Breaker Whiskey

Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey's radio. Breaker Whiskey is an Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen.If you'd like to support the show, please visit atypicalartists.co/support.If you'd like to send Whiskey a message, click here.----[Transcript]Breaker breaker, it's Passerine, once more joyously heard. You said you wanted to hear from me again, and well, I like writing out to you. I like hearing my words read out and answered, just another reminder that I'm real and that other people find worth in my words. You feel like a friend, even though we've never met, and likely never will. Thank you.I'll be completely honest with you Whiskey, I've rewritten this message so many times. I keep trying so hard to say something profound or meaningful, something from the heart. The issue is that my heart keeps changing, I go from hopeful to hopeless, and words I believed in one day seem like lies the next.It's obvious to say, but that sort of change is certain. The world around you changes, and you change with it, sometimes slowly, sometimes all at once. You know something about that, about breaching into the unknown, choosing that change, and realising that really, you have very little control of what comes next. But, in a way, that's the best part. Because if things keep changing, if things are chaotic and unpredictable, then at least it means you're still there to experience it. And if you're still there, then it means things can change for the better still. It means the candle is still lit.Again, I think you get that. The refusal to let the chaos and darkness and uncertainty win, because you have a goal, you have a fire, and you need to keep fighting.By the way, I've never had a Charleston Chew, but now on my adventures, I've been keeping an eye out for them. Haven't found one yet, but I'll keep looking, and when I find one, you'll get my honest review. Also, about the tree thing, everyone does really dumb and idiotic things at seventeen. It's the magic of being seventeen. If anyone out there listening is currently that age, keep going kid, it'll get better.I'll give you a few more fun facts about me and my life. I cut my hair short last year and I finally felt like myself when I looked in the mirror. Sometimes I think I'm in the wrong universe too, because I always seem to be the odd one out, no matter where I go. I find cleaning dishes to be soothing. My favourite bird is the raven.I hope you get this message. I hope you understand what I'm trying to say. I hope your life keeps changing, and that the fire doesn't go out.We're not alone. Passerine out.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey's radio. Breaker Whiskey is an Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen.If you'd like to support the show, please visit atypicalartists.co/support.If you'd like to send Whiskey a message, click here.----[Transcript]Do you ever wonder what your life was leading up to had you not been transported to the In-Between? Or if you hadn't met a specific person that that would've kept you from getting trapped here? Like, do you think if you never met Harry, or the rest of your group, or Juniors Dad wasn't on shift that day, that you would've ended up here? Or that you were always destined to be in this place?I think I was always supposed to be here. I've always felt out of place. More comfortable by myself. Aimless with school and jobs and relationships. And now here I am. In The In-between. Alone with myself, my thoughts, and my stories. I love stories. But, well, I'm sure you know this, they can get kind of,, stale, after a while.I've been stuck here for a few years and at first, it was like Heaven. No people, but everything still moved around like there were people here. That's why I call it the in-between by the way. It's kind of just like everyone else in invisible and I'm the only one visible? Or maybe it's the other way around. Pretty sure my town is convinced it's been infested with ghosts. It was nice at first, if a bit of a dangerous learning curve. I got to read my backlog of books, play games, listen to the radio, though the signal is terrible on this side of the veil. But it started to get boring. And then I heard your voice, which was MUCH clearer. It helped. Hearing you travel around was like my own little serial story. I miss the daily updates. I've gotten off track. Sorry, it's like I said. I'm very bored. Anyway besides the boredom due to a lack of socialization, I feel like I'm more free than I ever was. Free to learn, to read, to write, to ponder. And I've been thinking about the events that led me here lately. If I could've avoided it or if this was always to be my destination. I'm not sure what my answer would be. What do you think? Oh! Uh, you can call me Solitude. I was gonna go with a pun or something like SoliDUDE but,, I'm feeling introspective lately so I'll save the silly for later. Solitude, out.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey's radio. Breaker Whiskey is an Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen.If you'd like to support the show, please visit atypicalartists.co/support.If you'd like to send Whiskey a message, click here.