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089 - Eighty-Nine

089 - Eighty-Nine

FromBreaker Whiskey


089 - Eighty-Nine

FromBreaker Whiskey

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Length:
6 minutes
Released:
Nov 23, 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] Birdie? You there? [one beep] Is that…is that you? Are you really here? [one beep] Okay—okay, jesus christ—wow. Hi. Oh my god, hi. [click, static] Right, I guess we’re not gonna have me translating full morse sentences in real time. Though—I’m up for that if you are? [two beeps] Two dots…that’s the letter “I” but…maybe you’re thinking what I’ve been thinking if we ever got a chance the talk. One beep for yes, two for no? [one beep] Yeah? Okay, do it again. One beep for yes.  [one beep] And two beeps for no? [one beep] Okay, how long do we have? [two beeps] No? Oh—yeah, I have to ask yes or no questions, huh? Can you stay for an hour? [two beeps] Half an hour? [two beeps] (sigh) Fifteen minutes? [five beeps] Five…five? You can stay for five minutes? [one beep] Ugh, okay. I guess I’ll take what I can get. What are you doing that you can only stay on the radio for five minutes? I’ve got all the time in the world, I could sit by the radio all day. Where do you have to be? [click, static] Right, yes or no. Um…are you safe? [one beep] Okay, that’s good.  Will you tell me where you are? [two beeps] Why not? [click, static] Yeah. Alright, Whiskey, focus on the important questions… Huh. That’s funny, I guess I really have started to think of myself as Whiskey. I mean, obviously that’s not my name, but after so many months of referring to myself by it, I guess it’s starting to worm its way in.  Jesus, sorry, I’m so used to just saying every thought I have out loud but you’re here, you’re really here.  Is Birdie your real name? [two beeps] That’s what I figured. Did you—did you pick a code name because you’re talking to people you don’t want to know the real you? [one beep] Really? How many people are you talking to?? [one beep] Yes—yes, what? [one beep] Oh, one. One person. You’re just talking to me? [one beep] And you don’t want me to know who you really are.  [click, static] (sigh) Okay. Right. That’s—well, you don’t know my real name either. But you do know everything else about me.  Are you…this is a stupid fucking question maybe, but are you a young person? An old person? A kid somehow? Um, okay, wait, so I’m thirty-four, I’ll be thirty-five in a few weeks actually. Are you older than me? [one beep] Yes. Okay…um, I don’t know why I asked that, what does it matter. Are you—do you know what happened in ’68? [one beep] You do. Well, can you tell me? [one beep] Yes? You will? [two beeps] You won’t? [one beep] Well, which is it? [three beeps] Is it too hard to explain over morse code? [one beep] Do you think we’ll ever talk face to face? Or…voice to voice or, I don’t know, some other method? [one long beep] One dash, not dot. Is that…I don’t know? [one beep] Right. Okay.  Um, whatever happened in ‘68…did it happen everywhere? The whole world? [one beep] (sigh) Okay. That’s what I thought but it’s still… I don’t know what to ask you, Birdie, I’m sorry. I—there’s too much! There’s too much I want to know. I want to know what you know about what got us here, I want to know who you are, I want to know what your job was, but I’m running out of time and I— Is whatever’s in Denver related to what happened in ’68? [one beep] It is. If I went to Denver, could I figure out what happened? [two beeps] Are you just saying that because you don’t want me to go? [one beep] Yes? You are just saying that? [two beeps] No. Oh, yes, you don’t want me to go? Because it’s dangerous? [one beep] Okay but…look, it’s great to be talking to you and all but why the hell should I trust you? [click, static] Birdie? [one long beep] You don’t know. Great. Helpful.  Denver, the collision point. Does
Released:
Nov 23, 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.