The Tape Recorder Trilogy

By Geoff Micks

In 2015, a man who has been alive since the last Ice Age bought a tape recorder, and over the course of three days he dictated his life story as fast as he could while waiting for a woman to vis

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The podcast currently has 18 episodes available.

The Tape Recorder Trilogy episodes:

December 08, 2025 Season One Historical Notes and Acknowledgments: The Tape Recorder Trilogy
An end-of-season extra episode offering some updates on the podcast, background on the content, suggestions for additional reading material, and also some much-deserved credit to the people who helped make Season One and the book it was based upon possible.

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Voice Acting - Geoff Micks
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Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixaby
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20min
December 01, 2025 A Slave Who Never Grows Older: The Tape Recorder Trilogy - S1E15
(~1170 BCE - ? · The Eastern Mediterranean & Parts Unknown & 2015 CE · Northern India)

The Narrator remembers one of the darkest times of his life when he was enslaved for many decades by all-but-forgotten raiders remembered as 'The Sea Peoples' during the Bronze Age Collapse. Meanwhile, the young woman he fears will finally be the death of him gets off her train and checks into a youth hostel in the nearby city of Rishikesh.
Based on Chapter 15 and the Outro of Beginning by Geoff Micks.

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Credits:
Voice Acting - Geoff Micks, Paulette Anderson Micks, Melissa Buttrill, and Rohan Makdani
Editing - Geoff Micks
Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixaby
Additional Music - Aleksey Voronin (Amaksi) through Pixaby
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57min
November 24, 2025 He Went Straight Home: The Tape Recorder Trilogy - S1E14
(~1190 - ~1170 BCE · The Aegean)

The Narrator talks about the truth as he remembers it behind The Iliad and The Odyssey based on the time he spent with people whose legends have been told and retold for more than three thousand years now.
Based on Chapter 14 of Beginning by Geoff Micks.

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45min
November 17, 2025 How Much to Use the Beach?: The Tape Recorder Trilogy - S1E13
(1190 BCE · The Aegean)

The Narrator talks about the small, unknowing part he played in setting off what would be remembered as the Trojan War.
Based on Chapter 13 of Beginning by Geoff Micks.

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19min
November 10, 2025 Horse Lords at Dawn: The Tape Recorder Trilogy - S1E12
(~1210 BCE · Eastern Mediterranean, the Black Sea, & Parts in Between)

The Narrator talks about the Bronze Age's Black Sea tin trade, and a memorable business deal with a powerful man among the Cimmerians, one of the many Steppe peoples who lived along southern coast of what is now Ukraine.
Based on Chapter 12 of Beginning by Geoff Micks.

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36min
November 03, 2025 The Mountain Crumbles to the Sea: The Tape Recorder Trilogy - S1E11
(~1600 BCE · Crete & the Aegean)

The Narrator talks about the volcanic eruption of modern-day Santorini, and the tsunami that destroyed what today is called the Minoan civilization.
Based on Chapter 10 of Beginning by Geoff Micks.

For more information on this events in this week's episode than could be delivered in the narrative structure of the story, here is a link to the Wikipedia article on the Minoan Eruption to get you started.

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30min
October 27, 2025 Turn the Tape Over & Discuss Young Love: The Tape Recorder Trilogy - S1E10
(~1650 BCE · Crete, the Aegean, & the Eastern Mediterranean)

The Narrator tells of the fateful flight of Icarus, son of Daedalus, brother of Iapyx, and spurned suitor of Ariadne. It bears little resemblance to what Greek myth-makers would conjure up in centuries still to come.
Based on Chapter 10 of Beginning by Geoff Micks.

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37min
October 20, 2025 A Family of Inventors: The Tape Recorder Trilogy - S1E09
(~1650 BCE · Crete, the Aegean, and the Eastern Mediterranean)

The Narrator tells of the early days of his friendship with Daedalus and his sons Icarus and Iapyx, who are not as the myths remember them.
Based on Chapter 9 of Beginning by Geoff Micks.
Please note: The ending is a deliberate editing choice, not an error.

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30min
October 15, 2025 Season One Bonus Episode: The Tape Recorder Trilogy
A mid-season extra episode offering some updates and background on the podcast, a brief overview of other 'immortal human being' IPs including The Man from Earth, The Highlander, and The Boat of a Million Years, and ideas for future bonus content.

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21min
October 13, 2025 Where Did I Get This Thing?: The Tape Recorder Trilogy - S1E08
(2015 CE · Northern India)

The Narrator explains how he came to purchase a tape recorder.
Based on Chapter 8 of Beginning by Geoff Micks.

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14min

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