A Good Story is Hard to Find
By Julie Davis, Scott Danielson
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Podcast Description
Two Catholics talking about books, movies, and the traces of "one Reality" they find there.
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Good Story 028: The Lifecycle of Software Objects | Episode #28, in which Scott finally admits to Julie that he's a digient. Julie knew it all along. The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang! Download or listen via this link: |Episode #028| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| More stuff: Clarification of a statistic that Scott mentioned about people living alone - it's not 50%. This NYT article states that 40-50% of households IN LARGER CITIES are occupied by a single person. Ted Chiang Interview - part of it was quoted in the podcast An interesting podcast from Jimmy Akin: 005 Artificial Intelligence; Hell; Aliens & Salvation | 2/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 027: Lars and the Real Girl | Julie bought a life-size Johnny Depp doll, and Scott got a little uncomfortable. Luckily, they had a movie called Lars and the Real Girl to talk about. Dr. Dagmar: Have there been any changes in the family in the last year or so? Gus: [while Karin simultaneously nods "Yes"] No, everything is pretty much exactly the same except Karin is pregnant and Lars is nuts. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #027| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| More stuff: Lars and the Real Girl on IMDB.A Man, His Doll, and Responsibility, a review of the movie by Julie on Happy Catholic | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 026: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | Episode #26 is the first of the year, and Julie and Scott talk about J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels. Julie marvels at the end of the series, and Scott can't believe he didn't mention Luna Lovegood. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #026| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| More stuff: Harry Potter Influences and Analogues Michael D. O'Brien on Harry Potter Pope Opposes Harry Potter Novels Harry Potter Charms the Pope | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 025: Hogfather | In Episode 25, Julie and Scott visit the Guild of Assassins, then try to explain the nuances of human belief to Death himself. Instead, it's Death that teaches them a thing or two about belief. Hogfather by Terry Pratchett is the book. HO. HO. HO. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #025| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| More stuff: Terry Pratchett - Reading Order | 12/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 024: Tokyo Godfathers | Julie and Scott got out of the convenience store just in time! After calling an ambulance, they talked about Tokyo Godfathers, a meaningful Christmas movie from an unlikely source. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #024| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| More stuff: The Hobbit - Behind the Scenes Production Video #4 - about 3D, with bonus comments from Scott Julia McCarthy on Japanese Attitudes Toward Abortion Japanese Christmas customs The Right to Be Wrong Patriotic Grace | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 023: Way Station | Episode 23: Julie and Scott agree to make coffee for Ulysses in return for a cube of deceased vegetation. Also, they read Way Station by Clifford D. Simak. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #023| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| More stuff: A Clifford D. Simak fan page. A Review of The Better Angels by Steven Pinker James Patrick Kelly: jimkelly.net | 11/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 022: The Social Network | Episode 22! Julie and Scott talk about The Social Network, a movie written by Aaron Sorkin, then decide to sue Mark Zuckerberg for wearing flip flops in the snow. You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #022| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| More stuff: General Glyphics, Inc. | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 021: Something Wicked This Way Comes | Episode 21: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. Also, Julie and Scott race to the barber pole, go trick or treating, and barely mention zombies. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #021| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| More stuff: RayBradbury.com At Happy Catholic: Offering it up At Happy Catholic: Cardinal Virtues! mmm... zombies The Halloween Tree - review and audio link Flicks That Church Forgot podcast October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween, edited by Richard Chizmar and Robert Morrish | 10/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 020: Shaun of the Dead | Episode 20, in which Julie sacrifices her record collection to ward off zombies, and Scott wishes she hadn't thrown the Batman soundtrack. Shaun of the Dead is the subject! Hilarious movie. With zombies. