RQ Network Feed Drop - The Program audio series: Overclocking Part 1
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🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This month we are featuring an episode of one of many exciting podcasts on the RQ Network: The Program audio series.
The Program audio series is a dark science fiction anthology set in a future in which Money, State, and God have become fused into a single entity. The show focuses on ordinary people inhabiting this extraordinary world. And for them, it is not this future that is terrifying – it is our present. This is part 1 of an episode called Overclocking. It follows a group of characters in a disintegrating simulation embarking on a journey to the literal end of the world. You can find the episode transcript at programaudioseries.com/23-overclocking/ including credits and a list of references.
The Program audio series is created and produced by IMS. Introduction and outro by Lowri Ann Davies.
You can listen to the 2nd part of this brilliant episode by using this link.
Or you can listen to The Program audio series on the Rusty Quill website, on Acast, on its official website, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Content warnings
- Conspiracy
- Existential threat
- Disappearances
- Artificial Intelligence
- SFX - Ticking Clocks, Laughing Creatures.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, it's Lorry here. Today we are sharing an episode from one of the brilliant |
| 0:07.4 | podcasts on the RQ network, the program audio series. The program audio series is a dark |
| 0:15.2 | science fiction anthology set in a future in which money, state and God have become fused into a single entity. |
| 0:24.9 | The show focuses on ordinary people inhabiting this extraordinary world, and for them it is not |
| 0:32.4 | the future that is terrifying, it is our present. This is the first part of an episode called Overclocking. |
| 0:41.0 | It follows a group of characters in a disintegrating simulation embarking on a journey to the |
| 0:46.6 | literal end of the world. To listen to part two of this thrilling episode, you can click on the |
| 0:53.1 | link in the description, or search for the |
| 0:55.7 | program audio series wherever you get your podcasts. Or you can find more information on rustyquill.com |
| 1:02.9 | or program audio series.com. Have fun and enjoy the episode. |
| 1:09.6 | The goal of every computation is to calculate the result. The goal of every computation is to calculate the result. |
| 1:13.9 | The purpose of every simulation is for it to run to the end. |
| 1:18.0 | Sooner or later, we all face the blue screen. |
| 1:21.7 | A quote from the Decoder's Manual, final edition. |
| 1:40.3 | Thank you. annual final edition The first indisputable manifestation of the great administrator was in Babylon in the year 277 archaeological evidence however precedes this event by at least a century, with traces |
| 1:47.1 | of Edmund's presence preserved in the numerous artifacts left behind the Zai dynasty. |
| 1:54.2 | Intangible indications date from even earlier, with legends of Sissadman's deeds surviving in the |
| 1:59.7 | oral tradition of Arabian tribes, |
| 2:02.5 | back when time was still counted in double digits. |
| 2:06.9 | Whatever the culture, whatever the age, there was one opinion shared across both millennia and meridians. |
| 2:15.8 | A certainty all of us could plainly see. |
| 2:19.6 | Ours was the best system administrator that ever was and ever will be. |
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