The Palmer Files Podcast

Episode 37 features Edward O’Hare, who is here in his official capacity as “the movie guy.” We discuss what that means, what to call the things we watch on the big screen, lists, Oscar, and much much more.

During the episode we cover:

• Movies, Film, or Cinema
• The Movie Theater Experience
• Studying Film
• Palmer Video
• The Usual Suspects
• The Oscar Challenge
• Depressing Documentaries
• Thoughts on being "The Movie Guy"
• Trailers
• Reboots and Remakes
• Favorite Films
• Lists
• Television
• And much more...

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

WickedTheory.com

Find Ed Bonds With Bill on the Wicked Theory Patreon

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@AgentPalmer

@lileddieohare

Other Links

The Birth of Loud: Follows the Creation and Adoption of Iconic Electric Guitars

Sorting Things Out, Five Items at a Time

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 36 features author Sally Handlon, who wrote "Your Journey to Aging Well: Drink, Move, Eat Sleep," which we discuss the inspirations for and aspirations of during the episode, plus maybe through the example of Agent Palmer, you'll find something easy to do to improve the quality of your life. 

During the episode we cover:

• Writing a book
• Staring Handlon Business Resources
• Interest in herbal medicine
• Reading the label
• Starting early
• Drink more water
• Lack of Sleep
• Growing Old
• "Organic"
• The more things change...
• The road not taken
• Deep breathing
• And much more...

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

BodyConstruction.me

Purchase Your Journey to Aging Well: Drink, Move, Eat, Sleep by Sally Handlon on Amazon.

“Your Journey to Aging Well” with help from the friendly Sally Handlon

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@AgentPalmer

Other Links

2020 Review: Finding peace in what I love and can control

Timeless Truths and Odd Mysteries Line the Pages of The Magus

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 35 features Space Flight Historian Amy Shira Teitel, who may have the coolest job and the best job title around. We discuss our shared interests in space, the process of writing books, being in love with what’s next, missing our Apollo moment, and more.

During the episode we cover:

• Interest in Space
• Our respective Space Origin stories
• Science that's history
• Learning about NASA history outside of the U.S.
• The four children
• Fighting for Space
• Writing Books
• Being a Creator / Creative
• The Space Space
• Pete Conrad
• Forms of Media
• The NASA Bubble
• Going back to the Moon
• Going to Mars
• Politics and Space
• Try SCE to AUX
• And much more...

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

AmyShiraTeitel.com

The Vintage Space on YouTube

The Space Vixen on Twitch

Fighting for Space is not Jackie Cochran vs. Jerrie Cobb, but it’s a compelling duality

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@AgentPalmer

@AmyShiraTeitel

Other Links

If You can Only Read the Autobiography of One Mercury Seven Astronaut, Make it DEKE!

Timeless Truths and Odd Mysteries Line the Pages of The Magus

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 34 with my old friend Nick DeMarco, owner of Nick D's Video Game Vault, who is here to discuss our shared collegiate pas, what we thought might become of us, what actually did, and much much more.

During the episode we cover:

• Our friendship origin story
• College expectations
• Big fish little pond
• Ending up in retail
• Mental Health
• Anxiety
• Evolutions
  • Personal
  • Creative
• Writing process
• And much more...

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

Nick D's Video Game Vault Facebook Page

Nick D's Video Game Vault Instagram

Bracing: Ride the Wind by Nicholas DeMarco

Dying To See The Stars by Nicholas DeMarco

Soulstar: Harnessing once lost magic by Nick DeMarco

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@AgentPalmer

Other Links

Six Great (and Unfortunately Relevant) Quotes from Miss Wyoming: A Book Review

Agent Hunt’s Yuletide Treat the LEGO Charles Dickens Tribute

Why I Read Lee Mack’s Mack the Life… And Why YOU Should too! 

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 33 with fellow agent Mike Laybourne (Agent Hunt), who has written about LEGO on AgentPalmer.com and is on the show to talk about our favorite plastic bricks. When we started, how we came back to them, why we enjoy them, collect them, and more.

During the episode we cover:

• Growing up with LEGO
• Our Personal LEGO Dark Ages
• What brought us back to LEGO
  • Space Shuttle (Mike)
  • Saturn V (Palmer)
• The Family that LEGOs together
• LEGO Community
• Custom LEGO stands and builds
• Building vs. Playing (Different LEGO interactions)
• Head in the clouds
• LEGO video games / LEGO Movies
• Keeping hobbies as hobbies
• The building process
• The missing piece!
• And much more...

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

Mike's Corner (Mike Laybourne's YouTube Channel)

Tweets

@ThePalmerFiles

@AgentPalmer

@MikeLaybourne

Other Links

The Power of Play - How Fun and Games Help Children Thrive

No ‘Match’ for conclusion to Deighton’s first Samson trilogy

Fighting for Space is not Jackie Cochran vs. Jerrie Cobb, but it’s a compelling duality

Mike's LEGO Reviews

LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series A-Wing

Two LEGO Mandalorian Sets

LEGO Star Wars Snow Speeder - 20th Anniversary Edition

LEGO Star Wars Slave 1 - 20th Anniversary Edition

LEGO Star Wars Anakin's Podracer - 20th Anniversary Edition

LEGO Star Wars Microfighters

LEGO Star Wars Imperial Dropship - 20th Anniversary Edition

LEGO Star Wars Clone Scout Walker

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 32 features the return of Essa Hansen (also Nia) to discuss her book Nophek Gloss, which is the first book of The Graven Trilogy, as well as, first work and second work, universal truths, and process.

