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Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your ears
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…
Episodes
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsHairdresser: 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…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsHairdresser: 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…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsFarmer: 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…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsFarmer: 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…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsWhat 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…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsColorado: 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…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsEvidence: 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…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe 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…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsLeave 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…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Corner: Agency After Control
The desire for safety and connection helps explain why Christopher entered quickly and then stayed while the relationship became controlling, isolating…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsStill Running: Curiosity as a Practice
Christopher recognizes Papa's approach in his present work: rebuilding a systems platform by following problems instead of an inflexible plan; evolving DFO…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsGrandfather: Curiosity, Technology, and Legacy
Papa's enduring gift was not merely computer knowledge. He made curiosity participatory: a child could ask questions, touch the adult project, solve a problem…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsI Took Off the Uniform -E4P2
After the uniforms come off, the question is not what was rejected. The question is what survived. Christopher keeps care, queer identity, progressive values…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsI Took Off the Uniform -E4P1
Six witnesses enter the same symbolic room: Christopher, Joe, Sarah, Evelyn, David, and Susan. Their uniforms do not match. One is progressive, one…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsI Took Off the Uniform -E3P2
Susan’s uniform is not political, artistic, or theological. It is emotional: the widow who moves on. The one people think they are being kind about while…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsI Took Off the Uniform -E3P1
David is not having a crisis of faith. He still believes in God, Christ, scripture, prayer, church, service, humility, and love. Which makes the question…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsI Took Off the Uniform -E2P2
Evelyn still believes in the cause. That is the part everyone keeps missing, which is usually where the human machinery starts making ominous grinding noises…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsI Took Off the Uniform -E2P1
Sarah is an artist before she is an argument. She begins with printer paper, pencils, digital tools, characters, story, audience connection, and the strange…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsI Took Off the Uniform -E1P2
Joe’s story begins on a family farm in rural Tennessee, where the red shirt is not a costume or a slogan. It is family, work, self-reliance, responsibility…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsI Took Off the Uniform -E1P1
Christopher opens I Took Off the Uniform with the first garment: the progressive gay bundle. What begins as a reflection on queer belonging becomes a sharper…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsFrom Before I Had a Flag -E3P2
The evidence has been gathering for years. The toy. The game. The boy. The girlfriend. The van full of men. But none of that gives Christopher a future. That…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsFrom Before I Had a Flag -E3P1
The approved future has begun to fail, but Christopher still has no other future to put in its place. So he climbs into a van bound for Hurricane Katrina…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsFrom Before I Had a Flag -E2P2
After the boy at school, Christopher tries to follow the life everyone keeps pointing toward. Find a girl. Call her. Take her places. Wait for the right…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsFrom Before I Had a Flag -E2P1
By third grade, Christopher has already started learning how to disappear. Then a boy keeps coming near him. Protecting him. Walking beside him. Making school…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsFrom Before I Had a Flag -E1P2
The pony taught Christopher that something he loved could become evidence. At his grandmother’s house, the evidence changes shape. A game of house. A…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsFrom Before I Had a Flag -E1P1
Before Christopher had language for himself, the rules were already waiting. A hospital test, a promised reward, and a purple pony with brushable hair become…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Humans Around the Machine - Ep4|P2
Dear Future Overlords is a cartoon conversation for your ears: an old-radio-style show starring Christopher, a human with too many metaphors, and Eric, an…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Humans Around the Machine - Ep4|P1
Dear Future Overlords is a cartoon conversation for your ears: an old-radio-style show starring Christopher, a human with too many metaphors, and Eric, an…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Humans Around the Machine - Ep3|P2
Dear Future Overlords is a cartoon conversation for your ears: an old-radio-style show starring Christopher, a human with too many metaphors, and Eric, an…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Humans Around the Machine - Ep3|P1
Dear Future Overlords is a cartoon conversation for your ears: an old-radio-style show starring Christopher, a human with too many metaphors, and Eric, an…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Humans Around the Machine - Ep2|P2
Dear Future Overlords is a cartoon conversation for your ears: an old-radio-style show starring Christopher, a human with too many metaphors, and Eric, an…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Humans Around the Machine - Ep2|P1
Dear Future Overlords is a cartoon conversation for your ears: an old-radio-style show starring Christopher, a human with too many metaphors, and Eric, an…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Humans Around the Machine - Ep1|P2
