Here Be Tygers: Your Storytelling Guide

Hey all, 

This was a somewhat surreal episode for me to return to after we recorded it in what seems such a long time ago (back in 2016). I usually save these for later in the season, but Covid as of late has been cruel to my family and my dad’s back in the hospital with leukemia, so...it’s put me in bit of a reflective state, I suppose. 

I mentioned before, in season one, that I’d have my longtime friend, the neuroscientist Nicolas Lori, on at some point in the show. This is this first—and just a part—of our conversation on Karl Schroeder’s Lockstep, a science fiction novel about time, the economy, and the hard choices that we make in life: though in truth it is more of a meditation or delve into notions of self, consciousness, mind and the sorts of gods we construct to make sense of ourselves—or give reasons for the sublime. 

So join us today as we give pause for a moment to everyday life, to see how one artist perceived our future could be like. 

I hope you enjoy. 

-J 

Show notes 

Guardian article on The Paradise Papers  

Scientific American interview with philosopher 

Susan Schneider on The Singularity and Transhumanism  

Two different meditations, by Lapham’s Quarterly and Brain Pickings, on the Ship of Theseus 

David Brin’s Kiln People  

The rules governing who can vote in the US, as of 2020 

Margaret Atwood on writing The Handmaid’s Tale  

Collection of Science articles on skin tone origins and diversity in Africa  

Lockstep, by Karl Schroeder  

Smithsonian on Blade Runner and blurring boundaries of personhood  

What happens when Conan the Barbarian finally meets Crom

Joining today: storyteller, game developer and Head of Marketing and Community at Multiverse, Lisa Trott 

Hey all, 

A fan of the show introduced us to Multiverse, an online video game platform, a few months ago. Since then, we’ve worked with the development team on a number of episodes; which reflects our shared interest, I think, on how stories are told, the means to create, and why worth follows from the lives that we help people make.  

So join us today as we talk with Lisa Trott, the Head of Marketing and Community at Multiverse, about interactive games, why folks become a part of your tribe, and building a world that’s for both creatives and entrepreneurs alike. 

 -J 

Show Notes 

Pandemic fuels video game industry worth vs sports and film in 2020 Fortnite, Minecraft and the need for shared space in a digital first age 

The Hechinger Report, lessons on digital literacy and remote learning from a refugee camp 

Environmental storytelling: an overview by Escapist magazine 

To learn more about Multiverse, the team, and all the things they create with their market, audience and tribe, you can go to: playmultiverse.com 

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The Magician, written & performed by Immersive Music Kudos to Reckless Media for the final edits.

Hey all,

We’ll be back soon with an incredible season full of new guests (plus those that you’ve met before), fantastic tales, and some dedicated time to questions, ideas and insights on how to use storytelling in your work, play, and everyday life. 

Oh, and don’t forget to follow us at our new home on @csuiteradio.

-J

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Hey all, 

This episode was mostly a lark with a few fans of our shows, who wanted a little reprieve from this year and the ways that it sometimes goes.

So we decided to watch some movies, games and television shows that were great (and others less so) while we were waiting for new audio gear...

And to share a little bit of the levity for which both our end-of-the-year episodes and sibling shows, The Geekly Oddcast and Odder Worlds, are known. 

We hope you enjoy,

- J

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Hey all,

As we wind the year down, we wanted to give you a taste of what some our future episodes will be like. 

Starting in Season 2, we’ll provide you with three different kinds of conversation on how you can use storytelling to teach, entertain and guide the folks in your work, play and everyday life.

During our Interview or Teach episodes, we’ll talk to Creative Entrepreneurs about how to reach out to your market, audience and tribe, connect what you make to what they want out of life, and the trust, impact and legacy that provides. 

For the Performance or Entertain episodes, we’ll invite other Creators onto the show to explore what makes for not just a good but the best stories, fiction or not; and how they compel, inspire or drive us towards a better life.