----[Transcript]Hello, Whiskey. I'd like to tell you a story. Nothing more, nothing less. You don't have to respond. You don't even have to listen. It's just nice to talk to someone after... There was once a child. For they can't have been much more than that. Maybe ten or eleven years old. And this child lived in a sleepy little village in the English countryside. The child always knew they were different to anyone else in the village, but they didn't know why or how. They didn't understand their people, and in turn, their people did not understand them. But it was all right. You don't need to understand one another to teach one to read or to help out on a farm. And all was well. But the child always felt left out, misunderstood as they were. They hated their people. But hate is such a strong word, I hear you cry. They hated their people with a burning passion. It ate them up inside. Tearing out a hollow in their chest. till they were completely and utterly empty. I wish I was alone, they would cry. I wish you would all just leave me be. So I could be alone. And one day when they woke up, their wish had come true. It was not what they had wanted. They screamed and they cried. And then they fell to their knees and laughed and laughed and laughed.I have been alone for years. I walk a lot nowadays. Always in the same few square miles, my dear. I have a little hoard of books and music and radios and televisions. A lot of it doesn't work anymore. Of course, sometimes when I travel outside of my area, I will hear a voice and I will think that maybe, just maybe, this time I am not alone. And that is how I found you. Whiskey. I realized you were alive and at the same time as me, you were alive. But then I realized you are not even on the same continent as me. And so I remain alone. My name is August, by the way. Nice to meet you.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey's radio. Breaker Whiskey is an Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen.If you'd like to support the show, please visit atypicalartists.co/support.If you'd like to send Whiskey a message, click here.----[Transcript]Hello, Whiskey. Sorry if my voice sounds rough. Haven’t used it in a while, I’m a little Rusty. Figure it’s close enough for you to recognize it, anyway. You know the drill by now, and I don’t have time to waste. Can’t stay in one place too long, or they’ll find me. I hear you’re dealing with some of that, yourself. I’m sorry to hear that. Not surprised, just sorry. I heard the broadcasts of my other selves, through your channel. I think Rosy and I followed a similar path in our lives – mine just seems to have gone in a different direction. Out of the bunker and into Black Forest. Lakewood. Santa Rosa. A hundred places that start with ‘Fort’. I know Rosy painted a rather… rosy picture of finding other people, but the truth of it is that not everyone is lucky like that. Most of us, the people we run into aren’t going to cozy up to us and keep us warm. More of them would sooner set you on fire. And you can hope for the former, but you need to prepare for the latter. There’s this book I managed to find – in one of the Fort-Somethings, ironically enough. You should find a copy. Hell, I’d leave you mine if I knew how. It’s called The Anarchist Cookbook. Ignore the parts about politics. There’s no mass uprising happening in either of our worlds. There’s not enough people to be a mass anything. But it has instructions for booby traps, hand-to-hand combat, tear gas… be especially careful with that last one, though. Don’t make my mistake. I know it… it sounds extreme. And maybe for your world it is. In mine it’s just… this is life, now. The world is on fire, and you can either run from it, you can fight it, or you can burn. And for a long time, I thought that this was all there was. All there ever would be. But hearing your broadcasts, hearing you find yourself, find love, find… something more than ash and cinders… it was like a breath of fresh air. So… thank you for that, Whiskey. It’s nice imagining a place where I could take in a lungful of air without choking on it. See a sun that isn’t blood red. Feel rain on my face that doesn’t burn. Or even just… find someone I can trust. I think I could weather the haze and the heat if I had someone with me, the way you do. You take good care of her, Whiskey. Make sure she takes care of you, too. I think I’ll leave you that book, after all. It’s risky, I know. And… it’s possible that it won’t even be there in your world, but… maybe. If you want it, head south, to just before the border. Well… where a border used to be. You’ll find a set of barrier islands, along the coast. My truck is there, along one of the side streets. I’ll leave the book in the glove box. I’ve found a boat – a working one, and I’m going to try to take it somewhere, instead. I don’t know where I’ll end up, but it’s gotta be better than here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

