ROBOTS: Would You Date A Robot?

Flash Forward

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Today we travel to a future where we can take a robot home for a good time, or a long time, depending on what you’re into. Content note: today’s episode discusses sex and includes explicit language. This one is more “mature” than most episodes, so proceed accordingly. ✨ REMEMBER TO SIGN UP FOR THE WRAP PARTY HERE! ✨ Guests: Tina Horn: author of SFSX (Volume 2 out now) and host of Why Are People Into That? Danielle Blunt: dominatrix and community organizer with Hacking//Hustling Samantha Floreani: Program Lead at Digital Rights Watch Ingrid Burrington: journalist and host of RIP Corp Dr. Debbie Chachra: professor of engineering at Olin College Render Man: hacker & founder of the Internet of Dongs Voice Actors: Rachael Deckard: Richelle Claiborne Brad: Brent Rose Halimah: Zahra Noorbakhsh Malik: Henry Alexander Kelly Summer: Shara Kirby Ashoka: Anjali Kunapaneni Eliza: Chelsey B Coombs Dorothy Levitt: Tamara Krinsky John Dee: Keith Houston Dr. Marcia Eckers: Andrea Silenzi Original X Marks the Bot theme music by Ilan Blanck. → → → Further reading & resources here! ← ← ← Flash Forward is hosted by, Rose Eveleth and produced by Julia Llinas Goodman. The intro music is by Asura and the outro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Mattie Lubchansky. Get in touch: Twitter // Facebook // Reddit // [email protected] Support the show: Patreon // Donorbox Subscribe: iTunes // Soundcloud // Spotify Episode Sponsors: Skillshare: an online learning community that offers membership with meaning. Explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/flashforward and get a one month free trial of Premium Membership. BirdNote: BirdNote Daily, you get a short, 2-minute daily dose of bird -- from wacky facts, to hard science, and even poetry. And now is the perfect time to catch up on BirdNote’s longform podcasts: Threatened and Bring Birds Back. Find them all in your podcast listening app or at BirdNote.org. Nature: Want to stay up-to-date on the latest in global science and research? Subscribe today to Nature, the leading international journal of science. Get 50% off your yearly subscription when you subscribe at go.nature.com/flashforward. The Long Time Academy: a new podcast about time, and how we think about time. Life is short. Time is long. The Long Time Academy. 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.
0:13.5	Flash Forward is a show about the future.
0:15.9	This is the second to last episode of the show and I really hope that you will join us
0:19.5	at the party we are having on Friday, December 15th that is this coming Friday.
0:24.4	Go to flashforwardpod.com slash event to sign up and I will send you a link to join the
0:29.4	party on Friday.
0:30.9	Every episode we take on a specific possible or not so possible future scenario.
0:36.0	We always start with a little field trip into the future to check out what is going on
0:40.4	and then we teleport back to today to talk to experts about how that world that we just
0:45.4	heard might really go down.
0:48.7	Got it?
0:49.7	Great.
0:50.7	Just a quick content note today we are talking about sex and there is some cursing so proceed
0:56.5	accordingly.
0:58.1	This episode we are starting in the year 2042.
1:10.8	Good evening and welcome to X marks the bot.
1:15.0	Last time three teams won the battle but will they win the war?
1:20.0	And we say goodbye to team reboot after one of their members won A-Wall.
1:26.0	Tonight in the third round of our four-part competition the remaining teams will experience
1:30.9	a fatal bot traction.
1:33.4	Welcome to the bot light.
1:36.5	Seriously who is writing these?
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