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Welcome Survivors to the August 1, 2025 inaugural edition of “The Apocalypse Café”.
For those confused, befuddled and wandering pilgrims that are wondering what exactly they are listening to, let me ‘splain’.
Let me sum up! After the Apocalypse is an apocalyptic story that I created and published 100 plus episodes over five seasons. That story started with episode 1 season 1 at the beginning of this feed – so if you’re new, go back to the beginning and state there.
Since we completed the narrative arc that we had planned now we are presenting stand-alone apocalypse stories that we plan to drop monthly. So, for my surviving listeners, give it a listen and let me know what you think.
Today, format-wise. I will read an introduction, insert an ad-break to pay off the jailers, and then step off stage to let you enjoy the story.
So let’s get on with it!
Today’s offering is the first of a 3-episode story arc by Patrick Rushbrook that introduces a couple of fun characters struggling to survive and make sense of an apocalypse that is alternately comical and horrifying.
It is written and adapted by Patrick Rushbrook.
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Patrick Rushbrook is a self-described “middle aged white guy in Kentucky with a beautiful wife and two teenage daughters, who writes silly stories to entertain himself instead of doing more productive things with his spare time.”
Patrick had always been interested in writing but isn’t exactly a self-starter, so he didn’t take up the craft until age 39, after finding Reddit’s nosleep page. Growing jealous of some of the wildly successful, yet terribly written stories there and craving reddit upvotes to satisfy his fragile ego, he ventured into the game where one of his early stories was the first iteration of the Exterminator character. In 2024, Patrick achieved the title of “professional writer” by earning an incredible $400.
In addition to his literary endeavors, Patrick is also a professional drummer and an un-professional guitarist, where he’s earned a grand total of $75 and a t-shirt that was three sizes too big.
You can find Patrick on Instagram at patrickrushbrookwrites
But the best place is at his Author Subreddit - r/ hgtv_neighbor
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Patrick and I worked together to vet an audio performer for this series and landed on the voice you will hear today reading the work – Austin.
Austin C. Baker is a storyteller and experience designer from Plymouth, Indiana, with a lifelong passion for narrative and creativity. From writing comic books and filming backyard skits as a kid to designing immersive events and ghostwriting fiction, Austin has always sought out meaningful ways to connect with audiences.
He holds degrees in Experience Design, History, and Strategic Leadership & Design from the University of Indianapolis, where he also spent several years teaching. Alongside his design and writing work, Austin is an actor and voice actor, bringing characters to life across screen and audio.
Today, he runs BDP XD (https://www.bdpxd.com/ ), his own experience design studio, while also continuing to write and teach professionally.
So without further data loss, after the break, let’s sit back and enjoy “The Exterminator’s Apocalypse, Part one, The Rats”.
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Hello and welcome my survivor friends to a special wrap up episode where I sit down with the three editors of After the Apocalypse to have a retrospective chat about our experiences over the last half-decade.
So, if you’re new to the show, this is not a narrative episode. The narrative starts at season one, episode one. Your podcast app should let you sort on ‘oldest first’ and you will see that.
Today, I’ll give you this brief intro and then the chat and no outro.
That being said there aren’t really any blatant spoilers in here if you want to listen to our chat – It is forty six minutes long so perfect for that extra-long car ride or two-mile walk.
For you time travelers, it is the end of July 2025. We have completed the five-season arc of the main show.
Now we are pivoting.
‘Pivoting’ was all the rage in the 90’s when I was a startup guy. They wrote books about it!
What is said pivot? Well….we will be spotlighting new writers and audio performers on this feed going forward.
What does that mean to you? More high-quality apocalypse audio stories for your tender discriminating ears!
I will drop the first story on August first (yes, a week from today) with a fun story with some unique characters – you are going to love it!
What should I call it?
The ‘Apocalypse stories’ podcast?
I kinda dig ‘The Apocalypse Café’.
Anyhow – if you are a write that has some good stories let me know. If you fancy yourself an audio performer – especially female voices – also let me know.
I’ll probably end up needing slush readers as well when the undead hordes of starving artists find that I’m accepting submissions.
You can email me directly at cyktrussell at gmail dot com or use the contact form on my website oldmanapocalypse.com And yes, I know I need to redo the website. I have a long list of needs to dos.
A few technical updates before I go. There was briefly a feature on Acast, my hosting service, that provided early release and ad-free options. Acast pulled the rug out from under that and pivoted (see what I did there?) the service to another app – but it no longer supports Ad-free or early release – pain in the ass.
So one of my projects is to create Ad-free versions of the show and put them up on my Patreon site.
I also need to go back through and clean up my outros from the past five years and remove all the out of date references, etc.
Stay tuned as I work my way through my task backlog and enjoy my summer vacation! I’m reading a bunch of books and watching a lot of content and listening to even more books and starting to get antsy bout writing something new – but I have to clean the kitchen a bit before I start any new meals.
So as the burning sun sinks low, casting a heat shimmering shadow across the valley floor, we see sings of habitation down there. And we move slowly down the slope to investigate.
Come with me now on a new adventure as we keep surviving.
