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046 - Forty-Six

046 - Forty-Six

FromBreaker Whiskey


046 - Forty-Six

FromBreaker Whiskey

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Length:
2 minutes
Released:
Sep 25, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey's radio. Breaker Whiskey is an Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen. If you'd like to support the show, please visit patreon.com/breakerwhiskey. As a patron, you will also receive each week's episodes as one longer episode every Monday. ------ [TRANSCRIPT] [click, static] Dear Harry, Today I saw the world’s largest ball of twine. The photo on the front of the postcard doesn’t do it justice. Don’t misunderstand—it represents the size well, but it doesn’t capture the central essence of “...huh?” that the ball draws out in the viewer. But that’s what art is, right? According to you, at least. Art is meant to provoke, to create a reaction; it’s not meant to be pretty all the time. Well, I’m sure you’d have quite an opinion on the ball of twine. Glad you’re not here—AR. [click, static] So. Yeah. I wrote out a postcard. Harry’s the only person I know alive other than you, but I’m already talking to you. Not like I’m going to send it or anything, obviously—I couldn’t even if I wanted to. But...I don’t know, it felt odd to write on the postcard without addressing it to anyone. [click, static] I’m gonna make this a thing, I think—postcards of the weirder attractions around this country. If and when I can find them at least. Because it did occur to me that even if I went and got a camera, I don’t know anything about developing film. The only way I could take any pictures would be if I came across a polaroid, so I’m keeping an eye out for that. [click, static] Have you traveled much, Birdie? Like I said, I’ve gotten around a little, but I’ve definitely never traveled this much in this amount of time. Now that I’ve been doing it for a while, it’s gotten...I don’t know, it’s kind of fun again, the way it was the first week or so. My body’s adjusted to driving so much and I’m headed to parts of the country I’ve never been to so it’s beginning to feel like an adventure again. Like a real adventure. I’m going to cross over into Colorado if I keep driving West, so I’m going to go up to Nebraska first, just so I can say I’ve been there. Alright, Whiskey out. [click, static]
Released:
Sep 25, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

BREAKER WHISKEY is an ongoing, daily microfiction podcast exploring one woman’s journey to find additional survivors in an America made empty by an unknown event in the late 1960s. In 1968, two women find themselves in rural Pennsylvania during what turns out to be some kind of apocalyptic event. By the time they discover that everyone else is gone, it’s too late to figure out what happened. Despite not liking each other at all, the women work together to survive, until six years later one of them sets out on her own, driving around the country to find other survivors. This is her, calling out to anyone who might listen. BREAKER WHISKEY is made by Lauren Shippen and recorded on a 1976 Midland CB Radio. It releases daily, Monday through Friday. If you would like the entire week's episodes as one single download, released on Monday, you can support the show at patreon.com/breakerwhiskey or by becoming an Atypical Plus supporter at atypicalartists.co/support. Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey.