D.J. Wiedrich returns to talk Glitch from the year 2065.

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Glitch focuses on a company forcing android technology onto the lower class before people are ready for it.

The stream starts like a live show, a little messy in the way live shows tend to be. There is some unrelated ad copy, then a quick technical snag, and then the host brings DJ back on like someone the audience already knows. The Kickstarter is nearly over. Good news first: the book has hit its number. The host still wants more people looking at it before the clock runs out, mostly because he thinks the title, the art, and the story have more room to catch on. The praise is fannish, plain, and pretty sincere. DJ does not oversell it. He just rolls with the moment, and the conversation slides into why the premise feels less far away than it might have when he started. Androids are where the nerves show. The host talks about billionaires buying robots from Musk and machines loading dishwashers, which makes the future feel oddly normal and a little creepy. DJ gets that. He says the script began in 2021 or 2022, back when AI mostly meant things like the Will Smith eating spaghetti video. Then, while he kept working on the script and the art, AI moved into the open. The near future started looking less near. DJ brings the big idea down to class. In his world, androids already exist, but the story watches that technology reach lower-class life. His smartphone comparison works because it is so plain: first it was the rich kid with the iPhone, not the farm kids or the kids in old Kansas houses. That is the bite of the episode. The futuristic machinery is really a way to talk about access, timing, and who gets handed the shiny thing first.

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