Episode 68 features Khan who you may know from his streams or the many emotes of his which populate Twitch, his merchandise, or his coffee. We discuss all of that plus; his journey back to art, being a teacher, building a brand, streaming for selfish reasons, philosophy, consistency, and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• "I make stuff."
• Coaching and Teaching
• Martial Arts
• "I like dense things..."
• Are you your brand?
• Streaming art
• Khanguer Blend Coffee
• Starting the grind
• Jack of all trades
• Apparel Lines
• Developing a video game
• Expectations
• Price and Design
• Time Management
• Daily Comic
• Recharging
• Write it down
• Drunken Boxing
• The impetus of change
• Mortality
• Goals
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

KhanArtist.org

HFTees.com

Khanquer Blend Coffee

KhanArt on YouTube

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@ThePalmerFiles

@YungKhan

@AgentPalmer

Other Links

Tanequil is a Great Middle Sector for High Druid Trilogy

Fact Over Fiction: Why I’m Watching More Documentaries Than Ever Before

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 67 features J.D. the founder of Veritas Fit and a mental health coach and advocate who is here because we should all be challenged more to discuss our mental health. We discuss anxiety, starting conversations around mental health, storytelling and filling in the blanks, knowledge and not knowing, speak generationally, and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Helping vs. Supporting
• Mental Health
• Anxiety
• Not Knowing
• Self-care
• Storytelling
• The journey
• The Speed of Information
• Algorithms and Comfort Zones
• Generational Differences
• Apologizing to our parents
• Taking pictures
• Remembering phone numbers
• Balance
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

VeritasFit.com

Dark Days Bright Nights

Veritas Fit on YouTube

AgentPalmer.com

Episode 13 of The Palmer Files: Anxiety with Neil Cetrangolo from Dark Angels and Pretty Freaks

Tweets

@ThePalmerFiles

@jd_thejedi

@AgentPalmer

Other Links

A Life Full of Positive Achievements: Memoir! Celebrates Sid Meier

Welcome to Earth: Will Smith is all of us on our ever-connected planet

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 66 features Taylor Shanklin, who is not only a motivational speaker and TED Talk veteran but also CEO and founder of Barlele, which also happens to make Taylor my current boss. We talk about why I was hired, Taylor’s professional journey to founding her own agency, plus discuss creativity, confidence, truth, and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• The hiring process
• Networking
• Marketing Philosophy
• Hobbies
• Corporate Culture
• Corporate hustle
• Startup Culture
• Chasing dreams
• "New Media"
• Flash
• Being Geeky
• Creative
• Technical
• Intuition
• Saying No
• Building a team
• Balance
• Helping others
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

TShank.com

Barlele.com

Soar (Taylor's Podcast)

Taylor's Instagram @TShankSoars

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@ThePalmerFiles

@AgentPalmer

Other Links

Azura Ghost is the high stakes trilogy middle book I didn’t know I needed

Enjoying the Fellowship of Friends on an Extended Friday Break

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 65 features Jason Collins, who is not only a more charismatic Nick Burns Your Company's Computer Guy, but he's a friend I've reconnected with. We discuss being a rhythm section of Jasons, college, I.T., finding your space, friendship renewed, file organization, and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• College
• Ambition
• Playing drums
• Finding direction
• Real World I.T. vs Classroom I.T.
• It worked yesterday
• Finding your spot
• Rock star reality
• A friendship renewed
• Social media as a crutch to connection
• Seeing Agent Palmer from the outside
• IRC, ICQ, and AOL
• Gaming
• Old technology
• A terabyte here, a terabyte there
• Digital file organization
• Gatekeeping with command prompt
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@ItsUriyel

@ThePalmerFiles

@AgentPalmer

Other Links

Souvenir of Canada is not to be left untouched on a shelf

“Quincy” perfectly celebrates a living legacy

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 64 features Matt Lady, who dabbling in many directions professionally and is personally working towards something as you’ll soon discover. We discuss side projects, entrepreneurship, timing, celebrating others, spending time with ourselves, and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Side Projects
• Lorem Dripsum
• Entrepreneurship
• Basketball
• Timing is everything
• Streaming
• Don't put me in a box
• Podcasting
• Platform selection
• Decisions and money
• Klay Thompson
• Success isn't just being the star
• Room for everyone
• Being authentic
• Spending real time with yourself
• Being your own best teammate
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

Matt's Twitter Thread

Lorem Dripsum

Tweets

@mattlady

@HighKeyGeek_

@ThePalmerFiles

@AgentPalmer

Other Links

Souvenir of Canada is not to be left untouched on a shelf

“Quincy” perfectly celebrates a living legacy

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 63 features Janae Ivery, who you may not know yet, who is co-hosting the Girls Go Books Deep Podcast, and who’s preparing to break into all of the mediums. We discuss on-screen representation, why can’t all fandoms get along, what is canon, writing, reviewing, captions, and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Representation
• Canon
• Fandom
• DC and Marvel
• Reading
• Binge vs. Appointment Television
• Wanting to Create
• Reviewing
• Captions
• Writing
• Acting
• Daily Goals
• Notebooks
• The Fear of Publish
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

