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Wool-Shift-Dust does Dune
elysiacb
Frequency: 1 episode/14d. Total Eps: 61

Join us for an in-depth dive into Frank Herbert's novel Dune and all of the adaptations of that story.
Using the most famous science-fiction book ever written as our base, we're looking at the choices made in different times by different creators: How does one adapt a story that's been deemed unadaptable – what worked, and what didn't? And how does each attempt leave a deeper understanding of this rich galaxy of politics, philosophy, and lore?
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Also, browse our feed for our in-depth coverage of Silo, Apple TV+’s dystopic scifi thriller, from two different perspectives: book reader Elysia, and show-only Luke, with spoilers only up to the episode discussed and equivalent parts of the book.
Plus past holiday specials like the endless variations of A Christmas Carol as well as It's a Wonderful Life / Knife, The Craft films, and Edgar Allan Poe and The Fall of the House of Usher coverage – not to mention our coverage of both seasons of Beacon 23 – Hugh Howey's other TV adaptation.
Bluesky: @elysiacb & @lukemiddup
And Discord: https://discord.gg/8CeM9crU
Email us: WoolShiftDustPodcast@gmail.com
Join the Wool-Shift-Dust Book Cub:
Supercast (preferred): https://woolshiftdustbookclub.supercast.com/
Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/WoolShiftDust/
Silo season passes: https://siloseasonpasses.supercast.com/
Published by The Lorehounds. (c) Elysia Brenner 2023-2025
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"Nevermind the Music" in this new Lorehounds podcast!
mardi 10 septembre 2024 • Duration 04:28
Calling all music fans! The Lorehounds network’s first music podcast, Nevermind the Music, is officially launching on September 10 – where two friends and academics filter their appreciation of music through the frameworks of psychology, music theory, and irreverent humor.
Stick around some quick announcements from Elysia for a 5-minute preview of Nevermind the Music. And then visit the link below to hear more!
Check out Nevermind the Music
https://thelorehounds.com/podcast/nevermind-the-music
Get in touch: NeverMusicPod@gmail.com
Find them on Instagram @nevermusicpod
Wool-Shift-Dust links
Email us: WoolShiftDustPodcast@gmail.com
Social media: Twitter – Threads – Bluesky
Or on the Lorehounds Discord: https://discord.gg/gM5VhTea2T
Join the Book Club
On Supercast: https://woolshiftdustbookclub.supercast.com/
Or Patreon: https://patreon.com/WoolShiftDust
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Silo S2 – Comic Con news!
Episode 29
mercredi 14 août 2024 • Duration 45:27
As Hugh Howey promised, this year's San Diego Comic Con featured a juicy panel on Silo season 2, full of reveals – including the addition of Steve Zahn in a key role, and even more importantly...it's already returning to our screens on November 15th! Elysia and Luke talk through it all.
(This episode includes spoilers for the entire first season of Silo, plus the first half of the book Wool. Plus some of the information revealed at Comic Con about the first episode of the new season. Not further future plot twists are spoiled.)
Press referenced
EW print interview: https://ew.com/silo-season-2-preview-graham-yost-exclusive-8676809
Screen Rant print interview: https://screenrant.com/silo-season-2-episode-1-footage-description-juliette-sdcc/
Apple TV+ tattoo vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiVr54aeXwI
IGN video interview: https://youtu.be/Qs9HFbW5Tec?si=KMcgGZC6FG0hRIMI
Join the Book Club
On Supercast: https://woolshiftdustbookclub.supercast.com/
Or Patreon: https://patreon.com/WoolShiftDust
Email us: WoolShiftDustPodcast@gmail.com
Find us on Twitter: @elysiacb, @LukeMIDDUP
Or on the Lorehounds Discord: https://discord.gg/gM5VhTea2T
Website: https://thelorehounds.com/podcast/wool-shift-dust-a-silo-tv-podcast
Music: "Rendered Mechanical" by TeknoAXE
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B23 & Dune updates + Oscars prep preview!
Episode 23
lundi 4 mars 2024 • Duration 21:54
You are overdue an update – so here it is! Elysia fills you in on what's been going on, what's coming next (it's the episodes you've been owed!), and then drops a 15-minute teaser of the 2024 Oscars prep series she and David have been cooking up over on The Lorehounds feed.
