This is the first of our storytelling conversations. The idea is to have one every week from now on.

We both like epic stories, but just how long and complicated does a story need to be to get that epic feel we love so much? 

Mentioned or discussed in this episode:

- The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)

- The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)

- The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis)

- Harry Potter (J.K. Rowling)

- The Wheel of Time (Robert Jordan)

- Ancestry (Dayn Russell Leonardson)

- The Stormlight Archive (Brandon Sanderson)

- Reckoners (Brandon Sanderson)

- The X-Files

- Smallville