I’ve been making this podcast for going on four years now. A hundred sixty plus episodes – one a week ever since they first started dropping. It’s been a joy…

A pleasure…

A challenge…

A non-stop revelation…

And a mission. A mission that goes beyond this podcast.

It's because of this podcast that I ended up plunging completely into podcasting. Costard and Touchstone makes this podcast and three others currently available wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts - with a dozen or so more on the way!

There's THE DONOR: A DNA HORROR STORY, THE HALL CLOSET and SAGE WELLNESS WITHIIN.

In the months ahead, please look out for more Costard & Touchstone podcasts including "JUST THE PHOTOGRAPHER" (where photojournalist DAVID SWANSON puts you right beside him in war zones, 9-11 and at the Oscars), "A SECRET WAR" (journalist MANILA CHAN'S deep dive into a story she's fought to tell for 25 years about America's Secret War on Laos, "I NEED TO TELL YOU", journalist TOM LOWENSTEIN's explorations into stories like criminal mastermind JOHN HALL and "JOHN KIRIAKOU'S DEAD DROP" (a deep, under cover look at life deep under cover by a former CIA officer).

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THE BLURB: Sailor, Author and Podcaster PAUL TRAMMELL talks SAILING TO THE EDGE and the ongoing ADVENTURE that is his daily life - the stuff he writes about: SURFING WITH SHARKS, CANOEING with ALLIGAOTRS, in general, craving DANGER and SAVORING SOLITUDE.

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One of the things I love talking about in this podcast is the creative process. And what it takes to make the process process. It’s not like there’s this giant switch creative people throw to turn on their creative process.

The way I see it, each and every creative person has a kind of prism inside their heads. Life and life experience filter in through their eyes and ears and all their other senses. They pass through that prism inside the creative’s head. And whatever refracts out – that’s their art. Their craft. Their content.

Now, for this to happen, the creative person has to be in contact with that prism in some fashion. The creative stuff isn’t going to create itself.

There is work involved.

Serious, hard work. The creative process – what it takes for a creative to create – can, in fact, be arduous, challenging as fuck and downright deadly.

On his website – Paul Trammell dot com – here’s how Paul describes himself – and I’m using it here because I can’t improve upon it:

Paul Trammell is a nomadic author who lives on a sailboat, seeking adventure, solitude, and creativity, soaking up natural beauty outside the boat, and delving into the mysterious world of words when inside.

Paul’s written or co-written twelve books and a lot of short stories and poetry. He’s a podcaster, too – which is how we first encountered each other.

And, like me, he’s a man keenly aware of the actual Life’s Journey he’s on.

As you’ll hear, it took Paul a while to find his most productive creative self.

I can relate.

There were long roads that led to dead ends. There was alcoholism and a little too much partying. And then, Paul more or less stumbled onto the thing that ultimately brought him true happiness.

It’s not like Paul found a shortcut to something. That wasn’t the case at all.

He’s always been a creative hell bent on creating. Before it was podcasting and writing, he poured himself into music.

All the way.

But, I don’t think it brought him anything like his present happiness.

It wasn’t until adventure – a life of surfing and sailing and truly living off the grid because you’re in the middle of the ocean – took hold of Paul.

His life became the necessary component the prism inside his head needed to switch on. In a weird way, in addition to being a writer, a poet and a podcaster, Paul’s a performance artist, too.

How else would you describe a creative whose adventurous life is the source of his art? If he’s not adventuring, he’s not creating.

Sometimes – maybe oftentimes – in a creative life, the creative has to risk literally everything to create their best art. That’s Paul Trammel.

Sailing to the edge.

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THE BLURB: NICK MECHANIC returns to give us a LIST of his BEST V WORST - BEST FOOD in LA, best clients, WORST DEAL he ever made, best executive he worked with, WORST DAY OF HIS LIFE. If you've heard Nick in previous episodes, you know: he was both a HOLLYWOOD SUPER AGENT and a HOLLYWOOD DRUG DEALER. He spent time in prison after getting caught doing the latter. Nick really has seen the best and worst of LA, of Hollywood - maybe even of LIFE itself! Buckle in for another slice of Nick's Hollywood!

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My longtime friend – and former agent – Nick Mechanic is back for another visit.

Nick really has seen the very best and the very worst aspects of show business. He’s made great deals and deals that weren’t so great. He’s had great clients… and clients who weren’t. He’s dealt with great studio executives. And executives who were nothing more than giant wastes of otherwise good carbon. He’s had bosses and co-workers in the agenting business who were really good and plenty who were so bad at it, you’d be complementing them by saying “they sucked”.

If you’ve already experienced Nick Mechanic on this podcast, you know: he’s been to the wars. Not only was Nick a successful Hollywood agent, he was a successful Hollywood drug dealer, too. Well, that is, until he got caught - and got sentenced to 12 years in prison (Nick being Nick, he got out after six months - a story unto itself!).

Nick really has seen the best of it and the worst of it. As you’re about to experience…

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