VALENCE

About VALENCE

In the city of New Candler, magic is scarce by design. A tech mogul wants to keep it that way. And a magic user wants freedom. Welcome to New Candler, cultural epicenter of the United States. | VALENCE is an Audio Verse Award-winning serialized fiction podcast meant for adult audiences. See our website for transcripts and content warnings for each episode.

Publisher

Hug House Productions

Category

fiction · fiction · fiction

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

13 Dec 2019

Latest episode

14 Nov 2025

Latest episodes

2 of 51 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   14 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Magic, Politics, and Toxic People Being Toxic <3

   We're SO THRILLED to bring you your next favorite audio drama: The Harbingers by Gabriel Urbina and Audacious Machine Creative. Go subscribe on your podcatcher of choice, and find more information at https://www.audaciousmachinecreative.com (https://www.audaciousmachinecreative.com) Episode details Adam Blackwell is the most powerful man in the world. But he hasn't always been. Five years ago he was just a humble grad student at Sinclair University. How did he go from a nobody to the world's first modern magician? And once he got that power, what has he done with it? Be advised: This episode contains depictions of drinking and smoking, as well as strong language and discussions of politics. It also contains mentions, though not depictions, of violence, death, war crimes, the Holocaust, and a large-scale disaster. Listener discretion is advised. The Harbingers was created by Gabriel Urbina. Today's episode was written by Gabriel Urbina, directed and sound designed by Jeffrey Nils Gardner, and executive produced by Eleanor Hyde. It featured the voices of Andrés Enriquez as Adam Blackwell, Lauren Grace Thompson as Amy Stirling, Emmy Bean as Claudia Skinner, and Kristen DiMercurio as Erica Pfeiffer. It also featured the voice of Olivia Love-Hatlestad. The original music for the series is by Nicholas Podany, and the original art is by Cassie J. Allen. Recording engineering and dialogue editing by Zhuolin Wu. This is an Audacious Machine production. Music for Wil's intro to the episode is "Physics" by Ketsa. We love you Ketsa! https://ketsamusic.com (https://ketsamusic.com)

2. 

   29 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Missing introspective gays? Here's your next listen

   Host Alex Blumberg interviews Dr. Andrew Ng about the future of AI and its impact on various industries.

3. 

   4 Jul 2024

   FEED DROP: Liam is Elon Musk

   In this interview, actor Josh Rubino portrays Elon Musk as Alex Spiro, played by Anne Baird, learns about a lawsuit and objections in Texas.

Inside a recent episode

Magic, Politics, and Toxic People Being Toxic <3

Published 14 Nov 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Sinclair University, September 2026. Now, the name Harbingers is what is known as a secondary observer exonym. With some ancient cultures, we have some record of what they call themselves. Failing that, we can usually at least call people by the region they inhabited. These people lived in the Indus Valley, so let's take a wild leap and call them the Indus. Not saying that's a good practice, but it is a common practice. Now, with the Harbingers, you run into problems. We haven't found any records yet that point to what they call themselves. And as for geography, sites containing written records of the Harbingers languages have been found in Atacama, in South America, in remote islands in the south of Oceania, and most recently in rural Ireland. […]

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• Dr Andrew Ng
• Josh Rubino
• Giancarlo Herrera
• Alex Welch

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.1 / 5

105 ratings

Spotify

4.4 / 5

171 ratings

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