NEW START >>> 0. Cypher (Sabotage Exposed!)

ALERT: All denizens are ordered to listen to this new (and final) overhauled version of "Cypher" (v1.2) published 8/31/2023. It's 50% longer and 1000% more satisfying. Relish our award-winning sci-fi comedy podcast about the denizens of futuristic dreampunk hellhole NYC today. New episodes Thursdays!

In Neo Amsterdam, a radio host's live-streamed nightmares come true...

From 'The World’s #1 German-Jewish Comedian with Narcolepsy (uncontested)'; Season 2 (codename: COMPANION) starts on 8/31/2023.

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This show contains provocative ideas and violence intended for audiences who've reached puberty. Scroll to the end for specific content warnings.
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About Cypher
Ep. 0 introduces Kirby Bevins, Lonni Paysinger, a raccoon dog, and a motley cast of characters as they struggle to survive the predations of the looming hellhole they call home in the month before Ep. 1 – Pilot.

About the Show
On the surface, Hell Gate City is an epic audio drama offered in the style of a local radio show for the fictional metropolis of Neo Amsterdam. But as your host plumbs his unconscious mind using a Cyber Lucidity Dream-streamer, he encounters a sinister web of evil stretching from his past into the present. Will he pick up the thread and follow it into the unknown?

Season 1
After a dream-streaming device intended to increase ratings accidentally broadcasts his repressed memories of an eldritch murder, radio jockey Kirby Bevins must overcome dark forces and folly to solve the crime before he becomes the next victim.

Season 2
Meanwhile, what would you do if you found a recording of a customer support phone call placed by a family member after they died? Season 2 shares the footage…. Upon awakening in a surreal waiting room for the virtual afterlife, a disgraced former denizen of Hell Gate City suffering from intense phantasmagoric visions must stay sane while on hold with customer service until someone helps him escape, or else get stuck in limbo for eternity.

Credits
Screaming Panda presents Hell Gate City
Created by Kevin Berrey, who also wrote, performed, edited, and produced “Cypher”; visit kevinplease.com & @berrey on socials
Sound design and additional music by Berrey with original score composed by Cheska Navarro.
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Additional sound:
Licensed under CC BY 3.0:

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Content warnings for this episode include gun violence, gunshot sound effects, physical attacks, audible injuries, animal and demon attacks on humans, humans fending off a rabid animal, alienation, amnesia, mental illness, gaslighting, hospital drug abuse, neglect, job and health insurance loss, emotional abuse, civil rights abuses, state-sponsored violence, censorship, and coercion