The Palmer Files Podcast

Episode 107 features Rob Mallows the man behind The Deighton Dossier website and blog, who is here to talk about Len Deighton, Bernard Samson, Harry Palmer, as well as collecting books and feeding our reading habit, spy fiction, spybrary and much much more...

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Len Deighton
• Reading
• Collecting
• Harry Palmer
• Bernard Samson
• Starting a website
• Spybrary Connections
• La Carre, Fleming, and Deighton
• The Cold Ward
• Human Intelligence
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

deightondossier.net

spybrary.com

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AgentPalmer

@DeightonDossier

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

Palmer's Trek: Star Trek V The Final Frontier

Eric Idle Presents a Sortareminder to Laugh Through Life

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 106 features Nicholas W Fuller, an author who is working on his next book while raising two kids, recording interviews for YouTube, and still finds time for that pesky day job. We discuss his writing process, compare our gaming stories, talk about coding, incomplete trilogies, too much media, reading on a kindle, and much much more…

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• What's your process
• Plotter v. Pantser
• Speech to text
• Editing
• The Writing Process
• Waking Habits
• Self-Employed
• Our gaming stories
• Roads not taken
• Depreciated Syntax
• Name of the Wind
• Too much media
• Incomplete trilogies
• Kindle
• One book at a time
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

NicholasWFuller.com

YouTube.com/@NicholasWFuller

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AgentPalmer

@NicholasWFuller

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

It's Easy to Love the 1955 Dodgers When Reading Praying for Gil Hodges

Charity is a Fitting End or Even a Beginning to Deighton's Samson Series

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 105 features Will White, an animator, artist, writer, and video creator who not only has experience in the studio system for animation but also has had his hand in YouTube as well with his channel WillBits. We discuss how Will became an animator, creating videos and animations on YouTube, appeasing the algorithm, supporting independent creations, throwing away good stuff, and does everyone really has a story in them, and much much more…

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Will's Animation Story
• Cartoons
• A VHS trick to watch movies frame by frame
• Pre-Flash and Flash
• Do you have to draw?
• Webtoons
• Vtubers
• Fixing, Editing, and Retakes
• Webcomics
• Growing from bad writing
• Supporting the Independents
• YouTube
• VidCon
• Algorithm
• The tedium of animation
• Everyone has a story
• Execution matters
• An exploitative system
• Fans not fanatics
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

YouTube.com/WillBits

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AgentPalmer

@will_bits

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

Palmer's Trek: Fourth Major Star Trek Movie Really Does Feel Like a Voyage Home

Almost a Decade Later, Mitchell's Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse Remains Relevant

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 104 features Matt Gilhooly host of The Life Shift Podcast, an instructor for higher education, and someone who is also working toward bringing conversation back. We discussed education and expected life paths, perfection, being creative, long-form content in all forms, the act of listening, celebrating things, moving on to what's next and so much more...

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Education
• Expected life paths
• Higher Education Expectations
• What comes next
• Engaging the brain
• Learning with and without structure
• Perfection
• Podcasting
• Challenging creative outlets
• Reading
• Communication
• Conversation
• Listening
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

MattGilhooly.com

The Life Shift Podcast

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AgentPalmer

@thelifeshiftpod

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

No Matter which Football you Love, Captains and Quarterbacks Offer Emotional Journeys for Viewers

The Mystery of The Codex is Always on the Periphery

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 103 features the sultry voice of David Cook, who you may know from his work on The Edge of The World Broadcast, but who hopes you'll know him as a movie trailer voice down the road. We discuss music and voice-over, comedy, entertainment, training and learning, inspiration, finding your sound, knowing your instrument, nuance and so much more...

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• The Edge of the World Broadcast
• "I don't do voices"
• I started as a singer
• Growing up geek
• Good music is good music
• Perfect Pitch
• Living in a household of musicians
• East Coast vs. West Coast club scenes
• "I love listening to me"
• Nuance
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

The Edge of the World Broadcast

David Cook's YouTube Channel

David Cook's Soundcloud

David Cook's Instagram

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AgentPalmer

@SmoothCrooner

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

The Story of the Femmes was the better of the Tours de France in 2023

Palmer's Trek: Star Trek III The Search for Spock

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 102 features the long-awaited return of my friend and the second Palmer files guest, Kristin Maier. We discuss writing and blogging, sharing, slowing down, speeding up, understanding ourselves, cycles, perception, reality and so much more...

