Hello and welcome to a very special escape pod.

No, we're not going to be discussing the drug problems of our dear daughter Blossom,

but instead we bring you the recording from WorldCon. We had a live escape pod episode with a whole bunch of people from the show. And then we had a live reading of a story.

The story will show up in our regular feed, so if there's a little bit of a hiccup in the show, that's why.

Also, we've recorded this with handheld recording devices, so the quality will not be what you're used to.

Still, we had a lot of fun and we hope you enjoy listening to it. I'm hearing live.

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Hello.

Hello! Hello and welcome to a very special episode of Escape Pod. I have always wanted to say that.

Here's what we have for you over the next hour in a bit. We're going to introduce you to the show, who we are, how we do what we do, how we got here. We'll discuss the show a little bit, and we'll have a reading from the incredible

or a moment of her story some things I should probably have mentioned earlier

followed by some commentary from my hosting colleague an active duty superhuman

Setzer who hosts one of our sibling shows,

Podcastal.

And then we have treats.

So a skate pod, a potted history.

First came the dinosaurs, then they died and turned into oil. Skipping

ahead a little bit, roughly 15 years ago, Sarah Eelie had an idea. This was when

podcasting was an exciting old-timey digital mining town where everyone moved a little too quickly and geo cities was still a thing.

That plan was this.

By the reprint writes for a science fiction story, read it into a microphone, and release it into the wild as something new.

Call the podcast.

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