The Chaplain America Story Hour: Recent Episodes
Stephen Vale
Wherein, 2 Travelers from Earth, Rudra from the Far East, & Steve from the Far West, Seek Truth, by Journeying into Many Strange and Magical Lands: the Land of Story, of Myth, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Folktale, Fairie, Enchantment, Tradition, Technology, Philosophy, Books, Movies, Television, & More. Although they don't always know where they will go, they do have a General Idea via Private Message, Corporal Punishment & Major Intent. Join Them As They Zoom Faster Than Light Speed & Sound As They Trek down Rabbit Holes & Dangerous Ground, across the Sea of Antiquity & into...THE FUTURE AND BEYOND!!!
Just a quick catch up or fill-in for what's been going on and why there hasn't been an episode for many months. But never fear: will be returning soon with full episodes
Come along with our heroes as they go down rivers, waterfalls, and rabbit holes into the dangerous land of fairy. Spelled In anyway or sad by any other name, is both bitter and sweet. See for yourselves! But beware: here dwell dragons and monsters!
on Fairy Stories by J.R.R. Tolkien
Timestamps episode 9:
Min:Sec
03:07 - Back to Essay on Fairy
06:11 - Tolkien Set the Bar
08:48 - Tolkien on Fairy Story
12:50 - Philo Sophia
18:00 - Teach others to teach yourself
25:06 - Vitamin F: F is for Fantasy
30:23 - The Three Mirrors of Life
33:38 - The Value of Fairy Tales
35:52 - The Turing Test
40:28 - The Difference between Magic and Science
Our brave heroes walk down the road covered in shadows, moving through time and space into a World of imagination.
Timestamp podcast 8
Min:Sec
01:22 - ADHD lazer blast
03:18 - Bill Bloom Arts
04:45 - SHADOW
15:00 - Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine
17:54 - Gene Wolfe
19:47 - Speculative Fiction
31:33 - The Road to Fairy Land
39:00 - Arriving at The Land of Fairy
49:25 - The Rings of Power
1:00:00 - The Fact, Fairy, Fantasy & Science
1:13:00 - Its Okay to not Understand
Our intrepid travelers, Rudra and Steve journey down many different roads, two-lane blacktops and Route 66 to find the essence of humor, encounter blind swordsman, masters of archery from hundreds of years ago, many different Batmen, Italian gangsters and cops and assassins with a baby carriage among many others. Return with us again to those thrilling days of yesteryear, today and THE WORLD OF TOMORROW!
Timestamps:
Min:Sec
01:23 - Deadpool says that…
03:41 - The Humor of Marx Brothers
09:20 - The Two Kind of Jokes
11:50 - Timing is Everything
15:40 - Two-Lane Blacktop and Route 66
21:17 - Music in Movies & Skorcing
28:00 - Zatoichi
32:50 - Convoy Busters
37:35 - Brand of Empire
39:00 - The Fantastic Adventures of Robin Hood
44:33 - Batman Beyond
50:00 - Other Stuff
53:56 - Lord of Light
Show notes:
Min:Sec
01:23 - Deadpool and genre (And difference between genre and form)
03:41 - The Humor of Marx Brothers (And Steve's favorite bits from Marx brothers movies)
Duck Soup: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023969/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Chico Marx as Ravelli in Marx brothers Animal Crackers: You couldn't afford it...Heh...you see, if we don't rehearse, we don't play...And, if we don't play...That runs into money.
https://youtu.be/vhaDA7TneL4
"He really is an idiot." https://youtu.be/xsOf0TZPPWY
https://www.marx-brothers.org/whyaduck/info/movies/scenes/ravelli.htm
https://youtu.be/Zz1xUbJprCw
Groucho's best insults mix: https://youtu.be/4Bqm_xWUxPg
09:20 - Two Kind of Jokes – "Bits” versus "jokes"
Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?”
Just the routine: https://youtu.be/sYOUFGfK4bU
Reaction video to the routine: https://youtu.be/5G9x2Uu19Sw
11:50 - Timing is Everything
15:40 - Two-Lane Blacktop movie
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067893/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
and Route 66 TV show
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053534/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
21:17 - Music in Movies: Scoring vs “Scourse-ing” (Scoring using preexisting source music material)
Example: Baby Driver https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3890160/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
28:00 - Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman and criterion collection Blu-ray and DVD additions
Zatoichi: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056714/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Criterion collection website: https://www.criterion.com/shop/browse?popular=new-releases
Zatoichi box it: https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1012-zatoichi-the-blind-swordsman
Criterion articles on Zatoichi:
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2971-on-the-road-with-zatoichi
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4219-tony-rayns-on-the-meaning-of-zatoichi
32:50 - Convoy Busters, Mike Malloy and Eurocrime documentary
Convoy Busters:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0152018/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
https://youtu.be/7ySak04-Q2o
https://www.cauldron-films.com/products/convoy-busters-limited-blu-ray-w-slipcase
https://diabolikdvd.com/product/convoy-busters-cauldron-films-le-slipcase-blu-ray-preorder/
https://www.amazon.com/Convoy-Busters-Special-Blu-ray-Karlatos/dp/B0BSCCDF9X
Mike Malloy:
https://www.youtube.com/@toughandgritty
“Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2015367/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
39:00 - The Fantastic Adventures of Robin Hood the continuing evolution of a classic hero over hundreds of years
41:00 the many versions of Batman
Gotham by Gaslight: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7167630/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
44:33 - Batman Beyond - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147746/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
50:00 - Other Stuff
Lone Wolf and cub – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068815/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Shogun assassin: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081506/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
53:56 - Lord of Light written by Roger Zelazny
https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Lord-of-Light/dp/B09PFBPW2B/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3525HXT6VEEBY&keywords=lord+of+light+Roger+Zelazny&qid=1682623079&s=instant-video&sprefix=lord+of+light+roger+zelazny%2Cinstant-video%2C152&sr=1-1
contact: chaplainamericapodcast@use.startmail.com
Our heroes journey into dark times to find the light. They manage to find multiple sources and get solace from the solstice.
