#almelem

Our Wars Have Ended started this week! And I haven’t listened to it yet (because I was reading Plain Bad Heroines instead). I’ll listen to it next week. 💀 John Carpenter Presents Something Wicked — S01: E01. NO BODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION: from the episode title, I was expecting this to be a comedy (because the director of The Thing (1982) is known to be a barrel of laughs, clearly). It’s actually a pretty serious horror apparently inspired by real events. Set in New Orleans, it follows a young historian/tour guide and a grizzled senior investigator as they reluctantly investigate supernatural crimes together. It’s a little like a serious version of Victoriocity.

🌊 Gospels of the Flood — 01. Epistle to the Faithful - 03. Terrible Majesty: this one is interesting, and very other-worldly. It’s a mini-series about a priest in a flooding world, who loses his faith and seeks out the priests he trained with to see if they still believe. On the way he finds a crumbling lighthouse, a very creepy church and various other things. Check the trigger warnings before listening.

👹 @theredactedunit — S1E15: Gnome - S1E16: Don’t Eat the Seeds: yess, Redacted is back! So far Eli has made up one terrible excuse for an aberration (that’s our… toddler), Sloane and Dr Danse are still fighting and Eli has been called an aberrant fruit. Always a good and slightly ominous time with the redacted unit.

💣 Time:Bombs — Pink Mist - Countdown: if it wasn’t for one other podcast, this would have been my favourite audio drama this week. Time:Bombs has foreshadowing, character development and half the cast of Wolf 359! The dialogue was quick and funny and Simon Teller was very cool. If you liked Brooklyn 99 or you want to spend 55 minutes listening to the exploits of a bomb squad on New Year’s Eve (when business is booming), you have to check out Time:Bombs.

🪦 Something’s Amiss at Juniper’s House — The Day I Didn’t See Juniper: Oof, Finley’s still reeling from what happened at Juniper’s house. And things are getting even weirder with Sage! I feel bad for Wyatt, who actually noticed something odd only to get shut down about it.

✝️ Almelem — Episode One: The Baptist - Episode Five: The Beginning: and this is my favourite podcast of the week. Almelem destroyed me. It’s a historical comedy about two con-artists creating a messiah. It’s about people who truly believe in Jesus and people who just want to get rid of the Romans. It’s about friendship and belief and being a better person. It’s perfect for people who are religious (in a theologically spicy way), people who are atheist and people who like Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. Jesus does not have a single line in this. I cried.

I have made some edits and new additions to the timeline thanks to the suggestions by people in the notes. I’d like to thank @dihalectics, @chemicallywrit, @224bbaker, @roguemaker, @measureyourlifeincake  @geminicollisionworks, @monstrousagonies, @sinkholepodcast, and once again @kingmakerpod for inspiring the idea.

Also how long dod it take you to listen to 215 audio dramas

You've unlocked the one I started listening to yesterday, and therefore the only one that's not alphabetical! Almelem is the story of an apprentice loan shark/con artist in ancient Palestine who's taken with the teachings of this new prophet, John the Baptist. It's an outsiders' look at the story of Jesus and I'm kind of obsessed. It's a Mac Rogers joint, if y'all know you know.

I listen to podcasts at my day job, so...something like 5 hours a day is taken up by fiction podcasts? (The rest is nonfiction.) That's been the last year or so, and before that I listened to audio dramas more like a normal person for like five years. A while, it's taken me a while.