NEW START >>> 0. Cypher — Sabotage Exposed!

ALERT: All must listen to this new overhauled version of "Cypher — Sabotage Exposed!" (v1.2). It's 50% longer and 1000% stronger. How to listen? The award-winning first season is complete and available wherever you listen to podcasts. Its story builds chronologically, so start here with Episode 0, then Episode 1, and proceed in order to savor the full flavor of Season 2 of our comedy sci-fi podcast about the denizens of futuristic dreampunk hellhole NYC. New episodes Thursdays!

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

(This show contains provocative ideas and violence intended for audiences who've reached puberty. To avoid spoilers, we've placed specific content warnings at the very end. ⬇️)

...from The World’s #1 Half-German-Jewish Comedian with Narcolepsy (uncontested); Season 2 (codename: COMPANION) has begun!

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About Episode 0
"Cypher — Sabotage Exposed!" marks the beginning of Season 1 and introduces Kirby Bevins, Lonni Paysinger, and a motley cast of characters as they struggle to survive the predations of the looming technopolistic hellscape they call home in the month before "Pilot" (Episode 1).

An unannounced visitor forces Kirby and the WNAD staff to take drastic measures to rebroadcast the previous, illegally encrypted version of Episode 0 — "Cypher" (v1.1). What follows is a greatly expanded and unencrypted edition (v1.2).

Kirby has an awkward run-in during a Helloween celebration in the park. And, while convalescing, he reveals dreams and nightmares he's been having in the hospital. Has his six-year bout of amnesia come to an end? One of Kirby's dream logs appears to contain clues to actual events. An investigation into it begins.

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
The next chapter ushers listeners into the phantasmagorical side of Neo Amsterdam like never before by way of a recording – for quality assurance purposes – of a customer support call from a denizen trapped in a metaverse gone awry. Cruise the seamy underbelly of a virtual world beyond the veil.

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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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