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Flash Forward

MiniPod Time Travel

Flash Forward

Flash Forward Presents

Science

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is a minipod, a smattering of time travel, future travel, and news about the show. In this episode we hear a bunch of messages from listeners: what folks think about past futures we’ve been to, and future futures we should travel to. We also cover some show news! So, in bullet point form: Some of you might be new to the show this season. Maybe you didn’t even know this was the second season! Well, it is! Season one is available on Soundcloud, where you can download all the episodes for listening purposes. The show now has a subreddit! So if you like Reddit and you want to talk about the show there, we’re at r/FlashForwardPod. I have some plans for the subreddit, including maybe some AMAs with guests of the show, and just general discussions of each future, and all that stuff. We also now have an online store! Where you can buy stuff! Right now there are a couple of different versions of the logo that you can put on anything from a tote bag to a mug to a cell phone case. It’s all very cool looking so if you’re the kind of person who likes to buy swag for shows you listen to, you can now do that at our store. And if there’s an item that you don’t see in the store that you wish you could buy, let me know. If you do buy something from the store, I would love to see pictures of whatever it is in your life! That would make me extremely happy. I mean come on check out these tote bags! The last thing I do in the episode is reveal a few of the hidden references from this season. A lot of you have asked what you should be looking for, so hopefully this will help! In episode 2, Love At First Sexbot, the names of the different sex robots are references to particular people and characters. The Hadaly is named after a mechanical woman invented by a fictional Thomas Edison in the 1886 novel The Future Eve. She’s one of the first female robots to appear in literature. The Leopold is named after Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose name lives on in the term “masochism.” And here’s probably the hardest one from that episode: Margot’s Discount Closet Solutions is named after a character from a Ray Bradbury short story called “All Summer in a Day.” That one was hard, I admit. In the mosquito episode, two of the names are references to Animorphs characters, and the repeated use of the number 18 points to the book in which the Animorphs turn into mosquitos. That’s often what you’re looking for. Other times it’s quotes and clips I play. So, go forth and find them! Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth, and is part of the Boing Boing podcast family. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Broke for Free. Other music used in this episode is by Ryan Lit and Decktonic. If you want to suggest a future we should take on, send us a note on Twitter, Facebook, by voicemail at (347) 927-1425 or by sending an email or voice memo to info@flashforwardpod.com. We love hearing your ideas! And if you want to support the show, there are a few ways you can do that too! We have a Patreon page, where you can donate to the show. But if that’s not in the cards for you, you can head to iTunes and leave us a nice review or just tell your friends about us. Those things really do help. That’s all for this future, come back next week and we’ll travel to a new one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to flash forward. I'm Rose and I'm your host. Normally the next thing that I would do is give a little

0:15.8

spiel about what this podcast is about. Something like Flash forward is a podcast about

0:21.9

the future.

0:23.0

Every week we take on a different possible or not so possible future scenario.

0:27.0

Every episode we start with a little trip to the future

0:29.0

before returning to the present to talk to some experts about how that would really go down.

0:33.0

Got it? Great.

0:35.0

But this week's episode is going to be a little bit different.

0:38.0

I've been traveling a bunch and I'm kind of sick so I apologize for the sniffle voice

0:42.0

and none of our next futures are quite ready for you so instead of going to a particular tomorrow

0:47.2

Today we're gonna spend the episode doing a couple of different things first we're gonna hear a bunch of messages from you.

0:53.0

What you've said about past futures that you've heard,

0:56.0

or future futures that you want to hear about,

0:58.0

and all of that.

1:00.0

We're also going to do a little bit of time travel to the past to talk about the first season of the show and hear some of the best

1:05.7

bits from those episodes. I've also got some fun announcements for you about the

1:09.9

show and I'm going to reveal a few of the hidden references from earlier episodes.

1:15.7

A lot of people have asked me what they should be looking for, so this should help in your

1:20.2

search.

1:21.2

Got it?

1:22.2

Great.

1:23.0

Okay, let's start with some calls from listeners about past shows. And we have a couple of reactions

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