The Palmer Files Podcast

Episode 17 features biographer Brian Jay Jones, author of 4 books covering Washington Irving, Jim Henson, George Lucas, and Dr. Suess. We discuss lessons learned from those biographies, the writing process, and the value of one’s own work.

During the episode we discuss:

• Being a biographer
• "Having a shelf" (A common theme among biography subjects)
• Career Path
• Writing Process
• Research
• Fiction vs. Non-Fiction
• Storytelling
• Pacing
• Book Collecting
• Doing the Work
• And much more.

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

BrianJayJones.com

Books by Brian Jay Jones

Washington Irving: An American Original

Jim Henson: The Biography

George Lucas: A Life

(My Review of George Lucas: A Life)

Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the meaning of an American Imagination

Other Links

My in-depth history on TLPS The Podcast.

Rotospective: My Series on Ralph Bakshi and his art 

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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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Episode 16 features Alex Fitzpatrick; zooarchaeologist, podcaster, blogger, and gamer. We discuss zooarchaeology, video games, wrestling, and much more.

Alex stopped by to tell me what a zooarchaeologist is, plus we discuss higher education, Star Wars, Wrestling, Storytelling, and Animal Crossing. During the episode we discuss:

• Studying Abroad
• Why not Dinosaurs?
• Education
• Accents
• Salad Dressing
• Fictional Animals
• PC Gaming
• Console Gaming
• Museums in Gaming
• Leveling Up vs. The Human Condition
• And much more.

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

AnimalArchaeology.com

ArchaeoAnimals

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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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Episode 15 features Agent Palmer and a short story titled "The Passing of a Storyteller" and the journey that that story took to become a story and then a narration and then a video.

Agent Palmer also mentions some of his favorite content creators like Loading Ready Run and Day[9].

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

The Passing of a Storyteller (The Video)

The Passing of a Storyteller (The Text)

The Story of the Story of The Passing of a Storyteller (Basis for the Episode)

AgentPalmer.com

Agent Palmer on Patreon

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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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Episode 14 features Henno Heitur, a musician, podcaster, and friend. We discuss audio production, learning by doing, recording an album, podcast jingles, and taking the leap from wanting to actually doing.

Henno stopped by to discuss the album he is recording with his band Doghouse. And what you are in for is an episode in two parts. Part one, where Henno tells me all about his past and present in recording and audio engineering plus what he’s learned about the process of recording an album in general, and part two where we discuss what passion projects mean, what it takes to put in the work and how that makes us fulfilled.

During the episode we discuss:

• Audio Engineering
• The Recording Process
• Equipment
• Producing
• Passion Projects
• Learning by doing
• Doing what you want
• Keeping it sustainable
• Putting in the work (time)
• And much more.

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

MTNpodcast.com

The Crazy Life Podcast

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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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Episode 13 of The Palmer Files features guest Neil Cetrangolo of Dark Angels and Pretty Freaks (and vlog spinoff Halos and Heathens). We discuss anxiety.

Relating to Anxiety we discuss:

• Irrationality
• Acceptance
• Expectations
• Experience
• Origins
• Altruism

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com

DAPFpod.com

HalosandHeathens.com 

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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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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

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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 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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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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