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Strange Radio Speculation

Strange Radio Speculation

By: Cleo and Sam Casimir
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Strange Radio Speculation is a book club podcast where your hosts, Sam and Cleo, will be reading through a book/series (starting with Gideon the Ninth!) chapter by chapter, coming back each week to talk about our thoughts, our speculations, and our analysis of the book so far. But wait! There's more – each book that we read will be a completely fresh read… for one of us! The other will be reading along for a second, third, fourth, or even fifth time, acting as a guide and a sounding board for the other's speculation, wild takes, and predictions.

Each episode will be completely spoiler free outside of the chapters previously covered on the podcast, and the ones being discussed that week, so it's a perfect listening companion should you, the listener, want to read along with us as we uncover the fascinating stories that we have lined up. Or, if you've already read the series, join in from the other side and rediscover a favorite series through the eyes of a new reader! And don't worry, there will be plenty of foreshadowing and meta jokes for you to pick up on along the way ;)

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Episodes
  • 11 - Ch. 26-28 of Gideon the Ninth
    7 Oct 2026

    Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.

    Join Hosts Sam and Cleo reading and analyzing chapters 26, 27, and 28 of Gideon the Ninth, covering topics such as: New Voice Acting Roles! ...and more bad math as a result, as well as: Gideon's trauma and self recrimination, faltering relationships on multiple levels, the aftermath of the 4th's deaths, body-horror-fleshmelding theories, the Great Decisions of Gideon the Ninth and the Consequences That Follow, Gideon loosing all her filters, the 8th house being creepy, then based, then creepier, then half-based, then even weirder than before, then shockingly cool, all while infodumping exposition, Ninth House Soap Operas and infinite staircase death, and excessive thank you loops.

    (Also yes I did do the research: Turns out, for jerky you do want really lean slices of meat with as little fat as possible cause it just has a bad texture when jerkified. However! I (Editing Sam) was not entirely wrong, because when normally smoking meats (like birsket!) you do want the fattier pieces as they'll render down and create a juicier, more flavorful piece of meat. So. That's the down low on different meat types and smoking for you, our faithful jerky enjoying listener. That's all folks, I gotta get back to editing this episode now byyyyye)

    (Also also the short story mentioned in the podcast can be found here: https://ellipsus.com/read/MZmF90SURMNwxf5DGGte5/The-Mad-Monk-Final-Draft)

    strangeradiospeculation@gmail.com

    @strangeradios on tumblr.com

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    4 hrs and 7 min
  • 10 - Ch. 24-25 of Gideon the Ninth
    30 Sep 2026

    Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.

    Join Sam and Cleo for another episode of Strange Radio Speculation, covering topics such as: Foreshadowing, minor details that have major consequences, death, death, and more death, even more tidbits of worldbuilding that adds just enough information to drive Cleo even more insane, uncertain editing schedules, fighting, drama, child soldiers, genre shifts on genre shifts, unnerving intelligence, hypothetical body horror, Gideon decisions (Gidecisions), foreshadowing uncreated stories, and depression.

    samtcasimir@gmail.com

    @strangeradios on tumblr.com

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    3 hrs and 38 min
  • 9 - Ch. 22-23 of Gideon the Ninth
    23 Sep 2026

    Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.

    Join Sam and Cleo as they dive into chapters 22 and 23 of Gideon the Ninth, exploring things such as: Dead bodies, even more confusing mysteries, damsels in (major) distress, teamups, combats, underestimations, horrible teens, keys, keys, and more ke-- actually wait that's too many keys we've got none left, necromantic vanishing acts, my favorite (fictional) people in the entire world being badasses, injuries, and ruined suspense!

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    2 hrs and 43 min
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