Kudos, Garn
Wherein Sharp discovers the many issues ahead.
The audio was designed with a stereo experience in mind, if you are listening in the car or have any hearing loss it may be helpful to put your phone or music app in mono audio mode.
Detailed Content Warnings: Anxiety, anxiety attacks,claustrophobia (small spaces), physical injury, detailed medical talk, systemic oppression (discussed as a risk to human crewmates)
The transcript for this episode will be updated in the future to be more accurate, however you can find the original scripthttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1Swha6A1I0PwPaQvVYev9dvfXq0i4GYjBIbFp7jJnhhg/edit?usp=sharing ( HERE), or at the bottom of the show notes in plain text.
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Written and produced byhttps://twitter.com/cowardlynight ( Theo Perth) (they/them)
Script Editing byhttps://twitter.com/HorseMorsel ( Adam Lloyd) (he/him)
Audio Consultation and annotation byhttps://talminear.com/ ( Tal Minear) (they/them)
Music was composed and published byhttps://www.taylorbrook.info/ ( Taylor Brook) (he/him)
Our voice actors included:
https://twitter.com/sir_leech (Travis Vaughn) (he/him) as Roland Kornbluth
Victoria Veit (she/her) as Patrice Atwood
https://my.captivate.fm/twitter.com/cowardlynight (Theo Perth) (they/them) as Sharp
https://twitter.com/thisisberd (Jay Knapp) (he/him) as Tobias Butler
https://twitter.com/tehskutt (Anna Thornton) (she/they/he) as Zeegboo
http://holographicava.carrd.co/ (Brad Colbroock) (the/them/he) as Kyros
https://twitter.com/StormyCone (Storm S. Cone) (he/him) as Antonello Pohl
Tekla Johnson (she/he/they) as Moiko Jemisin
And George as Spooky
Sound effects obtained from Marcel Gnauk at freetousesounds.com
Additional effects provided by the following users at freesound.org
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Transcript:

Welcome back, offboard crew of DNA 404. I’m Theo Perth, the creator behind DNA 404. You’re about to hear episode 2, ‘Kudos, Garn’.
Before the start of the episode, some content warnings. DNA404 includes a variety of stressful situations. See the show notes for a detailed list of warnings. There is not any explicit content but the following subject matters are present or referred to in this episode. Please take care.
Anxiety, potential claustrophobic spaces, detailed medical talk, and systemic oppression.
While there is a detailed list in the notes, I wanted to address one of these verbally, to elaborate further. The oppression that comes up is regarding the current classification of humans in the fictional galactic republic, commonly referred to as ‘the republic’.

While this is all fiction it’s important to remember that real life issues are represented in fiction. The current fictional classification of humans is that they are non-citizens of the republic. This means that there may be reference to or clear prejudice displayed depending on the scene in future episodes. I will do my very best to provide clear warnings in future episodes about what triggers are present.
It would be inappropriate for me to assume I fully understand the effects of racism. The experience I do have in life means I do understand aspects of systemic oppression. But as a white person I am not someone to tell the story of racism that Persons of...