It's Spring 2142 (a Tuesday), and Gated Galaxies has launched its 400 Oz-8000 ships, each carrying 50,000 "resting guests" to, hopefully, a new home on a shiny, brand-new planet. Except this whole "terraform and take over" idea isn't actually the plan; the real plan is far more nefarious and involves a great deal of cackling. But those aboard the ships don't know that, so off they toodle (those that make it out of Earth's atmosphere, at least), all shiny and optimistic. This is the story of one of those ships – the Oz 9 – and its tiny crew of hopeless incompetents. So far, they've been in space half an hour and several hundred people are dead. So... bright future, clearly.
Stuck on Planet Bob where pretty much everything is awful all the time, the crew is freezing and desperate for a safe place to ... well, to screw up, if their past is any indication. Huddled for warmth, buffeted by high winds, they suddenly hear the faint sounds of laughter and applause. Because of course they do.
You've been listening to:
- Tim Sherburn as Colin and Emily
- Introducing Caden Dowgin as the Director
- Introducing Emmet Dowgin as the Assistant Director
- Bonnie Brantley as Jessie and Donna
- David S Dear as Dr Theo Bromae
- Kevin Hall as Greg
- Introducing John Dowgin as Gritz
- Eric Perry as Joe, Dr von Haber Zetzer, and Howard
- Introducing Faith Dowgin as Mivv
- Shannon Perry as Madeline and Olivia
- Introducing J Michael DeAngelis as Telf
- Sarah Golding as Mrs Sheffield
- Sarah Rhea Warner as Pipistrelle
- Introducing Bob Killian as Zblatt
- Kyle Jones as Narrator Two
- Chris Nadolny Gourley as your Narrator
Sarah Golding is our dialogue editor, and Mark Restuccia is our sound designer. Oz 9 is written by Shannon Perry.
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Our thanks and a hearty recommendation to listen to https://www.missionrejected.com/https://www.missionrejected.com/, an extremely funny podcast about the guys who get the mission when the first guy rejects it.
Until next time, Space Monkeys, yes, you probably ought to get that thing looked at.
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