We Are the Deluge Podcast
@delugecast.bsky.social
Spoiler-free chapter-by-chapter podcast about the climate novel The Deluge by Stephen Markley, brought to you by Emily Crandall and John McMahon
New episode: Shane III, in which a summit of the principals of 6 degrees leads us to a discussion of the meanings and scope and temporalities of violence (hello Fanon), socially reproductive labor and gender within movements, and much more
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14. Shane III (2030) – Too Late for Slogans
Escalate. This podcast insists there is no accountability for lazy thinking in a boondoggle. EmilyIt wasn’t like she didn’t share the chapter’s disdain for the quasi-celebrities the climate n…
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August 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM
New episode: Shane III, in which a summit of the principals of 6 degrees leads us to a discussion of the meanings and scope and temporalities of violence (hello Fanon), socially reproductive labor and gender within movements, and much more
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A new episode: an interlude chapter lets us think about LLMs, journalism, climate politics, and the purpose of writing good sentences delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/w...
Interlude 8 (2030): Generic AI-generated weather pun about terrible politics
An LLM political analyst leans too hard on the weather puns to report on the political upheaval impacting climate legislation in the US — — Our theme music is from “I Can’t See the Milky Way Anymor…
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July 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A new episode: an interlude chapter lets us think about LLMs, journalism, climate politics, and the purpose of writing good sentences delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/w...
This week's episode is a reason-revelation-salvation-redemption joint as Keeper kicks off Book III. The weather (and infinite sadness) persist, Keeper confronts and enacts white supremacy, and we wonder if Stephen Markley is a Christopher Nolan hater or fan
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13. Keeper III (2030) – You’re a Sinner in the Storm of an Angry God
You push the boundaries of possibility for redemption as you once again fall into — but also explode — your familiar patterns.You feel the weather, the light, and the infinite sadness.&…
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July 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This week's episode is a reason-revelation-salvation-redemption joint as Keeper kicks off Book III. The weather (and infinite sadness) persist, Keeper confronts and enacts white supremacy, and we wonder if Stephen Markley is a Christopher Nolan hater or fan
delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/k...
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Jackie II: what does Jackie's meeting with, pitch to, and reflections on the "Sustainable Future Coalition" (🤮) tell us about nostalgia, green capitalism, and sexual politics?
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12. Jackie II (2029) – Steer, Into the. Skid: Strategic Accommodation of the Persuadable Middle
Jackie spearheads a counterintuitive ratf*** of an advertising strategy for the worst corporations in the world as she navigates her sex life and fights off an anti-nostalgic nostalgia — — Our them…
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July 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Jackie II: what does Jackie's meeting with, pitch to, and reflections on the "Sustainable Future Coalition" (🤮) tell us about nostalgia, green capitalism, and sexual politics?
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Our most audacious (ridiculous?) formal conceit yet, ecofeminism, terrorism, non-violence, cancel culture, Kate Morris. We’re playing the hits.
AKA a podcast making a podcast about a podcast, you know you love it.
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AKA a podcast making a podcast about a podcast, you know you love it.
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Interlude 7 (2029): The Daily Deluge Podcast
Join your hosts Emily Crandall and John McMahon as they interview climate fiction podcasting experts John McMahon and Emily Crandall about Kate Morris’ interview on The Conversation podcast. They d…
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June 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Our most audacious (ridiculous?) formal conceit yet, ecofeminism, terrorism, non-violence, cancel culture, Kate Morris. We’re playing the hits.
AKA a podcast making a podcast about a podcast, you know you love it.
delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/k...
AKA a podcast making a podcast about a podcast, you know you love it.
delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/k...
New episode: Is the Book II headline splash taking place in 2029 or right now? delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/b...
Interlude 6 (2029): Crandall and McMahon Ponder the Bleak Future – Or is it the Present?
Alienated Young Men in 2029 Marveling at Markley’s Metafiction Multiplies Gaza as an “auto-kill” zone: when and how do people get politicized? — — Our theme music is from “I Can’t See t…
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June 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
New episode: Is the Book II headline splash taking place in 2029 or right now? delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/b...
