The Empathizer


A Darkly comic Audio Series


WHAT HAPPENS WHEN POE'S MASQUE BECOMES A PROGRESSIVE FEVER DREAM?

2063.

A Zionist defector returns to New California to bury his parents.

ANTIFA forces him into a Hasidic costume for a rapper-politician's pandemic masquerade.

The empathy machine in the basement harvests human brains.

The party ends badly.

This is brutal dystopian satire…

…where "classical liberal" means fascist, empathy requires lobotomy, and the only sane person is the one everyone calls crazy.

Based on Poe's 'The Masque of the Red Death.'

Written, narrated, and scored for the politically homeless by Jamie Micah.


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Free Episodes (Start Here)

Episode 1: LA → SF (LISTEN FREE)

A defector returns to New California. As pandemic ravages Los Angeles, he and his progressive sister escape in her Bugatti Chiron, heading toward a fortress that promises safety.


Episode 2: The Colonizers, The Red Death, Inside the Foyer, Our Bedrooms, + Outside the Party (LISTEN FREE)

How an Orthodox Jewish punk rocker became a controversial neuro-streamer. The siblings enter Gravity Darker's compound and receive their costumes—our protagonist must dress as a Hasidic Jew.

Episode 3: Inside the Blue Room (LISTEN FREE)

The first cyber-chamber. Elite progressives in elaborate costumes. A caged white tiger. And a mysterious figure in a Red Death costume that no one else seems to see.


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Episode 4: Watch the Throne

A heated confrontation about Zionism erupts as bio-clocks display cities ravaged by the Red Death.

Episode 5: Inside the Purple Room

The disturbing Red Death costume reappears. A conservative cattle rancher recognizes our protagonist from his controversial neuro-stream.

Episode 6: Filming My Princess Paramore

An action star slaughters Gravity's white tiger in brutal spectacle to enthusiastic applause.

Episode 7: Eating white tiger in the green room + taking a walk

Tiger meat as symbolic privilege. A hidden laboratory containing a thousand human brains. A drugged seduction in a secluded gazebo.

Episode 8: Waking Up Outside + Back Inside the Green Room

A journalist's dismembered corpse. His brain surgically removed. The compound's dark secrets begin to surface.

Episode 9: Orange Crush + A Moon-Shaped Pool

An auction funding a presidential campaign. A trophy room of mounted heads. Evidence of betrayal.

Episode 10: The Story of Exodus + The Radical Empathizer

Slaves laboring under armed guard. The horrifying truth unveiled: human tissue fused with technology to manufacture empathy.

Episode 11: They Called it Mellow Yellow

The machine activates. Catastrophe strikes. Gravity destroys his failed creation in violent rage.

Episode 12: The Red Death (PART ONE)

Revolutionary theater. Drug-fueled hedonism. The moral collapse accelerates as the mysterious costume reappears.

Episode 13: The Red Death (PART TWO)

The pandemic costume confronts Gravity. An impossible revelation. The nightmare becomes reality.

Episode 14: Getting Some Fresh Air + Epilogue

Brutal survival choices. Rejected empathy. The journey to the Eastern states border where Judith renounces her progressive past.


The Complete Series

14 episodes. Two audio versions. One dark story.

The party descends into chaos as devastating truths emerge. When the machine activates catastrophically and the pandemic breaches the walls, survival means making brutal choices about who deserves help.

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  • Narration Access ($9.99)

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About Jamie Micah

Writer and musician specializing in dark political satire.

Recognition:

  • LA Times featured artist

  • HorrorHaus, Lift Off NY, 13Horror, Short Encounters (screenwriting awards)

For The Empathizer, Jamie wrote, narrated, and composed all original music—creating a completely sample-free sonic landscape for this dystopian nightmare.

Season 2 in development:

Following the siblings' escape to the Eastern states, where they'll discover conservative extremism harbors its own horrors. Based on Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."

ARTIST Website:

www.jamiemicah.org

Press kit:

www.bit.ly/4offoaH