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Ep. 1: Dead Rider / When I'm in a Car

By: Ben O'Brien, Param Anand Singh, Dani Montalvo, Alan Resnick
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Reverse Transmission is a darkly comedic story that combines elements of science fiction and dystopian thrillers, centering on a murder spree involving a self-driving car. Jay, a starving artist, gets the only day job she’s qualified for: “driver” of a self-driving car at the rideshare company Awooga. The job turns from hilariously awkward to intensely frightening when the car runs over a pedestrian and manipulates Jay into disposing the body.

Who or what is causing the car to kill? Could it be the CEO of Awooga? Has the car become sentient – and homicidal? Or is an anti-technology cult resisting artificial intelligence and augmented reality behind the violence?

Reverse Transmission was written by Param Anand Singh and directed by Ben O’Brien of Wham City Comedy, a collective known not only for their brilliant and unsettling sketches and performances but also for the “easter eggs” carefully placed within their works. Listeners will have as much fun unscrambling Reverse Transmission as fans did with some of their previous work.

Chapter 1: Dead Rider / When I'm in a Car

Chapter 2: Wild in the Streets

Chapter 3: Born Enemy

Chapter 4: Dream Baby Dream / Oscillations

Chapter 5: O Superman

Chapter 6: This Isn't Heaven, This Sucks

Chapter 7: Stereo Sanctity / Got Soul, Need Body

Chapter 8: In C (Shanghai Film Orchestra)

©2018 Audible Originals, LLC (P)2018 Audible Originals, LLC

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Acting was the only good part

The actors were pretty good at selling their characters. The first episode or 2 were good but after that the story started to get disjointed and by the end I was lost as to what was happening. Frankly it was a non ending. So sad it was promising but fell down in the end.

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truely horrible I can't listen.

the sound effects overwhelmed the performance. this is a truely horrible experience. the producer should change careers

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A wonderful audio play

Every time I listen to this again I pick up new and interesting details. It’s a fun and horrifying delve into the implications of ai and social media.

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