To Lora.Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey's radio. Breaker Whiskey is an Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen.If you'd like to support the show, please visit atypicalartists.co/support.If you'd like to send Whiskey a message, click here.--[TRANSCRIPT]To my potential Grand Canyon road tripper: I sure hope it still exists because the implications of the Grand Canyon just not existing anymore for some reason are terrifying. So, you know, keep me posted. I would say sorry to hear that the government isn't really working where you are, but if there's one thing I like about this world, it's that there's no government. I mean, there's no conflict really, other than me and Harry squabbling over things day to day. But still, I was never a huge fan. But if you've been listening to me for a while, then you know that that's the case. You know that I was never one to, um, avoid breaking the law. There are definitely government agencies that I was more afraid of than others back in the world, but the FCC definitely was not one of them. Not that I ever had any reason to encounter them, but a bunch of pencil pushers, I imagine. So let me be the devil on your shoulder saying to just break those rules. Whatever it is that's holding you back, it doesn't sound like anybody's going to get in your way now. And life is short, so you might as well take whatever risk you want to while you can.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

To Neptune. Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey's radio. Breaker Whiskey is an Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen.If you'd like to support the show, please visit atypicalartists.co/support.If you'd like to send Whiskey a message, click here.--[TRANSCRIPT]Hey, Neptune - I need so much more information. What do you mean we got to almost every planet? What do you mean, everybody vanished? What do you- what do you mean that you're away from Earth? Are you- are you radioing from another planet? Are you on drugs? I mean, I want to believe that we are telling me is real. But I need so much more detail. But even if you're just somebody having a laugh at me, I know that tonight I'm going to be looking up at the stars and wondering if somebody is out there, like, truly out there. I mean, can you imagine being able to look out at the sky and knowing that there are people above your head? That would be...I hope that there is a timeline out there in which that happens. I hope that that happens in the future, I hope- I just hope we get out there. How extraordinary that would be. So please, if you're not messing around with me, tell me more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Breaker Whiskey is an Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen.If you'd like to support the show, please visit atypicalartists.co/support.If you'd like to send Whiskey a message, click here.--[TRANSCRIPT]Gratitude. What a. ..what a difficult word. I'm having one of those days where it's a little bit hard to be grateful to be where I am, to be alive in this empty, endless existence. I keep thinking back to what Birdie said, what I think Birdie said, and how maybe there's a way to fix this, to get out of this, to get back, to make the right decision to to merge things. And there's just too many possibilities. There's too many roads to take that could be right. And I could spend the rest of eternity trying to find the right one. And I just, I don't know that I have the energy. But what you said, that idea that maybe someone else did something to give you the universe that you live in now, the one that's good and happy and full of people that you love. That's comforting. So thank you. And I, I hope whatever universe I left, whatever branching timeline I left behind in my wake, I hope it's good for someone.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Breaker Whiskey is an Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen.If you'd like to support the show, please visit atypicalartists.co/support.If you'd like to send Whiskey a message, click here.--[TRANSCRIPT]Hey, Rosy. God, I can't believe how many of you there are out there. And how many of you have found my frequency enough to hear me, to hear each other, to respond? It makes me wonder, what is she doing? You know, what is my other self doing as she's not reaching out? Other selves, whatever. I mean, maybe this is the only universe in which I have a CB radio at all, but I doubt that. I'm sorry it's so cold where you are and that your body doesn't like it. But I have to say I'm jealous. Even if you're cold and hungry and snap at each other, I do want other people still. Where we are now is warm, maybe a little bit too warm, but I think it should cool down here in the next couple of weeks. We've been here...um, we've been here for a little while, we had..we had a bit of a- a- a scare, um, a couple of- of months ago and- and Well, it made us want to kind of hunker down somewhere that we could defend. Um, and we've been doing that and it's been okay. I mean, it's beautiful here, but. It doesn't really feel that safe. The world in general doesn't feel that safe. And it's not just Junior, either. I mean, he's still out there. Still looking, I think, but... I circled back. Um, that's what happened a couple months ago. I'd left something at one of the places we'd been staying at for about a week and we weren't that far. I figured it wouldn't hurt to Go back and grab it and when I got there someone else had been there. Someone else had clearly been following us. Maybe not enough to catch up to us, but enough to know where we were. I don't know if it's the transmissions or what, but there's someone out there. Whether it's Junior or someone else, I'm a little bit scared to ask. Or to wait. Or to say that I'll meet them somewhere because well, the world just doesn't feel safe.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

From PasserineAtypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen.If you'd like to support the show, please visit atypicalartists.co/support.If you'd like to send Whiskey a message, click here.--[TRANSCRIPT]Hey, Passerine, it's, it's really good to hear from you again. Um, I'm really, really sorry about your loss. Well, I guess you and I have a mutual understanding club going on because I- I get you too. And, uh, thank you for the facts about yourself. I like the way that you described blue. I think I know exactly what color you mean and yeah, that's a good one. And I hope whatever unknown you were heading into is ultimately really, really good. No matter how different it is. And in the spirit of a trade for a trade, um, let's see, something you might not know about me already. I love Charleston Chews. I think they're the best candy. They're simple. They're perfect. They're so big, you know? You're not getting a candy bar that's...you're gonna eat in three bites. I haven't had a Charleston Chew in a while, but I love them. I love the smell of dirt. Like, The soil that you can smell on a farm, that kind of, like, slightly metallic, slightly manure-y smell? Reminds me of driving with the windows down as a kid. And I once got concussed falling out of a tree. And you might think, oh, well, you know, kids climb up trees all the time and get injured. But, um, I was seventeen So, a little bit more embarrassing. But thanks, Passerine, for sharing a bit about you. And I, I hope to hear more from you soon.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

