After the Apocalypse

Robert - the voice of the Old Man

This Episode is an interview of Robert the voice of the Old Man and narrator of the After The Apocalypse Podcast. 

You can find his work at 

http://www.commandvoices.com 

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The bathroom fan screamed a tired airplane sound that was entirely out of place for the lack of airflow it produced but entirely consistent with the dismal nature of this motel. 

He wiped blood from his face with a threadbare hotel towel and looked into the hollow, soulless pits where his eyes should have been.

It was happening again. 

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Song Rights – (I have no rights to this music)

21st Century Schizoid Man (Radio Version) (In The Court Of The Crimson King (Expanded Edition), 10.10.1969)

Artist

King Crimson

Album

In The Court Of The Crimson King (Expanded Edition)

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Ian McDonald, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Peter Sinfield, Robert Fripp

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Interview – Jeff Brackett and Preppers in the Apocalypse

Hello my survivor friends! This is another one of the interview segments that we are doing to keep you interested and engaged between seasons. In this case I’m interviewing Jeff Brackett who is an indie writer, who is one of the members of our Apocalypse support group. ...

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Jeff Brackett is creating novels, novellas, and other stories. | Patreon

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Jeff Brackett is the author of the "Half Past Midnight" tales, the "Amber Payne" series, "Chucklers, Volume 1...", "Pangaea: Exiles", and a variety of other stories and novellas published in magazines and anthologies. After having lived almost his entire life in and around Houston, 2014 presented several life changes that brought him, his wife, and their dogs to Claremore, Oklahoma. There they found a nice little house with a much larger yard, and are all adjusting to the new lifestyle quite well. Jeff has even begun learning to garden.

His writing has won Honorable Mention in the action / adventure category of the "Golden Triangle Unpublished Writer's Contest", first place in the novel category of the "Bay Area Writers League Manuscript Competition", and was a finalist in the science fiction / fantasy / horror category of the "Houston Writer's Conference" manuscript contest.

His proudest achievement, though, is in having fooled his wife into marrying him more than thirty years ago and in helping her to raise three wonderful children. He is now a grandfather five times over.

And his gardening? Well, let's just say he still has a bit to learn in that area.

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Hello my survivor friends. 

What follows is an interview I did for a podcast called “Living the Dream with Curveball”. It’s shortish, 17 minutes. 

https://rss.com/podcasts/livingthedream/

I’ll include it here in its entirety. 

Again, this is one of a series of interviews and other content that I’m producing during our break between seasons two and three. If you have no interest in this type of content, feel free to skip forward to the next season. 

I will clearly identify these types of shows in the title so you can sort them out quickly. 

Let me give you a little inside baseball on interviewing and this interview. 

The interviewer is a guy named Curtis and his DJ sobriquet is “Curveball”. He does a lot of these types of interviews on his podcast. It was good practice for me. 

I have been interviewing people for my other podcast for over a decade. At this point I’ve done more than 475 interviews. I’m used to the interview format, although I’m not as often on the other side of the mic .

The challenge is to make the interview interesting and entertaining for the audience. To do this you either need a great topic, or an entertaining dynamic between the interviewee and the guest. 

I’m used to more of a back and forth than Curtis’ style. More of a conversation. His style is to ask the question and sit back for the interviewee to expound on the answer. 

You can hear me trying to engage him in conversation by asking questions. Which he gives me one- or two-word answers to. 

The other thing you can hear is me, in the beginning trying to set an energetic tone, but by the end I’m adjusting to match his lower energy level. I honestly think this topic might have been outside his zone of interest. 

But, I’m grateful for the opportunity to wax poetically about the apocalypse and hopefully we’ll find a few more survivors to join our little enclave as a result. 

Anyhow, hope you pick up a few tidbits from the interview. I’ll post the link up on the Facebook Group and you can comment there. 

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A pair of sparrows made indignant noises in the tree overhead and a grey squirrel chittered from a low branch as Mags settled into a prone position on the hill overlooking the DC. 

She leveled the rifle and squinted through the scope. According to her calculation, it was less than two hundred yards from her position, across the slope, the road, and then across the parking lot. 

She spun the ocular and a lean, rat-faced, man came into focus. 

He was reclined against a cement pillar smoking. 

“You look pretty relaxed for a man in your situation…,” she thought to herself as she turned the elevation knob on the scope.  

An inch or two in either direction could make a difference in the upcoming action. 

She wished she had a couple practice rounds, but this wasn’t practice. But it wasn't her first time at the range.

She slowly scanned left and right and up and down and checked the whole area. There was another man by the entrance and another two on the roof. 

She sighed, “Let’s hope they have sense.”

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Outro s2 e20

Welcome back my survivor friends.

This is your host Maddog comin’ at you from the pollen-soaked hills of early summer in in New England. 

The Pollen Apocalypse – good name for a flower-power punk band.

This, my friends, has been episode 20, the final episode of season 2. 

I know, we have some loose ends in the narrative, but not too many. 

I’ve always operated under the assumption that you folks are smart enough to live with a certain amount of uncertainty. – And as I’ll talk about below, that uncertainty actually has a payoff.  

It is designed in. It’s a feature, not a flaw.  

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A cold, dry, wind swept dust and bits of trash from the parking lot. 

It danced in the distribution center entrance like a tiny tornado. 

Bert checked over his M4 and decided he should probably clean it at some point. As near as he could figure it had been a week since he’d done so. 

