Episode 12 of The Palmer Files features guest Sara of the many hats. She’s a Professor, Recapper, Author and genuinely fun person with at least two names; Netzley and Whitney. We discuss all of those things plus writing, reading, romance, and even sports.

Netzley to those of you who have learned from Dr. Sara, also Netzley to those of you who listen to her as co-host of the DC TV Report or read her recaps on EW.com, and Whitney to those of you who have read her novels of romance.

That's why Sara is here. Her trichotomy of things. Her trilogy of aspects. Her three-headed giant of careers. And I mean careers. While she’s really making the bread on one, she’s talented enough to make her bread solely on anyone, but she still does all three. So what are you in for with this episode? A lot of different things.

• Romance
• Sports
• Communication Theory
• Journalism
• Personas and Personalities
• Passion Projects
• Reading
• Writing

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

SaraNetzley.com

SaraWhitney.com

The DC TV Report

Agent Palmer's Book Reviews and Recommendations

Clip of the Chicago Cubs Winning the 2016 World Series

Framing Theory

Cultivation Theory

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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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For episode eleven of The Palmer Files guest Jordan Steinhoff, co-host of the All Us Geeks Podcast, joins Agent Palmer to discuss geek versus nerd, the importance of the local store, nerd culture, geek community, and then Jordan tries to open me up to new games. 

Are nerds and geeks mainstream? Are you a geek or a nerd? How have things changed? What’s the difference between the US and Canada within the geek/nerd culture? 

Throughout the conversation, we cover:

• Geek or Nerd?
• Mainstream Acceptance
• Communities
  • Open
  • Closed
  • Cliques
• The Local Game/Comic Store (LCS/LGS)
• Magic: The Gathering
  • Old School
  • Mana Burn
• The More Things Change
• Keeping an Open Mind/Table
• Bias
  • Gender Bias
  • OG Bias
• Change is hard
• Fandom Ownership
• BACK IN MY DAY!
• LAN Parties
• Gaming
• Learning Averse
• Us vs. Them (Geek/Nerd vs. Everyone else)
• Addiction and Passion
• Canada vs. Us (for Nerds and Geeks)
• Game Suggestions

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

AllUsGeeks.com

Old School Magic: The Gathering Series form AgentPalmer.com 

Old School Magic: Alliances the Expansion that Changed the Game and Had it All

Old School Magic the Gathering: Fallen Empires and the Rise of the Tribes

Diablo: Play it again and again and again, It’s still Highly Addictive after all these years

Quake: It was great then, it is still great now!

Digging into the Battle Tested PC Gaming Classic of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness

Jack Vasel Memorial Fund

The Palmer Files Episode 9: Adaptation and Interpretation with Jason Zapata.

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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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For episode ten of The Palmer Files guest Paula Allen, host of the Tell Me Stories Podcast, joins Agent Palmer to discuss storytelling, writing, podcasting, listening and of course we tell a few stories, including the unwelcome welcome at the beginning of our friendship. 

Paula and Jason relive the origins of their meeting up, the run not taken, music, and it all comes back to the importance of storytelling.

Throughout the conversation, we cover:

• Why is storytelling important?
• Why podcasting for Paula?
• With Story, it is the details and little things
• Great Stories
• • Fiction
  • Escape (from politics)
• Generational narratives
• Growing with experience and people
• Road Trips
• Online relationships
• Storytelling and experience
• Storytelling the skill
• Musc listen to the album vs live performance
• Hero stories 
• • Going through strife
• What writing is…
• • That one story (Death of a storyteller)
  • The writer writes always
  • blogging/process
  • Writing fiction (I don’t usually)
  • Old drafts
• Idea packrat (writing hoarder)
• Consuming stories
• More Tell me stories coming soon
• Being the audience
• Atmosphere and storytelling
• Palmer Files Pressure
• On not being PRess
• Paula and Palmer Origin story
• • Podtoberfest Writer’s room
  • Unwelcome welcome
  • IRL it was instant
  • The run not taken
• Introverted Extraverts
• New Stories vs. Old Stories
• Mom Stories
• The best storyteller Paula knows
• YouTube/Twitch
• • Personality and storytelling
• Sage advice from agent palmer
• Being the silent audience
• The worst grade Paula ever got
• • Ethnography
• Sermonizing
• The Rabbi Not Taken

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

TellMeStoriesPodcast.com

Len Deighton’s Goodbye Mickey Mouse is a great read that crosses genres.

