New from Cursed Media — The Spectral Voyager II: Timeslip Radio, Chapter One: The Vertical Plane

Going back through old spectral voyager eps and was wandering if we ever got to see Cunt Dracula

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Finally got around to listening to the full thing, and honestly, it really took me out of the series hearing the newkirks brought up as "skeptics" . After watching hellier, trying to twist a tin can being in a cave into that being an alien being named indrid cold. Then in season 2 they found out that they were being hoaxed, but continued anyway. They believe and encourage the exact same conspiratorial thinking we've seen often on the podcast, "synchronicities" and such, only their thinking doesn't have any obvious connections to racism, sexism, etc. which hey brownie points to them for that.

Please please PLEASE release this mini series on vinyl haha

I'm convinced that this was all a ploy by the English Teacher, Peter, including the love letter addressed to Debbie and the later deference to Gary.

u got games on thy leems? OK seriously though this spurred me to go and read The Vertical Plane for myself, and you REALLY owe it to yourself to do likewise—Regardless of any oBjEcTiVe tRuTh cLaiMs it is a wonderfully engaging & touching tale about insight into, in 2109's words, "the nature of time and its power," in FAR more than merely the Einstein-and-entropy sense of "time." This episode, as captivating as it is, only relates maybe 1/4 of the story; there's SO much more content (other parties get on the leems), so much more context & content for Lukas/Tomas' messages, and so much more friction & wackiness & personality with 2109 than you hear in the episode, in ways that as much as I loved it (it made me go read the book!) I think invite misunderstanding of the narrative & messages in places (also I would absolutely hang out with 2109, they seem like they have a crazy fun side). At least as told (i.e. unless you wanna pull a different book with more convenient versions of events out of your ass and talk about that instead), any mundane hoaxer would have to be even MORE superhuman than the two "aliens" 2109 & One, but it's so thematically pointed (e.g. the parallels & contrasts between the accusatory religious suspicion of 16th Century authority paired with the accusatory scientific suspicion of 20th Century authority, or the way Ken bluffs Sheriff Fowlehurst with the taking of his soul if he hurts Tomas and then 2109 riffs off the SPR investigators mentioning the same danger to buffalo them into withdrawing their math questions) that ironically, as Ken makes the deliberate space & literary effort to reflect on some of these things, I ended the book with a feeling that surely the WHOLE thing has to be, not a "hoax" per se, but some kind of lovely ARG art project "novel" that merely uses a paranormal experience memoir as a framing device... RIGHT?! I wouldn't even be disappointed—Like oh no help I read a tremendously inventive novel by a group of very talented people who poured in incredible effort & research; you might as well be mad like "Football 17776" isn't really a message from far-future sentient space probes. But then either way, couldn't that be the point? Wouldn't the forms of communication called "art" be the better idiom by which to understand the engineering of such an encounter and the exhortation to then *write a book* about it? Isn't THAT, with things like its poems on walls about the linear & literalist human brain being its own obstacle to understanding, ultimately closer to the kind of subtlety & gracefulness & sophistication we should expect from a genuinely advanced intelligence rather than some version of "take me to your leader" or hints about math proofs? It's so on the nose but don't people constantly complain about real world events so consistently being exactly that? Fuck me dead, I dunno. Does it make a meaningful difference in the end if 40 years ago some people "really" DMed with an eccentric Tudor widower with a lot of love to give if the true point is to illuminate "the nature of time and its power," the transformations both wrought & unwrought by the passing of centuries, the unnoticed emotional guardedness & guile of the modern subject thrown into relief by Renaissance earnestness & vulnerability, the way the same year's worth of time in the same cottage's worth of space can be lived & experienced so differently and yet still be shared, the awareness that time means both gain and loss and yet nothing is really lost at all but merely once more traveling their separate ways? Couldn't THAT be the point of the whole thing *either way*? Again in 2109's words, "WHO KNOWS!!!"

Not sure if I believe or not but I love checking the comments for the angry Travises.

This is incredible

Intro song goin crazy

Spectractular debut episode! Love you guys.

I just keep picturing Julian Fawcett typing these letters with no trousers on.

The National Baby is the time traveller!

Fun story, and obviously fictional! As the academic linguist mentioned, it’s not just a matter of how many old-timey words are used, but also the syntax. And is there any record of Ken actually existing? (Btw, it’s pronounced “Brace-nose”, not “Brass-nose” college).

Really well done. Enjoyed this immensely. Def took my mind off of current affairs

I always thought the ZX Spectrum looked really cool and nifty

If anyone’s interested in a more credulously woo take on the Vertical Dimension case, the host of this podcast basically believes it and relates it to a super woo time-traveler alien/cosmic evolution theory of AI. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/back-from-the-borderline/id1576242501?i=1000752857215

All three episodes so far have been bangers. Thank you guys for this. I'm not getting my hopes up but if you're successful in contacting a ghost I'm going to be really stoked.

