About this podcast
A jaded lawyer, on the payroll of a nameless corporate entity, travels the backroads of modern day America on a mission to unearth a mysterious object simply called "the Package." The only clues to its whereabouts are a disjointed series of notes and records compiled by an obscure 1980's pulp fiction writer who traveled the same roads half a century ago and wrote under the pen name Dick Nash.
Episodes
- Memo · 15 minThere's the way we think the world operates, the familiar set of assumptions we thought we could safely make. Discovering how wrong we were about all that is one of life's true…
- Oppression · 31 minThe 1980's was a freewheeling time, a safe space for footloose adventures. Anything was possible. But there was also always an unnamable darkness, patiently waiting, right at the…
- Antipathy · 59 minThe year is 1983. One man's thoughtless act of cruelty begets a persistent entity that can plot, target, and act.
- Remediation · 30 minDuring the dawn of acid rain and superfund sites, a disgraced lawyer takes a security guard job at an anomalous waste facility right on the edge of his hometown.
- Typing · 9 minSitting in front of his old Smith Corona portable typewriter, Dick Nash hammers out what he hopes to be the next Great American Novel.
- Episode 9 - Whirlpool · 20 minEnergy, matter, long journeys: past and present both finally spiral down to the zero point, a site of a perpetual ground-state energy.
- Episode 8 - 1979 · 29 minDuring the height of America's fuel crisis, an out of work reporter catches a glimpse of cosmic darkness on a highway at night. In the modern day, the lawyer makes a startling…
- Episode 7 - Turf · 29 minFollowing a decades-old lead and an abandoned stretch of highway, the lawyer stumbles into a tale of darkness, bad luck, and the kind of monsters that spawned in 1980's America.
- Episode 6 - Chronology · 49 minA story surfaces in the papers of Dick Nash relating to a powerful and secretive millionaire's diabolical foray into life extension technologies.
- Episode 5 - Polaroid · 37 minAn old house, sitting abandoned and filled with terrible secrets, may hold the next clue to the whereabouts of the Package.
- Episode 4 - Ascension · 26 minThe lawyer follows Dick Nash's trail to Azide, West Virginia. The town lies in a valley on which industrial and economic success has vast consequences in both Nash's time and our…
- Episode 3 - Frost · 24 minStill on the trail of Dick Nash, the lawyer finds himself in a city on the shores of America's Great Lakes, where the rich and powerful play blithely with forces beyond their…
- Episode 2 - Camp · 21 minThe Package must be located, and Reese Brady has been tasked by his enigmatic employer to find it. The only clues to the whereabouts of the Package are a series of disjointed…
- Episode 1 - Manse · 14 min · Season 1 Episode 1The hunt for Dick Nash takes the lawyer to West Virginia coal country, and the listener back in time to the early 1980's, to a town named for a powerful local family and a…
