Hubris: A 24-Hour Podcast Project
by Mr. Hubris
Hubris is a labor of love from a chaotic group of podcasters who decided a 24-hour podcast challenge sounded like a good idea. We assembled several Creative Teams from a large group of podcasters from around the world, made up of writers, audio producers, and voice actors to create a single-episode fiction podcast within a 24-hour period from start to finish.
Episodes
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11.3: Honk Shoo
Round 11, Team Hubris Transcript here. Content Warning for being eepy. This episode was written by Anne Baird. It was directed by the Hubris of our hearts, with dialogue editing by Anne Baird and sound design by Tal Minear. The transcript was done by Anne Baird. The production of this episode was...
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11.2: Tempest Mycelium
Round 11, Team 2: Crew of the Tempest Transcript here. Content Warnings for a brutal reality check for the listener. The space colony ship Tempest depends on Dr. Hollis Walton's research. Elio, the ship's AI, has to remind Dr. Walton what it means to be dependable. This episode was written by Ali...
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11.1: Life is a Highway
Round 11, Team 1, Team Tyre'd Transcript here. Content Warnings for Unreality and Unsafe Driving Practices. After a rough breakup, Quinn packs their bags and hits the road, with no one but their beloved cat and the radio for company. But as the road stretches on and Quinn begins to tire, they…
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10.5: Sourdough Sweet
Round 10, Team 5: The Sweet Breads Transcript here. Content Warning for crash noises (at the 49 second mark). After a car accident, Avery Blake finds themselves stranded in a small town. But with the kindness of an old flame, Avery may just be the thing the town needs to save the local Harvest...
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10.4: Changeover
Round 10, Team 4: Cozy Rebellion Transcript here. Content Warnings for fire and loud noises. Every year, two people are awakened on the Ship. They perform routine maintenance, interact with the ship AIs, and don’t have much time for anything else. But this shift, Junia and Phillipi are starting…
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10.6: Like and Subscribe
Round 10, Team Hubris. Transcript here. Get your holiday shopping done! Renew your subscriptions! See what the influencers recommend! We love capitalism! This episode was written by Caroline Mincks. It was directed by The Hubris of our Hearts, with dialogue editing by Brad Colbroock and sound...
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10.3: Till the End of the Night
Round 10, Team 3: Dinner At The End Of The World Transcript here. Content Warnings for injury, discussions of death, falling buildings, and shouting. During a catastrophic event, a group of survivors share a meal and memories, all while a mysterious voice calls for help over the radio. This…
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10.2: My Cup of Tea
Round 10, Team 2: Steamed Milk Transcript here. Content Warnings for loss of bodily autonomy, mentions of burns, vomiting and retching, and pouring and dripping sound effects. Near closing time, a simple cup of tea unsettles the quiet rhythm of a lonely cafe. This episode was written by Jane Doe...
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10.1: The Great Bloody Bake-Off
Round 10, Team 1: Fantastic Four Transcript here. Content Warnings for gore, body horror, and saw noises. Human baker extraordinaire Sam realizes there are two GBBO baking shows, and the one she's competing on is a little bloodier than expected. This episode was written and edited by John…
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9.6: SONORA
Round 9, Team 0: Team Hubris Transcript here. If you can dream it, Sonora can tell you what it means. This episode was written by Caroline Mincks. It was directed by the hubris of our hearts, with dialogue editing by Anne Baird and sound design by Tal Minear. The transcript was done by Anne Baird...
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9.5: Thrice In A Lifetime
Round 9, Team 5: I Spent Years In Therapy And All I Got Was This Stupid Team Name by Fall Out Boy Transcript here. Content warnings for Manipulation and Unreality Andrew is hoping his new therapist will help him face his recurring nightmares. But something isn't right... This episode was written...
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9.4: Lonely Am I
Round 9, Team 4: Not Currently Transcript here. Content warnings for death, grief, and discussions of terminal illness. Elias is dead. Dead but not forgotten. When people he knew in life dream about him, he is pulled into the part, but how they think of him may not be the same as he was. This...
