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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• 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.

Good Story 049: The Hobbit

Julie and Scott lose track of time as they close out the second year of Good Story with The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Julie finds remarkable meaning in it, while Scott forgets the name of every actor he's ever seen. In glorious 48fps 3D! Good Story, Episode 49.

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More stuff:

• Free lectures from Corey Olsen, The Tolkien Professor!
• Stuff for your pocketses at ThinkGeek.

Good Story 048: The Paper

It's never going to be that one big moment; it's going to be a bunch of small ones. Julie and Scott experience the mayhem of a day at a tabloid newspaper in New York City, and learn a lot on the way. The Paper, directed by Ron Howard, starring Michael Keaton, Marisa Tomei, Robert Duvall, and Glenn Close.

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More stuff:

• Ron Howard on IMDB
• David Koepp (Screenwriter) on IMDB
• KCRW: The Treatment
• You Are There!
• Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin

Good Story 047: Bleak House

Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog at Julie's house, fog at Scott's place. Fog. The fog doesn't stop Julie and Scott from discussing Bleak House by Charles Dickens. The risk of overwhelming deportment doesn't stop them either. Episode 47.

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• FANTASTIC audio version from Naxos Audiobooks, read by Sean Barrett and Teresa Gallagher

Good Story 046: Heroines, Past and Present

Episode 46. A subject much too big for just two people. Joining Julie and Scott for the first "topic" episode of Good Story are Rose Davis, Joseph Susanka, and Heather Ordover. The topic? Heroines, Past and Present - heroines in YA fiction and films.

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More stuff:

• Heather Ordover's Mama O Knits Too Much, and CraftLit - Stick a Book in Your Ear!
• Rose Davis' Double Exposure blog
• Joseph Susanka on Twitter, and at Patheos