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #020| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| More stuff: Julie at Patheos: St. Martha: Truth and Practicality The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins, atheist The Tobolowsky Files by Stephen Tobolowsky | 10/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 019: Declare | Episode 19. Here is a list: Philby. Espionage. Powers. Declare. While they await your coded response, Julie and Scott discuss Declare by Tim Powers, a fantasy/spy thriller they both enjoyed. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #019| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| More stuff: The blog of Jeff, aka The Curt Jester The Works of Tim Powers Kim Philby at Wikipedia Hour 25: Tim Powers interview from March 2, 2001 | 9/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 018: Contact | Episode 18, in which Julie watches a movie she does not like and Scott says, "Wha?" Contact, from a book by Carl Sagan, directed by Robert Zemeckis, and starring Jodie Foster and rarely shirtless Matthew McConaughey. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #018| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| More stuff: Lucy's Laugh Enlivens the Solar System by Robert Krulwich. From Morning Edition, 2008. Confessions of an Alien Hunter by Seth Shostak Rocks of Ages by Stephen Jay Gould. Two other great books by Gould: Wonderful Life and Dinosaur in a Haystack | 9/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 017: And Then There Were None | Episode 17. Julie and Scott find themselves trapped on an island serving cold ham to eight seven extremely nervous guests. What could go wrong? And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. Good book. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #017| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| More stuff: Luke Burrage's Science Fiction Book Review Podcast Agatha Christie on Forgotten Classics ... both nonfiction and "The Secret Adversary" The Mousetrap and Other Plays by Agatha Christie - contains both "Ten Little Indians" and "The Mousetrap" Some other favorite Agatha Christie books to try:Murder on the Orient Express Death Comes as the End The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Mysterious Mr. Quin Why Didn't They Ask Evans? What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! Julie's review of Now I Walk on Death Row. Maria Goretti and her attacker, Alessandro (his letter is very moving) Jacques Fesch (he is the murderer who experienced that moment of grace in his prison cell ... ) | 8/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 016: Inception | Episode 16. Or is it? Julie and Scott both remember how they got there, and are pretty darned sure they discussed Christopher Nolan's Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #016| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| More stuff: Pope Recommends Summer Reading by the Faithful The Prestige by Christopher Priest Christopher Nolan and his stuff Julie's excellent book: Happy Catholic Cowboy's tailgating guidelines - evidently there are so many restrictions that they advise using nearby private lots. | 8/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 015: East of Eden | Episode 15 takes us to the Salinas Valley in California. The subject is John Steinbeck's East of Eden, written in 1951. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #015| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| Julie's Forgotten Classics: The Genesis Episodes - Julie is not quite done with Genesis, but she's up to Chapter 31. |HERE| is Genesis Chapter 1-2, and |HERE| is the episode that contains the first part of Robert Alter's Note to Reader. Also from Forgotten Classics, a couple of Lagniappes! Lagniappe 49, in which we hear about Olive and the airplane and Lagniappe 6, a little something from The Paragraph Farmer who makes sure we don't think that Chinese chefs only know how to cook East of Eden on Wikipedia Dragged kicking and screaming into the promised land ... Julie's review of East of Eden at Patheos. | 8/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 014: Groundhog Day | Episode 14. We recommend that you listen to this episode over and over and over and over... Julie and Scott talk about Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray and Andie McDowall. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #014| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| More stuff: The Tobolowsky Files podcast - the Episode in which Stephen Tobolowsky talks about Groundhog Day is Episode 20 - The Classic. | 7/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 013: Prince of Foxes | Episode 13 finds us in Renaissance Italy. Our book is Prince of Foxes by Samuel Shellabarger. