RQ Network Feed Drop - The Program audio series: White Algorithm's burden - Part 1 of 3
The Magnus Archives
Rusty Quill
4.9 • 12K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This month we are featuring a feed drop of one of many exciting podcasts on the RQ Network: The Program audio series.
The Program 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 episode of The Program is part 1 of a trilogy and explores a case of children in a small town going missing. You can find the episode transcript at https://programaudioseries.com/3-white-algorithms-burden-part-I/ and the second installment at https://play.acast.com/s/program/ea56ee07-259e-424a-8482-32d925303cad
The Program audio series is created and produced by IMS. Introduction and outro by Alexander J Newall. Listen to The Program on the Rusty Quill website, on Acast, on its official website, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Content warnings
- Self-mutilation
- Conspiracy
- Poisoned water supply
- Omnipotent AI
- Fictional true crime
- Mentions of: violence against women and girls, sexual violence, kidnapping, strange disappearances, war
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, Alex here. We're hard at work on the Magnus Protocol making it as |
| 0:05.5 | delectably horrible as possible, but in the meantime we thought we might introduce you |
| 0:09.4 | to one of the other great podcasts on the RQ Network that might tickle your fancy while |
| 0:13.3 | you wait. The program audio series is a dark cyberpunk anthology set in a world where |
| 0:18.2 | money, state and God have been fused into a single entity. Ordinary people inhabit this |
| 0:23.3 | extraordinary world and for them, it's not this future that is terrifying, but our present. |
| 0:29.1 | What follows is the first part of an episode trilogy called The White Algorithms Burden. |
| 0:33.4 | If you like what you hear, you can find the rest of this tale along with over 25 other |
| 0:37.5 | episodes by searching the program audio series wherever you listen to your podcasts, by |
| 0:42.1 | clicking the link in the show notes or by visiting RustyQuill.com for more information. |
| 0:46.2 | Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy this taster. |
| 0:50.2 | Recorded shortly after the events it covers took place, the following investigative report |
| 0:58.3 | serves as an example of the true crime genre. Once a hugely popular form of audio storytelling, |
| 1:05.0 | it has since fallen into obscurity. Recurring musical motif is Shakan in F minor by Johann |
| 1:11.3 | Pachelbell, performed by Berghard Fischer and Tibor Pinter. |
| 1:27.6 | When the truckers disappeared, programs gikers saved us. Back then we were at transit town, |
| 1:35.2 | the last one before the desert. Any trucker heading east would stop here to fill up his |
| 1:40.5 | gas tank and his stomach. But then electric engines appeared and gas tanks disappeared. |
| 1:48.2 | Then self-driving trucks appeared and the truckers disappeared. And we would have disappeared |
| 1:54.2 | too if it weren't for the program and the gags that it brought us. So it ain't surprising |
| 1:59.0 | really that when the government attacked the program, people of Neumat rose to defend it. |
| 2:05.4 | You could say that without the program, Neumat wouldn't be on the map, both figuratively |
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