Introducing: The Passage

Built on a foundation of historical relevance and structured by a kind of dream logic, THE PASSAGE is an immersive, psychological, 3D audio experience that invites listeners to explore the collective American psyche from the perspective of its most legendary souls. This is an ongoing audio series penned by a brilliant and diverse pool of writers and performed by an unforgettable cast of character actors.

Each week THE PASSAGE takes us on a ride into the land of the dead, traveling with the Ferryman as he collects the recently disembodied and delivers them to the hereafter. Each week we meet another illustrious American spirit and listen as they tell their extraordinary and often terrifying tale in an attempt to influence the Ferryman’s final destination— be it a comfortable place of eternal light, a haunted purgatory of regret, or one of the nine rings of hell. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am the fairy man. I am here in the
in between.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
In the shadows of the afterlife, where time stands still.
The ferrymen of souls guides America's most influential spirits to
their eternal rest. You've been looking for me? Yeah, where
are you taking me?

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Are you death? This road is not on any maps.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
So bizarre the.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
World holds more than mere imagination can contain. It stretches
beyond identity.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Do you even know who I am and my reflection?
I have only a shadow and out law shore I
am there.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
I was an emperor of the dark.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
I was a real Actress's all I ever wanted to be.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
I saw my reflection in the waters, and I saw
a different face staring back at me. On a course
designed by its travelers, it spans the thresholds between their
most forbidden desires. We all know sorrow. We deserve to
take what's ours and their greatest fears.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
One year, one century, or the next. This will be
our ruin. How much for a ticket?

Speaker 1 (01:18):
All I ask for in payment is a tale and
accounting of their lives and the great temporary that is
the land of the living.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Tales of triumph and tragedy, you want a blood story,
moments that shook the foundation of a nation, and the
ripples they left behind.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
I am here to collect their spirits and carry them
to what comes next. Be it a comfortable place of
eternal light, a haunted purgatory of regret, or I should
be made to suffer one of the nine rings of hell.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Join us on a journey through the veils of history
and the corridors of the afterlife. Is that and the
fog up there seems part flesh, part shadow, where the
souls of America's past revealed their deepest secrets.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
The monsters are real.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
In the most profound legacies.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Fifty years of new stories.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Using my face, let me.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Play you the songs that the devil told me. These
are their stories.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Each episode a new spirit, a new story, a new
revelation about the threads that weave the tapestry of American culture.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
They were running from the truth, and it was too
late for them, for all of us.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
These are the tales that shaped the nation. Babies were
born and died, aunties and grandfathers, and left by the
side of the trail.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
The devastation those first bombs cost.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Then I told them they were drinking sya Ide The Passage,
the podcast where history meets the afterlife. The voices of
West study at least four thousand people died on the trail,
Martin Starr. President Nixon called me the most dangerous man
in America. Scott Hayes. Next thing I know, I'm standing

(03:12):
over the bodies of Baker Morton, my pistol smoking in
my hand, and Tristan Macwilde's.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
I've never been to Hell, but I know intimately The
Hymns of the Damned.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Starring Dan Fogler as the Ferryman, This Is The Passage
debuts February seventh. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you listen to podcasts.