Will The Next Episode Be Before The Book?

If you are interested in the checking out my novel mentioned in this podcast, you can search "Michelangelo's Secret' by Tony Dean on Amazon or click on this link.  

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
When the calling History podcast startedin 2022, roughly three years ago, I had
no idea what it was going to look like,and I definitely could not have imagined
some of the guests we'd have on theshow or the stories that would follow.
Some of them seem so far fetched, it'shard to believe they're even real.
For example, the story of RubyWaller and her relationship with

(00:21):
the writer Charles Dickens andhis home for saving fallen women.
It sounds like a storyhe could have written.
And what about Tko Brahe and his GoldenNose, or the dark conversation with Edgar
Allen Poe only to find out that he wasthe star of his high school swim team.
Each of these podcasts that we've doneover the past three years has caused me

(00:42):
to see history from a different angle.
It's an angle that I can reallyonly describe as all angles.
The conversation, for example, withUlysses S Grant and Abraham Lincoln,
both of those leave me praising theirsacrifice and embracing the cost that
it took to hold the nation togetherwhile freeing all the enslaved people.

(01:02):
Yet when you hear the other side of thestory from Stonewall Jackson and from
Jefferson Davis, they certainly wereon the wrong side of history, but may
very well have been acting within therule of law in everything that they did.
And what about Walt Disneyand Albert Einstein?
Both geniuses in their own time yet onecreates a new world out of thin air.

(01:24):
The other one definesthe one we live in today.
I hope that listening to these storieshas entertained you because this
certainly has entertained me, but evenmore, it's given me a panoramic view of
history and a deep connection to whatmakes the great ones truly great.
. You probably already know where I'mgoing with this because about halfway

(01:44):
through the process of making theseepisodes, I could feel the chapters
of a book being written in my head,a story about what I've learned from
these intimate conversations withthese extraordinary people of history
and the lessons that we can learnfrom their genius and their failures.
Unfortunately, I can't do both.
So I had to choose, pause the episodesfor six to eight months and write

(02:05):
the book or never write it at all.
And since I can't get the idea outof my head, there's really only one
option That being said, I do have afew episodes scheduled to record over
the next few months, and I'll post themwhen they're completed, but there won't
be a regular schedule for a while.
Once the book is finished, it willbe my third published work and
I'll be sure to let everyone know.
But until then, thank you for enjoyingthis journey with me, despite all of the

(02:28):
work that it takes to make this happen,it is a privilege and I am excited to get
these thoughts on paper so that we canstart putting episodes out again later.
And by the way, if you enjoy a good DanBrown style adventure story, check out
my last novel Michelangelo's Secret.
I'll put a link in the show notesin case you wanna check it out.

(02:49):
Thank you.
And until next time.