Julian Parker: A plane nerd
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2014
⏱️ 14 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
After abandoning a love of flying, a former military officer gets behind the controls of a plane for the first time. Growing up in an army family, Julian failed to resist the urge to follow in his father's footsteps, but after a short but brilliant military career he stumbled into the world of corporate investigation where he has successfully managed to avoid being found out for over 20 years. Help keep us going! If you love the podcast, please donate here: www.patreon.com/thestorycollider
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | It felt a huge, but 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... Hi everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, |
| 0:28.2 | where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:31.9 | This week's story is from Julian Parker. |
| 0:34.4 | The story was recorded in October 2013 at October Gallery in London. The theme of the |
| 0:39.7 | evening was Inside Out. You're very lucky to get me tonight because there's an awful lot of therapy |
| 0:51.5 | in recovering from being a military intelligence officer. So I can do 10 minutes and then I'll probably have to go back on the |
| 0:56.8 | couch. My talk is basically entitled How I Became a Plain Nerd and Learned to Live With My Shame. |
| 1:08.6 | I haven't always been a plain nerd. |
| 1:14.1 | For the last 30-something years, you know, kids, mortgages, debts, work, more debts, more work, |
| 1:21.0 | more kids, more mortgages, all of those things, all the usual things that we have to face. |
| 1:26.1 | They rather did for what was |
| 1:28.2 | a childhood obsession. And if you'd met me at age, or anything from sort of seven to 15, I suppose, |
| 1:37.3 | it was pretty obvious that I was a plane nerd. You couldn't get into my room without smacking |
| 1:42.0 | your head on dozens of various model planes hung up with fishing |
| 1:45.9 | wire. There was everything there. There were helicopters. There were even airliners, which we |
| 1:51.9 | just thought was so boring, but you had to have some. And there was everything, but the particular |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Story Collider, Inc., and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Story Collider, Inc. and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.