The Passing of a Story Teller

The Video

The Story of the Story

The Palmer Files Episode 1: The Dip with Bill Sweeney

The Palmer Files Episode 2: Blogging with Kristin Maier

The Palmer Files Episode 3: Podcasting with Dan Lizette

The Palmer Files Episode 4: Health & Wellness with Margo Donohue

The Palmer Files Episode 5: Modern Archaeology with Tristan Boyle the Anarchaeologist

The Palmer Files Episode 6: Changing Careers with Carl Landra

The Palmer Files Episode 7: The Reigning Lunatic with Geoffrey Welchman

The Palmer Files Episode 8: Fine Art with Sean Hizny

The Palmer Files Episode 9: Adaptation and Interpretation with Jason Zapata.

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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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For episode nine of The Palmer Files, guest Jason Zapata joins Agent Palmer to discuss adaption versus interpretation; from Tolkien and Terry Brooks to Batman, Bond, and Beowulf, plus many many more properties, it’s a pop culture cornucopia.

Jason and Jason relive old arguments about Tolkien’s seminal adaptation by Peter Jackson and discuss many book to screen adaptations and other interpretations plus go on a few sidetracks, because why not?

Throughout the conversation, we cover:

• Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Book vs. Film
  • Purist Perspective
  • Tom Bombadil
  • The Hobbit
• Terry Brooks and The Four Lands
  • The Shannara Chronicles
  • The Sword of Shannara Trilogy
  • Being Generational
• Game of Thrones and George R.R. Martin
• The Name of the Winds by Patrick Rothfuss
• Rock Star Authors
• The Great And Secret Show by Clive Barker
• Do Not Touch list
• All Adaptations Are Not Created Equal
• Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Adaptation to Big or Small Screen
• Star Wars
• Comic Book Adaptations
• Batman as the new Macbeth
• James Bond
• Does the visual media inspire looking for the source material?
• Gender and Interpretation vs. Adaptation
  • Women deserve better than gender-swapped characters
• Beowulf with Christopher Lambert
• The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
• The IPCRESS File
• Everyone should read more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

JasonZapata.com

Thanks to a friend, I've entered the World of Shannara

Galilee: A Romance by Clive Barker is a Masterpiece of the Written Word

Ernest Cline shows his immense geek cred with Ready Player One

The IPCRESS File by Len Deighton is a MAsterpiece of Spy Fiction (Spoiler Free Review)

Microserfs by Douglas Coupland is the Psychology of the Geeks Written Yesterday for Tomorrow

Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys by Michael Collins is a must-have for NASAphiles

Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

Beowulf

Tweets

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@ZapataWordsmith

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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For episode eight of The Palmer Files, guest Sean Hizny joins Agent Palmer to discuss some of the finer things in life.

Sean and Jason discuss Sean's career trajectory from higher education and a technical trade to the fine arts of Santa Fe in art galleries and studios, while along the way discussing the importance of art; traditional, fine, and animated.

Throughout the conversation, we cover:

• What is fine art?
• Why is art important?
• Photography
  • Early Digital Photography
• Moving to Santa Fe
• Art and Craftsman
• Art as work
• Understanding the workings of an Art Gallery
• What makes a successful artist?
• The Hollywood Artist Lie
• Mental Illness and Art
• The Tortured Artist
• Art and Consumerism
• Entry Levels for Fine Art
• Animation Cels
• Digital Art
• Fine Art vs. New Media
• Galleries vs. Museums
• Owning Art
• Collecting
• Enrichment not Investment

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

Listen to Sean on Moving The Needle Podcast.

Tweets

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@SJhizny

@MTNPod

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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For episode seven of The Palmer Files, guest Geoffrey Welchman joins Agent Palmer to discuss The Reigning Lunatic Podcast.

The Reigning Lunatic podcast was a scripted sitcom set in a despotic medieval kingdom plagued by dragons, wizards, and dreadful wifi.

Geoffrey and Jason talk about origins for The Reigning Lunatic and Inverse Delirium podcasts, all points in our past leading us to podcasting, and for one final time, I bother Geoffrey to resurrect The Reigning Lunatic.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• The Goon Show
• Monty Python
• Inverse Delirium Podcast
  
  • Spoofing NPR
  • Podcast Burnout
• Time Management
• Connections
• The Process of creating The Reigning Lunatic
• Writing
• Satire and Comedy
• Breaking the 4th Wall
• Mr. Show
• Collecting Comedy Albums
• The First Sketch
• Music as a technical background
• Tape Letters: Before there were podcasts
• My similar origin story
• Sound design/Sound engineering
• Audiophile frustrations
• The Art of a Blank Canvas
• Guidelines and Challenging yourself
• The Rules of The Reigning Lunatic
• Geoffrey's Music History
• Being an Artist
• Promotion
• The Extra Mile
• Echo in the Canyon documentary
• Folk Music
• Songwriting
• Storytelling

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

Listen to The Reigning Lunatic on SoundCloud.