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #013| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| Wikipedia entry on Prince of Foxes - lots of info there First Apology by St. Justin Martyr - look at Chap. LXV Some other books mentioned: Captain from Castile by Samuel Shellabarger, The Fathers of the Church by Mike Aquilina, The Fathers Know Best by Jimmy Akin, The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens, The Mass, The Glory, the Mystery, the Tradition by Mike Aquilina and Cardinal Wuerl, A Biblical Walk Through the Mass by Edward Sri, The Mass of the Early Christians by Mike Aquilina, Praying the Mass by Jeffrey Pinyan, Oliver Wiswell by Kenneth Roberts, Lydia Bailey by Kenneth Roberts, The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara USCCB's program on the new liturgy Documents of Vatican II (the two I was thinking of were Lumen Gentium and Gaudium et Spes) | 6/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 012: About a Boy | Episode 12! About a Boy starring Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, and Toni Collette. From the novel by Nick Hornby. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #012| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| More stuff: Nick Hornby's website Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion, from Blackstone Audio Summer Reading from Catholic Authors (Julie's Free Mind column) | 6/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 011: Stories of Your Life and Others | It's Episode 11 time! Julie and Scott discuss Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang. From Rivets and Trees (by Scott): In 1999, Gardner Dozois published the Sixteenth volume of his Year’s Best Science Fiction. I bought a digital copy for Handspring Visor from Peanut Press (now eReader) and started reading. Included in that volume was “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang, a story that affected me so much that it renewed my interest in short fiction. In first-person prose that refers to past and future as if it were all present, a woman tells the story of her daughter’s life while at the same time telling a fascinating story of attempts to unravel an alien language. How it converges is breathtaking. A good Chiang story (and they are all good, as I found out) mixes the intensely personal with exciting science and philosophy. Stories of Your Life and Others includes all the fiction Ted Chiang wrote through 2002. Standouts other than the story I already mentioned: “Tower of Babylon” (building a tower to find God), “Understand” (a story that reminded me of “Flowers for Algernon” by Keyes), and “Hell is the Absence of God” (in which religious things are easily seen, yet a man struggles with faith). I’ve heard so many times the refrain “I just don’t get into short fiction”, and that makes me sad because if you don’t read short fiction, you don’t read these incredible stories. I urge you to read Ted Chiang. Anything by Ted Chiang. It’s all gold. Table of Contents: “Tower of Babylon” • (1990) • novelette “Understand” • (1991) • novelette “Division by Zero” • (1991) • short story “Story of Your Life” • (1998) • novella “Seventy-Two Letters” • (2000) • novella “The Evolution of Human Science” • (2000) • short story “Hell Is the Absence of God” • (2001) • novelette “Liking What You See: A Documentary” • (2002) • short story Download or listen via this link: |Episode #011| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| Ted Chiang Interview at Fantastic Metropolis Ted Chiang Interview at StarShipSofa SFFaudio Ted Chiang page The quote about Hell that Julie was looking for from John Ciardi's essay about understanding Dante: “The damned are there because they offended a theological system that enforces certain consequences of suffering. But part of that theological system has also decreed that salvation was available to all men. Christ in his ransom had procured endless mercy. One need only wish to be saved, need only surrender his soul to God in a last gasp of contrition, and he will be saved. He may have to suffer at length in Purgatory, but, once there, his place is reserved in Heaven and he will in time arrive there. Purgatory is like our modern colleges: no one can flunk out of them. It follows then, that the only way to get into Hell is to insist upon it. One must deliberately exclude himself from grace by hardening his heart against it. Hell is what the damned have actively and insistently wished for.” | 5/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 010: Fallen | Episode 10 features Fallen starring Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, and Embeth Davidtz. It's a movie featuring a demon, and Julie and Scott place it at very different places on the Rank-O-Meter. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #010| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| More stuff: Peter Kreeft on Angels Angels and Demons by Peter Kreeft The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist by Matt Baglio The Exorcist Let the Right One In | 5/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 009: The Mystery of Grace | In Episode #9, Julie and Scott discuss The Mystery of Grace by Charles de Lint. On the Day of the Dead, at the Solona Music Hall, Altagracia Quintero meets John Burns — just two weeks too late. Grace, as her friends call her, has a Ford Motor Company tattoo running down her leg and grease worked deep into her hands. She works at Sanchez Motorworks customizing hot rods. Finding the line in a classic car is her calling. Now Grace has to find the line in her own life. Grace loves John, and John loves her, and that would be wonderful, except that John, like Grace, has unfinished business: he’s haunted by the childhood death of his younger brother. He's never stopped feeling responsible. Before their relationship can find its resolution, the two of them will have to teach each other about life and love, about hot rods and Elvis Presley, and about why it's necessary to let some things go. