We Are The Deluge Podcast

We Are The Deluge Podcast

Emily Crandall & John McMahon

Episodes 50
Avg. Duration 1h 1m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (3)
Since Nov 2024
Latest Episode May 2026

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Weekly
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About This Podcast

Welcome to We Are the Deluge, a spoiler-free chapter-by-chapter podcast about the climate change novel The Deluge by Stephen Markley. For each chapter, we’ll be analyzing major themes, examining the politics of the chapter, suggesting pop culture accompaniments, tracking characters, shouting out the comedy in this dystopian (?) novel, and pitching punny episode titles. The catch? each of the six POV characters gets a specialized format remixing those core elements based on their role and the style of those chapters. Is this an overly elaborate, galaxy-brain podcast conceit? Yes. Do you want to hear a Jackie pitch deck and Shane manifesto and Ashir report and so on? Also yes.

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32. Matt V (2039—), Part 1 – The Archive of the Heart: On Finding the Complete and Utter Coherence of Her Absence in a Single Perfect Algorithmic Text

May 05, 2026 1h 47m

It was the brink of annihilation, it was the brink of resurrection. Matt Markley — err, Stanton Farooki — is freaking me out with these psychological reconstructions of individual terror,…

31. Tony V (2037-38) – Dreams of Civilization, Descendants, and All Those Dense Lonely Spinning Planets

Apr 21, 2026 1h 51m

Tony fights a potentially futile battle for the future, for his kids and grandkids, for peckerwoods and surly fucks and maybe for us all, while refusing to fight his own cancer; all his dreams,…

30. Keeper V (2037) – The Cosmological Concession and the Fragility of All Possible Things … It ain’t really up to me

Apr 14, 2026 1h 32m

A vortex has opened you don’t understand what’s happening. You know love, you take leaps of faith, you can be easily squashed, you negotiate. You see the burning eyes of angels. You witness people…

29. Ash V (2037) – A Contemporaneous Account Of A Frankenstein Bill To Unf*ck A Situation That We Are Not Confident is Unf*ckable

Mar 31, 2026 1h 24m

Ash records for posterity this time, the democratic conflagration mirrored by the burning forest, with a lifetime of observation converted to persuasion, but the question remains, can we do it?…

28. Jackie V (2036-37) – BiLT for Speed: Only Bløǒd This Time

Mar 24, 2026 1h 32m

Jesus, Kate, take the wheel. Jackie’s willingness to believe in the meaning of wealth falters, as she reckons with her selves and with the foil she’s been for Kate. She cracks the fourth wall as…

Bonus: Spring Break(ers) Forever

Mar 20, 2026 1h 8m

Hop on a party bus to St. Pete and press play on our bonus episode on the 2012 masterpiece Spring Breakers written and directed by Harmony Korine. Sex, the male gaze, violence, whiteness, hilarity,…

Interlude 15 (2036): One Collapse After Another

Mar 17, 2026 13m

Behold our gruesome and just judgments. The Deluge is our Roman Empire. — — — Our theme music is from “I Can’t See the Milky Way Anymore” by Alex Rudnick. We heartily encourage you…

27. Shane V (2036) – She Was the Weapon

Mar 10, 2026 1h 32m

Shane loses sight, maybe, of her position on violence; coming back to Kate, or maybe they were always together; she joins the ranks of the many vanished, but not in the way 6 Degrees imagined. Where…

Interlude 14 (2036): The Years of Rain and Thunder… and Apocalypse

Mar 03, 2026 1h 13m

A Year of Horrors: The Metastasization of this Civilizational Crisis. Why does this chapter feel a bit off (no, it’s not only because there’s even more epistemology talk than usual)? Might it be…

26. Keeper IV (2036) – The Suffering, The Redemption, The Memory, and the Eternal Whole

Feb 24, 2026 1h 21m

You are hungry and you recognize the danger, the danger of others, of fear, of uncertainy, of hunger. You retain your humor and your highly selective bullshit detector. You cannot forget. You know…

Interlude 13 (2035): Fractured Realities

Feb 17, 2026 17m

Don the latest version of your favorite AR/VR glasses, turn your ASMR fractal visuals to high and enter the DELUGE-CAST XPERE OF DISCUSSION ™. Who is writing this novel, where AI generators…

25. Jackie IV (2035) – Chaos of Investment: Get Your Money for Justice and Your Mining the Arctic for ESG

Feb 10, 2026 1h 26m

Jackie wrestles with guilt, dread, and unease as the contradictions of her life become unbearably (and increasingly) impossible to ignore, all while the financialization of everything continues…

Interlude 12 (2035): The Legacy of Shallow Plays at Moral Absolution

Feb 04, 2026 11m

VP McGuirk the most recent public figure to claim “nothing could be done but please forgive me” — — — Our theme music is from “I Can’t See the Milky Way Anymore” by Alex Rudnick. We heartily…

24. Ash IV (2034) – Executive Summary on the Transpositions of Time, the Arrogance of the Living, and the Unchecked Suffering of our Luckless Civilization

Jan 27, 2026 1h 17m

Ash hungers, mourns, fears. He yearns to understand, feed, and protect people as he struggles to make sense of another loss. The domestic and global political (which is also personal, natch) dynamics…

Interlude 11 (2034): Politics as Usual

Jan 20, 2026 15m

Crandall researches Six Arms, Fortress Europe, and Siberian anthrax. McMahon attempts meagre political musings. Once again, it must be asked, are this headlines about now or 2034? — — — Our…

23. The Siege, part 2 (2034)- The Heat, the Death, the Vanishing to Wind and Stars

Dec 16, 2025 1h 34m

May 20: In an assemblage of seemingly ever radical and not-so-radical moments from the shared pool of myths and dreams, the Siege gets beat by and beats back state violence June 30: Our new main…

22. The Siege, part 1 (2034)- A Complex and Dangerous Nonviolent Ambush, AKA This Unthinkable Nightmare

Dec 09, 2025 1h 16m

April 1: The Concert for the Climate becomes a deluge of occupying creativity and power… but will it become a trickle and go down as the most embarrassing protest action in modern memory April…

21. Matt IV (2034) – Mesmerizingly Abstruse Narrative: The Years of Reunions and Breakups

Nov 25, 2025 1h 22m

Matt’s secret reunion with the FBF crew and the breaking apart of his relationship with Kate open up an exploration of green capitalism, the security state, love and gender, and narrative. Plans,…

20. Tony IV (2033) – Leviathan or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Instead be Terrified of the Security Apparatus

Nov 19, 2025 1h 18m

Tony, preoccupied with impending clandestine plans and thoughts of his daughters, is frustrated by another useless encounter with law enforcement, only to realize, perhaps too late, how threadbare…

19. Shane IV (2033) – In an Emergency, Smash Protocol

Nov 04, 2025 1h 24m

The women of 6Degrees stage a coup – but a new leadership structure, new relationship to funding, and a new mission clarifies something about fear for Shane. No one knows what she is capable…

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