You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

Hey folks, welcome to the projection booth.

I'm your host, Mike White.

On this special episode, I'm going to be talking to Michael Lucker, the author of Crash Boom, Bang.

That's three exclamation points in there, one after each one of those, How to Write Action Movies.

Mr. Lucker has had quite the career.

I'll be talking to him about that as well as his new book right now.

I'm very curious how you got started in the entertainment business.

From what I understand, you went to Boston College.

Is that right?

Boston University.

Yeah, that's the thing about Boston, you know, not a big college town.

Yeah, it was a horrible place to go to school.

Now, I grew up in Atlanta, and I was writing songs for girls.

I had crushes on who wouldn't give me the time of day when I was a wheat hike.

And then I started writing plays in high school, and people came, and they laughed occasionally,

and I was writing articles for the school paper, and I was having some luck with that.

So I decided to go off somewhere where they could train me to write intelligently and charm girls.

And I was accepted to the College of Communication in Boston University, and I went up there and froze my ass off for four years.

And they let me out.

And I was tired of the snow, and I wanted to write movies. So I moved westward and landed

broke and naive in Los Angeles and started sending out resume. And who bit? When I first landed,

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