Imagine you’re part of a hunter-gatherer tribe. Who do you value most? That awesome hunter dude who brings home the boar bacon? The guy with the big muscles who tore apart a lion with his bare hands? Or is it the storyteller who tells the myths of your people?
This episode, hosts Timothy Deal and Nick Hayden use an article that attempts to answer this exact question as a jumping off point for examining the role and worth of storytellers in our modern society. Do we value storytellers too little? Too much? And what does that say about us?
The second half follows with a rather silly Bit of Story featuring an unusual princess. Then, in It Came From the Intrawebs, we peruse of a series of unique “experiences” recorded in the newspaper The Guardian.
So, listen in to Episode 131 of Derailed Trains of Thought, your premier podcast about storytelling for the creator and the consumer. Because, well, we know you like storytellers, at least a little….