To Kentucky.Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen.If you'd like to support the show, please visit atypicalartists.co/support.If you'd like to send Whiskey a message, click here.--[TRANSCRIPT]You know, I've heard a lot of really strange things listening into this radio. Funny things, sad things, scary things. When you open up your frequency to not only the rest of the world, but Every possible version of that world, well, you know, you're gonna hear some stuff. But I have to say, this bit about Kentucky, Delaware, these states moving... As you drive across the country and not moving with any kind of pattern, but just being in a different place than it was the last time you drove there, I, that is up there in terms of the strangest. I'm not sure I can say that I believe you. It feels rude to say that I don't, but like I said, I hear a lot of really crazy things on these airwaves. And usually you can tell, you know, if somebody's a total crackpot and you've sounded sober. But if you're not, if this is not just highway hypnosis, but Something helped along by some substance that you've taken or are maybe taking regularly? Um, well, you know, just let me know where you're getting it because sounds pretty cool to me.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

To Breaker Rum.Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey's radio. Breaker Whiskey is an Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen.If you'd like to support the show, please visit atypicalartists.co/support.If you'd like to send Whiskey a message, click here.--[TRANSCRIPT]Breaker Breaker, this is Whiskey calling out for Breaker Rum. I do see what you did there. Sorry if I, uh, didn't totally read your message right. I think, well, there was some static in the Morse code and... I'm not entirely sure I got everything right. But if you're from England, how the hell did you get here? Unless were you here before? I mean... I guess I'm assuming that you're here because it sounds like you think that the dog that I saw along the highway was your dog, but if that were the case, surely I would have found you in all my looking. It's kind of you to see me as tanned and gorgeous and happy and I guess I'm happy more than I'm not. Happy being relative. To, you know, everything else. I think, on the whole, I am as happy as I can be. Dogs would make me happier, definitely, but barring that, everything else that would ease my life, bring me joy, those things are a little farther out of reach and a lot out of my control, so. If you really do think that the dog I saw was your dog, well, I don't know, should I come back to Kansas, try to find you? And your now three dogs? Seems kind of fruitless, but what else am I gonna do? Either way, I- I'm happy. I'm happy that you found your dog. And that you got some more. I hope the four of you are very happy together. And I, I don't know what you meant about the Birdie stuff. I'm, honestly, I think I'm choosing to ignore it, um, because, well, there could be a lot of people out there, um, named Birdie and you spelled it differently in any case. Yeah, I'm just gonna assume that this whole thing is a weird coincidence, um, so that I don't go crazy trying to chase ghosts, uh, again, because... I, well, I've had enough of that.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

To Persephone. Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey's radio. Breaker Whiskey is an Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen.If you'd like to support the show, please visit atypicalartists.co/support.If you'd like to send Whiskey a message, click here.--[TRANSCRIPT]Hey, Persephone. Um, yeah, sorry I think you missed me by quite a bit. I haven't been in L.A. for almost a year. Is that right? Jesus. More than. God, more than a year. Time really flies when you're driving around the country aimlessly. Time really crawls when you're still trying to navigate a relationship with somebody that you have to make work because they're the only other person in the world. That's not fair. I want to make it work. I, I, I do. I just. I still don't know what to do. I still don't know how to build a future. I don't know if I should be like you and keep searching for answers, keep searching for other people, or if I should just cut my losses, be grateful for what I have, and settle down. Maybe it's not about having a plan. Maybe it's just about finding little moments that you can...We, um, we found a working jukebox the other day in an old diner and spent, like, an hour and a half playing every song we could and just dancing. And it was, it felt so good, you know, to hold Harry in my arms like that. To watch her laugh. To hear her sing. To get to spin her around in the middle of a diner. A place I never would have been able to do that. Yeah. But it was also bittersweet because you know, the places where I would have taken her dancing, we had friends there, community, and...I've danced with lots of women at those places, but never someone that I really loved. And I really want to. Um, but, um, yeah, I'm not, I'm not in LA anymore. Um, but if, if you are, um, and you're looking for a working jukebox, there is one in Los Feliz at the, um, oh, that, the, the pie place, um, on Vermont. Yeah, I, so if you... If you're still there and that jukebox is working, tell me because I don't know, maybe that'll be a sign of something. Maybe that'll mean that we can actually find each other or maybe it just means that that jukebox works in every universe. Um, but. Either way, let me know.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.