Another point against this is that "Lucas'" archaic article words, his thees and thous, aren't consistent, and sound incorrectly used at times. That said, it's a very interesting creative writing exercise.

The first series of the spectral voyager is my favourite podcast series of all time, have signed up to cursed media for this and I am already loving it just as much 🖤

Very fun story!

Ok fine, take more of my money!

Have you seen Small Prophets? New series by Mackenzie Crook, who also wrote Detectorists, and was in the british The Office series. It's very good, you'd probably like it. Similar vibes.

Yeah this is my limit for nonsense and pseudoscience. The fact you guys can't understand this type of bullshit misinformation is what got us MAGA

I know you said, have a little bit of an open mind but if your mind is this open, your brain is falling out

Well, not the most entertaining content in the world, kind of Snoozy and it’s too dumb to be realistic, kind of on the line of being visited by angels and or Jesus Christ with the golden plates, accompanied by John the Baptist and dumb shit like that

I listened to episode 2 and so far it is a bit disappointing how some of the «scientists» attribute pseudoscience not working under rigorous experimental frameworks to «skeptics» instead of the more obvious explanation: that it is not real, and that the effect is imagined by the scientist but when tested it is revealed to be a belief, not science. This is kind of related to conspiracy theories as well and it has a big negative impact. Bomb detectors that do not work and that are sold to the military is a waste of money and a risk to the people being told to use it. I get that it is meant to be fun, but some of the topics covered here uncritically actually have real negative impacts on the world and should be treated the same way you treat qanon and other delusions. Sorry Jake :-(

What a story! I live down the road from Dodleston (have been to the Red Lion many times), and work just outside Hawarden- never thought my neck of the woods would feature on QAA! I've ordered the book to read.

Tomboy first appeared in English literature in 1590, so it's use probably far predates that.

I’m sold, signing up now. My children are starving guys Please stop making great content

I got surprisingly emotional listening to this episode, really well done

I've kept forgetting to subscribe to Cursed Media but you boys have really hooked me with this one. Guess it's time to truly take the QAApill and go all in...

The true ghost here is the Jaguar XJ 6. Those things are profoundly haunted temptresses that have driven many a mans mind into the rocks of madness.

Hell yeah Annie Kelly cameo

Unfair of Brad to say Jake's entire personality is Ghostbusters when 10-15% of Jake's personality is Weezer

Seriously guys, as a long QAA listener, this totally filled the gap that a couple of bros from Aus were doing for decades before they went total manosphere with a new podcast while handing off the show to a couple of American dudes who can't speak or read. You guys have gone from good pilled to weird shit. They went from weird shit (and did it professionally and incredibly well) to bad pilled. I'm so pleased to say I've paid up for more of this - you should have charged more - and love, love, love this branch of your trunk of the tree of... 😂

intro music was a banger

All right, I'm hooked. The balance between empathy, skepticism, and just fun storytelling is spot-on. Finally convinced me to subscribe to Cursed Media now.

I don't like how woo-woo you guys are becoming, it makes the main point of the channel harder to take seriously

My dog Minerva will not stop head tilting at this episode. She does like media, but TV is usually her thing. Wonder if she’s hearing ghosts in the recording clips - that’s when she gets most interested

Man, too bad it's behind a separate subscription. Maybe I'll sub later

Henry VIII was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church December 17, 1538 around the same time Thomas did (not) scratch the pope's name out.

Does anyone have a discount code for the cured media subscription? Or at least know where to get one from?

Hell yeah ! Three new episodes of Spectral Voyager. First one on the Dodleston messages. Heard various takes on this curious case on many podcasts but yours will undoubtedly be the best. Plus a follow - up episode on this and a special Ghostbusters episode 🤗. Thank you,you wonderful people 🫶

Addicted to this ep

Ok I believe there will be no spelling in 2109 but a bit disappointed “he” is still a default pronoun

That story was awesome. I immediately bought the book. Quality ghostslop, no notes.

Dang I thought my notification was for the 3rd episode 😭

Welp, guess i’ll have to subscribe to Cursed Media for sure now. But hey, happy to.

JAKE AND BRAD JAKE AND BRAD JAKE AND BRAD *** in stereo ***

Hell yeaaaa we are so back

being at war with your remote country cottage renovations can only remind me of the husband from Anatomy of a Fall

Banger intro! Especially that opening quote.

jake loves ya

LETS FUCKING GO. We’re so back baybeeeeee