In What Will Be Here?, five friends send a rocket to space with a collection of recordings on it that document the world’s decline, the stories they want to tell, and their efforts in building this rocket to get their message to the stars. They wonder what their world will have become by the time their message is listened to. At its core, this show is about living and creating when things feel pointless. It's a story that came out of the pandemic, and the landscape in which this story was written and produced greatly influenced how it turned out. What Will Be Here? is set on Earth 200 years in the future, where large-scale crises are fully normalized. But despite the bleak backdrop, this story is one of hope - of overcoming challenges, of making things that might be temporary, but also things that might be launched into space and continue on forever.

What Will Be Here? Episode 1, Go For Deploy.Jules introduces the team. Suri has doubts about the project. Armani makes their own golden record. Kei is in the ducts. Dane explains how the world is doomed.Content Notes: contains swearing, the brief presence of fire, recordings of several animal noises, audio of a jet, and the recording of a gunshot. No guns are present in the episode.TRANSCRIPT: https://bit.ly/wwbhe1transcriptCREDITS:Jona Lune (they/them) - Jules.Sahar Iman (they/them) - Suri.Kathy Youssef (they/them) - Armani.Vico Ortiz (they/them) - Kei.John Y. Kamara (he/him) - Dane.

This episode was directed and Sound Designed by Tal Minear (they/them).

Written by Brad Colbroock (they/them/he), Chandler Harrison (she/her), Cole Burkhardt (he/him), Di Reese (she/they), and Tal Minear (they/them).

Intro and outro music by Benny James (she/they).

Transcript by Caroline Mincks (they/them).

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