If you like what you hear in this preview, you can listen to episode 1 (of 3) here: Oscars – Part 1 – The Headliners
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It's a Wonderful Life / Knife multiverse
Episode 22
dimanche 24 décembre 2023 • Duration 02:35:34
Happy Holidays from Wool-Shift-Dust! In this winter special, Elysia and Luke explore one of the original alternate timeline stories: the iconic It's a Wonderful Life (1946), plus the other films it spawned – including remake It Happened One Christmas (1977), the amusingly terrible unofficial sequel Clarence (1990), and the looser remakes It's a Very Merry Muppets Christmas (2002), The Christmas Spirit (2013), and the 2023 horror comedy It's a Wonderful Knife. Don't worry if you haven't seen any of them – we'll recap them all, and then talk about why you should care, and all the good, the bad, and the ugly within.
Also, Elysia explains "The Greatest Gift," the short story It's a Wonderful Life is based on, (with a special performance by DeadEyeJediBob) – plus the song "Auld Lang Syne" – in the Wool-Shift-Dust Book Club.
See also...
Planet Money talks the economics of It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life, the musical
It's a Wonderful Life: The Lost Ending
This You Call a Wonderful Life?
"Franz Kafka’s It’s A Wonderful Life"
Find us on Twitter @elysiacb and @LUKEMIDDUP
And discuss the show with us on Discord
Or email us at WoolShiftDustPodcast@gmail.com.
Published by The Lorehounds
Produced by Elysia Brenner
Intro & outro music: "Land of Ice and Snow" by HygieusMusic
Additional SFX from Freesound.org
Find us also on the podcasts...
The Lorehounds (Elysia)
It Could Be Said (Luke)
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Beacon 23: S1-E3–5 – Rocky & rolling
Episode 21
dimanche 10 décembre 2023 • Duration 02:49:27
Book-reader Elysia and show-only Luke tackle the central arc of Beacon 23 season one, episides 3–5: "Why Can't We Go on as Three?," "God in the Machine," and "Rocky." We point out all the things you might have missed (without spoiling ahead) and suss out what it all means – from the AI origin story to telepathic rocks to the first character from the books to finally show up (non-readers won't believe who it is).
Spoilers through episode 5, and no further. Check back in this feed in two weeks for the combined breakdown of episodes 6 & 7!
Also, Abi and Elysia break down everything that happens in the book Beacon 23 (and all the Silo books) in the Wool-Shift-Dust Book Club.
Find us on Twitter @elysiacb and @LUKEMIDDUP
And discuss the show with us on Discord
Or email us at WoolShiftDustPodcast@gmail.com.
And leave feedback on the Wool-Shift-Dust posts on r/beacon23
Published by The Lorehounds
Produced by Elysia Brenner
Intro & outro music: "Magnetic Universe" by Adrian Earnshaw & Benedict Roff-Marsh
Additional SFX from Freesound.org
Find us also on the podcasts...
The Lorehounds (Elysia)
It Could Be Said (Luke)
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Beacon 23: S1-E1&2 – Double-premiere explained
Episode 20
lundi 20 novembre 2023 • Duration 02:10:08
With no future book spoilers, book-reader Elysia and show-only Luke dig into the first two episodes of Beacon 23, the new space-centric sci-fi on MGM+ starring Lena Heady and Stephan James, adapted from the Book by Hugh Howey. Find out why the title of the pilot, "Corbenic," is apt, why the quantum tunneler is low-key the coolest tech on the show, and which couple we're really shipping.
And then see you back in this feed to check in on episodes 3-5!
Find us on Twitter @elysiacb and @LUKEMIDDUP
And discuss the show with us on Discord
Or email us at WoolShiftDustPodcast@gmail.com.
And leave feedback on the Wool-Shift-Dust posts on r/beacon23
Published by The Lorehounds
Produced by Elysia Brenner
Intro & outro music: "Magnetic Universe" by Adrian Earnshaw & Benedict Roff-Marsh
Additional SFX from Freesound.org
Luke also co-hosts It Could Be Said
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Beacon 23: Spoiler-free preview!
