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Episode 1 – Beginning at the End

This is it – the first official Derailed Trains of Thought podcast! Featuring your intrepid and intriguing hosts Timothy Deal and Nick Hayden, we delve into the end of all things, or at least, the end of a few things. Along the way, we touch upon a long u

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Episode 2 – The Pen and the Pocketbook

What do Reese’s Pieces, talking animals, and believing in yourself have in common? They mean you’ve sold your artistic vision to the corporate man. Or do they? We explore Commercial vs. Artistic Vision, plus much more in the second episode of Derailed Tra

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Side Track 1 – The Minicast Event!

Here’s a little surprise for our faithful listeners! In editing our last episode, we had to cut out a couple of sections of discussion for time restraints. But they’re interesting enough that we thought we’d share them with you in our week-between-episode

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Episode 3 – From Boredom to Book

Two days late and a little long, but we finally have Episode 3 up and running! It’s a packed episode, too. We start with a discussion of time management (see how that worked out with our late podcast), and end up somewhere in Jim Henson and Pixar territor

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Side Track 2 – Peeking in the Box

For this week’s Side Track, we follow up on our interview with Nathan Marchand, author of the newly released Pandora’s Box by presenting an audio version of the book’s prologue. Thanks to Natasha, my wife, for performing the narration. Enjoy!

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Episode 4 – Whether ‘Tis Nobler, and Other Choices

Shakespeare! Harry Belafonte! Nazis! Anne with an E! Muy Tai! Outtakes! What connects these things? Are you willing to find out? And you ready to accept the consequences? Find all this out and more in our fourth podcast as we delve into the Moral Universe

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Episode 5 – A Time and A Pace for Everything

Is this really it? The fifth episode of Derailed Trains of Thought? Yes, it is! We apologize for the delay, but we were thrown off our posting rhythm, which, coincidentally, is exactly the topic of this episode’s Story School. We discuss plot pacing, dram

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Episode 6 – Forecast: Atmospheric Story Conditions to Continue

This episode we turn to the always faithful supplier of conversation–the weather. But instead of hearing us drone on about meterologists and people who can’t drive in snow, enjoy as we highlight the ways weather can accentuate emotions and deepen the lay

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Episode 7 – Lest Old Stories Be Forgot

As we celebrate the Christmas season and look forward to a new year, we decide to look back on our old works and see what we’ve learned. Then, in a special holiday Take on Tales, we rate our favorite Christmas movies. Find a comfy chair, some hot cocoa, a

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Episode 8 – Based on the Best-Selling Podcast!

Starring Daniel Radcliffe as Timothy Deal and Michael Cera as Nick Hayden, this investigative thriller follows the hard-hitting investigation of two heretofore unknown podcasters as they delve into the intricacies of movie adaptations, stumbling deep down

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