GirlsGoBooksDeep.com

Ralph Bakshi: A Rotospective

Tweets

@jivery

@gg_booksdeep

@ThePalmerFiles

@AgentPalmer

Other Links

Objectivity wins in Deighton’s WW2 analysis, “Blood, Tears and Folly”

Edge of the World Broadcast Season Two: Listening is Advised!

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 62 features Jeff Quest, who you may know from Spywrite or any number of his spy-related podcasts. We discuss blogging and collecting, reading and creating, comprehension, memory, and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Blogging
• Collecting
• Podcasting
• Reviewing
• Spoilers
• Niche vs. No Niche
• Reading Books
• Running
• Spies
• Comprehension vs. Memory
• Rewatchability vs. Rereadability
• Short vs. Long Content
• Negative Reviews
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

Spywrite.com

Spywrite.com/About

Reading The Meadow 20 years after college adds needed perspective

Tweets

@spywrite

@ThePalmerFiles

@AgentPalmer

Other Links

Coupland’s Characters Speak to Me Beyond Grief in ‘Hey Nostradamus’

Similar Lessons Learned from Yet Another Challenging Year

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 61 features Chris, Bill, Amy, Becca, Lauren, Ilana, Ethan, Corey, and my Mom. Discussing the future, the past, and a few things in between from the "One Final Question" after-credits of The Palmer Files podcast.

During the episode we cover:

• What would I want to create to make money?
• Where do you see yourself in five years?
• What did you want to do?
• Forcing a habit
• What would I teach?
• On being a Baltimore Orioles fan.
• Mom's influence
• And much more...

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

Episode 26: Friendship: Episode II - Christopher J. Hughes

Episode 27: Friendship: Episode III - Bill Sweeney

Episode 35: Space with Amy Shira Teitel

Episode 38: Inputs and Outputs with Rebecca Seidel

Episode 39: The Story of a Creative Entrepreneur with Lauren Beck

Episode 43: A Little Conversation with Ilana Levine

Episode 44: Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks with Ethan Gilsdorf

Episode 47: From The Hobbit to Signum University with The Tolkien Professor

Episode 50: A Conversation with Sybil Stershic a.k.a. My Mom

Tweets

@ThePalmerFiles

@AgentPalmer

@TriforceDad1984

@WickedTheory

@AmyShiraTeitel

@BeccaHope24

@ilanalevine

@ethanfreak

@tolkienprof

@SybilQSM

Other Links

ren.and.ink (Instagram)

Dragon’s Milk offers a cup full of life lessons

The Beatles: Get Back Isn’t 100% For Everyone

You can also hear more Palmer in the meantime on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier and as mentioned on this show as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 60 features Matt Kiefer who is here to discuss his career as a librarian. As you’ll soon learn it’s not just the Dewey decimal system and shushing people. It’s a library of things and events plus, growing into being organized, helping with technology, some library myths, and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• What does a librarian do?
• How does one become a librarian?
• A Library of things
• Archives and Reference Collections
• Things to do at the library
• Technology usage at the library
• Different types of librarians
• Community Space vs. Books
• Running events
• Recommendation Engines
• Library Myths
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

Psionic Monkey on Twitch

Find a library near you on worldcat.org/libraries

Create your own library at LibraryAnything.com

Tweets

@PsionicM

@ThePalmerFiles

@AgentPalmer

Other Links

Crichton’s Next is a TED Talk with a novel preamble

‘Somewhere You Feel Free’ plants appreciation for Tom Petty and ‘Wildflowers’ album

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 59 features Evelien, a producer, who is here to discuss her day job as a producer, where we both agree no one has any clue what a producer does, excepting that it is important and integral to many mediums, plus learning by doing, being organized, a few metaphors and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• What is a producer?
• What does a producer do?
• Wanting to be in media?
• Culturally understanding media?
• Always Producing...
• Saying Yes vs. Saying No
• To do your own thing
• Production vs. Live Production
• Lack of Sleep
• Overreaching
• Anonymity
• Creative Creatures
• Being Bored
• Being Prepared
• Being Flexible
• Jack of All Trades
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

Reppin Podcast

Tweets

@ReppinPodcast

@ThePalmerFiles

@AgentPalmer

Other Links

The Real Frank Zappa Book is Worth Your Time, No Matter Who You Are

Declassifying a Decade: Honoring 10 Years of AgentPalmer.com

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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