Vahid Friedrich, advisor to financial advisors, is talking to us about storytelling—in sci-fi, video games, religion, and more!

Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.

Episode artwork: Cover of Science Fiction Quarterly, Nov. 1952 [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

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Archive of Our Own Richard Bachman

James Baldwin / Nikki Giovanni Soul! Interview Iain (M.) Banks John Banville Bashō The Beatles Benjamin Black Yosa Buson Johnny Cash "Hurt"

Noam Chomsky Charles Dickens Dungeons & Dragons Percival Everett James Mark Ford W. Mark Ford Natalie Goldberg Three Simple Lines Natalie Goldberg Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within Frank Herbert Dune William J. Higginson The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku Isekai: "A Beginner's Guide to Isekai" (Introductory article on the genre by Amanda Pagan) Kobayashi Issa

Stephen King

John Landis An American Werewolf in London

Larian Studios Baldur's Gate 3

Ursula K. Le Guin The Books of Earthsea

David Lynch Dune

Vladimir Nabokov Speak, Memory

Nine Inch Nails "Hurt"

Larry Niven "Flash Crowd"

nobody103 Mother of Learning

Terry Pratchett Royal Road Hiroaki Sato On Haiku Screen Actors Guild Settlers of Catan Peter Singer Practical Ethics

Sleyca Super Supportive Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy War and Peace

Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn

Denis Villeneuve Dune

David F. Walker / Mark Kwame Anderson Big Jim and the White Boy D. D. Webb The Gods Are Bastards William Carlos Williams Paterson Gene Wolfe