The Palmer Files Podcast

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.

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@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 

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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

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@AgentPalmer

@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

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@ThePalmerFiles

@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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@AgentPalmer

@PodDigest

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 two of The Palmer Files, guest (and friend) Kristin Maier joins me to talk about blogging, which for both Kristin and myself predates our podcasting careers. 

She's also a Mommy blogger, which is a completely different subculture of blogging that I'm not that familiar with and this conversation presented an opportunity to tell a little of my blogging origin story.

Throughout the conversation we cover:

• Digital Origins
• Starting a Blog
• The Writing Process
• Creating Content
• Reading
• Storytelling
• Editing
• Organization
• Relevance
• The bigger picture
• Podcasting vs. Blogging
• And reasons to blog.

Through the conversation, I state the three reasons to create something (which is more general and applicable to other things than just blogging) as to inform, to education, and to entertain.

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

Honey Bears and Syndey Beans

How Was Your Week, Honey Podcast

Agent Palmer's First Post "Football over Rhodes Scholarship... What Wold you do?

Breaking the Fourth Wall: Recapping My Year-Long Content Experiment.

AgentPalmer.com

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@ThePalmerFiles

@AgentPalmer

You can also hear more Palmer in the meantime on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier and my new gig 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 the inaugural episode of The Palmer Files Podcast, guest (and friend of the host) Bill Sweeney from The Wicked Theory Podcast and I discuss The Dip: When to Quit and When to Stick by Seth Godin.

Throughout the discussion we cover:

• Process (a lot and often)
• Quitting vs Not Starting
• Decision Making
• The opposite of quitting and Prioritization
• Follow Through and Unfinished Business
• Learning from Failure
• Enjoying the journey (aka for the love of the process)
• Getting to the top and the scarcity of success
• Being a workaholic vs. Not being one

Lastly, this book is for decision-makers, and in life, in some way or another we are all decision-makers, so this book is for everyone, but its application may change depending on your role in any given situation.

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com
WickedTheory.com

My post on The Dip written before my conversation with Bill for this podcast, in case you were wondering...

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Wicked Theory Podcast The Roast of Bill Sweeney

Nocturnal Wanderings by Jason Zapata

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@ThePalmerFiles
@AgentPalmer
@WickedTheory

You can also hear more Palmer in the meantime on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier and my new gig 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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