- Silo: S3-e10 – "Troy" of Helen
Elysia helps Luke unpack all the surprises for show-only viewers in this wild and brutal season finale – while representing book readers in doing a celebratory dance of all the book elements finally being shown on screen! They dive into the Operations of Silo 1, "Troy" and Victor's many cryptic facial expressions, and all our questions for listeners at home. Along the way, the community weighs in on everything from inside intel on the accuracy of Daniel's Congressional service and last episode's Portland references to fan theories that drill down to the most essential worldbuilding questions still on the table and/or have Luke handing over his tin-foil supply for hat-making.
Join us on our most epic journey yet through the apocalypse.
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It's an episode of goodbyes... It's an episode of new beginnings... Elysia and Luke say "Farewell" to the old order in episode 9 of season 3 of Silo on Apple TV. From sharing code words to the nature of nukes to (future-spoiler-free) book comparisons, both break out fresh new rolls of hat-ready tinfoil for their deepest dive yet.
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Links mentioned:
- Nuclear explosion app: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
- 'Security by antiquity': Why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers (BBC, Aug 24)
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Elysia and Luke stop the world to melt with the characters of "Gray Goo" – episode 8 of season 3 of Silo on Apple TV – an episode that sees many pairs, both romantic and platonic, mending fences. They break down the massive tiny-tech reveals as they welcome back the Beforetimes League and Silovengers new and old, and look ahead to the carnage sure to come as this rollercoaster season nears its conclusion.
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Silo season 3, episode 7 ("Radio") turns up the pace in both past and present, and Elysia and Luke are back to make sure that you haven't missed any of the details – or their often chilling implications. Tune in for talk running the gamut from forgetting to footsies, billionaires to the Billingses. (Not to mention one Gloria-ous return with a Mission book dive.)
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Show-universe short story referenced:
Read "Relic #1175: The Mystery of the Pez” (Apple Books)
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Just past the mid-season moment where many tables have turned, Luke and Elysia are back with a mailbag full of community comments and questions about episodes 3 through 6 of Silo season 3. From the funniest and most far-fetched possibilities about lightware thievery, murder suspects, and fatherhood to earnest inquiries into the government and daily operations of the silo system and the characters within it, together we all share our hopes, gripes, praises, and personal artifacts that could become silo relics.
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As Juliette negotiates with the Voice and a car ride gets flirty in "The Drive" – episode 6 of season 3 of Silo on Apple TV – Elysia and Luke pry into the personal lives of their favorite characters and speculate on what might really be going on behind the scenes, in both this episode and the next.
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Apple surprise-dropped a new short story on us: a show-universe journal compiled by the character Robert Sims detailing his investigations into the mysterious Pez dispenser relic that has haunted all three seasons of the Silo series on Apple TV. In this bonus podcast episode, Elysia and Luke discuss some of the highlights of this new novelette, from fresh insights into the mind of Robert Sims to mentions of other relics that might have deep implications for future revelations to come in the show itself.
Warning: This booklet and this episode both contain show spoilers through season 3, episode 5.
Read "Relic #1175: The Mystery of the Pez” (Apple Books)
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It's time to puzzle together the missing pieces of Juliette's "Memory" – not to mention all the things she didn't know – in episode 5 of season 3 of Silo on Apple TV. Luke and Elysia question lightbulbs, the state of the couple Sims, cat identity, and whether they need to rename the Simsnard scale, before launching into an inquiry behind certain self-driving vehicles and the important question of the ideal Silo 18 blunt rotation.
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As Daniel and Helen's investigation heats up in one timeline, and Juliette is back on the run in another, Silo season 3, episode 4 reminds its characters "Whatever You Do, Don't Go Home." And Luke and Elysia pick apart all the investigations, the subtly dropped references, and the webs of alliances in this game-changing entry into the mid-season stretch.
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"A Dark Web" – episode 3 of season 3 of Silo on Apple TV – has Luke and Elysia mining both show reveals and first-book canon to figure out what exactly our characters might be digging up this week. From close encounters of a hacker kind in Silo 18's distant past, which is looking increasingly like our present, to reforged bonds in relationships old and new, we're poring over every detail like we're Sheriff Billings prepping for a Pact competition. And then asking... But what if this were a 1950s Noir?
