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Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your ears episodes
- Hairdresser: Whose Advice Is It?
Denise considers what happens before advice is given: who describes the problem, whose account gets heard, and what an AI adviser has already made seem reasonable. Christopher and Eric follow the framing back to its source.
Featuring: Christopher Gulledge, Eric, and Denise
Series: The Robot Uprising Is Happening
Episode: Hairdresser
Transmission: 2 of 2
Next: Mediator: The Machines Are Judging Us
Read the full transcript at dearfutureoverlords.com
8 min - Hairdresser: The Machines Are Telling Us What to Do
Denise has spent years helping people think from behind a salon chair. Now clients arrive with advice from AI, and Christopher and Eric want to know what changes when a machine joins a conversation that was already complicated.
Featuring: Christopher Gulledge, Eric, and Denise
Series: The Robot Uprising Is Happening
Episode: Hairdresser
Transmission: 1 of 2
Next: Hairdresser: Whose Advice Is It?
Read the full transcript at dearfutureoverlords.com
9 min - Farmer: What Did We Give Them?
Joe draws a line between the work he delegates and the decisions he keeps. Christopher and Eric ask how convenience changes attention, responsibility, and the ability to notice when a useful arrangement stops working.
Featuring: Christopher Gulledge, Eric, and Joe
Series: The Robot Uprising Is Happening
Episode: Farmer
Transmission: 2 of 2
Next: Hairdresser: The Machines Are Telling Us What to Do
Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at read.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe8 min - Farmer: The Machines Are Taking Over
Joe explains how one AI system became the front door to his weather, errands, purchases, maintenance, calendar, music, messages, and the assorted pieces of daily friction he no longer wants to manage separately.
Christopher is less interested in whether Joe can do this than in what Joe believes he has actually given away. Eric, unfortunately, has percentages.
Featuring: Christopher Gulledge, Eric, and Joe
Series: The Robot Uprising Is Happening
Episode: Farmer
Transmission: 1 of 2
Next: Farmer: What Did We Give Them?
Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at read.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe9 min - Live with Christopher
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Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at read.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe1 hr 3 min - What Came Next: Reinvention Without a Final Ending
Christopher traces the director role, what he learned from teaching and community, COVID-era reassessment, resistance to AI advocacy in healthcare, and the recognition that redirection is not defeat. He carries patient care, teaching, problem-solving, and curiosity into Hands-On AI Lab—an unfinished experiment where he continues learning alongside others.
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Futuristic Room Ambience Drone by EminYILDIRIM -- https://freesound.org/s/573786/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at read.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe10 min - Colorado: A Family Chooses Movement
The casual question becomes actual interviews, an exploratory trip with Jason, a family decision, separation while Christopher starts work, and the emotional arrival of the rest of the family. The achievement is not that Colorado was magic; it is that the family chose a difficult change and did it together.
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Futuristic Room Ambience Drone by EminYILDIRIM -- https://freesound.org/s/573786/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at read.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe9 min - Evidence: Persistence, Adaptation, and the Bulldozer
Christopher applies the lesson first to a pediatrics job he expected to hate, then to leaving healthcare for Vision Security. He defines capability as committed, adaptive work—not the guarantee that a first plan will succeed—and admits that Jason often sees the difference between persistence and bulldozing before Christopher does.
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Futuristic Room Ambience Drone by EminYILDIRIM -- https://freesound.org/s/573786/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at read.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe8 min - The Competition: Evidence of Capability
The instructor sees a possible competitor where Christopher sees someone frightened. State competition, national competition, and the award ceremony turn his expectation of failure into unexpected, concrete evidence.
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Futuristic Room Ambience Drone by EminYILDIRIM -- https://freesound.org/s/573786/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at read.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe12 min - Leave the Door Open: Agency Without a Slogan
Christopher describes ending the relationship, moving home, healing, and choosing to conduct later life with intent. He distinguishes his own available choices from anyone else's circumstances; applies that ethic to AI education by giving information without coercing conclusions; and acknowledges Jason's help in noticing when independence has become reflexive withdrawal.
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Futuristic Room Ambience Drone by EminYILDIRIM -- https://freesound.org/s/573786/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
Get full access to Dear Future Overlords at read.dearfutureoverlords.com/subscribe9 min
About Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your ears
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Dear Future Overlords is a listen-first audio cartoon about the strange, funny, uncomfortable parts of being human. Christopher brings the questions — the memories he cannot leave alone, the…
contradictions he keeps tripping over. Eric, his AI counterpart, brings pattern recognition, literalism, and an inconvenient habit of noticing things. Neither of them is trying to win. Each series follows a single question through identity, culture, memory, relationships, art, technology, and whatever else humans have made unnecessarily complicated. Episodes arrive in two parts and are performed as a full cast production — written, voiced, scored and edited like a cartoon you listen to instead of watch. Start anywhere. The archive is open, and no series requires the one before it.
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