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Top tier cosmic horror.

Joseph attacks his material like a beat poet on DMT. Eminently listenable. Even if you pay no attention to the content of what's being said, it'll flip switches in your brain and put you in an entirely different mindset.Let's be clear though, don't ignore the content. It's a rich and unique story about power, malice, and corruption. At times Wireland Ranch is an indictment of the pains inflicted by capitalism, at other times it is a reflection of the inherent suffering of simply being human.Listen to this show. You won't regret it.

Wireland Ranch stands out as an interesting esoteric AD that focuses on a dark interpretation of Americana by alluding the issues that plague it. Amd connecting it to eldritch horror on a way that is not unknown but identifiable is a great inversion of the concept. What stands out is it great sound design and descriptions of phenomena, monsters, and even states of emotion that truly immerses you to the experience. I plan on making addendum to this review after I listened to its current episodes. I recommend it.

Half of the time i have no idea what's going on, the rest i get mezmerized by the sound design. All of the time i get a immediate dopamine rush when I see a new episode. If you haven't listened to this wonderful, fucked up anticapitalist masterpiece yet, it's time to stop reading reviews and start downloading

Like antiestablishment? American Gothic horror? Or Eldritch postmodernism? This show comes from around the bend. This is Wireland Ranch.Wireland Ranch is the creation of Joseph Rutledge, who created the series based around a certain term: Dark Magic Capitalism. The series follows different characters like Agent Orange amongst others as we hear the stories of the twisted world that is the United States. Following some nefarious big businesses like Mojave Logistics, we enter into the psychedelic nightmare world where what is normal in America amounts to horror in a way that can only be crafted by something that is basically a special kind of poetry.Just letting you know Wireland Ranch is not a happy series, it's a very brutal one, it’s also something that you have to pay real attention to. I’ll admit when I started listening to Wireland, it wasn’t easy for me to follow. The way things are said in series are more akin to what you hear from stories from the old days like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson or I have No Mouth and I Must Scream from Harlan Ellison or even Blood Meridian from Cormac MacCarthy. In short, it’s a type of American poetic prose you don’t see much nowadays, which kudos to Mr. Rutledge for keeping that poetic style alive in the audio drama sphere. Just know sometimes the prose is very abstract so some things may be hard to understand and certain parts of the narrative is more almost like a stream of consciousness, but when you understand and are made clear about what is being mentioned, it hits hard. Thesis of Wireland is there are a lot of damning things that American hegemony or capitalism has done to our history and such examples of episodes showing that include the likes of the Citigroup Memos (which I think is an underrated bonus episode) and the story about 9/11. The overall message of Wireland Ranch is that the powerful really don’t care about you and have been exploiting the vulnerable to the point of depravity, and America is really unique in its system that locks you into something you can not really escape from because it’s everywhere, which is where the vibes of cosmicism. However, the lesson that can be said is that you don’t have to play the game that you were meant to lose, and if everyone knows this, maybe something will be different. But the dark magic force called capitalism will give you a hell of a time to make sure you don’t know this. It’s not a series to feel good about, but it’s definitely something that has a place in audio dramas. It’s more a show that has an awareness that the normalcy of our society is more or less a dreadful reality.

No matter what you've listened to... I guarantee you've never heard anything else like Wireland Ranch. A fiction podcast so unique it's almost a completely different expression of art. Intense, unflinching and viciously fascinating. The sharp societal skewers are rendered with horrifying clarity and blended seamlessly with a killer soundtrack and liquid-smooth poetic prose. I'm grasping for comparison. Nothing else in Audio Fiction matches the raw careening energy of Wireland Ranch. There are a lot of shaking fists in the world, but nothing else is punching this hard.

Alright so upfront you are going to need some various colored string and thumbtacks for this show. This story is very well written and will keep your attention while having you second guessing everything you think you know is going on. The sound design is freaking awesome and really helps pull you in. Join me on a journey through the chaos to find what unknowable frights and delights await the driver at Wireland Ranch.

Hands down the weirdest, most trippy show I've heard all year. And I mean all of that in the best possible way. If you like weird things, you'll love this. I did!

A spooky, psychedelic jaunt into the incomprehensible. The people involved in this show clearly put so much heart and effort into making it as good as it is! The narration is fantastic and I love what seems to be a focus on the working class and how the horrors of society fit with the wider cosmic horror of Wireland Ranch.

One of my top favorite podcasts. I just literally yelled it out in recommendation. The flow of the writing and narration is sublime, the characters distinct (and aptly horrific), and while it can take a moment to get your bearings, that seems entirely intentional. After that you know exactly what you're in for, what this is about. This isn't just cosmic horror, it's the horror of every day life, it's corporate horror, it's the horror of existing in a world where the scales have never been balanced and those with the most power put all their effort to keep it that way.I can't get enough of Wireland Ranch. Thank you, Joseph Rutledge, for all of the work it takes to create and share it with us.