Flash Forward

Flash Forward

By Rose EvelethScience
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Flash Forward episodes

  • 8. Explain Missy

    If you want to see if you can take him to Manila, go to episode 16: Go To Manila.

    If you want to put your foot down and refuse, go to episode 17: Don’t Go To Manila.


    Vanguard Estates is a production of Flash Forward. The story was written by me, Rose Eveleth; edited by Ace Tilton Radcliffe and Georgia Wyatt; and produced by Ozzy Llinas Goodman. The sound design is by Mischa Stanton and music is by Ilan Blanck. 

    The voice actors for Welcome to Vanguard Estates are:

    • Marcus Jones -- Keith Houston
    • Imani Jones -- Shara Kirby 
    • Robot #1 -- Ashley Kellem
    • Amy -- Chelsey B Coombs 
    • Vanguard Estates Representative -- Aiya Islam 
    • Missy -- Anjali Kunapaneni 
    • Robot # 2 -- Brett Tubbs 
    • NPR Host -- Sandhya Dirks 

    • An earlier version of Vanguard Estates was originally performed live for Pop-Up Magazine. 

      You can also play through a web version of the story at flashforwardpod.com/vanguard, which features really cool illustrations by Mattie Lubchansky.

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      6 min
    • 7. Disable Drop-In

      If you want to install a robot to bathe him, go to episode 14. Robot Baths.

      If you want to hire a human, go to episode 15. Human Baths.


      Vanguard Estates is a production of Flash Forward. The story was written by me, Rose Eveleth; edited by Ace Tilton Radcliffe and Georgia Wyatt; and produced by Ozzy Llinas Goodman. The sound design is by Mischa Stanton and music is by Ilan Blanck. 

      The voice actors for Welcome to Vanguard Estates are:

      • Marcus Jones -- Keith Houston
      • Imani Jones -- Shara Kirby 
      • Robot #1 -- Ashley Kellem
      • Amy -- Chelsey B Coombs 
      • Vanguard Estates Representative -- Aiya Islam 
      • Missy -- Anjali Kunapaneni 
      • Robot # 2 -- Brett Tubbs 
      • NPR Host -- Sandhya Dirks 

      • An earlier version of Vanguard Estates was originally performed live for Pop-Up Magazine. 

        You can also play through a web version of the story at flashforwardpod.com/vanguard, which features really cool illustrations by Mattie Lubchansky.

        Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

        5 min
      • 6. Use Drop-In

        If you want to stay quiet, go to episode 12: Don’t Tell Him.

        If you want to say something and tell him about the stove, go to episode 13: Tell Him.


        Vanguard Estates is a production of Flash Forward. The story was written by me, Rose Eveleth; edited by Ace Tilton Radcliffe and Georgia Wyatt; and produced by Ozzy Llinas Goodman. The sound design is by Mischa Stanton and music is by Ilan Blanck. 

        The voice actors for Welcome to Vanguard Estates are:

        • Marcus Jones -- Keith Houston
        • Imani Jones -- Shara Kirby 
        • Robot #1 -- Ashley Kellem
        • Amy -- Chelsey B Coombs 
        • Vanguard Estates Representative -- Aiya Islam 
        • Missy -- Anjali Kunapaneni 
        • Robot # 2 -- Brett Tubbs 
        • NPR Host -- Sandhya Dirks 

        • An earlier version of Vanguard Estates was originally performed live for Pop-Up Magazine. 

          You can also play through a web version of the story at flashforwardpod.com/vanguard, which features really cool illustrations by Mattie Lubchansky.

          Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

          4 min
        • 5. Call Him More

          If you want to install cameras in his house go to episode 10: Install Cameras.

          If you want to move him into your house, go to episode 11: Move Him In.


          Vanguard Estates is a production of Flash Forward. The story was written by me, Rose Eveleth; edited by Ace Tilton Radcliffe and Georgia Wyatt; and produced by Ozzy Llinas Goodman. The sound design is by Mischa Stanton and music is by Ilan Blanck. 

