Brad Lawrence: The end of the world
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2014
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
For a young Brad Lawrence, fears of a nuclear apocalypse are put into perspective by his mother, at first intentionally. Brad Lawrence is a host of And I Am Not Lying, Best In Show, and has also hosted for The Moth. He has performed to sold-out houses everywhere from South By Southwest to The Edinburgh Fringe Festival and can regularly be seen contributing to storytelling, stand-up, variety, and burlesque shows throughout New York. Help keep us going! If you love the podcast, please donate here: http://www.patreon.com/thestorycollider
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | I felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I felt... |
| 0:08.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | ...theid... Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:33.4 | Quick note, we have an upcoming live show in Chicago, February 13th, so if you're around, come on down for that. |
| 0:39.1 | This week's story is from Brad Lawrence. The story was recorded in July, 2013, at Union Hall in Brooklyn. |
| 0:46.2 | The theme of the evening was, close to death. |
| 1:01.0 | In the fifth grade, I was 10 years old in 1983, I learned something. It was the first, last time it happened. |
| 1:04.8 | And what I learned was in social studies class, and what I learned was about the nuclear |
| 1:10.7 | bomb. I was informed about the nuclear bomb. |
| 1:11.6 | I was informed there was a bomb called the nuclear bomb, and that one of these could wipe out an entire city, just one. |
| 1:22.6 | And then I was informed that the Soviet Union had the nuclear bomb, and then I was informed that the Soviet Union had the nuclear bomb, |
| 1:30.3 | and then I was informed the Soviet Union was the mortal enemy of the United States, which was where I lived. |
| 1:37.3 | But it was okay because we also had the nuclear bomb. |
| 1:43.3 | In fact, we had enough nuclear bombs that we could, if we wanted to destroy the entire world, one time over. |
| 1:53.0 | But I should know, just for the sake of having all the facts, the Soviet Union had enough nuclear bombs to destroy the world three |
| 2:01.1 | times over. These numbers seemed important at the time, but the general effect they had on me |
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