Escape Pod 887: The Revolution, Brought to You by Nike (Part 1) (Flashback Friday)

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🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The Revolution, Brought to You by Nike By Andrea Phillips 1. THE BRIEF Corazon clicked to the slide she’d been dreading: long-term trends for brand engagement. It was dire. She focused on the smudgy mirror at the far end of the conference room, looking past her team to her own reflection. She pulled her shoulders back, like her grandmother had instructed. She tipped her head to the side, disarming but not too flirty. When she spoke, she was a breath apologetic, but not too much: “As you can see, we have our work cut out for us.” She turned to face the projected line graph behind her. “Year on year sales are down, but we’ve been expecting that due to the current… economic climate.” That was the euphemism to end all euphemisms. Everybody in that over-air-conditioned room knew exactly what she meant, though, because they were all living on the same rapidly sinking ocean liner. Gregoria, a junior art director, began to nervously shred the paper cup her morning latte had come in. “The really bad part is this.” Corazon swept her hand along the line labeled Brand Perception, which had plummeted like a stone in the aftermath of the election. “And it’s not just us. The truth is, nobody gives a shit about brands right now.”

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0:00.0	Escape pod. Episode 887. Flashback Friday. The Revolution, brought to you by Nike.
0:08.8	Boundary of Phillips. Part 1 of 2.
0:12.5	Hello and welcome to Escape pod, your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm Valerie Veldes,
0:35.4	your host for this episode. Our story this week is The Revolution, brought to you by Nike.
0:42.0	Andrea Phillips. It will be presented in two parts. This is a flashback from our very own
0:48.4	archives from September 2018. The story was first published in Fireside Magazine in February 2017.
0:57.0	Andrea Phillips is an award-winning immersive experience designer and author. Her projects include
1:02.6	high-profile and innovative executions for Sony Pictures, HBO, Amazon Studios, and more. Her
1:09.4	original IP immersive projects include the Human Rights Game America 2049, the independent
1:15.7	commercial ARG Purplex City, and contributions to iOS fitness games, zombies run, and the walk.
1:24.3	Her projects have variously won the Prisioness Interactivity Prize, a Broadband Digital Award,
1:30.3	a Canadian Screen Award, a BIMA, the Origins Vanguard Innovation Award, and others. Her book,
1:38.2	A Creators Guide to Transmedia Storytelling is used to teach digital and immersive storytelling
1:43.5	at universities around the world. Andrea's original work includes the novels America
1:49.4	Incorporated and Revision, the kick-started serial The Daring Adventures of Captain Lucy Smokart
1:55.8	and its companion game The Daring Mermaid Expedition, and The McKinnon Account, a short story that
2:02.0	unfolds in your email inbox. She is collaborated on realm serials, including Bookburner,
2:08.6	Remade, and served as the showrunner for control alt destroy. Her short fiction has been
2:14.7	published in Fireside Magazine, Escape Pod, and the Jews vs Aliens anthology. Our narrator,
2:21.4	Julie Rios, is a queer Latinx writer, editor, podcaster, and narrator whose fiction, nonfiction
2:28.4	and poetry have appeared in Latin American literature today, flight speed, and goblin fruit
2:34.2	among other places. Their editing work has won multiple awards, including the Hugo Award.
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