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Hey folks. Welcome to a very special episode of the projection booth.

I'm your host, Mike White.

On this episode, I am talking with Terry Hayes, all about his new book, The Year of the Locust, but more than that, talking to him about his amazing career in Hollywood and elsewhere.

He is the writer behind things like the Road Warrior, aka Mad Max 2, Beyond Thunderdome,

Dead Calm, Vertical Limit, From Hell, Payback.

I had a wonderful time talking about Mr. Hayes, and I hope that you have as much fun listening to it.

Enjoy the interview.

How did you even get your start when it came to the writing?

My late mother always said it's because I couldn't hold a job.

And that's the truth.

It was a very strange and quite confronting experience.

I just thought you're a very prescientable age, and I was born in England, and Australia was a very strange and quite confronting experience. I just thought you're a very impressionable age, and I was born in England, and Australia was a very different country to more village in England.

And so luckily I learned to read at a young age, so I took great refuge in reading and storytelling and what have you.

And so it became part of my DNA that one day I was going to be a writer.

Of course, that's a wonderful thing being young because you had no idea whether things are possible or impossible.

So I thought, well, there's a lot of books in the library.

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