He was leaning against a squat cement pillar that, he supposed, was meant to keep vehicles from crashing into the building. There was a line of them planted in front of the glass doors.  

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Hello my survivor friends. How are you doing? 

Ollie the Collie and I are doing well. Summer has arrived up here in New England with its long days and warm weather. Finally. I feel like I’m emerging from a hole. 

This is episode 19 of the second season. For you chronologically-challenged this episode will drop on May 13th 2022. A little bit more than 2 years since the idea occurred to me on a drizzly run down by the banks of the Chattahoochee at the start of a global pandemic that, at the time, seemed like it might actually be the end of the world. 

But we’re still here. Why? Because we’re survivors!  

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The Old Man crouched behind a parked van with Bill and surveyed the building. 

It was the same van he and Brad had crouched behind only a few, short days earlier. 

A wave of déjà vu passed through him and the little hairs on the nape of his neck tingled. The human mind was a funny thing. What did it see in these echoes of the past that made it bridle with physical manifestation?  

‘Déjà vu’…the old man thought, wasn’t that a Steely Dan album his wife had played over and over in their New York apartment? No, that was “Aja” 

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Hello my survivor friends – are there airplanes in the apocalypse? 

I just got off one last night, didn’t get home until 1:00 in the morning – so if my voice sounds like a sexy overnight DJ, that’s why. 

And kids, I don’t mean a DJ like the ones that spin beats at a rave while you stumble around high on ecstasy with a manic smile on your face, bouncing around to flashing lights – although that would be a good setting for a zombie apocalypse – not a good one, but like a direct-to-cable one – we could call it “Death at the Disco” – except that that is already the name of a franchised murder mystery theater…But I digress…

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It was like a scene from an old western. 

Close ups of scared faces. 

The smell of fear pheromones thick in the air. 

The momentary stillness of the confrontation was punctuated by the susurration of a dusty wind in the parking lot. Crows cried complaints from the trees.  There was the brushing crinkle of clothes and shoe leather as the men shifted nervously. 

The mood was broken by Tasker, moaning, half mumbling, his confident swagger erased by the gun in his ear.  

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Outro S2 E17

Greetings my survivor friends.  How are we all doing in this weird and wonderful apocalypse? 

I was reading some of the iTunes and Audible reviews – thanks for those by the way – and there was one grumbling about having to listen through these outros. 

Here is your simple solution my friends. As soon as you hear Robert’s narration stop and the outro music play, you can hit that “skip to the end” button and you’re not going to miss anything except a commercial from Acast and my ramblings. 

Feel free. 

I won’t be offended.

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John tasker lifted his head to the sounds of hurried footsteps approaching the door. He was in the middle of a meeting with Karl and Michael in the improvised gym-office. They were going through the week’s schedule.  

John Tasker liked to stay on top of things. 

A man dashed into the room breathless. “We’re being attacked!” he shouted, cramming the words together in a frenzied effort to get them all out quickly, turning the three separate words into a single interjection. 

“Calm down, Kevin!” Tasker said, “Take a breath and tell us what’s happening. Let’s not ‘hurry up and screw up’.” 

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Hello my survivor friends. 

Here we are at the end of Season 2 Episode 16. Glad you could join us. For you time travelers it’s the end of March 2022.

We are running at about 10,000 downloads a month. It leveled off a bit in February. So that means it’s time for you to earn your keep again and go rate and review an episode for us.

Tell your friends!

Help us help you!

Lots to talk about this week.  We’re up over 130 folks in our Facebook group. So at least I have some people to talk to! We’ve created a couple fun events for the team. 

You can find our TeePublic store to buy some of those cool stickers at teepublic all one word forward slash aftertheapocalypse.

We’ve got a Patreon page as well if you’d like to support independent podcasting with a monetary donation.

The most helpful thing is rating us and posting a positive review, or sharing the show with your networks. 

All the links to these things are here in the show notes.  

Have a great weekend and whatever you do – Keep Surviving! 

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Mags could see the distribution center buildings stretching off into the horizon in neat, rectangular rows of asphalt and metal. 

From her perch on the hill overlooking the port authority complex it was like looking down on the map of an old board game.

The mid-morning sun had chased the fog away. Its warm rays now glinted off shiny, metal, man-made objects in the panorama. She squinted at the ‘glass menagerie’ effect that created prisms of light in her scope as she scanned.  

Outro S2E15

Hello my survivor friends!

I liked this episode. I tried to take a little extra time and make sure we got the characters and the scenes right. I thought it came out well and I liked Robert’s read. 

By the way, if you have any audio projects you can reach Robert at CommandVoices.com.  He doesn’t just do the gravely old man voice – that is an affectation just for me. He does full on commercials and voice overs.

I kicked off a contest on the facebook page. I want to have one of you be a guest reader for one of my stories – not this story but something standalone I’ll write – All you have to do to play along is send me an audio recording to cyktrussell At Gmail – and I’ll have my panel of judges listen to them all and select a winner. Then that person can perform a story and we’ll drop it on the feed. 

The other thing I need help with is some proofreaders. This is deeper than typo hunting. If I’m going to turn these seasons into proper books I need to flesh them out a bit. And I’ll be looking for help from you to do it. So reach out to me in any of these haunts if your interested in joining the editorial board.

Other than that Everything is on track and wonderful. 

Hope you all are well, links in the show notes and don’t forget to keep surviving!

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