Gents Journey
Helping Men become the Gentleman they deserve to be. This Podcast is part inspiration part motivation. We discuss what it takes to be a Gentleman in the 21st Century. We also talk about how to deal with the internal and external battles that life throws at us. So come be apart of the Gents Journey!
Gents Journey
REMEMBRANCE Weekly Summary
The line between breaking and rebuilding blurs in this compelling episode where we transition from week one to week two of our psychological thriller series. What began as a simple story about a grief-stricken hacker living in his mother's basement has transformed into a profound exploration of identity collapse, memory fragmentation, and digital consciousness.
Our protagonist discovered more than just a conspiracy when he followed a link from his deceased friend—he found Unathur, an ancient system that knows his name and watches from the static. Surrounded by compelling characters like Orilla Moss (the secretive government agent), ICU-93 (the female hacker defying stereotypes), and his slowly fading mother, he's beginning to experience echoes from alternate versions of himself. The system hasn't just selected him to join it; it wants him to become it.
This series speaks to the parts of ourselves we've buried, the versions of us that didn't make it, and the echoes that still know our names. Week two promises an emotional, spiritual, and psychological storm as we witness our protagonist fracture completely. Yet within this breakdown lies the podcast's true message—breaking is sometimes necessary, but the real story is how we rebuild afterward. Like many of us who become "functional depressives" during life's challenges, breaking and repairing in cycles because complete collapse isn't an option, our protagonist's journey mirrors our own resilience. Life isn't about succeeding "because of" but "in spite of" our circumstances. What if Unathur chose you? Would you break? Would you rebuild? Subscribe now to discover how our protagonist navigates the storm ahead, and perhaps learn something about your own capacity for resilience along the way.
"True mastery is found in the details. The way you handle the little things defines the way you handle everything."
Hello and welcome to the Gentleman's Journey podcast. My name is Anthony, your host, and welcome to the end of week one, beginning of week two, and what I always like to do in these series is kind of break it up now, kind of give you some thoughts, kind of what you have to look forward to and kind of give you some behind the scenes situation on this, so to kind of catch you up on everything. You know, this week wasn't just beginning of a story, it was the beginning of, you could say, a disruption. Right, we met a broken man in mid collapse. You know he's grief stricken, he's lost, he's living in his mother's basement after a huge breakdown. But then something happened. You know it was a message from a dead friend, a link. You know the strange website, you know a countdown and a voice in the machine. And once he opened, really, that link, everything started unraveling for him, if you think about it, because he just didn't find a conspiracy. He found something older, something stranger, a system that knows his name and something called Unather that watches him from the static. And along the way, we were introduced to Orilla Moss, the government agent from Section 4, some secrets of her own. And with this. We're not sure if she may be an enemy, but she's definitely not a friend in this. And then obviously we have ICU-93, a hacker from his past who was never who he thought she was. You know, she might actually be real, and that's. That's something that you would see a lot in these hacker things where, you know, a lot of people just assume if you're a hacker, you're, you're male and she was a female we and we'll go more in depth on that here, especially in the next coming episodes Then obviously zero trace.
Speaker 1:That's his the kind of thing that's that's keeping him somewhat grounded, you know, but, as you can see, it's starting to fracture, you know, because he's not giving it the attention that it deserves. And then, obviously, you know you have his mother it the attention that it deserves. And then, obviously you know you have his mother, you know, who's fading slowly, you know, and the problem is that she has a son who's disappearing deeper in their memory. He's being more reclusive and you know he's seeing things that he was never supposed to see, you know, and it's kind of sad, you know, but that does change. So what's I guess you could say what's really happening here is that this isn't a story just about a hacker.
Speaker 1:This is a series about recusion, or recursion. I guess I could say it would be the right way to say it. You know, it's about memory. It's about an identity collapse. It's about what happens when the system decides to select somebody right To ascend but then decides it might. You know they might be too powerful. Somebody right to ascend but then decides it might. You know they might be too powerful. You know, each episode it reveals pieces of that.
Speaker 1:Right that the system deleted his ability to forget this time. Right, he was starting to see echoes beginning to surface from alternate versions of himself. You know Unathur started choosing him, not to join it but to become it. And Moss, you know, like kind of before and this will be really starting to come into play is that she was chosen once too, but she failed, or was she stopped? We don't know, and that's something that'll definitely be revealed, you know, here in the next coming episodes. But here's something you can know for sure will happen next week right, everything escalates With his mom that escalates. Ma starts interfering more actively. Unather really starts coming into play with this and there's some things that start to really blur with him. Trust starts to kind of fracture all over the place. Love is being tested and what's real begins to shift.