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9.3: Knowing Me, Knowing You
Round 9, Team 3: Fish Transcript here. Content warnings include: Harsh language, Apocalyptic themes, Deception, Betrayal, Gun violence, Hostage situation, Gunshot Wound, and a Hostage Situation. In a burning forest, Olivia comes face-to-face with a grizzled, older version of herself who warns…
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9.2: Dante's Horseferno
Round 9, Team 2: The Sleep Paralysis Demons Transcript here. Content warnings for unreality, high school and parental trauma, teeth falling out, and clowns. Hoping to find the source of his insomnia, Keith visits an psychiatrist who sends him on a nightmarish dream-journey through his past. This...
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9.1: There Is No Time
Round 9, Group 1: Have you read any Ray Bradbury? No? We've got a list, hold on. Transcript here. Content warnings include sexually suggestive dialogue; references to injury such as gunshot wounds, domestic violence,and needles; references to and presence of police/ICE; and misophonia triggers...
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8.4: Fools Rush In
Round 8, Group 0: Team Hubris Transcript here. We fear to tread. This episode was written by Caroline Mincks. It was directed by the Hubris of our hearts, with dialogue editing by Anne Baird and sound design by Tal Minear. The transcript was done by Tal Minear. The angels were played by Anne…
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8.3: Bitter Punchlines
Round 8 Group 3: Clowns Before Frowns Transcript here. Content Warnings for mentions of murder, prison, clowns, and blackmailing Chuckles is hoping to knock the crowd dead; metaphorically, this time. This episode was written by Ken Apana-Korley and edited by RH Sparra. It was directed by Mik…
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8.2: ChatterBot
Round 8 Group 2: Clown Comrades Transcript here. Content Warnings include crying children, mentions of arson, scenes of emotional distress, and culinary misadventures. Meet ChatterBot, an AI assistant who can answer your every question—but sometimes a little more creatively than you might want....
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8.1: Episode 293: Narwhals
Round 8 Group 1: The Classic Fruit Fools Transcript here. Content warnings include background death of a minor character and verbal conflict In a parallel world, podcast co-hosts Ethan and PJ talk about cryptozoology, conspiracies, and friendship - whilst navigating the perilous waters of…
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7.4: Phone Tag
Round 7, Group 0: Team Hubris Transcript here. Content warnings for body horror and a missing person. Nobody can reach Nina on the phone. When she finally leaves Ozzy a message, things get weird. This episode was written by Caroline Mincks, with dialogue editing by Caroline Mincks and Tal Minear....
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7.3: Monster Dash
Round 7, Group 3: MashCon 2024 Transcript here. Content warnings for brutal deaths, gore, child endangerment, and body horror. In 201X, MashCon was an anime convention that quickly becomes a deadly disaster zone. This episode was written by Resa & Mik Koats and edited by Jack Fulmin. It was...
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7.2: Swapping Stories
Round 7, Group 2: Team Pizza Party Transcript here. Content warnings for discussion but no depiction of gore, cannibalism, sexual innuendo, summoning, and murder. Recorded round-table discussions of the human-monster exchange program at Creormorne Community College and the Orpheum Academy of the...
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7.1: Let Me Tell You A Story
Round 7, Group 1: Team Hubris-To-Go Transcript here. Content warnings for memory loss, unreality, manipulation, mild body horror, fight noises, and possession. When a group of acquaintances meet to discuss a monster who defies description and feeds on memory, old grievances come to light. Belief…
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6.4: Just a Coincidence
Round 6, Group 0: Team Hubris Transcript here. A famous composer is interviewed about their music. This episode was written by Caroline Mincks and edited by Anne Baird. It was directed by the Hubris of our Hearts, with dialogue editing by Caroline Mincks and sound design by Tal Minear. The...
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6.3: Ok Loomers
Round 6, Tam 3: Frayed Knot. Transcript here. This is what happens when you push some millennials too far-- not even the gods are safe. Content Warnings: Strong language, violence, character death, and death mentions. This episode was written by Nathan Comstock and edited by Resa. It was directed...
