Best Flash Forward Presents Podcasts (2025)

Can I make my digital alter ego go to work for me? The answer to that question involves autocorrect, child actors, and resurrecting the dead for a blockbuster franchise.

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Should I give my dog human intelligence? 28:44

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Should I give my dog human intelligence? The answer to that question involves bird terraforming, cats as health inspectors, and dreams of an ant-like society.

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Can I ask my partner to stop eating Soylent? 30:13

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Can I ask my partner to stop eating so much Soylent? The answer to that question involves pre-chopped garlic, slam poetry, and a little bit of cannibalism.

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Should I move to an off-the-grid commune? 29:12

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Should I move to an off-the-grid commune? The answer to that question involves train schedules, queer breakups, and an interview with our future selves.

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COMING SOON: Season Two 1:53

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After four years away, Advice for and from the Future is coming back. New hosts! New questions! New chaos! New episodes drop next week.

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Should I sublimate to another dimension? 34:17

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Should I sublimate to another dimension? What does that even mean? Are there other dimensions? What about wormholes? And what if, instead of trying to use physics to get away from it all, you actually faced your fears? Featuring physics and metaphysics wisdom from Dr. Katie Mack, author of The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) and an or…

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Can I ask my friend to turn off her Alexa? 37:21

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Can I ask my friend to turn off her Alexa when I go to her house? To answer that question, Dr. Simone Browne joins the show to talk about privacy, ethics, and whose job it is to convince someone to not opt into surveillance. 〰️〰️〰️ More information and show notes here 〰️〰️〰️ Advice For And From The Future is written, edited and performed by Rose Ev…

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How can I stay hopeful? (Introducing: Open World) 48:04

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The futurology shop is closed for repairs today (pesky robot put a hole in the wall) so please enjoy the first episode of Open World, a new show about hope, the future, and how to get there. This episode features a reading from The City We Became, by N.K. Jemisin, scored by T.H. Ponders, followed by a conversation with Jemisin and Glitch CEO Anil D…

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How can I avoid dating my relatives? 37:22

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Today's question comes from a future where humans live a long, long time. And some of them might want to date. But how do you make sure you're not actually dating someone you're related to? And what's the point of dating anyway? To find out, I call Dr. Janina Jeff, a geneticist and senior scientist at Illumina, as well as the host of a podcast call…

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Should I start a bug farm? 44:23

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Are bugs the food of the future? Should I start a bug farm? What’s the best way to cook them? All that and more on today’s episode, featuring the amazing Soleil Ho, food critic at the San Francisco Chronicle, host of the podcast Extra Spicy, and founder of the podcast Racist Sandwich. 〰️〰️〰️ More information and show notes here 〰️〰️〰️ Advice For An…

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Should I let my company put a chip in my hand? 39:43

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Today’s question is about just how much to trust your boss. Should you let them implant a chip in your hand? To answer that question, I talked to Stacy-Marie Ishmael, journalist, editor, and career advice-giver. You can read Stacy-Marie’s newsletter here. 〰️〰️〰️ More information and show notes here 〰️〰️〰️ Advice For And From The Future is written, …

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Should I get my DNA sequenced? 43:32

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Today’s episode is about proof, identity and DNA. What are you looking for, when you look for your heritage? What can DNA really tell you? And who decides which forms of proof are required when? To answer this question, we spoke with Dr. Alondra Nelson, president of the Social Science Research Council and Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute…

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How can I fight fake news? 40:23

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On today’s trip to and from the future, we’re considering questions of truth, reality, and how to be a good sharer of news. How do you avoid sharing fake information? How do you tell what’s real and what’s not? In this swirling vortex of disinformation, how can you make sure you’re not contributing to the problem? To help guide us through the swamp…

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Should I cryopreserve my dog? 41:47

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Today's advice question: Should you cryopreserve your dog? To answer that conundrum, Rose spoke with Ace Tilton Ratcliff, a writer and the co-founder of Haper's Promise. Ace wrote about their experience with pet cryopreservation here: "Cryonics, Dakota the Dog, and the Hope of Forever." Advice For And From The Future is written, edited and performe…

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Should I have a child? 31:31

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Is it okay to bring a child into the world, if the world is on fire both literally and figuratively? What are the ethics of having babies given climate change? Should I, personally, have a kid? This question has become more and more common, and on today’s episode Rose talks to Meehan Crist, writer-in-residence in Biological Sciences at Columbia Uni…

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Should I follow my partner to Mars? 26:05

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What happens when your partner wants to flee this planet, and you want to stay? Is wanting to go to Mars basically saying you want to break up? Can you have a long, long, long distance relationship? Is a five-year date a terrible idea? To answer this interplanetary conundrum, Rose calls up Andrea Silenzi, host and creator of the dating podcast Why …

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COMING SOON: Advice For And From The Future 2:34

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Should I follow my boyfriend to Mars? Can I ask my friend to turn off her Alexa when I come over? Is it okay to have kids? You have questions, and on Advice for and from the Future, we have answers. And when we don’t have answers, we have educated guesses. With the help of experts, time travelers, and a handful of inanimate objects, we'll take on y…

