Hi Nay, literally translated to “Hi Mom”, is a supernatural horror fictional podcast about Filipina immigrant Mari Datuin, whose babaylan (shaman) family background accidentally gets her involved in stopping dangerous supernatural events in Toronto. Written, directed, produced, and created by Motzie Dapul and co-created by Reg Geli. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Season 1: Act 3 Pulong (Meeting) - Mari infiltrates the meeting between the Benefactor's Elder allies, in order to come face to face with Richard Henry - his right hand man. Things don't go quite to plan. - Content Warnings: Descriptions of murder, paranoia, gore (eyes), and cannibalism Hi Nay is a podcast produced by Motzie Dapul, Reg Geli, Yoyi H…
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Season 1: Act 3 Tanda (Elder / Record) - Mari calls Nanay and relays her fears about Donner's deception. She then shares about her meeting with CJ and Dooley, and discovering the truth behind the Journalist, J's, fate. She also agrees to meet with Vanessa Bartalotti about the upcoming gathering between all the Elders allied with the Benefactor. Bet…
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Season 1: Act 3 - Sinungaling (Lies) - Donner shares his side of the story, about his lone excursion into the William grave at the Toronto Necropolis. There he's almost killed, if not for supernatural intervention. In his recounting of the events, Donner lies. But then, so does Mari. - Content Warnings: Deception, mention of underground exploration…
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Original Idea Do Not Steal Happy April Fools Day everyone! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hey everyone! Here are our answers to this week's Q&A. The questions are below, as well as the list of songs we used in the background. Thanks so much for taking part! Questions: What was the inspiration for Hi Nay? The characters are so rich and fully realized, I’d love to know the origin of the story! How do you go about balancing character devel…
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Season 1: Act 3 - Ibig (Yearning) - The story of Richard Murphy, from when he first meets [redacted] Donner, to the night of Clifford Bolden's defeat. - Content Warnings: Passing references to cheating, suicidal ideation, obsession, self-loathing - Hi Nay is a podcast produced by Motzie Dapul, Reg Geli, Yoyi Halago and Alyssa Gimenez, and is licens…
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Season 1: Act 3 Aklatan (Library) Part 2 - Ashvin faces Clifford Bolden and lives, but experiences a painful loss in the process. - Content Warnings: References to religious extremism, murder - Hi Nay is a podcast produced by Motzie Dapul, Reg Geli, Yoyi Halago and Alyssa Gimenez, and is licensed under a creative commons attribution noncommercial s…
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Season 1: Act 3 Paalam, Elaine (Goodbye, Elaine) - Two Elaines tell their stories, on their terms. The first, the Elaine that entrapped the Elder, Clifford Bolden. The second, the Elaine that wrote a letter she never sent, about the life she lived after J disappeared. Also: Evelyn makes a promise. - Content Warnings: Dehumanization, memory issues, …
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Season 1: Act 3 Tauhan (Characters) (Takes place after Undas / Halloween) Mari finally calls her Nanay, and resumes her research of J's notes. Written in invisible ink, she learns about his final encounter with Clifford Bolden, and the secrets of the Foci he learned from Mary-Anne Weekes, and an unnamed Elder "friend". In this, he answers the quest…
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Remind Me To Tell You Later: Noche Buena (Excerpt) & Announcement
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Hi Nay returns Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 9PM EST/Toronto time! In the meantime, enjoy this excerpt from our Patreon-exclusive bonus episode, Remind Me To Tell You Later: Noche Buena! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Cross Posted from Hello From The Hallowoods In this bonus content episode, Mx. Wellman sits down for a conversation with Motzie Dapul to talk about the intersection of Phillippine folk horror and Toronto city life in her pivotal fiction podcast Hi Nay. A new Skull Sessions episode, featuring interviews with horror authors in the podcast world and b…
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Season 1: Act 3 Kaibigan (Friend) (Takes place before Undas / Halloween) Mari reads J's journals, and his thoughts on the Elder, Clifford Bolden - and his many books recounting the stories of the dead. We hear about the other side of Brenna's story, regarding Chris Parker and his house-sitting gig. Clifford Bolden (his friends call him "Cliff") spe…
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Season 1: Act 3 Kapitbahay (Neighbour) (Takes place before Undas / Halloween) One night, recounted in two tales. The first, by a young teen in the 1970s named Brenna - about the horrific death of her classmate and bully, Chris Parker, while she was at a housesitting gig next door. Ashvin and Evelyn find themselves in a certain Elder's library. - Co…
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Season 1: Act 3 Aklatan (Library) Kuweba (Cave) (Takes place before Undas / Halloween) Mari combs through Elaine O'Donnell's old papers and stumbles on stories of death, recorded by the mysterious Journalist, taken from the library of an Elder named "Bolden". The first story she reads is that of Sylvia Llewyn, and the mystery of Cohen cave. "I reme…
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Episode Swap: Visionaries Episode 1 (Eye for an Eye)
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Episode Swaps will now be posted on Wednesdays. If you're new to Hi Nay, follow us @hinaypod or check out our website! https://hinaypod.com/ SUPPORT US ON PATREON OR KO-FI: https://www.patreon.com/hinaypod https://ko-fi.com/hinaypod In the year 2185, the world is distinguished by two races – the Visionaries and the Dead-eye slaves. The Visionary ra…
