Becoming The Main Character

"It’s as well that you only killed the old woman. If you’d invented another theory you might perhaps have done something a thousand times more hideous."Raskolnikov was a young man with a theory. A the...

29 Jan 2h 57min

"Would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?"The Russians are coming...Fyodor Dostoevsky's unique brand of psychological thriller has reached BTMC, and I was delighted to dive de...

16 Jan 3h 10min

Launch into the new year with the best ideas learned from the stories of 2025. I've gone through 70+ lessons that I took from the stories of the last 12 months and picked the 8 that I think are the mo...

31 Dec 202546min

Ho, Ho, Ho! here's a little holiday treat for you. In classic BTMC fashion, I took my lesson as serious as a car accident and found much more depth to the moral of this children's story than you may t...

18 Dec 202521min

On this show, I cover the greatest ficton ever written, but my larger goal is to get you to start looking at ALL stories as tools to understand how to live a better life.So I got two of the most proli...

15 Dec 202544min

Pride and Prejudice is a masterclass in how confidently we can be wrong about people. The story of two people who mistake their first impressions for objective truth, until the story forces them to co...

24 Nov 20253h 18min

Disney did you dirty.Because you probably think Arthur becoming king was as easy as pulling the sword from the stone. But the actual myth is way more complicated (and therefore, realistic?).Before Cam...

11 Nov 202547min

"Man is not truly one, but truly two."It's one of the most famous gothic horror novellas, and it all started when Robert Louis Stevenson had a nightmare so vivid that his wife had to wake him because ...

28 Okt 20251h 54min