Talking and Shopping

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The leaders internet giant Talking and Shopping come to Washington to make their mark, not thinking that Washington might make its mark upon them.  Their CEO, Abby Alton, comes to town to testify to Congress.  Her brilliant but undisciplined CTO, Ed Kowalsk, follows as an unwelcome addition.

 

 

Cast and Creatives

  • Sahara Ale - Yasmin the “Attorney-Advisor”
  • Margaux Amie   - Rachel D’Fino, assistant to Senator Stassen; Evelyn Operations Manager of HWMS; Reg Genglern
  • Zoe Anastassiou  – Waiter; Newsperson; Faith of Beva's Place; Congressional Aide; Mina; Habi Zolah; Senatorial Aide; Wee Sister #1, Capitol Hill Policy Officer; Rebecca Vogelson; Charolotte Wolston
  • Debbon Ayer – Abbey Alton, CEO of Talking and Shopping; Tracy Aponta of Aponta and Associates
  • Ron Bianchi – Roger the typing impaired Congressional Aide; Bashir the Uber Driver; Waiter; Eric; The Ancient One; The Producer, Officer Mahoney
  • Christian Conn  (Special Guest)  - Gar Simons, billiard player & business guy
  • Anastasia Deloret - Karine Tissarand, Head of HWMS EU Office; Wee Sister #2; Emma Price
  • Geoffrey Grier  – Vinny the CTO; Morris Fitz of NTIA; Carl Langston; Police Officer
  • David Alan “DAG” Grier (Special Guest) – Famous Rankin of NIMBI
  • Josh LaForce - Sulley Bowman, Head of HWMS Washington Office; Brannon Clough; Pasha Stevenfeld
  • Kit Kuksenon  - Ed Kowalski, CTO of Talking and Shopping
  • Noah Masur - Buckley Williams of FDF; UPS Delivery Person; FedEx Delivery Person; Hyung Tai, Delivery Person and part owner of Gangnum Cleaners; Ben Çapardı, formerly of T & S
  • Jake Minevich - Fan in a Car; Tour Guide; a Cop; Victor Numerov, Aide to Abby Alton; Server Director, T&S, Chad Dockerly of Technica Publica
  • Michelle Thomas-Hanson - Stage Manager
  • Sarah Corbyn Woolf – Anna the Intern, Senator Christine Stassen, Jacqui oif NIMBI, Emma Darling

 

Initially released as "What Big Tech Doesn't Know (About Washington)". The original recordings reflect that title.

 

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Are you famous?

Fame we court.

Fame we try to wield (before it weilds us.

But are you famous?

Not the best question to hear when you are trying to understand what is happening.

Even if you’re not famous.

Not famous at all.

The eighteenth episode of the Audio Drama “What Big Tech Doesn’t Know.”

Cast & Creatives

  • Zoe Anastassiou – Wee Sister #1
  • Debbon Ayer – Abby Alton
  • Anastasia Deloret – Wee Sister #2
  • Geoffrey Grier – Vinny
  • Kit Kuksenok – Kowalski
  • Skippy – Himself

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Are you coming?

Are you going?

Do you have a place in this world?

Or do you not?

Roger.  Yasmin.  Existential questions.  And the power of warm drinks.

The nineteenth  episode of the Audio Drama “What Big Tech Doesn’t Know.”

Cast & Creatives

  • Sahara Ale – Yasmin
  • Zoe Anastassiou – Faith
  • Ron Bianchi  – Roger
  • Geoffrey Grier – Customer #1
  • Josh LaForce – Customer #2
  • Noah Masur – Barista & Andre
  • Skippy – Himself

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Can’t things just get better?

By themselves.

When there is a market to disrupt.

And money to be made.

Ed Kowalski, the CTO of the hapless Internet firm Talking and Shopping is back in Silicon Valley.  Tired of Washington.  Tired of things he doesn’t understand.  Tired of trying to get along with people.

Episode 22 of the series What Big Tech Doesn’t Know About Washington.

Cast & Creatives

  • Margaux Amie – Evelyn Rouse of HWMS
  • Christian Conn – Gar Simons, Financier
  • Kit Kuksenok – Ed Kowalski of T & S
  • Noah Masur – Ben Çapardı, formerly of T & S
  • Michelle Thomas-Hanson – Stage Manager
  • Skippy – Himself

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There are so many moving parts.

You think you have a strategy and then things fall apart.

Successful coworkspace.  Capitol Hill.  A Center for women.