Timestamps
Min:Sec
02:04 - Christmas Week
02:20 "There was evening and there was morning, one day"
05:48 - 12 days of Christmas
09:37 - The TRUTH in the MYTH and visa versa
15:46 - don't stand under the Mistletoe with anyone else but me
19:40 - Origins of Holidays? Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa & Festivus
25:47 - A Festival for The Rest of Us
28:40 the genetic fallacy & A Canticle for Leibowitz
A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic social science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959
31:03 - Saint Sanity Claus (" you can't fool me! There ain't no such thing as a Sanity Claus")
33:57 - Santa, Robin Hood and have mythology, lore and story grows
38:15 - Violent Night
46:27 - Santa Like Never Before
50:42 - Cultural appropriation vs Myths & Stories
Tags: #holidays, #mythology #comedy #folktales #SantaClaus #politicalcorrectness #culture #religion #doctrine #dogma #actionmovies #Christmas #Hanukkah
contact us: chaplainamericapodcast@use.startmail.com
Our heroes journey into ancient lands, into the far and middle east, up and down the silk route, collecting spices, eating pizza and listening to stories
Timestamps
Min:Sec
01:10 - Story Teller Steve
03:36 - Humans Need The Story & The Podcast
05:16 - The Story Continues
09:56 - Aesop’s Fables
14:09 - Public Domain vs The Copyright
18:51 - Alternate versions of the classic Fairy tales, Stories & The Other OZ Books
23:55 - The Stories belong to the People
28:16 - The Written vs The Oral Story
33:15 - The Art of Reading Expressively
37:29 - Story of The Monkey King
45:14 - Sufi Stories and the Truth behind the Joke
49:32 - The Silk Route of Stories
53:42 - Cooking, Pizza & Storytelling
58:19 - The Pool of Stories
60:00 - Back to the Mono-Myth & Over-Simplification of The Hero's Journey
Keywords: #Aesopsfables, #copyright, #antiquity, #storyorigins, #mythology, #fairytales, #fantasy, #Tolkien, #razorfist, #publicdomain, #Sufism, #childrenstories, #JosephCampbell, #CarlJung, #philosophy, #psychology, #religion, #storytelling, #movies, #Criticaldrinker, #moviereviews, #Oraltradition, #Jewishtradition,
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, as our heroes explore heroes! Don't touch that dial! Brought to you by the mono-myth and the Land of the free and the home of the brave!Timestamp podcast 4Min:Sec01:35 - Festival of Lights05:34 - America’s Story11:26 - The Star Spangled Banner22:31 - The Tale Is More Important Than The Teller24:22 - StarWars, Western & The MonoMyth37:53 - “Lone Wolf And Cub” & Samurai Jack46:36 - Spaghetti Western Django52:46 - Think about “Pulp Fiction”1:00:00 - Steve's Sword and The Samurai Sword1:03:47 - Good vs EvilFor questions, comments, requests, or just to contact us: chaplainamericapodcast@use.startmail.comKeywords: #JosephCampbell, #spaghettiwesterns, #swords, #samurai, #America, #Star-Spangled Banner, #monomyth, tradition, #storytelling
Our intrepid heroes journey into the world of NaNoWriMo, writing challenges writing challenges, Stephen King 's The Shining, Movie Versus Book, Stephen King As Teacher, Joseph Campbell and myth, Carl Jung and the collective unconscious, Star Wars, Mad Max, and many other heroes and villains
Timestamps:
Min:Sec
01:17 - being a musician and an introduction to a different flute the XIAO
04:00 - National Novel Writing Month — NaNoWriMo 50k
05:38 - What constitutes a Novel?
08:59 - About Steve's experience with NaNoWriMo
14:21 - Embrace the Suck of your own work
18:13 - Quality vs Quantity, Routine and The Rebel
20:22 - Writing as a form of Therapy
22:09 - The Shining Movie vs Novel “All Work And No Play Makes Steve A Dull Boy”
30:19 - Stephen King “On Writing” - Stephen king as a writing teacher
34:06 - Story and Myth
36:42 - Joseph Campbell & “The Hero With A Thousand Faces”
41:57 - Dream and The Individual Myth
47:32 - Food, Clothing, Shelter and Meaning
51:17 - Ending with A Toast to Life
Our intrepid heroes Journey down the rabbit hole of Artist's tools, and the story of the typewriter, and how Steve got eaten by more than one.
time stamps.
01:30 - The Medium is the Message
07:12 - NaNoWriMo
14:31 - About The Typewriter
19:30 - Typewriter vs The Pen & skpping the middle man
25:16 - How to Calculate WPM
28:25 - California Typewriter Movie
30:49 - Back to Story
35:27 - Ending
WHEREIN our heroes stumble across Death and Dream of the Endless As Imagined by Neil Gaiman. As They Enter into the Gates of Story and Explore the Purpose of Dream, A.k.a. the Prince of Story
Timestamps:
03.40: How the podcast came to be
11.06: Lady Death & Sandman
15.11: Shakespeare & Morpheus
16.35: Dreams and Stories
25.38: Who is a Chaplain
28.38: Without dreams, the people die
31.05: Show don't tell
35.06: Midsummer night's dream
36.44: Myth & Ending
Keywords: #spiritual, #God, #history, #story, #Neil Gaiman, #dream, #death, #myth, #monomyth, #storytelling, #art, #comicbooks, #movies, #creativity, #liberty, #imagination, #philosophy, #language, #books, #writing