Curated by Chance

Episode 114: Just a Meat Sack Walking Around Prompts: Stranded, 5721, Black, Gigantic Neal and LT are back together this week! LT has a new house, a garage that has changed her life, and a fireplace that apparently has never had a fire in it. Santa couldn’t get in even if he wanted to. Merry Christmas indeed. This week Neal takes inspiration from STRANDED to revisit a childhood favorite, Hatchet, and the remarkable life of its author, Gary Paulsen. From a difficult childhood to racing sled dogs in the Iditarod, Paulsen turned his own experiences into stories about survival, self-reliance, and finding your way through situations you never asked to be in. Neal also shares how he would never last in the wilderness and the sweet gesture he made to his grammar school after meeting his favorite childhood author. Then LT takes BLACK and GIGANTIC and introduces us to sculptor Richard Serra, whose enormous steel works make you think about space, your surroundings, and your own existence whether it ruins your daily commute or not. From towering sculptures in museums to a controversial wall that made office workers take the long way around, LT explores what happens when public art gets a little too public. You can also catch Neal’s new segment, “Gone Fisching for Entertainment,” on the John Records Landecker Show on WGN Radio, Mondays from 9–9:30 p.m. Central. You can stream live from the segment or check out the posted segments afterwards. If you're planning on listening live, there is no segment on October 12, but you can listen to the latest installment here, featuring a discussion of Tom Cruise’s new movie! If you do listen in live, make sure to text in and let them know you love and support Neal (without giving away your CBC listeners)! 312-981-7200. Help our show in our 50/50/50 campaign! 50 reviews on Apple, 50 reviews on Spotify, and 50 Patrons on Patreon! If you'd like to help support our show, visit: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.Patreon.com/CuratedbyChance If you'd like to support Neal on his new book ⁠⁠Mission Impossible: The Ultimate Fan Guide⁠⁠ ⁠⁠please pre-order a copy and spread the word to your friends or loved ones who might like it for a holiday gift as it comes out December 1st! Pre-orders count as first week sales and are the greatest metric for publishers to consider letting Neal do another book! Pre-order here: ⁠https://www.globepequot.com/9781493096152/mission-impossible/⁠ Next Week's Prompts: Red, Door, 1842 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 113: A Cacophony of Deep Questions Prompts: List, Ocean Blue, Memory, 4823 Neal is riding solo this week, and not only is he riding solo, the first segment is literally riding, in his new car, recording on a highway. Talk about dedication. This week Neal, like LT, takes inspiration from LIST and also MEMORY to give us a list of 5 films worth checking out that deal with memory and all its themes. This episode explores memory not as a perfect record of the past, but as something we constantly reshape, reinterpret, distort, preserve, and sometimes desperately try to escape. Through these films, we look at how memory creates our sense of identity, love, grief, legacy, and even history itself. Some films included are Rashomon, Memento, and The Mirror... you'll have to listen for the others. We hope you take some of thee films and add them to your list and let us know how you like them and what you took away from them! Help our show in our 50/50/50 campaign! 50 reviews on Apple, 50 reviews on Spotify, and 50 Patrons on Patreon! If you'd like to help support our show, visit: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.Patreon.com/CuratedbyChance If you'd like to support Neal on his new book ⁠Mission Impossible: The Ultimate Fan Guide⁠⁠ ⁠please pre-order a copy and spread the word to your friends or loved ones who might like it for a holiday gift as it comes out December 1st! Pre-orders count as first week sales and are the greatest metric for publishers to consider letting Neal do another book! Pre-order here: ⁠https://www.globepequot.com/9781493096152/mission-impossible/⁠ Next Week's Prompts: Stranded, 5721, Black, Gigantic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 112: Cheeky Grin Prompts: List, Ocean Blue, Memory, 4823 LT is riding solo as Neal is stuck (or detained, or held hostage) at a car dealership. More news on that next week whether he actually drove out of there or not. In this week's episode LT shares her enthusiasm for studying ASL and Deaf Culture and takes the word LIST to heart for her solo outing to talk about five influential women artists: Rachel Ruysch, Louise Bourgeois, Betye Saar, Faith Ringgold, and Julie Mehretu. LT connects all of them and their work through some themes like observation, identity, feminism, racial justice, storytelling, and the power of artists to redefine the materials and subjects that art history has traditionally undervalued. One of our devoted listeners and social media followers, Ash Brown, calls their Babe Ruth shot and predicts what Neal will talk about next week... hint: even LT doesn't know. Next week Neal will be in the chair solo to finish off our prompts! Help our show in our 50/50/50 campaign! 