Hell Gate City

Kevin Berrey

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Award-winning comedy sci-fi series about the intertwining lives of a ragtag bunch of dreampunks in a futuristic cyberpunk hellhole NYC; from Kevin Berrey. Season 2 is live. New episodes Blursdays!
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0. Cypher — Sabotage Exposed!

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12/10/20 • 43 min

Start listening to begin the award-winning comedy sci-fi audio series about a ragtag bunch of denizens struggling to survive a cyberpunk hellhole NYC.

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

From The World’s #1 Half-Jewish Comedian with Narcolepsy (uncontested), aka Kevin Berrey. Meanwhile, Season 2 – Codename: COMPANION has begun with Episode 11. So, don't delay.

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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. An awkward run-in with a raccoon during a Helloween celebration lands Kirby in the ER. Has his six-year-long bout of amnesia come to an end? 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.

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Credits

Screaming Panda presents Hell Gate City

Created by Kevin Berrey, who also wrote, performed, edited, and produced “Cypher”; visit http://sleepwithkevin.com & @berrey on socials

Sound design and additional music by Berrey with original score composed by Cheska Navarro.

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Additional sound: Licensed under CC BY 3.0:

hospital_IV_machine.wav by gezortenplotz - https://freesound.org/people/gezortenplotz/sounds/19553/# Footsteps_Cane_hitting_Pavement.wav by Tdude9000 - https://freesound.org/people/Tdude9000/sounds/138328/# Entering a building, riding an elevator by Halfofthesky - https://freesound.org/people/Halfofthesky/sounds/455871/#

Licensed under CC BY 4.0: Mini Robot Movement by EminYILDIRIM - https://freesound.org/people/EminYILDIRIM/sounds/54

Content warnings for this episode include gun violence, gunshot SFX, 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

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ENTERING Hell Gate City

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12/09/20 • 0 min

A radio jockey in the future uses a new gizmo to live-stream his nightmares for ratings. All hell breaks loose.

Hell Gate City is the award-winning comedy fiction audio series about a ragtag bunch of denizens struggling to survive a cyberpunk hellhole NYC.

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(We put specific content warnings at the bottom of show notes or the end of transcripts to avoid spoilers.)

Show Synopsis

On the surface, Hell Gate City is a rollicking audio saga about the community served by a local radio show for the fictional megacity Neo Amsterdam. It’s a genre-bending comedy with a heavy emphasis on cyberpunk themes, especially as applied to questions about the nature of consciousness and dreams. Hence, dreampunk.

News

As of August 2023, all listeners should embark on the listening journey by starting here – the fully reimagined Episode 0. "Cypher – Sabotage Exposed!". Then, proceed chronologically to Episodes 1, 2, 3, and so on.

Season 2 – Codename COMPANION just launched in September 2023 with "Unboxing" (Episode 11). And COMPANION truly kicks into gear with the first 'proper' episode, "Tabula" (Episode 12).

Season 1

Season 2

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Stay rested, dream-hackers. You're going to need it.

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OUT OF WORLD – Free Story in Song 🔗 in Notes 'til Ep. 21 Drops

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01/19/24 • 15 min

⁠1. For a limited time, rock out to the full version of "Moms of Mars V2" – https://bit.ly/MoMV2

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4. Limited seats! RSVP (for free) to Celebrate with Us at the 3rd Anniversary Stream Party (on Kevin's Birthday!!!) – featuring Part 1 of a full show listen-through with live director's commentary and a Q&A (email Qs to hellgatecity AT proton DOT me!).

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Credits

Screaming Panda presents Hell Gate City Created by Kevin Berrey, who also wrote, performed, edited, and produced “Cowardice”; visit kevinplease.com & @berrey on socials; sound design and music by Mr. Berrey. . . CAUTION: Stop scrolling now if you wish to avoid spoilers in the content warnings. . . . . Content warnings for this episode include: accidentally implied bestiality, implied domestic violence, psychological terror, financial coercion and oppression, assault, various alleged 'white collar' crimes against humanity, the annihilation of all humankind

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S2 Special: Me and Meryl in Muskrat Marsh

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01/01/23 • 7 min

This bonus episode features a PSA from Kirby in a local park and some tomfoolery. It precedes season two proper but is cut from the same cloth. And it's here to tide you over as the next season's story works its way through the machine.

Warning: features provocative and violent content with bodily fluids, a firearm, and a baseball bat.