          The voice actors for Welcome to Vanguard Estates are:

          • Marcus Jones -- Keith Houston
          • Imani Jones -- Shara Kirby 
          • Robot #1 -- Ashley Kellem
          • Amy -- Chelsey B Coombs 
          • Vanguard Estates Representative -- Aiya Islam 
          • Missy -- Anjali Kunapaneni 
          • Robot # 2 -- Brett Tubbs 
          • NPR Host -- Sandhya Dirks 

          • An earlier version of Vanguard Estates was originally performed live for Pop-Up Magazine. 

            You can also play through a web version of the story at flashforwardpod.com/vanguard, which features really cool illustrations by Mattie Lubchansky.

            Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

            5 min
          • 4. Buy A Home Robot

            If you want to fully explain how Missy works, go to episode 8: Explain Missy.

            If you want to keep things vague go to episode 9: Don’t Explain Missy.


            Vanguard Estates is a production of Flash Forward. The story was written by me, Rose Eveleth; edited by Ace Tilton Radcliffe and Georgia Wyatt; and produced by Ozzy Llinas Goodman. The sound design is by Mischa Stanton and music is by Ilan Blanck. 

            The voice actors for Welcome to Vanguard Estates are:

            • Marcus Jones -- Keith Houston
            • Imani Jones -- Shara Kirby 
            • Robot #1 -- Ashley Kellem
            • Amy -- Chelsey B Coombs 
            • Vanguard Estates Representative -- Aiya Islam 
            • Missy -- Anjali Kunapaneni 
            • Robot # 2 -- Brett Tubbs 
            • NPR Host -- Sandhya Dirks 

            • An earlier version of Vanguard Estates was originally performed live for Pop-Up Magazine. 

              You can also play through a web version of the story at flashforwardpod.com/vanguard, which features really cool illustrations by Mattie Lubchansky.

              Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

              4 min
            • 3. Bring Him Home

              If you want to get in a home robot, go to episode 4: Buy A Home Robot.

              If you want to try to go without the robot, go to episode 5: Call Him More.


              Vanguard Estates is a production of Flash Forward. The story was written by me, Rose Eveleth; edited by Ace Tilton Radcliffe and Georgia Wyatt; and produced by Ozzy Llinas Goodman. The sound design is by Mischa Stanton and music is by Ilan Blanck. 

              The voice actors for Welcome to Vanguard Estates are:

              • Marcus Jones -- Keith Houston
              • Imani Jones -- Shara Kirby 
              • Robot #1 -- Ashley Kellem
              • Amy -- Chelsey B Coombs 
              • Vanguard Estates Representative -- Aiya Islam 
              • Missy -- Anjali Kunapaneni 
              • Robot # 2 -- Brett Tubbs 
              • NPR Host -- Sandhya Dirks 

              • An earlier version of Vanguard Estates was originally performed live for Pop-Up Magazine. 

                You can also play through a web version of the story at flashforwardpod.com/vanguard, which features really cool illustrations by Mattie Lubchansky.

                Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

                4 min
              • 2. Stay at Vanguard

                If you want to keep checking in on him with Drop In, go to episode 6: Use Drop-In.

                If you want to disable Drop In, go to episode 7: Disable Drop-In.


                Vanguard Estates is a production of Flash Forward. The story was written by me, Rose Eveleth; edited by Ace Tilton Radcliffe and Georgia Wyatt; and produced by Ozzy Llinas Goodman. The sound design is by Mischa Stanton and music is by Ilan Blanck. 

                The voice actors for Welcome to Vanguard Estates are:

                • Marcus Jones -- Keith Houston
                • Imani Jones -- Shara Kirby 
                • Robot #1 -- Ashley Kellem
                • Amy -- Chelsey B Coombs 
                • Vanguard Estates Representative -- Aiya Islam 
                • Missy -- Anjali Kunapaneni 
                • Robot # 2 -- Brett Tubbs 
                • NPR Host -- Sandhya Dirks 

                • An earlier version of Vanguard Estates was originally performed live for Pop-Up Magazine. 