Finally, a sitting Senator graces the facility with her presence but at the same time, a real estate agency makes a call.

Episode 24 of the Audio Drama “Talking and Shopping.”

Cast & Creatives

  • Sahara Ale – Yasmin of HWMS
  • Margaux Amie – Rachel D’Fino, Aide to Senator to Stassen
  • Zoe Anastassiou – Faith, owner of Beva’s Coworkspace
  • Debbon Ayer – Tracy Aponta of Aponta and Associates
  • Anastasia DeLoret – Karine Tisserand of HWMS
  • Michelle Thomas-Hanson – Stage Manager
  • Sarah Corbyn Woolf – Senator Christine Stassen
  • Skippy – Himself

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A friend you support financially is a friend indeed.

So you would think.

Abby Alton, the CEO of the Tech Giant Talking and Shopping pays a visit a Trade Association, the National Information Market Brokers Institute.  T & S pays their bills, so you would expect a little love.

And love can be found here.  It is just not the love that you would expect

Episode 23 of the Audio Drama “Talking and Shopping”

Cast & Creatives

  • Zoe Anastassiou – Capitol Hill Policy Officer
  • Debbon Ayer – Abby Alton of T & S
  • Anastasia Deloret – Karine Tisserande of HWMS
  • Josh LaForce – Brannon Clough
  • Geoffrey Grier – Metropolitan Police Officer
  • David Alan Grier* – Famous Rankin, CEO of NIMBI
  • Michelle Thomas-Hanson – Stage Manager
  • Sarah Corbyn Woolf – Jacqui of NIMBI
  • Skippy – Himself

*The other David Alan Grier, as compared to David Alan Grier the Producer.

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He’s trying to do a good thing.

A good thing with a drone.

A good thing with a drone in the nation’s capital.

It was supposed to be good.

But now he is sitting in the station house of DC Police District 1 trying to explain what he is doing.

The lost episode of the audio drama “Talking and Shopping”. (episode 26)

Cast & Creatives

  • Ron Bianchi – Station Chief Mahoney, DC Metropolitan Police
  • Michelle Thomas-Hanson – Stage Manager
  • Jake Minevich – Victor Numerov, Aide to Abby Alton of T & S
  • Sarah Corbyn Woolf – Emma Darling,  DC Metropolitan Police
  • Skippy – Himself

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Chad Dockerly of the Dockerly Report

You run a big name podcast.

You deal with important issues.

You can get big name guests.

Maybe.

Chad Dockerly asks his guest, Former Congressional Aide Rebecca Vogelson, to explain the EARN IT bill to his listeners.

Episode 20 of the Audio Drama “Talking and Shopping”.

Cast & Creatives

  • Zoe Anastassiou – Rebecca Vogelson
  • Jake Minevich – Chad Dockerly
  • Michelle Thomas-Hanson – Stage Manager
  • Skippy – Himself

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Intimate Knowledge.

It doesn’t mean what it used to mean.

And it doesn’t make things any easier.

As Abby Alton, CEO of Talking and Shopping, prepares to meet Congress, two of her aides grappled with the fact that one of them knows a great deal about the other.

A slow dance of information on episode 25 of the series “Talking and Shopping.”

Cast & Creatives

  • Sahara Ale – Yasmin of HWMS
  • Debbon Ayer – Abby Alton, CEO of Talking & Shopping
  • Josh LaForce – Sullivan Bowman of HWMS
  • Michelle Thomas-Hanson – Stage Manager
  • Jake Minevich – Victor Numerov, Aide to Abby Alton
  • Skippy – Himself

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He’s a Tech Guy.

He thinks he has something to tell the world, something the world doesn’t know.

Little surprised that needs people to help him.

Ed Kowalski, the CTO of the Tech Giant Talking and Shopping returns to Washington but discovers that no one really missed him while he was gone.

And no one is really excited to have him back.

The episode 27 of the audio drama “Talking and Shopping.”

Cast & Creatives

  • Margaux Amie – Reg Genglerm Fulfillment Workers of the World
  • Zoe Anastasiou – Charlotte Wolston, Foundation for a Digital Future
  • Anastasia DeLoret – Emma Price, Communications Consultant
  • Josh LaForce, Pasha Stevenfield,  Council for Gig Workers
  • Kit Kuksenok – Ed Kowalski, CTO Talking and Shopping
  • Noah Masur – Buckley Williams, Foundation for a Digital Future
  • Michelle Thomas-Hanson – Stage Manager
  • Skippy – Himself

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