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BOOM! is back: Fire up your Game Boy and try not to get killed…

Published on June 27, 2023

BOOM! is entering its long awaited second season, filled with the same buzzing American nostalgia of the late 90’s but now… the millennium has struck! Created by the Joel Emery and Adam Jarrell (the team behind award-winning fiction podcasts Jackie the Ripper and The Offensive) BOOM! is another exhilarating fictional podcast on the Stak network (Football Ramble, Abroad in Japan).

Season 1 was filled with the fuzzy twinkle of Game Boys and the muffled murmur of Sony Walkmans, as well as a star-studded cast including Akie Kotabe (Mad Men) as Jim, Omari Douglas (It’s A Sin) as Staten, and Sharon D. Clarke (Dr. Who) as Ellis. Set in the economic climb of 90s America, Jim Yang, a financial manager at Enron, one day receives an email from the future. The introverted video-gamer is catapulted into the greed, chaos and debauchery of the late 90s tech boom, juggling feelings for his one true love and those mysterious – and threatening – emails from the future. With the fate of humanity as we know it lying in Jim’s inbox, he makes choices that will change history forever.

Now returning for a second season, BOOM kicks off in the year 2000. The millennium is barely an hour old when Jim finds himself hiding in a Las Vegas Casino as federal investigators storm the building. Have those emails from the future finally caught up with him? As the USA prepares to welcome George W. Bush to the Whitehouse, Jim Yang navigates the chaotic world of Enron’s impending doom. His personal life is in tatters as he remains unable to explain to the love of his life, Cora, just why he is unable to commit to a meaningful relationship. As he goes even further down the futuristic rabbit-hole, he is being ruthlessly tracked every step of the way – and when he discovers he is not the only ‘Chosen One’, the revelations have a devastating effect.

Joel and Adam have dominated the podcast fiction space for many years with their production company Holy Smokes Audio. Their female-led thriller, Jackie the Ripper, topped the UK fiction podcast charts and was optioned by UK production company Goldfinch. They have just concluded the final season of football mockumentary and British Podcast Award winner, The Offensive, after 3 million downloads and five years of releases. Now, with BOOM! coming into its second season, they’re back for more.

Don’t miss the second season of BOOM, which will be released on July 10th, or if you want to catch up with season one you can find it right now wherever you get your podcasts.