We are honored and delighted to have a professional podcasting badass on the show this week, director of The Far Meridian, the voice actor who goes bump in the night, the fabulous Danielle Shemaiah!

We begin, bending over backwards to avoid our shared loathing of mosquitos, and take a story of meddling with gene drives and make it a happier (for us) post-apocalyptic wasteland. Then, we take hostage crisis bring it down with some bad movie angst and a suspense sequence that requires all the President’s men.

Plus: Corporate scientists, archivists from the world before, horrible crapsack universes, the Robert Frost fork in the road, and a simple demand for extreme action.

Today’s Bad Ideas™:

Idea #1

Idea #2

If you’d like to follow more of Danielle’s work, check out The Whisperforge, especially The Far Meridian. You can also find her on Twitter and buy her a Ko-Fi.