If you would like to know more about her day job (first work) at Skywalker Sound, listen to Episode 21 where we discuss Sound Design. 

During the episode we cover:

• Is it real vs does it feel real
• Reading books without knowing anything
• Where ideas come from
• World-building
• Workshopping
• Building a trilogy
• Doing press and promotion
• Tips for others
• Universal Truths
• Diversity
• And much more...

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

EssaHansen.com

‘Nophek Gloss’ is a genre-defying good time from debut novelist Essa Hansen

The Palmer Files Episode 21: Sound Design with Nia Hansen

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@AgentPalmer

@EssaHansen

Other Links

‘Nophek Gloss’ is a genre-defying good time from debut novelist Essa Hansen

Val Kilmer’s memoir “I’m Your Huckleberry” Is Worth Your Time, it’s Poetry in Prose

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 31 features Andy Spiteri, Editor-in-chief of Zelda Dungeon and host of The Champions' Cast, Omega Metroid, and Virtual Theater, who joins me to discuss video games; why we like them, why they are important, and how things have changed, to name a few.

During the episode we cover:

• Why we like video games
• Skies of Arcadia
• Learning from games
• Communities
• Online Forums
• Playing old games
• Free to play and microtransactions
• Camping
• And much more...

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

ZeldaDungeon.net 

The Champions' Cast

Omega Metroid

Virtual Theater

TriforceDad1984

Tweets

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@AgentPalmer

@Spiteri316

@DaveOfDiamonds

Other Links

9 Holes with The Legend of Bagger Vance

Mexico Set expands Berlin Game’s outcome to set up London Match

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 30 features Alan Jennings, author of the book The Pursuit of Fairness and perhaps the most motivated person on the planet. Alan has done a lot to improve the bad to better, and we discuss that plus non-profit culture, community action, our shared love of baseball, and much much more.

During the episode we cover:

• Non-profit culture
• Helping people
• Class consciousness
• There's always a bad guy
• Exploitation
• We can do better
• The Argument for Fairness
• Always being on
• Utilizing the spotlight
• Retirement
• Teaching
• Baseball
• And much more...

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

How To Make A Difference: A review of Alan Jennings’ The Pursuit of Fairness 

Get your copy of The Pursuit of Fairness: Fighting for What's Right in a World That's So Wrong by Alan Jennings

Tweets

@ThePalmerFiles

@AgentPalmer

Suggested Reading Mentioned in the Episode

• Chris Kraft Takes You Behind the Origin of Mission Control in his Autobiography Flight: My Life In Mission Control
• Camp Cretaceous: For Kids and Fans of the Jurassic Canon
• “It’s What You Learn After You Know it All” by Earl Weaver is for Baseball Fans and Managers of all Types

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 29 features Sean Haas, host and creator of Advent of Computing, "a podcast about the shocking, intriguing, and all too often relevant history of computing. A lot of little things we take for granted today have rich stories behind their creation."

We discuss the importance of computer history, our device history, and generally geek out about technology.

During the episode we cover:

• Why Computer History?
• First computers
• Learning from Failure
• Looking back to look forward
• Starting Advent of Computing
• The Altair
• Xerox PARC
• Early Internet
• The mouse
• The undocumented history of computers
• Research
• And much more...

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

AdventofComputing.com 

Support Advent of Computing on Patreon

Tweets

@ThePalmerFiles

@AgentPalmer

@AdventofComp

Suggested Reading Mentioned in the Episode

• Fumbling The Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer
• Coders by Clive Thompson is an intriguing glimpse behind the code and into the people writing it
• Innovation Meets Invention: A Review of The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
• How the Internet Happened by Brian McCullough is a brilliant book about the story of the Internet Era
• Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evan“iWoz” is the Great Autobiography of Steve Wozniak by Steve Wozniak with Gina Smith
• A Book Review of “A Mind At Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age” by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman
• In constant pursuit of “The New New Thing”
• Charming, rude, sometimes clairvoyant: 1992 biography gives broad – albeit incomplete – look at Bill Gates
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson: A Biography of the Man from the Intersection of Humanities and Sciences
• An Agent Palmer Book Report: Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy a Defense of the Unconventional Her

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 28 features a friend of Agent Palmer's Chris Maier as the fourth of a four-part series on friendship by examining one up close.

What you are about to hear is simple and yet complex. This episode and the others like it all contain four main questions.

• Why are we friends?
• How did we meet?
• How did we become friends?
• Why are we still friends?

Through the answers to those questions, the discussions, and the stories that ensue, Chris and I will dive deep into our shared past, and the meaning of and perhaps the reason for our friendship.

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

Our Liner Notes How Was Your Week, Honey? AgentPalmer.com Agent Palmer on Patreon

Episode 2 of The Palmer Files - Blogging with Kristin Maier

Jurassic Park’s underlying themes anything but extinct 30 years later

One Year Later: Three Hallmarks of The Palmer Files

Tweets @ThePalmerFiles @ChrisMaierBC @AgentPalmer

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. --End Show Notes Transmission--