Special Report: Scarred for Life
The Projection Booth Podcast
The Projection Booth
4.8 • 686 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
From chilling public information films to haunting children's television and dystopian sci-fi, discover how these dark cultural elements shaped their acclaimed books. Tune in for a captivating discussion that blends nostalgia with insightful analysis of the media that scarred us for life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hold your ears, folks. |
| 0:06.8 | It's showtime. |
| 0:08.6 | People pay good money to see this movie. |
| 0:10.9 | When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth. |
| 0:17.3 | Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring. |
| 0:20.0 | Shut it off. |
| 0:22.6 | Turn it off. |
| 0:23.6 | Turn it off. Hey folks, welcome to a special episode of the projection booth. |
| 0:42.8 | I'm your host, Mike White. |
| 0:44.0 | On this episode, I'm talking with the authors of the Scarred for Life series. |
| 0:48.1 | That's Scarred for Life volume 1, 2, and 3, all available at Lulu.com. |
| 0:53.1 | They are also behind the Scarred for Life podcast as well as a live show. |
| 0:58.5 | They being Stephen Brotherstone and Dave Lawrence. |
| 1:01.7 | They took the time out of their schedules to talk to me about their series. |
| 1:05.9 | I had a wonderful discussion. |
| 1:07.6 | I have to say that it was prompted by a comment that was made on a episode that we did |
| 1:12.7 | quite a few years ago now when we talked about Miracle Mile, which really helped capture |
| 1:18.3 | the nuclear paranoia that had gripped the world at that time, possibly a little bit earlier. |
| 1:24.6 | And one of the listeners to that episode told me that I was overreacting, that |
| 1:29.5 | there was no reason for me to be as scared as I was by nuclear annihilation. Well, you know, |
| 1:35.9 | it's kind of hard telling a 10, 12, 14 year old that, especially when it's all over every |
| 1:41.8 | piece of media that you can possibly think of, |
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