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20 YEARS AGO, HELIO-ANTHROPOLIGIST GEORGE PORTER STUMBLED UPON AN ANCIENT MAYAN TEXT IN SOME NEWLY DISCOVERED RUINS. AFTER YEARS OF EXHAUSTING RESEARCH, HE CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE ANCIENT TEXT PREDICTED A SUPER-MASSIVE SOLAR FLARE THAT COULD BE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE LARGER THAN ANYTHING TO HIT THE EARTH BEFORE. IT WOULD BE CAUSE AN APOCALYPSE OF UNIMAGINABLE PROPORTIONS...NOBODY BELIEVED HIM. SO HE SET OUT TO PREPARE HIS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA RANCH TO BE AN IMPENETRABLE, SELF-SUSTAINING FORTRESS. AND HE TRAINED HIS KIDS, 16-YEAR-OLD IZZY AND 18-YEAR-OLD JAKE TO SURVIVE WHATEVER CAME THEIR WAY. BUT NO AMOUNT OF PLANNING OR TRAINING COULD POSSIBLY PREPARE IZZY FOR THE CHALLENGES THAT LAY AHEAD...Each Podcast Episode is the voice-over narration of one chapter of the novel. One new chapter will be released each week.

Helios Roared Mark Bethea

    • Arts

20 YEARS AGO, HELIO-ANTHROPOLIGIST GEORGE PORTER STUMBLED UPON AN ANCIENT MAYAN TEXT IN SOME NEWLY DISCOVERED RUINS. AFTER YEARS OF EXHAUSTING RESEARCH, HE CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE ANCIENT TEXT PREDICTED A SUPER-MASSIVE SOLAR FLARE THAT COULD BE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE LARGER THAN ANYTHING TO HIT THE EARTH BEFORE. IT WOULD BE CAUSE AN APOCALYPSE OF UNIMAGINABLE PROPORTIONS...NOBODY BELIEVED HIM. SO HE SET OUT TO PREPARE HIS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA RANCH TO BE AN IMPENETRABLE, SELF-SUSTAINING FORTRESS. AND HE TRAINED HIS KIDS, 16-YEAR-OLD IZZY AND 18-YEAR-OLD JAKE TO SURVIVE WHATEVER CAME THEIR WAY. BUT NO AMOUNT OF PLANNING OR TRAINING COULD POSSIBLY PREPARE IZZY FOR THE CHALLENGES THAT LAY AHEAD...Each Podcast Episode is the voice-over narration of one chapter of the novel. One new chapter will be released each week.

    CHAPTER 15

    CHAPTER 15

    With the ranch 100% ready, his children as prepared as he could make them, George begins his most difficult endeavor to date: Waiting for what he and he alone knows is coming.

    • 20 min
    CHAPTER 14

    CHAPTER 14

    George embarks on a plan to let the people of Twin Pines know that if something bad happens, their children could be safe at his ranch.

    • 24 min
    CHAPTER 13

    CHAPTER 13

    With preparations at the ranch almost complete, George and Ernie contemplate the next steps.

    • 17 min
    CHAPTER 12

    CHAPTER 12

    George is thrown for a loop by a simple question asked by Jake's best friend, Peter.

    • 15 min
    CHAPTER 11

    CHAPTER 11

    Grant Turk, a convicted rapist, gets out of prison and makes his way towards Twin Pines.

    • 20 min
    CHAPTER 10

    CHAPTER 10

    Izzy shows herself to be a freak of nature when it comes to military tactics and strategies--much to the chagrin of her family.

    • 19 min

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