Endless Thread presents "The Midnight Rebellion"
Endless Thread
WBUR
4.1 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Introducing The Midnight Rebellion, a new climate fiction podcast from WBUR — a rollicking adventure to a flooded, robot-infested world where you choose what happens.
When Joule Watts-Green steps into her mom’s mysterious machine, she’s swept off to a polluted city of tides. Streets are rivers, “tin-skins” shoot lightning, and everyone eats gooey Algae-Os. To get home, Joule must be brave, clever, and make friends. She may even discover how to save the world — with your help.
Each chapter ends with a choice. YOU decide what’s next. This is Chapter 1.
Triumph or failure, it’s up to you.
Choose wisely.
This is Chapter 1 of The Midnight Rebellion.
And if you liked what you heard, listen to the rest and follow The Midnight Rebellion wherever you get your podcasts.Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Support for Endless Thread comes from MathWorks, creator of MATLAB and Simulink Software, to design and develop engineered systems, accelerating the pace of discovery in engineering and science. |
| 0:13.0 | Learn more at Mathworks.com. |
| 0:15.8 | Support for WBUR comes from Is Business Broken, a podcast from the Marotra Institute at Boston University |
| 0:23.0 | that explores questions like, why is innovation in healthcare so hard? Is ESG just greenwashing? And, of course, |
| 0:31.0 | is business broken? Listen, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:36.1 | Emery Siebertsin, we have some big news. |
| 0:39.4 | Big, big, big, big, big, the biggest news. |
| 0:43.7 | So big. |
| 0:45.4 | You never heard such news. |
| 0:47.9 | You remember that Gull's episode, Senior producer Dean Russell brought to us a couple |
| 0:51.7 | of summers back, the internet's most hated bird. |
| 0:55.8 | That was pretty good, actually. I'm proud of myself. |
| 1:00.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.1 | Yes, I remember that. |
| 1:02.8 | That's a good episode, right? |
| 1:04.3 | Yeah, of course. |
| 1:05.7 | Dean Russell Deluxe. |
| 1:07.7 | Dean Russell Deluxe. |
| 1:09.1 | Well, that very same deluxe Dean Russell, and I have created a new and |
| 1:15.1 | exciting world where goals are still alive. Well, kind of. It is a project that we have been working |
| 1:22.1 | on for years, one that is very different from endless thread or Amory your hit series Beyond All Repair or really anything that we've made at WBUR. |
| 1:31.9 | It's pretty different. |
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