Episode Summary:
Sometimes... a story shows up at your doorstep in the wee hours of the night, drunk with the rawness of life. It calls out to you to "open up!" but before you can go to unchain the door, it breaks a window and let's itself in. Sometime that story is a poem, and sometimes that poem is a wild god. When you finally come face to face with it in the kitchen, he...or she...or they... smile an enormous smile and then throw-up on your slippers without apology. You're too late to do anything about it except kick them off and stand barefoot, toe to toe with the old friend you let slip away, a long time ago. They're back now and you realize you may never be the same again.

Episode Notes:
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Sometime A Wild God  - Read by the author, Tom Hirons

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Tom's personal website

Rima Staines

To learn more about and connect with:

Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood

Episode Summary:
Sometimes... a story shows up at your doorstep in the wee hours of the night, drunk with the rawness of life. It calls out to you to "open up!" but before you can go to unchain the door, it breaks a window and let's itself in. Sometime that story is a poem, and sometimes that poem is a wild god. When you finally come face to face with it in the kitchen, he...or she...or they... smile an enormous smile and then throw-up on your slippers without apology. You're too late to do anything about it except kick them off and stand barefoot, toe to toe with the old friend you let slip away, a long time ago. They're back now and you realize you may never be the same again.

Episode Notes:
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Sometime A Wild God  - Read by the author, Tom Hirons

​Buy a copy of this bit of magic HERE

Tom's personal website

Rima Staines

To learn more about and connect with:

Karen "KJ Sassypants" Hawkwood

Episode Summary:
In this Story Mischief Short, we explore the difference between logic and mytho-logic so that we can seek balance between the two and craft our lives to reflect who we truly are. To do this, Michael shares a personal story about his love of fly-fishing and the trouble with doing things the "right way." With some good advice from a master fisherman, he begins to untangle from the advice of... master fisherman in order to find his own personal myth and way of fishing.

Episode Notes

Streamer Clinic with CJ Lord

and a more recent interview with CJ as he discuss what he's learned and how he's grown his fishing outlook since the clinic sited above:

New Video with Wild Fly Productions

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​A novel or a prophecy? That's what many are left wondering after reading George Orwell's 1949 dystopian social science novel, 1984. Centered around the dangers of totalitarianism and mass surveillance, Orwell managed to get more than a few things frighteningly correct. This weeks guest, Allyson Scammell, share's not only her connection to the story and a near death experience that cause her to completely transform her life, but throws down her theory about this classic novel and where it really came from.

Episode Notes:
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1984

George Orwell

To learn more about and connect with:

Allyson Scammel

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Some biblical stories just make you say WTF? I think this is one of them. But hold up! On this episode of Story Mischief, Michael is joined by guest Dave Lederman and together, they begin to unravel one of the more mischievous of biblical stories, The Binding of Isaac. Together they explore questions like - What kind of God would ask you to kill your only child? Or any child for that matter? Is this story really as simple as showing one's faith and allegiance or is there more at play here? 

Episode Notes:

The Binding Of Isaac - biblical
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The Binding Of Isaac - Humorous 

To learn more about:
Dave Lederman - Davelederman.com

Episode Summary:
What if it's all just an illusion? The things we think we can't do. What if our limitations are nothing more than a lack of imagination?  In this weeks episode, I meet up with Terri Hofstetter to discuss her pick, Illusions: Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, by Richard Bach. Together we discuss our long and winding relationship with this 1977 novel the seems to sit in a class of its own.

EPISODE NOTES:

Illusions: Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach

To learn more about and connect with
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​Terri Hofstetter - www.terrihofstetter.com
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Episode Notes
In this Story Mischief Short Michael takes a look at the potential harm caused when myths and fairytales are altered and leave out incredible important aspects of the story and characters development. One shining example of this is illustrated with Grimm's Brothers Little Red Riding Hood - Simple over sight or intended manipulation?

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Episode Summary: 
​Where do our limitations come from? Are they real? Or are they just stories we tell ourselves? In this week's episode Michael explores these and related topics with guest Ivan Polic, of the Systemic Approach Institute. Together they take a deeper look at Ivan's story pick, discussing everything form the the books interesting sub-title- "A Book That Changes Lives," to the importance of and desire for having mentors in our lives.

Episode Notes:

Way of The Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives.    by Dan Millman

Peaceful Warrior (The Movie)     Directed by Victor Salva

To learn more about and connect with 
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 Ivan Polic and the Systemic Approach Institute

Episode Summary: 
​How to Survive Initiation Into Womanhood - An African TaleIn this weeks episode, I am joined by the lovely and talented Lynn Trotta! Yes, my wife and partner whose insights into story never cease to impress and teach me. Lynn chose a story that I share under the title "An African Tale" which comes from the Zulu nation and was printed in The Way of Woman, by Jungian analysts Helen M Luke. This is a beautiful story about a girls initiation in to womanhood - a rare thing to find indeed, and I share in its entirety before we completely take it apart.

Episode Notes:

The Way of Woman by Helen M Luke
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To connect with or learn more about

Lynn Trotta - www.lynntrotta.com

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​The Right Stuff... For just about any 12 year old boy in the early 80's the astronauts of the Mercury Seven space mission were catapulted back into hero status some 20 years after their original mission - or is that true? Joined by neurosurgeon, Michael Webb, the two Michael's reflect on the power and impact this movie, based on a book by Tom Wolfe, had on them while growing up. After a trip down memory lane, they begin to question if their experience was shared by all or... where the men of the mission heroes to all?

Episode Notes:

The Right Stuff
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