Speaker 1:Because, see, now we're on the second part of this series, right, and this is always when things amp up. That's what I love to do. I like to really amp things up now. I like to build the story and then we get to that top of the roller coaster and then you look down you're like, oh my gosh, that's what we like to do here at Gent's Journey, really make it exciting, just kind of pull you all the way to the end. I'm going to tell you this right now, guys, because I'm going to tell you this right now, guys, this second week is a storm Emotionally, spiritually, psychologically. That's easy for me to say, right, and you're going to feel it break him. You are going to see it break him Now.
Speaker 1:As I always say this, you know, as I'm doing these things right, you know, obviously we're making you know stories here that are entertaining but also have value to you, that you're going to start applying this to your life, right, because every time I make these series, it's not about the characters in the series, it's about you, right? And this series is about all the parts that you've buried. You know the versions of you that didn't make it and the echoes that still know your name. You know, like you know, have you ask yourself questions like what if they chose you? What if Unathur chose you? For this whole thing, right, what would be the reason if you haven't broken? The reason why I should say like you're not broken because of life, because life is not done testing you.
Speaker 1:You know, I think a lot of times and I'm going to go here in a sandbox and I'm sorry, but I think a lot of times, especially when you meet people that just go we get to points in our life where breaking has to happen, but sometimes it has to happen slowly, so you still have time to recover enough to be functional and right. And I think a lot of times, like I'll say with me, like when I lost my mom, that's been now it'll be 14, 15 years this year. That's what it was for me for such a long time is that I had to be a functional depressive because I could break a little bit, but then I had to repair myself and then break a little bit, and then repair myself and then break a little bit, because I couldn't afford a massive meltdown of just going deep into depression and all these things, because I had other people that were depending on me so I couldn't do it and I think a lot of us go through that. And you're going to see him go through this where it's like he breaks and then rebuilds, breaks, rebuilds in these little breaks. But obviously you know, without giving stuff away, that you'll see um in that story. But as I say that you know a lot of this. You know especially this series.
Speaker 1:You know a lot, a lot of this I write from the heart. You know I was telling somebody about this a couple days ago. You know, as I'm writing these, the series and these characters I guess you could say as I'm writing, I'm like I'm closing my eyes and I visually see them. Now, unfortunately, with our main characters, I don't really give a lot of description because I want you to be able to essentially project yourself into them, right? So I don't really give a lot of. I don't give names you know we don't do those things but I give you feelings and situations that you've probably been in before and kind of give you a way how this person is feeling at that point in time, because you can identify with that and then how they're overcoming that. So, if you haven't had ability to do that yet, a lot of times when we're in these situations, when we identify with somebody and we see them do it, it gives us the ability to say you know, if they can do it, I can do it.
Speaker 1:You know, and I think a lot of times you know, especially with the way the world is right now, we don't see enough of that. We just see people that are breaking, but we don't see people that have picked themselves up from the break and have rebuilt themselves from the break and are successful in spite of and, realistically, if you look at life, a lot of life is not because of it's in spite of. You know, it's all about how you think and how you react to things, and that's exactly what he's going through and, yeah, it's one of those things that you'll see here in the next coming episodes how he starts to break and how he starts to come back from that, and it's something that, again, I'm really excited about and I'm also really excited about you guys listening. Also, I want to answer someone's question here. I got this question right, so I don't do anything like I do this podcast right. I've never done any other radio work before. I've never done any other kind of voiceovers or anything like that. Actually, I got an email today someone saying that if they would give me a script I'd read them to sleep. I was just like, okay, that's kind of interesting, but I guess it means we're getting popular guys if we're getting strange requests. So here we are.
Speaker 1:But I'm recording this on a Sunday, you know, after the 4th of July. So I hope everyone had a very safe weekend. If you celebrate 4th of July, if you're in the States, and I just I just want to just tell you guys and I know I say this all the time, but I sincerely appreciate every single one of you taking the time out to listen, to message me, to give me feedback, to ask questions. It just, it means the world to me and I just don't think it's lost to me because it's not. I appreciate every single one of you guys for listening. So hope you guys have a happy Sunday.
Speaker 1:If you're listening to this on Sunday, because that's when this was recorded just know that next week is going to be a wild, wild, wild week. And oh, another thing too these next, probably these next episodes because there's so much to do. There's going to be an actual. There's 10 episodes I'm putting that quotation marks, but realistically it's going to be 11 because there's a lot that we got to do. So watch out for that. And again, guys, I just want to thank you so much for listening today and just being a great listener, you know, for hearing and listening to my stories. I just I appreciate it. So thank you, guys, so much for listening today. And remember this you create your reality. Take care Bye.