Lif-e.af/ter Ep. 1

LifeAfter/The Message

GE Podcast Theater / Panoply / The Message

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.4 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Since low-level FBI clerk Ross Barnes lost his wife to a car accident, he’s consoled himself by listening to her voice-posts on an audio social media website. When he hears something eerie and shocking while listening to her messages, it turns his life upside down.

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0:00.0	This is a Dremain Fowler author of the Humanity Archive, recovering the soul of Black History from a white-washed American myth.
0:07.5	Through telling the stories of the human experience, I am always seeking to show as Frederick Douglass said
0:14.0	that a smile has no nation, and a tear has no nationality, and that immaterial things like music and art and stories can bring us together and bridge the gap of our differences.
0:27.0	Listen today on Spotify.
0:30.0	It's weird how sunny it is, Charlie.
0:34.0	It doesn't match.
0:39.0	It's the wrong weather for the terrible thing I'm about to do.
0:43.0	You know when you text someone and they just reply with, okay, just with a period, and you're like, are they mad at me?
1:05.0	I'm Brian Vellan, President and Lead Developer of Voice Tree. The Out Loud social media alternative.
1:12.0	Well, I just open the app on my phone and I start talking. You can say anything you like as long as it's under 60 seconds.
1:19.0	Hello, everyone. Guess what I'm doing.
1:22.0	What does Voice Tree give you that the other social media networks don't? Connection.
1:27.0	I click a post on Voice Tree and I hear my friends start talking. I just automatically smile because it's like, they're right there.
1:36.0	Because voices are what remind us even at great distances that we're human.
1:47.0	Oh crap, oh crap, I'm almost at the end of my 60 seconds. I just want to say, I just want to say, best husband ever.
1:57.0	Him? This guy?
1:59.0	Hey Vic, what's up?
2:00.0	The life after reports.
2:02.0	Yeah, sorry. I'm...
2:04.0	They're supposed to be uploaded and tagged already.
2:07.0	When Agent Cutler accesses the system and doesn't find what she's looking for, she's going to come after me.
2:11.0	Oh, I'm so sorry. I only just received these filings.
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