Justin Cameron: A Dangerous Trick
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2015
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Sword swallower Justin Cameron gets an unexpected lesson in anatomy and medicine. Justin is a product manager and mobile app designer who works on search engines and secure email products. Before that, he was an itinerant technical writer, hacker, and, very briefly, a sideshow performer. He lives in Brooklyn.
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| 0:00.0 | Twas the night before Christmas when all through our home, friends were waiting for drinks at the party we'd thrown. |
| 0:07.2 | With an espresso martini mixer from Fever Tree, all you need to add is the vodka, you see. |
| 0:14.2 | Five espresso martinis ready in a second. A Christmas miracle, everybody reckoned. |
| 0:23.9 | So this holiday season mix with the best, |
| 0:29.7 | with fever tree cocktails for you and your guests. Please enjoy responsibly. |
| 0:33.5 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:36.5 | Is NYU scientist the... I felt... I felt... |
| 0:38.3 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:39.3 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:42.3 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:49.3 | Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal |
| 0:57.3 | stories about science. We have live shows coming up January 10th in New York City, January 20th in |
| 1:02.7 | Maine, and January 28th in London. Storycollider.org for more details. This week's story is |
| 1:08.4 | from Justin Cameron. The story was recorded in November 2014 at Under St. Mark's Theater in New York City as part of the Gotham Storytelling Festival. |
| 1:17.2 | And quick warning, it's pretty gruesome. |
| 1:23.9 | Well, so my story starts a couple years ago when I lived in Washington, D.C., and I was feeling |
| 1:30.6 | pretty dissatisfied with my life. I was about to turn 30 the next year, and all I had in my life |
| 1:36.6 | was basically my day job. I was a business analyst, and I was starting to think that if I didn't |
| 1:41.3 | do something more exciting than I was just doomed to become a terminally |
| 1:44.6 | boring adult. And around the same time, a new bar opened up in my neighborhood in Washington. |
| 1:51.1 | And I don't know if you spent a lot of time in Washington, D.C., but a lot of the bars are basically |
| 1:55.5 | like sports hangouts or like political intern bars where people sit around to discuss elections. But this bar |
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