The Palmer Files Podcast

Episode 97 features the multitalented Jacob Burgess. He not only Makes Words Happen, but he can also inspire thought and reflection as he did for me in the following conversation about traveling, theatre, seeking, learning, personality, and authenticity, plus we trade some platitudes and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Person v. Personality
• ADHD
• From the East Coast to the West Coast
• Travel and Journeys
• Looking for a voice
• Seeking
• Expectations
• The need for the unexpected
• Touching IPs
• Being surrounded by creators
• How precious our time is
• Overachieving
• Curiosity
• What's wrong with easy?
• Toxic productivity
• Authenticity
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

MakeWordsHappen.com

Desert Bus for Hope

AgentPalmer.com

Episode 52 of The Palmer Files: Celebrations and Anniversaries with Christopher J Hughes.

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@AgentPalmer

@JacobBurgessVO

@ThePalmerFiles

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Human Condition the Subtle Neon Glimmer of Downtown Owl

Have Faith That This Deighton Trilogy has More Secrets to Reveal

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 96 features Charles Bates, who you may know as Chaz, Yahzick, The DM, The Bard, or the previous episode. We continue the discussion by talking about the things we enjoy consuming on pixelated screens, sportsmanship, looking back, goals, attention, starving artists, growth, and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Story vs. World
• Movies and shows we enjoy
• Quick dialogue
• The Binge
• Star Trek
• RuPaul's Drag Race
• Sportsmanship
• What's your price?
• Looking Back
• Attention
• Audience Expectations
• Growth
• The Starving Artist
• Sharing yourself
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

Mann Shorts on YouTube

Yahzick on Spotify

Yahzick on YouTube

Yahzick on Instagram

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AgentPalmer

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

Palmer's Trek: Star Trek The Animated Series

The Gum Thief Wears the Rose-Colored Glasses of Nostalgia Well

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 95 features Charles Bates, who you may know as Chaz, Yahzick, The DM, or The Bard. We discuss his many hats and projects, his creative pursuits, a few fandoms, reading, the abundance of choice and so much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Charles is Great
• A writer who raps
• Always been a writer
• Storytellers
• Reading
• ADHD
• Harry Potter
• Tolkien
• The desire for discovery
• Underdogs
• Abundance of choice
• Florida
• Mann Shorts
• Rational people don't create
• Art is Vulnerable
• Do the thing
• Star Wars
• Worldbuilding
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

Mann Shorts on YouTube

Yahzick on Spotify

Yahzick on YouTube

Yahzick on Instagram

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AgentPalmer

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

Did Anderegg's Nerds reveal Tom Bombadil to be my Shibboleth?

Small Oddities: Villain Shit

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 94 features Rob Eskra, back for the second time. Why? To talk about what we do when we have free time. And as you'll hear, we discuss the exorbitant abundance of things to do and consume with the, by comparison, minute time we have to do them. Plus being a collector of hobbies, world-building, naps, soaring, and more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Work Life Balance
• Music vs. Podcast
• Paralyzed by Choice
• Types of Readers
• Passive vs. Active Listening
• Walkman vs. Discman
• Commuting and Consuming Media
• On Writing
• World-Building
• Insomnia
• Children
• Night Owl
• Before Noon
• Sleepy After Lunch
• Motivation
• A Weekin Rob's Life
• Too Many Options
• Flight Simulator
• Self-Reflection
• Soaring
• YouTube
• Introducing your kids to your things
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

Watch Rob on Twitch

Robert Eskra's YouTube

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AgentPalmer

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

Genius & Anxiety Sets the Record Straight on a Perilous Century

Goodnight, Max.

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 93 features Jason Zapata, back for the third time. Why? Well, we have discussed our passions and friendship, and now he's returned to discuss his realization that it's time to find some balance, because he works too hard. We discuss that at length, plus needs, wants, perceptions, boundaries, ambition, and more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Work Life Balance
• Needs v. Wants
• Corporate
• Perceptions
• Work from Home is Work from Anywhere
• Isolation
• White Collar Job
• Boundaries
• Job Security
• Quiet Quitting
• Propaganda
• Generations
• Ambition
• Five Year Plans
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

