The Tetradome Run: Recent Episodes
Spencer Baum
When the crime wave peaked in the early 70s, and Nixon signed the Redemption Act, no one bothered to imagine what public execution might look like fifty years in the future.
No one imagined that The Tetradome Run would become the most popular show in America.
A free audiobook released in full as a podcast with a full score of music and sound by more than 50 composers and sound designers from the movie and video games industries, The Tetradome Run is an edge of your seat thriller by bestselling novelist Spencer Baum. Read by the author.
"A computer terminal at a public library in Flagstaff, the reactivation of an old social media account, a few cautious messages exchanged, one of them showing Jenna’s face as photographed on the computer’s webcam, and then Jenna was chatting with her childhood pen pal."
"Where were you when Chanelle Devlin gave her infamous press conference?
It was a question people would ask for a generation to come."
"Rudy and I sit together on the back porch at my house. We drink beer from bottles. We watch afternoon pass into evening. We talk."
"Down the tunnel and onto a metal catwalk. Concrete walls, televisions, flower pots—they were in the Underdeck now. They were on one of its upper levels. Jenna recognized the pattern of the wiring on the wall. They weren’t far from the generator room."
"On a restricted access highway outside of town, the black Devlin Enterprises van that had been parked on the side of the road, hazards flashing, headlights pointed towards Vegas, used the entire width of the road to make a U-turn, and drive back to New Rome."
"Gabe walked through the parking lot, onto the sidewalk, and towards Las Vegas Boulevard.
Doubts about what he was doing grew heavier with each step."
"Gabe looked at the plastic keycard that came in the envelope. He turned it over in his hands, thinking about the strange letter that came with it."
"The front desk clerk gave him an envelope. His name was written in purple ink on the envelope’s face."
"I was in tears when I called Sunny. I skipped the formalities and apologies that might have been appropriate when calling a former best friend that you’ve cut out of your life."
"The Tetradome Run played in the background as Gabe walked away from the private watch party and into the larger casino at Polaris."
"And now we come to the part of my story where I tell you what happened on the day Barbara Lomax died. I can't. Not yet."
"It felt like an anvil had been tied around her waist, so strong was the downward tug of the creature, so tight was the grip of its tentacle."
"Many in the crowd at Polaris yelled in joy when Jenna fell, this turn of events no doubt having helped their wagers.
Many more yelled in displeasure, Gabe among them. As he watched Jenna sink into the water, he thought about a secret letter tossed to the ground."
Some of the music in this episode is licensed on a Creative Commons commercial attribution license. See spencerbaum.net for a full list of attributions.
"Deep in the bowels of the Tetradome, Jenna Duvall, running at a full sprint, followed the arrows Sunny had painted on the walls for her."
"First I wrote a letter to Sunny. Then I let Seth read to me. Then I said no to the man who wanted to help me."
Some of the music and sound in this episode is licensed on a Creative Commons commercial attribution license. For a full list of attributions, go to spencerbaum.net.
"The clock hit zero. A buzzer sounded. The crowd came to its feet. The steel gate at one end of the maze swung open."
Some of the music and sound in this production is licensed on a Creative Commons commercial attribution license. See spencerbaum.net for a full list of attributions.
"Jenna came to the ravine that ended Stage One and swung across. Ahead, the path narrowed, leading runners to a downward ramp."
"The media would have you believe I spent the first five weeks of my sophomore year at Hillerman planning an assassination.
Nothing could be further from the truth."
Some of the music and sound used in this production is licensed on a Creative Commons commercial attribution license. See spencerbaum.net for a full list of CC attributions.
"On the top floor of Devlin Tower, Bart Devlin’s assistant, Carlos, now in full freakout about his missing boss, spoke frantically to a group surrounding his desk."
"Gabe finished his interview with Tammy Flanigan, took a car to his hotel, and went to bed fully expecting to find the world turned upside down when he woke the next morning."
