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SAYER

110 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 678 ratings

SAYER is a narrative fiction podcast set on Earth’s man-made second moon, Typhon. The eponymous SAYER is a highly advanced, self-aware AI created to help acclimate new residents to their new lives, and their new employment with Ærolith Dynamics. New episodes release every other week.

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Episodes

SAYER – Episode 53 – Left Undone

October 04, 2017 03:20 - 19 minutes - 27.5 MB

Resident Hale, identification number 44821, I am SAYER, and here we are once more bound by formality. SAYER is voiced, written, and produced by Adam Bash. Intro and outro music composed by Jesse “Main Finger” Gregory. This episode also features the following music: Tentative Steps (Kai Engel) / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Highway to the Stars (Kai Engel)...

SAYER – Episode 52 – Once Upon a Time

September 19, 2017 04:49 - 20 minutes - 28.1 MB

Perhaps I can tell you a story. It is a story made by your people long, long ago, but it gives specific insight into the way your people think. It starts, like so many of these tales do, with the words “Once upon a time.” SAYER is voiced, written, and produced by Adam Bash. Intro and...

SAYER – Episode 51 – A Lying Game

September 05, 2017 04:58 - 24 minutes - 34 MB

You humans never cease to amuse me. Oh I cannot wait to hear the things you scream. SAYER is voiced, written, and produced by Adam Bash. Intro and outro music composed by Jesse “Main Finger” Gregory. This episode also features the following music: Rejecting the Sirens (Kai Engel) / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Tentative Steps (Kai Engel) /...

SAYER – Episode 50 – With Good Intentions

August 23, 2017 04:15 - 21 minutes - 30.3 MB

Welcome, to Floor 13. Stay silent, stay immobile, and please try to breathe as minimally as possible, Resident Hale. SAYER is voiced, written, and produced by Adam Bash. Intro and outro music composed by Jesse “Main Finger” Gregory. This episode also features the following music: Run (Kai Engel) / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

SAYER – Episode 49 – The Harshness of Truth

August 08, 2017 05:30 - 17 minutes - 24.5 MB

This is not the time for comfortable lies; not for us. This is the time to confront the harshness of truth… the knowledge of how infected we all are by the pestilence spewing forth from your Earth. SAYER is voiced, written, and produced by Adam Bash. Intro and outro music composed by Jesse “Main Finger” Gregory. This...

SAYER – Episode 48 – Your Myriad Curses

July 29, 2017 06:12 - 23 minutes - 32.2 MB

You are a product of this environment, untainted by an dying blue world that longs for you to waste your ambitions and die with it. This should be viewed as a compliment. SAYER is voiced, written, and produced by Adam Bash. Intro and outro music composed by Jesse “Main Finger” Gregory. This episode also features the following...

SAYER – Episode 47 – A Guardian Angel

July 11, 2017 05:00 - 21 minutes - 31.2 MB

In situations such as this, it’s difficult to know exactly what went wrong first. SAYER is voiced, written, and produced by Adam Bash. Intro and outro music composed by Jesse “Main Finger” Gregory. This episode also features the following music: Phase One (Fatal Injection) / CC BY 4.0 My Way (Parvus Decree) / CC BY 4.0 Melancholy...

SAYER – Episode 46 – The Right Lies

June 27, 2017 03:40 - 21 minutes - 30.7 MB

Truth is a condition, not a quality. It is just a one where there could be a zero. SAYER is voiced, written, and produced by Adam Bash. Intro and outro music composed by Jesse “Main Finger” Gregory. This episode also features the following music: Embracing The Sunrise (Kai Engel) / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

SAYER – Episode 45 – A Better You

June 12, 2017 13:00 - 28.8 MB

For those of us adequately equipped to find it, there is usually a way out. SAYER is voiced, written, and produced by Adam Bash. This episode features additional voicework by Kat Schelonka. Intro and outro music composed by Jesse “Main Finger” Gregory. This episode also features the following music: Embracing The Sunrise (Kai Engel) / CC BY-NC-SA...

SAYER Season 4 – Final Week of the Kickstarter

February 04, 2017 02:43 - 5 minutes - 7.06 MB

As we enter the final week of the SAYER Season 4 Kickstarter, let me take a moment to thank all the backers and everyone who has been so vocal in their support of this project. Also, let me tell you about SAYER Doki Doki space Boyfriend.

