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welcome to Escape Pod, your weekly science fiction podcast.

I'm Merleavrovety, your host and co-editor.

Our story this week is Chug thealves Chuck the Ads by Tim Joaga.

Tim is a speculative fiction author based in Brooklyn. His work has been featured in Escape Pod and Interzone. He is a graduate

of Clarion West. It's narrated for us by James Kaku Pearson. James is a Japanese

American podcast producer and voice actor living in California.

He could be heard as host and game master of the Athroplay Podcast,

an RPG actual play podcast set in the world of Tolkien's Middle Earth.

The story is an escape pod original and set your browser to no tracking. It's story time.

Chuck the tea leaves, Chuck the Ads, by Tim Chawaga, narrated by James Kaku Pearson.

I wake up to a message and a certain intuition that my first ad of the day will be for bubble fresh. I can almost see it flashing

through my mind's eye just in time for me to grab a pack at the newsstand.

Bubble fresh gum on my morning commute always means it'll be a good day.

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