50 reviews on Apple, 50 reviews on Spotify, and 50 Patrons on Patreon! If you'd like to help support our show, visit: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.Patreon.com/CuratedbyChance If you'd like to support Neal on his new book ⁠Mission Impossible: The Ultimate Fan Guide⁠⁠ ⁠please pre-order a copy and spread the word to your friends or loved ones who might like it for a holiday gift as it comes out December 1st! Pre-orders count as first week sales and are the greatest metric for publishers to consider letting Neal do another book! Pre-order here: ⁠https://www.globepequot.com/9781493096152/mission-impossible/⁠ Next Week's Prompts: List, Ocean Blue, Memory, 4823 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 111: A Ghoul at the Best Western Prompts: Marble, 110099, Effervescence LT and Neal are back with a vengeance and LT gets triggered by two words that have haunted her for years... A Capella. But enough about the dulcet tones of beat boxing and harmonies. Neal starts off today's episode taking 1100 and turning it into November 2000 to talk about one of the highest grossing movies of Y2K, How The Grinch Stole Christmas starring Jim Carrey as everyone's favorite antagonist with a heart two sizes too small. Neal tells behind-the-scenes anecdotes, references the original book and cartoon, and previews some news behind the potential new franchise. Then, LT invites listeners to learn about the extraordinary Edmonia Lewis, an American sculptor who was prolific during the Civil War and created unforgettable works of art when the world wasn't kind to her. Works include busts of famous American Generals (later featured in Hollywood being played by Ferris Bueller of all people) as well as work in Italy and Europe that would make her work timeless. Help our show in our 50/50/50 campaign! 50 reviews on Apple, 50 reviews on Spotify, and 50 Patrons on Patreon! If you'd like to help support our show, visit: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.Patreon.com/CuratedbyChance If you'd like to support Neal on his new book ⁠Mission Impossible: The Ultimate Fan Guide⁠⁠ ⁠please pre-order a copy and spread the word to your friends or loved ones who might like it for a holiday gift as it comes out December 1st! Pre-orders count as first week sales and are the greatest metric for publishers to consider letting Neal do another book! Pre-order here: ⁠https://www.globepequot.com/9781493096152/mission-impossible/⁠ Next Week's Prompts: List, Ocean Blue, Memory, 4823 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 110: From The Garage Prompts: Puce, 1703, Garage The dynamic duo is back and ready to rumble. This week's episode is back to our normal tried-and-true format of LT and Neal trading barbs and wisdom to curate something new and exciting for you to learn about, watch, listen, or check out. LT starts off talking about the incredible story of James Hampton, a World War II veteran and janitor for the General Services Administration with no artistic training who created a masterwork in a garage of all places. This is one history you won't want to miss. Then, Neal decides to take the word Garage and teach himself and listeners about Garage Rock. From its origins, what exactly the sound is, to famous bands and their songs that we all know and love. Neal even shares a fake band that he and Matt (of Triviality) used to convince hipsters at Starbucks was real. Help our show in our 50/50/50 campaign! 50 reviews on Apple, 50 reviews on Spotify, and 50 Patrons on Patreon! If you'd like to help support our show, visit: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.Patreon.com/CuratedbyChance If you'd like to support Neal on his new book ⁠Mission Impossible: The Ultimate Fan Guide⁠⁠ ⁠please pre-order a copy and spread the word to your friends or loved ones who might like it for a holiday gift as it comes out December 1st! Pre-orders count as first week sales and are the greatest metric for publishers to consider letting Neal do another book! Pre-order here: ⁠https://www.globepequot.com/9781493096152/mission-impossible/⁠ Next Week's Prompts: Marble, 110099, and Effervescence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices