Greetings, friends! There is no new episode of No Bad Ideas this week. In its place, we're sharing the first episode from the new fiction anthology podcast that we've been producing for the last month and a half, the entirety of which is now available fine podcasts are acquired! 

Zero Hours is a seven episode anthology series, where every story is a different take on the end of the world - or at least something that feels like the end of the world. Each episode is organized around a kind of apocalypse, whether the cataclysm is planetary or personal. The stories are also set in succeeding centuries, with 99-year intervals separating each episode. The show begins in the past, catches up to the present, and eventually overtakes it. Some installments are darkly comedic, others grimly contemplative, and others still thrillingly contentious. But they all explore the same question: how do we keep going when the world is crashing down around us?

We think it's pretty neat.

We hope you enjoy this first episode, written by our very own Gabriel Urbina, directed by equally our own Sarah Shachat, and starring both actor extraordinaire Ariela Rotenberg and The Bad Ideas Bat™ himself, Zach Libresco.

We'll be back with a brand-new episode of No Bad Ideas next week.