I retain my habit of listening to podcasts or audiobooks on long journeys after concerts - something about not immediately overwriting the musical memories with something pre-recorded, an ill-advised and futile attempt at purity of experience. Ah well. I pick up Alternate Realities, a three episode series following a journalist’s $10,000 wager with his conspiracy-theory-befallen father, the hopes of which are that this will draw a line under it all and keep the family together. It’s all very interesting, really, and provoking in the sense of wondering what I would do, calcifying the worry of what if that does happen to one of my parents. And, to be fair, it doesn’t seek to stretch its story beyond the three episodes in which it fits, but I would have somehow liked more? It’s a bit anticlimactic - an episode explains the premise, an episode digs into the fracturing family, and a final episode examines the results of the bet. And it’s over. Maybe that’s how it should be, though, a stark ending to a stark tale.