This is the second podcast series from author King Everett Medlin. It's called Twin Paradox and it's based on a SciFi trilogy he wrote four years ago under the pseudonym Purple Hazel. When he set out to write Twin Paradox, King wanted to create a realistic and believable world less than one hundred years in the future. Rather than devising (or assuming) technologies that would be barely conceivable given known scientific principles, he tried taking current developmental theories and applying ...
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In this, the final episode of Season Two, Young-Min Jo meets for the first time in 24 years, his identical twin Kwang-Min. Seeing up close the world his brother exists in - wealthy, almost extravagant - Young-Min's jealousy boils over. Wishes he could somehow be a part of it! Be careful what you wish for, as they say, for Kwang-Min most certainly d…
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In this episode, Zero and Young-Min Jo finally meet. They're attracted to one another; no question there. Zero can't believe her eyes. Didn't realize he'd once been a Lieutenant. Simply has to ask him all about the space mission to Kapteyn B and all that he experienced there. Gives them plenty to talk about as they walk up the driveway to Min-Pharm…
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Tonight we continue delving into the sordid past regarding our recently-introduced character Xi Jiu Xiu, aka Zero. We've learned of her dubious origins, now we're about to find out a whole lot more. For she's not to be a victim of her own circumstances for long. Her rise through the organization after escaping from the evil Tuhao will now be descri…
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We continue with Young-Min Jo's arrival at Min-Pharma world headquarters in Toronto. Having avoided confrontation with security guards at the front gate, he is next to encounter his twin brother's head of security Xi Jiu Xiu, aka Zero. Though forewarned they are identical and that the effects of time dilation will mean Kwang-Min's brother might in …
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Tonight we continue with Young-Min Jo's dramatic return to Toronto after 24 years in space. We left off with a white solar-powered van arriving at the gate of Min-Pharma Corporation's worldwide headquarters, security personnel swarming around it. A tense scene unfolds as the military escorts sent along with the young officer fear a potential confro…
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Tonight we begin Part Eight: Tycoons and Trailblazers. We've already learned what happened when Ozzie Guerrero and Shamiso Kachote traveled to their home towns looking for their twin siblings. They found one to be a retired sports legend. The other, a world famous pop diva. But what of Young-Min Jo? What became of his identical twin? A successful b…
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Shamiso comes face to face with her identical twin Rudo Kachote after 24 Earth years. Not exactly identical due to the effects of time dilation; they nevertheless move and act much the same. Strikingly so, one might say. Setting aside nuances such as fashion choices and hairstyles, they're otherwise a matched pair. Could pose as one another quite e…
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Shamiso learns of her sister's recent past, as told by the woman's business manager Neville Bevits. Not the stories told in the media, naturally, but the actual events he'd witnessed firsthand. More or less anyway. After all, the pop star hadn't told him everything she'd done (and with whom). The truth about Rudo Love's nocturnal adventures were fa…
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Continuing with Part Seven: Divas and Drugs, Shamiso's adventure progresses to the penthouse suite inside the beautiful Langham Hotel in London. That's where, as everyone in the music world knows, her twin sister lives. Shamiso's first encounter was with a rather nervous hotel doorman who fully believed she was Rudo. No telling what she'll find whe…
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Tonight we begin Part Seven: Divas and Drugs. We now get to see what happens when Shamiso Kachote makes her way to England looking for her twin sister Rudo. She won't be hard to find. Everyone following the entertainment world knows that Rudo Love lives in the penthouse suite of a swank London hotel. Articles and news stories abound - even intervie…
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In this next chapter, Ozzie accompanies his twin brother 'Praxido' out to Katy Boys Farm. There they get to witness a megaball tournament hosted by the orphanage where "Ranger" Guerrero anticipates being the guest celebrity for the day. Only that's not exactly what the retired sports legend has planned for the pair. He actually wants to see firstha…
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Oswaldo "Ozzie" Guerrero greets his identical twin brother at the man's spacious home, forty-six kilometers west of Houston Texas, only to find out the truth regarding their dear mother ... now languishing out back in a remote version of a modern era nursing home. He must finally confront the harsh reality regarding his origins as a human being. Ye…
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In this next chapter we learn even more regarding the events leading up to Ozzie's arrival at his brother's house in Katy, Texas ... following Praxido's discovery of a mysterious Email sent by, of all places, SPACE PROGRAMME.King Everett Medlin
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In this next chapter we learn of Ozzie's arrival at his brother's house in Katy, Texas ... after twenty four years they are to be reunited. But not until we learn a little about his twin brother Praxido's amazing past, not to mention a little surprise he has in store for his space-pioneer sibling.King Everett Medlin
