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This Planet Needs a Name
Imagine a handful of scientists and engineers setting out to terraform a planet - a world - for the frozen people they've got in tow. Just a few people, carefully chosen, who will live out their lives building something they'll never see.
That's us. We're building a future.
A science fiction audio drama suitable for our times.
This Planet Needs a Name
1.05 Recklessly and Perfectly Alive
In Episode Five, “Recklessly and Perfectly Alive,” we get to explore a forest at long, long last. The crew attempt to learn James’s favorite sport, with minimal success. Conflicts are resolved, new surprises are encountered, and quite a lot of hairs are cut. This one’s sweet!
Content Notes: very few this time! As usual a few people swear.
Alcohol consumption: [40:19 - 41:10] pours, takes a sip, sings about whiskey
The transcript is available. If the transcript link is broken please email needsanamepod@gmail.com and we’ll get it to you as soon as we can. We’ve changed to google docs for our transcripts for accessibility - please let us know if anything isn’t working!
This is a collaborative, ensemble project. Many of the character decisions are made by the actors as part of the story and script development process. Please check out the links below for more of their work:
- Trevor Bean creates and voices Mandry
- Evan Tess Murray creates all of them and voices Zei
- Caroline Mincks creates and voices Zahava
- Anjali Kunapaneni creates and voices Devi
- Dominic Mendez creates and voices Ángel
- Alexander Doddy creates and voices James
- Alexander Endymion Hernández Díaz creates and voices Cyrus
- Trace Callahan creates and voices Kolian
- Sawyer Greene creates and voices Quill
- Nerys Howell creates and voices Nessa
Our guest voice this episode was provided by Mythical Rose. They’re a talented cosplayer - check out their tiktok - and a delight to work with.
We also want to thank Spy for the art he created for our birthday. You can check it out in our merch store at teepublic. The mission patch is beautiful, and we’ve made it canon!
Our podcast art was created by Katy Schifferer. Check out her work!
Please, if you can, donate to First Nations covid relief at firstnations.org. And please also continue to support Black Lives Matter in whatever way you can.
We tell a story about another world, but we're not giving up on this one.