Becoming Your Hero: Stories about embodying a role model

Becoming Your Hero: Stories about embodying a role model

Published on Aug 22
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The Story Collider
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<p>In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers transform into someone they admire—one quite literally, the other more figuratively.</p><p><strong>Part 1:</strong> While juggling climate science studies and a budding comedy career, Rollie Williams finds an unexpected niche impersonating his environmental hero, Al Gore.</p><p><strong>Part 2: </strong>Scott Acton longs to follow in Hemingway’s footsteps, but when his English teacher squashes his writing dreams, he reluctantly accepts his role as “the computer guy.”</p><p><em>Rollie Williams is a Brooklyn-based comedian, video editor, and guy with both student debt and a Climate Science &amp; Policy degree from Columbia University. He is the creator and host of the digital comedy series Climate Town. In the past few years, the channel has amassed 600,000 subscribers, several millions views, and a handful of awards. Rollie is also the co-creator and co-host of podcast The Climate Denier's Playbook. Formerly, Rollie performed a monthly ...
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