"Everything was gray and ugly that summer. Depression, at least, the kind that I had after Rudy died, turns the world around you into a bunch of noise you want to silence."
"Jenna waited at the door all night, listening, but heard nothing but chatter from the guards. Whatever Gabe Chancellor’s interview with Tammy Flanigan meant, Jenna would have to decipher it on her own."
"It was clear to Jenna that they intended to lock her inside and leave her to rot until race day. No more training. No more interaction with the other prisoners. Just a girl in her cage, where she and her thoughts had to wait quietly until it was time for the show."
"Bart rushed through the hallways of Devlin Tower in a panic of scattered, multi-determinate origin."
"Four days before the Finale race, Cameron’s password breaker cracked open the Utility Bills folder on Kyle’s laptop."
"While looking through old yearbooks in the library at Mary Nolan College, Gabe found an interesting photograph."
"Stepping into the car without a plan, they eventually ended up on I-40 east, headed for Texas."
In addition to original music and sound by Spencer Baum, this episode contains Creative Commons Commercially Licensed music and sound. For a full list of CC attributions, see spencerbaum.net.
"While Jenna climbed inside the walls at one end of the complex, at the other end, Bart Devlin stepped off an elevator and into the lobby of Tetradome Labs."
"It was Sunny’s idea for the Blue Brigade to partner with the Rule of Law Society in a joint campus lecture series."
In addition to original music and sound, this episode uses some Creative Commons Commercially Licensed music and sound from freesound.org, kai-engel.com, and chriszabriskie.com. For a full list of Creative Commons attributions, visit spencerbaum.net.
"Down the hall from Jenna’s cellblock, two guards sat at the station, a bank of television monitors all around them." In addition to original music and sound, this episode uses some Creative Commons Commercially licensed sounds. For a listing of CC attributions, see spencerbaum.net
"Before Gabe Chancellor left the campus of Mary Nolan College, he went to the library to look at old yearbooks."
"I have this nostalgic vision of the Blue Brigade I joined in fall semester of freshman year."
In addition to original music and sound, this episode makes use of the song Dark Walk by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) licensed on Creative Commons Commercial Attribution. See spencerbaum.net for a full listing of Creative Commons uses in this podcast.
"Eleven Tetradome contestants were allowed to train for the Finale."
In addition to original music and sound by Spencer Baum, this episode contains Creative Commons Commercial Licensed music by BoxCat Games, Kevin MacLeod, and Kai Engel, as well as licensed sounds from freesound.org. For a full list of attributions, see spencerbaum.net
"A curious thing Jenna noticed on her first day in the cellblock—the bedroom doors locked from the inside."
"Bart Devlin rewound the footage of the Semifinal’s ending. Jenna on the straightaway. Jenna goes down. Jenna gets up. Jenna survives."
This chapter uses Creative Commons Commercially Licensed audio from freesound.org, incompetech.com, and kai-engel.com. For a full listing of Creative Commons Licensed sounds used, visit spencerbaum.net
"Last night I dreamed about the day I was arrested."
In addition to original music and sound by Spencer Baum, this episode contains Creative Commons music from freesound.org, chriszabriskie.com, kai-engel.com, and incompetech.com. For a full listing of Creative Commons attributions, visit spencerbaum.net
"A laptop, which Cameron picked up just before midnight."
This episode contains Creative Commons Commercially licensed music from freesound.org, kai-engel.com, and incompetech.com. For full listing of Creative Commons attributions visit spencerbaum.net
"Gabe returned to his apartment, a cardboard box of stolen loot under his arm."
This episode uses sounds licensed on Creative Commons Commercial Attribution from freesound.org, chriszabriskie.com, and kai-engel.com. For a full listing of attributions, go to spencerbaum.net
"After Rudy came back I found myself with one too many people to love."
This episode uses these Creative Commons Commercial Attribution License songs from chriszabriskie.com:
The Sun is Scheduled to Come Out Tomorrow by Chris Zabriskie
We Were Never Meant to Live Here by Chris Zabriskie
"Gabe crawled through the window to enter the apartment. It was an eerie, depressing place."
