Escape Pod 821: Payday Weather

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Fiction, Science Fiction, Drama

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🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Payday Weather By Matthew Claxton We wound our way up the curving canyon roads in overloaded pickups and hatchbacks, corners taken too fast, sagging bumpers kissing asphalt, engines redlining from effort and heat. Our procession passed an exodus going the other way -- sleek luxury EVs and fat-tired cargo haulers -- heading for safety, away from the hills and the scrub and the smell of smoke on the wind. We were happy, arms hanging out of windows, slapping time to the songs on the speakers. From behind the wrought-iron gates of a mansion, a sleek couple looked up from overseeing their packing and stared. “Could fucking smile,” Kerry said. “We’re here to save their shit.” I leaned out the window of Kerry’s ancient Nissan and took in a lungful of dry air. There was the familiar SoCal hydrocarbon and ozone reek, but underneath that was the taste of dust scoured from high mountain passes, of charred pine and scorched chaparral. The Santa Ana winds were dancing out of the desert.

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0:00.0	A skateboard, episode 821.
0:11.8	Pady Weather.
0:13.3	by Matthew Traxton.
0:40.9	Hello and welcome to EscapePod, your weekly science fiction podcast.
0:46.2	I'm Divya, your host for this episode.
0:49.3	A quick reminder that Hugo nominations are now open.
0:53.7	If you'd like to nominate EscapePod, we are eligible in the best semi-prozing category.
1:00.4	You can also nominate Mer and myself together for best editor short fiction and all of our
1:06.6	original stories are eligible for best short story.
1:11.0	You can also nominate my first novel, Machine Hood, if you're so inclined.
1:17.0	Anyone who has a supporting or higher level membership for WorldCon can nominate for the awards
1:23.3	and you can register for that at chikon.org, that's CHICON.org.
1:31.6	For more information visit our website at escapepod.org.
1:36.5	Our story this week is Pady Weather by Matthew Claxton.
1:41.3	This is an EscapePod original.
1:44.5	Matthew Claxton is a reporter from the rain soaked coast of British Columbia.
1:49.8	His fiction has appeared in EscapePod and podcastle, as well as asmol of science fiction
1:55.8	and log science fiction in fact and sci-fiction.
2:00.3	His prairie cyberpunk tale, Patience Lake, was collected in the year's best science fiction
2:06.1	34th annual edition and has been adapted into an audio podcast drama, Broken Road.
2:14.1	Your narrator this week is Trent Sparks.
2:17.6	As a mascot performer, Trent is often seen and not heard.
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