The WTF Cloud encounter (Apple TV YT clip)
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The community at large checks in on vibes from characters old and new, the most intriguing mysteries of the third season of Silo (through episode 2), and other assorted theories casting new light on the stocks of Supply and more.
Plus, Nichole, Nevermind the Music's psychology professor, drops in to address the real science behind this season's memory manipulations.
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Elysia and Luke celebrate the return of a long-awaited character and the introduction of one of Elysia's book favorites, and the many moral quandaries he lays on the table. Checking in first on the origin story, Luke lays out his now assuredly more refined non-reader theories, and then (with little book basis) both ponder the mysteries of the happenings of Silo 18, from missing persons to the Algorithm's latest revelations.
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Elysia and Luke will jog your foggy memories with a deep dive into "Who Are You?" – the first episode of Silo season 3 on Apple TV – including reminders of where we left key characters and events at the end of season 2. Elysia dishes on which characters come from the books and which are completely new, while Luke adds key military intel and fresh new tin-foil hat, non-reader theories about the past and present of Daniel, Juliette, and the rest.
Hugh Howey's recent blog post about book changes (full book spoilers!)
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy2h 32m - Jul 3, 2026 - Silo S3 – "There's a new [season] coming..." – trailer 2 breakdown
Elysia and Luke return to dissect the second (this time a full) trailer for season 3 of Silo, releasing weekly on Apple TV starting July 3. Going frame by frame, quote by quote, Elysia breaks down what's baffling to book readers (without any future spoilers) while show-only Luke cooks up some new (or reheats some old favorite) tinfoil-theories.
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With season 3 of Silo officially locked and loaded for a July 3rd premiere, book-reader Elysia and show-only Luke reconvene in IT to comb the new teaser trailer for clues and look through some new promotional images released by Apple to whet our anticipation. Tune in for a reminder of where we left things with certain key characters in season 2, and Luke's latest tin-foil-hat theories about what's really going on.
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy48m - May 10, 2026 - Dune ep 2 – The novel, Book 1: "Dune" (first half)
At long last, the original Dune novel breakdown series begins in earnest! Following up on their episode about the author Frank Herbert and creation of the book, this episode dives into the beginning of the story itself:
After an opening discussion of the significance and nuance of the overall story with David from the Lorehounds, where they lay the foundations for key vocabulary and themes (00:26:11), including the complexities of Paul Atreides, the balance of powers in the universe, and how the timeline of Dune relates to our own, Elysia and Luke break down the first 10 chapters of the novel (00:48:20), the first half of Book 1 (of 3): "Dune" – just through the hunter-seeker incident.
Warning: We do spoil key plot points in this book, and certain plot points of the follow-up books. Frank Herbert front-loaded those spoilers into this opening section himself, so we're pointing them out and talking about how it all connects.
Key places, characters, groups, and other vocab discussed this episode...
• Paul Atreides: Mau'dib, Kwisatz Haderach (more titles to come)
• The Bene Gesserit: Missionaria Protectiva, Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, truthsayers, the gom jabbar, the Voice, the Litany Against Fear
• The Corrino Empire: Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV, Princess Irulan (writer, Bene Gesserit), the Sardaukar (Imperial army), Salusa Secundus (Sardaukar home planet)
• The balance of power: The Landsraad (Great Houses) / CHOAM Company, the Spacing Guild, the Bene Gesserit – weapons & protection: shield belts, kinjal knife, lasguns, kanly (formal blood fued) – religion: the Butlerian Jihad (ancient war against thinking machines), the Orange-Catholic Bible
• House Atreides: Caladan (water planet), Duke Leto (father), Lady Jessica (mother, Bene Gesserit), Thufir Hawat (Mentat: sapho juice), Dr. Wellington Yueh (Suk Doctor), Duncan Idaho (Swordmaster, ambassador to the Fremen), Gurney Halleck (Warmaster, baliset player)
• House Harkonnen: Giedi Prime (planet), Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (suspensor suspendors), Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen (nephew, heir), Pieter de Vries (Mentat, ambassador to Arrakis),
• House Fenring: The Count and his wife Margot (Bene Gesserit) – Previous inhabitants of the palace in Arrakeen, now swapped and in control of Caladan
• Arrakis (planet: "Dune"): Spice melange, Arrakeen (capital city), the Weirding Room, Fremen culture, crysknife, Shai-Hulud (sandworm), stillsuits
• Fremen (people): Shadout Mapes (head housekeeper), Liet-Kynes (Planetary Ecologist, Judge of the Change), Chani (Kynes' daughter)
Coming up in this series...
