140: Dressing Like Vader
Stories Are Soul Food
Canon Press
4.8 • 787 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
What should parents do if their six-year-old son wants to dress up like one of the most murderous bad guys, Darth Vader? It's fine -- and the key lies in a weakness in the story itself: Luke is a vanilla protagonist (at least until he gets his own robot hand). 2D good guys aren't inspiring to your kids? Why should they be? That's most often a problem with the story itself...because, after all, stories are soul food. The bigger issue would be if you had a son who wasn't at all interested in swinging a light saber and saying "koooh-prrrrh." Of course, there are some checks and balances to this process, especially as your kids get older. You'll hear plenty more on this topic as the guys spend a pleasant hour not discussing Les Mis.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stories Our Soul Food Podcast, presented by Cannonball Books, the kids' fiction imprint of Canon Press. |
| 0:07.9 | Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell. |
| 0:11.8 | Fire burning to my knees to my knees I fell. |
| 0:15.0 | Made a ghost of a king on a road. |
| 0:17.0 | Now start. |
| 0:18.2 | Now start. |
| 0:20.5 | Now start SASF. Now start SASF. |
| 0:20.9 | Here at SASF. |
| 0:22.2 | What are we discussing today? |
| 0:23.7 | What we're talking about today is why, specifically the appeal of bad guys. |
| 0:29.4 | So this is a question from a mom who is watching her son and seeing just trying to help calibrate. |
| 0:36.0 | He really wants to be Darth Vader. |
| 0:38.4 | You know, and this is a little guy, not an older guy. |
| 0:41.0 | But I've actually seen that exact same temptation happen with much older guys, |
| 0:45.2 | especially in the deviant art space or, you know, you go into any sort of, |
| 0:50.6 | it's so much easier to do the dark side than it is to do the light side. |
| 0:54.8 | That's kind of where I think this episode will go, but I've thought it would go particular |
| 0:59.2 | places before. |
| 1:00.0 | It did not. |
| 1:02.0 | So we'll just start with the softball. |
| 1:04.2 | What do you do with a little boy who loves playing the bad guys in a particular story. |
| 1:16.3 | Darth Vader, you know, Lord Garminon, if you're familiar with Ninjago. |
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