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Our Fair City

6.8- The Rediscovey of Hope

Our Fair City

Audacious Machine Creative

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.7623 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In tonight’s seasonal retelling of the True History of the HartLife Corporation, we rejoin Simon Von Hagens (Dead Disposal Driver) and Theodora Thoreau Roosevelt (Window Washer and Amateur Naturalist) as they spelunk deeper into the caves and warrens below the city in search of the Queen of the AntPeople. Will they discover their new adversary, or will the come upon something much, much more dangerous to their corporate welfare? Find out, as the story of Our Fair City…continues.

  • The Narrator— Ansel Burch
  • Simon Von Hagens— Mark Soloff
  • Theodora Thoreau Roosevelt— Kat Evans
  • Doctor Herbert West— Ryan Schile
  • Elizabeth Rourke— Tara Schile
  • The Voice of HartLife— Jeffrey Gardner

Written by Jim McDoniel. Directed by Jeffrey Gardner. Sound Design by Ryan Schile. Music by Stephen Poon. Photo shoot designed, produced, and directed by Ryan Schile, photography by Sebastian Orr, makeup by Tara Schile. Featuring (R to L) Tara Schile, Ryan Schile, Mark Soloff, Kat Evans. Produced by David Rheinstrom. Recording Engineering by Mel Ruder, Production Management by Betsey Palmer. Created by Clayton Faits.

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0:00.0

Hello, this is Jeffrey, and I'm popping in here to tell you about the wonderful fiction podcast, The Amelia Project.

0:07.4

Have you ever daydreamed about disappearing and starting over?

0:11.3

What if there was a company that provided that service?

0:14.6

That's the premise of the comedy fiction podcast, The Amelia Project.

0:19.1

It's a show about a secret death-faking agency. In each episode,

0:24.5

you hear a new client being interviewed and the dilemmas that bring them to the death-faking agency

0:30.0

are in turn funny, thought-provoking, or downright surreal. I think if I was going to fake my own

0:37.1

death, I'd probably go with something like

0:39.7

lost in the mountains, you know, hiking or mountaineering or something like that, just disappearing

0:48.6

into thin air. Anyway, the show is unique and tackles philosophical questions and impossible dilemmas with a lightness of touch, always making you laugh.

0:59.0

Since it's a series with an overarching plot, we recommend you start with episode one, and you'll soon be hooked on this weird, funny, mysterious, and exciting show.

1:09.6

You can find the Amelia Project wherever you listen to podcasts.

1:14.4

Please go check it out.

1:19.6

Tonight's broadcast is brought to you by the company you depend upon for all of your greatest

1:24.7

needs, heart life. These stories are true dramatizations from Our Fair City's glorious history.

1:32.3

So listen and remember, heart life, all the life you'll ever need.

1:50.1

Danger awaits us in the nebulous realm of the unknown.

1:58.2

This current crisis is but the latest example of the peril in venturing too far outside the edges of the map.

2:03.4

Indeed, you can never be sure that the next breakthrough, the next discovery, the next adventure does not contain giant, carnivorous ants. Even in more everyday

2:12.9

situations, is it not better to play it safe than roll the dice of uncertainty?

2:18.3

Why, for example, risk one's happiness on the fickle and fleeting hope known as love

2:24.3

when the company can provide you with perfectly amicable companionship designed for maximum contentment?

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