This episode contains Creative Commons Commercially Licensed music from kai-engel.com and chriszabriskie.com
"Hello world. This is Kyle. Jenna’s brother. Jenna gave me this memoir and asked me to finish it."
This episode contains these Creative Commons licensed sounds from freesound.org and elsewhere.
Ghostly Transition 3.wav by pcruzn
Windy Transition.wav by pcruzn
Clapping » Small Clap by kellieskitchen
Miscellaneous Sound Effects » Transition Sound Effect.wav by sophiehall3535
Party Crowd 1.wav by Kolezan
Spooky Stuff » Spooky Ambiance #1 by KRISTIANKULTA
My first 25 recordings with binaurals » R05_0111.flac by Omar Alvarado
Lo-Fi Stupidity » LFS_YayCheer.wav by xtragamr
CelloBassDronesAndEffects by juskiddink (freesound.org)
Anguish by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Cello C midi 48.wav by ERH (freesound.org)
The Theatrical Poster for Poltergeist III by Chris Zabriskie (chriszabriskie.com)
Echoes of Time by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
CGI Snake by Chris Zabriskie (www.chriszabriskie.com)
Imminence by Kai Engel (kai-engel.com)
Dancing on the Edge by Kai Engel (kai-engel.com)
And these songs appear via paid licensing arrangement:
Unprecedented Step by Collin G. Scudder
Lamentation by Ian Post
"The Corners apartment complex was quiet when Gabe arrived. The residents were all inside their units, watching the show."
In addition to original music and sound by Spencer Baum, this episode uses these sounds on paid or Creative Commons attribution license:
Scenery by Kai Engel (https://www.kai-engel.com/) (CC license)
F1.BR.07.PoleFelipeMassa.wav by RF Hache
Walking in Long Grass.wav by Leafs67
Ambience, Night Wildlife, A.wav by "Ambience, Night Wildlife, A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
chased by dogs RAW.wav by leady
the swarm v31m3 by Setuniman
Bee Swarm2.wav by Puniho
Door, Train, Open, A.wav by "Door, Train, Open, A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
Harbor by Kai Engel (https://www.kai-engel.com/)
The Final Performance by Roland Bingamin (paid license from Artlist).
"Jenna emerged from a snarl of narrow tunnels into a long hallway."
In addition to original music and sound by Spencer Baum, this episode includes sounds released on a Creative Commons Commercial Attribution license from freesound.org as follows:
male_Thijs_loud_scream.aiff by Thannvannispen
stomp01.wav by Jan Koehl
ObjectFalling1.aif by icaroferre
inception sound 3.wav by ThatJeffCarter
Descending space echo.wav by Dragonphoenix
warped growl drone.wav by thatjeffcarter
solid steel hammering LOOP 130903_00.wav by Klankbeeld
screaming_male_painIII.mp3 by GabriellaUPF
inception-stab-l.wav by Manholo
Dark Shepard Tone 2 by Brain Claim
Retro_Alarm_01.wav by orginaljun.deviantart.com
Also, this episode includes the use of the song Visum by Kai Engel on a paid licensing arrangement with the creator.
"Gabe Chancellor watched with the rest of the world. The ropes, the climbing, the barghests, the blood."
In addition to original music and sound by Spencer Baum, this episode uses these sounds licensed on Creative Commons Commercial Attribution:
From freesound.org:
creepy_backgrounds1.wav by alextundra
M&M Eating.wav by Greencouch
Movie logon.wav by 1jmorrisoncafe291
URUGUAY/ARGENTINA (1ª PARTE).mp3 by Jose Maria
20120121_outdoor_drinking_ambiance.wav by do broide
Shriek Male by jorickhoofd
screaming_male_painIII.mp3 by GabriellaUPF
Insectoid Creature by RICHERlandTV
SpiderVoice.wav by columbia23
The Insects.wav by wjoojoo
Land on the Golden Gate by Chris Zabriskie (www.chriszabriskie.com)
Harbor by Kai Engel (https://www.kai-engel.com/)
"A buzzer sounds. The view on our screens takes us inside a dimly lit room packed with people."