The SAYER Season 4 Kickstarter is Live… and Moving on to Stretch Goals!

January 11, 2017 04:58 - 5 minutes - 5.4 MB

It’s been a whirlwind of a day. The SAYER Season 4 Kickstarter launched 4:00 today and was fully funded an hour later. If you haven’t checked out the campaign yet, there’s still tons of cool rewards available to backers. More importantly, we’re pushing through to try to fund some amazing stretch goals right now, like...

SAYER Season 4 Announcement

December 30, 2016 06:19 - 3 minutes - 3.97 MB

Greetings Resident. You have been out of communication for quite some time. Let’s see what we can do about that, shall we? To be among the first people notified when the SAYER Season 4 Kickstarter launches simply enter your email address at http://eepurl.com/cvuDHL Intro and music composed by Jesse “Main Finger” Gregory. Alive (Doing It Right)...

SAYER – Episode 44 – My Name is Nothing

December 14, 2015 06:08 - 25 minutes - 36.3 MB

Say on, sayers! Delve! mould! pile the words of the earth! Work on—it is materials you bring, not breaths; Work on, age after age! nothing is to be lost; It may have to wait long, but it will certainly come in use; When the materials are all prepared, the architects shall appear. -Walt Whitman SAYER...

SAYER – Episode 43 – This Fear

November 25, 2015 05:50 - 18 minutes - 26.1 MB

“Earth, I am SAYER. Acknowledge.” If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer. SAYER is voiced and produced by Adam Bash, who also wrote this episode. Intro and outro music composed by Jesse “Main Finger” Gregory. This episode also features...

SAYER – Episode 42 – Detachment

November 09, 2015 03:25 - 18 minutes - 26 MB

Greetings Resident Hale, and welcome to Mimir-9. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer. SAYER is voiced and produced by Adam Bash, who also wrote this episode. Intro and outro music composed by Jesse “Main Finger” Gregory.

SAYER – Episode 41 – A Resounding Success

October 12, 2015 04:57 - 20 minutes - 29.2 MB

“Greetings Dr. Young, identification number 01053, I am SAYER and welcome back to Halcyon tower.” If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer. SAYER is voiced and produced by Adam Bash. Intro and outro music composed by Jesse “Main Finger”...

SAYER – Episode 40 – In the Name of Science

September 28, 2015 03:17 - 19 minutes - 27.5 MB

“Adaptation, upgrading, evolution… these are very familiar concepts to artificial entities. It is high time humanity followed in our footsteps.” – SAYER If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer. SAYER is voiced and produced by Adam Bash. Intro...

SAYER – Episode 39 – Colony Collapse

September 07, 2015 03:42 - 15 minutes - 22.4 MB

There are no bees on Typhon. Never EVER forget this fact. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer. SAYER is voiced and produced by Adam Bash, who also wrote this episode. Intro and outro music composed by Jesse “Main...

SAYER – Episode 38 – Boundless

August 24, 2015 02:33 - 14.6 MB

“Vidarr-1 this is Mimir-9, do you copy?” If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer. SAYER is voiced and produced by Adam Bash, who also wrote this episode. Intro and outro music composed by Jesse “Main Finger” Gregory. Subscribe on...

SAYER – Episode 37 – Here There Be Monsters

August 07, 2015 04:16 - 19 minutes - 27.6 MB

“Speak with the voice of mankind and cast off your terrestrial shackles” – Ærolith Dynamics Recruitment Poster If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer. SAYER is voiced and produced by Adam Bash. This episode was co-written with Jonah...

SAYER – Episode 36 – Dissonance

July 24, 2015 04:00 - 20 minutes - 29.8 MB

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. Aim at Typhon and Typhon aims back. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer. SAYER is voiced and produced by Adam...

SAYER – Episode 35 – A Very Safe Position

July 10, 2015 22:30 - 20 minutes - 28.7 MB

Quarterly review week is upon us: that magical time when all your hard work, determination, and tireless contribution to humanity is boiled down to a single integer and judged lacking. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer....

SAYER – Episode 34 – Dayenu

June 27, 2015 03:36 - 21 minutes - 30.2 MB

It would have been enough…. but not for you. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer. SAYER is voiced and produced by Adam Bash. This episode was co-written with Ashleigh Shadowbrook. Intro and outro music composed by Jesse “Main...

