More about Mercy Corps
More about the charity Mercy Corps, mentioned in episode 006.
Read MoreDavid Mamet in Playbill Magazine
More about David Mamet
Mentioned in e006 by Amy Crider, David Mamet is a great, Pulitizer-prize winning, American playwright. Want to learn more? Try wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mamet
His unique style of writing has evolved into a trope, of sorts, called Mamet Speak. This type of speaking is unequivocally modern: fast-paced, tough-talking, jargon-filled, overlapping, colloquial and usually filled with expletives. It is also notoriously hard to memorize for the actors, and is considered to require more from an actor than the average script since little is said (usually not even full sentences) but much has to be determined and then conveyed.
More reading on David Mamet:
3 playwriting tips from David Mamet in Playbill magazine
More about Henry Kloss...
Henry Kloss was mentioned in e005: Ghost Radio, featuring Karin Hansen. Born in Altoona, PA in 1929, here's more about the great man.
Read MoreEpisode 004 - ROUTE RAGE available 10/23
ROUTE RAGE, a story by John Mossman, will be available on Monday 10/23. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and SoundCloud.
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COMING 10/16 on iTunes and Stitcher
From the mind of Eustace Allen, FACTOID is a delicious blend of zeitgeist and sketch comedy, told you in audio form.
From Source: Are 'Factoids' the Same as 'Facts'?
According to Merriam-Webster, the term factoid was probably coined by Normal Mailer in 1973. Of the word, he wrote, “...that is, facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority.”
Read MoreThe Definition of FACTOID
FACTOID
1: an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print
2: a briefly stated and usually trivial fact