of data collection meant a big week of audio drama listening ā lucky me! āŗļø
š Welcome back Small Victories @wgc-productions. I listened to the first two episodes of season three this week and realised how much Iāve missed being in Marisolās world. However I couldāve predicted season 3 to start, it was not with baby Marisol and future Marisol making an appearance! I had not forgotten how much of a gut punch Small Victories is, but I still found myself crying on the way to work as Marisol fought her way back to see Sam again. The messy family dynamics are so real and will never not make me feel SO MUCH. I could cry just thinking about it. Letās go S3 I am strapped the fuck in.
š¦ I continued my relisten of @remnantspod (14-27). This stretch of episodes contained so many key moments such as Charlotteās whole Thing and the episode I struggled to listen to the first time: Simeonās dusty piano keys (my wife actually caught me crying on the relisten oops!). If anyone else is thinking of re-listening, I highly recommend it as I feel like Iāve got such a clearer idea of who the characters are and how they relate to each other. There are still so many little details that pop out on a relisten, itās so worth doing!!
š² @hellofromthehallowoods (203) I canāt believe Iāve waited a whole week and still donāt know who the fiddle is! Itās so lovely that Polly, Yaretzi and Mort have been reunited but, God, the circumstances could be a bit nicer!! it warms my heart so much to listen to the groundskeepers go from being Walt and Riot to being the group it is now! I still fear for them!
š§³ Travelling Light by @monstrousproductions (75) this episode had such a cool cultural concept with regards to what happens to your possessions around the time of your death. I I love that the side eyeing of Trav and Scarry seems not to phase them too much. This ep really made me miss Ćli - I could still hear him say āSystem Administrator!ā in that stressed-out warble we know and love!!
š£ @dustwalkerpod (4) damn, the sound effects did not pull any punches during this episode! Arius definitely has more determined darkness about him than I first anticipated, but it seems like it might be whatās needed to overhaul such a corrupt system. Part of me is sceptical that swapping one patriarch for another, even one with good intentions, is going to be the fix that the system needs - but I canāt wait to find out!
šØļø thank you for so many years of excellent listening @thewhitevault !! I canāt imagine how it feels to finish off such a triumph of storytelling! Really looking forward to what comes next from Fool and Scholar.
š§ @hinaypod (78) ahh! As someone who is moderately scared of clowns this episode was not easy to listen to! I am very fearful for the open explorers who are trapped in that cabin that is not really there!!
š¦š¶ The Harbingers by @gabrielurbinatm (11) another absolutely insane episode!! Amy Stirling continues to demonstrate how to stand up against right wing threats ā of course she had a little bit of help š I was so certain that her boyfriend was going to wait in the dressing room and get ambushed by one of the terrorists that I said out loud in my car āoh my God, heās going to dieā, so Iām glad that didnāt happen! Her show sounded absolutely crazy, I donāt think Iād actually be brave enough to go to one. Sheās so powerful itās a little bit scary!!
Besides today's new episode, we have another big announcement for The Harbingers!
Audacious Machine, the company that produces this show, is powered by listeners. Specifically, by listeners who become supporting members and give the company a small monthly donation to keep them making great audio fiction content - things like The Harbingers, but also World Gone Wrong and Unwell. And members get great rewards, including ad-free versions of all their shows and behind the scenes content. (We just released a making-of piece on the first four episodes of The Harbingers that's over an hour long!)
As we approach the end of Season 1, we're trying to figure out when and how we can make Season 2, to keep telling the story of Adam and Amy. And so, for the next four weeks we're going to be doing a membership drive! And the big thing we'll be doing is releasing something we're calling Harbinger Arcana.
What's Arcana? Basically, it's different pieces of writing about the world of The Harbingers... written from the perspective of someone within the world of the show. It's small documents and publications that give a window into the world, offering up more and different kinds of details than what we can do in a regular episode. And these aren't just for our supporting members - they are publicly and freely available to everyone on our website! And as more people sign up to become supporting members over the next four weeks, we'll be releasing more and more of these pieces of Arcana!
Since we announced that we're doing this last night, we've actually already unlocked the first two pieces of Arcana. In the first one, you can read an excerpt from a military intelligence report written about Adam and his powers during the time, immediately after returning from Antarctica, when he surrendered himself over to the US government.
And then the second one is a magazine profile about Amy and Kris, written shortly after they publicly announced they were seeing each other. It gives a lot more context into Kris's career, their perspectives on art, and what they're like together as a couple.
And we have more things lined up! An interview with Andrea Shepherd, a chapter from a book about Eckerberg, a Harbinger myth with commentary from Julian McCandless... Basically, these cover a lot of the world-building and character details we'd like to include in the show but often can't because Skinner keeps us focused on the case.
BUT! This is a limited time offer! We're doing this drive for four weeks and whatever Arcana doesn't get unlocked in that span? I'm afraid that they'll have to stay in the vault! Maybe forever! So if you want to read all of this stuff (and if you have the means to do it), please consider joining today! Or help us spread the word to all the people you know who are listening to the show, to make sure everyone sees that we're doing this!
Thank you so much, everyone. We've been feeling the love and the support for the show these past few weeks, and it means the world to us. We hope you enjoy Episode 11 and these first two bits of Harbinger Arcana.