                  You can also play through a web version of the story at flashforwardpod.com/vanguard, which features really cool illustrations by Mattie Lubchansky.

                  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

                  4 min
                • 1. Welcome to Vanguard Estates

                  If you want to leave him there, go to episode 2: Stay at Vanguard.

                  If you want to take your dad home, go to episode 3: Bring Him Home.


                  Vanguard Estates is a production of Flash Forward. The story was written by me, Rose Eveleth; edited by Ace Tilton Radcliffe and Georgia Wyatt; and produced by Ozzy Llinas Goodman. The sound design is by Mischa Stanton and music is by Ilan Blanck. 

                  The voice actors for Welcome to Vanguard Estates are:

                  • Marcus Jones -- Keith Houston
                  • Imani Jones -- Shara Kirby 
                  • Robot #1 -- Ashley Kellem
                  • Amy -- Chelsey B Coombs 
                  • Vanguard Estates Representative -- Aiya Islam 
                  • Missy -- Anjali Kunapaneni 
                  • Robot # 2 -- Brett Tubbs 
                  • NPR Host -- Sandhya Dirks 

                  • An earlier version of Vanguard Estates was originally performed live for Pop-Up Magazine. 

                    You can also play through a web version of the story at flashforwardpod.com/vanguard, which features really cool illustrations by Mattie Lubchansky. 

                    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

                    9 min
                  • COMING SOON: Welcome to Vanguard Estates

                    Oh, hello there. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I know this feed has been pretty quiet this year, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been working on things. In fact, next week, we’re going to drop a big project called Welcome to Vanguard Estates. It’s a fiction project, that is formatted as a choose your own path story with 14 different endings. So you’ll get a bunch of opportunities to actually pick what happens in the story. 

                    The piece is about aging, and tech, and surveillance, and parents, and all that complicated, stressful, emotionally dense stuff.

                    Next week you’re going to get the whole story all at once, next week. So this is your warning, when you suddenly see 30 new episodes of Flash Forward all at once, that’s what that is.

                    After that (starting November 7th) we’re going to do some follow up episodes where we talk to experts about the real stuff that inspired the story. We'll cover everything from the neuroscience of aging, to research misconduct in Alzheimer's treatment, to robots that can put your clothes on, to the (dire) economics of care, to whether we should have nursing homes at all.

                    So gird your podcast loins, friends, because it’s going to be… something. I’m really excited for you to hear it.

                    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

                    3 min
                  • Can You Be Sued By A River?

                    Can you be sued by nature? In some places, the answer is already yes. 

                    Guests:

                    • Evelyn Bellanger -- White Earth Band of Ojibwe elder
                    • Frank Bibeau -- tribal attorney and a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe
                    • Nico Albert -- member of the Cherokee Nation and the executive chef of Burning Cedar Indigneous Foods
                    • Jacinta Ruru -- professor of Law at the University of Otago in New Zealand
                    • Thomas Linzey -- Senior Legal Counsel for the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights
                    • Teresa Vicente Gimenez — professor of philosophy of law at the University of Murcia.
                    • Philomena Kebec -- Indian law expert

                    • LISTEN TO THE 99 PERCENT INVISIBLE EPISODE HERE 

                      → → → Further reading & resources here! ← ← ← 


                      Flash Forward is hosted by, Rose Eveleth and produced by Julia Llinas Goodman. The intro music is by Asura and the outro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Mattie Lubchansky.

                      Get in touch:  Twitter // Facebook // Reddit // [email protected]

                      Support the show: Patreon // Donorbox

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                      55 min

                    About Flash Forward

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                    Flash Forward is a show about possible (and not so possible) future scenarios. What would the warranty on a sex robot look like? How would diplomacy work if we couldn’t lie? Could there ever be a…

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