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Episode 72 – Come Together, Right Now, With Story

December 21, 2016 00:57:23 0 Comments

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

Episode 93 – Give Thanks for Stories

November 20, 2018 01:06:31 0 Comments

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

Episode 95 – Tempted at Story’s Altar

January 24, 2019 01:18:34 0 Comments

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

Episode 99 – The Hype is Real!

May 31, 2019 01:12:27 0 Comments

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

Episode 106 – ONE THEORY to RULE THEM ALL!!

February 11, 2020 01:10:39 0 Comments

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

Episode 115 – What Was That Title Again?

January 29, 2021 01:17:37 0 Comments

Remember your favorite episode of Derailed Trains of Thought? Yeah–that one. It was about…I mean, there was a funny What If? and…yeah, a great discussion about books…or something. Have you ever found yourself forgetting the details of your favorite

Episode 119 – Genres Gone Wild?

June 3, 2021 01:23:08 0 Comments

Here at Derailed Trains of Thought (your premiere podcast on storytelling for the creator and consumer), we like to talk about genre fiction. You know, science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, superheroes, blah, blah, blah. But the heart of story is character

Episode 120 – Looking Beneath the Surface

June 30, 2021 01:11:41 0 Comments

If you’ve ever read a plot summary, you’ve probably thought, “But that’s not what the story’s REALLY about.” There are ideas and connections within a story that don’t show up in a 100-word Netflix blurb. That’s why this episode hosts Timothy Deal and Nick

Episode 123 – How (Not) to Jump a Shark

November 2, 2021 01:08:15 0 Comments

We’ve all been there. We’re watching season 17 of our favorite show or book 26 of our favorite series and suddenly wonder–Wait, what? What just happened? Whether it’s something too insane or too dumb or too out-of-character or simply too much, “this isn’

Episode 124 – Like the Lilies of the Field

December 19, 2021 01:09:47 0 Comments

Every story, whether long or short, written or visual, occupies a space of time–and then it’s over. Gone. Unless, of course, you can read or watch it again. Still, there is a transience to stories, a space they occupy in our lives that ends and can never