{"id":2674,"date":"2022-05-31T00:16:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T00:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derailedtrainsofthought.com\/?post_type=podcast&p=2674"},"modified":"2025-11-14T01:20:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:20:39","slug":"episode-129-hurdles-to-higher-art","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/derailedtrainsofthought.com\/index.php\/podcast\/episode-129-hurdles-to-higher-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 129 – Hurdles to “Higher” Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Everyone has at least one–a piece of art that they keep meaning to experience someday. You know, things like War and Peace<\/em> or The Rules of the Game<\/em> or Der Ring des Nibelungen.<\/em> 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<\/em> again, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hosts Timothy Deal and Nick Hayden are here to help you break your cycle of “maybe later” and invest yourself in something denser and more rewarding than your usual Love It or List It <\/em>fare. They identify some of the obstacles that keep us from enjoying great art so that we can all finally read the complete works of Shakespeare, or whatever it is that’s been on your list too long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, in the second half, we combine great literature and the new Once Upon a Sentence segment into a book-nerd’s Challenge Accepted!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, despite this podcast being far less intellectually rigorous than any episode of Hardcore History<\/em>, we do hope you listen in to this, the 129th installment of your premiere podcast on storytelling for the creator and consumer, Derailed Trains of Thought<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Show Notes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apology from Nick<\/em>: I reference Dragon Quest IV <\/em>several times. In each case, I should have said Dragon Quest V<\/em>, except in the case of the remix’s origin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Episode 129 – Hurdles to “Higher” Art<\/a><\/blockquote>