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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September 21, 2026 Protests, Protestants, Nutters, and Nutmeg: The Tape Recorder Trilogy - S3E14
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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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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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42min
September 14, 2026 Greed, God, and Genius: The Tape Recorder Trilogy - S3E13
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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
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36min
September 07, 2026 The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Tape Recorder Trilogy - S3E12
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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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Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay
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20min
September 07, 2026 Quick Note: Please Re-Download S3E12 if You Automatically Downloaded it Monday Morning
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Hello everyone,

This is a very short announcement that I will delete at the end of the week directed towards this show's biggest supporters.

Those of you who have your podcatchers set up to automatically download new episodes of this show? The most recent episode you downloaded is missing the audio track for the Melissa White character. It was my mistake. I left it on mute when I exported the file. If you redownload the episode, you will be able to hear her dialogue now.

I apologize for the mix-up. I normally listen to everything at least through once before publication. This one got away from me. I've caught it before it affects too many people, but of course the people who it has impacted are the people who enjoy the show enough to set up an automatic download. Again, if you were to download the episode again, the error has been corrected. I will delete this note in one week.

Thank you, sorry again, and happy listening!
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August 31, 2026 A Game of Philosophers, Pilgrims, and Poets: The Tape Recorder Trilogy - S3E11
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(2015 · Northern India, & 814 – ~1273 CE · Christendom, Al-Andalus, Constantinople, Cairo, Baghdad, & Rum)
The Narrator resumes his story, this time with his unexpected guest listening as he works. To amuse himself, he tells stories of his time with al-Khwarizmi, Omar Khayyam, and Rumi, confident those giants of medieval Islamic thought will be new to her.
Based on the first half of Chapter 10 of End by Geoff Micks.

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Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay
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49min
August 24, 2026 Ground Rules Before the Reckoning: The Tape Recorder Trilogy - S3E10
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(2015 CE · Northern India)
The Narrator and his mystery guest meet for a second time and agree he should finish recording his life's story before they have the conversation that motivated her to seek him out on the far side of the world.
Based on Chapter 9 of End by Geoff Micks.

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Credits:
Voice Acting - Geoff Micks, Paulette Anderson Micks, and Melissa Buttrill
Editing - Geoff Micks
Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay
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22min
August 17, 2026 The Only Roman Empress: The Tape Recorder Trilogy - S3E09
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(756 – 814 CE · Rome, Greece, Constantinople, & More)
The Narrator recalls a happy time in his life where he worked as a caterer and party planner, and how this dragged him against his will into the orbit of an orphaned girl who would one day become the only Empress to rule in her own right in the history of the Roman Empire.
Based on the second half of Chapter 8 of End by Geoff Micks.

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Music - Dimitri Kovalchuk (MokuseiNoMaguro) through Pixabay
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34min
August 10, 2026 Pepin the Short's Eldest Boy: The Tape Recorder Trilogy - S3E08
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(~740 – 756 CE · Spain, France, and Italy)
The Narrator remembers his time living among the Franks, and especially one frigid morning where he acted as a translator between a little boy and a Pope who fled Italy in the depths of winter to borrow an army on the strength of one of history's most important and breathtaking bald-faced lies.
Based on the first half of Chapter 8 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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40min
August 03, 2026 Emperors and Caliphs: The Tape Recorder Trilogy - S3E07
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(710 – ~775 CE · Constantinople, Syria, The Holy Land, North Africa, & Spain)
The Narrator continues his lecture on world events with terrible updates from the Greek-speaking Roman Empire ruled from Constantinople that eventually led to the Iconomachy, the struggle over religious images that would torment Orthodox Christianity for generations. He also explains the rise and fall of the Umayyad Caliphate, the Abbasid Revolution, and the flight of Abd al-Rahman to Al-Andalus.
Based on Chapter 7 of End by Geoff Micks.

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45min
July 27, 2026 Kings and Popes: The Tape Recorder Trilogy - S3E06
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(710 – ~751 CE with mentions of events from earlier centuries · Spain, The Holy Land, France, & Rome)
The Narrator relates how he changed lives from operating as a successful horse ferryman between North Africa and Spain to working as a tinker in Jerusalem, and the tragedy that unfolded when his elderly 'widow' from his earlier life found him alive and unchanged decades later. He also discusses the origins and early history of the Franks, and how the Papacy came to have an unexpected influence over the old western European half of the Roman Empire, which was coming to be called Christendom.
Based on Chapter 6 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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40min

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