Book Club – Derailed Trains of Thought

Episode 84 – Keep It Simple, Stupid?

January 30, 2018 01:06:06 0 Comments

It’s 2018, and we’re back with Episode 84 of Derailed Trains of Thought, your premiere podcast on storytelling! The facts: Story School, simple vs. complex plots; Our Take on Tales, our 2017 reads In other words: Your hosts, Timothy Deal and Nicholas Hayd

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 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 125 – Live by the Sword or Turn the Other Cheek?

January 29, 2022 01:11:53 0 Comments

POW! WHAM! The hero slugs the bad guy. Unconscious henchmen lay sprawled everywhere. The city is saved! All in a day’s work for an average action-adventure protagonist. BUT–is there another way? Why do we enjoy violent endings and are there satisfying no