Spotting Stories with Hidden Poison | (Ep. 195)
About this episode
The episode discusses how to identify stories that appear appealing but contain harmful messages.
How do you identify stories with poison in them? They never say "TAKE THIS POISON." They always coat it in chocolate first... - "Make Me Famous" pitch reviews segment continues with "The Ghost Train". Maybe this is the episode wherein Nate finally likes a pitch. - Then the guys turn to stories that start out sweet but conceal poison in the end. - Harry Potter and The Hunger Games both start a story with something admirable (the underdog, self-sacrifice). That's the chocolate. - But once you like the chocolate, an author *can make you eat anything after that... even poison (self-pity, dissatisfaction, ungratefulness, victimhood mentality). - To demonstrate how a true underdog story works, Nate reframes the story of Joseph and the coat of many colors (not what that is).
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