Do you love podcasts? It isn’t a surprise that audio programming remains so popular nearly a century after the invention of the television.

There is a level of intimacy between the voice on the radio and ourselves. There is more room for imagination than visual images offer, and a greater ability to build a connection when compared with reading text.

Glendalynn reflects on some of her early exposure to classic radio programming and a few of her favourite on air voices - real and fictional.

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Intro music: Fairy G, by Dan O’Grady, https://www.patreon.com/danogrady

Downtime isn’t vacation. It isn’t the weekend. It the time we require to recover, mentally and/or physically, to recover from certain tasks.

Understanding our unique recovery time enables us to plan ahead. To ensure we build time blocks into our schedule accordingly.

Glendalynn dives into this topic after a particularly exhausting experience. Luckily, she started noting her recovery time requirements as part of a business review exercise earlier this year. Listen to better understand how to build personal recovery time into your own schedule.

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Intro music: Fairy G, by Dan O’Grady, https://www.patreon.com/danogrady

Oppenheimer is a 3-hour film, not an 18-hour documentary series. Why expect a Ken Burns doc?

If someone watches Argo, or Bohemian Rhapsody or I, Tonya, and believes what they see on screen to be accurate, whose fault is that?

Fictionalized accounts are meant to entertain. Yes, hopefully, they spark interest in learning more, but that isn’t their goal. Glendalynn discusses a series of recent films that received criticism for doing exactly this, and why that problem belongs squarely on the audience, not the film makers.

The history book referenced in this episode is The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (1986)

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Intro music: Fairy G, by Dan O’Grady, https://www.patreon.com/danogrady

How can a novel written in 1897 be the found footage OG?

With the upcoming release of The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Glendalynn revisits Bram Stoker’s classic novel, Dracula.

As with most classics, hardly anyone has read the original, the fictional character having assumed its own mythology. Glendalynn discusses why the epistolary storytelling style and language may be a barrier for today’s readers, and why reading the original depiction of The Count is worth it for fans of both classic fiction and horror.

See the collection of horror-related posts at Reflections by G

https://www.glendalynndixon.com/blog/tag/Horror

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When did movie marketers stop taking risks?

Today’s marketing campaigns have ridiculously long trailers, show audiences far too much and are too afraid to hold anything back. It wasn’t always this way.

30 years ago, a little movie came out with a campaign promoting it as a legal drama. It was so much more, with a stellar cast bringing Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay to life, Glendalynn revisits Malice (spoiler-free) and laments the loss of subversive advertising.

Prompted by the post Historical Movie Moments, Historical Meltdowns

https://www.glendalynndixon.com/blog/historic-movie-moments-historic-meltdowns

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What was the first book that really scared you?

If that experience happened early in life, you might find it surprising just how bad - and not at all scary, some of those books are today.

The runners-up are written by Dean Koontz and Stephen King. The number one book that left a scary lasting impression on Glendalynn is actually, quite bad. And it contained flies. So. Many. Flies.

Prompted by the post Nightmares at Grandma’s House

https://www.glendalynndixon.com/blog/nightmares-at-grandmas-house

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How do you handle the absolute messiness of popular fiction and the problematic authors that create those books? This isn’t an advice episode. Tackling the elephant in the room directly, J.K. Rowling, alongside two other classic children’s authors, Glendalynn shares her approach to reconciling a beloved novel and the life of the author.

Prompted by the post Panic, Devilry & the Death of the Publishing Industry

https://www.glendalynndixon.com/blog/panic-devilry-and-the-death-of-the-publishing-industry

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What do you find scary? The threat of a cyber attack or dangling by a wire from one of the world’s tallest structures? What if you discovered that the person you see and know to be real is actually a hallucination? Perhaps you’d prefer to curl up with a collection of folk tales from a state rich with cultural history. What if you went to bed, unaware of a deadly leviathan silently approaching your community?

I break the rule today by creeping past the 10-minute mark (just) to bring you five recommendations that I hope are mostly new to you!

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Book titles and authors recommended in this episode:

Gumbo Ya-Ya: Folk Tales of Louisiana by Lyle Saxon, Edward Dreyer, and Robert Tallant

The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami, Lindsey MacIntyre

Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks

This is How They Tell Me the World Ends, By Nicole Perlroth

Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear by Margee Kerr

Why did Disney create such terrifying sequences and plot points for movies designed specifically for kids? Glendalynn reflects on the films that prompted late-night tears in her early years, why The Fox & The Hound was the worst movie decision her parents ever made and why trippy drug sequences are in Disney films.

Prompted by the blog piece Nightmares at Grandma’s House https://www.glendalynndixon.com/blog/nightmares-at-grandmas-house

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What movie moment is seared into your brain? Not because you love it. Because it snuck up on you and scared the crap out of you? Glendalynn reflects on how easily this happened in the ‘70s/early ‘80s, when PG didn’t mean anything - JAWS is PG after all. Turns out, the movie moment that sticks with her isn’t anything seriously scary - but it does feature Vincent Price.

Prompted by the blog piece Nightmares at Grandma’s House

https://www.glendalynndixon.com/blog/nightmares-at-grandmas-house

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Intro music: Fairy G, by Dan O’Grady, https://www.patreon.com/danogrady