New ep on Ashir II. What are the limits of dispassionate empiricism, how does Ash's dispassionate empiricism interact with legislative policy negotiations?! Plus feminist philosophy office hours w/Dr. @emilykcrandall.bsky.social & the sexual politics of meat
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11. Ashir II (2029) – Executive Summary on Sloppy Science and the Chaos of Reality
Ash struggles with the tension between the adequate and the possible — challenging coalitional concerns with dispassionate empiricism, disappointing climate hardliners, and ultimately present…
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June 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
New ep on Ashir II. What are the limits of dispassionate empiricism, how does Ash's dispassionate empiricism interact with legislative policy negotiations?! Plus feminist philosophy office hours w/Dr. @emilykcrandall.bsky.social & the sexual politics of meat
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If you're a fan of Stephen Markley's climate epic "The Deluge" and you're massive EPT nerd, you'll love this podcast 💚💚💚
Our first two episodes are OUT NOW!
Prologue: What is this podcast and why does this novel merit such analysis?!
Tony I: the meaning of science, the threats to and of climate science, and the depoliticization of science...plus absurdist Harrison Ford daydreaming
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Prologue: What is this podcast and why does this novel merit such analysis?!
Tony I: the meaning of science, the threats to and of climate science, and the depoliticization of science...plus absurdist Harrison Ford daydreaming
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We Are The Deluge Podcast
A chapter-by-chapter podcast about The Deluge by Stephen Markley, coming Fall 2024
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June 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
If you're a fan of Stephen Markley's climate epic "The Deluge" and you're massive EPT nerd, you'll love this podcast 💚💚💚
New episode! An interlude posing the most important question of them all :can (more importantly, should) you rhyme "OK boomer" with "climate doomer"? We also talk about the legacies of Gore, McKibben and Hansen and how/why Markley engages them in the novel.
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Interlude 5 (2028): OK, Boomer — Don’t Be A Climate Doomer
The Climate Old Guard Forges Ahead As They Exit the Stage, But Have They Learned Anything About Politics? — Our theme music is from “I Can’t See the Milky Way Anymore” by Alex Rudnick. We heartily …
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May 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
New episode! An interlude posing the most important question of them all :can (more importantly, should) you rhyme "OK boomer" with "climate doomer"? We also talk about the legacies of Gore, McKibben and Hansen and how/why Markley engages them in the novel.
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New episode on Shane II! Surveillance capitalism, the slow violence of climate change and what that means for human agency, oh so much Foucault, and surprise surprise, the weather is a character again. Plus, the eternal question: are you a Shane or a Kate?
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10. Shane II (2028) – Slow Ends Our World: Society Must Not be Defended
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to follow us – and Shane – down the surveillance and dataveillance rabbit hole of copious Panopticon references in order to rendezvous w…
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May 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
New episode on Shane II! Surveillance capitalism, the slow violence of climate change and what that means for human agency, oh so much Foucault, and surprise surprise, the weather is a character again. Plus, the eternal question: are you a Shane or a Kate?
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We're on a brief hiatus (back with Shane II April 29ish). In the meantime, check out Emily and John's other pods!
@stuckinstoneybrook.bsky.social, with recent shows about BSC summer camps and radio DJing
@notgreatbookstv.bsky.social, which is a couple episodes into Season 5 of The Americans
@stuckinstoneybrook.bsky.social, with recent shows about BSC summer camps and radio DJing
@notgreatbookstv.bsky.social, which is a couple episodes into Season 5 of The Americans
April 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We're on a brief hiatus (back with Shane II April 29ish). In the meantime, check out Emily and John's other pods!
@stuckinstoneybrook.bsky.social, with recent shows about BSC summer camps and radio DJing
@notgreatbookstv.bsky.social, which is a couple episodes into Season 5 of The Americans
@stuckinstoneybrook.bsky.social, with recent shows about BSC summer camps and radio DJing
@notgreatbookstv.bsky.social, which is a couple episodes into Season 5 of The Americans
New episode time: Matt II gives us another opportunity to discuss movement politics and movement theory as we dig deeper into Fierce Blue Fire confronting their inside-outside strategy for climate politics. Stick around for a rousing game of Fox or Lion!
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9. Matt II (2028) – The Sensation of Density: Years of Boldness and Prudence
Energized despair. Fugazi. Climate politics on the inside and the outside. Machiavelli and Hanna Pitkin. This self-consciously literary chapter situates the reader (and your hosts) in the midst of …
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April 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
New episode time: Matt II gives us another opportunity to discuss movement politics and movement theory as we dig deeper into Fierce Blue Fire confronting their inside-outside strategy for climate politics. Stick around for a rousing game of Fox or Lion!
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I particularly enjoyed the part on tipping points and whose rationality counts.