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Writing
• Blogging
• Getting personal online
• Toxic productivity
• The Spoon Theory
• Purpose
• Plans
• Anxiety
• Storytelling
• Dirty Dishes
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

The Palmer Files Episode 2: Blogging with Kristin Maier

HoneyBears & SydneyBeans

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AgentPalmer

@kmaemaier

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

Multiversal Mayhem Caps Graven Trilogy in the Unbelievably Good Ethera Grave

How I Halved My Record Collection and Why I Did it.

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 101 features features the return of my friend and the original Palmer Files guest, Bill Sweeney. The first 100 episodes went well let's start the second hundred off the same way. We discuss 100 episodes of this show, guests, guilt, The Dip, go behind the scenes, talk about before there was this podcast, and just who is winning, Bill or Palmer?

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Getting in the rhythm
• Always looking ahead
• Podcasting creation processes
• Hypotheticals
• Blogging
• When you are ready
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

The Interrogation of Agent Palmer by Agent 76 (Bill Sweeney)

Lessons on New York City from Bill Sweeney

The Palmer Files Episode 1: The Dip with Bill Sweeney

The DCTV Report Reunion

WickedTheory.com

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AgentPalmer

@wickedtheory

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

Palmer's Trek: Star Trek The Motion Picture

Ever the Scientist, Sagan Connected All the Dots in the Original Cosmos

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 100 features a very special guest, Michael Stershic a.k.a my Dad. We discuss the art of long-form conversation, working together, education, parenting, get into some nature v. nurture, and so much more.

During the episode we cover:

• Listening to the podcast
• The Art of Long-form Conversation
• Working together
• Childhood memories
• Staying in touch...
• Chasing friends
• Education
• Parenting
• Our Venn diagram of interests
• Playing guitar
• Retirement
• And much more...

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

Episode 50 of The Palmer Files "A Conversation with Sybil Stershic a.k.a. My Mom."

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@ThePalmerFiles

@AgentPalmer

Other Links

Klosterman Ditches the Rose Colored Glasses to Look Back on The Nineties

"One Day Ahead" Spins a Great Story about Tour de France, Mental Health

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 99 features the complete unauthorized and organically sourced history of coffee. So stay tuned for how one of the world's most popular beverages came to be with a history full of kings, spies, pirates, popes, lovers, religion, politics, war, and much much more!

• Coffee's Origins
• From Berry and Bean to Drink
• Trade
• Coffee Shops
• Social Coffee
• Coffee Bans
• Capitalism
• Trade Agreements
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

AgentPalmer.com/Coffee

Coffee Declassified: The History of Coffee

FilmJoy on YouTube

FilmJoy on Nebula

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AgentPalmer

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

Latest Features Dossier School Spirit, Like the Yearbooks that Inspired it, is a Neat Narrative Time Capsule

The Catastrophic Culminations of the Edge of the World Broadcast's Third Season

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 98 features Mikey Neumann, whom you may know from FilmJoy, Movies with Mikey, Deep Dive or perhaps his days at Gearbox and those Borderland games. We discuss creating YouTube content, informational osmosis, situational nihilism, defining art, and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• "No one knows what they're doing."
• There is no best.
• Situational Nihilism
• FilmJoy - Looking for the good...
• Everyone needs notes
• Informational Osmosis
• Behind the microphone
• "Get Off the Floor"
• Too much of a good thing
• Career transitions
• Being a YouTuber is stressful
• "Fiercely millennial."
• Taking pictures
• What is art?
• Ambition
• Quality
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

"Get Off the Floor" - Movies with Mikey

FilmJoy on YouTube

FilmJoy on Nebula

catawampus.ink

FilmJoy Patreon

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AgentPalmer

@mikeyface

@FilmJoyMedia

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

Palmer's Trek: Star Trek The Motion Picture

Ever the Scientist, Sagan Connected All the Dots in the Original Cosmos

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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