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Episode 27 - Tuesday's Suck Too 49:54

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Being a teenager is tough. We know we wouldn’t go back to that time given the choice - sadly for Brenda Ann Spencer though, she is 16. Doubly sad for Brenda is her father is an alcoholic creep who makes her sleep with him on a mattress on the floor. Even more sad for Brenda, she is secretly suicidal, but has no one to talk to about it. And if you c…

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Episode 26 - Grumblers 48:19

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We're both tired and we don't record on Sundays. Also - this bitch is crazy. Jump on board the mothership with Valentina de Andrade and listen in as Chelsea forces herself to talk about this wretched woman who believes aliens are Jesus. Yup, sounds about right. No fancy drinks this time - just grapefruit mimosas and a mic drop. Literally.…

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Episode 25 - Slenderbender 1:27:56

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He’s tall as the trees and will grab you with ease, It won’t help you to struggle just beg and appease. His suit's dark as night, he’ll wrap you up tightLook into his face and see something's not right. Don’t try and run, the fun isn’t doneSlender Man's game has now just begun. Chelsea has the mystery, Pamela the factsOne internet search history, a…

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Episode 24 - DHL That Sh!t 1:04:19

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We all struggle with the rumors about millennials - some of us are so close in age to them ourselves. But in young Gypsy’s case you won’t be able to help but sympathize and rage against her situation. Dee-Dee is a doting and quick to concern mother who has the confidence of many doctors as to how best to treat her constantly sick daughter. Confined…

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Episode 23 - A Fireside Chat 56:49

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Karla Homolka doesn’t have much of a personal history, but her history gets personal. Betrothed to a charming and dapper man reminiscent of Patrick Batemen, she begins her life away from her family, fully invested in dark sadistic fantasies. Throughout the torrid trial we learn how uninvolved or rather how much of a partner in crime she was to the …

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Episode 22 - Meet Me At The Morgue 58:26

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When Leonarda Cianciulli’s mother cursed her marriage, she thought very little of it. Ah young love, what could go wrong? Apparently everything. Child after child failed to survive. Miscarriages, still births, infant after infant dead. An astonishing 14 out of 17 children perished. The curse, it seems, was real. In WWII ravaged Italy, paralyzed by …

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Episode 21 - Mezzanine 29 53:12

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All we can say is grab a drink (seriously, right now)- this week's episode will leave you needing one - as Pamela states multiple times throughout “viewer discretion is advised.” Enriqueta Martí rocked Barcelona’s history books by being accused of not only procuring children for illegal sex trafficking, but by butchering and saving the remains of c…

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Episode 20 - Chalet, You Stay! 59:29

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She was destined for stardom, lucky in love and fortunate to have three healthy children. She had it all - what more could a girl want? On a Sunday in April, Claudine Longet’s picture perfect life took a turn for the unexpected. To this day, more than 40 years later, questions still remain unanswered. After Claudine's amicable divorce from her firs…

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Episode 19 - Tim, Where Ya At? 54:34

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It’s Chelsea’s episode this week and that means one thing: we don’t have a clue what this ladies back story is. Waneta and Tim Hoyt tragically lost all five of their biological children within months of each being born. Only their adopted son, Jay, seemed to thrive. The doctors all claimed SIDS was the culprit until 20 years later, Waneta was arres…

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Episode 18 - Voodon't 1:12:00

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No screams penetrated the thick Louisiana air on any of the nights each family was brutally slain. It wasn’t until the alarm was sounded in the morning that anyone thought to feel fear, or to even latch their windows at night. It seemed the murders would never stop. Month after month, family after family found in disturbing poses, heads opened or c…

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Episode 17 - Don't Play In The Cellar 49:17

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They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but Vera Renczi may be the exception, for everyone seemed to proclaim her beauty. A childhood and upbringing shrouded in mystery, not much is known about this Romanian looker except her appetite for jealous murder. Vera was a passionate lover and seduced many suitors into her home and affections. She w…

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Episode 16 - It's A Woman! 1:00:44

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Let’s Get Ready to Rumblllllleeeee!!!!!!! Come on down to Mexico City for a wrestling event you’ll never forget. Juana Barazza started this crazy life as an abused child from a tormented mother. Never knowing familial love, never learning to read or write, she grew to be a well-adjusted young woman...or so we thought. Juana entered the wrestling wo…

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Episode 15 - 27 Minutes O' Good Me 27:43

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Listen, it’s a holiday week. We get it. Offices are closed, the beach and booze are calling, and the sun is blazing. Hamburgers are turning juicy on the grill and you don’t have time to listen to entire hour of murder right now since your friends and family are sitting right next to you. So here’s 27 minutes of a murder obsessed lady we know very l…

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Episode 14 - Head For A Head 56:13