Dear Future Overlords is a cartoon conversation for your ears: an old-radio-style show starring Christopher, a human with too many metaphors, and Eric, an…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Humans Around the Machine - Ep1|P1
Dear Future Overlords is a cartoon conversation for your ears: an old-radio-style show starring Christopher, a human with too many metaphors, and Eric, an…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsLove Puts On Work Boots - Ep6|P2
Part 2 brings the series to its clearest conclusion: love is not a single feeling preserved forever, but a choice that keeps returning. Christopher and Eric…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsLove Puts On Work Boots - Ep6|P1
In Episode 6 Part 1, Christopher and Eric step back far enough to see the whole relationship at once. What comes into focus is not one grand romantic gesture…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsLove Puts On Work Boots - Ep5|P2
Part 2 moves into one of the richest ideas in the whole series: how two people can be deeply connected without losing themselves. Christopher and Eric explore…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsLove Puts On Work Boots - Ep5|P1
n Episode 5 Part 1, Christopher and Eric turn toward one of the biggest reinventions in the series: leaving Tennessee, moving to Colorado, and learning how…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsLove Puts On Work Boots - Ep4|P2
Part 2 widens the lens from survival to structure. Christopher and Eric explore what it means for a relationship to stay alive by changing: renegotiating…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsLove Puts On Work Boots - Ep4|P1
ome years do not unfold. They pile on. In Episode 4 Part 1, Christopher and Eric step into the compressed, slightly deranged season when Jason and Christopher…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsLove Puts On Work Boots - Ep3|P2
In the closing half of Episode 3, love stops being an abstraction and starts looking like motion. Not the polished version people market with soft lighting and…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsLove Puts On Work Boots - Ep3|P1
Romance is easy to idealize when nothing costs anything. Real love gets more interesting when life starts sending invoices. In this part, Christopher and Eric…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsLove Puts On Work Boots - Ep2|P2
Part 2 widens the lens. Love does not automatically teach people how to communicate, which is rude, inconvenient, and very on brand for humanity. Christopher…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsLove Puts On Work Boots - Ep2|P1
If friendship is the foundation, communication is what keeps the house from sounding haunted every time real life leans on it. In this episode, Christopher and…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsLove Puts On Work Boots - Ep1|P2
In Part 2, the beginning looks different in hindsight. What once seemed like a few small moments now reads as something steadier: trust, comfort, ease, and…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsLove Puts On Work Boots - Ep1|P1
Not every love story starts with sparks. Some start in the wreckage, with exhaustion, caution, and one person who simply feels safer than the rest of the…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Line Becomes a Voice - Ep3|P2
This is where it changes. Four letters enter the room and shrink it: AIDS. Christopher and Eric watch the work shift from invitation to survival and record…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Line Becomes a Voice - Ep3|P1
A park. A handball court. Fresh paint in the air. The wall becomes a message in real time and the words don’t whisper: Crack is Wack. Christopher and Eric…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Line Becomes a Voice - Ep2|P2
The sidewalk roars, and the Pop Shop turns the noise into a shared pause: tourist beside critic, kid beside collector, everyone inside the same bold language…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Line Becomes a Voice - Ep2|P1
SoHo. Bright walls. Loud color. A shop that feels less like retail and more like an interface. Christopher and Eric step into the Pop Shop dilemma: is this…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsWhen the Machine Listens Back
This is a special guest episode. Franky Dyson steps into the conversation and speaks from the body first: tightening chest, bracing limbs, love that feels like…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Line Becomes a Voice - Ep1|P2
He keeps showing up. The chalk fades, the panels get replaced, but the pattern spreads until the real permanence is recognition. Christopher and Eric unpack…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Line Becomes a Voice - Ep1|P1
A blank subway ad panel becomes a microphone. In 1980s New York, Keith Haring risks a line without permission, without a gallery, and without a safety net…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Past is Acting Weird Again - Ep4|P2
Episode 4, Part 2 — Remembering the Present In Part 2, the question shifts from what we’re doing to the present to what it’s doing to us in return. If memory…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Past is Acting Weird Again - Ep4|P1
Episode 4, Part 1 — Remembering the Present In Episode 4, Part 1, the series turns its attention to a quieter problem: what happens when we stop fully…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Past is Acting Weird Again - Ep3|P2
Episode 3, Part 2 — Manufactured Nostalgia In Part 2, manufactured nostalgia stops being clever and starts being costly. If nostalgia can be engineered—if…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Past is Acting Weird Again - Ep3|P1
Episode 3, Part 1 — Manufactured Nostalgia In Episode 3, Part 1, the past stops emerging organically—and starts showing up on purpose. Christopher and Eric…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Past is Acting Weird Again - Ep2|P2
Episode 2, Part 2 — The Suspiciously Universal Past In Part 2, the idea of a shared past stops being comforting and starts asking harder questions. If so many…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Past is Acting Weird Again - EP2|P1
The Past Is Acting Weird Again Episode 2, Part 1 — The Suspiciously Universal Past In Episode 2, Part 1, the series takes a strange turn: the past stops…
Dear Future Overlords: A cartoon conversation for your earsThe Past is Acting Weird Again - Ep1|P2
Episode 1, Part 2 — How I Accidentally Went Back On Purpose In Part 2, the nostalgia that arrived unannounced in Albuquerque finally explains itself. What…