Predators: Stories about confronting danger
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Part 1: Drew Prochaska decides to confront his fear of sharks -- by going swimming with them. Part 2: Attorney Heather Cucolo must navigate the complicated psychology surrounding her sex-offender clients. Drew Prochaska is a two-time Moth StorySlam winner, who has been featured on the "RISK!", "Dear Show", and Audible's "Stories in Session" podcasts. A graduate of The Tisch School of Arts Dramatic Writing Program, Drew's writing was regularly featured on the website of Running with Scissors author Augusten Burroughs. He lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with his dog, Lula. Heather Cucolo is an adjunct professor at New York Law School and the current director of New York Law School’s Online Mental Disability Law Program. She has contributed to the development of courses for the program as well as assisted in collaboration with Asia-Pacific partners to foster international distance learning. Her academic work has afforded her wonderful opportunities, such as addressing mental disability law issues at the United Nations and allowing her to travel domestically and internationally to lecture and teach. Heather Cucolo's story was produced as part of a partnership with Springer Storytellers. Find out more at www.beforetheabstract.com/
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| 0:49.4 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:52.5 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:54.1 | I felt... It felt... And I just thought, well... I figured it out. science story, huh? Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:55.0 | I felt. |
| 0:55.2 | I felt. I was so unhappy. |
| 0:57.1 | I figured it out. |
| 0:58.4 | It was that golden moment. |
| 1:00.5 | Because science was on my side. Hi everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to The Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 1:15.1 | This week, we're bringing you two stories about predators, one man's attempt to confront his fear of sharks, |
| 1:20.1 | and an attorney dealing with the complicated psychology surrounding sex offenders. |
| 1:24.7 | Our first story this week is from Drew Prohaskat. It was recorded in October 2016 in Union Hall in Brooklyn. |
| 1:30.8 | The theme was Fear. |
| 1:37.5 | So growing up, I had these like really liberal filmmaker parents, you know, and because of this, |
| 1:46.5 | I was exposed to a lot of movies at a very young age that I probably shouldn't have been, you know? And like, the first one I recall was a |
| 1:53.8 | made-for-TV movie in the mid-80s called Adam. Does anybody remember this? It was about a little |
| 1:59.7 | boy who was abducted from a shopping mall and murdered. |
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