It's a story about newts. A story that turned its author into Public Enemy #2. Yeah, you're going to want to hear this.Newts is a production of PRX and The Truth Podcast. It’s created by Ian Coss and Sam Jay Gold.Find it by searching for "Newts PRX" on your favorite podcatcher or at one of the links below!Twitter:<ul>
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Bonus: Oz 9 Past, present, and (dare we say it) future

It's Spring 2142 (a Tuesday), and Gated Galaxies has launched its 400 Oz-8000 ships, each carrying 50,000 "resting guests" to, hopefully, a new home on a shiny, brand-new planet. Except this whole "terraform and take over" idea isn't actually the plan; the real plan is far more nefarious and involves a great deal of cackling. But those aboard the ships don't know that, so off they toodle (those that make it out of Earth's atmosphere, at least), all shiny and optimistic. This is the story of one of those ships – the Oz 9 – and its tiny crew of hopeless incompetents. So far, they've been in space half an hour and several hundred people are dead. So... bright future, clearly.