Rachel Pendergrass: A Bad Day At The Aquarium
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2015
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Rachel Pendergrass gets her dream job: talking to visitors in an aquarium, but dealing with the questions are not what she expected. Rachel Pendergrass is a storyteller, writer, actor, and science communicator native to the Atlanta area. She is a co-producer of WRITE CLUB Atlanta and the assistant director of the Dragon Con Science Track. She is the host of the new YouTube science communication comedy series Your Favorite Animal is A Dick. You can also find her performing at various live literature shows around town and on Dragon Con TV.
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| 0:40.8 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:44.0 | Is NYU scientist the... It felt as huge, and I just thought, well... |
| 0:47.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:50.2 | Because science was on my side. |
| 1:01.2 | Yeah. 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. |
| 1:07.1 | We have shows coming up December 9th in New York City and December 16th in Boston. |
| 1:11.7 | Go to storycollider.org for more information. |
| 1:15.0 | This week's story is from Rachel Pendergrass. |
| 1:17.2 | It was recorded in March 2015 at the New American Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta, Georgia, |
| 1:22.2 | as part of the Atlanta Science Festival. All right, guys, I'm going to level with you. |
| 1:34.2 | When I was a little girl, I had a very millennial view of careers. |
| 1:38.8 | I had this idea that if I got this perfect job, then I would be absolutely thrilled with the rest of my life. |
| 1:45.0 | Nothing would ever go wrong. I would never work a day in my life. |
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