The Next 5 Minutes

Ear Candy Presents: The Next 5 Minutes

Podcast: Ear Candy Presents: The Next 5 Minutes
By: Ear Candy
Category: Fiction
Sub-Category: Science Fiction
First Episode: 2023

It’s 2035… and things aren’t great Downunder. Mass homelessness, pollution ruining beaches, teenagers facing slave labour and everything, including euthanasing the elderly, has been privatised by a corrupt libertarian government in cahoots with Empyrean Industries, a shadowy corporation busy mining the moon. An underground terrorist movement called Swag Sting is mobilising but wracked by infighting. Crowd control measures include giant, deadly robot kangaroos. As our protagonists battle for humanity’s essence, we uncover an alarming future that lurks uncomfortably close. The Next 5 Minutes is not just a podcast—it’s a movement, a deep, dark, truthful mirror reflecting a future we must avoid. Every. Second. Counts.

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