Escape Pod 1034: “An Honour to be Nominated…”
Escape Pod
Escape Artists Foundation
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | EscapePod, Episode 134, an honor to be nominated by Jacob Sinemaire. Hello and welcome to EscapePock. |
| 0:42.3 | I'm Merle Lafferty, your host and co-editor. |
| 0:45.3 | Today's story is an honor to be nominated by Jacob Sinemeyer. |
| 0:50.3 | Jacob is an English teacher and speculative fiction author based in Perth, Western Australia. |
| 0:56.0 | He's always loved reading science fiction, horror, and fantasy, so in 2025 he decided to put his creative writing degree to work. |
| 1:04.0 | When he's not busy telling tales out of school, he can usually be found enjoying a strong coffee and a quiet bookshop. |
| 1:11.5 | It's narrated for us by Eli Hirschman. |
| 1:14.5 | Eli always wanted to be a voice actor, growing up watching He-Man, Thundercats, and Voltron. |
| 1:20.6 | After recording several e-learning, scientific, and marketing projects, Eli discovered the world |
| 1:25.3 | of audio podcasts, working with such groups as darker projects |
| 1:29.2 | and Dream Realm Productions. |
| 1:31.6 | Together with fellow actor David Alt, he started Cool Full Productions, but they dramatized |
| 1:36.6 | bad audio scripts with questionable results. |
| 1:40.0 | He's still currently active in all EA podcasts, except Katz cast, |
| 1:47.7 | and also appears semi-regularly on the No Sleep podcast. |
| 1:50.0 | This is an EscapePod original. |
| 2:07.3 | I'd like to thank the associate editors, the narrators, the producers, and the assistant editors, and story time. An honor to be nominated by Jacob Sinemeyer, read by Ellie Hirschman. |
| 2:16.9 | Transgalactic news, straight from the feed to your screed. Hirschman. |
| 2:18.9 | Transgalactic news. |
| 2:21.6 | Straight from the feed to your screed. |
| 2:27.3 | And how exciting to be gathered here for this night of nights as the planetary terraforming awards for the 346 billionth galactic cycle gets underway here at the |
| 2:33.7 | Grenthool interdimensional ballroom. |
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