Your Story or Your Life

Your Story or Your Life


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Save "The Last Dance" For Glee
May 13, 2020

The Last Dance, a "documentary" which follows the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan to the promised land of multiple NBA championships in the 1990's was called a "Puff Piece" by Utah Jazz legend, John Stockton. Is it a real documentary or a promotional too

Wrong Author: Nancy Brophy
April 29, 2020

Nancy Brophy 86'd her culinary-instructor husband in real life in the same manner she'd written about in her trashy novel available to Amazon readers. Now she wants out of jail because other inmates aren't standing six feet apart from her during the pande

Top Gun Part Deux
April 21, 2020

The June release of Top Gun Maverick has been shot down by the Coronavirus. With movie theaters closing left and right and AMC Theaters filing for bankruptcy, will freedom ring for TC and company come December time? The Story of Your Life Podcast is reque

The XFL Had No Story To Stand On
April 14, 2020

The reboot of the XFL timed-out. It's easy to blame the Coronavirus as the reason for their collapse, even with fans in the stands already social distancing themselves. But the XFL had no story to stand on, no characters or way to connect with people beyo

The Slap From 'Jaws' Actress Lee Fierro
April 07, 2020

When actress Lee Fierro slapped Chief Brody in the film Jaws, the audience became fully invested in the story. Because of her recent passing, I discuss the pivotal scene and how it relates to telling your own story through a method I often talk about: The

Hook Me If You Can: Michael Crane's Bank Robbery Bunker
March 31, 2020

Former ESPN video-editor, Michael Crane, finally got his cut at the bigs when he was chosen to shoot The Masters in 2007; he decided to rob a local bank instead. In this episode I talk about the robbery and what one change to his story might make it a hol

"Jaws" Parallels The Pandemic We Hear About But Can't See
March 24, 2020

Something had been lurking under the surface of my mind ever since I talked about the movie "Outbreak" and how it was a lot like what we're witnessing today; hazmat suits and all. Yet the pandemic we're hearing so much about is a killer we can't see. The

Love in the Time of Coronavirus
March 19, 2020

How do we do love in a time when we have this thing called Social Distancing? They figured it out in the film, Love in the Time of Cholera. After all, the fear of a virus spreads faster than the virus itself. And love conquers all. We make for happy endin

"Atypical" Has Typical Twists But Not Such Typical Characters
March 17, 2020

Atypical, the Netflix show about a teen on the autism spectrum is a character-driven show that works no matter the typical story-lines. The adults have issues they can't seem to solve among themselves, and the children can discuss their issues just fine a

A Blue Man Group Member Gone Rogue?
March 16, 2020

Does one have to tell their personal story by tattooing it on their face? If you've lived long enough you have a powerful story to tell. It's what's underneath the skin that can rise to the surface for people to know and appreciate. This is The Story of Y