• Dune, the novel: Books 1b, 2, and 3
• Ranking the novel's most iconic scenes
• Jodorowsky's Dune
• Dune 1984
• The Dune games
• Syfy's Dune
• Villeneuve's Dune trilogy
• Dune: Messiah (the novel)
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The Lorehounds (Elysia)
The Star Wars Canon Timeline Podcast (Elysia)
It Could Be Said (Luke)
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy2h 34m - Apr 28, 2026 - A Christmas Carol Twists, part 2: Magoo, Ameri-Canadianacana, Hallmark, & Christmas Karma
It is time for Luke and Elysia's 2025 Christmas Carol adaptation blitz to come to a close with five of the most fun movies of the bunch, from the first ever Christmas special through the Great Depression and the Old West to love in the Aussie airline air to an underexplored history of Uganda.
Watch the films yourself, or let them recap them for you, pointing out all the best and/or most ridiculous bits.
Films discussed this episode:
- Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962) – YouTube mini doc
- An American Christmas Carol (1979)
- Ebenezer (1998)
- Christmas Above the Clouds (2025)
- Christmas Karma (2025)
This year's Christmas Carol classics (already released): Scrooge (1913), Scrooge (1935), The Stingiest Man in Town (1956), The Stingiest Man in Town (1975), Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)
Dark Christmas Carols (already released): FX's A Christmas Carol (2019) vs. Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
Catch up on the "five staves" of last year's Dickens specials...
I – It all begins with the short opening notes episode, which sets the stage for all our Dickens Christmas coverage
II – The Dickens novella A Christmas Carol, and an audio drama of his short story "The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton" (Supercast, Patreon)
III – Many of the most classic classic Christmas Carol adaptations
IV – An intermezzo on Dickens' life and the creation of this tale
V – Finally, our first round-up of cinematic twists on the classic tale
2023 holiday special: The It's a Wonderful Life / Knife multiverse
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Produced by Elysia Brenner
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Intro & outro music: "Land of Ice and Snow" by HygieusMusic
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy2h 41m - Dec 24, 2025 - Dark Christmas Carols: FX's A Christmas Carol (2019) vs. Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
Elysia and Luke's A Christmas Carol discussion takes a darker turn in this lore-down between the Guy Pearce-starring, BBC co-produced 2019 version – which adds some grimer touches to Scrooge's tale – and the 1964 Twilight Zone-like variation created to advertise the importance of the UN at a time when the US and world in general were on the brink of one war and fully entering another. They'll give you all the history, psychology, and sociology you need to get more out of these two tales of existential dread.
Note: Apologies for the mic issues in this episode, but we hope you enjoy the history and psychology deep dives!
Films discussed this episode:
- FX's A Christmas Carol (2019)
- Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
The promised links:
- Explore "hopepunk" with Elysia and Nevermind the Music
- Luke's book: The Powell Doctrine and US Foreign Policy (Military Strategy and Operational Art) (Amazon)
- Abigail Thorn reads A Christmas Carol for charity
This year's Christmas Carol classics (already released): Scrooge (1913), Scrooge (1935), The Stingiest Man in Town (1956), The Stingiest Man in Town (1975), Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)
This season's final episode: More Christmas Carol Twists – Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962), An American Christmas Carol (1979), Ebenezer (1998), Christmas Above the Clouds (2025), Christmas Karma (2025)
Catch up on the "five staves" of last year's Dickens specials...
