Coincidences: Stories about looking for a chance encounter
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week we present two stories from people who found the improbable.
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As a national park ranger, native South Floridian Gary Bremen has spent the past 33 years telling the stories of the places and people that have shaped this nation. He has visited 254 of the 419 national parks, and now recognizes how much his encounters with lightning storms, bears, drag queens and grieving parents in these magnificent places have helped shape the person he is. He lives in an urban oasis filled with native plants in the little town of Wilton Manors with his best friend, traveling buddy and husband Roger and their cats Oliver, Elliott, and Amelia.
Dawn J. Fraser is a storyteller, public speaker and a nationally acclaimed communications coach based out of San Jose, California. She is the Creator/ Host of ‘Barbershop Stories’, which features storytellers performing true tales in barbershops and salons around NYC, and the Founder/ CEO of Fraser’s Edge, LLC, which offers programs for businesses, nonprofits, and college students the opportunity to develop their leadership potential through storytelling. Dawn currently serves as a Lead Instructor with The Moth and was featured amongst some of the nation’s top change makers at TED@NYC. She loves being a twin, a Trinidadian, and tweetable @dawnjfraser.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientists the... |
| 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. |
| 0:16.0 | ...theid... Hello everybody. Welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:30.8 | I am your host, Aaron Barker, and this week we're presenting stories about coincidences. |
| 0:37.0 | Our first story is from Gary Bremen. |
| 0:39.1 | It was recorded in December 2019 at Open Stage Theater in Miami, Florida. |
| 0:44.1 | This show was part of a workshop presented in collaboration with the Tiffany & Coe Foundation. |
| 0:48.9 | The theme that night was Oceans. oceans. Like a lot of people, I owe a lot to my parents. |
| 1:03.0 | They gave me a sense of exploration, they gave me a desire to learn, and I got a love for the ocean from them as well. |
| 1:14.5 | My mom was not a science person, but she supported my science-y ways. |
| 1:20.1 | And she was also really, really frugal. |
| 1:24.8 | So when I saw this ad for this kit to make crystals, I said I wanted the kit, and she said, oh, no, we'll make crystals. |
| 1:31.6 | And she went into the cabinet up above the stove and got the box of salt down and mixed it into a glass of water and we stirred it all up until it was all dissolved. |
| 1:41.7 | And we put it into a pie pan and we put the pie pan out on the patio and over the next several days we watched as the water evaporated and I had |
| 1:49.2 | these giant salt crystals in there. I thought that was super cool and I scooped them all up and put |
| 1:54.9 | them in a little glass jar which I took with me to school to show off that I made crystals at home. |
| 2:00.6 | And I'm not sure but I bet I could probably still find that jar of crystals in the back |
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