Shadow Life - A real true crime podcast
True Crime
This podcast will be exploring the traumatic events that can occur to anyone, thrusting them into a life of desperation... and crime. Where violence is the currency and you'll have to risk it all just to survive. On the road to redemption one must develop a coping mechanism know as a “shadow life”… it’s a way to socially acclimate oneself with colleagues, friends and co-workers, if your past has traumatic events that make others stare in disbelief, that cast a shadow on you, you may start to deny that part of who you are… try to push it down, deny it's existence. In this podcast we’re going to begin by exploring the life of a young American family starting in 1969 and following them through the present day, We’ll watch as young Roman's shadow life is birthed and grows ever larger, developing into a force he'll struggle with all his life. As the traumas and the years began to stack up… we find Roman… behind bars in a 6 x 8 foot cage… a super max prison… his shadow life takes him to the precipice of "kill or be killed."
Location:
United States
Genres:
True Crime
Description:
This podcast will be exploring the traumatic events that can occur to anyone, thrusting them into a life of desperation... and crime. Where violence is the currency and you'll have to risk it all just to survive. On the road to redemption one must develop a coping mechanism know as a “shadow life”… it’s a way to socially acclimate oneself with colleagues, friends and co-workers, if your past has traumatic events that make others stare in disbelief, that cast a shadow on you, you may start to deny that part of who you are… try to push it down, deny it's existence. In this podcast we’re going to begin by exploring the life of a young American family starting in 1969 and following them through the present day, We’ll watch as young Roman's shadow life is birthed and grows ever larger, developing into a force he'll struggle with all his life. As the traumas and the years began to stack up… we find Roman… behind bars in a 6 x 8 foot cage… a super max prison… his shadow life takes him to the precipice of "kill or be killed."
Language:
English
Episodes
No One Survives Alone - Season 3 Finale
3/1/2022
Roman has to decide if he's going to clique up in prison or try to go it alone... The Brand wants him to cut his friendship with his old friend Jiggs because he's not white, and the Warrior Monks wants him because he's a skilled martial artist they want to use.
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Duration:00:32:05
The Castle on the Mountain - "Every minute is a chance to die"
2/26/2022
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Duration:00:28:58
The Mountain - abandon all hope
10/26/2021
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Duration:00:20:00
The Mentor - Raw Uncut Edition
10/19/2021
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Duration:00:16:29
Dilligaf
4/16/2021
Do I look like I give a fuck...? Dilligaf. U.S. Armed Forces Europe West Germany Battalion Hdqtrs. Roman gets pulled into the drug trade of the soft underbelly of the Amsterdam sex shows.
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Duration:00:20:39
The Great Escape - Part 2
4/12/2021
This episode picks up where Roman and Frank have escaped and are hiding out on the run from the U.S. Marshalls hunting for them.
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Duration:00:32:02
Boy in Crisis
4/12/2021
This is a brief dialogue about growing up as a boy in America and what it means to be a man... The first lie that boys are told is that we associate being a man with athletic ability, strength or some kind of skill set....
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Duration:00:04:42
The Great Escape - Part 1
4/7/2021
After Roman's Honorable Discharge from the Army he becomes involved with a young woman in a eco-terrorist group operating in the hollars and coal mines of Kentucky and finds himself on the wrong end of the law.
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Duration:00:23:14
FUBAR
12/23/2020
Uncle Sam gave Roman a saving hand and brought him into the folds of the U.S. Army to turn him into a fighting machine... or a cleaning nazi... Roman wasn't sure yet of which, but one thing was certain... he was going to be the best soldier he possibly could and make Mora & John proud. At least until he was transferred to "The Zoo", the craziest outpost in all of europe.
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Duration:00:40:06
Down a bottomless pit
11/25/2020
Roman has lost yet another little brother and the giant rift of pain is too much for him to carry... lost in a world of despair he does the only thing he knows... to run.
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Duration:00:23:26
The Gangster Factory
11/25/2020
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Duration:00:31:32
Turn the Page
10/1/2020
All of Erin Rose's hard work is finally paying dividends, Roman and Angie are barely one step ahead of the law... and her father's head of security goon.
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Duration:00:44:44
Bonnie and Clyde
9/24/2020
Roman finds the road to recovery in rehab isn't the cake walk he expected, there's only so much bs one can spread before therapy smacks right into that brick wall Roman has put up... a unexpected romance has blossomed between Roman and another patient which might lead Roman down a path he'd better think twice before heading... while Mora begins her own journey into sobriety, not her choice, and reaches out to Roman for salvation.
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Duration:00:30:19
Treading Water
9/22/2020
After Roman's capture and arrest, he finds himself behind bars waiting on the powers that be to decide his fate... will he be tried as an adult and sent to prison? Or will Mora & John find a way to throw Roman a life-line? Will Robb come to his son's rescue and turn his life around?
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Duration:00:21:32
Welcome to The Big Leagues
9/4/2020
Following his swift dismissal from Mr. Z's employment under the Texaco Star... Roman and Georgie concocted a foolhardy plan to jump start their criminal enterprise and exact revenge on Roman's former employer.
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Duration:00:26:26
The Texaco Star - Part 2
9/4/2020
After returning from his sentence of hard labor on the family farm to attend Mora's and John's wedding... Roman has a chance to get to know his new step-father... then Roman tries to pick up where he left off... getting a job at another Texaco Gas Station, only this time, he gets a whole lot more than what he bargained for.
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Duration:00:31:00
Roman and Benny
9/3/2020
Roman soon learns the motivation behind his new friend, Benny's intentions.... with a pocket full of money and a bag of weed Roman makes plans to leave Branch Creek in the rearview but... life has other ideas. As the DEA sweeps through the small town Roman tries to make his getaway but as the saying goes "... if you want to make God laugh, just make a plan."
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Duration:00:14:08
The Texaco Star - Part 1
9/2/2020
After Romans latest stunt lands him at the police station, Mora doesn't know what to do with him any more. Roman ends up spending some time doing heavy labor at the family farm and is introduced to the new world of "pulpwoodin"... as things start looking up for young Roman he takes on some additional responsibilities at the Texaco gas station in town where he meets Benny, his new best friend.
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Duration:00:25:35
The talk
8/27/2020
Roman has had barely digested the latest events when his father, Rob pulls him aside to have "the talk"... Roman had been dreading this. Roman and his best friend, Georgie, befriend another classmate for well, basically a free avenue to get high... but their friendship takes a sharp turn down a dark path when Roman learns that his new friend might be a psychopath.
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Duration:00:23:37
The fickled finger of fate
8/14/2020
It's Roman's 13th birthday and all he wants is for this one day to be as uneventful as possible... a average, normal day... but can it ever? An encounter in the halls of his inner city Jr. High pits Roman against the school bully... Roman wrestles with his moral conscious on how to break the news of his suspension to his family, Rob, his father will surely sentence him to a life sans TV and reading assignments... but as fate would have it... Roman is thrust into another world, one he is poorly prepared for... his relationship with Rob... his life and everything that follows will determine the next chapter for Roman to untangle.
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Duration:00:36:51