{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpagenerd.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fintercepts-8mxVD6lR","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Intercepts, by T.J. Payne","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/a3a1ed52-a4f5-40e3-b791-5f2fc9dffc18/2553fc88-3bf1-4276-9942-eaec4bbc9908/ep7_intercepts.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/b1252e56-d631-4d27-ab36-e6c8231e7a23\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Intercepts, by T.J. Payne\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"The Intercepts is an excellent beach read if you’re deeply unwell. It’s also the Pagenerds very first horror sci-fi, so thanks T.J. Payne. \nThe novel drops us into a secret government facility where people are kept underground and understimulated for some… experimentation. We uncover what in the MKUltra is going on through the eyes of a program manager and his teenage daughter. There’s a beige, middle-management, banality-of-evil vibe— and then it gets properly haunted-house scary.\nHuge shoutout to Jay, our producer, who is famously squeamish and still edited this episode.\nIf you like your sci-fi with some gore, this book is for you. If you don’t, let us spoil it for you.\nWe love you, ‘nerds. Thanks so much for listening!"}