What a lot of people outside of Chicago may not realize is that The Beans are a native species to this region and right now is baby season! What you're seeing there is probably just an instance of a young mature The Bean being kept in a secure enclosure, probably due to some kind of injury that's being rehabbed.
In urban Chicago around this time of year if you want to go The Bean spotting you mostly just need to keep an eye out around downtown drugstores for formations like this.
I took this picture myself in a Walgreens. As you can see we have a nice healthy-looking family group consisting of a parent The Bean, several juveniles who will often stay with the parent for several years, and some newborns this year who naturally group up protectively near any large sign reading "Chicago".
The Beans are usually extremely docile and can even be kept as pets once the juveniles separate from their family group, since they are low-maintenance and require only a small flat area such as a desk or bookshelf on which to recline. Fun fact, a group of The Beans such as pictured above is known as a Tchochki!
Are adult The Beans usually around the size of the one in the above photo? The most famous one I know of is about three humans tall. Is that a genetic rarity, or is it more like lobsters?
There's a lot of debate in TheBean Biology circles about the massive The Bean residing in Millennium Park. It's not known why this The Bean chose the park or why it has grown to such gargantuan size. I'm not an expert, I just live here, but I tend to agree with the newer theory that they can regularly grow to massive sizes in the wild, but we only tend to encounter smaller ones because such huge sizes generally only occur in deep freshwater lakes.
It's certainly very unusual to see a The Bean of that size on land. Such a privilege to live in a place where they feel safe enough to take up residence alongside humans.
I felt like I didnāt listen to much this week, but what I did catch was so good!!!Ā
Ā š¢ @redvalleypod (S4E4) Holy F***, Bryonny F***ing Halbech, indeed!!! What insane acting! God knows what theyāre going to have to do to her to help her be stable enough to even consider helping Gordon. Aubrey piecing together the last 40years felt so plausible and so cynical at the same time! Iām literally taking this season as slowly as I can bear to make it last as long as I can!
šØļø @thewhitevault (28) Oh god, Adele made me so sad asking those questions š I think I understand what the plan is but there are so many moving parts, I definitely donāt understand it at all! I do hope we hear more from Amelia though, more Beth Eyre is always the right creative decision for any podcast!!Ā
š¦š¶ The Harbingers by @gabrielurbinatm (9) I donāt even know where to begin with this episode!!! I canāt be the only one thinking that what the Doomscroller did is equal parts amazing and awful. I am a huge Lauren Grace Thompson fan regardless but she did BITS this episode. That monologue to the President was made even more gut-wrenching by her delivery. I havenāt stopped thinking about it! So much of what is scary in the world at the moment can be consider through the prism of this episode. And the shooting was terrifying! The way she started a spell but literally didnāt have time to save herself! Poor Amy! Harbingers, I love you and Iām so glad youāre back!!!Ā
Did you miss us? The long wait is finally over - it's time for our first ever 2026 episode of THE HARBINGERS. And once again, we're making t
The next episode of The Harbingers comes out on Valentine's Day!
But if you want to listen to it EARLY... š
I'm doing a special listening party livestream preview this Weds 02/11 at 8:00 PM Eastern!
These are always a ton of fun - not just a chance to hear the episodes early, but also a chance to hear them with a group and see the way that everyone reacts to the twists and turns of the story. They've turned into one of my favorite parts of this show, and I think this is really one that's gonna cause some screaming in the digital crowd.
So mark your calendars, tune in, and be among the first to hear Episode 9: The Revolution Starts Now!
Hello everybody, I hope weāre all doing well, letās have an Audio Drama Sunday!
š Jessica Best is a gosh dang genius. I want to know exactly how they got ahold of the idea of Storm What Makes Everything Black and White. What a fantastic idea. Anyway, this weekās episode of @worldgonewrongpod was great, and Iām really enjoying this arc where Jamie is engaging in civics and Malik is on a quest to fix his brain. Letās go, making the world a little better.
𦬠newwwwwww album from @woebegonepod! I really don't talk enough about how good the music is for Woe.Begone to begin with, but I love it when there's a new American Bison. It did make me think thoughts and feel feelings, Dylan. Good job.
š Every single episode of @monstrousproductions' Travelling Light is about seeing new things and engaging with new cultures and finding a sense of wonder, and I felt that especially with this latest episode. I have been thinking a lot about how reverence for small things and precious things builds up to a sort of mental fortitude. If you know the value of the small task in front of you, it makes it easier to know the value of everything else, and to keep doing the things that you have the capability of doing. This ship decorated with the multicolored patches of time, repaired with the reverence of a temple, resonated with me. (And also, the second half was delicious, this relationship the traveller is in is so messy.)
š¦ This week I picked up THORB! The Heresies of Radulf Burntwine is exactly the kind of fantasy I like, where our narrator mentions all the cosmology and worldbuilding with a disdain that is both entertaining and really telling to his characterization. The descriptions of classic fantasy monsters as having (treatable!!) diseases are so fascinating. It feels like @vestaclinicpod's fantasy twin. I am early days yet, so I'm excited to learn more about Radulf. Frikkin nerdy weirdo. I love him.
Hey, have a good week, everyone. Look out for each other, okay?