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6.2: Whiskering City
Round 6, Team 2: Cheesed To Meet You Transcript here. Convinced the recent string of mouse disappearances has to do with a plot by the cats of the house, one mouse sets out to convince the city's elite of the danger before it's too late. Content Warnings: political and police corruption…
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6.1: Cat's Cradle
Round 6, Team 1: Pepe Silvia. Transcript here. 3032, Earth. After fifteen years, Dane ‘Smiley’ Valencia is back at his hometown in the middle of the desert to collect an inheritance, but the murder of his childhood best friend is all the welcoming he finds. As he tries to find the culprit, he...
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5.8: Feast
Round 5, Team Negative One: Soup-er Hubris Transcript here. Myrna has never tasted anything before. Hal has found a way to let her - and to make it a truly special first experience. Content Warnings: Implied disaster, brief swearing, sounds of food and cooking Writer: Caroline Mincks, Sound...
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5.7: First Day: In Space, No One Can Hear You Slurp
Round 5, Team 7: It's Bisque, Bitch Transcript here. Larry's first day of on-the-job training on a waste management space station is pretty routine, if a little gloopy for his tastes. Okay, maybe quite a bit gloopy. Okay, maybe very gloopy. Okay, maybe extremely gloopy. OKAY, MAYBE-- Content...
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5.6: Best Soup in the Galaxy
Round 5, Group 6: Time Soup Transcript here. Three best friends embark on an intergalactic journey to make the Best Soup in the Galaxy - though it may not be the hearty meal they’re dreaming of. Content Warnings: astrophobia, extensive discussions of food, screams, loud noises, gagging noises…
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5.5: To Stardust And Back
Round 5, Team 5: Sometimes Them's The Breaks Transcript here. A group of Intergalactic Military soldiers and science officers land on an unexplored and uninhabited planet as an expeditionary team to verify if it is habitable. At first, everything seems fine, but then night falls, and they…
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5.4: Soupy For The Soul
Round 5, Group 4: The Noodle Soup Incident. Transcript here. In an effort to connect with their overworked partner and baffling metamour, an impulsive chef cooks up a child. Will this be the recipe that brings them all together, or a soupy catastrophe? Content Warnings: child endangerment, and...
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5.3: A Soup Most Foul
Round 5, Team 3: Shoop. Transcript here. Two assassins infiltrate the kitchen of a fancy restaurant in order to murder a food critic. It... doesn't go exactly as planned. Content Warnings: Adult Language, Mentions of Death, and Poisoning This episode was co-written by Rocky Goldman and co-written...
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5.2: The Dreamscape Highway
Round 5, Team 2: Gloopin The Third Transcript here. In the endless dusk of the Dreamscape, two unlikely companions search for answers in the mind of a beefslinger. Content Warnings: Squishing, Squelching, Schlooping, Vehicle Collisions, Sudden Impacts, and Light Body Horror This episode was…
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5.1: The Mage in the Mist
Round 5, Team 1: Numero Stewno. Transcript here. It was said that if you made it to the very centre of the fog in the valley, you would discover the secret to success. But few wander into the mist and live. When the kingdom's princess is kidnapped and taken into the fog, an apprentice mage comes…
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Falling Forward, Part 2
This is Part Two! Falling Forward is a 20-part sci-fi micro about love, hubris, and coding too close to the sun. Content Warnings for the series include financial difficulties, invasion of privacy, references to terminal illness, and swearing. Transcript here. Cast and Crew of Falling Forward is…
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Open Dialogue
Open Dialogue is a sound design challenge where everyone takes the same recorded dialogue and builds their own scene around it! Our first event had 6 participants. You'll hear their scenes in this order: Nikko Goldstein, Ben Montoya, Leslie Gideon, Tal Minear, Drc. Jaey, & Michael Aquino. The...