I – It all begins with the short opening notes episode, which sets the stage for all our Dickens Christmas coverage
II – The Dickens novella A Christmas Carol, and an audio drama of his short story "The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton" (Supercast, Patreon)
III – Many of the most classic classic Christmas Carol adaptations
IV – An intermezzo on Dickens' life and the creation of this tale
V – Finally, our first round-up of cinematic twists on the classic tale
2023 holiday special: The It's a Wonderful Life / Knife multiverse
Join the Book Club
On Supercast: https://woolshiftdustbookclub.supercast.com/ (The Silozen level is equivalent to Patreon benefits)
Or Patreon: https://patreon.com/WoolShiftDust
Email us: WoolShiftDustPodcast@gmail.com
Find us on Bluesky: @elysiacb & @lukemiddup
Or on the Lorehounds Discord: https://discord.gg/gM5VhTea2T
Find us also on the podcasts...
The Lorehounds (Elysia)
The Star Wars Canon Timeline Podcast (Elysia)
It Could Be Said (Luke)
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Produced by Elysia Brenner
Published by The Lorehounds
Intro & outro music: "Land of Ice and Snow" by HygieusMusic
Additional SFX from Freesound.org & Ovani Sound
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy2h 17m - Dec 24, 2025 - A Christmas Carol Classics, take 2: Seymour Hicks, The Stingiest Man, & Jim Carrey
'Tis the season for the many flavors of A Christmas Carol to rear their heads – the good, the bad, and the ugly. Luke and Elysia sort the wheat from the chaff (and all the in betweens) in their second round of tackling the classic adaptations.
Films discussed this episode:
- Scrooge (1913) – silent short
- Scrooge (1935) – first feature-length talkie
- The Stingiest Man in Town (1956) – "lost" (and found) TV musical – album version: Spotify (without narration), Deezer
- The Stingiest Man in Town (1975) – Rankin/Bass animated short – YouTube doc short
- Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) – the animated one with Jim Carrey
Coming next episode: Dark Christmas Carols: FX's A Christmas Carol (2019) vs. Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
This season's final episode: More Christmas Carol Twists – Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962), An American Christmas Carol (1979), Ebenezer (1998), Christmas Above the Clouds (2025), Christmas Karma (2025)
Catch up on the "five staves" of last year's Dickens specials...
I – It all begins with the short opening notes episode, which sets the stage for all our Dickens Christmas coverage
II – The Dickens novella A Christmas Carol, and an audio drama of his short story "The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton" (Supercast, Patreon)
III – Many of the most classic classic Christmas Carol adaptations
IV – An intermezzo on Dickens' life and the creation of this tale
V – Finally, our first round-up of cinematic twists on the classic tale
2023 holiday special: The It's a Wonderful Life / Knife multiverse
Join the Book Club
On Supercast: https://woolshiftdustbookclub.supercast.com/ (The Silozen level is equivalent to Patreon benefits)
Or Patreon: https://patreon.com/WoolShiftDust
Email us: WoolShiftDustPodcast@gmail.com
Find us on Bluesky: @elysiacb & @lukemiddup
Or on the Lorehounds Discord: https://discord.gg/gM5VhTea2T
Find us also on the podcasts...
The Lorehounds (Elysia)
The Star Wars Canon Timeline Podcast (Elysia)
It Could Be Said (Luke)
Produced by Elysia Brenner
Published by The Lorehounds
Explore the Lorehounds network for more book / film / TV / game / music podcasts
Intro & outro music: "Land of Ice and Snow" by HygieusMusic
Additional SFX from Freesound.org & Ovani Sound
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy1h 26m - Dec 23, 2025 - Frankenstein (1931) & Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Ayesha from the Every Sci-Fi Film Ever podcast joins Elysia for a look at the classic Universal Monsters films Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935), discussing everything from on-set drama and injuries to Hollywood's new decency codes – to, of course, how the films both do and do not adapt the book they're based on.
As they dissect the philosophy and filmmaking behind these movies, they also set the stage for that period of mad-scientist filmmaking, and give an overview of how the adaptations of this story have gone from there – up to a preview of the new Guillermo del Toro movie Frankenstein (2025) and Maggie Gyllenhaal's upcoming The Bride! (2026).
Frankenstein on Every* SciFi Film Ever:
The 1st Frankenstein film (1910, 13 min)
1931 & 1935 film short docs:
- "The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made A Monster"
- "She's Alive! Creating the Bride of Frankenstein"
Frankensteins on Film (Letterboxd list)
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Produced by Elysia Brenner
Intro & outro music: “Castle of Dread” by Jaccob
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