S2E10- Apocalypse as Background Noise

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In this episode of Faithfulcrum, Mark and Scott talk about inheritance—what we pass down, what we refuse to pass down, and the quiet assumption that those who come after us must suffer what we suffered.

They’re joined by Brady Licht, who brings a perspective shaped by education, technology, and Zen practice—where tradition is something you step into, not something imposed. Together, they move through questions of judgment, apocalypse, responsibility, and the strange human tendency to wait for something—someone—to set things right.

Along the way, the conversation opens into deeper territory: the stories we tell children, the systems we live inside, the possibility that we are always already living in the “end times,” and the unsettling idea that maybe what we’re really preparing for isn’t the end—but continuation.

What happens if the apocalypse isn’t coming?
What if it’s already here—just quiet enough to ignore?

Threaded through this episode are eight spoken-word tone poems, drawn from the conversation itself and accompanied by ambient music compositions that hold and shape their atmosphere:

• Blizzard / Beginning
• Slipper Against the Sky
• Eggs, Baskets, Uncertainty
• Flood Memory
• Waiting for Judgment
• The Line at Customs
• Apocalypse as Background Noise
• Life, Extended

Each piece lingers in a moment—an image, a question, a fracture in certainty—and lets it resonate in sound as well as language.

This is Apocalypse as Background Noise.
Listen closely.