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Episode 101 – Apocalypse as Popcorn

September 5, 2019 01:04:09 0 Comments

If there’s one thing everyone knows about the end of the world, it’s that it’s pretty cool to watch on the big screen. There’s nothing like destruction, chaos, and extinction-level events to make us sit back and think, “Man, this is awesome.” Guest Nathan

Episode 104 – It Was the Best (and Worst) of Times

December 3, 2019 00:53:51 0 Comments

Some stories make you laugh. Others make you cry. And some can make you laugh, cry, cower in terror, and want a nice cup of tea with a friend. In this episode’s Story School Tim and Nick examine the range of emotions that some stories can carry and how cr

Epiosde 105 – The Greatest Stories Ever Told

December 21, 2019 01:04:41 0 Comments

Merry Christmas! ‘Tis the season for nativities and stories of the Nativity, which put Tim and Nick in the mood to discuss Biblical adaptations. How do you adapt a Bible story, and what makes it different from a normal adaptation? Then, for this month’s W

Episode 112 – Previously On…the Last Decade

October 1, 2020 01:23:19 0 Comments

Do you remember what it was like ten years ago? Netflix was still sending out DVDs and people were still using camcorders to make found-footage movies. And, believe it or not, the first episode of your premiere podcast on storytelling, Derailed Trains of

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

Episode 126 – Details, Details, Details!

February 26, 2022 01:11:59 0 Comments

You’ve heard the story before–a young man from a remote village is thrust into the larger world because he takes on the responsibilty of a great quest, where he’ll have great adventure and meet strange creatures. You know, Star Wars. I mean, The Lord of

Episode 128 – I Ain’t No Hero

April 30, 2022 01:15:29 0 Comments

Not every hero is squeaky clean. Not every hero wants to save the world and then go back to living a decent, unassuming life. Some heroes cheat. Some heroes kill. Some heroes, in other circumstances, might be considered the bad guy. What do we do with these so-called anti-heroes? Do we celebrate them for being…

Episode 129 – Hurdles to “Higher” Art

May 31, 2022 01:12:42 0 Comments

Everyone has at least one–a piece of art that they keep meaning to experience someday. You know, things like War and Peace or The Rules of the Game or Der Ring des Nibelungen. But it’s long and maybe it’s boring and you don’t like weird foreign names and, I mean, you could just watch Friends…

Episode 133 – A Time and a Place for Every Story

October 1, 2022 01:09:58 0 Comments

Hosts Timothy Deal and Nick Hayden tackle the importance of a story’s historical and cultural context…and Internet quizzes about which story came first.