Tweets

@ThePalmerFiles

@AgentPalmer

@Welchmania

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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For episode six of The Palmer Files, guest Carl Landra joins Agent Palmer to discuss decision making, changing careers, an engineering cult, and then Palmer goes on a rant.

Carl and Jason cover the process of changing careers and their respective stories on leaving jobs of eight years on very different terms.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Why Engineering
• Choosing Your Own Path
• Stereotyping Engineers
• Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer
• Changing Careers
• Going Back to School
• Teaching
• The Least Millennial Thing
• Getting Older
• From Lab Reports to Feeling Papers
• Higher Education Loopholes in Curriculum
• Money and Math
• Let your Hobbies lead the way
• What we do in our free time
• Health Care
• Helping People

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

the4thlinepodcast.com

The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer 

Tweets

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@AgentPalmer

@4thlinepodcast

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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For episode five of The Palmer Files, guest Tristan Boyle the Anarchaeologist joins Agent Palmer to discuss modern archaeology, hidden history, and our shared past.

From the different types of archaeology to Tristan's love/hate relationship with Indiana Jones, how our paths crossed even for the first time on Twitter, my ill-informed education, our joint work on no longer published podcast Chronicles Unwritten and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we dig in to: 

• Archeaogaming
• Recording what could be lost
• Ancient Arch vs. Modern Arch
• What constitutes something of value
• What’s the point?
• Arch twitter
• Justification, Prioritization, Importance
• Hidden history
• Archeology of brushing teeth
• Life as a commercial arch
• How often things crumble
• Being inclusive
• Reflection and projection
• Theresa O’Mahony
• Living in a post-apocalyptic world
• Saying too much vs. things not said
• Podcasting
• Chronicles Unwritten

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

ArchaeologyPodcastNetwork.com

The Modern Myth with Tristan Boyle

Andrew Rinehart's The No Man’s Sky Archaeological Project

Atari: Game Over

Scottish Area Group of Chartered Institute for Archaeologists

Chris Webster

CRM Archeology

Enabled Archaeology - Theresa O’Mahony

Dark Angels and Pretty Freaks Podcast (DAPFpod)

"Diamond" David Maier

The Stranger Conversations

Grant Markham

Tweets

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@Anarchaeologist

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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For episode four of The Palmer Files, guest Margo the Brooklyn Fit Chick joins me to discuss Health and Wellness and we discover that our pasts our very similar.

From how healthy host Agent Palmer is, to restaurant chains that no longer exists where they worked; Arthur Treacher's and Roy Rogers, these two who grew up just states apart discuss the topic at hand and get off-topic for an enjoyable discussion on health and life.

Throughout the conversation we cover:

• How healthy is Agent Palmer?
• Watch what you eat.
• Working out
• Fitness trackers
• Aging
• Getting a Peleton
• Sleep and Insomnia
• Seasonal Wellness
• Retail Job Stories
• Fast Food Job Stories
• Youthful Exuberance
• Body Acceptance
• Self-care
• And much more.

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

BrooklynFitChick.com

Book Vs Movie: Wonder Boys Episode

Margo's Many Shows

• Book Vs Movie
• The Best Neighbors Podcast
• Not Fade Away
• The Fit Bottomed Girls
• The Dorking Out Show

Malled: My Unintentional Career in Retail by Caitlin Kelly

Tweets

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@AgentPalmer

@BrooklynFitChik

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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For episode three of The Palmer Files, guest Dan Lizette of The Podcast Digest joins me to talk about podcasting, which we now do together, though we arrived by separate paths.

It is all things podcasting, which mean we discuss our respective podcast histories, podcasting’s present, and future, and share some stories along the way. 

Throughout the conversation we cover:

• Origins of The Podcast Digest
• The Palmer Files origins in The Proxycast
• Podcast Range: General Interest vs. Niche
• Shouting back from the void.
• Creators and Ownership
• Blog vs. Podcast
• The Evolution of The Podcast Digest
• Episode Recording Preparation
• Being Ed McMahon
• Podcasting Barriers
• Community
• Podcasting begets Podcasting
• Consistency, The Grind, The Dip
• The Future
  • Search
  • Money
  • Commercialization

Lastly, as a reminder, this episode was conceived before I was a co-host of The Podcast Digest and recorded after I had said yes, but before any episodes with me had been released. I'm not sure if that's super important, but I wanted to put it out there. 

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

ThePodcastDigest.com

The Dip Book Review / The Dip Podcast Discussion

Phoebe Judge on The Podcast Digest Episode 27

Roman Mars on The Podcast Digest Episode 77

WTF with Marc Maron

Smodcast

Armchair Expert

Agent Palmer's First Appearance on The Podcast Digest Episode 94.

A Companion to My Declassified Top Secret Podcast Appearance on The Podcast Digest

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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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