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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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Season Two ... Chapter Forty-One: Everyone Just Calls Me Zero 23:27

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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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Season Two ... Chapter Forty: Kindly Asian Fellow 53:29

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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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Season Two ... Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Tuhao 33:42

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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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Season Two ... Chapter Thirty-Eight: Different Strokes 35:24

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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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Season Two ... Chapter Thirty-Seven: Spy Movie Intrigue 32:12

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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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Season Two ... Chapter Thirty-Six: Black Girl 51:10

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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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Season Two ... Chapter Thirty-Five: Club Girl 38:37

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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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Season Two ... Chapter Thirty-Four: Army of Dolls 29:08

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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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Season Two ... Chapter Thirty-Three: Miss Love 29:12

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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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Season Two ... Chapter Thirty-Two: Fast As I Used to Be 18:33

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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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Season Two ... Chapter Thirty-One: Been Away a While 36:59

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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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Season Two ... Chapter Thirty: Glad to be Back 26:02

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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.By King Everett Medlin

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Season Two ... Chapter Twenty-Nine: Recompense 36:57

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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.By King Everett Medlin

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Season Two ... Chapter Twenty-Eight: Being in his Shoes 18:53

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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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Season Two ... Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Happiest of Endings 39:29

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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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Season Two ... Chapter Twenty-Six: Walking the Plank 22:28

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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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Season Two ... Chapter Twenty-Five: Star Witness 29:14

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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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Season Two ... Chapter Twenty-Four: Stay Tuned 23:24

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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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Recap of Book One plus Preview of Twin Paradox Season Two 14:56

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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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Chapter Twenty-three: Dropping a Dime 45:44

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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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Chapter Twenty-Two: Star Babes 22:40

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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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Chapter Twenty-One: Missing Link 22:28

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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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Chapter Twenty: Garden Geeks 24:03

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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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Chapter Nineteen: Shah-zee 26:17

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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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Chapter Eighteen: The Virch 36:42

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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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Chapter Seventeen: Schmutzfink 35:08

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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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Chapter Sixteen: Year Fifteen 22:21

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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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Chapter Fifteen: To the Surprise of Everyone 31:50

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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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