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Wrong Station

Pledge Drive #16 - Monoculture

Wrong Station

Wrong Station

Drama, Science Fiction, Fiction

4.6657 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

//A RESPITE FROM APOCALYPSE //HUMANITY’S FINAL HOPE //A BILLIONAIRE AND HIS 100 GENETICALLY PERFECT CLONES //WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? “MONOCULTURE” A NEW STORY FROM WRONG STATION --Written by Alexander Saxton, and performed by Anthony Botelho. Support The Wrong Station Pledge Drive by subscribing at www.patreon.com/thewrongstation. The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at www.wrongstation.com/c-w. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Does it ever feel like you're a marketing professional just speaking into the void?

0:05.0

Well, with LinkedIn ads, you can know you're reaching the right decision makers.

0:09.0

You can even target them by job title, industry, company, role, seniority, skills, company revenue, and...

0:16.0

Did I say job title yet?

0:17.0

Get started today and see how you can avoid the void and reach the right buyers with LinkedIn ads.

0:22.4

To get £100 of your first campaign, go to LinkedIn.com slash lead to claim your credit.

0:28.1

Terms and conditions apply.

0:30.7

Every runner knows the moment when everything clicks. When your legs lock into a rhythm, the aches float away and doubts fade, replaced by a feeling of euphoria.

0:42.3

It's why you lace up at dawn, why little rain doesn't stop you, why one run turns into a habit.

0:50.3

So next time you go for a run, chase that runs high. Learn more about running and go wild at puma.com.

1:02.4

You're listening to the wrong station pledge drive. The wrong station is only possible with supportive listeners like you.

1:13.6

Become a subscriber today by visiting patreon.com slash the wrong station.

1:17.6

You receive access to bonus episodes, behind the scenes discussions, our new book club, and so much more.

1:33.3

Today, the wrong station is proud to present Monoculture by Alexander Saxton. He had 100 genetically perfect clones of himself, floating in plastic in the basement of his compound.

1:50.0

Each one of fully formed fetus suspended in a translucent fluid, in a plastic bag inside a cylinder of brown plastic, like a recyclable keg.

2:00.0

In the never-ending, endlessly repeated Sunday afternoons

2:03.6

of apocalypse, he had taken to walking down among them in the dim warmth of the basement,

2:08.6

closing his eyes and feeling the incubation lamps filtered through their brownness against the

2:13.6

backs of his eyelids, like an imitation sun. The world had lost most of its interest for him.

2:21.4

He barely spoke to his girlfriends anymore, and they barely spoke to each other. Even before

2:26.9

they had all withdrawn from the world to this isolated, air-conditioned, bomb-resistant paradise,

2:32.4

they all had so little in common. He was 30 years older than the

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