Good Story 073: Unholy Night

Julie and Scott escape from prison and meet a very nice couple and their newborn baby. But there's just something about that baby... Unholy Night by Seth Grahame-Smith.


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• The Official Site of Seth Grahame-Smith - Warning: Contains Pride and Prejudice. And zombies.

Good Story 072: Lincoln

Julie and Scott watch Lincoln, which is about a guy that used to be the President of the United States and not a Tom Hanks movie about a large hilarious dog named "Lincoln". (The dog you're thinking about is named "Hooch".) Friend of the podcast Tamahome is mentioned, but Johnny Depp is not. And Daniel Day-Lewis? Brilliant.


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Good Story 071: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Julie can't sleep because of the incessant pounding while Scott won't let Mrs. Dudley clear the table. Both are terrified while they discuss The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.


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More stuff:

• The Lottery at Forgotten Classics
• Shirley Jackson at Wikipedia
• Add The Haunting of Hill House to your Goodreads pile.

Good Story 070: Pan's Labyrinth

Julie and Scott know that this stuff is real. Look to the chalk! They talk about the fantastic Pan's Labyrinth, written and directed by Guillermo del Toro.


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More stuff:

• Guillermo del Toro's workspace.
• Guillermo del Toro on IMDB.

Good Story 069: World War Z

Julie and Scott remedy the complete lack of zombies in recent podcasts by talking about World War Z (both the movie and the book). Other training films are mentioned.


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More stuff:

• Max Brooks' website
• World War Z Venn Diagram
• Fr Barron's commentary on World War Z
• Julie's review of World War Z: The Movie

Good Story 068: Galaxy Quest

Julie thinks the aliens are *SO* cute, but Scott knows that in a second they're gonna get mean, and they're gonna get ugly somehow, and there's gonna be a million more of them. Galaxy Quest (1999) is the topic of Good Story #68.


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More stuff:

• William Shatner's The Captains

Good Story 067: The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

In this episode, Julie and Scott discuss The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom, a book that deserves to be read more than once in your life.


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More stuff:

• Peter Kreeft on The Problem of Evil and Suffering
• C.S. Lewis: The Problem of Pain

Good Story 066: Ushpizin

Julie and Scott take leave to visit Malli and Moshe. They like to think they have more manners than the Ushpizin in this excellent film. Ushpizin (2004), written by Shuli Rand, directed by Giddi Dar.


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More stuff:

• Ushpizin at IMDB
• Joseph Susanka's review of Ushpizin at Crisis Magazine, June 6, 2008

Good Story 065: Kirinyaga

Join Julie and Scott as they drop everything and head to Kirinyaga. Koriba said it would be pretty great. Episode 65 - Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick.


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• Mike Resnick's website

Good Story 064: Apollo 13

Julie was busy in the LEM when Scott stirred the tanks. The rest is history! Apollo 13, directed by Ron Howard, is the subject of Good Story Episode 64.


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More stuff:

• From Universe Today, a post from 2008 that shows several pictures of the Earth and Moon from various craft. Just last week, the Saturn orbiter Cassini took this picture, and here are two pictures of the Earth, one from Mercury and one from Saturn.

Good Story 063: The Case of the Missing Servant

Episode 63 finds Julie and Scott in India searching for good nicknames. Bookmark goes undercover as a maid, while Popcorn is outside drinking tea from a crumpled paper cup. They both enjoyed The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall.

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More stuff:

• Tarquin Hall's website
• Lagaan
• Monsoon Wedding
• Bride and Prejudice
• The Namesake (another good movie about Indians ... and the American immigrant experience)

Good Story 062: The Magnificent Seven

Scott's all in black, with panther-like grace. Julie practices knife throwing. They both deal in lead, friend. Lead and talking about The Magnificent Seven, that is.



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• The Magnificent Seven on IMDB

Good Story 061: The Demolished Man

Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun in episode #61! Julie and Scott discuss The Demolished Man (1953) by Alfred Bester.

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More stuff:

• The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester, wikipedia entry
• The SFFaudio Podcast #064: The Stars My Destination - Julie and Scott both participated in this discussion of The Stars My Destination, also by Alfred Bester

Good Story 060: I, Robot

Julie adopts a cat. Scott eats some pie. Will Smith takes a shower. They all try to ask the right questions. Alex Proyas' "I, Robot" is discussed. Asimov is mentioned, and Harlan Ellison, and Star Trek Into Darkness, and 12 Angry Men.

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More stuff:  

• I, Robot (the book) by Isaac Asimov
• I, Robot (the Illustrated Screenplay) by Harlan Ellison. The movie that was never made. Would have been a good one!
• Helen O'Loy by Lester del Rey ... NOT in Asimov's "I, Robot." No wonder Scott didn't recall it.

Good Story 059: Jesus of Nazareth

The great question that will be with us throughout this entire book: What did Jesus actually bring, if not world peace, universal prosperity, and a better world? What has he brought?

The answer is very simple: God.... He has brought God, and now we know his face, now we can call upon him. Now we know the path that we human beings have to take in this world. Jesus has brought God and with God the truth about our origin and destiny: faith, hope and love. It is only because of our hardness of heart that we think this is too little. Yes indeed, God's power works quietly in this world, but it is the true and the lasting power. Again and again, God's cause seems to be in its death throes. Yet over and over again it proves to be the thing that truly endures and saves.
-- Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth

In this episode, Julie and Scott take a quick swim to the deep end of the pool (where all the cool kids hang out) to talk theology. The subject is Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration, written by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI).

