Multitudes: Live from the Multiverse: Recent Episodes
Manny Fassihi
Multitudes: Live from the Multiverse is a podcast where folks from the same community are randomly paired over a phone call, where Carla – the voicebot and host of the Multiverse – guides them through a conversational experience. At no point do they know who they're speaking to – only that the other person is a member of the community that they are. By the end of the conversation, they are given a choice whether to reveal the identity of the other person – or not.
In this short segment from the Multiverse, we pair up two participants from the On Deck Fellowship on a blind date. Well, not an actual date. More of an imagined one, in which one played the role of a 12-foot giant while the other played the role of an invisible mutant. The banter that then unfolded made it feel like an actual date – within minutes!
In this truly epic episode, two constellations – in the form of Neville Jos and Pablo Bello – collide in an existentially dizzying conversation about dinosaurs, the universe, farts, and that vexed question about whether we're living in a dream (or not). At the conversation's end, both opted to reveal their identities – and neither was surprised who was on the other end.
0:00 - Manny and Carla fight (again) about dark matter
2:20 - Conversation begins with role playing activity
4:19 - "When the dinosaurs died, we were on the other side of the Milky Way"
12:42 - "The perception of humanity is why we exist"
15:37 - The best or worst fart that they've ever had
17:31 - "So your best fart is a sun?"
22:20 - Debate - We are all living in a dream
32:44 - Share something you like about your partner
34:56 - The big reveal
In this episode of Live from the Multiverse, we have two conversations for you.
In the first, Nathan and Casey (voices modulated) sing each other nostalgic tunes, explore a world where bananas are illegal and talk about their fashion disasters.
In the second, Andrew and Audrea share the ways in which they were stretched through their travels, how they handle their insecurities, when they felt alive, and why they are worth knowing. At the end, they came up with an elaborate story on human-eating aliens going into filmmaking!
0:00 - Intro with Manny and Carla
2:20 - How do you think the world would be different if bananas were illegal?
3:12 - What's the first song lyric that comes to your head right now
5:28 - If you could bring back a toy from your childhood, which would it be and why?
8:31 - What was your worst fashion disaster?
10:08 - Second intro with Manny and Carla
11:27 - In what ways has travel stretched your mind?
13:14 - The last time you felt insecure and how you handled it
14:36 - Describe a moment you felt really alive
15:36 - Why are you worth knowing?
16:34 - Who thinks you're beautiful when you wake up?
17:00 - Story with aliens
25:05 - Outro with Manny and Carla
Multitudes: Live from the Multiverse is a podcast where folks from the same community are randomly paired over a phone call, where Carla – the voicebot and host of the Multiverse – guides them through a conversational experience. At no point do they know who they're speaking to – only that the other person is a member of the community that they are. By the end of the conversation, they are given a choice whether to reveal the identity of the other person – or not.
In this episode from the Multiverse, we randomly paired founders Robert Nowell (of Hearth) and Oladele Fadairo (of PrepFit) in the Multiverse, where they discussed their earliest memories of going on the internet, their first friends, and went deep on a question they wouldn't normally ask a stranger.
Podcast Timeline
0:00 - Manny and Carla (the voicebot) introduce the podcast, discussing the vision and purpose of Multitudes
2:11 - First question: What's one thing you're grateful for today?
2:44 - What are your earliest memories of going online?
6:51 - Talk about your first friend.
9:45 - A Riddle (listen to hear it)
10:21 - Ask a question you wouldn't normally ask someone in a first conversation.
13:40 - Share something you already like about each other.