Escape Pod 944: How to Keep Your Cool If You’re a Mech First Day on the Job (Part 2 of 2)

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🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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How to Keep Your Cool If You're a Mech First Day on the Job (Part 2 of 2) By Vera Brook (...Continued from Part 1) Jenna gave herself a few moments to seethe in silence before she spoke, to make sure her voice was calm. “I can’t move.” “Did you hear that?” Daron took a swig of his water, then bit into his sandwich. He looked around the table at the others. Not even a glance at Jenna. “She can’t move.” “It’s a problem,” Skye admitted. “Definitely is,” Irelyn agreed. “Most unfortunate.” This from Khalil. There was a pause as they waited for Uruk, but he was staring at his computer screen. He jumped up when Irelyn’s elbow poked his ribcage. “We’re still good. No delays. I’m keeping track.” “We’re talking about the newbie, Uruk,” Irelyn said. “She can’t move.”

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0:00.0	EA is now on Twitch.
0:03.0	Join us Wednesday nights when Alister reads a bedtime story
0:06.8	and Sunday mornings for a few hours of chill casual gaming,
0:10.6	plus interviews, special guests, pick up streams, and more.
0:14.7	Visit twitch. TV slash EA Podcasts, and follow us to be notified when we go live,
0:21.6	plus access VODs of past broadcasts. Escape Odd, episode 944.
0:37.0	How to keep your cool if you're a meck first day on the job.
0:43.0	Part 2 of 2, by Vera Brooke. Oh, Hi everyone. Welcome to a skate pod, the weekly science friction podcast. This is episode 944.
1:14.0	I'm Alistair, your host, and we're back with the second half of last week's amazing story.
1:19.0	That story is How to Keep Your Cool if you're a meck first day on the job, written by Vera Brooke and narrated by Iba Armancass.
1:27.0	Vera is a neuroscientist-turn speculative fiction writer.
1:32.0	A short fiction has appeared among other places in
1:34.7	Analog, cast of wonders, factor 4 magazine, utopia science fiction and hyphenpunk.
1:39.6	She is trying very hard to infuse her fiction with hope and optimism, but the world being what it is,
1:45.4	dystopia still often wins out.
1:48.0	Occasionally, her stories grow into novels.
1:50.5	This one was first published in the Colored Lens Issue 43 Spring of 2022 and this is the concluding part
2:09.0	So if you haven't heard episode 943 yet please go back the story and the narration and the production are all superb. This is one of my favorites that we've run in quite sometime. Your narrator this week is Iba Armancass. Iba is an Emmy-nominated writer, director, producer currently
2:16.0	working for KLCS PBS in Los Angeles. Iba is a voracious reader who began narrating fiction podcasts nearly a decade ago and is now one of the three
2:26.0	narrators on Inner Space Outer Thoughts, Caltech NASA JPL's first science fiction anthology.
2:32.3	In her free time, she's learning to make
2:33.6	neon science and getting way to into hockey. So like I said, first if you haven't
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