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094 - Ninety-Four

094 - Ninety-Four

FromBreaker Whiskey


094 - Ninety-Four

FromBreaker Whiskey

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Length:
5 minutes
Released:
Nov 30, 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] Breaker breaker, this is Whiskey calling out for Birdie. You here? [one beep] Hell yes. How long’ve we got today? [five beeps] Five…five minutes? We have five minutes? [one beep] Okay, Jesus Christ. Well, I’ve been thinking about this, what I would ask. So let’s go, one beep for yes, two for no, three beeps when the answer is too complicated, and one dash for I don’t know. Alright? [one beep] Okay. Have you known who I am this whole time? [two beeps] No…okay, did you guess my name? [two beeps] Then how— 
Have you—have you seen me, in person somehow? Not that that would help you know my name… [two beeps] Did I—this is embarrassing but—have I told you my name and I just forgot? [two beeps] Okay, well, that’s a relief that I’m not broadcasting my name everywhere.  [two beeps] No? I am broadcasting my name? [two beeps] No again— [dash dot dash dot; dash dash dot dash] Can you do that again? [dash dot dash dot; dash dash dot dash] CQ - oh, seek you. Um…there was—there was a CQ for me? [one beep] What—you mean, so, you did hear my name over a broadcast? [one beep] Holy shit…what else did they say? [two beeps] So you just heard my name? [one beep] Do you know who it was? [two beeps] No, why would you. I don’t even know why I’m asking really…there’s only one person it could’ve been. And considering you sent me a message of my full first name, despite it being more to tap out…well, she’s the only one who doesn’t use the shortened version. Harry, that is. She’s the only one who knows I exist other than you. Who else would it have been? So…Harry got a radio, learned how to use it, and broadcast something to me. Looking for me.  [one beep] Jesus, okay. How did I miss this? [click, static] Right, um, was it the middle of the night? [two beeps] Hm…oh- was it while I was camping? When I left the radio behind? [one beep] Shit. I wonder—god, I mean if I had been there would I have been able to… Have you been able to get into contact with her? [two beeps] Have you tried? [two beeps] Would you try? I mean—what am I saying, I don’t know why I— [click, static] Do you think I should try to contact her? [click, static] I guess that’s not something you can really decide, huh? Do you think you have the capability to contact her? I’m not sure I do.  [one long beep] One dash— don’t know, right? [one beep] Okay, so you’re not sure if you could contact her, but you did pick up her broadcast. But not on purpose? [one beep] Yes, it was on purpose? [two beeps] Wha—oh, yes as in ‘that’s right’, it wasn’t on purpose. Okay, I clearly need to be more intentional in my phrasing. Do you think you picked her up on skip? [one beep] Right. Okay, I…I don’t know what to do with any of this, to be honest.  [click, static] Shit, okay, I don’t want to run out of time with you. I need to ask about the message you sent last night. You said “you’re wrong”.  [one beep] Wrong about what? I mean—was it something I said yesterday that I was wrong about? [one beep] Okay, I was talking about the meteor crater, right? So…I mean, I’m assuming it wasn’t about the crater itself. What else was I talking about… The fact that we have no control over the impact that we make? You disagree? [two beeps] No, that’s not it.  [dot dash, dash dot dot dot, dot dot] I recognize that—my name, right? Well, the shortened version.  [one beep] So it was something about me that I said? [one beep] What, that the choices I’ve made didn’t change the world? [one beep] What? That’s what you think I’m wrong about? [one beep] Birdie, what does that mean? [two long beeps] What? Oh that’s—that’s goodbye isn’t it.  [one beep] Wait, you can’t l
Released:
Nov 30, 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.