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4.6: On and On You'll Sail
The Terran is the only ship leaving Chandrasekhar Station today — everyone else is hunkering down until the weather passes. But Captain Volante is convinced she's discovered a new route around the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, a route that will unlock the greatest energy source...
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4.5: Hand Covers Mouth
As two best friends compete in their prestigious school's science fair, they find that vying for the top comes at a cost, and that some truths are best left unsaid. Content Warnings include intense arguing. Transcript Link. Made by Round 4, Group 5: Team Hail Mary, This episode was written by…
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4.4: The Real Hubris is the Friends We Made Along the Way
A group of supervillians hold a supervillian meeting to discuss supervillian things. Villianously. Content Warnings include tongue-in-cheek, including in content warnings; parody; mentioned setting people on fire and natural disasters; NFTs and cryptocurrency; biblical Satan; humourous treatment…
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4.3: (Don't) Escape
A devilish duo decide to toy with a team of strangers, forcing them to compete in a series of increasingly dangerous games. There's money to be won, stores to be explored, and blood to be spilled, all within the walls of the dying Hue Breeze Mall. Just be careful not to fly to close to the disco...
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4.2: Tall Order
After their last heist goes awry, a team of Special Little Guys attempts to steal an antique chandelier from a bank lobby. Things do not go as planned. Content Warnings include loud noises, mention of death, mild peril, and heights. Transcript Link. Made by Round 4, Group 2: Alarm Clocks This...
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4.1: Train of Thought
Let me interrupt your train of thought. There is a man walking down the platform at a train station. He is not on the train. The bag he was carrying is on the train. It has gone on without him - vulnerable, alone, and not empty. Content Warnings include mild swears, brief mention of alcohol and...
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Falling Forward, Part 1
A 10-part sci-fi micro about love, hubris, and coding too close to the sun. Content Warnings include financial difficulties, invasion of privacy, and swearing. Transcript Link. Made by Round 4, Group 0: Team Hubris. This episode was written by Caroline Mincks and edited by Tal Minear. It was...
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11th Hour Challenge: Essential Bites
Happy surprise Hubris! This episode was made for the 11th Hour Audio Challenge (not a Hubris event, though of the same spirit), but since the team is Hubris friends we wanted to share it on the feed here! Welcome to The Essential Bites Family, where you can Sink Your Teeth Into A Better You! But...
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3.7: The Disappearances at Minnow Creek Mall
Two teens, Taylor and Arden, explore the abandoned mall from which 14 kids mysteriously disappeared decades earlier. Content warnings for this episode are: Mentions of death, monsters, horror, general peril, mild language. Transcript Link. Made by Round 3, Group 7: Team Carp This episode was...
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3.6: Vibestown and the End of the World
A queer electropop band on the rise suddenly blows up when a prophecy reveals that they are the chosen ones. Now, they have one day to craft a song that will save the world. Content warnings for this episode are: Depictions of anxiety, mentions of the apocalypse Transcript Link. Made by Round 3,...
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3.5: The Dog of Death
During an outing to the woods, a group of teens and their camp counselor get schooled on - and stalked by - a local urban legend... the Dog of Death. Content warnings for this episode are: Sudden loud noises, mild suspense Transcript Link. Made by Round 3, Group 5: Pomegranate This episode was...
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3.4: To Dream Once More
A questing hero is in desperate need of someone to help them on their quest, and is in luck when a stranger appears to help them out. But like any good tale, they're going to need a lot more help to find the god of this forest... Content warnings for this episode are: magical violence, and...
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3.3: The Real Treasure
While searching for a legendary treasure, a pirate crew has some unexpected guests. Content warnings for this episode are: Strong Language; Discussions of Kidnapping Transcript Link. Made by Round 3, Group 3: The Ne'er Do Wells. This episode was written by Molly Alexander and edited by Grace…
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Hubris is a labor of love from a chaotic group of podcasters who decided a 24-hour podcast challenge sounded like a good idea. We assembled several Creative Teams from a large group of podcasters from around the world, made up of writers, audio producers, and voice actors to create a single-episode fiction podcast within a 24-hour period from start to finish.
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