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Credits

Screaming Panda presents Hell Gate City

Created by Kevin Berrey, who also wrote, performed, scored, sound designed, and produced “Me and Meryl in Muskrat Marsh”; say hi – kevinplease.com & @berrey on socials

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Licensed by CC BY 4.0

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7. The Cyber-Purge

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03/19/21 • 21 min

It’s the third month of the year, so you know what that means. The Governing Authority Group’s (GAG) annual Cyber-Purge is upon us. Watch your partners and your pets. I know I did. If you’ve seen a dusky blue teacup poodle, caged or otherwise, please alert the station. It’s been a tough year all around, and to think, we kicked off the Kraken-virus plague during last year’s Cyber-Purge without even knowing it. Many a cyborg fell to a dweller’s knife that day. All that, only for the poor under-tunnel dweller and her family to fall ill to the Kraken by week’s end. Unbelievable. If you’re cyber-enhanced, look out, cybo. If you’re a normal organic person, be on your guard, orgo. And, please, let’s all honor our pledges to the nannies and mannies who’ve stayed home to guard progeny during this trying time. One badass way to do that is to join our club. First, it’s decidedly pro-nanny. Second, it’s chock-full o’ special benefits for members who are down for the cause. Lastly, it’s easy and practically painless to be a patron and help us keep making the show. Where's the secret clubhouse? Anyone worth their sodium supply will be lurking here. Warning: this episode contains provocative and violent content intended for listeners with ≥ adolescent maturity. Thank you for supporting funny sci-fi that doesn't suck. Connect Escape social media hell – sign up for my email list here. Hack into Kirby's cyberdeck: http://hellgatecity.com/ Join our Discord Server! Join our Reddit Community! Follow Twitter - bit.ly/hgcctwt Instagram - bit.ly/hgccins Tumblr - bit.ly/hgcctmb Facebook - bit.ly/hgccfbk Credits Screaming Panda presents Hell Gate City Created by Kevin Berrey Written, performed, edited, and produced by Kevin Berrey, online at kevinplease.com and on socials @berrey Sound Design and Audio Post Production by Dom Storrs, on the web at domstorrs.com, and on social media @dom_storrs Original music composed by Cheska Navarro, online at cheskanavarro.com and on social media @cheska_yo Additional music by the ever-talented Kevin Durr, on the web at hearandnowsounds.com, and on socials @kev_durr – licensed use of songs “First Things” and “Be Calm With” And music by the virtuosic Aaron Jones, on the web at soundcloud.com/thecandlemambo, and on socials @thecandlemambo – licensed use of song “Cloud City Intro”

4. Hot Metal Dobermans

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02/05/21 • 16 min

Dear hell-hackers: I, Kirby Bevins, blame Mayor Boccaccio's Blackguard Cyber-Squad for intercepting Episode 04 through a sidewall. Do not be alarmed! We circumvented the fire-block. Hang tight and stay vigilant. Be ready for the new microchipped vaccine – it packs a secret punch.

Speaking of secrets, guess our guest today and you could win tickets to see the Vapor Games. Also, we feature a world-exclusive note from Qwerty Ping, a noted domestic terrorist-cum-interim Congressional Speaker. Also, just listen. Or, don't if you're sensitive about a little political satire. It's going to be a digi-doozy. -Kirby If you like the show and want me to keep making it, you might blow your brainlink to bits just listening to the cornucopia of weekly bonus audio tales you'll get when you join the Inner Legion here: https://bit.ly/hgc-patreon

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Reddit – ⁠https://www.reddit.com/r/hellgatecity/⁠ Credits Screaming Panda presents Hell Gate City Created by Kevin Berrey, who also wrote, performed, and produced “Hot Metal Dobermans”; visit kevinplease.com & @berrey on socials. Score and sound design by Berrey with additional music, as follows. Songs licensed (with infinite gratitude) from the following geniuses you should know: “Star Talk” - https://soundcloud.com/thecandlemambo/star-talk by Aaron Jones “Crosstalk (Exploded View)” https://soundcloud.com/thecandlemambo/crosstalk-exploded-view by Aaron Jones Follow: https://soundcloud.com/thecandlemambo “Lizdad” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpLJQQ2wXS0 by RE Follow: https://rerecording.squarespace.com/ “w00t” - https://bobostertag.bandcamp.com/album/w00t by composer Bob Ostertag and artist John Cooney Used under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Follow: https://bobostertag.bandcamp.com/ Song : Plinian - Retro Gaming Version [Royalty Free] Music provided and produced by LonePeakMusic from Freebies, released July 5, 2019 Produced & Composed by Guillaume Brouhon https://lonepeakmusic.bandcamp.com/track/plinian-retro-gaming-version Used under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode For more information, visit http://hellgatecity.com.

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Intermission II – Threat from Within

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11/08/23 • 22 min

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Content warnings: This episode is rather different than our usual fare and has an extended segment discussing some personal matters about the author. Also, Nazis.

Credits:

Created by Kevin Berrey with an outro theme song by Cheska Navarro

For more info, visit http://hellgatecity.com

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11. Unboxing

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09/06/23 • 17 min

"Unboxing" kickstarts Season 2 of Hell Gate City with a question. What would you do if you found a recording of a customer support phone call placed by someone you know after they died? Who is the mysterious customer from call record 3715? And who sent the creepy Polaroid and the stack of 50 discs to a rando teenager in Queens, NY? In this introductory episode, Kirby stands in as Virgil, guiding listeners and laying the groundwork for a cyber-odyssey into a phantasmagorical underworld like no other. Prepare to get prepared for S2 (codename: COMPANION).

The Glitch (in the Matrix) bonus audio story that goes with this chapter is titled “Boxed In.” It’s available on the show’s Patreon. New episodes Thursdays!