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #009| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| Charles de Lint's site: |LINK| | 4/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 008: Stranger Than Fiction | Time for Episode 8! Julie and Scott discuss Stranger Than Fiction, a movie from 2006 starring Will Ferrell, directed by Marc Forster, and written by Zach Helm. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #008| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| More stuff: The opening of the movie, with the graphics we talked about: Two interviews with Zach Helm, the writer of the screenplay: One at Variety and one at filmindependent.org Rene Magritte's Son of Man Julie's column at Patheos - "The Hiding Place": No Pit So Deep" The zombie mention of the week: 28 Days Later from director Danny Boyle The audiobook version of The Mystery of Grace by Charles de Lint (our next book) is available for half price over at Audible if you are out of credits | 4/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 007: Eifelheim | In Episode #7, Julie and Scott discuss Eifelheim by Michael Flynn. Centuries ago, one small town in Germany disappeared and was never resettled. Tom, a historian, and his theoretical physicist girlfriend Sharon, become interested. By all logic, the town should have survived. What's so special about Eifelheim? Father Dietrich is the village priest of Eifelheim, in the year 1348, when the Black Death is gathering strength. To his astonishment, Dietrich makes first contact between humanity and an alien race from a distant star, when their ship crashes in the nearby forest. Flynn gives us the full richness and strangeness of medieval life, as well as some terrific aliens. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #007| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| Michael Flynn's Blog: |LINK| Michael Flynn's Bibliography: |LINK| Special Thanks to Sean McGaughey at the Catholic Roundup Podcast! Julie's new book! Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist by Br. Guy Consolmagno In the Country of the Blind by Michael Flynn | 3/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 006: Quiz Show | In Episode 6, Julie and Scott discuss Quiz Show, a movie from 1994 directed by Robert Redford. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #006| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| Stuff mentioned in the podcast: A zombie! (But it wasn't real...) All the Answers by Charles van Doren, from The New Yorker, 2008 Audio version of The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton from Uvula Audio - after clicking, you need to scroll a little more than halfway down the page. The soccer game Scott went to the night before the podcast. | 3/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Story 005: The Franchise Affair | In this week's podcast, Julie and Scott discuss The Franchise Affair, a mystery novel by Josephine Tey. Download or listen via this link: |Episode #005| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| Stuff mentioned in the podcast: No zombies! (Not even one...) Julie describes a miracle that she mentioned in the podcast in a post on Happy Catholic called Signs and Wonders Also on Happy Catholic, a list of good sources of Church news The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (audiobook at Audible) Radioarchive.cc | 3/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Sure to delight
Scott and Julie have a gem of a podcast here, and I salute them for taking the time and effort to do this! While they don't hide their Catholicism, I love that they're seeking stories EVERYWHERE. It's as entertaining to listen to them talk about a book, movie, or show as it is to actually consume whatever they talk about. Keep up the great work, guys!
Great Show Concept
As a Christian and fan of Science Fiction and Fantasy, it's great to have a show that looks at these genres from a spiritual perspective. Scott and Julie take on stories from other genres as well. This is a fun and meaningful podcast from two really nice, down to earth people who will give you some food for thought along the way.
Excellent and Unique Approach
There are many book and film review podcasts to choose from, but this is definitely one of the best. They take a wonderfully refreshing approach to the works they cover, and cast a very wide net in terms of their selection. They've already covered a few works which I had previously dismissed, but after hearing their discussion now want to go back and revisit. Well worth adding to your subscriptions.
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