The Tape Recorder Trilogy

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(2015 CE · Northern India) 

The Narrator and his guest explain what happens next.

Based on the Outro of End by Geoff Micks. 

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Voice Acting - Geoff Micks and Melissa Buttrill

Editing - Geoff Micks

Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay

Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay 

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(2015 CE · Northern India) 

The Narrator learns why his uninvited guest chose to seek him out on the far side of the world, and he makes a decision with almost unimaginable long-term ramifications. 

Based on Chapter 15 of End by Geoff Micks. 

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Voice Acting - Geoff Micks, Paulette Anderson Micks, and Melissa Buttrill

Editing - Geoff Micks

Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay

Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay 

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 (1917 - 2015 CE · England, Argentina, Germany, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, & India) 

The Narrator describes how he dealt with the worst news of his life, and how he spent most of the last hundred years hiding from both his pain and a world changing faster than he could ever hope to understand. 

Based on Chapter 14 of End by Geoff Micks. 

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Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay

Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay 

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(1899 - 1917 CE · England) 

Who was the boy in the silver picture frame? The Narrator describes the happiest time of his long life, and how it led to the worst day he can remember. 

Based on Chapter 13 of End by Geoff Micks. 

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Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay

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A mid-season extra episode giving further information behind the making of The Tape Recorder Trilogy podcast, a few insights into past and future projects, and some additional content. 

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Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay 

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 (~1842 - ~1890 CE · The United Kingdom & the Oceans of the World) 

The Narrator discovered the ultimate evolution of the sailing ship, fell madly in love with it, and could not imagine it would ever go from revolutionary to obsolete in less than three decades.

Based on the second half of Chapter 12 of End by Geoff Micks. 

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Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay

Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay 

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 (~1600 - ~1842 CE · The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, & the Oceans of the World) 

The Narrator describes how capitalism in its infancy dabbles in mania, rewards inefficiencies, and funds great evils in the name of progress, even when people do not like the direction things are progressing with specific references to Tulip Mania, The Shipping Concern, The East India Company, and the First Opium War.

Based on the first half of Chapter 12 of End by Geoff Micks. 

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Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay

Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay 

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(1512 - ~1670 CE · Italy, Spain, & Northwestern Europe) 

The Narrator talks about the Reformation and the rise of Mercantilism with notable appearances by a Spanish friar, Dutch land reclamation schemes, and the Banda Islands, among other things.

Based on the second half of Chapter 11 of End by Geoff Micks.

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Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay

Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay 

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(~1400 - 1512 CE · Italy & Spain) 

The Narrator remembers the end of the Middle Ages and the beginnings of the Renaissance. He also talks about the time he got to sit in the Sistine Chapel, looking up, as a cantankerous artist who owed him money painted a ceiling.

Based on the first half of Chapter 11 of End by Geoff Micks.

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Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay

Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay 

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(2015 · Northern India, &  ~1273- ~1330 CE · Baghdad, Cairo, Baghdad, & Timbuktu) 

The Narrator finishes his game of famous Muslims unknown to most Westerners with the tale of Mansa Musa, an emperor who gave away so much gold on his pilgrimage to Mecca that he flooded the Eastern Mediterranean with the precious commodity, deflating its market value and crashing the economy of medieval Egypt.

Based on the second half of Chapter 10 of End by Geoff Micks.

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Credits: 

Voice Acting - Geoff Micks and Melissa Buttrill

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Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay

Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixabay 

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