PseudoPod 1029: Feeding the Choke-Tree
PseudoPod
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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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PseudoPod 1029: Feeding the Choke-Tree is a PseudoPod original. Okja “Straws,” I said. “Why straws?” “Because they’re cute, obviously,” said Foreman. “Don’t you think?” I squinted at them. Nearly a dozen were inching around his feet. As I watched, one flopped onto his boot, looking like a second shoelace. I guessed you could have called them cute—if you happened to be…
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| 0:00.0 | Pseudopod is extruded into this universe from a dimension of purest fear. |
| 0:04.6 | It's beautiful in its own alien way. |
| 0:07.9 | But what's to come will unsettle you. |
| 0:12.5 | Sudapod is made by humans and intended for human listeners, |
| 0:16.1 | because the short version of my name is Al, not AI. |
| 0:22.9 | Sudapod, episode |
| 0:24.4 | 1029, 15th May, |
| 0:27.5 | 2026. This week's story, |
| 0:30.9 | Feeding the Choke Tree by R.J. Gerard, |
| 0:34.1 | narrated by Bob Eccles, |
| 0:36.0 | hosted by Alastair Stewart, audio production by Graham Dunlop. |
| 0:41.5 | Welcome to Sudapod, the weekly horror podcast. I'm Alistair, your host, and this week's story comes to us from R.J. Gerard, and is a Sudapod original. |
| 0:50.1 | Gerard is a sci-fi writer and journalist who was born in Virginia. He currently lives in Taiwan with his wife, two cats, and a very overworked coffee machine. |
| 0:59.3 | As the owner of four different methods of producing coffee and counting so far, |
| 1:03.5 | that's a choice I salute and admire. |
| 1:06.4 | Your narrator this week is Bob Eccles. |
| 1:08.7 | Bob is a parking enforcement officer with the University |
| 1:11.2 | of Michigan PD. He served in the US Army Military Police and is a 30-year radio broadcasting |
| 1:16.9 | veteran. Bob has previously appeared on our sister podcast, podcast, and has also written a few |
| 1:22.6 | horror short stories of his own. He's a member of the HWA, the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers, |
| 1:28.8 | and the Fictioneers. So join us, delicious friends, beneath the choke tree, because the truth is here, |
| 1:37.4 | and the truth is hungry. |
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