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Tonight we begin Part 6 of the Twin Paradox trilogy. It's called Legends and Impostors. In this first chapter we learn of Ozzie Guerrero's journey from Darmstadt (via Frankfurt, Germany) to Houston, Texas. There he hopes to connect with his twin brother Praxido. Repeatedly mistaken for his famous sibling, he gets to see what it's like being a recog…
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Tonight we continue with Book Two of the Twin Paradox trilogy: Part Five, Celebrities and Pariahs. In this next installment, our three intrepid space twins, Ozzie, Shamiso, and Young-Min Jo finally get to learn the full story of what happened with their identical siblings Praxido, Rudo, and Kwang-Min Jo. Meanwhile, Steinhart takes the fall for Sant…
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Tonight we continue with Book Two of the Twin Paradox trilogy: Part Five, Celebrities and Pariahs. Our focus will once again be on the trial of Captain Steinhart Stehter. In the aftermath of Luigi Cadorna's fiery testimony, Steinhart realizes the writing is on the wall. The best he can hope for is that Space Programme will allow him to retire as ca…
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Tonight we continue with Book Two of the Twin Paradox trilogy: Part Five, Celebrities and Pariahs. Our focus will once again be on the trial of Captain Steinhart Stehter. His failure to execute a linkup with Nautilus during Santa Maria's journey back to Earth has led to yet another official inquiry by Space Programme. It's not a show trial; even if…
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Tonight we begin Book Two of the Twin Paradox trilogy, starting with Part Five, Celebrities and Pariahs. We now get to find out what happens when the three space twins, Ozzie, Shamiso, and Young-Min Jo attempt to reunite with their identical siblings after, what is for them, twenty-four Earth years. It's not the same for the three space twins of co…
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Tonight we're going to recap Book One of the Twin Paradox trilogy, followed by a preview of SEASON TWO for this podcast series. The remaining two books: Twin Paradox Book Two and Twin Paradox Book Three are available for sale right now on Amazon. You can download them today or just listen to author King Everett Medlin read them to you over the next…
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Tonight we continue with Part Four, Heroes and Scapegoats. Our attention now turns to the desperate captain and crew of the Nautilus. For thirty months they've been plodding along through space, searching for the next matter pod so they might reactivate their ADM drive and shoot back to planet Earth. This, they eventually accomplish. However it's n…
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Tonight we continue with Part Four, Heroes and Scapegoats. Ensign Gary Orem is called upon; as well as others considered capable of resolving the issue with the missing matter pod. Gary programs the message pods which will alert the Nautilus; should her crew and captain ever find them, with news as to what has actually happened. Meanwhile, B.J. bri…
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Tonight we continue with Part Four, Heroes and Scapegoats. The decision to transfer Young-Min Jo to the Matter Pod section pays dividends almost immediately. Within months of reporting to duty he detects one of the devices is mysteriously out of place. Were this to go unnoticed, Captain Stehter and the rest of the crew would have had no idea why Na…
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Tonight we continue with Part Four, Heroes and Scapegoats. Young-Min Jo has finally had enough of working - better put, baby-sitting - over at the hydroponic garden center. His new colleagues among the Return Team, whom he now outranks, have proven to be unreliable to say the least. Stoned most of the time, they've become far more than that: drug d…
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Tonight we continue with Part Four, Heroes and Scapegoats. A ray of hope comes in the form of a charming relationship developing between Ozzie Guerrero and Shamiso Kachote. They have become the subject of ship-wide gossip - everyone's all abuzz. It's not difficult to be in the loop, to be fair, in that the two space twins have lived out their entir…
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Tonight we continue with Part Four, Heroes and Scapegoats. The Santa Maria is now entering year three of its journey back to Earth. The crew are getting restless. Perhaps it's due to the strain of having come out of stasis only to be faced with the daunting task of building up the colony on Kapteyn B; along with all the unpleasantness dealing with …
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Tonight we continue with Part Four, Heroes and Scapegoats. The Santa Maria is now hurtling toward Earth; a journey which in normal circumstances would take just over fourteen years. The crew fully believe it won't take nearly that long because word from Space Programme is that the new re-supply ship Nautilus will be intercepting them in only four y…
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Tonight we begin Part Four: Heroes and Scapegoats. We've already heard how the Santa Maria is preparing for its return to Earth. However there's an important first step before they can begin their journey home. In orbit around Kapteyn B is a message pod which they must retrieve. Within lies their orders, as well as some exciting news from Space Pro…