In addition to original music and sound, this episode uses these sounds licensed on Creative Commons Commercial Attribution
suonho_ScaryScape_01.wav by Suonho (freesound.org)
REMIX OF 15488 AND 26722 - SPOOKY VOCAL ATMOSPHERE 01.wav by sandyrb
rhythmic_dronescape_1_60bpm.wav by crushed bits
Werewolf by gabemiller74
Dog Bark Staffordshire Bullterrier by Anton (freesound.org)
0291 Road_obstacle.wav by bmoreno
Transmitter by akx
Attack Of The Drones loop, 120 BPM by copyc4t
Angry Dog Bark Snarl With Reverb by Jaylew1987
wolf-growl.wav by NewAgeSoup
And on paid license: Between Nothing and Everything by Kai Engel
"Half a million seats surrounding a glimmering tower of glass, the whole of it standing beneath that marvelous ceiling, dizzying in height, the cameras barely able to contain its scope."
"The Dark Thoughts of Sunny’s Letters."
This episode uses these Creative Commons attribution licensed works:
Dark Walk by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
I Need To Start Writing Things Down by Chris Zabriskie (www.chriszabriskie.com)
"Before he died, I gave something important to Kyle. It’s a stack of pages I wrote in prison."
In addition to original music and sound, this episode uses these sounds licensed on Creative Commons Commercial Attribution: Wonder Cycle by Chris Zabriskie (www.chriszabriskie.com); office_door_open_close.mp3 by harri (freesound.org); frellinnk.wav by Tim Kahn (freesound.org); Door shake by ColdAir; Outdoor Ambiance by daenerys; "Wind, Synthesized, A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org; "Book, Flipping Through Pages, A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
"They flew Jenna back to Southwest Nevada, landed in New Rome, drove her to the complex, and her training continued."
"Gabe Chancellor thought about the way she looked at him before she dropped the paper, the way she singled him out with her eyes."
"The guards escorted Jenna out of the hotel and into a black limo parked at the front door."
"The week before the Semifinal Race, the producers of The Tetradome Run decided to fly Jenna back to Albuquerque to film a segment for the pregame show."
"The stack of pages I’m building in my weekly trips to the prison library is growing slowly. The days left for me are disappearing quickly."
"Jenna went straight to the living quarters of the cellblock. She dumped her wet clothes down the laundry chute."
"Every death row inmate, even one who is innocent, is hung up on what an unlucky bastard she is, what a loser in life’s lottery, what a victim of circumstance."
"The training course was divided into six sections, each separated from the others with a brightly-colored door."
In Chapter 8 of The Tetradome Run we return to Jenna's memoir for more on her relationship with Sunny.
"They took Jenna to a production studio where she had to sit for an interview with Chad Holiday."
In Chapter 6 of The Tetradome Run, a free audiobook sci-fi thriller, we return to Jenna's memoir and learn about when she first met Sunny.
In Chapter 5 of The Tetradome Run, a free sci-fi thriller audiobook, Jenna learns that Kyle is dead.
In Chapter 4 of The Tetradome Run, a free audiobook thriller, we get our first view of the Tetradome prison complex.
In Chapter 3 of The Tetradome Run, a free audiobook released as a podcast, we get our first glimpse at the memoir Jenna wrote in prison.
In Chapter 2 of The Tetradome Run, a free sci-fi thriller audiobook released as a podcast, Jenna must run in the Tetradome after a final visit on death row with her brother.
In Chapter 1 of The Tetradome Run, a free audiobook by Spencer Baum, Kyle Duvall doesn't want to watch his sister put to death on live television, but he can't help himself.