Extended Trailer/Transcript

[Static as radio tunes]

Cheyenne Midej: Hey there, y’all. This is Cheyenne Midej, the Jersey Devil, here in Washington, D.C., saying, ‘Don’t touch that dial,’ because you’re tuned into The Weird, a hybrid actual-play audio fiction podcast. Join Ash Delaney-

Ash: I’ve got a perfectly good partner right here.

Megan: And they grab a stuffed alien.

Ash: Greeny here is as loyal and true and has just the most incredible singing voice.

Cheyenne Midej: And Hal Bishop.

Hal: People think I’m a people person. I guess it’s one of the skills I developed at the CIA. I’m very good with people mostly because I’m not a fan of them.

Cheyenne Midej: Two agents working for the Department of Transportation.

Charles as narrator: The end of the hallway gets dimmer as a few of the fluorescent tube lights have burned out. We head to the back of the hallway to a room with a plaque with the words “Department of Weird” written on it in Sharpie.

Cheyenne Midej: To try to track down all things strange...

Megan: There is a skull that is sitting on what looks like a filing cabinet. The skull is not a human skull. If you had to guess, it looks like something human-adjacent.

Cheyenne Midej: Unbelievable…

Ash: He’s got werewolf blood in him.

Hal: Oh yeah, that’s, of course, funny joke. I assume you saw the same thing I did. That’s--yeah yeah yeah, shared hallucination.

Ash: You’re like an adorable baby.

Cheyenne Midej: Terrifying…

Charles: As you’re saying this, he lurches forward again and this time, a claw rips out the middle of his chest.

[Wet crunching and tearing.]

Charles: And you see another arm reaching out through his stomach.

Scottye: Okay.

Cheyenne Midej: And Weird.

Megan: One of the bigger things that makes this an interesting show is, we’re not 100 percent done with the game yet! You get to help with that!

Charles: Yes.

Megan: You, specifically.

Scottye: Not you, Bean Dad, but anyone else.

[laughter]

Megan and Charles together: Fuck you, Bean Dad.

[radio tuning]

Ash: See, Bishop, that’s exactly what I’m talking about. You can’t tell me that DJ isn’t suspicious!

Hal: That DJ isn’t suspicious.

Ash: She’s clearly speaking in some kind of code or mystery-cipher!

Hal: Right… Right. You know what, why don’t you take a nap? I feel like this is gonna be a long drive.

[Theme music fades in]

Charles: You can listen to the Weird every other Wednesday on your podcast app of choice or, if you’d like to get a head start on solving the mystery, you can catch the show Tuesday nights on Loudspeaker.fm.