Against Narrative: Are stories bad for us? Part 2
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.4 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
It’s hard to imagine human beings without storytelling and literature. Surely, these are some of the very things that define us. Narratives give our lives and our world meaning, but what if there’s a dark side to their sorcerous power? In this Stuff to Blow Your Mind two-parter, Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick explore the storyteller’s potent spell.
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| 0:00.0 | What do a flirtatious gambling double agent in World War II? |
| 0:06.1 | An opera singer who burned down an honorary to kidnap her lover, and a pirate queen who |
| 0:10.8 | walked free with all of her spoils, haven't comment. |
| 0:16.0 | They're all real women who were left out of your history books. |
| 0:20.2 | You can hear these stories and more on the Womanica podcast. |
| 0:24.1 | Check it out on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen. |
| 0:31.0 | On Queen Charlotte, the official podcast, we're stepping behind the scenes and the |
| 0:35.0 | drawing boards of this team to experience the life breathes into the Bridgerton |
| 0:40.0 | prequel. Listen to the Leap's executive producer and series director Tom |
| 0:44.2 | Verica took to capture the feeling that puts that lump in your throat. |
| 0:48.2 | And you've got to catch creator Shonda Rhymes. |
| 0:51.3 | She's dropping gems, diamonds, and mics. |
| 0:54.7 | You can listen to Queen Charlotte, the official podcast every Thursday on the iHeartRadio |
| 0:59.2 | app, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you listen to your favorite shows. |
| 1:29.2 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from How Stuff Works.com. |
| 1:47.4 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 1:49.2 | My name is Robert Lam. |
| 1:50.7 | And I'm Joe McCormick and we're back with part two of our discussion of whether stories |
| 1:55.0 | are bad for us. |
| 1:56.5 | If you haven't heard the first episode, you should probably go back and listen to that. |
| 2:00.4 | It's where we first discussed what got us interested in this topic and general thoughts |
| 2:05.0 | about ways that though Robert, you and I, we both love narratives, love stories, love |
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