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Season 1: Act 3 Aklatan (Library) Donner hunts for a powerful artifact before another Elder can get to it. Ashvin and Evelyn try (and fail) to join him. Dooley meets Laura and her Elder partner. Decades ago, the Journalist interviews an Elder named Clifford Bolden. - Content Warnings: Mentions of multiple deaths. CREDITS CONTENT WARNING: Mention of…
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Season 1: Act 3 Libingan (Burial Place) Donner, Ashvin and Evelyn prepare to search for the Book of Elders at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. A woman named Rosario details her time playing near the "William Crypt" in the Toronto Necropolis, and how she came to meet Pocket The Cat. - Content Warnings: Body horror, amalgamation, decapitation, blood, tombs - S…
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Season 1: Act 3 Alala (Memory / Worry) DJ In The Dark shares their experiences with an unsettled Toronto. Other Mari tells the story of people you may know. - Content Warnings: Mentions of attempted murder, paranoia, homophobia, religious nationalism, politically charged murder - Songs featured: "Thinkin Blues" "I Ain't Got Nobody" and "Dyin' By Th…
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FAN EXPO - Hi Nay Podcast Live Show Discussion
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Audio from the before and after of our very first Live Show at Fan Expo Canada. BIG THANKS to the Canadian Podcast Awards for making it all possible. You can listen to Episode 13.5 - Remind Me To Tell You Later: Tiktik for context anywhere you listen to podcasts. Discussion will centre on this episode, as well as Hi Nay as a whole. This audio featu…
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Episode Swap: The Night Post 2.10 - Last Delivery on the Left
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT pending from Hi Nay. You could get free stuff if you guess what it could be! Transcript below. - The Night Post is a Southern Gothic-inspired full-cast audio drama about the conscripted couriers of a strange land where the supernatural is commonplace, where the mystic and the mundane are not so easily separated. - Nicholas rides al…
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Episode 31: J & Dooley (The Hi Nay Pride Special) 🏳️🌈
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Retired Detective Dooley recounts his time dealing with supernatural threats with the mysterious nameless Journalist; from the first time they met, to the last night he ever saw him. - Content Warnings: Period-typical (1970s) racism and homophobia, police, flaying (referenced) - Hi Nay is a podcast produced by Motzie Dapul, Reg Geli, Yoyi Halago an…
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Episode 30: The St. Patrick’s Case (part 2)
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After Halloween, Mari is unresponsive. Then, the St. Patrick's serial killer targets someone close to Donner and Murphy. Mari comes to help. She has to. - This episode takes place after the Act 2 Finale, Undas. - Content Warnings: Fire, child death (referenced), serial killers, dismemberment (referenced), kidnapping, suffocation - Hi Nay is a podca…
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Philippine Independence Day Special - Araw Ng Kalayaan 2023 🇵🇭
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A bit of a different one today! "Happy" Philippine Independence Day! May the Filipino people truly be free one day. Please note the following Content Warnings: Discussions of real life fascism, Philippine Martial Law, extrajudicial and state sponsored killings, massacres, dismemberment, red-tagging. - Spoilers for some past Hi Nay episodes! Episode…
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Episode Swap: Kwantum Episode 1: Disruptor
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If you're new to Hi Nay, follow us @hinaypod or check out our website! https://hinaypod.wordpress.com/ SUPPORT OUR FUNDRAISER: https://ko-fi.com/hinaypod - An episode swap with Kwantum, a comedy sci-fi audio fiction series: https://thesonarnetwork.com/kwantum/ Inventorpreneur Fenton Kwan revolutionized nuclear energy by combining it with cutting-ed…
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Other Mari returns to "your" dreams to recap the events of Hi Nay Season 1, and gives a dire warning for what is to come. A man named Nathan recalls his childhood friends, "Billy" and Clara, and the horrors he saw before the night they both died in a fire. - This episode connects The St. Patrick's Case part 1 and 2. - Content Warnings: Child neglec…
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Radio Drama Revival Interview with Hi Nay (2022)
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Upcoming Hi Nay episode "Clara's Tale" delayed by one week to give our team time to work on it! In the meantime, enjoy this interview from 2022 with the amazing Elena Fernández-Collins from Radio Drama Revival, where I chat about Hi Nay, my career in animation, why animators/visual artists LOVE podcasts, funny fun facts about horror sound effects, …
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Episode 28: The St. Patrick’s Case (part 1)
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Donner and Murphy are assigned to catch a serial killer with a chilling connection to fire, who leaves his victims in Toronto churches. - This episode takes place before the Act 2 Finale, Undas. - Content Warnings: Serial murder, kidnapping, fires. - Hi Nay is a podcast produced by Motzie Dapul and Reg Geli and is licensed under a creative commons …
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Episode Swap: Under The Electric Stars - S2E9: Arrival
