Childhood Dreams: Stories about youthful aspirations
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
When you’re a kid, anything seems possible, whether it’s becoming an astronaut or a princess, or even convincing your parents to get you that puppy. In this week’s episode, both our storytellers set themselves some lofty goals when they were young.
Part 1: On the top bunk in her childhood bedroom, Kayla Hernandez makes plans to escape her home life and become a scientist.
Part 2: As a teenager, Marc Abbott dreams of finding a wife and having kids, but a case of testicular torsion could ruin it all.
Kayla Hernandez is an electrical engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Collider Accelerator department. You can find her mentoring students, advocating for women's issues in STEM, and on Habitat for Humanity build sites across Long Island.
Marc L Abbott is a Brooklyn based author, actor and storyteller. His horror short stories are featured in numerous anthologies including the Bram Stoker Nominated horror anthology New York State of Fright, Hell’s Heart and Hell’s Mall and most recently Even in the Grave. He is the co-author of Hell at Brooklyn Tea and Hell at the Way Station, the two-time African American Literary Award-winning horror anthology. He is a Moth Story Slam and Grand Slam Storyteller winner and one of the hosts for the podcast Beef, Wine and Shenanigans.
Find out more about him at www.whoismarclabbott.com
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | It felt... |
| 0:07.0 | It 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 | Hey, everyone. Hey everyone, welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:29.2 | I'm your host, Misha Gayeski, and this week, our stories are all about childhood dreams and youthful aspirations. |
| 0:37.1 | I don't know if you accomplished your childhood dreams, |
| 0:40.0 | but I sure didn't. My younger and naïver self had a yearly goal of eating all my Halloween |
| 0:46.2 | candy on Halloween. Suffice it to say, science was not on my side, nor was my mother. |
| 0:55.7 | And while that dream might have been a fool errands from the start, |
| 0:59.2 | I'd say no childhood dream is easy to accomplish. |
| 1:02.2 | There are always, always obstacles, both scientific and not in the way. |
| 1:08.9 | But for our storytellers this week, |
| 1:12.1 | obstacles be damned. |
| 1:15.1 | They've got a dream and they're going to make it a reality. |
| 1:18.3 | Our first story is from Kayla Hernandez. |
| 1:20.7 | It was recorded in September 2022 at Caviot in New York City. |
| 1:23.3 | The theme that night was seismic shifts. |
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