Turning ideas into radio is one of the most exciting, frustrating, rewarding, and insanely fun things there is. Which got us thinking--why not ask you to join in on the fun? So we teamed up with Indaba for our first-ever remix competition. And now we get to play the winners.

A few weeks ago, we put the raw materials from a few favorite pieces up on Indaba, and asked listeners to have at it in a no-holds-barred audio throwdown. 136 brave contenders jumped into the mix, and made some really exciting, really impressive, new stuff. (You might notice that our sonic ID—the voices and noises at the beginning of every show—was tweaked a little bit. That's the work of one of our remixers, aleatorictelevision.)

In this podcast, Jad and Robert share a couple of their favorites. First up: grand prize winner David Minnick zeroes in on the pitch patterns of Jeffrey Tambor's reading of "Sum" (from our short 15: Sum) to create a musical reckoning of what life after death could look like. Then Jad admits his love of techno and annoys Robert with a remix by Sonic Emblem.

Then, one of our favorite runners up, Jeff Barr, editor of a podcast called Risk, mines the show for unexpected moments—like coins flipping and voices falling—that morph into a melody of their own.

And finally, we end with a director's choice, from sketch lightly & daimyo, that completely re-imagines a story we did on vertigo by turning our telling of a real-life medical mystery into a deeply personal meditation on love.