Episode 19
vendredi 10 novembre 2023 • Duration 44:38
Elysia and Luke leave the Silo behind (for now) to jet off into space for Beacon 23. In this episode we lay out what it is, what we expect, and break down the trailer and clips released (links below).
Beacon 23 is the newest Hugh Howey adaptation to hit the screen, in the new series debuting on MGM+ November 12. Lena Heady and Stephen James are caught in a lighthouse on the edges of space – can they trust each other enough to make it through the threats ahead? And will any characters from the book actually appear in this TV version? Get into it with us.
Find us on Twitter @elysiacb and @LUKEMIDDUP
And discuss the show with us on Discord
Published by The Lorehounds
Produced by Elysia Brenner
Intro & outro music: "Magnetic Universe" by Adrian Earnshaw & Benedict Roff-Marsh
Additional SFX from Freesound.org
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The Fall of the House of Usher & Edgar Allan Poe
Episode 18
lundi 30 octobre 2023 • Duration 02:35:00
Happy Halloween from Wool-Shift-Dust! In this special episode Elysia is joined by her real-life horror-loving sister, Ashley, to break down the Netflix horror special The Fall of the House of Usher. We go deep into the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe to dig up all the dirt Mike Flanagan use to sculpt this excellent adaptation – expect information and insight laced with silliness and some spooky sound effects, touching on all the important topics from which Poe story episode 6 is really based on to all the juicy gossip about Poe's biggest romances and rivalries.
Check out the rest of the House of Usher crossover series:
The Influence of Poe on George R.R. Martin
Lorehounds Fall of the House of Usher One-Shot
Intro & outro music: "Down" by Joey Pacararo
Interstitial music: "The Haunted House" by the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra
Post-credit music, lyrics: "The Haunted Palace" by Edgar Allan Poe, verse 4
Sung by: Elysia Brenner ("Fall of the House of Usher" Book Club audio drama)
Accompaniment: "House of the Rising Sun" classic guitar cover by Pavel Krasnokutskiy
Additional SFX courtesy of Freesound.org
Produced by Elysia Brenner
Published by The Lorehounds
Find Elysia on Twitter: @elysiacb
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Preview: Severance from The Lorehounds & Properly Howard
mercredi 25 octobre 2023 • Duration 11:17
Announcing a new podcast on the Lorehounds network! Listen to the complete (spoiler-free) preview episode here, and then follow the link below to check out the rest of the episodes as they releas here (or anywhere else you listen to podcasts):
https://thelorehounds.com/podcast/severance-the-lorehounds-properly-howard
Steve and Anthony from Properly Howard and David and John from The Lorehounds announce their joint venture to cover Severance on Apple TV+.
Contact Us
Questions, comments and/or theories? Send us an email at severance@thelorehounds.com and we’ll get back to you on the next episode.
Find us on Twitter @thelorehounds, on YouTube at youtube.com/@thelorehounds, or join us for further discussion of all things Severance over on our Discord Server.
Listen to Steve and Anthony's Podcast
Listen to David and John's Podcast
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Electric Bookaloo crossover: George RR Martin & Edgar Allan Poe
Episode 17
mercredi 25 octobre 2023 • Duration 35:57
Elysia joins Maester Anthony for this crossover episode with Electric Bookaloo: a House of the Dragon podcast to discuss Edgar Allan Poe's influence on Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin – especially Poe's short story "The Fall of the House of Usher." We get into Martin-Poe anecdotes and literary analysis as we prep for the Netflix adaptation of this iconic tale.
Electric Bookaloo feed:
https://baldmove.com/category/game-of-thrones/
(available on all podcast platforms)
Wool-Shift-Dust Book Club "The Fall of the House of Usher" / "The Raven" readings with full audio effects:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twice-times-poe-91501961
This conversation previously appeared in two parts as part of these two episodes:
https://baldmove.com/game-of-thrones/electric-bookaloo-arya-viii-clash/
https://baldmove.com/game-of-thrones/electric-bookaloo-theon-iii-clash/
Published by The Lorehounds
Find Elysia on Twitter: @elysiacb
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