26. Break the News

Flash Forward

Flash Forward Presents

Science

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

The End. Vanguard Estates is a production of Flash Forward. The story was written by me, Rose Eveleth; edited by Ace Tilton Radcliffe and Georgia Wyatt; and produced by Ozzy Llinas Goodman. The sound design is by Mischa Stanton and music is by Ilan Blanck. The voice actors for Welcome to Vanguard Estates are: Marcus Jones -- Keith Houston Imani Jones -- Shara Kirby Robot #1 -- Ashley Kellem Amy -- Chelsey B Coombs Vanguard Estates Representative -- Aiya Islam Missy -- Anjali Kunapaneni Robot # 2 -- Brett Tubbs NPR Host -- Sandhya Dirks An earlier version of Vanguard Estates was originally performed live for Pop-Up Magazine. You can also play through a web version of the story at flashforwardpod.com/vanguard, which features really cool illustrations by Mattie Lubchansky. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You can't bring yourself to keep this from him, so you explain what happened.
0:06.5	He listens.
0:07.5	As you tell him, you don't actually know if he's part of the hack or not.
0:12.2	You'd have to look into it.
0:14.5	His eyes narrow, and he stops you.
0:17.7	Don't look into it.
0:21.1	You're not sure what to say.
0:23.5	Your dad shrugs.
0:24.5	I'm glad you told me, but that's all I need to know.
0:29.9	You ask him if he's sure.
0:31.8	You can't talk about it.
0:33.5	Talk about your options.
0:35.3	You would look into it if he asked you to.
0:38.7	No, no, really.
0:42.3	It's really fine.
0:43.3	I don't have privacy anymore, really.
0:46.3	So the robots see everything, so why not some random people on the internet?
0:51.1	It's not like I've ever met them, so can we just, let's just pretend this never happened.
0:59.5	You end the call, relieved that you aren't going to spend the next few days calming
1:04.5	through those videos.
1:08.6	As you go to bed, you think of your dad, shuffling in his ancient blue bathrobe to take
1:14.0	his nightly bath.
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