Fungus Among Us

Flash Forward

Flash Forward Presents

Science

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

How much of what you do is actually your choice? What if you were secretly being controlled by a parasite that had infected your brain? What if that infection was spreading? Guests: David Walton, author of The Genius Plague Tade Thompson, author or Rosewater Charissa de Bekker, researcher at the University of Central Florida Sandeep Ravindran, science journalist For additional reading and resources on this episode, visit flashforwardpod.com. Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The voices from the future this week were provided by Charles Anderson, David Dunsmuir, Anthony Friscia, Andrea Klunder and Brent Rose. Check out Brent’s project Connected States, in which he drives around the US in a big van, at http://www.connectedstates.com/. You can listen to Andrea’s podcast The Creative Imposter wherever you get your podcasts. If you want to be a voice in a future scene for Flash Forward, that is one of the perks of a $10 Patreon pledge! Whenever I need voices I send out a little note to those patrons and people can sign up to do one! The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. Who is amazing! You should check out their art AND you should go look at the new magazine that they’re creating at the comics website The Nib. Go to membership.thenib.com to learn more about that. If you want to suggest a future we should take on, send us a note on Twitter, Facebook or by email at info@flashforwardpod.com. We love hearing your ideas! And if you think you’ve spotted one of the little references I’ve hidden in the episode, email us there too. If you’re right, I’ll send you something cool. And if you want to support the show, there are a few ways you can do that too! Head to www.flashforwardpod.com/support for more about how to give. But if that’s not in the cards for you, you can head to Apple Podcasts and leave us a nice review or just tell your friends about us. Those things really do help. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to flash forward. I'm Rose and I'm your host. You might notice if you are a regular listener that my voice
0:15.8	sounds a little bit different today. I may or may not have had a little bit of a karaoke
0:21.6	experience recently and I'm still recovering.
0:25.0	But we are going to get through this together.
0:27.0	What is this you might ask if you happen to download this without any idea of what you were getting yourself into?
0:32.0	Great question. Flash forward is a show. without any idea of what you were getting yourself into?
0:32.5	Great question.
0:33.8	Flash forward is a show about the future.
0:36.6	Every episode we take on a specific possible
0:39.2	or not so possible future scenario.
0:43.2	We always start with a little field trip to the future
0:45.7	to check out what's going on, and then we teleport back to today
0:49.4	to talk to experts about how that world that we just heard might really go down.
0:55.0	Got it? Great.
0:57.0	This episode we're starting in the year 2028.
1:02.0	Hey robot, play me, my newsfeed.
1:04.0	Something new new and
1:08.0	something new and quite frightening appears to be happening with the
1:12.0	Nicole Mano virus, commonly referred to as
1:15.6	NM. For decades, NM was a virus that appeared largely in monkeys and only
1:22.1	occasionally in humans with mild symptoms.
1:25.6	There have been a few small NM outbreaks over the years, but very few cases are severe
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