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Introducing: The Amelia Project

April 13, 2025·23 min·1 clip

Zale Indigo Ravenheart asks The Amelia Project to stop his launch to Antathon within ten hours.

1. Red Valley presents the topic of The Amelia Project, an audio drama about people who fake their deaths and disappear. 2. Alan Burden recommends The Amelia Project as the interviewer and frames its agency as a place for clients seeking new identities. 3. The episode asks whether a person who publicly commits to a new life can escape the consequences of that commitment. 4. The Amelia Project is described as a secret agency whose clients want to leave their existing lives behind. 5. Alan Burden compares the show’s writing to Douglas Adams, Fleabag, and Sherlock Holmes while describing cocoa in a shadowy Paris room. 6. Zale Indigo Ravenheart calls the agency because he is scheduled to leave Earth in a cannon. 7. Zale says he founded the Apostles of Antathon and began an online timer two years earlier. 8. Zale describes Antathon as Earth’s opposite planet, located 180 degrees away on the other side of the Sun. 9. Zale claims Antathon has the same atmospheric pressure, temperature, gravity, and presumably life as Earth. 10. Zale wants to meet his counterpart on Antathon and exchange places after making himself publicly responsible for the launch. 11. Zale says Antathon appeared to him in a vision because the Sun blocks it from telescopes. 12. The agency argues that Zale’s followers, media attention, and public timer have left him unable to withdraw safely. 13. Zale cites two divorces, an estranged son, and cocaine addiction when explaining why Antathon once appealed to him. 14. Zale says his movement attracted emails, media coverage, a Courtney Love T-shirt appearance, and a Lady Gaga reference. 15. The Amelia Project’s staff calculates that a compressed-air cannon could send Zale 59.05 meters over Blackburn Woods into Mwayo Reservoir. 16. The agency offers Macedonia as a cheaper destination but proposes receiving Zale’s network and contact information instead of payment. 17. The episode uses fast interview exchanges, recurring faith-versus-evidence arguments, and comic details such as an apparently nonexistent chair. 18. The production combines Alan Burden’s narration, character dialogue, music, sound design, and a deliberately contradictory closing credit sequence. 19. Listeners who enjoy absurd audio dramas and speculative world-building. 20. Listeners seeking factual science or realistic escape planning.

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A sharp, funny disappearance caper with a twisty interview format.

The Amelia Project is a secret-agency story about helping people fake their deaths and vanish, usually for the strangest and best reasons. Sharp writing and a twisty interview setup keep it moving, and the voice acting gives the whole thing real snap.

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Press play if you want a sharp, funny story about faking your own death.

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