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Terrible tales for traumatic times. Pressing the Flesh is a short-fiction audio zine bringing you brief tales from a world where the sins of the powerful are as cruel as they feel, and none can escape the banality of evil. Blending comedy, horror, and unknowable powers, each episode presents a new story of the embarrassing losers who hold the fate of the world in their hands and the frightened sycophants who grin while they wretch at the taste of their boots. Listen, delight, despair.

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Ep 12 / The Funland

2026/10/23

The senator has a story to tell. It's his favorite. It makes him feel strong and threatening, brave and cruel. He tells it on every first date. Yet at the sightless bottom of moral comprehension, where the ragged scraps of compassion collect in the damp angles, it's hard to remember whether you picked up enough snacks. Content warning: small talk, torture, and a horse.

Ep 11 / The Deadly Precipice of Redistribution

2026/10/16

Did you listen to the new episode of the oldest show? Have you let the unrelenting details of what remains trample across your soft membranes? Radio is the new seeing. We've demolished our reflections and remade our hero in their image, an idol we can dream of grinding our spirits into a byproducts row on the P&L sheet. Don't miss the afterpod chatback ,sponsored by Sirius Data Center.gov/sunchips.

Ep 10 / The Lunch Order

2026/10/09

Who invited this guy? Make sure to grab your authorized sandwich, and sign the protein pledge. We've only got 10 minutes until we're back in session and I'm juggling the needs of the few with a rusty boot knife for the many. To feed the dirt, we need to poison the well. Seriously, who ordered the spicy gray steak sampler cup?

Ep 9 / The Executive's Dream

2026/10/02

Just dropped a meeting on your calendar and it's everything to worry about. I could have been an email, but that would take all the meat out of the flense. These towering few deserve to feel the separation of muscle and future beneath their calfskin bluchers. Attendance is compulsory, grief is mandatory.

Ep 8 / The Invite

2026/09/25

A short scene from a long drive. Squirming and performing to keep calm claws locked in until the breeders die. A birth for both siders that can't just respect what they believe. That vile incubator is here for the right reasons. Trigger warning: quality time.

Ep 7 / The Devil and The deepbluecoin.eth

2026/09/18

We speak in small transactions, each word a contract. Understood syllables promise meaning and shared belief in a common veil. Some people talk too much. Anyway, it's happy hour at Viernes Cantina, and it's nothing but deals all around.

Series 2 Trailer

2026/08/24

Pressing the Flesh returns! Coming in September we've got six all new tales of modern horror and dreadful folly. Series Two features even more charmless devils, hateful creatures, and familiar fiends. New episodes drop every Friday starting September 18th on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts . Pressing the Flesh, terrible tales for terrible times.

Ep 6 / Three Wishes

2025/10/15

In the final episode of Series One, a desperate senator calls on a magical being to remake the nation in his image. Nobody is happy with the results.

Ep 5 / Press Conference

2025/10/08

It's a bad day for everyone at the latest government press briefing. Can the miracle of birth save the vibe? Warning for those who suffer from sympathetic wretching.

Ep 4 / Where's the Slime Boy?

2025/10/01

Dating in D.C. can be a nightmare, but it can't be as bad as expressing the president's aggravated boils. Can it?

Ep 3 / A Routine Stop

2025/09/24

At a remote interstate border crossing, a mother and daughter face a troubling examination. Luckily one of the guards is a girl dad.

Ep 2 / Speak Gold to Mammon

2025/09/17

Once again the Order of Mammon's Cup has gathered. Are there any IT rockstars in the audience?

Ep 1 / Debrief

2025/09/10

It's all shame, cruelty, and fear as an ICE agent shares a transformative experience with an AI agent.

Trailer

2025/08/29

Welcome to Pressing the Flesh, a short fiction podcast bringing you terrible tales from turbulent times just like our own. The first episode of the season will release on September 10th, 2025, with each new episode releasing every Wednesday. Each installment of the first six-episode series features new writing and music by Eric Alexander Grundhauser. For lovers of strange fiction and enemies of the ruling class.