Made me think of this paper, which examines the way climate scientists have been trying to apply their frameworks to social systems...
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Made me think of this paper, which examines the way climate scientists have been trying to apply their frameworks to social systems...
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Social tipping points everywhere?—Patterns and risks of overuse
Four patterns in the rapidly expanding, interdisciplinary scholarship on social tipping points jointly create a tendency to overuse the concept—seeing the world through “tipping-point glasses.” These...
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March 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I particularly enjoyed the part on tipping points and whose rationality counts.
Made me think of this paper, which examines the way climate scientists have been trying to apply their frameworks to social systems...
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Made me think of this paper, which examines the way climate scientists have been trying to apply their frameworks to social systems...
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
New episode, on Tony's trip up and down Magic Mountain. Come for the analysis of identity politics in the chapter and novel, stay for the celeb commentary, Thomas Mann bits, and the "Is Tony a Good Dad?" discussion.
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8. Tony II (2027) – Can you pierce collective delusions?: An exploration of climate change, kinship, and the politics of reality
Your hosts follow Tony up and down the Magic Mountain to Davos to ponder billionaire shenanigans and unseriousness, the politics of reality, and the use and abuse of identity for politics. Plus the…
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March 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
New episode, on Tony's trip up and down Magic Mountain. Come for the analysis of identity politics in the chapter and novel, stay for the celeb commentary, Thomas Mann bits, and the "Is Tony a Good Dad?" discussion.
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New episode! Markley's version of a longform profile of Kate merits a full episode from your trusty Delugecasters. We go inside A Fierce Blue Fire and a new set of characters to examine movement politics and the politics of The Novel as a form
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Interlude 4 (2026): Kate Chaos and Political Parties in Dark Times
A Fierce Blue Fire’s Kate Morris Finds Beauty and Joy in Rejecting Partisanship as Usual, in her “last stand” Against Climate Change Once a pastiche of seemingly disparate characters and experience…
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March 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
New episode! Markley's version of a longform profile of Kate merits a full episode from your trusty Delugecasters. We go inside A Fierce Blue Fire and a new set of characters to examine movement politics and the politics of The Novel as a form
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Our new episode is Keeper II, in which we discuss Faulkner, the geographies of late capitalism, why Keeper and Tony are both necessary POVs in a climate novel, Warren Zevon, freezing hurricanes, and power rank best Book of Ezekiel/valley of bones references
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7. Keeper II (2025) – The Freezing Hurricanes and The Keeper of the Keys
You manage to loop in the Book of Ezekiel, William Faulkner, and the epistemology of whiteness into an episode about this Keeper chapter. You discuss the writing of addiction and the writing of Kee…
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February 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Our new episode is Keeper II, in which we discuss Faulkner, the geographies of late capitalism, why Keeper and Tony are both necessary POVs in a climate novel, Warren Zevon, freezing hurricanes, and power rank best Book of Ezekiel/valley of bones references
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New episode: A loooooong time jump and a new part of The Deluge begins with...an imagined article on ecotage, the criminalization of dissent, US climate politics, and many kinds of connecting many kinds of dots for character and reader alike...
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Interlude 3 (2025): 6 Degrees of Separation from the Climate Mainstream?
Feds Reconfigure Terrorism to Include Dissent; Billionaires Baffled by Failure of Money to Thwart Bombs — Our theme music is from “I Can’t See the Milky Way Anymore” by Alex Rudnick. We heart…
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February 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
New episode: A loooooong time jump and a new part of The Deluge begins with...an imagined article on ecotage, the criminalization of dissent, US climate politics, and many kinds of connecting many kinds of dots for character and reader alike...
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Our first Matt episode closes out our coverage of Book I. Is Matt a Markley avatar? Is Kate the main character of the novel? How does this engage myths about wilderness and the West? Can you really impress someone by carrying around Arendt? All this and more: delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/6...
6. Matt I (2017) – Hiking, Arendt, and Writing about Writing: How Markley introduces an avatar for himself and also the real (?) main character of The Deluge
Is this chapter about POV character Matt, about activist Kate Morris, about ecofeminism, or about Markley himself? Trick question — it is all of the above. Join Emily and John as they deciphe…
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January 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Our first Matt episode closes out our coverage of Book I. Is Matt a Markley avatar? Is Kate the main character of the novel? How does this engage myths about wilderness and the West? Can you really impress someone by carrying around Arendt? All this and more: delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/6...
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I really enjoyed this episode, it captures so well how scientists keep getting played.
