Twin Paradox Book One

 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 Santa Maria's failure to link up with Nautilus, leading to his discharge from Space Programme. 

 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 captain; maintain his rank but vanish from the public eye, fading into obscurity.  But even that is now a forlorn hope.  Complicating matters is that his defense team will be calling upon both Young-Min Jo and Ozzie G...

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 the media is making it out to be one.  To be sure, many admirals sitting in judgment of Captain Stehter wouldn't bat an eye at occasional 'mischief' going on among the c...

 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 course.  Their bodies are that of twenty-four year olds.  Not so for their counterparts Praxido, Rudo, and Kwang-Min Jo.  All three are in their mid-thirties.  Praxido "Ranger" Guerrero is a retired sports legend.  Rudo Kachote (aka Rudo...

 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 forty weeks.  Season Two will start in April, 2021!

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 not without controversy. 

The prickly little Colony Commander Luigi Cadorna is back to his old tricks; this time advising the captain to ignore the presence of a second pod floating in space nearby.  Were they only to have s...

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. brings in a team of star recruits in order to aid her in determining what might have happened to the missing device, as well as their chances of linking up with Nautilus in the year 2107...

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 Nautilus was not awaiting their arrival at the rendezvous point in September 2106. 

It has even more dire implications for the overall success of their mission however; especially in regard to their counterparts likely...

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 dealers.  It's time to make a change, for the sake of his career if not the safety of the the ship. 

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 entire young adulthood onboard.  There's little in the way of juicy details that hasn't been passed around among crew members bored with their daily lives and looking for something interesting to talk about.  <...

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 the bombastic colony commander Luigi Cadorna.  

Captain Stehter tends to think they're just itching to get home!  He's correct.  They are.  Worse; they're terribly bored, and that's...

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 years; delivering them to their homes and families by the year 2107.  

Nevertheless that's still a healthy chunk of time.  It will leave folks like B.J. and Captain Steinhart - for that matter, the majority...

 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 Programme.

A massive supply ship called the Nautilus is now racing toward them.  Equipped with "Alcubierre Warp Drive" technology it is capable of traveling at ten times the speed of...

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 finish the colony?  For that matter, can she manage to keep up with the man in bed?  He is Italian, after all.

Despite the reaction from crew and colonists alike, the majority...

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 mildest of infractions.  On his worst, he abuses them with foul language, calling them horrible names and reducing some of them to tears.  Berwick and Stehter figure it won't be long before colonists...

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 results will be positive.  Only problem is that one particular individual has proven to be unstable.  Whether caused by a malfunction within the reanimation process or other factors remains to be seen.  Nonetheless a brand new...

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 going to find there.  Will it be a veritable Garden of Eden, teaming with life?  Will it be a frozen wasteland?  We're about to find out. 

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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 back home.  Boredom has become a problem.  Crew members resort to casual sex as a means of dealing with the monotony; and that's not all, as we're about to find out. <...

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 the course of the next fourteen years, able to travel at ten times the speed of light, making the journey in just under thirteen months.  The role of the crew - especially...

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 himself selected to the crew.  That is, if he can get clean and pass the drug test.  Not to mention getting himself back into shape ... and passing the entrance exam.<...

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 from Houston all the way to Canada, where we visit an orphanage for young males ages two to thirteen.  It's a rough existence for the boys living there but among the many...

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 government official.  Also B.J., the lovely math whiz from Colorado whose brains and good looks are only matched by the gal's limitless sex drive.  And finally Robin, the flamboyant transgender from e...

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 taking a break from their projects; something they do each Sunday, along with getting high smoking THC resin from a glass bong.

First there's  Kelvin, the once-ambitious Virginian who's...

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's.  In 2049, the GU Food and Agricultural Ministry calculated that food production had to increase by a minimum of seventy percent by the year 2100.  Yet there isn't a definitive way to accommodate this rise in need – not on planet Eart...