Ep. 132 - Aaron Johnston - NY Times Bestselling Author and Screenwriter

Latter Day Lives - Talking with Latter Day Saints

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4.5 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Aaron Johnston is a New York Times bestselling author, television writer, advertising creative, and was the co-creator and executive producer of the BYU TV series EXTINCT. He was also an associate producer on the movie Ender’s Game, wherein he makes a cameo appearance as an officer of the International Fleet. His novels include Earth Unaware, Earth Afire, Earth Awakens, The Swarm, The Hive, Invasive Procedures, and the other forthcoming Formic Wars and Extinct novels, all written with science-fiction legend Orson Scott Card. Aaron’s comic credits include Ender in Exile, Speaker for the Dead, Formic Wars, League War, and Mazer in Prison, all for Marvel. A longtime stage improviser, Aaron is a former member of LA’s Improv Factory, Santa Clarita Improv, and the Garrens Comedy Troupe. He and his wife are the parents of four children. Aaron is awesome. Brilliant, faithful, humble and so remarkably talented, you will love hearing his story.

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0:00.0	The Latter Day Lives podcast is not owned or operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
0:09.4	Any opinions expressed or implied in this recording are solely those of the host and guests and not of any specific organization unless otherwise stated.
0:27.8	Hello, friends.
0:31.9	Welcome to episode 132 of the Latter Day Lives podcast.
0:33.9	I'm your host, Sean Rupier.
0:38.5	Thank you so much for joining us again this week after such a beautiful,
0:43.9	wonderful conference that we just had. This is a conference weekend. We will certainly never forget. And I just, I feel so uplifted and so happy. And we appreciate you joining us again this
0:50.4	week. Before we jump into the conversation, I do want to thank our reviewers. We had two
0:56.0	new reviews on Apple Podcasts. Lynette Shepard, who was our guest last week, thank you,
1:01.5	Lynette, as well as the user name is Stephanie's nickname. Thank you so much for your five-star
1:08.0	reviews and all of your kind words over at Facebook. We had Dale
1:12.6	Huffaker and thank you for the recommendation. And it really does help people to find our show
1:19.9	and helps us to grow. So we just are very thankful for you. Okay, this week in the conversation,
1:26.7	my guest, Aaron Johnston, one of the most
1:29.2	talented men I know. He is a tremendous screenwriter and New York Times bestselling author and just
1:36.6	a brilliant guy, not to mention a good, good man. I had such a good time hanging out with him.
1:42.8	We actually recorded this a few weeks ago
1:44.6	before the whole coronavirus thing broke out, so we were able to get together in person,
1:49.9	and I'm very grateful we were. He is fascinating, and you will love this conversation.
1:55.8	And this week in my latter day life, how hearts are turning in China. It's all coming up. So sit back,
2:03.3	relax, and enjoy this week's conversation. And today here in the latter day live live Studios, we have the honor of having a New York Times bestselling author, as well as writer of all kinds of other good stuff, filmmaker, producer, creative director. I mean, you've got more titles than almost anyone who sat in that chair.
2:35.7	Aaron Johnston, welcome to the show. Oh, you're kind. Thanks for having me. It's delightful.
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