Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now,

with short newsy interviews alongside the deeper dives of Masters of Scale. Well, I'm excited to share that rapid response is expanding into its own feed.

We'll be putting out shows twice a week, focusing on the urgent issues that business leaders are dealing with in real time.

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I'll see you on the other side.

An alien spacecraft lands in the Nevada desert.

It kind of just looks like a big industrial lump.

Almost like some, you know, Eastern European industrial block landed on Earth.

And they open it up.

And there's nobody inside. But it's emitting thousands of terrible blood curdling screams. That's Mac Rogers, and don't worry, you didn't miss a breaking news alert. Mac is a writer, and the story he's telling us is from his latest sci-fi podcast called Give Me Away.

You can theoretically say that it's set right now

on sort of Earth II, or you can say

that it's five minutes into the future.

In this imagine near future,

scientists enter the screaming alien ship.

Then they learn its sinister, true identity.

What the ship actually is, is a computer mainframe that functions as a prison for the

consciousnesses of a large number of extraterrestrial political prisoners that have been

uploaded into it and are in sort of a confined cyberspace that's an agonizing

eternal purgatorial prison experience.

In other words, the aliens and Max drama have created a gulag in the metaverse.

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