Escape Pod 868: Any Other Customer

Escape Pod

Escape Artists Foundation

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Any Other Customer By Rachel Gutin Lewis was poking at his tablet, trying yet again to open the training module from Station Commerce, when the sensor above his shop door chimed. “Not now!” he snapped without looking up. “But… but I….” Blast it! His tailor shop’s margins had been razor-thin even before Commerce cracked down on him for logging his transactions on paper. And just in case the mandatory training in “proper record-keeping protocols” wasn’t punishment enough, they’d also hit him with a hefty fine. He couldn’t afford to scare away a customer.

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0:50.6	Hello, and welcome to Escape Pod, your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm Valerie Valdez,
1:13.4	your host for this episode. Our story this week is Any Other Customer by Raquel Goutin. This
1:19.9	is an Escape Pod original. Raquel Goutin is a writer and special education teacher. Her work has
1:26.4	been published in Korea. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and is a member of the organizing team for
1:31.6	Brooklyn's speculative fiction writers. She shows her apartment with a satisfying assortment of books,
1:37.2	a growing collection of craft supplies, and an impressive number of fountain pen ink samples. You
1:43.6	can follow her on Twitter, at Raquel underscore Goutin. Our narrator, Ellie Hirschman, is a self-described
1:51.4	former aspiring voice actor who has worked with darker projects and dream-rown productions,
1:56.7	and is also involved in cool, fool productions, turning bad audio scripts into intentionally bad comedy
2:02.8	gold. He's currently still active in all EA podcasts, including Cast of Wonders, and also
2:08.5	appearing semi-reglally in the No Sleep podcast. He doodles constantly that doesn't draw enough,
2:14.4	and move from the Western hemisphere to the Eastern hemisphere against his will and better judgment,
2:19.3	but has never been in the Southern hemisphere. Ellie was born in New York City and raised just
2:25.1	outside of it. He started down the voice over path in 2004, with former voice over and marketing
2:30.2	training by Creative Voice Development Group. His professional voice work ranges from children's
2:34.8	educational material to real estate advice website audio, with a scientific article and a guided
2:40.0	tour of a Polish salt mine thrown in for good measure. In his free time, Ellie enjoys cartooning,
2:46.8	listening to old-time radio drama, and referring to himself in the third person.
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