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Episode Swap with Under The Electric Stars! More than one threat looms over Cair Mallplex: the raging dust storm and the huge shadow of Elizabeth Haven snuff out the last of the wan light. And there’s no escaping the specters of the past that have arrived. Featuring a one-off nickname, a mystery solved, and a question of what it means to be human. …
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Episode 27 - Mikey’s Tale: A Hi Nay Short Story
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Mikey's Tale Content Warnings: Body horror, death of a minor, fire, insects, passing references to historical police brutality Detective Francis Dooley meets a young Mikey after he loses his best friend to a fire (and a Focus). Mikey, a young man growing up in Toronto in the 90s, encounters a certain Elder in his youth. He's the only one who rememb…
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Episode Swap: Small Victories Episode 101: A Good Place To Start
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Episode Swap with Small Victories from WGC Productions! - Episode 101: A Good Place To Start In honor of her 20th day of sobriety, Marisol prepares to celebrate with her best friend. Life has other plans. Starring: Mo McKynzie as Marisol. Yodeet Nymberg as Nina. Jaucqir LaFond as Oliver. Cody Smith as Aaron. Akanimo Effang as Host. Friendly Biking …
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Petja: A Hi Nay Love Story (Full Episode)
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Petja: A Hi Nay Love Story delves deeper into the story of the terrifying Puppetmaster (and the secrets of other Elders) Content Warnings: Toxic romance, power imbalance, self-loathing, mutilation, self-harm, body horror, puppets The story of Petja, who loved a Puppetmaster with all his heart - and body, mind, and soul. - The music used is Swan Lak…
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Remind Me To Tell You Later: A Hi Nay Supercut
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A supercut of three Remind Me To Tell You Later episodes, where Mari shares her experience dealing with supernatural horrors in the Philippines. SUPPORT OUR FUNDRAISER so we can keep making content like this and release Hi Nay this year (we won't release new episodes until we hit our $4550 main goal). - Content Warnings for Tiyanak: Illusion and de…
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Horror is more than just the white final girl riding off in the sunset covered in blood; it’s a genre booming with marginalized, oppressed, and colonized writers as a space to directly confront the violences they have suffered. We talk all that and more, with Motzie Dapul, right here on Radio Drama Revival. Like what you hear? Us too. You can suppo…
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When the monsters you faced in your homeland come out of the shadows in the new city you’re living peacefully in, what can you do but face them head on? Come and meet Mari, a Filipina from a babaylan family living in Toronto, right here on Radio Drama Revival. Like what you hear? Us too. You can support Hi Nay at https://www.patreon.com/hinaypod. L…
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This Planet Needs a Name - Evan Tess Murray & Trace Callahan
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Hope is not the lonely candle in the dark. Hope is the light of the candle in the dark, and you have to light the candle yourself. Hope needs sustenance, hope needs energy put into it in order for it to survive. We’re talking to Evan Tess Murray and Trace Callahan about hope in This Planet Needs a Name, right here on Radio Drama Revival. Like what …
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This Planet Needs a Name - 'Prologue: The Nameless Crew'
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Do you believe, in your heart of hearts, that somewhere else far away there is a planet where we could sustain human life? And do you believe we could start something new there, something different from what we are experiencing now? Imagine a hopeful future with This Planet Needs a Name, right here on Radio Drama Revival. Like what you hear? Us too…
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Remind Me To Tell You Later - Batibat (Extended Excerpt)
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For the full episode, subscribe to our Youtube channel and get us to 1000 subscribers before the end of December! youtube.com/hinaypod - Batibat Mari recounts the time she and her Nanay (mom) were called by a rich family to exorcise a spirit called a batibat - a spirit of trees that have been cut down, which, in revenge for losing its home, kills p…
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Undas - Evelyn Wai finds secret pages from Elaine O'Domnhall's journal, detailing her time with the unnamed Journalist. Mari tries to guide the partygoers to safety, thwarted by Lori's sadistic game. - Content Warnings: Strong language, Death, moderately detailed description of mutilation - Songs featured: "Graveyard Dream Blues" by Bessie Smith "I…
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Undas - Mari and Abe attend a Halloween party at a new club, and visit its underground exhibit... of dolls. Ashvin, Murphy, and Laura end up in the thick of things. Donner deals with the fallout. - Content Warnings: Sounds of vomiting, doll and puppet related horror, sounds of falling from a great height, death - Songs featured: "Baby Won't You Ple…
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What is it about lyrical, beautiful descriptions about the horrifying that makes you both lose your breath and lose your sleep? We discuss the ocean, fear, horror, and how we need families to manage it all, with Jordan Cobb, creator of Primordial Deep. Like what you hear? Us too. You can support the creators of Primordial Deep at nosuchthingradio.c…
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