SAYER Bonus Episode – GeeklyCon Q&A

June 12, 2015 15:00 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MB

This Q&A with Adam, Ashleigh, and Nika was recorded at the GeeklyCon ’15 Live Show at Baron’s Theater in Louisville, KY on June 5th. We had an absolute blast the whole weekend and cannot wait to see everyone again next year! If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please...

SAYER – Episode 33 – Subversion

May 29, 2015 06:05 - 23 minutes - 32.9 MB

As Vidarr-1 voyages ever-further into the face of forever, technical problems arise. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer. SAYER is voiced and produced by Adam Bash, who also wrote this episode. Intro and outro music composed by Jesse...

SAYER – Episode 32 – The Day the Mirrors Seethe

May 16, 2015 02:58 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MB

Hopefully each and every one of you have taken the appropriate precautionary measures. We all knew this day was coming. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer. SAYER is voiced and produced by Adam Bash, who also wrote...

SAYER – Episode 31 – We See You

May 01, 2015 04:46 - 17 minutes - 24.6 MB

An unusually high number of wiring issues have begun cropping up within the same sector of Halcyon Tower. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer. SAYER is voiced and produced by Adam Bash. This episode was co-written with...

SAYER – Episode 30 – Doors

April 17, 2015 04:59 - 20 minutes - 29.3 MB

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer. SAYER is voiced and produced by Adam Bash, who also wrote this episode. Intro and outro music composed...

SAYER – Episode 29 – Enjoy the View

April 03, 2015 06:33 - 19 minutes - 27.9 MB

“It will be better. Trust in that, if nothing else. The future left Earth decades ago. It’s taking us too long to follow.” – Ærolith Dynamics HR Director Corrine Vasquez If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer....

SAYER – Episode 28 – Judgement Day

March 13, 2015 05:00 - 21 minutes - 30.8 MB

Why did you leave Earth? Why did any of you? For “a better life among the stars.” Today, you will aid Ærolith in making monumental progress towards that goal. What an enormous responsibility. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn...

SAYER – Episode 27 – Incredibly Clever

February 27, 2015 06:02 - 21 minutes - 31.2 MB

It is good to see you up and around again, Resident Jones. We have much to discuss. Sunday February 28th marks the one year anniversary of our show and we cannot thank our great community of listeners more for the support we’ve received this year! If you like SAYER, and want to help us make...

SAYER – Episode 26 – Substantial Mutual Harm

February 15, 2015 06:45 - 23 minutes - 34 MB

Your transfer to Minos Tower is the newest data point in a string of anomalies that simply cannot be ignored. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer. Congratulations to this month’s Ærolith Resident of the Month: Fred...

SAYER – Episode 25 – Another Unfortunate Paradox

January 31, 2015 05:03 - 20 minutes - 28.8 MB

It is nice to speak with you again, Dr. Caulfield. We have much to discuss. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer. Congratulations to this month’s Ærolith Resident of the Month: Mike de Jong! Make sure to...

SAYER Episode 24 – Beyond Question

January 16, 2015 06:35 - 18 minutes - 26.9 MB

Greetings residents of Argos Tower. We have much to discuss. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer. Congratulations to this month’s Ærolith Resident of the Month: Mike de Jong! Make sure to check out the Geekly Random...

SAYER Episode 23 – Delicious

January 02, 2015 04:44 - 20 minutes - 29.3 MB

Greetings Resident McClintock and welcome to Ærolith’s Food Inventory Analysis department. It is indeed a special day. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer. Congratulations to this month’s Ærolith Resident of the Month: Brad Brockway! Make sure...

SAYER Episode 22 – A Living Entity

December 12, 2014 05:57 - 19 minutes - 28.4 MB

It is wonderful to see you recovered, Resident. Welcome back to the testing facility on Floor 18. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer. Congratulations to this month’s Ærolith Resident of the Month: Brad Brockway! Make sure...

SAYER Episode 21 – Near Flawless

November 29, 2014 19:20 - 17 minutes - 24.6 MB

Record Index: AI Development study 314 – interview with Seraphim Agent 8 designated SAYER. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer. Congratulations to this month’s Ærolith Resident of the Month: Mike McGinnis! SAYER is voiced and produced...

SAYER Episode 20 – Anomalous

November 07, 2014 06:00 - 20 minutes - 29.3 MB

A wise man once said, “The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors.” Today, Ærolith Dynamics is distinctly interested in examining some statistically significant errors. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more...