Lastly, in our Workshop or Guide episodes, we’ll provide Creatives and Entrepreneurs alike with the tools, ideas and resources they need to find their tale, make it come to life, and bring what they’ve learned (or would share) back to their tribe.

And throughout it all, of course, we’ll talk about Why Stories Sell (or, if you like, drive / inspire / compel).

We hope you enjoy.

- J

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The Magician, written & performed by Immersive Music

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Hey all, 

This is the second half of our conversation on the ‘four essential beats of narrative’: namely, the sad, funny, beautiful and weird. They’re not the only beats that matter, of course. But they often give, direction, flow or a shape to the moments that hold us captive or impact us the greatest.

And though we may start with a fairly deep exploration of one of our favorite storytellers, Hayao Miyazaki, the foundational tropes, motifs and narrative elements he plays with—the loss of innocence or exuberant certainty, and the maturity gained in the presence of challenges we must face—are present to some extent in all of the works, from fantastic to horror to literary classics, that we discuss today.

As for the ending? Well, we had to leave a little time yet to play. So join us as we see what happens when we have only a title, “Death Leaves Us Stranded”, and a premise as strange.

We hope you enjoy.

- J

Show notes

• Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli’s filmography

• Katabasis, “descent to the underworld” in folklore and myth

• Silver Linings Playbook, movie clip playlist

• The Secret War of Lisa Simpson, “what is truth?”

• Grieg’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King” by the Seattle Symphony

• Frankenstein, his Monster, and the stories we make from them

• The Thing, final scene

• Rappacini’s Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Virginia Wolf’s Tothe Lighthouse

• Director Hideo Kojima on his recent game Death Stranding

Here Be Tygers supports #BlackLivesMatter and other organizations that would put an end to injustice, discrimination and police brutality. Here’s a list of things you can do to help.

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Or contact us directly at Herebetygers.com, where we can help you find your tale and make it come to life.

The Magician, written & performed by Immersive Music

Kudos to Reckless Media for the final edits. 

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Hey all,

What you’re about to hear is the first half of a much longer conversation on the four essential beats of narrative and how storytellers have used them both now and in the past to compel, inspire, repulse or attract. 

As you listen, I invite you to think of your favorite stories—fiction or not—and why they’ve had such an impact. Then consider the most powerful moments you’re reminded of, and how you were moved from the first beat to the last.

Oh and this was recorded during my recovery from cervical spine surgery. So if you hear a bit of a lisp at times (due to a few numbed or dead nerves), that’s why.

I hope you enjoy.

- J

Show Notes 

• Everything’s Coming up Podcast, now Round Springfield!

• The former Cinefamily movie theater

• Den of Geek on The Adventures of Pete and Pete

• The Color out of Space, by HP Lovecraft; now a movie starring Nicholas Cage

• The Caves of Steel series by Aasimov

• Some iconic action films mentioned: Terminator 2, The Matrix, Die Hard, Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, Jimmy Stewart in The Naked Spur

• Screenwriting guru, Syd Field

• Film director Jean Renoir

• Joe Satriani gives private lesson to a contest winner

• The Story of John Cage’s 4 minutes and 33 seconds; The Lemon (short film)

• Up opening montage , script to screen

Here Be Tygers supports #BlackLivesMatter and other organizations that would put an end to injustice, discrimination and police brutality. Here’s a list of things you can do to help.

Like what you hear and want to show your support? Leave a review on your app of choice or subscribe for more on Patreon.com/herebetygers.

Or contact us directly at Herebetygers.com, where we can help you find your tale and make it come to life.

The Magician, written & performed by Immersive Music

Kudos to Reckless Media for the final edits. 

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Joining today: two of the three Brothers Herman, engineer Dave and medical ethicist & philosopher Steven, with all of their knowledge combined 

Xenobiology. Astrobiology. And all of the fictional kinds. The worlds we imagine, define, are teeming to full with strange and unusual life: beings who either don’t follow the rules that we know—or out of necessity create new order in their time. 

But how do you make them seem real, do you ground our encounters with them in the world(s) that you write? How do you know what they think, hear, feel, would convey of their own deep, ineffable mind?

