Revelations: Stories about big reveals
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This week we present two stories from people who learned something about their childhood later in life.
Part 1: Growing up in the fifties and sixties, Jenice Matias senses there's more to her mother's occupation than she understands.
Part 2: D.B. Firstman has always known their body is different, but at the age of thirty, they make a discovery that changes everything.
Jenice Matias is a dancer, singer, actress, comedy writer, and storyteller. Her story on the Guys We Fucked podcast has been listened to over a quarter of a million times, and she performs storytelling all over New York City. She is currently revamping her solo show “Pussinomics: a comedy” a political satire on the selling and marketing of the female persona. You can learn more about Jenice Matias on her website Jenicematias.biz
D.B. Firstman is a lifelong New Yorker born and raised in Queens. A career-long civil servant, they are a data analyst for the City of New York, crunching numbers in Excel and SPSS. A lifelong baseball fan, they have had their work published on ESPN.COM and BaseballProspectus.com, as well as in the SABR Baseball Research Journal. Their first book: “Hall of Name: Baseball’s Most Magnificent Monikers from ‘The Only Nolan’ to ‘Van Lingle Mungo’ and More” is available on Amazon and local indy bookstores.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | I felt it was right. |
| 0:08.0 | And I just thought, well. |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Well. Hello, everybody. |
| 0:25.9 | Welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:30.4 | We are your host, Erin Barker. |
| 0:32.0 | And Liz Neely. |
| 0:33.2 | And this week, we're presenting stories about dramatic discoveries of something that's been hidden. |
| 0:39.1 | Welcome to our episode on Revelations. |
| 0:43.1 | Now, you may have heard that title and thought it was in the same vein of many of our recent episodes with sort of apocalyptic titles a little bit on the nose. |
| 0:53.0 | You were thinking of biblical revelations. But actually, |
| 0:56.7 | we're thinking about a different kind of revelation today. Exactly. We were thinking of this more |
| 1:01.4 | from a scientific sense about the power of a new insight to suddenly have information or knowledge |
| 1:09.4 | that changes how you previously understood everything |
| 1:12.1 | that's come before. |
| 1:14.0 | If you think about it, that kind of thing doesn't happen too often. |
| 1:17.3 | Right. |
| 1:17.6 | I mean, like, how many times have you totally changed your mind about something lately? |
| 1:22.5 | I mean, I know for me it's a really rare occurrence. |
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