Curated by Chance

Episode 116: Freaky Warty Pumpkins Prompts: Red, Door, 1842 LT and Neal kick things off with a few Halloween-inspired icebreakers they found on Etsy. Then the conversation veers into the what kind of pumpkins LT loves, and why a man made of wicker is getting women hot and bothered. Neal takes the mic today and talks all about the origins of Wes Craven’s Nightmare on Elm Street, from the origins of Freddy Krueger, the iconic character portrayed by Robert Englund, to some BTS facts on how they achieved some of its most famous VFX. And guess what? We have video now! Friend of the show, Kevin Kirchman, who you recently heard talk all about his love of Paul Thomas Anderson is helping enter the 21st Century with some sick editing/graphics! Thanks, Kev! Please subscribe to our new YouTube, TikTok, and X accounts @curatedbychance or to go to our YouTube directly: www.youtube.com/@curatedbychance 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: Armor, Rust, Hell, 5651 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 115: J.M.W. Turner: The Channing Tatum of Art Prompts: Red, Door, 1842 Introducing the Tommy & Tuppence of podcasting, LT & Neal! This week the dynamic duo talk about the rain pains, no longer waiting for something, and trying to figure out if Neal is clairvoyant or just lucky with his subject from last week. Thanks to Scott Wood and Savannah Campbell for reaching out about this phenomenon! LT takes the full episode to talk about J.M.W Turner, the cockney boy who conquered the art world. Some topics on this subject include how Turner was basically a rock star who Turner experimented with bold colors, dramatic lighting, and increasingly abstract techniques that challenged traditional painting. Turner lived an interesting life, and was about as rock star as a painter could be. You can 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 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