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After the Apocalypse
A pandemic survival story
Season five, Epilogue
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This is an epilogue to the whole series to tie up loose ends and character arcs. It has four scenes that jump forward in time.
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It had been four weeks since the battle. It had taken that long to decontaminate the DC from the drug filled drone spray.
Still, Mags eyed her coffee suspiciously.
“It should be fine.” Brent reassured her, “We sprayed enough water on this place in the last few weeks to melt an iceberg.”
“I know.” She said, “I just don’t want to get dosed. I don’t have time in my schedule for an acid trip.” She looked at him and made a vague circular gesture that seemed to include the whole world. “We’ve got so much to do.”
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Season five, Episode twenty – “Released”
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The truck roared down the highway towards Defender. Janet gripped the wheel and focused on the road. The old man held the grab handle and rested a calming hand on the dog’s head that had been thrust under his arm from the back seat. He was trying very hard not to worry about how fast she was pushing.
"It would be nice not to die in an accident on an abandoned road!” The old man shouted over the road noise as Janet took the Defender exit off the highway.
She squeezed at high speed between a wrecked bus and a derelict semi. The old man visibly stiffened as the tires protested in a plaintive squeal.
“Don’t worry.” She replied, “I’ll get you there in one piece…(pause) Probably…” She added with a wink.
“Goddamn woman!” The old man cursed and held on tight as they bounced onto the two-lane access road. “Going to get us all killed.”
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Season five, Episode nineteen – “Consumed”
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The King was quite pleased with himself and was pleased with the outcome of his work. He leaned back in his chair and took a swig of high-end whiskey. In the old world this would have been a luxury brand. Very expensive. Something he couldn’t get. Unless he stole it from some rich asshole.
It wouldn’t be wasted on him intentionally. That world hadn’t made any luxury for him.
Now this bottle and everything in the DC was his. Hell, everything was his. As far as he could see and as far as he could reach, it was all his now.
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Season five, Episode eighteen – “Swarm”
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Liam and Zooey had opted to stay with Mag’s group when the Kaiju – as Paul was called – left. They had gone to Defender with the old man. Now Liam was equal parts glad and anxious. Glad that he had an opportunity to make an impact, potentially turn the tide of the conflict with his drones, and anxious that it might not work.
He knew everyone on Mag’s team had doubts. Doubted the feasibility of this drone attack plan and they were skeptical he could pull his part of it – the drones - off. The plan sounded too much like science fiction, or a James Bond plot point to most of them.
But it was all they had.
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Season five, Episode Seventeen – “Moving Day”
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“Good to see you.” Mags said to the old man, shaking his hand and simultaneously rubbing the big dog head that had been enthusiastically pushed into her lap.
The entire team was now gathered to decide on what to do next.
What action to take.
Bill knew what actions he would take and he took them. He executed a happy round of greetings to his old friends and associates, gathering head scratches and pets. Then he ambled off to curl up in a grassy patch of shade at Janet’s feet where she stood leaning against a wall watching the proceedings in silence.
Mags watched him go about his work and wished she were as sanguine and confident. They were refugees, gathered here, at the Zoo. The King had chased them from their fortified farms and agricultural community at the Distribution Center.
Now they had to decide what to do.
Her vision of the future was dead.
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Season five, Episode Sixteen – “Exodus”
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The Corporal angled behind an oak tree and rolled prone into the tall grass. He came to rest with the barrel of his rifle pointing uphill towards the command tent where The King had just executed Ottweiller.
Far enough to be out of sight, close enough to shoot pursuers.
He had just been witness to a brazen coup d’etat.
‘What a cluster..’ He thought, as he waited there in the grass and slowed his breathing and watched to see if he would be followed, “Totally SNAFU’ed”
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Season five, Episode fifteen – “Cuckoo”
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The sun was beginning to push its light into the sky in the east. Mags knew by the feel of it that it was going to be another hot and humid summer day. The air was thick, and it felt like breathing through a wet towel.
On normal days she would be glad to greet the dawn. Today the brightening sky reminded her of the awful deadline she faced.
The new barn smelled of hay, animals, fertilizer and tractor grease, as she entered and made her way to the front. The barn was a symbol of what they were building as a community. Only in cooperation and with a common vision of the future could such a barn be raised. It was a triumph of her leadership, proof that real, physical progress could be made when they pulled together.
That anything was possible.
But now it felt more like a mocking tribute to her failure as a leader.
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Season five, Episode fourteen – “Barrage”
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Although it was still a few hours before dawn, the room felt stifling and warm. This time of year, the late summer heat that accumulated during the day never really cleared out during the night.
Like an old family home, the distribution center had seen much. The cafeteria sat in benevolent judgment of the people now gathered in it for yet another convocation of conflict.
The room had a familiar, lived in feel to it. The carpets were worn and stained, as were the ceiling tiles, as water from the storms leaked brown through the sun-cracked asphalt roof. There were messy piles of boxes stacked against the walls. Many of the fluorescent bulbs were burned out or blinked a feeble yellow on their way to death.
It seemed like years, but it had only been a few months since the fastidious force of John Tasker, the original DC manager, had kept everything spic and span. Mags’ people were too busy trying to stay alive and working to build a new future for the niceties of scrubbing the carpets.
