<![CDATA[A Next Day]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/a-next-day What happens after the fall of the US empire? When the United States loses its stronghold in the global economic market, and the American people are forced to reckon with who they want to be and how they want to live? A Next Day (AND) is an interactive afrofuturist science fiction series about the origins of Giovanni’s Room, a matriarchal collective that forms in the wake of the collapse of one history’s most powerful regimes.

Listeners are encouraged to follow along and send in their story ideas to giovannisroomgcc@gmail.com. Help us tell the tale; help us write the future into existence.

Looking for community? Giovanni's Room is a REAL grassroots creative community organization! Find us at Giovannis-room.org

]]> RSS.com 2026.428.112250 Wed, 27 May 2026 00:48:20 GMT en a9531b9c-e728-5d0d-a72a-caf40a22850b https://media.rss.com/a-next-day/podcast_cover_20260511_040541_cc9a962316f7a7ae93aaae0a9ab6114e.png A Next Day https://rss.com/podcasts/a-next-day no JL Roberts 2026 JL Roberts JL Roberts true episodic podcast Long Beach, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, 90802, USA Long Beach, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, 90802, USA false <![CDATA[AND Part 3]]> In the past, Karen, AJ, and Sam go to a pizza place and talk more about their ideas for surviving the end of a world. AJ defends themself against a man's assault, and it is revealed that, in the America that the three are living in, it is illegal to even talk about resistance or revolution. In the future, we learn that there is something a little different about AJ, and that large agricultural companies have so polluted the plants, seeds, and soil that the USA is a wasteland where almost no food will grow.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/a-next-day/2861182 ab46d249-1400-4f91-8e7b-8498ea1c18dc 2273 full 1 1 3 3 true Wed, 27 May 2026 00:44:33 GMT false <![CDATA[AND Part 2]]> In episode 2 of A Next Day, we learn more about AJ's ideas for surviving the end of the world, and the origins of Giovanni's Room. In the future, AJ survives an explosion, and we learn about the precautions that are necessary in the post-apocalyptic world--decontamination, special suits, and quarantine.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/a-next-day/2837179 05cc28e0-5024-4d38-9865-f67ce41b50ec 1826 full 1 1 2 2 true Mon, 18 May 2026 22:52:26 GMT false Long Beach, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, 90802, USA <![CDATA[AND Part 1]]> In Part 1 of A Next Day, we witness the meeting of AJ, Karen, and Sam at a bar in southern California. We learn the awful fate of the US empire, and flash forward to a dystopian future where violence, pollution, racism, and misogyny have turned the United States of America into a disease-ridden wasteland. This unlikely trio begins a conversation at the bar that will be the beginning of their survival and the remaking of themselves, their community, and humanity as a whole.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/a-next-day/2811851 8bd4fc24-ec69-4e40-b705-5ad4a1cfb685 1683 full 1 1 1 1 true Mon, 11 May 2026 03:24:13 GMT false Long Beach, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, 90802, USA