JasonZapata.com

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AgentPalmer

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

Palmer's Trek: Star Trek The Original Series

Palmer's Trek: A Star Trek Journey

Take a Look in the Book of the Path Dr. Seuss Took

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 92 features Anthony "Tony" Rapino, co-author of the recently published Tommy and the Order of Cosmic Champions, but he's also an artist that works with words, clay, paint, and well, any medium he can make the time for. We discuss those many mediums, plus reading, writing, genres, college, physical media, and more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Where did the writing journey begin?
• In Love with Creation
• Horror and Horror adjacent
• Reading
• Blended Genres
• The moment of discovery
• Trailers
• Being a teacher
• Good teachers
• Don't use writing and reading as punishment
• 80s Exchange
• Realizing your potential and limitations
• Collegiate expereiences
• Nostalgia
• Anticipation
• Tommy and the Order of Cosmic Champions
• Physical Media
• Used Book Stores
• Reading
• Finishing the book
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AnthonyJRapino.com

OrderofComsicChampions.com

80sxchange.com

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AnthonyJRapino

@AgentPalmer

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

Love it or Hate it, Blonde Might Be the Best Art Film Ever

Tommy and the Order of Cosmic Champions is the 80s Nostalgia Dump I Needed

The Fast Food Pizza / Movie Connection

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 91 features Margo Donohue, the Brooklyn Fit Chick returns as a newly published author of Filmed in Brooklyn a book about film history and the history of film in Brooklyn. We discuss the creation, process, and reception of her book. But we also talk about using the time you have wisely, reading and writing, humility, healthy egos, and much much more

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Filmed In Brooklyn by Margo Donohue
• A love letter to Brooklyn
• The Book Pitch
• Using the time available
• Photography
• Timing is Everything
• Writers Group
• Congratulate Yourself
• Media Maven Margo
• Reading and Writing
• Humility
• Healthy Egos
• The next thing
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

BrooklynFitChick.com

Get your copy of Filmed In Brooklyn (Amazon)

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@BrooklynMargo

@AgentPalmer

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

Entwined Legacies Celebrated in "The Day the Music Died" Doc

Hollywood Hatred Aside, Violent Ward Plays Out Like a Great Film

Brooklyn Beauties Focus of Margo Donohue's Love Letter Film Study

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 90 features Craig Burgess, a marketing man, a creative designer, and someone who is creating things for the right reasons now that he's seen the light, which we'll discuss along with plenty of buzzwords that we don't like; such as thought leader, guru, content creator, and well, where have all the mavericks and renegades gone?

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• The Authentic Self
• Snake Oil Sales
• The Content Wheel
• Playing the game
• Twitter
• Consistency
• Thought leaders
• Art vs. Content
• Intent
• Algorithm
• Professional Contrarians
• Creativity
• Recovering your attention span
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

The Wednesday Audio (Yeah Wednesdays)

Craig's Cabinet of Meagre Offerings (This Is Not Value)

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@craigburgess

@AgentPalmer

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

Love for Jurassic Park Series is Anything but Extinct, 30 Years Later

Brooklyn Beauties Focus of Margo Donohue's Love Letter Film Study

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 89 features Cam Smith, co-host of SpyHards Podcast who is here to discuss media, fandom, American and Canadian culture, a few hot takes, Star Trek, spies, and much more! I promise you won't need a secret decoder ring for this one.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Why Spy?
• Star Trek
• James Bond
• Canada
• Culture
• Origin of a podcast
• What makes a spy movie?
• Reading
• Christopher Nolan
• Midnight Showings
• Star Wars
• Night Owls and Early Birds
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

SpyHards

Our Liner Notes

• CanCon Part 1
• CanCon Part 2

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@SpyHards

@camvsmith

@AgentPalmer

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

Somehow, A Pepsi Court Case Provides Refreshing Documentary Fodder

A back-from-the-dead defense of 2013's R.I.P.D.

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 88 features Christopher J. Hughes, returning for his third time, the first was for friendship, the second was for celebration and now he's here to discuss the movie he made, "They Sleep On Us." (And I helped).

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• So you made a movie?
• Being at your own movie premiere
• Friends help each other
• The transition from a solo project to a collaboration
• What's next?
• Not JUST a football movie
• Anyone can do this
• Learn from experience
• Do the thing
• The big moment of finishing a large project
• Large one-off projects vs. ongoing projects
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

They Sleep On Us (IMDb)

They Sleep On Us (Trailer)

TriforceDad.com

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@TriforceDad1984

@AgentPalmer

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

Suellen Hoy Has All the Dirt on the American Pursuit of Cleanliness

Twenty Twenty-Two In Review

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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