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Sunday, November 21, 2021 Tell The Damn Story 214: How The Boy Who Loved Batman Came To Own Him

How do you go from average college student to owning film rights to one of the most iconic multi-media fictional characters? How do you strive for suc...

Sunday, November 7, 2021 TELL THE DAMN STORY 213: What Creatives Should Do This Time of Year.

"I Love Assessing and Goal Setting This Time of Year!" Why? And what good does it do? This week, Alex and Chris discuss how creatives should review w...

Sunday, October 24, 2021 TELL THE DAMN STORY 212: "To Halloween and Beyond!"

This week Alex and Chris celebrate horror, punk, sci-fi, and pulp with Horror Writers Association -NY co-coordinators James Chambers and Carol Gyzande...

Sunday, October 17, 2021 TELL THE DAMN STORY 211: Facing The Monsters In the Dark of the Mind

For writers what's the greatest monster in the closet? This week Alex and Chris go in to find out when they talk about how lack of confidence can free...

Sunday, October 3, 2021 Tell The Damn Story 210: Spies, Sorcerers, Six-guns and Monsters. An Interview With Teel J. Glenn

This episode brings you an interview with Teel J. Glenn, actor, stuntman, weapons master, actor, fight choreographer, director, producer, and, most of...

Sunday, September 26, 2021 Tell The Damn Story 209: Putting Story in Art, An Interview with Award Winning Artist, Julie Bell!

We're running a little longer than 30 minutes today because in this episode Alex and Chris gets to interview the extremely talented artist, Julie Bell...

Sunday, September 12, 2021 Tell The Damn Story 208: How To Submit Your Stories For Publication

This week Alex and Chris gave a concise, detailed "how to" for writers who have short stories they believe are ready to send out, but are not sure whe...

Sunday, September 5, 2021 Tell The Damn Story 207: What's Coming This Fall?

Welcome to TELL THE DAMN STORY, Season 5 with veteran award winning authors Alex Simmons and Christopher Ryan. It's a whole new season for tell the ...

Sunday, August 29, 2021 Tell The Damn Story 206 (Summer Shorts); Meet Don McGregor, Writer of The Black Panther & 200 Other Tales.

In joining with the quiet acknowledgement of the passing of Chadwick Bosman (1 year ago this month) this summer hiatus episode contains the interview ...

Sunday, August 22, 2021 Tell The Damn Story 205 / SUMMER SHORTS 4: Can Comics Inspire and Save Lives?

During our over 200 episodes TTDS has had the good fortune of exploring the creative process locally, nationally, and internationally. This episode or...

Sunday, August 15, 2021 Tell The Damn Story 204 / SUMMER SHORTS 3: What To Wonder About Wanda Vision.

Co-Hosts Chris Ryan & Alex Simmons are on summer hiatus. So in this flashback episode we're going to revisit some Marvel magic. Chris and Alex discuss...

Sunday, August 8, 2021 Tell The Damn Story 203 / SUMMER SHORTS 2: How To Write Almost Everything. Interview w JOE R. LANSDALE

He's the author of over 45 crime, sci-fi, western and suspense novels, novellas and comics! With a tv show based on one of his series. How does he do...

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on 11/4/2019

This is a podcast that will inspire your creativity. Five stars all the way ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️!

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on 7/7/2019

Excellent conversation with Jerry Craft. Thank you!

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on 12/25/2018

I throughly enjoy the teasing yet respectable repartee between these two writers. They both “tell stories” to get their points across (of course) which made their discussions so engaging. I have lots ...

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on 7/2/2018

Awesome stuff and very informative!!! 👌👌

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