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Episode 106 – ONE THEORY to RULE THEM ALL!!

What if I told you everything you knew was a lie? The Island is actually purgatory and all the Pixar films are connected and Aladdin actually takes place in a future post-apocalyptic wasteland and Captain Planet and the Magic Schoolbus are actually the sa

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Episode 99 – The Hype is Real!

IT’S HERE! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!? IT’S REALLY HERE! EPISODE 99 OF THE WORLD’S MOST AMAZINGLY AWESOME PODCAST ON STORYTELLING! IT’S THE GREATEST! IT’S STUPENDOUS! AFTER YOU LISTEN TO THIS, YOUR LIFE WILL BE COMPLETE! Now take a breath. This episode in Story

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Episode 95 – Tempted at Story’s Altar

Story is good. We’ve said that before. But story can also take an out-sized and even, shall we say, idolatrous place in our media-soaked lives. Nick and Tim discuss the dangers of story for the creator and consuming in this episode’s Story School. Then it

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Episode 93 – Give Thanks for Stories

It’s Thanksgiving, and while the commercial world is rushing on to Black Friday, Timothy and Nick want to pause a moment and give thanks for stories. So, in Story School, we list the ways stories benefit our lives. Then in What If? we shoehorn the oft-neg

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Episode 72 – Come Together, Right Now, With Story

It’s Christmastime, the time when families gather to celebrate the holidays, watch their favorite Christmas movies together, and read the Nativity story out loud to the kids. What better time to examine how we experience stories together! So that’s just w

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Episode 71 – Get Lost Already!

We read all sorts of things everyday–tweets, emails, menus, Cracked articles, etc. But not all reading is equal. This episode Nick and Tim discuss “deep reading,” the act of engaging in a text (or, similarly, in a visual story) in a real and immersive wa

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Episode 65 – Of the World and Everything in It

Worldview. It’s one of those terms thrown around by people who like to talk about big ideas. So, of course, Tim and Nick have decided to talk about it. Every story presents a way of looking at the world. How can a reader/viewer navigate these different po

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Episode 59 – Creativity is Nine-Tenths of the Law

Once upon a time, a young man found a story in the woods. He fed it and raised it and, when it had grown, he let it out into the wild. Later, a band of merchants tamed the story and took it with them on their tour of the world. Boys and girls everywhere l

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Episode 56 – I Will Not Watch It, Sam-I-Am!

Can you believe people actually watch bonnet movies? You know, those semi-romantic historical dramas with female protagonists? Blech! Don’t they know their artistic sensibilities are morally inferior and seriously stunted? I mean, if you’re not watching O

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Episode 41 – Can’t See No Forest For All These Trees

We all have our little pet scenes and characters. You know, that one line you’ll watch again and again or that minor villain you write long fan fictions about because he’s just SO COOL. Then there’s costumes design of the palace guards (which is just so t

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