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049 - Forty-Nine

049 - Forty-Nine

FromBreaker Whiskey


049 - Forty-Nine

FromBreaker Whiskey

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Length:
2 minutes
Released:
Sep 28, 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] Well, I’ve done it, I’ve been to Nebraska. [click, static] I can’t say it’s really all that different from Kansas. That’s true of every state crossing, I guess. The borders feel especially arbitrary out here, all straight lines and perfect corners. The roads are all so straight too. Though I have started to wander more, dipping into suburbs and rural areas, keeping my eyes peeled. [click, static] I was gonna head back through Kansas the way I came before I start West again. I thought...I don’t know, it can’t hurt to go past where I saw that dog one more time and see if I can catch him again. [click, static] I keep running through it in my head, what would I say if I actually saw a person in flesh and blood. I didn’t really get to choose my first words to you, Birdie, because I was just speaking to...the concept of humanity I guess, but seeing someone in person would be different, wouldn’t it. [click, static] I’d start with my name maybe. Say it was good to see them because it would be good to see them. Ask them their name, ask if they’re okay, where they’re from. But from there...I have no idea how to carry on that conversation. Do I jump right into asking about what happened six years ago? Or is that rude? [click, static] Where’s Emily Post when you need her, huh? [click, static] It’s all a moot point. A fantasy, a daydream. And those can get dangerous if you let them take root. [click, static]
Released:
Sep 28, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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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.