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B.J., with Captain Stehter's permission, endeavors to go to work on the prickly colony commander Luigi Cadorna. She has one objective in mind, and it's soon to be discovered that the lonely fellow has no intention of passing up the golden opportunity to make her his mistress. Can she keep him distracted long enough for the colonists and crew to fin…
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We continue with Part 3: Journey and Conquest. Luigi Cadorna, Commander of the Earth Colony on Kapteyn B, has become a real nuisance and not only that, dangerous. Captains Stehter and Berwick are at their wits end coming up with a solution to the problem. On his best days Cadorna is a petty tyrant, rebuking and redressing subordinates over the mild…
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Kelvin and his trusted protege' Ozzie Guerrero have succeeded in leading their colleagues down to the beaches of the Great Kapteyn Sea where they've gathered samples of soil and sea water. Now a determination can be made as to whether the vast ocean possesses the necessary components for Humans to eventually farm it. All indications are that the re…
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Tonight we continue with Part 3: Journey and Conquest. By the grace of God they've finally done it! The brave crew and captain of the Santa Maria have reached their goal: an exoplanet called Kapteyn B which is ripe for colonization. Or is it? Up to now they've been relying upon grainy photographs and vague scientific theories regarding what they're…
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Tonight we continue with Part 3: Journey and Conquest. We're now approaching year ten of the Santa Maria's voyage to Kapteyn B, an exoplanet believed to possess the potential for feeding the population of Earth. It's a daily grind for the crew of the ship, despite the effects of time dilation meaning they are aging at only half the rate of folks ba…
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Tonight we begin Part 3: Journey and Conquest. A lot has been covered in the first nine chapters but we now know the true function of the soon-to-be obsolete Santa Maria galactic exploration vessel. During its voyage to Kapteyn B it will be laying a path for something much bigger to follow: a ship many times its size which will be constructed over …
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Tonight we continue with Part Two, Pioneers and Explorers. At this point we've met all three of our space twins: Ozzie, Shamiso, and Young-Min Jo. We've also learned how Kelvin (with a little help from his new friends Helga and Steffen - not to mention an outstanding effort from his old pal B.J.) has made just the right connection in order to get h…
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Tonight we continue with Part 2: Pioneers and Explorers. So far we've been introduced to our first two space twins, Oswaldo (Ozzie) Guerrero and Shamiso Kachote. Now it's time to meet our third space twin ... and learn of a salacious scheme to get Kelvin selected to the crew for the upcoming space mission to Kapteyn B. We start off by traveling fro…
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Tonight we continue with Part 2: Pioneers and Explorers. We've already met some of our main characters and tonight we're going to meet some more; namely two of the space twins eventually selected for the mission. So far we got to meet Kelvin, the handsome Virginian who's good with the ladies. Günther, the soft-spoken German whose father is a govern…
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In this episode we begin Part 2: Pioneers and Explorers. Here we get to meet some of the main characters in the story. The setting is a corporate dormitory in the year 2086 and four young stoners - all of them scientists working for an aerospace firm in southeastern Canada - are watching the news program World Week. It's a Sunday night and they're …
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In this first chapter we meet Coraline (Cory) Redmann, a famous journalist who is host of a weekly news magazine broadcast worldwide by the government-controlled "Global Broadcasting Network". The Year is 2086 and Cory is about to take the stage for yet another installment. Ten years earlier, Cory made a name for herself with her controversial expo…
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In the second part of Cory Redmann’s expose', written back in 2076, she delves into the aftermath of the financial debacle which saw the implosion of America’s economy and the destruction of its proud society. America’s lingering greatness revealed itself in many ways. Citizens supported one another throughout the upheaval. But the sanitized versio…
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In Part Three of Cory's groundbreaking documentary, she addresses Karl von Habsburg's meteoric rise to power; as well as the principles touted by his Pan European Movement, which rises to prominence and is voted into office by an exhausted Europe. Habsburg and the Pan Europeans institute systemic change, we learn, eliminating wasteful social progra…
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In Part Four of her controversial expose' from 2076, Cory shifts her focus to the massive turnaround in the world economy during the years following the Great Collapse. A radical revamping of global energy production leads to SOLAR becoming the accepted source for powering the planet. Developments within the “photovoltaic” industry come fast and fu…
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Journalist Cory Redman concludes her controversial expose' from year 2076 with her depiction of the race to send a manned mission into deep space; the goal being to seek out long term possibilities for galactic colonization. She turns her attention to the GU’s diabolical and rather ambitious 30-year long space flight program which began in the 2040…
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