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More stuff:

• Jesus of Nazareth on Goodreads

Good Story 058: Of Gods and Men

Julie and Scott talk about Of Gods and Men, directed by Xavier Beauvois. What a film it is!

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• Of Gods and Men on IMDB
• The Monks of Tibhirine

Good Story 057: The Night Watch

Good and evil, collective good vs. individual good - these are some of the themes in Sergei Lukyanenko's The Night Watch. And vortexes. And some body switching. And vampires, werewolves, magic... urban fantasy, straight from Russia! Scott and Julie discuss the book.

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More stuff:

• Sergei Lukyanenko's discontinued blog
• Sergei Lukyanenko's website

Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right. "The common good and the individual good rarely coincide..." Sure, I know, it's true. But some truths are probably worse than lies. -- Sergei Lukyanenko, The Night Watch

Good Story 056: Be Kind, Rewind

In Episode 56, Julie and Scott talk Be Kind, Rewind - a movie directed by Michel Gondry that stars Jack Black and Mos Def. Don't worry - they rewound it for you. Let them know if the tape is blank, and they'll see what they can do.

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• Michel Gondry on IMDB
• The SFFaudio Podcast #44: The First One with Professor Rabkin

Good Story 055: Parable of the Sower

Julie and Scott wander around in another failed civilization, this time with Lauren Olamina, who luckily has come up with her very own religion. We also talk a bit about the Pope and Tostitos. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler.

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More stuff:

• Tostitos
• Scott talked about this excellent DVD: Understanding Sunday Mass: A Kid's Point of View
• Some stuff about Octavia E. Butler
• Wikipedia says that SolSeed is a social movement inspired by Earthseed, the fictional religion presented by the main character in this book.
• Hey, look! A Pope!

O God, who in your providential design willed that your Church be built upon blessed Peter, whom you set over the other Apostles, look with favor, we pray, on Francis our Pope and grant that he, whom you have made Peter's successor, may be for your people a visible source and foundation of unity in faith and of communion. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.

Good Story 054: The Godfather

Julie and Scott watch The Godfather. There's no way that they would ever write an intro to this podcast in which they mention "an offer you can't refuse". Nope. Won't do that. (WARNING: This podcast contains almost no Marlon Brando impersonations, and only one Tamahome mention.)

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• The Godfather on IMDB

Good Story 053: Jurassic Park

Julie and Scott talk about Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton without once saying "hold onto your butts". They note that the Hammond in the book is not a very nice guy. After discussing the book, they bounce off the path and talk about education and our beloved Pope. Then the raptors chase them off.

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More stuff:

• Sandra Tayler at onecobble.com: Structuring Life to Make Room for Creativity
• TED Talk: Aaron O'Connell: Making Sense of a Visible Quantum Object.
• TED Talk: Ken Robinson: Schools Kill Creativity

Good Story Podcast is Finalist in 2013 About.Com Awards

Now this is fun! And exciting!

A Good Story is Hard to Find podcast is a finalist in the 2013 About.com Catholicism Awards.

And I like their description:

Rather than create a podcast about Catholic books and movies, Julie Davis and Scott D. Danielson discuss classic books and movies "as Catholics."

They get us! They really get us! (Ok, no more channeling Sally Fields...)

I saw we are in there with Fr. Barron, Pray-As-You-Go (a regular listen of min) and other big podcasts I admire. What honorable company Scott and I have risen to!

We haven't a chance, but we're the only one of our sort. Mostly. iPadre being a different sort of conversation. (That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!)

Perhaps we'll get some folks dropping by to try us out though, which would be the best! We can always do with new book-and-movie lovin' pals.

Check it out, and be sure to look at the other categories too. The blogs, books, and suchlike that I recognize are top-notch. Which means I'm definitely going to be checking out the ones I don't know.

And vote ... of course ... definitely vote.

I don't want to have to bring the Hypno-Toad out for this one. But you know. I'll do what I have to.

Good Story 052: Mostly Martha

Julie and Scott made this podcast using a recipe that has been in their families for centuries. They made it especially for all of you. To not listen is... impossible. Mostly Martha is the subject, a German film from 2001 written and directed by Sandra Nettelbeck. Scott is pretty sure that the last movie he saw in German was Das Boot. This one is not much like that one.

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• Mostly Martha on IMDB

Good Story 051: Introduction to the Devout Life

Julie and Scott post a podcast discussion of Introduction to the Devout Life on the feast day of St. Francis de Sales. We swear we didn't plan it that way... what are the odds? Episode 51.

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More stuff:

• Introduction to the Devout Life on Goodreads
• Find the whole book here...

Good Story 050: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Julie and Scott travel the universe, telling civilizations to stop shooting at them. Scott's robot suit is starting to chafe. The Day the Earth Stood Still - the awesome 1951 version, not the why-did-they-make-this 2008 version.

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Our first duty, therefore, precisely in order to heal this world, is to be holy, configured to God; in this way we emanate a healing and transforming power that also acts on others, on history. ... In this regard, it is useful to reflect that the Twelve Apostles were not perfect men, chosen for their moral and religious irreproachability. They were indeed believers, full of enthusiasm and zeal but at the same time marked by their human limitations, which were sometimes even serious. Therefore Jesus did not call them because they were already holy, complete, perfect, but so that they might become so, so that they might thereby also transform history, as it is for us, as it is for all Christians.
-- Pope Benedict XVI, Homily at Port of Brindisi, Italy (June 15, 2008)

• Patricia Neal's Catholic story
• And her obit, which highlights her stand against abortion.