Reminded me of this "the insistence of scientists (and environmentalists) on the primacy of science in the debate over global warming has given their opponents an easy target: science itself."
Reminded me of this "the insistence of scientists (and environmentalists) on the primacy of science in the debate over global warming has given their opponents an easy target: science itself."
Behind the Curve
Prof. Josh Howe explores the paradoxical history of global warming.
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January 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I really enjoyed this episode, it captures so well how scientists keep getting played.
Reminded me of this "the insistence of scientists (and environmentalists) on the primacy of science in the debate over global warming has given their opponents an easy target: science itself."
Reminded me of this "the insistence of scientists (and environmentalists) on the primacy of science in the debate over global warming has given their opponents an easy target: science itself."
A new interlude episode this week, on the in-universe WSJ article criticizing Tony's climate book. Come for office hours w/ @emilykcrandall.bsky.social on the politics of science, stay for some commentary on the humor and functional purpose of the interlude
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Interlude 2 (2017): Tony Pietrus and The Wall Street Journal discover Climate Mao
Why claims that environmentalists are socialists will never go away. — Our theme music is from “I Can’t See the Milky Way Anymore” by Alex Rudnick. We heartily encourage you to check out Alex’…
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January 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A new interlude episode this week, on the in-universe WSJ article criticizing Tony's climate book. Come for office hours w/ @emilykcrandall.bsky.social on the politics of science, stay for some commentary on the humor and functional purpose of the interlude
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New episode time: Ashir I, set in 2016, leads us two bros to consider betting, algorithms, human relationships, the NBA, writing neurodivergence, Aristotle, Uncut Gems...and surely climate too, no?
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5. Ashir I (2016) – DustMotes_Colossus.docx
Today, Emily and John had a conversation that excavated the analytical reactions they’ve experienced due to this Ashir chapter, Ash’s views on human relationships, math, and finance, their academic…
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January 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
New episode time: Ashir I, set in 2016, leads us two bros to consider betting, algorithms, human relationships, the NBA, writing neurodivergence, Aristotle, Uncut Gems...and surely climate too, no?
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Second of two new episodes this week!
The first Keeper chapter. We explore connections to Markley's previous book Ohio; the effects on the reader of the second person perspective for Keeper; cruelty and violence in the chapter and novel; and more.
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The first Keeper chapter. We explore connections to Markley's previous book Ohio; the effects on the reader of the second person perspective for Keeper; cruelty and violence in the chapter and novel; and more.
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4. Keeper I (2015) – Anger and Dérangement in Ohio
You podcast about Keeper. You hear yourself discussing the use of the second person, casual cruelty, the challenge and compulsion Keeper poses for the reader. You note the heat, the saturation, the…
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January 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Second of two new episodes this week!
The first Keeper chapter. We explore connections to Markley's previous book Ohio; the effects on the reader of the second person perspective for Keeper; cruelty and violence in the chapter and novel; and more.
delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/k...
The first Keeper chapter. We explore connections to Markley's previous book Ohio; the effects on the reader of the second person perspective for Keeper; cruelty and violence in the chapter and novel; and more.
delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/k...
First of two new episodes this week!
We discuss the headline splash in Book I of The Deluge, covering the reading experience and function of the headline collages, and the way this one in particular situates us in the late Obama years: delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/i...
We discuss the headline splash in Book I of The Deluge, covering the reading experience and function of the headline collages, and the way this one in particular situates us in the late Obama years: delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/i...
Interlude 1 (2014): John and Emily Analyze Markley Headline Splash
“This situates us right in late-Obama years and also raises key themes.” “I had to look up the Breaking Bad quote.” #dailywriting yo this must have taken so much research. Our theme mus…
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January 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
First of two new episodes this week!
We discuss the headline splash in Book I of The Deluge, covering the reading experience and function of the headline collages, and the way this one in particular situates us in the late Obama years: delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/i...
We discuss the headline splash in Book I of The Deluge, covering the reading experience and function of the headline collages, and the way this one in particular situates us in the late Obama years: delugecast.wordpress.com/2025/01/07/i...
Timing update: taking a holiday break, we are back January 7 with a mini episode on the first headline splash and a full ep on Keeper 1. And then no wait until the next episode, Ashir I, on January 14.
December 28, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Timing update: taking a holiday break, we are back January 7 with a mini episode on the first headline splash and a full ep on Keeper 1. And then no wait until the next episode, Ashir I, on January 14.