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THE AWFUL SHADOW is a restless memoir of tragedy, perseverance, personal restoration, and the unveiling of one public university’s ugly underbelly. Told through shifting, often colorful and humorous narrative styles and allusions to gothic fantasy video game elements, the author recounts a five-year odyssey through the death of his daughter, a dysfunctional workplace, a prolonged lawsuit settled out of court, crumbled relationships, a near death experience, spiritual transformation, music composition, and more.
At the heart of THE AWFUL SHADOW is a slick, university-style textbook called ACADEMIA CULPA that teaches specific administrative transgressions, woven from legal discovery, personal accounts, interviews, open records, and graphical data.
THE AWFUL SHADOW concludes with a near-death experience, an outpouring of renegade prayers, and a new, sober view of a world anxiously grappling with its own transformation.
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Update frequency:
every 10 days
Average audio length:
18 minutes
English
United States
29 episodes
since Nov. 24, 2024
episodic
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A haunted walk through the origins of “The Eyes of Texas”—told as a fantasy with musical set pieces. John Henry, Alice, and Old Man Joshua pull the veil off a campus anthem; a paper tyrant named Jaihartd tries to sell “comfort” over truth.
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Discussion of blackface/minstrelsy, racist car…
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In this searing and darkly satirical chapter, Jack peels back the layers of secrecy surrounding a big-box university's Behavioral Risk Assessment Committee (BRAC)—an obscure, almost mythological campus entity with no visible public charter and yet, somehow, the power to investigate faculty and staf…
At the base of every sacred tower lies a crypt. In this episode, we descend beneath the surface of university branding into the procedural catacombs where faculty complaints are sorted, neutralized, and entombed. Drawing parallels between the Erdtree of Elden Ring and the University of Texas Tower,…
Season 2 opens with a fictional university course called Academia Culpa: The Fundamentals of Big-Box University Autocracy. Delivered like a deadpan syllabus reading, the episode slowly reveals itself as a satire of institutional power and academic gaslighting. Policy language becomes a weapon, and …
In the Season 1 finale, as a 78 year old man, I look back upon the toll of grief, fractured memories, and the haunting regret of past decisions, set against carillon bells in academia. As the echoes fade, this episode closes one chapter while hinting at Part 2, a fake textbook called ACADEMIA CULPA…
Where the mundane transforms into the divine and back again. Amid laughter, revelations, and feline-inspired wisdom, our charismatic speaker-turned-academic dean, introduces the ultimate fusion of empathy, design thinking—delivering a masterclass in transcending the inbox to touch the soul.
A satirical look at a meeting where I was informed of the university’s decision not to renew my faculty contract. Laced with bureaucratic empathy, backhanded compliments, and corporate doublespeak, the conversation reveals the performative nature of leadership and accountability in academia.
Modeled after Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon from Elden Ring, I step into a bluish corridor of academia, where towering tomes and spectral scholars surround the Snake Oil Queen—the dean who ended my academic career. As her gilded defenses and cursed knowledge assail me, I face a surreal boss battl…
A surgical look at a meeting with an academic administrator that unfolds as a theater of hushed whispers, veiled threats, and selectively spun narratives—a performance of forced submission thinly veiled as a promotion discussion.
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