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Matt Granite and his San Francisco Gladiators find themselves in a flat-footed tie with their arch rivals, the Los Angeles Tangelos. Johnny Morinda, the hard-nosed manager of the Tangelos, will do anything to pull out a win against the young star catcher and the Gladiators.

The Edison High Sparks football team is winless for the year. For their last game, they travel to Dark Hollow, West Viriginia, to play a night game. They should have stayed home....

Matt Granite goes to Philadelphia to play the Flintlocks. The City of Brotherly Love is anything but as they try every trick in the book to get under the young catcher's skin. Not to worry, Sean and Jack are there to make things right. Johnny Morinda, the manager of the Tangelos, joins the gang. There will be nostalgia...there will be a stripper pole in the Flintlocks owner's suite.

Johnny Morinda, the bombastic manager of the Los Angeles Tangelos, finds himself with an open spot for the All-Star Game, which is being played in New York. Much to the surprise of the baseball world and the other All-Star players, Johnny adds the hot-hitting Matt Granite to the squad. New York will never be the same as Matt's friends Sean and Jack romp through the Big Apple.

Commander Titus Bullus and his Talon Brigade tighten their grip on the lower masses in Frisco 2298. The two class society continues to spin out of control as the elites impose their will on the hapless common citizen. Titus and his evil female consort Camila put their plan in motion to gain complete control of the Hereditary Council. They will crush anyone in their way. Jake Forest a former Obedience Officer and his over the top partner Julio, find themselves in a desperate situation fighting for their lives and the fate of the Autonomous City of San Francisco.

Join Matt Granite, the San Francisco Gladiators star high school catcher as he goes on the road to face Johnny Morinda and the Los Angeles Tangelos. This time it will be Matt and his friends Sean and Jack matching wits against the Tangelos and their pea green uniforms on their arch rival’s home turf. It’s all in for the trio as the baseball world still hasn’t recovered from their debut in Row 25 Seat 12.

Matt Granite plays baseball for his High School team and voted as Most Valuable Player. When they win the sectional High School championship, Matt and his friends are taken to watch the San Francisco Gladiators as a reward. Matt has been passed by every major league baseball team, in the amateur draft. Big league clubs avoid high school catchers like the plague...they never work out. Little does Matt know, but his world is about to change forever.

No one can remember, when it was different. When there were no walls, surrounding the small town of Glen Falls, protecting it from the creatures who rule the night. The creatures who cower in the lights but strike fear in the darkness of the night. Hunter, a boy becoming a man, wonders why this must be so. He will challenge why the town hides the tall walls. In the it may be, more dangerous inside the walls...than out.

By the year 2227 Las Vegas has become the test case for the new robot society. The entire work force in the glitzy city is comprised of robots. They are at the beck and call of the demanding tourists, who revel in their newfound life of excess and greed. The Newton family from Los Angeles, hope to reconnect with a family vacation to the mirage in the desert. They get more than they bargain for.

Evil lurks in a commune in the middle of the Mojave Desert. The so called bastion of environmentalism is nothing more than a money machine for a heartless leader named Jason. His band of thugs fleece the true believers who give up everything to live off the grid. Many will come to the commune but none will leave. Jason has bigger plans which will drive the dubious political and business leaders of Los Angeles to their knees. An unlikely pair of investigators from Task Force One, an off the record unit with its own checked past are charged to get to the bottom of the mounting pile of dead bodies.

Nazi Germany is entering a dangerous period of its existence and a young German boy, Wolf Kruger, dreams of becoming a fighter ace in the feared Luftwaffe. His parents, however, have higher aspirations for their talented son and are beginning to voice concerns over Hitler and his increasingly frightening megalomania, something which ultimately costs them their lives.

When 60-year-old Tom Jenkins is diagnosed with terminal acute leukemia, he hopes for a miracle, but the effects of countless blood transfusions are no longer working. His time on this Earth is coming to an end. A widower of a few years, Tom refuses to wallow in self-pity. Determined to die standing up, Tom decides to run his own marathon through his hometown, knowing full-well that it may kill him. Tom Jenkins is living on borrowed time, and he knows it.

The year is 2297, and life in the Autonomous City of San Francisco is harsh and forbidding...for most people. For the elite so-called hereditary class, it's much easier, and they rule with ancient Roman zeal. Those unfortunate souls outside this group are locked in a desperate struggle for survival, subsisting on whatever limited resources they can lay their hands on. Monitored by the frighteningly all-knowing and capricious "handle device," each citizen's life is controlled by their ranking: a single number that determines what they're worth.

With the Royal Air Force inflicting serious losses on the Luftwaffe, the German high command changes their tactics and move away from trying to eliminate the air threat, to bombing the civilian population into submission. As the high explosives rain down on London’s East End, the country buckles under the strain and the casualties mount. Winston Churchill is under the increasing pressure of public opinion, but still remains positive, knowing that an experimental radar could turn the tide of the battle.

The crazy nature of early stage startups (the uncertainty, the doubters, the rejection) can be similar to the forces felt by those who at some point in their lives felt the need to make seismic shifts in their personal worlds. My aim as your host is to bring the raw stories of startup failure and fuckup, alongside the inspirational messages of encouragement, tips and suggestions.Alongside the business chats we will also hear stories from people living interesting and inspirational lives.The podcast is recorded alongside the beautiful ocean beach of Mount Maunganui, New Zealand, but our guests...