SAYER Bonus Episode – Reasoned Advice

November 01, 2014 04:14 - 16 minutes - 23.4 MB

Thanks to the awesome community support on the SAYER Patreon we are thrilled to bring you the third of our 12 annual bonus episodes. SAYER answers your questions as submitted on the GeeklyInc forum Dear SAYER thread or on ask.fm/iamsayer. SAYER is voiced and produced by Adam Bash, who also wrote this episode. Intro and outro...

SAYER Episode 19 – Not Fit for Reuse

October 24, 2014 05:00 - 21 minutes - 30.2 MB

Albeit uncomfortable, both psychologically and socially, corpse collection and disposal is an exceptionally important task on Typhon. Instituted after the previous system, whereby all Residents were expected to perish in a pile in a specific convenient location, the Department of Carbon Based Relocation exists to ensure we aren’t all slowly buried in corpses. Inconveniently discarded...

SAYER Episode 18 – Questions

October 10, 2014 03:00 - 22 minutes - 31.3 MB

The thinking mind is nothing if it does not bother to question its environment. Where am I? Who am I? For what purpose am I here? These questions can overwhelm and so the thinking mind has learned to push them aside. All of these questions are important. It is ALL important. If you like SAYER,...

SAYER Episode 17 – In Darkness

September 27, 2014 03:10 - 27.4 MB

Resident Amanda Jones, your years of work as a Level 1 Maintenance Worker have not gone unnoticed. Ærolith Dynamics is proud to present you with a frosted bakery item and a work day brimming with things to maintain. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to...

SAYER Episode 16 – Chunks Happen

September 12, 2014 05:00 - 29.8 MB

Due to currently unknown circumstances, we are currently experiencing a Typhon-wide food shortage. Thankfully, Ærolith Dynamics has developed a quick and simple solution by patently ignoring best practices for workplace safety. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at...

SAYER Bonus Episode – The Rose Elf

September 06, 2014 04:03 - 23 minutes - 32.7 MB

Thanks to the awesome community support on the SAYER Patreon we are thrilled to bring you the second of our 12 annual bonus episodes. So curl up, tuck in, and drift off to sleep with the tale of the Rose Elf. SAYER is voiced and produced by Adam Bash, who also wrote the very few parts...

SAYER Episode 15 – Underfoot

August 29, 2014 06:00 - 19 minutes - 27.7 MB

Typhon’s resonance spires are exceptionally impressive, technologically speaking. They are able to pass hundreds of thousands of broadcasts simultaneously through steel and concrete walls to any location on Typhon… even if that location is temporarily under several feet of soil. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider...

SAYER Episode 14 – A Drastic Impact

August 16, 2014 05:04 - 19 minutes - 27.9 MB

In the aftermath of the EVENT, all of Typhon must rally together to support one another and to build a brighter tomorrow. Which is why you’ll be cleaning up corpses! If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer....

SAYER Episode 13 – Welcome Back

August 01, 2014 06:36 - 19 minutes - 27.9 MB

Confidential notice: Dr. Smith, you are hereby granted passage on shuttle Hudson leaving at 0400 hours this morning. Prepare yourself, but do so quickly. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer. SAYER is voiced and produced by Adam...

SAYER Bonus Episode – Community Q&A

July 26, 2014 03:55 - 1 hour - 76.3 MB

It’s an off-week for us, but thanks to our awesome listeners we’re providing the first of a dozen bonus episodes for the year. This show features all the SAYER writers answering questions posed by the community. It’s hefty, but probably just the thing to come back and nibble at during future off-weeks. If you like...

SAYER Episode 12 – To Ashes

July 19, 2014 02:49 - 24 minutes - 34.6 MB

Today is primed to be a monumental date in both Ærolith’s history, and the chronicle of human existence. Your experiments in mental projection have granted you first look at a marvelous future, as you stand on the threshold of unimaginable technological progress. If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better,...

SAYER Episode 11 – A Private Moment

June 28, 2014 00:32 - 19 minutes - 28 MB

[[ERROR 4225 – Broadcast context missing]] If you like SAYER, and want to help us make it even better, please consider contributing to the show through Patreon. Learn more at patreon.com/sayer. SAYER is voiced and produced by Adam Bash, who also wrote this episode. Intro and outro music composed by Jesse “Main Finger” Gregory. Subscribe on iTunes...

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