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Binder Interview with Jamie and Hayley

March 7, 2023·25 min·2 clips

Why did the creators of Palimpsest, with half a million downloads, choose horror as their storytelling medium?

The feed opens with an interruption. Jamie tells listeners the show is on hiatus while season five is planned, then brings out an interview that feels tucked away from last fall. The place matters: after fifth-anniversary live shows, Ray McManus sat down with Jamie Ridenour and Haley Henninger at the Columbia Museum of Art for Binder. The mood is loose, but the talk keeps finding Palimpsest territory: childhood stories, family warnings, and ghosts that sit too close to ordinary memory. A father tells scary stories. A New England vacation turns into a small domestic haunting, with a bride on the beach and a house pointed out after dark. A mother tells him to stop. The moment stays funny and uneasy at once. Then the conversation folds inward. Haley talks about horror and depression, not as a neat answer, but as a way of looking at the haunting from the outside. Jamie talks craft. For him, the ghost only works when the character already has a wound for it to press on. The joke about finding that wound and exploiting it lands colder than expected, because the writing clearly takes pain seriously. Alice, the Gray Man, and a graveyard memory drift through like local ghosts. By the end, the interview still feels close to the show itself: horror starts when ordinary life already knows how to hurt.

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A conversational Palimpsest interview about horror, gothic storytelling, and growing up haunted.

This episode pairs Jamie and Haley with Ray McManus in a conversational look at horror, gothic storytelling, and what it means to grow up haunted.

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If you want horror talk that feels personal, literary, and a little haunted, start here.

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