Welcome to the Biannual Sonic Dash Podcast presented by the New York City Podcast Awards.

The Sonic Dash is a 48-hour storytelling competition and we receive submissions from all over the world. The surprise prompt for this 2026 Summer Dash was “Go For Broke.” 

This episode, we’ll be listening to our Grand Prize Winning piece "Go For Broke or Gopher Broke?" created by Long Island-based crack improv and podcast team, “Tales From the Cloud Sea” (Matt Silverman, Megan Leahy, Karen Cassady, Travis Sharp, Amanda Lee Williams, and Eve Krueger).

Produced by Cory Choy, Emily Reeves, and Christian Cuciniello

Edited by Zach Treanor

Sound by Silver Sound