Join us today as we touch on a few of your fictional favorites like the fae, alien kinds, and artificial beings or life that only in the uncanny valley can survive. And the numinous fear, sense of majesty or plain awe that we feel at meeting that which we cannot describe.

- J

Show Notes

Descartes, “I think therefore I am...”

Hobbes defining the second law of motion 

NASA research on exobiology

Tardigrades as Star Trek Discovery power source 

Parasite Eve and mitochondria 

Recapitulation Theory

Wayne Barlowe’s Expedition

Khan Academy on Phenotypic plasticity 

Prometheus and “a wizard did it...”

Lovecraft’s xenophobia

Octavia Butler’s Dawn

John Scalzi, Old Man’s War

The Coldfire Trilogy, by C.S. Friedman

“I have no mouth and I must scream”, by Harlan Ellison 

The convoluted lore of Neon Genesis Evangelion

Lord Dunsany’s Gods of Pegana 

The Uncanny Valley

Dragonriders of Pern, by Anne McCaffrey

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The Magician, written & performed by Immersive Music

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Joining today: intuitive healer, animal whisperer / human guide, and host of Motivational Addict, Julie Saillant

Although animals feature prominently is many of the stories we tell—as fully detailed characters with their own folklore and lives, as other peoples or tribes within the world(s) where we dwell, and even sometimes as a proxy for ourselves—we often find it hard, ‘in real life’, to know what they’re thinking as well. 

But every so often we can hear, gain a sense, for what goes on the mind of the creatures who give us a hoof, gentle claw or long thoughtful sigh: perhaps to remind us that this is their world, their home and their life too; and that maybe—just maybe—it would be nice if we picked up a bit from our sties.

Join us today as we talk with intuitive healer and animal whisperer / human guide Julie Saillant about our friends of all stripes and the moments they ask for or provide us with kindness.

- J

Show Notes

Veterinarian James Herriot’s memoir, All Creatures Great and Small

A few recent studies on the emotional intelligence of horses 

2018 Study, published in Nature, on cross-modal perception of human emotion in domestic horses

Experimental use of medically induced comas in the treatment of severe depression 

You can follow Julie’s show, Motivational Addict on her site or through Google, Apple and Spotify.

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Or contact us directly at Herebetygers.com, where we can help you find your tale and make it come to life.

The Magician, written & performed by Immersive Music

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Joining today: engineer, pop culture critic, and host of Odder Worlds, Dave Herman

Why do we stop? Cease to continue with the things that we love, that we create? That keep us up in the morning, at odd hours, throughout our everyday? 

Confusion. Inertia. Fear of what’s still to come—or yet may. If you want to create, as a hobby, profession, form of personal expression or as the eminent biologist E.O. Wilson might say, to live in a not-as-of-yet fully inhabited space—then you’ll know what it’s like to feel overwhelmed by the things that you make. Or by what they both want and need in order to be sustained.

So we’re going to talk about fears today. And how, one step at a time, we can turn those shivers you feel in your feet everyday to a walk to a trot to a leap down the road that leads to ‘what may...?’.

And, if you’d like some help with any of that right now, you can go to https://www.20minutestobrilliance.com/tygers to sign up for your complimentary session today.

- J

Show Notes

two different takes on Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn 

George MacDonald’s “The Fantastic Imagination” on Project Gutenberg and read aloud by author Jess Lederman

Writer’s Digest interview with novelist N.K. Jemisin on what being a creator today is like

You can also follow our shows on Twitter @BrothersHerman and @jcertherealist.

Here Be Tygers supports #BlackLivesMatter and other organizations that would put an end to injustice, discrimination and police brutality. Here’s a list of things you can do to help.

Like what you hear and want to show your support? Leave a review on your app of choice or subscribe for more on Patreon.com/herebetygers.

Or contact us directly at Herebetygers.com, where we can help you find your tale and make it come to life.

The Magician, written & performed by Immersive Music

Kudos to Reckless Media for the final edits. 

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