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Archaic Humans

Archaic Humans

Written by: Jason Hepola
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Archaic Humans is a five-part sci-fi podcast exploring the lost revolutions of human consciousness through the voices of ancient, imagined societies. In a future classroom outside time, survivors of a collapsed world return to the past to understand how we nearly destroyed everything.


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Episodes
  • The Late Archaic
    Aug 12 2025

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    In the fifth and final episode, Lise reveals her own timeline — our modern world, once a network of diverse human streams, now a single overwhelming torrent threatening to drown the planet. What follows is collapse, near-extinction, and thousands of years of silence, until three new civilizations emerge as careful custodians of Earth, sea, and energy, each carrying a hard-won consciousness revolution of their own.

    Archaic Humans was created and written by Jason Hepola and produced and written by Charles Conley.

    Recorded by Paul Fonfara. Sound design and audio mixing by Jaxon Vesely.

    Voice work by:

    • Kristen Froebel
    • Lisa Weiland
    • Julia Nickerson
    • Chesa Greene
    • Isabelle Hopewell
    • Christa Rubsam

    Original music written Chris Hepola and performed by Chris Hepola and Anthony Afful, with audio engineering by Eric Struve.

    Illustration and media by Kamau Kokayi-Taylor.

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    35 mins
  • Plateau Nation
    Aug 5 2025

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    The Plateau Nation, represented here by Del, built their entire civilization within a shared dream consciousness — a vast symbolic landscape tethered to human minds through ritual, memory, and genetic inheritance. In waking life they were minimalists; in dreams, architects of entire cities of thought where conflict, planning, and even grief unfolded in collective vision.

    Archaic Humans was created and written by Jason Hepola and produced and written by Charles Conley.

    Recorded by Paul Fonfara. Sound design and audio mixing by Jaxon Vesely

    Voice work by:

    • Kristen Froebel
    • Lisa Weiland
    • Julia Nickerson
    • Chesa Greene
    • Isabelle Hopewell
    • Christa Rubsam

    Original music written Chris Hepola and performed by Chris Hepola and Anthony Afful, with audio engineering by Eric Struve.

    Illustration and media by Kamau Kokayi-Taylor.

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    28 mins
  • Trident Nation
    Jul 29 2025

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    To help explain the revolution in consciousness of the Trident Nation, Lise introduces Avet.

    The Trident cultivated a shared symbolic-language shaped by gesture, sound, and deep attention — guided by the Wise Ones who held memory for the many. Through archetypal constellations etched into the stars, they charted unconscious terrain and linked their waking lives to ancient, symbolic powers moving beneath the mind’s surface.

    Archaic Humans was created and written by Jason Hepola and produced and written by Charles Conley.

    Recorded by Paul Fonfara. Sound design and audio mixing by Jaxon Vesely.

    Voice work by:

    • Kristen Froebel
    • Lisa Weiland
    • Julia Nickerson
    • Chesa Greene
    • Isabelle Hopewell
    • Christa Rubsam

    Original music written Chris Hepola and performed by Chris Hepola and Anthony Afful, with audio engineering by Eric Struve.

    Illustration and media by Kamau Kokayi-Taylor.

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    28 mins
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