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Note: it starts out with music, it's part of the show, to promote some less known artists.
- Jason Pargin aka David Wong joins Cracked editor-in-chief Jack O’Brien to discuss three-act story structure and how this formula is used in popular Hollywood blockbusters from ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Jaws’ to ‘The Matrix’. They then discuss how these structures affect our thinking, the way we tell stories, and how we perceive the major moments in our lives.
I've been going through some episodes of the Cracked podcasts, and this episode, with Jason Pargin (aka David Wong) is pretty good, more profound than I'd assumed from the title. It delves into the concepts of storytelling, why it is that we only hear stories in a particular way, and what that says about us.