(To avoid spoilers, one must scroll to the end for content warnings.)

It's free to👂 but not free to make. Get the weekly Glitch bonus story when you 🤜 subscribe ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/hellgatecity

About the Show On the surface, Hell Gate City is an epic audio drama offered in the style of a local radio show for the fictional metropolis of Neo Amsterdam. But as the show’s host plumbs his unconscious mind using a Cyber Lucidity Dream-streamer on-air, he encounters a sinister web of evil stretching from his past into the present. Will he pick up the thread and follow it into the unknown, or stick with the program?
Season 1 After a dream-streaming device intended to increase ratings accidentally broadcasts his repressed memories of an eldritch murder, radio jockey Kirby Bevins embarks on a journey where he must overcome dark forces and folly to solve the crime before he becomes the next victim.
Season 2 What would you do if you found a recording of a customer support phone call placed by someone you know *after* they died? Season 2 shares the footage.
Content warnings for this episode include themes of death and the afterlife, alienation, medical neglect, crippling insurance debt, mention of serial killers, murder by a demon beast, abandonment, abduction, corporate malfeasance, body-snatching, and nonconsensual mind-swapping.
Answer this week's question for Episode 11 on Spotify or using our email 📧 [email protected]:
What caused the "blue light over New York” in December of 2018? (Wrong answers only!)

NINE II MIDNIGHT - Terrors of the Real World

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10/31/22 • 62 min

It seems like the terrors of the real world are most appealing to you and for good reason...

On the Eve of Halloween, a dozen storytellers sneak inside the abandoned Darklight Carnival grounds to share a chilling batch of stories in two varieties. This year they split up to uncover the fears that lurk within and horrors that walk among us.

One group will head to the Ferris Wheel to tell tales of real-world terror. The other will venture into the Funhouse to spin yarns of the frightening spirit world. Which path will you embark on first?

Nine II Midnight is a collaborative storytelling event between 12 podcasts:

Hell Gate City

Malevolent

Nowhere, On Air

Out of the Ashes

Parkdale Haunt

The Cellar Letters

The Dead Letter Office of Somewhere, Ohio

The Night Post

The Storage Papers

The Town Whispers

Wake of Corrosion

WOE.BEGONE

CREDITS & CONTENT WARNINGS

CW: General horror, swearing throughout

Produced by Harlan Guthrie

Master edit by Harlan Guthrie

'Nine II Midnight' written by Harlan Guthrie.

Performed by Harlan Guthrie, Dylan Griggs, Kevin Berrey, Shaun Pellington, Rae Lundberg, Vincent C. Davis, Jess Syratt, Alex Nursall, Rat Grimes, Jeremy Enfinger, Nathan Lunsford, Cole Weavers, and Jamie Petronis.

Pick a path on October 30th at midnight, and keep your wits about you.

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TRANSCRIPTS ARE AVAILABLE HERE

CREDITS:

MALEVOLENT

“Scratching” was written, directed, performed, and edited by Harlan Guthrie.

CW: insects, gore

Malevolent

Website: www.malevolent.ca

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THE CELLAR LETTERS

“Get Up” was written, edited, and performed by Jamie Petronis, and features Brandon Jones as the Newscaster

CW: general horror, mouth noises, licking sounds

Website: www.thecellarletters.com

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WAKE OF CORROSION

“The Quiet Corridor” was written, performed, edited and mixed by Shaun Pellington.

CW: sounds of bone crunching/cracking, mild terror, explicit language

Website: wakeofcorrosion.com

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THE DEAD LETTER OFFICE OF SOMEWHERE, OHIO

“Voices in the Vents” was written, performed, and scored by Rat Grimes (they/them).

CWs: fire, home invasion

Website: www.somewhereohio.com

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THE TOWN WHISPERS

“Bella” was written, Directed, Editing by Cole Weavers

CW: body horror, sleepwalking, nightmares, evil pets

Website: www.thetownwhispers.com

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PARKDALE HAUNT

“Who Goes?” was written by Alex Nursall and Emily Kellogg, with engineering and sound design by Alex Nursall.

Performed by Emily Kellogg, Alex Nursall, Ian Boddy, and Harlan Guthrie.

CW: ghosts/hauntings, home invasion

Website: www.parkdalehaunt.com

NINE II MIDNIGHT - Prologue: Of which are you most afraid…

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10/01/22 • 8 min

On the Eve of Halloween, 14 storytellers make their way to the Darklight Carnival and share horrific tales of mystery and murder... but not all is as it seems.

This October 30th, the feed you’re listening to now, along with all other participating shows, will post two episodes simultaneously for Nine II Midnight. One episode will feature tales that are baked in reality with terrors that may be a part of our waking life. The other episode will share the horror of the most esoteric and spiritual side of the dark and terrifying.

NINE II MIDNIGHT is another collaborative storytelling event, and sequel to last year’s episode. Both episodes are comprised of stories written and produced by the Nine II Midnight participants:

The Dead Letter Office of Somewhere, Ohio