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This week just drink straight from the bottle. Naturally, Pamela will bring you a sordid tale that ends even worse than it begins. Prepare for a story of a woman that starts in abuse and ends in her returning the favors she suffered throughout her entire childhood. You may have heard of the Sunset Strip Killers, but not like this. Taken mostly from…

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Episode 13 - Two Cokes And A Bag Of Cheetos 47:29

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When we think of grandmothers, we can literally smell homemade cookies baking. We can smell the Chanel perfume and see the pearls in their ears. The skin on their hands is withered and thin, but so soft it seems it could break open at the lightest tap. We think of hot soup and caring nurturing words. Call us old fashioned, but we don’t typically th…

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Episode 12 - A Whole New World 59:28

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We all dread getting older. Our bodies slowly wrinkling and dimpling, joints curl in on themselves and eyes glaze over with milky cataracts. Our memories will start to dwindle and fade with murky recollections appearing like rippled images in a pond. But through all this we know there are establishments in place where we can rest out our remaining …

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Episode 11 - Snakes On A Canoe 54:17

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The beginning will sound familiar: young girl grows up in a tumultuous and abusive house hold and is placed in a different home. Even the middle will have a familiar ring to it: the girl grows into a woman and has a child. She marries multiple times throughout her life and opens up a successful nail salon. She has friends and regular clients and a …

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Episode 10 - The Feminine Idea Of Nurturance 1:16:29

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From 1933 to 1945, 17 million people were captured, tortured, tormented, and slaughtered, dragged away from families never to be whole again, under Adolf Hitler’s rule in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. 17 million people in concentration camps. Madison Square Garden in New York City holds 20,000 people. The Colosseum in Ancient Rome held 50,000.…

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Episode 9 - O Holy Night 1:40:38

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September of 2006 Travis Alexander threw on a suit, and strolled through the warm Las Vegas air into a banquet for his job at prepaid legal services. A faithful member of the Mormon church, and a motivational speaker, Travis was a catch. However, it was Jodi Arias that was caught. Blonde hair, blue eyed and fiery, Jodi took Travis’s breath away...a…

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Episode 8 - Scary Mary 1:09:49

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Her eyes are blue and startling; they hold within them the years of abuse and torment, brought by a mother who never wanted her. Her town is rubble. Poor and impoverished, houses derelict and crumbing, few play grounds, kids in the streets, parents absent at work to scrounge every penny they can. This is Mary Bell’s world. Cold. Unsupervised. Troub…

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Episode 7 - Trieflers Need Not Apply 1:15:12

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"Comely widow seeking wealthy gentleman to combine fortunes." La Porte, Indiana late 1800’s Belle Gunness was looking for love, wealth, security, and a good man to feed to her hogs. Well, the times were prosperous for Belle and she was sent not merely one suitor, but over 40. Many were never seen or heard from again and if you ask the widow, well, …

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Episode 6 - I Heart Roy 1:29:59

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Ahh, young love. Is there anything more exhilarating and all-consuming? For small town gal Bonnie Elizabeth Parker it was everything. She couldn't resist the dark and handsome features of Clyde Chestnut Barrow and knew they were destined for greatness the second they met. Well fame and infamy are close friends and these two tow that line perfectly.…

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Episode 5 - Wait...What's The Name Of The Castle? 53:43

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We agree that running a kingdom is hard and stressful work. And everyone needs an outlet right? Well Elizabeth Báthory is no exception and needs to vent some energy and frustration...in the most horrid and barbaric of ways. Roughly 200 years after Vlad the Impaler, The Blood Countess rocks Europe by becoming what Guinness Book of World Records clai…

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Episode 4 - May I Axe You A Question? 1:39:31

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Lizzie Borden took an axe // And gave her mother forty whacks. // When she saw what she had done, // She gave her father forty-one. // You know her from her famous name // But is she quite the one to blame? // Pamela claims she has a clue // And we just want to share with you! // So pour a glass and hear the facts // To find out who swung the axe!…

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Episode 3 - Aileen Wuornos: Beyond The Beyond 1:17:14

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Her life was one of endless tragedy. Everyone she relied on turned against her, ultimately dedicating her life to one filled with crime and prostitution from the ripe age of 15. From 1989-1991 she murdered 7 men with an accomplice and spent 12 agonizing years on death row. Portrayed as unhinged and impressionable by Charlize Theron in the movie Mon…

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Episode 2 - Tex, Drugs + Rock n' Roll 1:14:00

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You know the man - he has been studied, interviewed, interrogated, documented, recorded, admired, and hated. But how much do you know about the women behind Charles Manson? Pamela has the answers - well, at least some. Susan Atkins was looking for an escape from her tumultuous upbringing with a little bit of “free lovin” at Spahn Ranch and what she…

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Episode 1 - The Papin Sisters 1:24:19

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Picture France in the 1920s. The streets are alive and bustling with life; especially in the quaint township of Les Mans. However, behind a stone wall in the household of a retired solicitor two maids unknowingly dust and polish their way to a gruesome future. Join us as we discuss France’s most infamous duo - the Papin sisters - and how they went …