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🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Today we travel to a future where celebrities construct their own cities for you and I to live in. Guests: Jon Karas — President and Co-Founder at Akoin Dr. Katherine P. Antonova — Associate Professor of Russian history at Queens College Brittany Spanos — senior writer at Rolling Stone Magazine → → → Further reading & resources here! ← ← ← Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. The Lovechild tour guide was played by Gina Delvac. Episode suggested by Lux Alptraum. Get in touch: Twitter // Facebook // Reddit // [email protected] Support the show: Patreon // Donorbox Subscribe: iTunes // Soundcloud // Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm your host. Flash forward is a show.
0:04.0	Flash forward is a show.
0:08.0	Hello and welcome to Flashforward.
0:11.0	I'm Rose and I'm your host. Flash forward is a show about the future. Every
0:16.8	episode we take on a specific possible or not so possible future scenario.
0:23.4	We always start with a little field trip into the future
0:26.2	to check out what's going on.
0:27.9	And then we teleport back to today
0:30.5	to talk to experts about how that world that we just heard might really go down.
0:36.0	Got it? Great. This episode we're starting in the year 2028. The Hello and welcome to Love Child. I'm Katie Barrenson and I'll be guiding your tour today.
1:13.0	How's everybody doing today?
1:15.0	Raise your hand if it's your first time here at Love Child.
1:18.0	Okay, a few first timers, a few returning visitors, great. I hope by the end of this tour you'll
1:25.4	consider becoming permanent residents of Love Child our lovely city.
1:31.2	Before we begin a bit of safety, please stay seated for the duration of this tour.
1:36.3	The monorail does make some wide but surprisingly powerful turns, and we don't want anybody
1:42.0	toppling over now, do we? Okay great on your
1:45.4	left the parking lot you just parked in trust me the tour gets better from
1:49.4	here. First a little bit of history.
1:53.0	Love Child was founded in 2026 by Stephanie Joanne, Angelina Germanota, who you probably know better as Lady Gaga.
2:03.0	Stephanie had the idea to develop her own city when she was a little girl,
2:07.0	but sometimes permitting takes a long time, right?
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