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Hey folks, Lauren Chippin here with a brand

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new podcast from yours truly. The

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show is called Breaker Whiskey, and it releases

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every weekday. That's right, every

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day. I've been making audio

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drama for a while now, and I wanted to challenge

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myself to make an ongoing show that I didn't

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have a perfect plan for, something

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I could discover along the way. That's

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what Breaker Whiskey is. Each episode

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is under five minutes, and while I have

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an idea of the larger story points, I

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don't know exactly where the road will take me or what

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will be at the end of it.

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So what's it about? Well,

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in 1968, two women find themselves

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in rural Pennsylvania during what turns out to be

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some kind of apocalyptic event. By

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the time they discovered that everyone else has gone, it's

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too late to figure out what happened. Despite

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not liking each other at all, the women

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work together to survive until six years

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later, one of them sets out on her own, driving

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around the country to find other survivors.

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This is her story. Head

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on over to Breaker Whiskey in your podcast app to subscribe,

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and stick around right here to listen to the first episode.

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This is Lauren, signing off.

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Breaker, Breaker, Channel 19. Is

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anyone reading? Breaker,

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Breaker, this is Whiskey, um, oh

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shi- Whiskey

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Alpha Romeo, this is Whiskey Alpha

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Romeo calling out. Once

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again, that's Whiskey Alpha Romeo currently

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along I-80. Breaker, Breaker.

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You know, I just realized how bad those initials

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are, but that's the

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rule, right? W for east

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of the Mississippi, which, isn't that

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a bit backward? Shouldn't it be W for

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west? Anyway.

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W for East of the Mississippi plus the

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initials of your name, but I mean

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still war is a bit whiskey

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I guess is okay.

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That'd be the part of the call sign that everybody

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in this area has so not

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really specific.

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Then again it doesn't seem like anyone

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is here so no other W call

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signs to mix me up with. So

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if you are listening somehow

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whiskey is

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fine. I

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don't have a number. I don't

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technically have any kind of license actually

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but

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who would be giving them out right? I

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mean in that case I

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guess trying to stick to any kind of convention is

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sort of pointless at this juncture

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so I could have picked any old name but

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I mean we all have to hold on to whatever bit

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of structure we can to stay sane right?

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And I

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don't know I have the pamphlet for this thing and

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it feels like I should follow it to the

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letter. You

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know this radio has been sitting

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in our garage for five years and this is

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the first time we've sent a signal out. I

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mean we are remote yeah

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but that doesn't mean that we couldn't...

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Sorry not we the first time I've

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sent a signal out.

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Lord knows she never did either and

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never will I mean I

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doubt she'll even

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notice that this is gone and

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she certainly won't miss it. I mean she's not gonna miss any...

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Anyway

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here I am

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clogging up the airwaves. I'm

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pretty sure that's bad etiquette actually but if no

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one's

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listening...

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there is no one to offend. So

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anyway, like I said, Whiskey

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Alpha Romeo along

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I-80.

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I'll stay on this frequency for the rest of the day.

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Signing

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off.