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Season five, Episode thirteen – “Whirlwind”
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General Ottweiler was worried in a way that he hadn't been since before everyone died from the sickness.
This felt like the old, pre-apocalypse days when there was a change in administration. He’d lived through it. The new overlords in Washington DC would have ‘new’ priorities. Often with a radical shift in priorities and policy that would dramatically affect the armed forces.
Since the great dying, and up until now, he had been master of his own domain and he'd nearly forgotten the headaches that come from dealing with politics and politicians.
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Season five, Episode twelve – “Burn”
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An animated 3D Defender Bioceutical logo rotated slowly on the screen. The old man’s crew had managed to get a generator running, and with it, the backup power to the facility.
At least enough to get the main systems back online.
“ Developing a Better Future” scrolled slowly, left to right, as a reminder. A reminder of the vague and poetic aspirations of corporations that were often an apologia for malfeasance.
The computer was in the office of Roger Updike, Chief Information Officer, better known to all present as ‘Rabbit’.
The password to access the machine, they had discovered, was, of course, “Jonah”.
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Season five, Episode eleven – “Politics”
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Congressman Alvingham looked out of his office window. There was some sort of interaction going on at the fence. His guards were turning yet another group of refugees away. There was a scuffle, and a shoving match started. They were shouting and angry and the guards needed to draw their weapons.
One refugee was a bedraggled older woman. His guards pushed her to the ground. When she recovered her feet, they shooed her away from the fence. It looked like she was weeping.
The congressman rubbed his eyes. Running this new world wasn’t always easy.
But the important things never were.
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Brent did not know how long he had been sitting in the chair.
He had been focused on staying relaxed and using the time to calm his mind, but he was starting to get unsettled.
Unwanted thoughts crowded into his composure.
He had to go to the bathroom, and as much as he pushed the thought away, he knew he’d need to make an uncomfortable decision soon.
His breath under the hood smelled garlicky and unpleasant, and hard to ignore.
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Season five, Episode nine – “Screech”
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Some kind of animal shot out from behind the lab cages and leapt at the old man.
And then chaos!
The old man fell on his back, and rolled on the floor, with his arms up trying to protect his face and head from the frenzied attacker.
A whirlwind of vicious blows assaulted him as he rolled across the floor trying to find cover.
Someone shouted, then there were screams.
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Season five, Episode eight – “Fort”
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The active, angry cawing of crows fighting over carrion broke Brent from his morning sleep.
At first, he was disoriented but quickly came to the present.
The truck roof.
The dim light of a new day.
Fort Manning.
It felt like there were more crows now. The old joke was that rats and cockroaches would survive any apocalypse. Brent thought crows might give them a run for their money. Maybe the crows were just better at surviving in this new world where humans had been pushed back by the plague.
Filling the void.
Taking advantage.
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A pandemic survival story
Season five, Episode seven – “Convoy”
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It took a long three days for Brent and his small convoy to go the 150 miles to get to Fort Manning.
The roads were bad.
Abandoned vehicles blocked the highways.
It was like this everywhere.
Pathetic human chaos frozen in time.
As the virus struck and panic overcame the populace, they took to the roads trying to get away.
Or maybe to get somewhere else.
People run from disaster. They run from fear. But they often don't realize that the place they are headed is no better than the place they started.
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Season five, Episode six – “Conceit”
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The corpse by the door didn’t shock anyone. They were used to the dead. At this point, nine months into the apocalypse, even the most reclusive of them had seen dozens of corpses.
It was a corpse world, inhabited by corpses.
They, the living, were the strangers in this world.
“It looks like he was trying to get out.” Chester, one of the boomers on the team observed.
“Made it this far.” The old man added, stooping over the corpse which was face-down and reasonably well preserved in the dry, air-conditioned environment of the Defender HQ.
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After the Apocalypse
A pandemic survival story
Season five, Episode five – “Entrance”
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The Defender Bioceuticals building sat back from the road behind a large, well-manicured lawn like a nouveau-riche idiot’s version of corporate Versailles. The whole facility was surrounded by a large masonry wall topped with a robust combination of security fencing, tastefully screened by landscape plantings.
The expansive lawn was carved into a faux Victorian formal garden.
“There’s no way over that wall.” Zane observed.
“Place is buttoned up like Fort Knox.” The old man agreed. “Seems like overkill for a pimple cream factory.”
He was referring to Defender’s number one consumer product, a wonder treatment for adolescent acne. It wasn’t, however, a cream, NeoSpront was a daily regimen of pills that cost over two hundred dollars a month.
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Why hadn’t she stayed with Grace and Teri? She could have. Janet probably should have stayed and maintained human contact. Built a tribe or a new family. Found a way.
But she didn’t. She couldn’t.
The wounds were too raw. It felt too soon. Too soon to let new people in. This new world of chaos and dying had systematically torn away everyone she loved. She wasn’t sure she could take it anymore. She didn’t know if she was strong enough to take that chance.
An emotional shell was calcifying around her psyche, and she felt like a scared and angry child hiding in a closet from a terrible and unforgiving monster.
So, she shut the world out.
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