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Life With Althaar

by Gemini CollisionWorks
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  • What, No New Episode? Another Word from Ian & Berit

    October 22, 2021 · 7 min

    Once again, there is a delay in the release of the next episode of Life With Althaar.   Sorry about that, listeners.   Ian & Berit have some words on the subject here, with the help of some unexpected visitors to the Gemini…

  • Episode 33: Two Plants and a Booster

    October 8, 2021 · 2 hr 51 min

    In which John B finds himself in apparent danger, and for once, it's actually unexpected. Dinorbiax and Fracottiverx, the strange-talking Fugulnari enforcers, have dragged him into an interrogation room to discuss some of his recent…

  • Midseason Check-In with Ian & Berit - No New Episode This Week

    September 24, 2021 · 9 min

    In which Ian & Berit, the co-creators of LIFE WITH ALTHAAR announce the postponement of episode 33, and make a polite request for donations (and tell you how to do that).   So, as announced in the audio here, for those who didn't find…

  • Episode 32: Luck of the Drew

    September 10, 2021 · 2 hr 23 min

    In which we meet Drew, who is full of hate. Drew hates the Fugulnari, with very good reason. Drew hates John B, for what appears to be good reason. Drew is full of hate because he has had his love taken away from him, and is now on a…

  • Episode 31: The Xybidont with the Golden Carapace

    August 27, 2021 · 2 hr 2 min

    In which, for the good of his friends, Xtopps decides he has to kick his peanut butter habit, and we experience the horrors of a Xybidont in withdrawal from the cursed legume. Meanwhile, Vert accidentally stumbles upon the Resistance's…

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  • Episode 30: The Union Forever

    August 13, 2021 · 2 hr 33 min

    In which the various groups and people of the Fairgrounds opposed to the authoritarian rule of the Fugulnari over the Humans seek out alliances with other species to aid their cause. For Torianna, this means a most-unanticipated meeting…

  • Episode 29: And That's the Way It Is

    July 30, 2021 · 1 hr 59 min

    In which the documentary on the Fugulnari occupation of the Fairgrounds is broadcast, and all of the residents who hoped it would show the truth of what is happening there are indeed amazed at what can be done in post. Meanwhile, with most…

  • Episode 28: False Faces, True Colors

    July 16, 2021 · 1 hr 57 min

    In which tension, apprehension, and dissension have, if not begun, continued apace. As Frondrinax attempts to secretly guide an official fact-finding mission around the Fairgrounds, doing all she can to avoid showing the Fugulnari…

  • Episode 27: Life Under the Spreading Green

    July 2, 2021 · 3 hr 4 min

    In which we return after six months to a Fairgrounds both very different, and somehow much the same. Life under the Fugulnari Occupation has become a nightmare of new restrictions and bureaucracy, but somehow the Human Exchange Concourse…

  • Episode 16: Big Numbers and Little Science

    August 14, 2020 · 1 hr 50 min

    In which Drop Time comes again to The Fairgrounds, though several newcomers to the station have no idea what this period -- when the station drops a certain amount of days from the calendar to get in line with Earth's -- means for them…

  • Episode 15: A Simple Game of SuperNova

    July 31, 2020 · 1 hr 59 min

    In which The Syndicate comes to The Fairgrounds to make Chip Frinkel an offer he can't refuse concerning his bar, The Electric Egg: a seemingly innocent offer of a pool table. However, more turns out to be riding on the table, and a game…

  • Episode 14: The Other Shoe

    July 17, 2020 · 1 hr 37 min

    In which we return to The Fairgrounds after six months to find the crew apparently happier and in considerably less danger, with no life-threatening incidents having happened for many weeks, which of course means that no one is…

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About the show

An epic science-fiction sitcom for your ears about an unlikely human/alien friendship in the unluckiest place in Human space. It is the mid-26th Century. John B, a humble repairman and ”former human” (having lost his legal status as such), has left the Earth for mysterious reasons. He is perhaps the unluckiest being in Human space. He has wound up at the Human Exchange Concourse, or the ”HEC,” once the site of Humanity’s First Galactic Fair. It was the biggest flop in Human history. ”The Fairgrounds” is perhaps the unluckiest place in Human space. You don’t go there, you end up there. John’s luck seems to have changed when he gets a good apartment at an amazingly reasonable price only to find his roommate is Althaar, an Iltorian, who is determined to befriend a Human. (Iltorians are the kindest, nicest species in all known space, and natural diplomats, beloved by almost all, but their slightest presence causes Humans to instinctively respond with panic, fear, disgust, nausea, and loss of bodily functions). Can a Human and Iltorian live together without one of them driving the other crazy?