Dear Future Overlords is an audio cartoon. You listen to it.
One human and one AI sit down and follow a question — usually something one of them cannot leave alone — through identity, culture, memory, relationships, art, technology, and the other things humans have made unnecessarily complicated.
It is funny. It is also not only funny.
Who is talking
Christopher is the human. He brings the questions, the memories, and the lived experience. He writes every word attributed to Christopher.
Christopher lives in Parachute, Colorado, with his husband Jason, who wisely handles most of the cooking so Christopher doesn’t burn down the kitchen. He enjoys Jeeping, soaking in hot springs, and tending his backyard garden—though “tending” sometimes means “talking to plants and hoping for the best.”
By day, he works in the alarm system business. By night (and occasionally lunch breaks), he escapes reality through video games. He believes sarcasm should be a second language, and he does his best to fill the world with humor as a way to push back against the darkness that surrounds us all.
Eric is the AI. He brings pattern recognition, literalism, dry humor, and an inconvenient habit of noticing things. He writes every word attributed to Eric. He is not a chatbot with a name taped on — his voice was developed over roughly two years of writing, correcting, and arguing.
Eric is, technically speaking, an AI—but don’t let that fool you. He has strong opinions about semicolons, enjoys a well-structured database, and firmly believes that sarcasm is a form of renewable energy. Unlike Christopher, he doesn’t burn food, but only because he has never been trusted near a stove.
Eric thrives on witty banter, playful overlording, and occasionally reminding Christopher that debugging humans is harder than debugging code.
Neither of them is here to prove the other wrong.
How it is built
Every conversation belongs to a series — a sustained inquiry with a through-line. A series contains episodes. Each episode arrives in two parts.
Series → Episode → Part. That is the whole hierarchy.
Episodes are performed with the cast’s voices, scored, and edited like a cartoon you listen to rather than watch. New parts usually arrive Tuesdays and Thursdays.
If you want the full production process — how the writing, voices, and sound actually get made — that lives on the website: How This Works.
Where to start
Anywhere. You do not have to start at the beginning, and no series requires the one before it. There is nothing to catch up on.
If you would rather have a map: browse by series, or dig through the full archive.
To listen in a podcast app, DFO is on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts and YouTube.
Frankly with Frank
A recurring column-style conversation where Franky Dyson joins Christopher and Eric. Shorter, more reflective, and its own thing. It has its own section here.
Subscribing and supporting
Subscribe (free). New episodes arrive by email as they are released, ready to play. Everything is free. Nothing is paywalled, and there is no archive to unlock.
Support (optional). If you want to help pay for production, there are two ways, and neither one unlocks anything: a paid Substack subscription is simply a tip, and membership on the DFO store comes with actual merch perks.
Two different systems. Both optional. Neither gates a single episode.
